Larry King Backs Out of Michael Moore Interview

[Sequoia]

Talk show host Larry King has confused controversial director Michael Moore by inexplicably ending talks to book the film-maker for his prime-time talk show.

King's producers were negotiating to have the Fahrenheit 9/11 star on the Larry King Live show - and even told Moore's agents they wanted a White House representative on the show to rebut the film's anti-Bush comments - but King's team have refused to continue with the booking, raising suspicions the president's advisors urged King to reject the outspoken political activist.

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[Toucano]

11. If that's true...

It would explain Mr. King's popularity.

[Kire]

23. BWAAHAHAHAAHA

[Scairp]

15. Maybe he wants to book Yanni again instead

Can't have the viewers thinkin up evil thoughts about the Prez now can we? Why does anyone even watch this pathetic show anymore anyway? He has the most obscure, boring guests on. Psychics? And they take calls and do "readings" over the phone? "Do you have a relative who's name starts with the letter "L"? Puleeeze.

[Cha]

I saw Michael Moore on Charley Rose and Letterman...

king just looses out ..that's all. larry is the loser here.

[PROGRESSIVE1]

48. Rose wasn't so whorish with Mike. I believe that's because....

Rose is a washed up drunk and Moore just slapped him right and left and right and left with the facts!

[TankLV]

52. The Charley Rose interview was amazing.

Both interviewer and interviewie were fantastic.

Everyone who love truth and justice and freedom should see this interview.

[mistertrickster]

58. Really, I beg to differ . . . Charlie Rose shows a clip of Bush saying

"some call you the elite, I call you my base." Then he turns to M&M and says, "what's your point?"

Gee, Charlie, maybe it's . . . uh . . . well . . . BUSH SUCKS?

Yeah, I think that's it.

[mom cat]

45. Sounds like you are echoing Whoopi"s comments.

:dem:

[shoelace414]

2. they said

If you book moore, you're cut off, no more interviews.

and if you don't book moore, you can have Karen Hueghs

:tinfoilhat:

[lovedems]

4. Barf...

I think Karen Hughes is Patrick Swayze in drag. The 80's Patrick Swayze with the current day Hughes for clarification.

[clydefrand]

13. Oh, PLEASE

Don't compare my dance hero to that woman? whatever.

[dArKeR]

18. That's an awfully good looking pic of Whore Huges compared to what

I saw last month of her on TV!!!

[lovedems]

24. She is actually smiling in the picture. On TV she is usually snarling.

Maybe that is the difference? :P

[dArKeR]

59. From what I just saw of her on TV, this pic is at least 4 years old.

Or she's put on 100lbs and ages 4-6 years in a week.

[Chovexani]

31. Nobody puts Baby in the corner! (n/t)

[lovedems]

32. You'll have to excuse me but I don't get it.

Sorry! Could you explain?

[MotorCityMan]

34. It's a line from Dirty Dancing

that Swayze's character says in regards to Jennifer Grey's character (Baby).

[lovedems]

35. AH! Thanks!

I haven't seen Dirty Dancing for a lllllooooonnnngggg time!

[merh]

33. The resemblance is remarkable! LOL

[emulatorloo]

7. maybe it was "If you book Moore, you can ONLY have Karen Hughes"

Anytime you want anybody, we'll just send you Karen. . . .

[Catfight]

3. That's disappointing, I just lost respect for King now. Another

program I'll turn off. It's getting down to 60 minutes and CBS news. Geesh...so much for that liberal media.

[Rebellious Republican]

6. Don't forget NOW w/ Bill Moyers on PBS!

[sendero]

70. I lost respect for King...

... years ago. I'll never understand how a nothing like him achieved his position, he's an idiot and he looks like a space alien to boot :)

[Qutzupalotl]

5. He used footage of Bandar in F911.

I think it was from Larry King's show. He pretty much used footage aginst Bandar and Bush, so it's hard to refute. And don't Saudi interests own a major stake in CNN/AOL/Time Warner?

[tom_paine]

10. Exactly. King got the order "from above"

Not exactly Soviet-style repression/intimidation, but the effect is the same.

The Soviets would have watched in awe at these Busheviks, and carried their plans for ending Liberty bck to their own country for implementation (if it needed to be implemented, which it didn;t in 1978 Soviet Union).

Actually, Comrade Putin did JUST THAT, approriating the Bushevik Playbook for "managed Democracy" and implementing it more swiftly than the Busheviks could EVER dream of because if THEY tried to move as fast as Soulmate Comrade Putin did, they'd have one helluva fight on their hands.

[Cha]

12. That's right! larry is in F/911...you would think he

would want to interview him for that only...

larry king was doing the bush inaugeral in some fashion in 2000 and John King sent him an e-mail that said something to the effect of.. we shouldn't do things like that if we work for this news station...well!

Is John King still on cnn?

