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Larry King: Breaks into radio in Miami
He got his first job in radio through persistence. A small station, WAHR in Miami Beach, hired him to clean up and perform miscellaneous tasks. When one of their announcers quit, they put him on the air. His first broadcast was on May 1, 1957, when he worked as the disc jockey from 9 am to noon. He also did two afternoon newscasts and a sportscast. He was paid $55 a week. He acquired the name
Larry King, when the general manager suggested that Zeiger was too ethnic and hard to remember. He started interviewing on a midmorning show for WIOD, at Pumpernik's restaurant in Miami Beach. He would interview anyone who walked in. His first interview was with a waitress at the restaurant.
His Miami radio show launched him to local stardom. A few years later, in May 1960, he hosted
Miami Undercover airing Sunday nights at 11:30 on Channel 10. On the show he moderated debates on important issues of the day.
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IssuesBaker: Media have "blood on their hands" for murder of transgender woman because they created "false sense of reality"
During the November 18 broadcast of his Minneapolis radio
show, Chris Baker said of the November 14 murder of a transgender woman who reportedly went by the name Latiesha Green: "I believe that the fault, and I know,
'cause already I'm seeing quotes and comments and, 'Oh,
it's hate. It's a hate crime. It's a horrible hate
crime.' Doesn't some of the blame lie with the American media who
enables this fraud?" Baker added: "I would say a majority of the blame
does not lie with the nitwit that shot him, other than the fact that he's
a nitwit and a guy who should have been in prison in my opinion, who shot him.
But to me, this is the -- this is an example of how, by enabling people and
trying to push this false reality, leads to horrible crimes like this."
Later in the show, Baker discussed the case again, stating
that "this guy is a murderer and should go to jail. ... But I personally
believe that by the media and all these other people out there enabling these
people that they put people like this at risk, because they give them the
boldness, the confidence, the -- to decide, 'Well, you know what?
I'm a girl. Even though I'm not a girl, I'm a girl. And the
media will call me a girl, so, therefore, I can walk into any party I want. I
can go anywhere I want.' " Baker also stated: "I believe the
media and the rest of the enablers out there, they have this guy's blood
on their hands because they create this false sense of reality and they enable
people who need serious psychological counseling."
Syracuse's WSYR-TV reported on
November 17 that Dwight DeLee had been charged with the crime, which occurred
after Green attended a party, and that "Syracuse Police say they believe
DeLee's motive was a dislike for [the victim's] sexual orientation."
During the show, Baker also discussed the appearance of
Thomas Beatie, a pregnant transgender man, and his wife, Nancy, on the November
17 edition of
CNN's Larry King Live.
During the interview, King asked the
Beaties: "Did he get pregnant right out of the box?" Baker
repeatedly aired the audio of this portion of the interview, responding,
"It's a she, Larry. ... It's a she." Moreover,
Baker called the Beaties "mental cases" and referred to Thomas
Beatie as a "mutilated lesbian."
As Media Matters for
America documented, Baker also called Beatie
a "mutilated lesbian" on the November 14 edition of his show. He
also stated: "If a lesbian gets pregnant, I'm fine with it. I'm OK. Just
stop alternating reality and trying to force me to buy into your
psychosis."
From the November 18 broadcast of KTLK's The Chris Baker Show:
BAKER: Last night on Larry King -- we're gonna play you
some audio. Last night on Larry King,
he had the mutilated lesbian on, and they described how the mutilated lesbian
got pregnant, where this whole thing came from, why they did it, and then --
you know, some of the, some of the -- here, by the way, here's my
favorite question from Larry King.
KING [audio clip]: Did he get
pregnant right out of the box?
BAKER: You can't beat that.
PERRY: Well, technically, Larry --
BAKER: Atta boy, Larry.
KING [audio clip]: Did he get pregnant
right out of the box?
PERRY: Did he get pregnant right out
of -- you -- technically, Larry, here's how it worked.
BAKER: Oh, God. You can't --
Larry King is -- this guy. How can --
PERRY: I bet he didn't even
see the humor in that.
BAKER: How you could do an interview
with these two mental cases -- all right. Look, I -- if -- look, if
you're gay, you're gay. Good for you, all right. But -- and then
I'm gonna dovetail this into another story, and this is where the conversation
we have to get into.
