During an interview with comedian(?) Sarah Silverman Larry King asked for her thoughts on Sarah Palin. Silverman responded that Palin should pose for Playboy. King agreed.
LARRY KING, HOST(video here): 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.
Sarah Palin. What do you say?
SARAH SILVERMAN: Oh, about what? Her posing in “Playboy”? I think she should go for it.
KING: Agreed. Thank you, Sarah.
SILVERMAN: Thank you.
Where are the condemnations from women’s groups? Where are the protests in front of the CNN building? How is it possible in this day and age that Larry King still has his show after such a comment; a comment that should be seen as degrading to women?
Oh, I forgot. Palin is a Republican and a Tea Party favorite, therefore she doesn’t count.
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Larry King’s interviewing skills appear to have slipped over the last few years (age related?). So his comments to Silverman don’t surprise me. He would know about Playboy bunnies….one of his 7 wives was a bunny.
Come on Robert, we all know that the likes of Sarah Palin and other conservative women will not be accepted by many womens’ groups due to their political views. We observed that many times during the 2008 election campaign. This is not really news.
Maybe they realize that entertaining the issue helps no one but Playboy, and linking Palin’s name with the magazine, even briefly demeans her further by giving the media a sensational story. They don’t have to fight every battle, and Palin has a platform to address the issue herself if she wants to. If you’re outraged, why don’t you speak out against the comments rather than taking the opportunity to attack women’s groups?
First, Larry King can’t interview his way out of a paper bag. He should have called bullshit on Paris Hilton when she lied to his face about never having done drugs.
Second, why should women’s groups care? Specifically, where do you get the idea that any of this should be considered degrading towards women? Sarah Palin doesn’t represent all or even most women so no insult or slight directed towards her can be extrapolated out to anyone else, at worst it’s degrading towards her alone. And it’s not more or less insulting (if it is insulting) because of Palin’s political affiliations or career choices.
But that opens up a big problem for you. You imply by your outrage that posing for Playboy or suggesting someone should pose for Playboy is degrading. And *that* is actually degrading towards all the women who have or want to pose for Playboy. Tsk tsk. Also, King didn’t say anything, *Sarah Silverman did*. Why aren’t you up in arms about her changing King’s useless “Sarah Palin. What do you say?” question into a specific one about Playboy and then saying that Palin should go for it? Is it because Silverman’s a woman? Is it because she doesn’t have an interview show? Is it because she’s young?
There’s nothing wrong with suggesting a woman should pose for Playboy. It’s not an attack on all of Womandom, it’s not insulting. What happens if, against all odds, Sarah Palin ends up posing for Playboy at some point? Will you then apologize for your attack on Larry King agreeing with Silverman that Palin should do what she actually ended up doing?
Palin was a beauty pageant contestant, remember? Was *that* degrading towards women? Maybe it was only degrading towards women for someone to have suggested that she enter the beauty pageant? You need to explain the algebra that drives this degrading towards women logic of yours because it makes no sense currently.
The only way the posing for Playboy suggestion could be seen as degrading towards women is if they’d said that Palin should pose for Playboy *because that’s all that women are good for*. Ok, *then* you have an issue worth complaining about. I think that Heidi Klum should pose for Playboy. Is that degrading towards women now? German women? German women fashion models? Women in interracial marriages? How does this convert any suggestion into an attack on women process work?
Posing for playboy is probably the only worthy thing Palin could do.
I don’t get why people think posing nude is so degrading. Its a celebration of beauty.
Hello? It’s degrading because men masturbate on the pictures in Playboy.
Sarah Palin and Larr King are both idiots and Playboy is a magazine for idiots whose mental development stopped when they were eleven years old.
Relax yourself ‘C’. Playboys falling apart, Heffs going to die soon with his empire. Siegel… Palin’s views would be taken into consideration if she wasn’t so damn ignorant. She’s greedy. And people who are blind to see that are ignorant too.