While at a presentation party for his show Louie‘s next season, C.K. spoke to The Wrap about why he felt the need to pull out. After saying that he found silencing anyone no matter their political beliefs “silly and reactionary,” he explained that he just couldn’t care enough to fight for the position.
From The Wrap:
“C.K. (an abbreviation of his last name, Szekely) is talking about who
should talk – everyone, is his basic answer – in response to a question about Greta Van Susteren. Earlier this month, at the height of the outrage over Rush Limbaugh calling a college student a slut, Susteren trotted out six-month old tweets from C.K. in which he said ridiculously filthy and over-the-top things about Sarah Palin. Van Susteren was appalled, just appalled, that this ‘pig’ – C.K. – was the host of the upcoming Radio and Television Correspondents’ Assn. Dinner in Washington.C.K. shrugged it off, and the dinner, too. He didn’t much care about the gig, and didn’t want a fight. So he just bailed out, never mentioned Susteren by name or the reason for his exit.’I wasn’t going to stand there and defend something I din’t really feel like doing anyway,’ he told TheWrap. ‘I wasn’t that excited about it, I didn’t want to cause them problems, I didn’t think it was what they invited when they hired me. And I didn’t think about it much. It was like one morning I woke up, I heard there was static. I’m in production, so I have no reason to be in conflict with anybody right now.'”
Whoa, whoa, whoa. Are you telling me that there’s someone on our TVs that doesn’t want to be involved in a ginned
(h/t Splitsider)