There's a very sad story about
a transgender man. It's a guy who thinks he's a woman, just so we
clarify. Shows up to a party and some guy with an extensive criminal record, by
the way, and a history of weapons charges, shot him, killed him -- terrible
story. My question is: One, why is this guy with the extensive prison record,
or shall we say, criminal record, and extensive list of weapons charges, why is
he not in jail in the first place?
Second of all, I believe that the
fault, and I know, 'cause already I'm seeing quotes and comments
and, "Oh, it's hate. It's a hate crime. It's a horrible
hate crime." Doesn't some of the blame lie with the American media
who enables this fraud? Doesn't some of the blame -- I would say a
majority of the blame does not lie with the nitwit that shot him, other than
the fact that he's a nitwit and a guy who should have been in prison in
my opinion, who shot him. But to me, this is the -- this is an example of how,
by enabling people and trying to push this false reality, leads to horrible
crimes like this, by -- by telling people, "Oh, well, you know, he -- did
he get pregnant?"
KING [audio clip]: Did he get
pregnant right out of the box?
BAKER: No. It's a she, Larry.
KING [audio clip]: Did he get
pregnant right out of the box?
BAKER: It's a she.
[...]
BAKER: So annoying for me, but
there's a story today, it's a very -- it's a horrible story
from Syracuse, New York. A guy's been charged with
murder after he shot two people last week. One of them was a transgender
person. So, now, they're talking about hate crime charges, things like
that. Look, this guy is a murderer and should go to jail. This guy should be
punished to the fullest extent of the law.
But I personally believe that by the
media and all these other people out there enabling these people that they put
people like this at risk, because they give them the boldness, the confidence,
the -- to decide, "Well, you know what? I'm a girl. Even though
I'm not a girl, I'm a girl. And the media will call me a girl, so,
therefore, I can walk into any party I want. I can go anywhere I want. I can
demand whatever I want and no one can stop me because the media is going to
call me a girl."
Well, guess what? In my opinion,
other than the fact that the guy that allegedly murdered this guy -- and this
guy I'm talking about would be the transgender guy. I promise I'm
just getting this off my chest. This is just driving me nuts.
I believe the media and the rest of
the enablers out there, they have this guy's blood on their hands because
they create this false sense of reality and they enable people who need serious
psychological counseling. I mean, what guy in his right mind would have his
stuff cut off? Now, there's a lot of women in their right mind that would
like to do that to a guy, but what guy in his right mind wants to have his
stuff cut off? What woman in her right mind wants to have her breasts removed?
I mean, do they notice the millions of dollars women spend every year in this
country to get bigger ones?
This whole thing is -- it's
just infuriating to me. You know why? Because I gotta explain this to my kids.
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Published: Tue, 04 Nov 2008 11:47:46 GMT - Source: Thestar.Com - Read the articleIssuesLimbaugh smears Obama with misrepresentation of comments on Constitution
Distorting comments by Sen. Barack Obama from a 2001 radio
interview, nationally syndicated radio host Rush Limbaugh falsely characterized
Obama as "an anti-constitutional professor" who has "flatly
rejected" the U.S. Constitution. Obama made the comments in a panel
discussion of how the Founders addressed the issue of slavery in the
Constitution; he did not reject it,
as Limbaugh falsely claimed, but called it "a remarkable political
document."
During his October 27 broadcast, Limbaugh said:
"Obama, ladies and gentlemen, calls himself a constitutional professor or
a constitutional scholar. In truth,
Barack Obama was an anti-constitutional professor. He studied the Constitution,
and he flatly rejected it. He doesn't like the Constitution, he thinks it is flawed, and now
I understand why he was so reluctant to wear the American flag lapel pin. Why
would he?" Limbaugh later added, "I don't see how he can take
the oath of office" because "[h]e has rejected the
Constitution."
Limbaugh's assertion that Obama
"rejected the Constitution" is false, as is clear from a clip from
a September 6, 2001, interview on Chicago public radio
station WBEZ that Limbaugh aired later
in the show. In fact, while
saying that the Constitution "reflected the fundamental flaw of this
country that continues to this day," Obama asserted that
the Constitution is "a remarkable political document that paved the way
for where we are now."