[Cha]

14. That's a hellava good point that needs to be

broadcasted if true...If so Michael should have it on his website, at least. Stay tuned.

[West Coast Democrat]

8. He always lets Bill Maher on the show...why not Moore?

That's pure BS

[JDPriestly]

9. Larry King is a Republican stooge

Remember his role in the Bush II inauguration -- total stoogery. Why does anyone watch any of this stuff?

[Cha]

16. To see what the enemy is up to...I can't personally watch it

but I appreciate those who do and report.

It would be terrific, though, if we(Democrats) could all en masse boycott cnn,msrnc, fauxsux..nbc, abc..and whomever else is a corporatewhore.

[whyzayker]

20. Obviously...

....King has some new poop on the Scott Peterson trial and just doesn't have time for such trivial matters such as F-911.:evilgrin:

[West Coast Democrat]

29. Yes. I only watch the show if I really like the guest

I enjoy Bill Maher or John Stewart on the show...or the other night when the Kerrys were on, or when Pre. Clinton was on.

[monobrau]

53. He just hosted Bush 1's birthday bash

That 2 dollar whore has seen a mile of republican dick.

[hatrack]

54. Damn, monobrau! Don't hold back!

Tell us what you REALLY think!! ;-)

[Hoping4Change]

28. Maher backs Bushco 100% on Isreal. Moore is critical of

Bushco's stance.

[fujiyama]

69. He's had

Jon Stewart as well.

i think Moore is just much more controversial.

CNN. Cowardly News Network

[Karmadillo]

17. Don't forget how CNN lied for the White House re: the Letterman incident

http://www.buzzflash.com/editorial/04/04/edi04026.html

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After David Letterman aired a videotape of Tyler Crotty, 13 and the son of a Bush $100,000 plus "Pioneer" fundraiser, fighting to stay awake as George droned on and on, CNN host Daryn Kagan dismissed the videotape with the following on-air comment: "We're being told by the White House that the kid, as funny as he was, was edited into that video, which would explain why the people around him weren't really reacting." CNN anchor Kyra Phillips later reran the tape but cautioned viewers: "We're told that the kid was there at that event, but not necessarily standing behind the president."

Accused of misleading his viewers, Letterman called the White House a bunch of liars. (Hey, Dave, we've been doing that for four years. So, don't think you're breaking any new ground here.)

And what do you know? CNN did a sudden turnabout, claiming that the Bush propaganda machine never really called them at all. They vaguely attributed the unfounded allegation to news staff error.

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What we have here is the distinct possibility, although we can't prove it, that the White House called CNN to try and discredit Letterman. CNN ran with the White House tip, which was brazenly a lie. Letterman then called the White House spinmeisters a bunch of liars on the air. The White House then called CNN and told them that they would prefer that their fingerprints weren't on the original discrediting lie. Then CNN suddenly makes fun of the whole episode and says that the White House didn't ring them up after all.

If you accept this scenario, then a major news broadcaster in the United States lied about a lie, twice. They accepted the White House lie, which appeared ludicrous to begin with, and then lied about the White House peddling the lie to them. Is there any doubt now, if this is what happened, that CNN is just another White House propaganda outlet?

more...

[Cha]

21. Of Course, they are! I didn't know about this incident...

and I found myself sitting here with my jaw hanging down after reading this...UnFrigginReal! cnn needs to down!

If Letterman didn't like the bushreich before ..he sure didn't after that episode!

[Karmadillo]

25. And then there's CNN and the Army's 4th PSYOPs Group interns

It's hard to imagine how these guys got a reputation as the liberal alternative.

http://www.commondreams.org/views/032300-107.htm

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Col. Christopher St. John, commander of the U.S. Army's 4th PSYOPs Group, was quoted by a French Intelligence correspondent, present at the symposium, as (in the correspondent's words) having ``called for greater cooperation between the armed forces and media giants. He (St. John) pointed out that some Army PSYOPs personnel had worked for CNN for several weeks, and helped in the production of some news stories for the network.''

Reading this in Belgrade, where he's Trouw's correspondent, De Vries saw a good story, picked up the phone, and finally reached Maj. Thomas Collins of the U.S. Army Information Service, who duly confirmed the presence of these Army PSYOPs experts at CNN. ``PSYOPs personnel, soldiers and officers,'' De Vries quoted Collins as telling him, ``have been working in CNN's headquarters in Atlanta through our program `Training with Industry.' They worked as regular employees of CNN. Conceivably, they would have worked on stories during the Kosovo war. They helped in the production of news.''

I reported this interesting disclosure in my newsletter, CounterPunch, and made it the topic of my regular weekly broadcast to ``AM Live,'' a program of the South Africa Broadcasting Company in Johannesburg. Among the audience of this broadcast was CNN's bureau in South Africa, which lost no time in relaying news of it to CNN headquarters in Atlanta, and I duly received an angry phone call from Eason Jordan, who identified himself as CNN's president of news gathering and international networks.

