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Politics : Bill Clinton Scandal - SANITY CHECK -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Les H who wrote (46455)	5/7/1999 12:06:00 PM
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They didn't yank him at all: > 6) Though CNN has had many elected officials host Larry King Live over the years, controversy over the plan to have Vice President Al Gore serve as the host led CNN to change its arrangement. But Gore still appeared and got plenty of time to emote caring and advocate his policy ideas on how to reduce youth violence. At the top of the May 6 show Larry King told viewers: "You may be wondering why I'm here, since we told you last night that Vice President Al Gore would be sitting in for me tonight. Larry King Live has a tradition of using famous guest hosts. I won't run down the lists. Trust me, it's impressive. Vice President Gore had a long-standing host invitation from us, and he finally accepted. But after taking a long, hard look at the political calendar, we decided it was too close to the 2000 election to have a presidential contender as an interviewer, not interviewee. So the good news is, the Vice President has graciously agreed to give me back my microphone." A few minutes into the program King prompted Gore: "What do we know now that we didn't know before Littleton?" Gore took full advantage of the platform to demonstrate how much he cares: "I think what most people think we know is that this is a warning of something deeper than just the widespread availability of guns, and violence in the media, and video games and the Internet sites that have been involved, and deeper even than whatever failures of parenting have gone into this. I think that it is being seen and heard all across our country as a spiritual signal, that we really have to take stock of what we want in our country -- what kind of families, what kind of communities. I think we've got to make a lot of changes. "Larry, I was deeply affected -- and I told this story the other day. I thought a long time before I told it, because it was shared with me in a private moment. Tipper and I went out a couple of Sundays ago and physically embraced the families of all those who died in Columbine High School. And one of the fathers -- I won't use his name to protect his privacy; he might not even care, but it was so private -- he whispered into my ear during the midst of the embrace, ‘These children cannot have died in vain. We have to make changes. Promise me we'll make changes.' And then he repeated it with a tone of urgency and insistence that went just straight to my heart and my soul. He said, ‘Promise me.' And I said, ‘I promise,' and I meant it, and anybody would have said the same." It all depends on what your definition of "private" is. In Gore's case, it means tell everyone you were told something in private and then proceed to announce it. Later, the Reverend Robert Schuller and Dr. William Pollack, author of Real Boys, joined the panel with Gore. CNN gave Gore all the advantages of hosting, like uninterrupted time to talk, without the chore of actually hosting. -- Brent Baker *Media Research Center CyberAlert* Friday May 7, 1999 (Vol. Four; No. 78)