Le Show; 2003-06-08

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Ladies, gentlemen, can you Can you hear the deep hum In the background It's it's almost subaudible but it's a deep Rumbling hum of Industrial strength air conditioning The show the show dumb has been moved On short notice to last Vegas Nevada Don't panic it's my second second visit to Vegas this year And you know I'm just I'm just going to be opening a show Room at the start us no I'm not I'd like to but I'm not But it's It's a this I've discovered on this Visit that short as it brief as it's been That this city per capita probably has The largest percentage of magicians To regular population of any city probably on the planet So now that everybody's forgotten about one from the heart If there were to be a new contemporary Las Vegas love story It would really be

The magician and the show girl I would think but it's a It's a It's a nutty there's don't worry there's still a lot of desert here I've traversed much of it to get to this particular location today I'm on my nationwide tour of radio stations That don't carry this broadcast I figure you know if they if they've hosted a broadcast Maybe they'll realize that they have if not nothing to fear less to fear But Las Vegas ladies and gentlemen I must say It is the It is the one city I've ever been to Well it raises the it raises the question of whether There can be such a thing in fact as Too much show business or show business Because it's the one city I've ever been to Where you can actually feel overstimulated Standing in baggage claim at the airport You just know enough of the things with the lights and the signs And you're you haven't gotten your luggage yet

You're not out of the airport Maybe there can be such a thing There are weapons of mass destruction nearby here of course All the people who were killed in that movie can testify to that But we'll see in the forthcoming hour if we can locate any more of them Not the people, the weapons Meantime ladies and gentlemen you know a few weeks ago I raised the question of does anybody paying attention to advertising Even in the advertising agencies anymore vis-a-vis the UPS campaign What can brown do for you? You don't want to know what brown can do for me Don't ask Another example of red faces in the advertising community With the burgeoning SARS epidemic spreading fear among travelers worldwide The Hong Kong tourist board might well be ruined the day It commissioned a series of magazine ads telling visitors That a visit to Hong Kong will quote

Take your breath away Shortness of breath is one of the main symptoms of SARS It's severe acute respiratory syndrome It's not enough to be acute, it's got to be severe It's a deadly new strain of pneumonia as you know that started in southern China More than 100 people have already died from SARS It is quickly moved to Hong Kong Most of the fatalities in cases are in China in Hong Kong The spokeswoman for the Hong Kong Tourism Board told the Wall Street Journal Europe That the ad campaign has which has been running in British editions of magazines Including Cosmopolitan Hide that from the Walmart customers and Condonass Traveler As well as on billboards in Hong Kong was commissioned before the SARS outbreak She added that when the first cases of SARS made the news in Hong Kong In mid March the tourist board tried to pull the ads Or get the headline changed from Hong Kong will take your breath away to There's no place like Hong Kong Still This was too late for some monthly magazine deadlines So Hong Kong continues ladies and gentlemen

To take your breath away but don't panic it's just another case of hello Welcome to the show She's holding up to the goods New York City I don't know if you know that Morning Some things, some things, some rain Rain and so on, the field's the same

Take the pain, kill a shackle on your bicycle Leave all this news if you have My love giving me head, feeling very guilty, breaking the bread Using my attention, I'm taking the world off So better than the hatches, it comes a cold I can feel it creeping, it's making me old You give me so much love that it blows my brains down Some rain, dripping down your face Some rain, rain and so on, the field's the same Take the pain, kill a shackle on your bicycle

Leave all this news if you have My love, my love, my love, my love Some rain, dripping down your face Some rain, rain and so on, the field's the same Take the pain, kill a shackle on your bicycle Leave all this news if you have Some rain, dripping down your face

Some rain, rain and so on, the field's the same Take the pain, kill a shackle on your bicycle Leave all this news if you have Leave all this news if you have Some rain, rain and so on, the field's the same And there are blues that you get from sleepless nights

Oh but the meanest, the meanest blues that be There are the blues that I've got on my mind I mean the ones that all the meanest kind The blues might not as sweet as to be There are blues that I've got on my mind And there are blues that I've got on my mind And there are blues that I've got on my mind

And there are blues that I've got on my mind And there are blues that I've got on my mind And there are blues that I've got on my mind And there are blues that I've got on my mind

And there are blues that I've got on my mind And there are blues that I've got on my mind And I gave myself to you We wandered through each other's secrets