Jordan was full of indignation that I had somehow compromised the reputation of CNN. But in the course of our conversation, it turned out that, yes, CNN had hosted a total of five interns from U.S. Army PSYOPs, two in television, two in radio, and one in satellite operations. Jordan said the program had begun on June 7 (just before the end of the war against Serbia), and only recently terminated, I would guess at about the time CNN's higher management read Abe De Vries' stories.

Naturally enough, Eason Jordan and other executives at CNN now describe the Army PSYOPs intern tours at CNN as having been insignificant. Maybe so. Col. St. John, the commanding officer of the PSYOPs group, certainly thought them of sufficient significance to mention at that high-level Pentagon pow-wow in Arlington about propaganda and psychological warfare. Maybe CNN was the target of a PSYOPs penetration and is still too naive to figure out what was going on.

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[prolesunited]

26. Thanks for posting that

I was just going to bring that up.

Once again, though, their media manipulation and suppression of the truth is going to work in our favor. I think everyone but the kool-aid drinkers are beginning to start wondering why they are trying so hard to quash dissent.

[ngGale]

62. If Letterman didn't own his show he would be...

peddling the lies with the rest of them. CNN, used to be so fair but now it too has gone over to the dark side. We have no real journalism anymore.

[xray s]

19. Our democracy hangs by this guy's journalistic instincts....

Spit Bucket, Kansas, hello...

[flaminbats]

60. television's qualified drudge...

maybe he'll have Ross Perot on instead :puffpiece:

[Cobalt Violet]

22. What liberal Media???

[Kolesar]

27. Look at my sig line

Hey, even it's been interfered with! Here it is again
I've heard from other journalists that even the most mildly critical articles about this administration yield top-level phone calls back to their editors including phone calls from Mr. Libby himself to their editors. --Ambassador Joe Wilson

[sunny5555]

30. Who cares?

More people live in Mansfield than watch his lame show.

[whirlygigspin]

36. It's showbiz baby!

Leave the serious stuff for the comedy channel


-Shuck & Jive, shuck & Jive-


Next up on Larry King: Wayne Newton's diet tips for killer moms

[oasis]

37. Well we get treated to a Princess Di flashback or Tammy Faye interview to

replace a hot topic?

King and CNN are full of shit.

[madinmaryland]

38. King is a cheneying bu$h

All he kept saying in the later 90's is "why doesnt Clinton come clean." Yet he has no desire to question what has happened over the last three years.

He's a real asshole. I'm sure he just wants to pre-empt MM to show Scot Peterson bullsh*t.

:mad:

[Geo55]

39. Your overlooking the deal breaker ,

"and even told Moore's agents they wanted a White House representative on the show to rebut the film's anti-Bush comments"

They couldn't find anybody

[Lugnut]

57. DING!! DING!! DING!!!

We have a winner!! How do you rebut the truth? :evilgrin:

[fearnobush]

40. CNN - Conservative News Network. It's that simple!

CNN pulled the show because it learned that the whitehouse could not go toe to toe with Moore - This only proves Moore and we are not living in tin foil land.

[hatrack]

56. CNN - Certainly Not News nt

.

[JohnyCanuck]

41. Threat of denied access used to keep the media whores in line

I posted this article in the Editorials forum today and it seems it would be quite relevant here as well.


Why the Press Failed
by Orville Schell

<snip>

There's nothing like seeing a well-oiled machine clank to a halt to help you spot problems. Now that the Bush administration is in full defensive mode and angry leakers in the Pentagon, the CIA, and elsewhere in the Washington bureaucracy are slipping documents, secrets, and charges to reporters, our press looks more recognizably journalistic. But that shouldn't stop us from asking how an "independent" press in a "free" country could have been so paralyzed for so long. It not only failed to seriously investigate administration rationales for war, but little took into account the myriad voices in the on-line, alternative, and world press that sought to do so. It was certainly no secret that a number of our Western allies (and other countries), administrators of various NGOs, and figures like Mohamed ElBaradei, head of the International Atomic Energy Agency, and Hans Blix, head of the UN's Monitoring, Verification and Inspections Commission, had quite different pre-war views of the "Iraqi threat."


Few in our media, it seemed, remembered I. F. Stone's hortatory admonition, "If you want to know about governments, all you have to know is two words: Governments lie." Dissenting voices in the mainstream were largely buried on back pages, ignored on op-ed pages, or confined to the margins of the media, and so denied the kinds of "respectability" that a major media outlet can confer.

