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Sarah Palin Should Do Playboy, Larry King And Sarah Silverman Agree

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CNN’s Larry King devoted a large portion of his 9pmET cable news show last night to interview comedian Sarah Silverman – because, you know, CNN is in a “category of one.”

Besides talking about her new book, The Bedwetter, King closed the interview with a question about Sarah Palin. This wasn’t going to end well.

As Newsbusters points out, King tossed Silverman the softball and, naturally, she hit it predictably right down the middle. “Sarah Palin, what do you think, Sarah Palin, I’ve got to say her name because we have to say it every night,” said King.

“About what? Her posing in Playboy?” asked Silverman. “I think she should go for it.”

Now, if it ended there – fine. It’s expected from a comedian as blue as Silverman to throw something like that into the middle of the discussion. But then, King quickly responded, “Agreed. Thank you Sarah.”

So now the host of the prime time cable news show – on the network that continues to do all the journalism the other networks supposedly won’t – is agreeing that Sarah Palin should pose in Playboy. Was he joking? Sure. But does that make it ok?

Earlier in the interview, King asked Silverman if there was “anything you won’t joke about?” “Probably not,” she said, but pointed to one area: “Fat jokes about women. That always bums me out. I feel like we live in a country where fat women, at least in white America, don’t deserve love.”

Also, Silverman made her pitch for Larry King’s anchor chair, which he called the “best job in television.” “Get in line,” he joked. “I just feel I’m a better fit,” she said. Well if her guests would be Silverman-esque, maybe she’s right. Tomorrow night on Larry King Live: actor and reality TV rehab regular Tom Sizemore.

Meanwhile the chyron writers had a field day with the various Silverman segments. Here were some of the favorites:

“SILVERMAN ON WHY SHE TOOK 16 XANAX A DAY: ‘It was a time you didn’t question doctors’”

“SARAH: DAD TAUGHT ME TO SWEAR WHEN I WAS 3″

“SARAH SILVERMAN: ‘I HAVE NO RELIGION’”

Oh great. Here’s the Palin comment (at the end of the first video) and one of CNN’s embeddables with the “fat jokes about women” part is below:


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  • The Real Royal King

    An objectionable Sarah talking about an objectionable Sarah. That’s why Larry is still the King, I suppose.

  • JamesA1102

    Silverman needs to change her act. She’s nearly 40 so the whole kooky, foul-mouth girl thing isn’t working anymore.

  • felixw

    Could you imagine a TV pundit making this kind of comments about, say, Michelle Obama? No, of course not. But with Sarah Palin the most vile kind of commentary is pervasive in the elite media. No wonder the public is tuning out CNN.

  • Munch

    As long as Silverman is not in Playboy. Yikes!

  • MarkStr82Hell

    She’s a JAP, she will never grow up and will continue to have a sense of entitlement. It’s the liberal ideology.

  • The Real Royal King

    Felix: By her own design, Palin has turned herself into a simple self-promoter. She has ceased to be a political figure or a policy-maker. She is entitled to all of the respect of Suze Orman or Jon Benson and nothing more.

  • libra blue

    This woman’s voice is unbearable so I had to mute the sound, but I did catch this:

    KING: We can’t leave without asking you, my producers say I must ask you. Sarah Palin, what do you think? Sarah Palin? I got to say her name because we have to say it every night.

  • The Real Royal King

    Thanks, Anderson.

    I think SARAH PALIN has done more to advance the cause of liberalism in America than any other person in the last decade. I intend to nominate SARAH PALIN for the Thurgood B. Marshall award.

  • roxsteady

    Chris Wallace thought it would nice if Palin sat on his lap. That was very classy. Of course, it’s the only thing she’s really qualified for. No brain matter required. Just body parts.

  • roxsteady

    Whoops! Wasn’t finished.
    Chris Wallace thought it would be nice if Palin sat on his lap. That was very classy. Of course, it’s the only thing she’s really qualified for. No brain matter required. Just body parts. She’s not exactly Supreme Court material.

  • Munch

    roxsteady says:”No brain matter required.”

    Now that describes you and your posts to a t!

  • valkyrie101

    Sarah Palin is cool. Very talented. Is she presidential material, I do not think so, but still she is an important figure. She could single handedly create a new third party. So she is my hero, we need a good third party on the right. :-)

  • ImNotBlue

    It’s funny… the people who talk about Palin running for President the most, are the people on the left. I wonder who is more focused or interested in Palin… folks on the right who agree with her, or the folks on the left who are obsessed with hating her.

  • http://gordonbloyershow.com gordonbloyershow

    rox is still commenting? I thought her mother took away her computer.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Phil-E-Drifter/502760828 Phil E. Drifter

    April 21, 2010 at 12:49 pm valkyrie101 says: “Sarah Palin is cool.”

    Sarah Palin is a f*cking moron who blasts Obama for using a teleprompter (something all presidents have done since teleprompters were invented) and then writes talking points on her hand IN CASE SHE FORGETS what she’s supposed to talk about.