We traded on her word We shared on promise, but like a raven's cry, it must be heard Please don't take away your love dear One mistake is not a crime Let's start again, my love is your steer, your love is mine One more time, one more time You tell me a cold wind's a common And chill the turns a heart to stone, and your eyes say it's time to move on Now to road you'd rather walk alone

Now pride is a raging river, you compare the daughters' tree What song need the winds of forgiveness And take the stormy sea One mistake is not a crime Let's start again, my love is your steer, your love is mine Like the tide that comes in but doesn't stay, but our journey has taken up our lifetime

And what you give, you just can't take away I can't take away my love dear, one mistake is not a crime Let's start again, my love is your steer, your love is mine one more time From the magician per capita capital of the known world, Las Vegas Nevada ladies and gentlemen, I'm Harry Sheerah You're welcoming you once again to this edition of La Show Las Vegas currently playing host to an arms dealer convention and a sex therapist convention

It's the spoof at yourself feature ladies and gentlemen, that's the setup, you do the joke Arms dealers and sex therapists ladies and gentlemen have added Teve news of the media and the digital wonderland that lies, well it lies The Consumer Federation of America says the slow pace of transition to digital television by the broadcast industry Should not be blamed on broadcasters, manufacturers or cable operators Instead, they claim in comments filed with the FCC, the FCC's lack of leadership has resulted in behind schedule adoption of digital formats by broadcasters And the virtually nonexistent adoption of digital TV sets by the American public There is another explanation, it stinks The industry's job is to promote their own private interest, they blame the FCC Me, I blame the stinking, I've explained it before, I'll explain it again, but not today

Well, but this is a different kind of stinking, Tivo will begin selling to advertisers the data it's collecting on the viewing habits of its subscribers I told you about this ladies and gentlemen, don't don't play it isn't don't play ignorant with me You know that every night, you know about Tivo, it's the digital video recorder that purports to be the successor to the video cassette machine It records not on tape but on a hard drive, am I going too fast for you? And every night it downloads via a phone line from Tivo headquarters A program guide that it uses to tell you, hey, this is on, you might want to record this At the same time, it sends back to headquarters information on every click of your remote No, just every click of your remote, that's all

Back to the report from the San Jose Mercury News through a backend technology of Tivo's service What I just described to you ladies and gentlemen, Tivo executives can see which shows its users are watching live Or recording and track when commercials are being watched, rewound and watched again or zipped past Compiled in a quarterly report, generic for now but customizable later The data it looks at how the Tivo subscribers across the country are reacting to television commercials Yeah, of course they don't care how you react to the programs Programs are an eyeball delivery service, remember that Tivo says it does not identify individual viewers But we'll customize the report to track, for example, viewing habits of Silicon Valley subscribers during the Super Bowl or the Academy Awards This is fascinating information, says Josh Burnoff, principal television analyst, with forest or research in Cambridge Mass Privacy, he says, is an addressable concern

Theoretically, Tivo knows a huge amount of information about an individual, but they've sworn not to use it except an aggregate And their adamant about sticking to that pledge, says Sarnoff, who does not have a business relationship with Tivo As long as Tivo stays and business in business, that's the newspapers type of not mine And maintains that pledge, I don't think it's a problem Yeah, so long as who would buy up a company like Tivo in the current media environment? Companies don't buy each other, do they? And change policies? That never We're seeing trends where interest is being lost during certain shows, says Marty Yudkowitz, Tivo's new president, and a former NBC executive Yeah, he'll keep the pledge, will Marty? This microcosmic data, says Marty Yudkowitz, is in a class of its own He says he thinks Tivo has a gold mine of data

Once one advertising agency has the information that is using it, I don't know how the next one can live without it Then come the networks, they'll need the data too Says Yudkowitz Tivo spent $300 million, engineering this back end viewer tracking technology during its development phase The cost to crunch the numbers, even customized reports, is low compared to its value He says the margins are very, very high Okay, ladies and gentlemen You're in possession of all the information you need What you do with it is up to you, as usual But now, a regular feature of this broadcast, the apologies of the week It's so sorry Many, many, many, many from the world of journalism this week

