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After CNN Cancels Morgan, Larry King Says: I Could Come Back
Daily Beast ^ | 02/24/2014 | Lloyd Grove

Posted on 02/24/2014 12:08:10 PM PST by Responsibility2nd

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King, 81, who hosts Larry King Now, a daily half-hour Web program for Ora TV—in which he has an equity stake—indicated he’d be willing to return to his previous perch at CNN, Jay Leno-like, if Zucker was interested. “If he talked to the people at Ora TV and they could work it out, I would do it,” he said. (The Suspendered One's program is also carried on Hulu and the Putin government-backed Russia Today television network.)

For Zucker, Morgan’s departure represents both an opportunity and a failure, and perhaps a huge relief after years of anemic ratings. For Klein, now an independent producer, it’s a not entirely unexpected disappointment. “I think he felt like he made a mistake,” Larry King recalled.

Klein, who was fired from CNN in the fall of 2010, shortly after announcing that Morgan would take over the all-important 9 p.m. slot, dismissed King’s stab at mind-reading. Instead, he argued in an interview that hiring Morgan—a former Fleet Street editor who’d become a fixture on British television and gained notoriety among U.S. viewers as a contestant on NBC’s The Apprentice and a judge on that same network’s America’s Got Talent—made eminent good sense to people in CNN’s executive suite.

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To: Responsibility2nd

Norm McDonald as Larry King on SNL many years ago...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y-wOW-EHmKQ


21 posted on 02/24/2014 12:22:44 PM PST by Snickering Hound
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To: Responsibility2nd

Wow, a tea-bagger and a two bagger.


22 posted on 02/24/2014 12:23:35 PM PST by VR-21 (Next Stop, Willoughby.)
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To: RIghtwardHo
The problem with Larry is he thinks he's a real journalist. He's ok when he's slobbering over some famous Hollywood type, but when it comes to discussing serious issues with important/knowledgeable people, he's a joke. I always have the feeling he knows nothing about the subject matter.

Unfortunately, a good many “journalists” are just like Larry. News and interviews just aren't what the used to be.

23 posted on 02/24/2014 12:24:32 PM PST by fatnotlazy
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To: Responsibility2nd

After hosting on RT, the pro-Putin cable news outlet, I think Al Jazeera would be a more appropriate venue for Larry.


24 posted on 02/24/2014 12:26:35 PM PST by attiladhun2 (The Free World has a new leader--his name is Benjamin Netanyahu)
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To: Responsibility2nd
Yeah, bring Larry back!

"Boise, ID, you're on with Anita Dunn, what's your question?"

25 posted on 02/24/2014 12:26:58 PM PST by JPG (Yes We Can morphs into Make It Hurt.)
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To: Responsibility2nd
"Toledo! Watcha kweshchun foah the incredible...

MISS!

LIZA!

MINELLIE!?!?!?!"

26 posted on 02/24/2014 12:27:36 PM PST by clintonh8r (Don't twerk me, Broi)
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To: Responsibility2nd

The Michelle Malkin Show would make a dent in the ratings.


27 posted on 02/24/2014 12:27:46 PM PST by Izzy Dunne (Hello, I'm a TAGLINE virus. Please help me spread by copying me into YOUR tag line.)
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To: WayneS

Jay Leno needs a new gig.


28 posted on 02/24/2014 12:29:12 PM PST by Catsrus (A)
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To: Responsibility2nd

I say give Paula Deen that time slot to whip up a batch of controversy with her blueberry waffles. Paula’s first cooking guests? On Tuesday, Sarah Palin’s Roasted Rabbit Stew, One Thursday, George Zimmerman talks about his new cookbook “El Bonito Burrito”.Next Monday; Ann Romney makes and bakes her Brownies with seven of the Grandchildren. Ratings Gold!! Such a show would be self advertising.


29 posted on 02/24/2014 12:29:32 PM PST by lee martell
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To: Responsibility2nd

Cool!
I miss ‘Tales from the Crypt’.


30 posted on 02/24/2014 12:30:20 PM PST by Carl LaFong (The. Media. Is.The. Enemy.)
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To: Responsibility2nd

Fruit, meet fly.


31 posted on 02/24/2014 12:34:08 PM PST by Hugin
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To: Responsibility2nd
Larry King and CNN

Two liberal fossils.

32 posted on 02/24/2014 12:37:30 PM PST by erod
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To: Responsibility2nd

Gee, wonder why these hosts don’t bring in the ratings like FOX?

Pray America Wakes Up


33 posted on 02/24/2014 12:39:34 PM PST by bray (The Republic of Texas 2022 coming soon)
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To: Responsibility2nd

I think CNN will go with some sort of light entertainment talk show. The host will be a comedian and it will discuss actors, Hollywood, and the like.

I don’t think they will replace Morgan with anyone controversial.


34 posted on 02/24/2014 12:41:22 PM PST by 3Fingas (Sons and Daughters for Freedom and Rededication to the Principles of the U.S. Constitution)
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To: Responsibility2nd

Personally, I wish Fox was like “Red Eye” 24/7. I don’t really care to watch the news anymore. Hannity and Oreilly, et al really bore me.
They can go serious news if there is some breaking story.


35 posted on 02/24/2014 12:44:39 PM PST by 3Fingas (Sons and Daughters for Freedom and Rededication to the Principles of the U.S. Constitution)
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To: Responsibility2nd

So the Crypt Keeper wants his show back. 104 year-old larry king returns! Didn’t he just marry a 12 year-old?


36 posted on 02/24/2014 12:45:03 PM PST by LibLieSlayer (FROM MY COLD, DEAD HANDS! BETTER DEAD THAN RED!)
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To: Responsibility2nd
Larry King?
Hasn't his embalming fluid passed the expiration date?
37 posted on 02/24/2014 12:58:02 PM PST by AU72
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To: Responsibility2nd

the only way Larry King could come back is after the Resurrection


38 posted on 02/24/2014 12:58:55 PM PST by faithhopecharity (" uri)
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To: John W
Zucker is a big Katie Couric patron.

That's what came to my mind, too.

39 posted on 02/24/2014 1:11:51 PM PST by Zuben Elgenubi (NOPe to GOPe)
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To: attiladhun2
After hosting on RT, the pro-Putin cable news outlet

Is he on before or after the hot babe who's a 9-11 troofer?


40 posted on 02/24/2014 1:15:36 PM PST by Buckeye McFrog
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