# Carrie Prejean vs. Larry King \[merged threads\] **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [November 12, 2009, 7:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/carrie-prejean-vs-larry-king-merged-threads/517294 "2009-11-12T07:13:16Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 6
**Author:** ![Diogenes\_the\_Cynic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e99b99/32.png) [@Diogenes\_the\_Cynic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Diogenes_the_Cynic)\ **Post date:** [November 12, 2009, 11:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/carrie-prejean-vs-larry-king-merged-threads/517294/101 "2009-11-12T23:01:11Z")
That’s correct. I believe she’s lying about taking the calls. She herself has not said there was any agreement that she couldn’t be asked why she settled, and neither of those agreements would be worthy of being honored even if they’d been made (which I doubt they were). ---
**Author:** ![Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e8c25b/32.png) [@Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Really_Not_All_That_Bright)\ **Post date:** [November 12, 2009, 11:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/carrie-prejean-vs-larry-king-merged-threads/517294/102 "2009-11-12T23:05:32Z")
Why would they not be worthy of being honored? Because she’s a bitch? ---
**Author:** ![Diogenes\_the\_Cynic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e99b99/32.png) [@Diogenes\_the\_Cynic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Diogenes_the_Cynic)\ **Post date:** [November 12, 2009, 11:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/carrie-prejean-vs-larry-king-merged-threads/517294/103 "2009-11-12T23:17:47Z")
Because they’re unworthy concessions to make in the first place. ---
**Author:** ![Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e8c25b/32.png) [@Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Really_Not_All_That_Bright)\ **Post date:** [November 12, 2009, 11:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/carrie-prejean-vs-larry-king-merged-threads/517294/104 "2009-11-12T23:33:47Z")
Perhaps. However, once made, they should be honored. Do you _really_ want people parroting Palin’s gotcha-media schtick to be right? ---
**Author:** ![Robot\_Arm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/robot_arm/32/18280_2.png) [@Robot\_Arm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Robot_Arm)\ **Post date:** [November 12, 2009, 11:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/carrie-prejean-vs-larry-king-merged-threads/517294/105 "2009-11-12T23:47:31Z")
> [@Sampiro](#): > > So when she ends up doing hardcore with Levi Johnston what do you think the title of the movie should be? I like either INTO THE WILD CHILD or SILICON VALLEYS. _Going Rogue 2: Going Roguer_ ---
**Author:** ![11811](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/1/9d8465/32.png) [@11811](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/11811)\ **Post date:** [November 13, 2009, 12:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/carrie-prejean-vs-larry-king-merged-threads/517294/106 "2009-11-13T00:09:24Z")
> [@Jack\_Batty](#): > > Can’t this moron get a spot on Hannity if she just wants her bunny petted? Apparently she can pet her own bunny. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Rack-a-Bones](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/77aa72/32.png) [@Rack-a-Bones](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rack-a-Bones)\ **Post date:** [November 13, 2009, 12:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/carrie-prejean-vs-larry-king-merged-threads/517294/107 "2009-11-13T00:45:26Z")
Aren’t the terms of the settlement more or less known anyway? I realize the only source so far is TMZ. But don’t they have a pretty good track record for getting the details correct? I can’t read TMZ while at work but in _The Stranger_, [Last Days](http://www.thestranger.com/seattle/last-days/Content?oid=2708357&hp) quotes TMZ as the source stating she received around $100,000 to pay her lawyer and publicist but that is just a fraction of her bills. ---
**Author:** ![Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e8c25b/32.png) [@Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Really_Not_All_That_Bright)\ **Post date:** [November 13, 2009, 12:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/carrie-prejean-vs-larry-king-merged-threads/517294/108 "2009-11-13T00:47:26Z")
I’m not sure I would take TMZ’s word on any issue more weighty than whether Heather Locklear got a boob reduction. ---