In our front page lead on May 31st, headlined Straw, Powell had serious doubts over their Iraqi weapons claims This is from the Guardian of London We clearly said that Foreign Secretary Jack Straw and his US counterpart Colin Powell had met at the Waldorf Astoria Hotel in New York shortly before Mr. Powell addressed the United Nations on February 5 Mr. Straw has now made it clear that no such meeting took place, the Guardian accepts that and apologizes for suggesting that it did Some countries apologizing for bad behavior, always nice to see that Industry Minister, this is Japan, Takayo Hiranuma visited Niigata Prefecture this week to apologize for the mishandling of Tokyo Electric Power Company's cover-up of defects at its nuclear reactors That's a valuable apology that will cure about eight cases of leukemia

Hiranuma apologized to the mayor and city assembly members in Kashiwa Zaki, the site of the nuclear power plant, part of the facility also lies in the village of Kariba He was also expected to apologize to residents of the two municipalities later in the day The apologies, the first since the scandal, who knew, broke last August, who knew, are apparently designed to smooth the way for operations to resume at most of the reactors I want to apologize to the people and demonstrate my own determination to ensure the safety of nuclear facilities, he said his visit was not simply a move to get the reactors going again Teppko, this Tokyo Electric Power Company, shut down all of its reactors for new checks after the safety violations were revealed I can't hurt anybody, there's plenty of radiation every day, from Larry Welch, head of the Kansas State Criminal Investigative Agency apologized at length this week for what he called a simple but serious mistake It took place in the Kansas Bureau of Investigations great-bend Kansas laboratory 12 years ago and could have allowed a string of rapes and a grizzly murder to take place

The air was made up by forensic scientists who mislabeled a DNA sample that was sent to the FBI, it resulted in the release of a gentleman who was a suspect in a rape case The KBI director told a roomful of reporters that words like apology, regret, unfortunate sorrow and contrition are woefully inadequate and inappropriate in inappropriate today The bureau is on a determined search to find appropriate words and we'll report back We're in Nevada, so this from the Sparks Nevada City Council, because of incorrect information from city staff, the City Council voted last week to sue the wrong company for allegedly not paying medical claims for two employees The City Attorney, Chad Adams, said he couldn't explain how a word got dropped from the name of the insurance company I'm looking into that right now, Adam said, I assume all responsibility and apologize for any inconvenience I may have caused to anybody who's doing business with any insurance company that may have inadvertently been named as a potential defendant May, he may have apologized

The world record for number of apologies contained in a single apology has been claimed ladies and gentlemen, I don't think this is going to be bested at least this week By Jason Blair, the disgraced former New York Times reporter, whose discovery that he was plagiarizing and making up stuff led to a series of circumstances that resulted this week in the resignation of the two top editors of the New York Times Blair said this week he owes ousted times editors howl rains and Gerald Boyd, quote, A million apologies in light of what I've done, a million apologies ladies and gentlemen laid end to end in an hour's long interview in Soho, the former Times reporter, was at once reflective, confused, sad, and contradictory, saying at one point he was glad to hear the two editors have resigned His overall mood was in stark contrast, however, to previous published interviews in which he seemed to revel in his role in tarnishing the reputation of the world's most powerful newspaper

I know I've said a lot of things since this began that had been hurtful and I wish I could take some of that back, he told a reporter from Newsday, a competing publication I shouldn't have spoken until I had time to reflect on what has happened He said he awoke at 11 a.m. Thursday, washed down a mood stabilizer with cranberry juice, then turned on his computer and learned about the resignation of the two editors I was staring at the picture and I just felt sadness, mainly for them, but for my actions and the paper He's widely criticized in journalism circles for a book proposal in which he called the Times, quote, his slave master Million and one apologies, maybe think about it, babe A defrocked Roman Catholic priest was sentenced to three years in state prison, state of California, for attacking a news photographer during a recess in his child molestation trial in the Sonoma County Courthouse Donald Ren Campbell apologized at length to the victim

Penny Gladstone, I'm sorry he said looking at Gladstone Then he told the judge he had vowed to dedicate himself completely to self-improvement It's never too late for us The New Zealand government is apologized, the government is to formally apologize to Ngati Rua Rua Nui for loss of life and land during the Taranaki Wars Treating negotiations minister Margaret Wilson read out the apology to acknowledge the breaches of the Treaty of Waitongi, the crown, New Zealand is still part of the British thing Profoundly regrets and unreservedly apologizes to Ngati Rua Rua Nui for its actions which resulted in the loss of life and the virtual landlessness of the people And of course suffering and hardship over the generations to the present day Text of the apology was agreed in a claims settlement act worth $41 million They were a prosperous people who had held onto their land until 1860 The Taranaki Wars then resulted in great loss of life including many people in prison for treason after surrender

