I watched the tapes again. Although they may have been edited and that editing could taint the viewer’s opinion, you can clearly see several things.
As soon as Larry anounces that they are taking a viewer call, Carrie looks over her right shoulder and mouths something. What she mouthed I couldn’t make out. Immediately thereafter she begins taking her microphone off. It is unclear whether or not she heard the question from the caller, a gay man asking something about gay marriage. It seems odd that she would terminate the interview based on a single call, the substance of which she probably never heard, unless such an agreement existed.
Larry was dealing off the bottom of the deck here by making her departure look unwarranted.
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.
For King’s part in this (pending confirmation of the facts), yeah, he sucks, too.
Cite that she was given an agreement (an unprecedented agreement) that she wouldn’t have to take calls on the show?
Prejean has a history of lying through her teeth. Larry King does not have any history of being duplicious with guests. His reputation is just the opposite, that he’s a doormat for them.
Until you can actually provide some proof that an agreement existed, then I think we have to conclude that the event was just what it looked like – a snotty little non-celebrity having a snit-fit.
Actually, even if there was an agreement on calls (and I don’t believe for a second that there was, since LK never does that), I still don’t care. I would actually give kudos to LK for NOT honoring such an agreement.
I think the “free speech” stuff is coming from conflations of her post-Miss America comments and this story. I can’t find any report of her complaining about abrogation of her freedom of speech with regard to her Larry King appearance.
Unfortunately, I also can’t find her sex tape, which is mildly disappointing, 'cause that bitch is hot.
Now, if you’ll excuse me, I need to take a shower - in performing research for this post, I just visited Conservapaedia for the first time.
The ONLY thing interesting about this woman is that she’s attractive and there’s a sex tape out there somewhere (which sadly, I won’t be looking for, since there is doubt about how old she was when it was made).
Poor little attention whore maybe got blindsided by Larry King. My advice is if she wants to run with the big dogs, she better toughen up.
Oh, the free speech stuff was about her pageant appearance and the public reaction to her comments, all of which made no sense anyway. If that same person then tried to restrict what King could say, or if callers could say anything at all, I think that would be just beyond ridiculous.
She is almost certainly required to keep the terms and conditions of the settlement confidential, by the terms of the settlement itself. However, I would be extremely surprised if discussing the mediation was verboten.
It’s not a bad tactic to pretend it is, though, since most people have a vague idea that “settlements are confidential”.
I pointed that out in post #5 the “cite” problem. Dio…
Agreeing not to talk isn’t uncommon at all. Most people involved in lawsuits refuse to discuss the matters. If Larry didn’t know that, his producers certainly should have.
What a crybaby. Not surprising that Sarah Palin is her hero – she learned that when the going gets tough… you quit. Pick up your marbles, take off your mike, and threaten to go home. Boo hoo.
He didn’t ask her to discuss the settlement. Settlement agreements do not preclude anyone from saying why they settled. He didn’t ask her for any terms.
Most settlement agreements do not. You don’t know if this one did, for whatever reason - there could conceivably have been some of the pageants own dirty laundry aired during the mediation too.
The boyfriend she made it for says she was 20, and that it was one of several. He’s also said that she and her people had been calling him and asking him to lie about her age, but he refused, not the least of which because she was simultaneously trashing him in the media.
I’m going to go out on a limb and say it didn’t. She didn’t even really SAY there was an agreement not to talk about the reason she settled, she just tried to vaguely imply that it was part of the agreement, which it wasn’t. She just didn’t want to admit they kicked her ass in mediation.