On Thu, Nov 12, 2009 at 10:37 PM, PGage <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Thu, Nov 12, 2009 at 10:19 PM, Kevin M. <[email protected]> wrote: >> I'm bumfuzzled. I dislike both of the principle players so much that I >> don't know who to side with. Can't we just agree that neither of them >> belongs on television and be done with it? > > But isn't this a little like a transvestite priest agreeing to go on > Jerry Springer and then calling Jerry inappropriate for asking if the > Pope knows he wears a dress to turn the wine into the blood of Christ?
Yes, but then you have Larry King asking the same question at least six times (possibly more), despite the subject of the interview asking him to move on. That's overkill by any standard. Even if he isn't a legal expert, which he isn't, he has interviewed enough people to know that Prejean also isn't a legal expert who was only following orders (no doubt given to her using easy to understand words, i.e.: "When you hear the word 'mediation,' say 'no comment'"). He must know she doesn't know how to think for herself, or she wouldn't be regurgitating the same handful of sentences ending with the same nervous laugh (a laugh that clearly indicates she knows she's a phony and is clinging to the slim hope nobody else will see it... or am I reading too much into it?). Setting aside whether she deserved it, Larry King was rude to his guest. It wasn't a situation where a guest was choosing to evade a question. That implies a level of awareness I did not detect in Prejean. It was a situation where the guest genuinely believed she was giving the only answer she could, and she was genuinely confused by Larry's unwillingness to accept that. And I could just as easily argue for the other side, which I just might if I am bored enough. As I said, both sides have no place on television. -- Kevin M. (RPCV) --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ TV or Not TV .... The Smartest (TV) People! You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TV or Not TV" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/tvornottv?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