**Author:** ![Homebrew](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/c89c15/32.png) [@Homebrew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Homebrew)\ **Post date:** [November 13, 2009, 1:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/carrie-prejean-vs-larry-king-merged-threads/517294/109 "2009-11-13T01:57:36Z")
> [@Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](#): > > Thread won. Thanks for playing, guys. > [@Sampiro](#): > > So when she ends up doing hardcore with Levi Johnston what do you think the title of the movie should be? I like either INTO THE WILD CHILD or SILICON VALLEYS. (This is of course after they move in with Danny Bonaduce, Arsenio Hall, and Courtney Love for SURREAL LIFE or join David Lee Roth, Florence Henderson and Al Sharpton for Season Umpteen of DANCING WITH THE STARS.) Victory snatched. ---
**Author:** ![Diogenes\_the\_Cynic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e99b99/32.png) [@Diogenes\_the\_Cynic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Diogenes_the_Cynic)\ **Post date:** [November 13, 2009, 1:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/carrie-prejean-vs-larry-king-merged-threads/517294/110 "2009-11-13T01:59:32Z")
> [@Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](#): > > I’m not sure I would take TMZ’s word on any issue more weighty than whether Heather Locklear got a boob reduction. They actually have a good track record, and Prejean hasn’t denied anything. ---
**Author:** ![Sampiro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2acd7d/32.png) [@Sampiro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sampiro)\ **Post date:** [November 13, 2009, 2:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/carrie-prejean-vs-larry-king-merged-threads/517294/111 "2009-11-13T02:11:09Z")
I’ve heard of “sexually inappropriate” but does inappropriate mean sex now? > [@](#): > > [Donald Trump on Prejean](http://edition.cnn.com/2009/SHOWBIZ/TV/11/12/trump.prejean.larry.king/)(which is where he’s wanted to be all along): > “‘Inappropriate’ is more of a sexual term, as far as I’m concerned,” Trump said. “I mean – inappropriate? He asked a very, very easy question and I was surprised that she just didn’t say, ‘Hey, listen, I can’t answer that question.’ Instead she wants to walk off the stage? It was very surprising.” I think this is Trumpese for “I don’t care what she’s done or what Larry King did or didn’t promise or whose show she was on, _nobody_ talks about anybody who has any connection to me however tangential without me getting to be on TV too!” ---
**Author:** ![gonzomax](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e8c25b/32.png) [@gonzomax](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gonzomax)\ **Post date:** [November 13, 2009, 2:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/carrie-prejean-vs-larry-king-merged-threads/517294/112 "2009-11-13T02:53:27Z")
He demands are way out of line. All she wanted to do was push the book. I suppose the book will not mention her crappy attitude or her stripping for the camera. It will be about her relationship with god and religion. It has a ready made audience of evangelicals and right wingers. The tapes will ruin it all. Her attitude will also do damage. I hope the ghost writer got paid in advance. ---
**Author:** ![Sampiro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2acd7d/32.png) [@Sampiro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sampiro)\ **Post date:** [November 13, 2009, 2:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/carrie-prejean-vs-larry-king-merged-threads/517294/113 "2009-11-13T02:55:10Z")
> [@gonzomax](#): > > I suppose the book will not mention her crappy attitude or her stripping for the camera. It will be about her relationship with god and religion. And let’s not forget that her grandpa fought with General Patton for her right to have that relationship with god and religion. (A great-uncle fought with Nimitz and worked with Dupont to get her those fake titties.) ---
**Author:** ![Frostillicus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/e9bcb4/32.png) [@Frostillicus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Frostillicus)\ **Post date:** [November 13, 2009, 4:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/carrie-prejean-vs-larry-king-merged-threads/517294/114 "2009-11-13T04:03:37Z")
Lemme get this right. Larry King (of the softball interview) was too tough on Little Miss Sunshine so she walked off the set? El-oh-el ---