All of the land was confiscated in an 1863 law without compensation The Australians still haven't apologized to theirs In Arizona, Bishop Thomas J. O'Brien signed this as part of a deal that gives him immunity from prosecution for obstruction from justice Hey Martha Stewart ought to look into this, quote, I acknowledge that I allowed Roman Catholic priests under my supervision to work with minors after becoming aware of allegations of sexual misconduct I further acknowledge the priests who had allegations of sexual misconduct made against them were transferred to ministries without full disclosure to their superiors I apologize and express regret for any misconduct, hardship or harm caused to the victims of sexual misconduct by Roman Catholic priests Assigned to the diocese, unquote Gone them off from prosecution for obstruction for justice Martha Stewart could just sign the same And New York comedy troupe was told to apologize after some in a Spoletto festival audience in Charleston, South Carolina complained about the language and their act The five member troupe rash behavior performed at an outdoor concert

One man complained loudly that our material was completely offensive said tomorrow attack it, a member of the troupe The controversy involved the satire of the television show Joe Millionaire in which the bachelor is poorly endowed I can just visualize that now and a sketch about a gave empire The group apologized for not getting to finish but we did not apologize for any of our material attack It said we had a full set left and we were sorry our audience did not get to see it That's a satirical apology Actor director Vincent Gallo has denied apologizing for his derided mode road movie the brown bunny And dismissed US film critic Roger Ebert as a fat pig for saying that he did We had this apology a couple weeks ago The brown bunny stars Gallo is a brooding biker on a cross-country odyssey through the US who finds himself haunted by memories of an ex-girlfriend played by Chloe Sevigny One film critic for a British newspaper labeled it the most hysterical event in con history and said the film was so autistic So painfully sincere that it goes off the so bad it's good scale into something else entirely

In the wake of his films reception, Gallo was reported to have officially apologized to journalists for having the gall to inflict it upon them This apology was reported by Ebert in the Chicago sometimes and by other papers around the world Now Gallo's insist he did no such thing I never apologized for anything in my life he says I liked the movie I had 100% creative and financial control over it and if I didn't like it I would have changed it The only thing I'm sorry about he says is putting a curse on Roger Ebert's colon And finally, ladies and gentlemen, no Methodist Church apologized for racism but you know Finally also in journalism from the Topeka Capital Journal The best of Topeka section published in the Saturday May 24th editions of the Topeka Capital Journal contained a story written for the same section last year The story was about Golden Corral winning the best buffet category in the contest

The Corral was selected for that distinction in 2002 As well, the story published Saturday includes quotes from the former owner and operator of the restaurant Phil Zinga Mr Zinga died on November 24th, 2002 Our sincerest apologies are extended to his family, friends and colleagues We extend apologies to our readers as well We will strive not to make a mistake of this nature again Maybe a place where Jason Blair can still get a job And isn't it a pity how we're strong and too high strong? Funny when you're old enough and wise enough

Your love for stuff that used to make you cry Because everybody holds onto someone who do for fear of being lonely The throne of the Juliet cause he's a loser, he's a loser, he's no room near And I know how long you waited but you have to let him go And darling before he turns you cold Now I'm not the voice or reason I just own all the things I've done And I hate to see yourself up but it's a lesson that must be won

I know that you're not ready to enjoy the view Cause you compromise yourself in this way But everybody has a choice and has a voice and it's better to be lonely sometimes Strong and mild Juliet cause he's a loser, he's a loser, he's no room near And I know how long you waited but you have to let him go And darling before he turns you cold Now I'm not the voice or reason I just own all the things I've done

Please This is La Show One More Apology Ladies and Gentlemen Tony Blair's closest advisor has written a personal letter apologizing to Sir Richard Deerlove, the Chief of the Secret Intelligence Service in Britain More discrediting the service with the release to journalists last winter of the so-called... This is what it's being called in Britain now... On Iraq and weapons of mass destruction that was the one that quoted from a 12-year-old PhD dissertation Intelligence chiefs were asked to rewrite a controversial dossier, the more recent one

