Well I have to interject. Larry King is the only newsman I know, the one one! and I really mean that, the only one who can discuss the news and ask the questions and you don’t feel like someone is urging you on with his specific opinion.
Fuck this! You want to pit an endangered species ?
Everybody, please, have you ever noticed a newsman/commentator/newshost who is so non-juidgemental ? Still he asks the tough questions and excuses himself by pleading responsibility on behalf of a contrary populace. There’s no hate in that man. There is a huge respect for all people.
Do you think Mike Wallace’s style serves you better?
Clueless is not the same as non-judgmental, and Larry King isn’t a newsman, he’s a talk show host.
Nobody called him hateful. Stupid, yes, tactless… I meant to call him a leech and a tabloid whore in my previous post… but you’re defending him against something nobody said.
Nope, that’s not the one – that’s another one, from around the same time, it seems. “Made force?” WTF? Does he just not like to say the word “rape?”
How the hell does that happen twice? I mean, I’m pretty sure after the first time one of the producers or some other interested soul would pull him aside and say, “You know, Larry-- rape and lovemaking aren’t really equivalent, and if you use the terms interchangably people may think you’re some kind of freaky, fucked-up sociopath, and that could be bad for ratings.”
…and CNN is on because morbid curiousity compells me to look at whatever was in the package that Cho sent to NBC news. “Oh, crap, I get home from work just in time for Larry King Live.”
He’s interviewing the brother of a girl who is hospitalized for her injuries. Out of the blue: “Does she have any survivor’s guilt? Does she wonder why she was allowed to survive when so many died?”
I don’t know, Larry… have you ever considered suicide? Do you ever feel like you are a complete waste of oxygen?
No, they fucking don’t. There is no journalistic obligation to stick stressed-out 20 year olds on national TV. Viewers would be much better served by interviewing, say, a cop who was familiar with the entire case and had interviewed several of the students.
MEILI: Yes. And I have, from the surgery to repair my eye that was crushed in, I have a scar that goes from, you know, one ear to the other, but you can’t see because of my hair. And I was going to I lost my sense of smell, so…
KING: Meaning you can’t smell bacon.
MEILI: I can’t smell anything.
KING: Can’t smell anything.
I’m going to have to say, idiot. Probably no malice, just idiocy.
Back in the day he was an interesting interview. Lately though, he seems like hardening of the arteries is seriously affecting the oxygen flow to the brain.
I’m reading these transcripts, scratching my head, wondering how in the hell this man is still on the air. These interviews read like something out of Ali G show.