**Author:** ![Ferret\_Herder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/e47774/32.png) [@Ferret\_Herder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ferret_Herder)\ **Post date:** [November 13, 2009, 4:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/carrie-prejean-vs-larry-king-merged-threads/517294/115 "2009-11-13T04:13:49Z")
> [@Robot\_Arm](#): > > I’ve heard lots of second-hand accounts of her saying that, but nothing direct. If anyone does have a specific quote from her about “free speech” I think it would be an interesting contribution here. [Here ya go.](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RzZuFoeiWWE) It’s about 45 seconds in, when she’s interviewing with Sean Hannity at some point over the last few days, and she actually says that “we **have** free speech.” She then talks about the campaign to “silence her” during her Today show interview after that, starting at around 2 minutes. ---
**Author:** ![Godinama](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e95f7d/32.png) [@Godinama](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Godinama)\ **Post date:** [November 13, 2009, 4:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/carrie-prejean-vs-larry-king-merged-threads/517294/116 "2009-11-13T04:42:13Z")
> [@DigitalC](#): > > What other subject could there possibly be to talk to the twit about? This reminds me of a scene in _27 Dresses_ where Ryan Seacrest, acting as a talk show host, is told by his producers of all the things Jessica Simpson doesn’t want to talk about. Her fake boobs, her dad’s comments on her boobs, etc. In response, Ryan, in perfect sarcastic tone, says something along the lines of “great, I’ll ask her about the Iraq War maybe she has some ideas for an exit strategy”. You had to be there. ---
**Author:** ![Diogenes\_the\_Cynic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e99b99/32.png) [@Diogenes\_the\_Cynic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Diogenes_the_Cynic)\ **Post date:** [November 13, 2009, 4:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/carrie-prejean-vs-larry-king-merged-threads/517294/117 "2009-11-13T04:51:01Z")
I think that was _Knocked Up_. ---
**Author:** ![Typo\_Negative](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/typo_negative/32/484_2.png) [@Typo\_Negative](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Typo_Negative)\ **Post date:** [November 13, 2009, 6:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/carrie-prejean-vs-larry-king-merged-threads/517294/118 "2009-11-13T06:36:07Z")
I gotta think it was all a set up. If Larry King has thrown her softballs, and she sat and answered politely, then _nobody would have cared_. Not even her supporters. Boring. _Now_ people will talking about her, and her book, for a while. More supporters may buy it because she’s a conservative hero being treated unfairly. Detractors may buy it to read what a twit she is. This is a publicist’s dream. ---
**Author:** ![anya\_marie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ebca7d/32.png) [@anya\_marie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/anya_marie)\ **Post date:** [November 13, 2009, 6:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/carrie-prejean-vs-larry-king-merged-threads/517294/119 "2009-11-13T06:51:17Z")
> [@Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](#): > > Unfortunately, I also can’t find her sex tape, which is mildly disappointing, 'cause that bitch is hot. She’s hot if you REALLY like the fake breasts, fake tan, dumber than a box of rocks, and more makeup than Lenin’s corpse. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Second\_Stone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/bbe5ce/32.png) [@The\_Second\_Stone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Second_Stone)\ **Post date:** [November 13, 2009, 7:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/carrie-prejean-vs-larry-king-merged-threads/517294/120 "2009-11-13T07:24:27Z")
Hate to defend the nitwit here, but if a settlement is confidential, and most are, it is not safe to talk about any aspect of the settlement. I tell my clients that if anyone asks: “it was settled to the mutual satisfaction of the parties and it is confidential and I cannot say more than that about the entire matter as per my agreement.” Or some such. A dimwit such as Ms. Prejean should really get out of there if pressed like King was doing because she is going to breach the agreement if she tries to dance around it. A smart person wouldn’t try to dance around it. With the sex tapes being used at the mediation, she has the better part of the confidentiality agreement and she doesn’t want them getting released. That said, I’ve met Larry King at a political convention and he was the most gracious journalist there. He was polite and kind to his admirers, and the rest of them were frankly pricks, even compared to politicians. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/carrie-prejean-vs-larry-king-merged-threads/517294.md?page=5) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/carrie-prejean-vs-larry-king-merged-threads/517294.md?page=7)