# Larry King retires from Larry King Live

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**Created:** [June 30, 2010, 2:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/larry-king-retires-from-larry-king-live/545025 "2010-06-30T02:59:25Z")\
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**Post date:** [July 1, 2010, 12:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/larry-king-retires-from-larry-king-live/545025/16 "2010-07-01T00:16:41Z")

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From a previous thread:

> [@Someone finally takes on Oprah](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/someone-finally-takes-on-oprah/498266/98):
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> [CNN.com - Transcripts](http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0706/27/lkl.01.html)
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> KING: Have you ever been addicted to drugs?
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> HILTON: No.
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> KING: Taken drugs.
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> HILTON: No.
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> KING: Never taken drugs?
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> HILTON: No.
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> King then goes on to ask her why there are so many stories about her, and she says that people make up crazy stuff.
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> KING: Why didn’t you put a stop to this earlier? In other words, if you would read stuff, why didn’t you take an outlet to go on and say I don’t – I never use drugs? I don’t drink?
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> HILTON: I don’t – I just feel like when you do that you put more attention to something. And when something is not true I just don’t pay attention to it because I know my friends and family know the true me.
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> This from one of the biggest attention, um, whores in North America, routinely seen exiting clubs lit up, at least before her jailing. I don’t know about now. And King never brought up the fact that she’d actually been photographed smoking “hand rolled cigarettes.”
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> A friend of mine had a small interview tv program for NHK in Japan, and I worked with him on his interviews. In that capacity, I went along to the CNN building in L.A., and Larry may have actually said “hi” to me. The friend asked him about the perception that he’s a softball pitcher, and he said that he feels that you should let people tell their story, and that you just let them. Which means that if they tell you a flat lie, apparently you just let it sail by.
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> I see he’s uploaded these onto the net now. Wow. [The Bully! Pulpit Show Classics: Larry King](http://vimeo.com/4415652) Go to 13:20.

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