On Iraq's weapons of mass destruction at least six times They get back The BBC reports a source told them at one point the prime minister was personally involved in the decision to get the Joint Intelligence Committee to redraft the document BBC quotes a source close to person intelligence said Donnie Street returned draft versions of the dossier to six to eight times This suggests members and the intelligence services have not been intimidated by complaints about leaking I'm telling you the war between the journalists, I'm sorry, between the politicians and the intelligence community is just beginning You know the pre-war report by the Defense Intelligence Agency working for the Pentagon concluded there was no reliable information that Iraq had chemical weapons Hans Blix set on Thursday in a report final report to the UN which only one news channel started to carry and then they broke away

I don't think there was a fire somewhere That although Iraq had left unanswered many questions about its non-conventional weapons, one should not assume such dangerous arms still existed Blix said he had not found Iraq resumed its weapons of mass destruction program, although this did not mean such programs did not exist He did say it was not justified to jump the conclusion that something exists just because it is unaccounted for He's covered Ibrahim Al-Marashi, the US-based academic whose research was used without acknowledgment in that, quote, dodgy dossier, says Tony Blair's government plagiarized a manipulated academic material by inflating figures and exaggerating Iraq's weapons capability, writing in the conservative newspaper the telegraph Mr. Al-Marashi says Downing Street borrowed and significantly altered a phrase in which he said Iraqi intelligence was aiding opposition groups in hostile regimes

The dossier changed the wording to supporting terrorist groups Chiefs of the two major intelligence agencies in Britain have sought the government's assurance it will never again pass off as official intelligence information which does not come from them They are also insisting that any information used by the government claiming to be based on intelligence should be cleared by them first The Sunday Times of London reports Iraqi President Saddam Hussein's intelligence agencies ran a network of secret cells that carried out chemical and biological research but produced no weapons The Times quotes a top Iraqi security official It was all just theory, the general said The aim was to keep us up to date and ready so if UN sanctions were lifted, when we needed to produce chemical or biological weapons again, we could start up immediately The unnamed general said, he said, search teams would find no weapons

I challenge anyone in Iraq from north to south to find anything, the Sunday Times quoted him as saying A retired intelligence official tells the Associated Press the Bush administration distorted intelligence and presented conjecture as evidence to justify a US invasion of Iraq What disturbs me deeply is what I think are this ingenuous statements made from the very top about what the intelligence did say as Greg Thielman who retired last September from the State Department's Bureau of Intelligence and Research And the Glasgow Sunday Harrel said Britain ran a covert dirty tricks operation designed specifically to produce misleading intelligence The operation was called Operation Rockingham, the name for the street where OJ lived, you be the judge And US intelligence officials have said US Vice President Dick Cheney pressured the CIA to produce data that supported White House claims about Iraqi weapons Cheney and his senior aide made multiple trips to the CIA during the past year to question analyst studying Saddam Hussein suspected programs The visit sent signals intended or otherwise that a certain output was desired from here one senior intelligence official said

Question from this broadcast are the visits over Next, intimate tales of America's first underground vice president, the action-packed diary of a man who's less than a heartbeat away from history Dick Cheney, confidential, confidential, confidential, confidential Success as a thousand fathers, but failures and orphan, sometime between dating Marilyn Monroe and bringing an East German spine to the presidential bedroom, John F. Kennedy said that Tech it from someone who lives in Texas and votes away only, jackals never waste energy attacking prey that scraw me, so when the wake of a military victory that vindicated everything we ever said, except part about after the war, I was expecting to be one of a thousand targets of the hate America first crowd

What I wasn't expecting was a series of attacks coming from our own intelligence community, for all these are fellows I used to go drinking with and support the conference with Now suddenly the CIA and the CIA were leaking like an incontinent Chihuahua, the Navy guys were fumigating the Securums closed location anyway, so it seemed like a fortuitous occasion to haunt some Spuits McLean Virginia, Friday June 6, 10.45 am Mr. Vice President, this is quite an honor, you know, it's not every day that the second command drops in on a humble head of the intelligence analysis directorate Well, look, let's get out the combine and cut the corn, okay, we both know why I'm here

You're a plumber After Nixon, we don't tend to put it that way, but I'm not the biggest fan of leaks, that's for sure Sir, I've read the same things you've read in roughly the same order, none of those leaks were coming from my shop I got a fine little shop here, flowering curtains on all the windows, a big butter churn near the main counter Look, I'm not interested in your shop, I am interested in the component of the intelligence community over which you exercise and project power Okay, that too Why would any of my people leak, we all still remember your visit in March Was that your back then? Sir, that was when you offered a new trans am and 5,000 shares of Haliburton stock for the most convincing dossier That's right Stocks got up since then, I'm sure it has But you know over at the DI, that place is leaking like an incontinent moose Interesting, similarly, needs work