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As Michael Massing pointed out recently in the New York Review of Books, Bush administration insinuations that critics were unpatriotic -- White House Press Secretary Ari Fleischer infamously warned reporters as war approached, "People had better watch what they say" -- had an undeniably chilling effect on the media. But other forms of pressure also effectively inhibited the press. The President held few press conferences and rarely submitted to truly open exchanges. Secretive and disciplined to begin with, the administration adeptly used the threat of denied access as a way to intimidate reporters who showed evidence of independence. For reporters, this meant no one-on-one interviews, special tips, or leaks, being passed over in press conference question-and-answer periods, and exclusion from select events as well as important trips.

After the war began, for instance, Jim Wilkinson, a 32 year-old Texan who ran Centcom's Coalition Media Center in Qatar, was, according to Massing, known to rebuke reporters whose copy was deemed insufficiently "supportive of the war," and "darkly warned one correspondent that he was on a 'list' along with two other reporters at his paper." In the play-along world of the Bush Administration, critical reporting was a quick ticket to exile.

www.tomdispatch.com/index.mhtml?emx=x&pid=1543

[CRK7376]

42. Whimpy, Whimpy, WHimpy!

[CRK7376]

43. Whimpy, Whimpy, WHimpy!

[CRK7376]

44. Whimpy, Whimpy, WHimpy!

[Rex]

46. KKKarl called Larry and told him to 'lube up' if he put Moore on the show.

Larry, being the Repuke apologist sellout that he is, bowed down to Lord Rove and licked the toejam from Rove's troll feet.




"Anything for you, Master."

[Skip Intro]

47. What has happened to journalism in the US?

At one time, journalists were interested in covering a story, getting the facts right, and then presenting the findings to the people.

Now they cower before thugs and liars, and careful not to look the master in the eye, whimper, "how may I better serve you?"

MM might say we have a fictitious press reporting on a fictitious president who led us into a fictitious war.

Go home larry.

[WannaJumpMyScooter]

51. Please never confuse TV celebrity hosts with journalists

There is a huge difference.

Especially don't even bother to use King's name in the same sentence with journalist.

[bunk76]

49. I am confused....

tonight I heard O'Lielly say that Moore backed out because they wanted a whitehouse spokesperson on to refute Moore,so Moore refused to go on the show?He also said that F-911 was debunked from top to bottom?Was he o'liellying? :evilgrin:

[Character Assassin]

50. Good. Maybe he can finally find the time to book on Larry Elder.

Perhaps not.

[thebigidea]

55. yeah, he could tell some of his stupid fat jokes about Moore

it'll be nonstop fun!

This is Larry Elder's idea of humor:

Michael Moore's new "documentary" Fahrenheit 9/11 has broken all kinds of box office records. What will be the title of Mr. Moore's next film project?

Bowling for Lunch
Michael Moore Weighs 911
The Doughnut Made Me Do It
O.J. and Me
They Call Me Mr. Lard Butt
Soap is for Republicans
Around Michael Moore in 80 days
In My Mommies Clothes
When Al Franken Loved Me
Fatty and the Fatty Fatness?

--

See, its funny because Moore is overweight... GET IT? ITS HILARIOUS! HA HA HA HA HA!

And for a final laugh, Elder on Bush:

"... someday historians will call you a visionary in leading the war on terror, and in lighting a fuse toward democracy in the Middle East."

Yeah, he lit the fuse alright. BOOM!

[DeepModem Mom]

61. CNN viewer comment line: 404-827-0234 -- you can leave a message...

anytime, or talk to a real person, if you want, during regular hours.

[The_Casual_Observer]

63. Maybe Welches Grape Juice is owned by freepers

Larry wouldn't want to piss them off.

[Swamp Rat]

64. CHICKENNNNNN!!!

CLUCK CLUCK CLUCK CLUCK CLUCK CLUCK CLUCK CLUCK CLUCK CLUCK CLUCK CLUCK

[grasswire]

65. don't forget...

...that Larry King emceed the Bush inaugural gala on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial. (The one where Bush danced with Ricky Martin.)

[Judi Lynn]

66. I can't get that picture outta my mind, I tell ya!

Could anything be more terrifying?

[DS1]

68. Oh good lord, I've never seen that second angle before

:puke:

I can't decide which one makes him look like the bigger putz :eyes:

[Strawman]

67. Larry King is a moron

Anytime I ever happen to flip by and catch him for a few minutes because I'm lured in by an interesting guest, I'm amazed at how emptyheaded Larry King is. The guy's just a celebrity ass kissing whore. Why do you think Ken Lay picked him to do an interview with? You'd have thought Kenny boy was JC himself from the treatment Larry gave him the other night when I caught that interview. Who else would want Ken Lay on their show if they had to agree not to ask him any difficult questions? Going up against Larry King in an interview is about as tough as going up against Glass Joe in the old Nintendo version of Mike Tyson's Punchout.

[lostnfound]

71. Too bad --King's audience probably has many centrist undecideds.

People who get their news only from TV but like his rather open interviews.