Did CNN/Larry King stage Ron Paul vs BS confrontation?

[Liberty Star]

I caught flash on TV live last night, Ben Stain's absurd tantrum was totally out of the blue and had nothing to do with the arguments being made. When something like this happens, host generally jumps in and corrects the wrong doing. But Larry King just kept laughing with a smirk on his face. Did Larry King producers planned this ambush on Ron Paul for not towing the neocons line on foreign interventions etc?

[Reason]

doubtful

[Kotin]

nope.

[Liberty Star]

Then why Larry King said nothing amd kept smiling?

He's not an obtuse man.

[AmericaFyeah92]

Ben Stein was drowning everyone out but Larry did try meekly to cut him off a few times. It was shameful how he didn't allow RP time to respond though

[Liberty Star]

Ben Stein was drowning everyone out but Larry did try meekly to cut him off a few times. It was shameful how he didn't allow RP time to respond though

No he did not, he only let Sheila Jackson "referee" in the end and said nothing besides smiling throughout. That's very strange conduct for a host of an MSM TV show like this.

[TheConstitutionLives]

Did Larry King producers planned this ambush on Ron Paul for not towing the neocons line on foreign interventions etc?

- No, the lizard people planned the whole thing. It's been in the works for over a hundred years. :rolleyes:

[TheConstitutionLives]

Then why Larry King said nothing amd kept smiling?

- B/c it was exciting television maybe?

[Liberty Star]

Yea shock an awe makes good TV, you got a point there.

[angelatc]

Republican v Republican. That thar's good tv.

[Liberty Star]

Republican v Republican. That thar's good tv.

Small gov Republican vs Neocon you meant to say?

[cindy25]

news channels should have people of opposing views; no one wants a debate among 2 neo-cons (or 2 libertarians)

[devil21]

I don't know if it was staged but I still wonder what the point of having Ben Stein in on the segment was, if not to be the crier of "anti-semite!!11!1" when RP inevitably brought up the principles of blowback and why terrorism exists.

Other than that, he offered nothing to the segment at all.

[kombayn]

No, Ben Stein just made an outlandish claim. Though, it's interesting to see the reactions out of others.

[Liberty Star]

Good points.

[Liberty Star]

I don't know if it was staged but I still wonder what the point of having Ben Stein in on the segment was, if not to be the crier of "anti-semite!!11!1" when RP inevitably brought up the principles of blowback and why terrorism exists.

Other than that, he offered nothing to the segment at all.

There is room for doubt, but all this is odd. If RP had out of nowhere had called BS foreign agent disloyal to America, CNN probably would have made a big deal of it.

[Matt Collins]

Well the problem was that with satellite delay it made the flow of the conversation a bit tough. Then LK didn't actually do his job as the host or moderator. Perhaps Larry knew that these two would get into it and wanted to make Republicans look bad. He even said "here we have two Republicans going at it".

But it just highlights the split within the Party - big government Republicans vs limited government Republicans.

[Liberty Star]

If pro interventions, pro abortion, pro gay marriage, pro racial mixing neocons are now part of Republican party, I guess this could be seen as a "split".
I see it more like a temporary, opportunist deviation by Republican party though, neocons are natural allies of Dem party.

[Epic]

When David Frum leaves the "right", that's when I'll join it...

the LittleGreenFascists guy and Leftist Andrew Sullivan have left the "right", so we're getting close.

Once the big-government neocons close up shop and go back to the left, we'll be fine.

[Liberty Star]

Frum is human garbage, I did not know he was "right". But stranger things have been happening lately in our politics.

[Flash]

Frum is human garbage, I did not know he was "right". But stranger things have been happening lately in our politics.

Funny thing is- Frum is hated by Mark Levin and other mainstream Republican radio hosts for being too left-leaning.

[paulitics]

I don't think so at all. Larry King and Ron Paul have a pretty good reationship going on. He is often on to get a libertarian perspective on such things as the war on drugs, etc. Most the time, Ron Paul comes out looking great, and Larry King remains respectful.

Larry King, although far from perfect, is one of the more straight forward guys on CNN, and about the only show worth watching.

He sucks at mediating, but it great at interviewing. He let it get kind of Jerry Springer, but perhaps this was for ratings. Can't blame him.

[TortoiseDream]

ben stein is just a douche. it's that simple.