Look, my friend, you did a fine job massaging the intelligence during the period preceding Operation Iraqi Freedom Well, thank you sir, I'm glad we find out Now, I need something else from you Okay I need you to massage some evidence, ampules, warheads, weaponized, something That's where I was president There aren't a lot of rules around here That's why I like this place, that in the wine cellar But as you know, there's always been a Chinese wall between intelligence and operations Making stuff appear That's definitely operations I mean, I wouldn't know the first thing about surfacing anything that's not on paper Look, my friend, you've got a fine career If you play your cards right, you're a shoe-in for the Richard Helms Award next year Well, thanks Put it on mute for a second Now, if we don't find some WDMD tap material We've already established a position that would be a colossal intelligence failure Not a military failure

Not a policy failure You see what this train said? I'd like to think I do It certainly wouldn't fit with your priorities if a seemingly authoritative leak fingered this office as the source of the bad intelligence that made us mislead the American British publics At least I wouldn't think so, of course I'm not an ambitious intelligence official with dreams of the directorships Mr. Vice President, just full disclosure I can't run an evidence-supply program totally in-house I'm going to have to outsource, just to take an example I'm going to have to outsource the anthrax Look, if we didn't want to break some eggs We wouldn't have ordered a nomlet Understood, but now, open book here That's going to take assets away from our core mission which is developing scripts for the Fox Network And in the current budget environment, my friend, budgetary log rolling was business as usual Until a little thing called 9-11 came along We don't bargain with the nation's future We don't horse trade with history We don't-

Okay, understood as well So, we'll just do what has to be done with the available personnel You know, it's amazing how clearly people could think when I'm in the vicinity Yes, sir, you're like a walking smart drink for me Oh, that reminds me Lynn's pan roasting some veal jobs tonight You got a nice moratier in the cellar If we didn't, Mr. Vice President, I can assure you Kids would roll In my business, I find that people will believe the strangest things For example, my friend at the CIA believed I was threatening him He also believed that my wife cooks Talk about a colossal failure of intelligence In the partial diary for June 6th, sincerely yours, Dick Cheney, confidential, confidential

I started out to go to Cuba Soon I was in Miami Beach They're not so very far from Cuba Or what a rumble they teach Farm trees were whispering, don't they get old? How could I help us stay alive? I met a Cuban cobble-yero We danced into Latin style So I never got to Cuba But I got its atmosphere

Why even Cuba and his tuba? They played a night right here I'll see Bavana for Banyana Meanwhile I've heaven in my reach Or I found the charm of Ola Vana in the rumble And Miami Beach I started out to go to Cuba Soon I was in Miami Beach

They're not so very far from Cuba Or what a rumble they teach Farm trees were whispering, don't they get old? How could I help us stay alive? I met a Cuban cobble-yero And we danced into Latin style So I never got to Cuba But I got its atmosphere Why even Cuba and his tuba? They played a night right here I'll see Bavana for Banyana Meanwhile I've heaven in my reach Or I found the charm of Ola Vana in the rumble And Miami Beach From New York this is Newsnight and we come now to segment 7 and a half And I've been waiting a long time for this

I know we share with you how I feel about every story we do here on the program And that is because, frankly, because we think we do it pretty well And because we feel it's important But there's no way to tell you how much I've been looking forward to this interview And if I did try, I might well end up using most of the time we've scheduled for the interview itself So onward, every evening my next guest introduces me to his audience And urges them with great enthusiasm to stick around for this broadcast And to my great delight, some of them actually do He's the premier interviewer for this network And I guess it could be said that he's redefined the whole art of the television interview Of course, anything could be said But that could be said with some plausibility And Los Angeles tonight to talk to us about his interview with Barbara Walters The incomparable Larry King, good evening to you, sir