In a preceding portion of the WBEZ program
-- titled
"Slavery and the Constitution" -- Obama explained that the "fundamental
flaw" was that "[t]he Africans at the time were not considered as
part of the polity that was of concern to the framers," and that the
framers did not "see[] it as a moral problem involving persons of moral
worth." Without airing that part of the WBEZ program, in which Obama
explained his position that the Constitution reflected the "fundamental
flaw of this country," Limbaugh criticized Obama for saying that the
Constitution reflected a "fundamental flaw," while falsely accusing
Obama of saying the flaw cannot "be fixed": "How is he going to -- I asked this
earlier -- how is he gonna place his hand on the Bible and swear that he,
Barack Hussein Obama, will uphold the Constitution that he feels reflects the
nation's fundamental flaw. Fundamental. When he talks about a fundamental
flaw, he's not talking about a flaw that can be fixed. Fundamental means
that this document is, from the get-go, wrong."
But Obama's identification of a
fundamental flaw reflected in the Constitution and "continu[ing] to this
day" is hardly unique; several influential Republicans,
including President Bush and Secretary
of State Condoleezza Rice, have articulated a similar view:
At a July 19 event at the Council on Foreign
Relations, Rice said: "In our first Constitution, my ancestors were
three-fifths of a man. What does that say about American democracy at its outset?
I've said it's a great birth defect. And we have had to overcome a birth defect. And, like any birth defect,
it continues to have an impact on us. It's why we have such a hard time talking
about race, and dealing with race."
During a July 10, 2003, interview on
CNN's Larry King Live,
former Secretary of State Colin Powell said: "It took us a while to
recognize that we could not live our Constitution truly unless we eliminated
slavery, and hundreds of thousands of young men fought a civil war to end
slavery and then it took us a long time to get rid of the vestiges of slavery
and we're still working on it to this very day."
In July 8, 2003, remarks made at Goree Island
in Senegal,
Bush said that the "moral vision" of abolitionists "caused
Americans to examine our hearts, to correct our Constitution, and to teach our
children the dignity and equality of every person of every race." He
added: "The racial bigotry fed by slavery did not end with slavery or
with segregation. And many of the issues that still trouble America have
roots in the bitter experience of other times."
Additionally, in an August 5, 2006, interview with C-SPAN's Brian
Lamb, Chief Justice John Roberts
said of the authors of the Constitution: "They never worked out what to do about slavery and
just kind of shuttled that aside and decided we're not going to talk
about that. And that taint in the Constitution, took a Civil War to
remove." Later in the interview, he said that the Constitution's
amendment process "did allow some fundamental flaws to be addressed like
slavery -- abolished in
the Thirteenth Amendment."
Limbaugh also falsely asserted that during a separate 2001 interview Obama did with WBEZ, Obama
said that "if he
can come up for a rationale
for bringing about economic change through the courts, he would do it."
Obama actually said that while he could likely develop a legal theory for
making economic changes through the courts, he did not think it would work
"as a practical matter."
Limbaugh aired an audio clip from the January 18, 2001, interview on WBEZ in which Obama
asserted, "You know, the court's just not very good at it, and
politically, it's just -- it's very hard to legitimize opinions from the court
in that regard. So, I mean, I think that, although, you can craft theoretical
justifications for it legally -- you know, I think you can, any three of us
sitting here could come up with a rationale for bringing about economic change
through the courts." Limbaugh then added, "Right, redistribution.
This is how he views the Supreme Court. This is -- he will have the power to populate it with
people who believe in these very things." But Limbaugh clipped
Obama's comments; Obama actually said: "I think you can, any three
of us sitting here could come up with a rationale for bringing about economic
change through the courts -- I think that,
as a practical matter, our institutions just are poorly equipped to do it" [emphasis added]. Indeed, earlier in the
interview, Obama stated: "You know, maybe I'm showing my bias here as a
legislator as well as a law professor, but, you know, I'm not optimistic about
bringing about major redistributive change through the courts. You know, the
institution just isn't structured that way."
