Larry King, CNN’s Septuagenarian Blabbermouth, Says that His Son Cannon Would Like to be Black, Says Black is in

I almost fell off my chair last night when I heard CNN’s septuagenarian blabbermouth Larry King enthusing that his youngest offspring, from his seventh marriage, I guess, wants to be black. Wow, so being black is the latest craze? Too funny.

His guest, Bob Woodward, was visibly uncomfortable on his usually boring CNN show last night. Larry, 75, gushed: “My younger son Cannon, he is eight. And he now says that he would like to be black. I’m not kidding. He said there’s a lot of advantages. Black is in. Is this a turning of the tide?”

So, Woodward’s comeback was super-lame. The Watergate scribbler responded “well, maybe” and talked about how his 12-year-old daughter Diana liked Barack Obama’s inaugural speech before gingerly steering the discussion towards George W. Bush’s magnanimity and how he “hasn’t, you know, made any cheap shots” at his White House successor.

Larry is drinking too much Kool-Aid. Just recently he blurted out that things were changing so fast that there could soon be a lesbian in the Oval Office. “Who would’ve thunk it,” he said on KIIS radio in Los Angeles. “I can’t believe it. Well, in 10 years’ time we’ll have, a what, a lesbian?” Audio here. He reminds me of Sofia, played by the late Estelle Getty, on “The Golden Girls.” No-one was sure what would roll off her tongue.

Listen to the audio of Larry King’s revelation here.

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Kathy Griffin Makes the CNN S-List After Arguing with Heckler on Live New Year’s Eve Broadcast

Comedienne Kathy Griffin is the embodiment of the adage — if you lay down with dogs, you’ll get up with fleas. CNN has once again used poor judgement in its choice for a comedian. First, D.L. Hughley gets his own show, which is packed with stereotypical jokes. But, what did they expect when they hired Kathy Griffin to co-host the New Year’s Eve broadcast with Anderson Cooper? She’s a potty-mouth who doesn’t deserve to be on prime time. I think that they got the message this time. She’s doomed to the s-list after answering a heckler with a shrieking, vulgar tirade during the network’s live New Year’s Eve broadcast. “Screw you,” she told the heckler. “Why don’t you get a job, buddy? You know what? I don’t go to your job and knock the d— out of your mouth.”

The raunchy exchange, which occurred long after the ball dropped at midnight, was received with guffaws by the camera crew. As the night progressed, Anderson Cooper seemed to become increasingly uncomfortable with Griffin’s off-color remarks, including her request to “get a pap smear from [CNN medical reporter] Dr. Sanjay Gupta,” and her description of former CNN host Glenn Beck as a “heroin addict Mormon.”

Making outlandish comments is nothing new with Griffin. As you will recall, while she was accepting an Emmy for her Bravo show in 2007, she said: “A lot of people come up here and thank Jesus for this award. I want you to know that no one had less to do with this award than Jesus. So, all I can say is, ‘Suck it, Jesus.’ This award is my god now.” Her speech was denounced by Christian groups and largely edited out of the later broadcast.

What Kathy Griffin did on CNN yesterday morning was priceless and they deserved every minute of it. I would venture to say, she won’t be invited back for the next New Year’s Eve broadcast.

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