On Thu, Nov 12, 2009 at 10:56 PM, Kevin M. <[email protected]> wrote: > 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.
I don't disagree with most of this, I wouldn't waste too much energy defending Larry King, who is a joke. But I do think that in this case King was set off by her response that he was being inappropriate. He seemed just not to be able to get his head around that reaction. I think if she had just kept repeating "I can't talk about that" in some variation he would have moved on more quickly, but her use of the word inappropriate, and the tone of voice that seemed to suggest the old guy had dropped his pants and was trying to fondle her breasts, was just too much for him to take. "Inappropriate" in this context has the connotation that King is a dirty old man because he wants her to talk about her masturbating tape. The funniest part of the bit, which gives a glimpse into how pissed off he is, is when he does finally move on and go to the phones he says "inappropriate King Live continues" - almost doing an homage to your friend and mine Kevin Pollak. If only he had gone with something like "I once made a masturbation tape while interviewing Angie Dickenson and Burt Reynolds. Calistoga California - Your ON!". The explanation for all of this may well just be a legitimate misunderstanding - she thought he had agreed not to ask any embarrassing questions or go to the phones, he assumes the only reason there would be any reason to have her on is to ask embarrassing questions and go to the phones. She is getting pissed at him for doing what she thought he had promised not to do (and thus being "inappropriate") while he thinks she is not just being evasive, but absurd in a) not being able to explain her motivation for settling (as opposed to the details of the settlement) and b) accusing him of doing something inappropriate when all he was doing was asking obvious questions. One of the things this shows once again is that this young lady is getting horrible advice (that they let her sue when there was this masturbatory tape out there is malpractice). Some conservatives are pretty savvy at playing the media, but this one has a real tin ear. A little bit of preparation would have given her a much easier way to deflect the question as to why she settled (perhaps something like: "I just wanted to put this whole thing behind me and move on. Now I have an opportunity to talk about the issues I believe in and care passionately about, and I wanted to move on to these more productive things and get away from the negativity and the hate. But of course that liberal media just keeps going back again and again to the negative. Lets move on to something positive Larry, can't we?). --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