From the October 27 broadcast of Premiere Radio Networks' The Rush Limbaugh Show:
LIMBAUGH: Obama, ladies and
gentlemen, calls himself a constitutional professor or a constitutional
scholar. In truth,
Barack Obama was an anti-constitutional professor. He studied the Constitution,
and he flatly rejected it. He doesn't like the Constitution, he thinks it is flawed, and now
I understand why he was so reluctant to wear the American flag lapel pin. Why
would he? He says "and, to
that extent, as radical as, I think, people try to characterize the Warren court, it
wasn't that radical. It didn't break free from the essential
constraints that were placed by the founding fathers in the Constitution, at
least as it's been interpreted. The Warren
court interpreted it in the same way that, generally, the Constitution is a
charter of negative liberties -- it
says what the states can't do to you, it says what the federal government
can't do to you. But it doesn't say what the federal government or
the state government must do on your behalf." Good Lord, ladies and
gentlemen. I don't see how he can take the oath of office, which is this:
"I do solemnly swear or affirm that I will faithfully execute the office
of president of the United States,
and I will to the best
of my ability, preserve, protect, and defend the Constitution of the United States."
He has rejected the Constitution.
[...]
LIMBAUGH: Here's more Obama.
He has to add that if
he can come up for a rationale
for bringing about economic change through the courts, he would do it.
OBAMA [audio clip]: You know, the court's just not very
good at it, and politically, it's just -- it's very hard to legitimize opinions from
the court in that regard. So, I
mean, I think that although you can
craft theoretical justifications for it legally -- you
know, I think you can, any three of us sitting here could come up with a rationale
for bringing about
economic change through the courts --
LIMBAUGH: Right, redistribution.
This is how he views the Supreme Court. This is -- he will have the power to populate it with
people who believe in these very things. How is he going to -- I asked this earlier -- how is he gonna place his hand on the Bible
and swear that he, Barack Hussein Obama, will uphold the Constitution that he
feels reflects the nation's fundamental flaw. Fundamental. When he talks
about a fundamental flaw, he's not talking about a flaw that can be
fixed. Fundamental means that this document is, from the get-go,
wrong.
OBAMA [audio clip]: I think we can say that the Constitution reflected a enormous blind spot in this
culture that carries on until
this day, and that the framers had that same blind spot. I don't think
the two views are contradictory to say that it was a remarkable political
document that paved the way for where we are now, and to say that it also
reflected the fundamental flaw of this country that continues to this day.
LIMBAUGH: That's not even
true. Even if you refuse to call it a fundamental flaw -- just remove the word fundamental -- he is saying, seven years
ago, this country has made no progress whatsoever on the official status of
black citizens going back to the days of the founding. That simply is not true.
Hundreds of thousands of Americans died. The Constitution was a document set up
to fix itself, to allow itself to be repaired in the area of individual liberty, and it has been far more
than anybody would have ever dreamed back in the days of the founding.
From the September 6, 2001, broadcast
of Chicago Public Radio's Odyssey:
HOST: Barack
Obama, what are your thoughts on the Declaration and Constitution?
OBAMA: Well, you know, I think
it's a remarkable document. I
think --
HOST: Which one?
OBAMA: The original Constitution, as
well as -- as well as the
Civil War amendments, but I think it is an imperfect document, and I think it
is a document that reflects some deep flaws in American culture -- the colonial culture
nascent at that time. African-Americans
were not -- first of
all, they weren't African-Americans. The Africans at
the time were not considered as part of the polity that was of concern to the
framers. I think that, as [program
co-panelist] Richard
[John] said, it was a nagging problem in the same way that, these
days, we might think of environmental issues or some other problem that, where you have to balance, you know, cost-benefits, as
opposed to seeing it as a moral problem involving persons of moral worth. And,
in that sense, I think we can say that the Constitution reflected a enormous blind spot in this
culture that carries on until
this day, and that the framers had that same blind spot. I don't think
the two views are contradictory to say that it was a remarkable political
document that paved the way for where we are now, and to say that it also
reflected the fundamental flaw of this country that continues to this day.
Published: Tue, 28 Oct 2008 17:10:24 GMT - Source: Mediamatters.Org - Read the article
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