Aaron, I'd like to take that introduction and bottle it We could make a fortune just something to date now Wasn't it Jim Croci who wanted to put words in a bottle? Time, he wanted to put time in a bottle It was great, great laws to all of us Larry, you spent some time this week with Barbara Walters And tell us about that Aaron, how do you describe greatness? You can't, you can just sit across the table from it, put your chin in your hands And stare at it for an hour while the cameras roll And that's what you did That's what I do Barbara, of course, we're old friends But this was special because the subject matter of the interview was special We were talking for the full hour about her interview with Hillary Clinton Larry, did you see that interview before you did your interview? No, never I never read a book beforehand, I never see the show It's my way of keeping myself fresh No, I just took a quick look at the summary of a show from the great Carol Lichtman ABC's Queen of publicity

And then we just rolled Always amazes me, I have to do so much show prep Just to make it out of bed in the morning So you've seen the interview? Which one? Yours with Barbara? Yeah Yes, sir, it has been impossible to see her interview with Hillary I've seen it as we did to show it, Barbara, it's good Larry, what's the most surprising thing Barbara told you about Hillary Clinton? And what does it think? You never think about it Barbara told me that Hillary's a pretty tall lady You know, you see pictures of President Clinton with the senator She always looks normal height But you always have to remember, he's a tall guy I guess you do This is a question we have to ask I think it's written into the journalist DNA But how did Barbara assess Senator Clinton's mood during their interview? Good question She said Mrs. Clinton was very gracious But at the same time, very on God You know, I guess at this point you have to be But she liked it

And I liked Barbara for telling me that Well, in the time-honored tradition of our medium We have a clip of your show, sir It airs when? Seven times this weekend, Aaron And then Tuesday night, I'll interview Mrs. Clinton myself And then talk about it with Barbara on her show 2020? The view Anyway, this is about two-thirds of the way through the show And Barbara is talking about Asking Senator Clinton About the scene in the book, which I also haven't read When the president tells her about his affair With Monica Lewinsky Yeah, the affair affair Okay, let's go to that clip And she said Barbara That's the moment I realized that my life was going to be very different from now on We'll be back in- And then she lowered her head, Larry And there was a moment when I thought she might be sobbing quietly to herself And then she looked up Very composed And that was it

And did she say anything? She said, let's not use that And then she said, on second thought, let's keep it in Larry, at the end of the interview, did you think you understood either Hillary Clinton or Barbara Walters or yourself better? Yeah, all three And of course, every time I do television, I understand a little bit more about it too Well, we are all operating on learners permits Larry, King, I look forward to your interview with Barbara Walters and to all your broadcasts Wednesday night, Aaron, the full hour with Eddie Kalen, the photographer who took the nude pictures of Amber Fry And thank you again for gracing this program with a plug for your own And the nude night will continue with a look at yesterday's papers after these messages Ladies and gentlemen, thanks to a Harper's Magazine for providing this a list of goods and services for which trademark applications have been made under the term

Shock and awe Teddy bears, chemicals, catchers masks, ski boots, rum, marionette puppets, hang gliders, jigsaw puzzles, cigars, inflatable bath toys, motion picture production, eyeglass cords made of cord Inflatable ride-on toys, bubble making wands, raincoats, lotions, kickboxing pads, toy boxes, consulting services, party favors, dollhouse furnishings, magic tricks, yo-yo's, men's and women's underwear Flying discs, firearms, archival services, marbles, sandals, wind up walking toys, volleyball, fireworks, bottle openers, mouse pads, automobiles, can coolers, media services, and smoking jackets We got them on the run now, ladies and gentlemen, Bill Gertz and the conservative Washington, the moony-owned Washington Times reports, al-Qaeda terrorists and related groups are set to use chemical, biological, and nuclear weapons in deadly strikes according to a new CIA report Okay, that worked, and a new movie about the president's reactions in the aftermath of 9-11, due to be shown on showtime this fall, was shot in Canada to be eligible for Canadian tax breaks

Certain things are bigger than diplomatic squabbles, if France gave enough tax breaks, we should have been in France, ladies and gentlemen, that concludes this edition of the show The programmer turns next week at the same time over these same stations over NPR worldwide throughout Europe, on the U-Send 440 cable system in Japan, around the world through the facilities of the American forces network Up and down the east coast of North America on the shortwave giant WBCQ, the planet 7.415 megahertz All across North, it's split, all across North America on serious satellite radio, and around the world via the internet, on your computer whenever you wanted at two different locations, HarrySherah.com and KCRW.com And it would be just like the politicians and the spies getting along if you'd agree to join with me then, would you really?

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