    Sarah Palin CANNOT NAME ONE SCOTUS (Supreme Court of the US) ruling *other* than Roe V. Wade.

    When asked what newspapers/news magazines Sarah Palin reads, she responded “all of them.” She can’t even name one.

    Sarah Palin preaches ‘abstinence only’ birth control education. Look how well it worked for her 17 year old unmarried daughter (and her bastard grandchild).

    Prior to 2000, Sarah Palin and her husband were members of the AIP, the Alaskan Independence Party, which wants to secede Alaska from the US.

    You, also, are a moron.

  • Munch

    Phil E. Drifter says:
    April 21, 2010 at 1:38 pm

    April 21, 2010 at 12:49 pm valkyrie101 says: “Sarah Palin is cool.”

    Sarah Palin is a f*cking moron who blasts Obama for using a teleprompter (something all presidents have done since teleprompters were invented) ”

    You are the fking moron who thought it was appropriate for BHO to address a group of 6th graders with a teleprompter.

    Go back to your sewer.

  • valkyrie101

    No blue, from the left, she is not running. That would be a come down for her, now, as a king maker and influencial grass roots leader for hire. She is charming in that way. She will not run for President. What a hassle that would be for her and her family. Palin will try to elect someone else, and as I said, maybe make a third party if the Republicans do not consent to a full take over by the “tea party”. Palin holds that over the traiditional Republican leaders, who are more moderate, that if they do not consent to far right wing planks, then Palin will create a fhird party and run candidates against Republicans in three party elections, where the Democrats would have to fare well, such as the upstate New York election several months ago.

  • Jeanne

    We dress Sarah Palin for perfection not exhibition. Not a bad idea for many.Cover is a delight, cared for the by bright..

  • valkyrie101

    I like enigmatic, Jeanne. :-)

  • Jeanne

    We dressed Sarah Palin for perfection not exhibition. Not a bad idea for many. Cover is a delight,cared for by the bright.

  • valkyrie101

    That is a tried and true ensemble, with Sarah as the lead singer.

  • ImNotBlue

    valkyrie101 says:
    April 21, 2010 at 1:57 pm

    Val, the upstate election has given false hope to the left. Do remember, the third party candidate was well behind, until the week before the election, when the Republican dropped out. And while the third party guy was still a relative unknown, the Democrat (who had been endorsed by the former Republican candidate) only squeaked out a victory.

    So yes, the Democrat won… but the race was much closer than many on the left would like to admit. Had the Republican dropped out weeks or a month before Election Day, who knows what the result might have been? Do not overstate the victory.

  • valkyrie101

    Blue,
    I think it is a scary dynamic for the conservatives. In a three party race, such as the one with Ross Perot, or one involving a tea party candidate as a third party, where two parties would be representing constituents of the right, then the Dems, with there vote unsplit, have a major advantage. That is why Clinton won with less than 50% of the popular vote.

  • ImNotBlue

    valkyrie101 says:
    April 21, 2010 at 3:48 pm

    Yeah, I understand where you’re coming from… but I’m not sure I’m as “worried” as you. I think the Tea Party realizes there’s a lot at stake in this election… too much to put their energy behind a third party, which could cause a Liberal or Democrat to win. With Perot, they were very disorganizes… with the Tea Party, there seems to be more focus.

    Additionally, let’s not pretend like the Tea Party pushing for a third party is unique. I hate to keep bringing it up, but since I was in the state at the time, and saw it with my own eyes… the case of Joe Lieberman is very important. Run out of the party by the far-left wing after having run for Vice President only two years earlier, only to run as an Independent and win. This isn’t a new phenomenon… and I’d like to think the organizing parties are smarter than to make that mistake again.

  • valkyrie101

    Yes, everybody knows that a third party will hurt the repubs chances. But the tea party, the far right, must be willing to compromise with the moderate Republicans. If they will not, there could be a third party.

  • pyrope

    Every liberal on Earth would LOVE it if Sarah Palin were to appear in Playboy. That way, they would have even more ammunition with which to marginalize here. She won’t do it. She has W-A-A-A-A-A-A-Y too much class, and that gnaws at their putrid innards.

  • valkyrie101

    Sarah Palin posing for playboy would be like seeing Julie Andrew’s breast, in SOB. Anyway she is pretty, but lets not get carried away. She is not a model. More likely, for sure, those on the right would get off on that more than the liberals. No doubt. Palin is a pop idol. Half the conservatives in the country go to sleep at night with visions of Sarah, as they shudder into sleep. :-)

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Tony-Westover/1496648721 Tony Westover

    Sarah’s still a cutie. Both of them, actually :-)

  • Averreauxii

    “pyrope says:
    April 21, 2010 at 9:56 pm

    Every liberal on Earth would LOVE it if Sarah Palin were to appear in Playboy. That way, they would have even more ammunition with which to marginalize here. She won’t do it. She has W-A-A-A-A-A-A-Y too much class, and that gnaws at their putrid innards.”

    Sarah Palin? No. One of her daughters…..eventually, yes. I could put my money on it.

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