It is rare on national television to have a guest refuse to speak and then just sit there, but that was the scene on Larry King Live with Carrie Prejean. It is always exciting to see legal technicalities and interpretations become the subject du jour for celebrity talk shows.
Just as a legal note, on this occasion, King may be right, but it is possible for the parties to mutually agree to bar any press discussion. A confidential settlement normally bars discussion of the terms of the settlement and not the motivation of the settlement. What Prejean is describing is an agreement for a gag rule. However, the pageant has released information, here. It would be strange for an organization to require “radio silence” and, if a gag rule was part of the settlement, it would be interesting to see which side insisted upon it.
Putting this aside, it is a matter of debate whether silencing an interview between Larry King and Carrie Prejean was a significant loss to the public discourse. Indeed, for those minutes of silence with Prejean and King staring at each other in silence, there may have been a net improvement of the overall journalistic content of the show. For that brief moment, a degree of sanity returned to celebrity cable programming. It was fleeting, however.
She was much more open about the sex tape in an interview with Christianity Today
http://www.christianitytoday.com/ct/2009/novemberweb-only/145-22.0.html
Man,
What I’d do for a few minutes in the limelight. It sure wouldn’t be sit there and call people inappropriate.
Byron @ 8:36am :
“Personally, I think she has gotten the shaft for a simple comment of opinion.”
You might like/need a *primer* on her fifteen minutes. (Maybe try TMZ, thedirty, or palingates.) Here is a link to palingates’ November 12, 2009 post titled “Sex, Lies and Videotape – Sarah Palin’s new friend Carrie Prejean exposed as pathological liar and hypocrite” it gives a pretty good *synopsis* of this trashy story.
http://palingates.blogspot.com/2009/11/sex-lies-and-videotape-sarah-palins-new.html
“it looks like”
Flipkid:
I am willing to put $100 bucks on it. We can both send to a neutral 3rd party to hold.
the left thought 2010 was going to be a cake walk too, it likes it will be for republicans.
Granted a lot can happen between now and 2012, but please lay off Palin. I want her as president even less than you do, albeit for different reasons.
“Because of your hatred of Sarah Palin there is a very good chance she will end up being president in 2012 or 2016.”
Haha! Hahahahahahaha!! Hahahahahahahahahahahahaha!!! Whew! *wipes tears from eyes* Now THAT was funny.
Flipkid:
Now I would have watched that video! I don’t really care if she is or is not a hypocrite, she is entitled to her opinion and she made no comments about gay marriage being made illegal. It was her personal choice, she appeared to have no grand designs to discriminate against gays.
I say leave her alone and she will go away through apathy.
You guys on the left always pick a fight with someone the right wants to love and protect. You end up doing more harm than good. Because of your hatred of Sarah Palin there is a very good chance she will end up being president in 2012 or 2016.
As a conservative I am not at all happy with that possible outcome, because she is not really a true free market conservative. She is probably more like Bush I or Bush II and as Jesse Jackson said “stay out the bush”. This “Bush” is not my cup of tea.
“i’m about to leave your show.” hahahahahahahaha!!!! please leave!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I saw the interview and could not believe what a total brat Prejean was. Larry King handled her testy behavior with aplomb and grace. Of course he spun it to say he didn’t know about the pre-interview agreement. He’s Larry King for Pete’s sake. And, the most ridiculous statement of the year: “You’re being in appropriate, Larry.” She came off so condescending. After 20 years as a PIO, it was one of the most indulgent moments in an interview I’ve ever seen. I’m so ready for her to go away. Forever.
Takoma:
Actually I have watched Beck twice and only because a person I like was on as a guest. I think Bill O’Reilly is a pompous ass and way too full of himself.
PBS has a couple of good shows but should be put out of their misery. I really don’t want my tax money going to a government TV station. I just cant wait until extreme right wing evangelicals takes over this country and puts PBS to good use – promoting pro-life, anti-gay, anti-welfare, anti-immigration, pro-religious views. What a breath of “fresh” air that will be.
And you wont have an intellectual argument to refute that type of programing.
CNN is still on?
“Personally, I think she has gotten the shaft for a simple comment of opinion.”
Really, Byron? You don’t think this backlash is based on the fact that she purports to be a devout Christian, yet had someone else pay for a boob job so she would fare better in a beauty contest? And THEN we find out that Ms. Devout Picked-On-Beacuse-I’m-A-Conservative-With-Family-Values Christian made several mastubatory videos for her boyfriend (not husband… boyfriend)? And even then she thinks we’re so stupid that we’ll believe her when she says they’re NOT “sex videos” because no one is “having sex” on them??
And back to her original controversial comment: there is no such thing as “opposite marriage.” No matter what your views on gay rights are, if you are so stupid that you have to make up your own word to describe something, your opinion is worthless.
You are, however, correct that Larry “Methuselah” King is a numb nut. And ALL media outlets that give Ms. Prejean even 10 seconds of air time are guilty of participation in the lowering of the Amrican IQ.
@ Byron:
What kind of thinking is that? Is the quality of a broadcast measured by the number of viewers? What about PBS? Based on the numbers you just gave there, should FNC then be watched by everyone in America? That’s called gregarious mindset. Maybe Bill O’Reilly and Glenn Beck are your heroes as lots of people watch them, but I like CNN and I watch Larry King Live…
Parjean is obviously from the Palin school of journalism where only she gets to decide the questions and any attempts to actually penetrate or probe their micro-thin veil of relevance to the world is “inappropriate”. I’ll suggest her 15 minutes of milking the spotlight for every second and every nickle possible was up about a month ago. Next!
I wonder if Carrie Prejean will be the 8th Wonder of Larry King? I think it racks up to that in the King Marriage Department. Although it will technically be his 8th different woman it would be his 9th marriage as he repeated one.
I wonder if he kissed her between strikes and she kissed him between balls. But it sounds like its either the top or bottom of the 9th.
Soupy Sales.
Mespo:
they dont, only if they look good and can suck a watermelon through a keyhole.
you should know that.
flipkid:
Carrie’s 15 minute clock is about at 14:30 I suppose. Past that, if her ex-boyfriend has any more of those video offerings as he claims. Then it’s sudden death overtime. Why do hypocrites get all the air time?
Personally, I think she has gotten the shaft for a simple comment of opinion. And anyway Larry King is a numb nut. Why does he even have a show? Does anyone watch it? For that matter does anyone watch CNN very much?
Live + Same Day Cable News Daily Ratings for November 11, 2009
P2+ Total Day
FNC – 1,433,000 viewers
CNN – 560,000 viewers
MSNBC –426,000 viewers
CNBC – 235,000 viewers
HLN –313,000 viewers
P2+ Prime Time
FNC – 2,735,000 viewers
CNN – 632,000 viewers
MSNBC –1,063,000 viewers
CNBC – 348,000 viewers
HLN –581,000 viewers
HLN almost beats CNN in prime time.
She tried to take control of his show. This woman is really arrogant and annoying. Unhooking the microphone is a really childish thing to do.
Ms. Prejean, I think I speak for all Americans when I say PLEASE JUST GO AWAY. You’ve have far more than your alloted 15 minutes of fame, and, really, no one cares what you have to say about anything. Oh, and… you’re the biggest hypocrite I’ve ever seen.