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Posted on 07/17/2009 9:51:30 AM PDT by Steelfish
Larry King's addiction: Michael Jackson
Three weeks after the King of Pop's death, other media outlets have largely moved on, while the CNN host has devoted much of his programming to Jackson.
Even guest Mark Geragos seems exasperated.
James Rainey July 17, 2009.
An intervention couldn't save Michael Jackson, but maybe it's not too late for Larry King.
The King of Talk can't stop blathering about the King of Pop. It's been building for three weeks now, getting more and more absurd.
Night after night, the CNN host tosses out sentence-fragment questions ("Brain not returned to the family . . . right, Carlos?") that seem like they should have been written for Jimmy Kimmel.
Night after night, the "experts" lob back speculation, piled on theory, heaped on postulation.
Twenty-two days after Jackson's death, new facts about the cause remain fleeting. As the gravel-voiced, ever-game host acknowledged in one of his occasional moments of clarity this week: "We don't know any facts yet. . . . All of these are assumptions."
That was just before King's panel of judges and lawyers launched into yet another round of speculation, King urging: "What do we know? What do we know?"
To be fair, the suspendered-one is only the most visible suspect when it comes to what Comedy Central's Jon Stewart dubs "obitutainment."
Geraldo Rivera used a whiteboard to scrawl out his theories on the cause of death. One cable correspondent offered an update on his "reporting," that consisted of reading from the latest missive on celebrity website TMZ.
A Scandinavian reporter called our paper looking for "an expert on Debbie Rowe's womb." (Rowe is one of Jackson's ex-wives and mother of his two eldest children.)
Dear old Larry King's relentless Jackson coverage merits special consideration, in my mind, because of his sizable audience...
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Who cares? Does anyone listen to that asshat anymore?
CNN Bible: “Michael Jackson arose on the third day, sitted at the right hand of Bono”
CNN including Nancy Grace are milking Jackson for every ounce of audience left. They are doing nothing but repeating the same ‘facts’ they have had for weeks.
Of course, Larry can’t talk about Cap & Trade or health care because he doesn’t have a clue. How King ever became the ‘star’ at CNN is beyond me!
I thought he was already pushing up the daisies.
One freak obsessed with another.
CNN always does this — a famous person dies and it focuses on the story for months, maybe years at a time. OJ was the big attraction for a while, then it was Anna Nicole...now it’s Michael Jackson.
And CNN is not the only culprit. E and those Access Hollywood and other tabloid programs can’t get away from the Jackson story.
I probably wouldn’t mind it so much if there was some news to report. All we are getting now is speculation. Although there are signs that Mr. Jackson was a drug addict, the fact is that no one knows for sure if the drugs killed him. The media should just wait for the final autopsy report. Of course, they won’t do that.
To be fair, though, I think most of this hoopla is adudience driven. If people would stay away from those programs in droves, maybe they would disappear.
As an Anna Nicole Smith thread addict, I understand the interest in the ‘drug related’ death of Michael Jackson - and similarly - the aftermath effects on the children who were ‘adornments’ in the lives of these pathetic ‘celebrities’.
You may recall that Smith’s son, Daniel, suffered a death from a lethal injection of drugs at age 20, followed by the death of his mother and a disgraceful custody fight over her only remaining heir, infant Danielynn.
The same nightmare is already being forced upon these ‘inconvenient dolls’ that Jackson purchased for his own reasons.
Diabolical.
He’s still on? Well, maybe he’ll call it quite when they finally bury the body. 3 weeks later and he’s still above ground.
And don’t forget Jon Bennett Ramsey.
An issue that I cared about for perhaps 5 minutes. Larry King discussed it three times a week for at least two years.
I thought Larry King died years ago.
He did, but no-one covered the story.
If Miko Brando caught the flu, Larry would have to go dark.
“I thought Larry King died years ago”
He did but nobody told him, so he is still working and cashing million a month paychecks.
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