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defuse the escalating protest, they sent down representative, an unusual scene, let the protesters yell at them as police looked on. the company took a letter from the nationalists. so now that the letter is inside, this protest is ending peacefully. but the cultural debate over whale meat continues, and these protesters say they will protest again. kyung lah, cnn, tokyo. >> and that's going to do it for us. "larry king live" starting right now. -- captions by vitac -- www.vitac.com tonight, it's not politics as usual. democrat rod blagojevich, republican ron paul, and jesse ventura, that's me, sound off. on the supreme court vacancy, who should get the job? sarah palin, her mocking of the
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president. >> and from now until november when they say yes we can, we stand up and we say oh no you don't. >> newt gingrich, his stinging attack on obama. >> this is the most radical administration in american history. >> the confederate history month controversy, and tiger woods, all next on "larry king live." good evening. i'm jesse ventura sitting in for larry tonight. let's get to it. joining us rod blagojevich, former illinois governor, until he was fired last week, a contestant on "celebrity apprentice." ron paul of texas and former presidential candidate. stephanie miller, talk radio host, her website stephaniemiller.com. and andrea tateros, new york
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daily news. big news today. supreme court justice john paul stevens is retiring. who should obama pick to replace him? stephanie? >> well, i'm going to say the most liberal person in the world. i'm going to say janieane garofa garofalo, shakira, michael moore. andrea, the thing is, honestly, i hope that the president doesn't choose his centrist bipartisan path on this that he normally does, governor, because this is a very liberal justice, and in my opinion, the supreme court is already listing very far to the right with the citizens united decision. i call them scotus, the very far right justices on the supreme court. so he needs to pick a liberal. there doesn't need to be any reason to reach out to the other side on this one. >> okay. andrea? >> you can sleep soundly tonight, stephanie, because i
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have absolutely faith that the president will stick to his liberal values and pick a liberal. you're saying that the court leans right. sotomayor is pretty liberal. >> no she is not. >> yes she is. here is how i stand on this. that's okay. obama is the president. he was elected, unfortunately, and he is allowed to pick whoever he wants. i think it's a wash basically because stevens was very liberal. he is going to pick a liberal. do i think there still needs to be a very rigorous interrogation of whoever he nominates? absolutely. we have important issues we need to find out how they stand works they repeal the health care bill, do they think it's constitutional or not. we should be asking them all those questions. >> andrea, every legal scholar thinks the health care bill is constitutional. >> and stephanie, i really hope that republican senators don't make the wife of the nominee cry, like the democratic senators did to alito's wife. we'll be a little nicer, i hope. >> that's the main thing, making wives cry.
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>> governor blagojevich, your opinion on this? >> well, jesse, before donald trump fired me, i would have probably suggested donald trump as a way to stay on the show. but since i'm no longer on there, i think president obama should probably pick someone who philosophically would be along the lanes of justice stevens. i think he needs to maintain that balance on the supreme court. whatever woman or man he chooses, my guess is he'll probably go in that kind of direction. >> representative paul, your opinion? >> well, i think we -- he should recommend and we should nominate somebody who will bring the people together. and that's not a moderate. what brings people together is the constitutional, the principals of liberty. therefore you need a libertarian. the libertarian brings conservatives on economic liberals, and a good libertarian will bring the progressives over, and there will be personal liberties. and any time there is secret prisons and assassinations and torture, they would be able to come down on the right side of that. so if you really want to bring somebody in, to look at jonathan
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turley and judge janet napolitano. they would be very good supreme court justices. >> i like that one. someone who is fair. i didn't hear anyone say fair. is isn't that the most important thing that they would follow the letter of the law? i believe napolitano would do that. >> congressman paul, you were good with me right until you gunpoint to the fox newsperson nalt, then you lost me. but everything else i think you said was true. >> now george w. bush picked two conservatives, of course robert and alito. so can we really expect obama to go liberal? or do you believe to beef up that side of the court after george bush picked two definite conservatives? representative paul? >> well, once again, i think that obama will pick liberals for various reasons. and i do think the mushy middle doesn't really help that much. that's why i stick to my guns, that somebody who believes in the constitution and believes in personal liberty will be the kind of person we need. it used to be that way, you know.
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there used to be -- the document is libertarian. and we used to have libertarian presidents a long time ago. but i think he'll pick some very liberal one, and there will probably be a big fight over it. and, you know, maybe the libertarians will luck out. every once in a while a good liberal, a good progressive, you know, they're don't do too bad on personal liberties and they would be okay on tortures. but they're terrible on the real important issue of personal property and contracts and economically. i don't understand why -- why there is a good defense of personal liberty like progressives do, and lifestyle and all this, but all of the sudden the lifestyle of spending your own money the way you want, oh, no, that's off the books. that's why the libertarian is very appealing, especially to the young people and people who think about personal liberty and they say yes. liberty is one unit. it's economic liberty, it's personal liberty, and in foreign policy, it's mind our own business. that brings people together. >> rod, you know, you're looking
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for a new gig. if the country needs you, are you willing to put the robes on? >> i think first i need to be vindicated. that's only fair to the american people before that happens. but, you know, i would like to say that congressman paul raises an interesting point. if you look at american politics today, and maybe this appointment to the supreme court can be a microcosm of the sort of new politics and maybe the new thinking that we need in this country. and to have a fusion of somebody who might be progress 5 some issues if you want to put labels but maybe conservative on others there is a core belief in freedom in liberties and some of the principles that our country were founded on, and shake it up a little bit on the supreme court. my fear, however, is this is in so many ways a very political appointment in that the different interest groups that run and control the two different political parties, it's a litmus test for presidents to stick to that, you know, wing of their party that is essentially the base of the party. and my guess is president obama
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will probably do that as opposed to doing something different along the lines of what congressman paul suggested. >> well, you know, i'm a libertarian. maybe he should nominate me. >> why not. >> yes. and i like your idea of governor blagojevich. i think that since he has been on "survivor," judge joe or judge judy has to exonerate him before he can run. i think congressman paul raise as good point. the president should be able to appoint governor, a liberal justice. but representative paul, i'm interested because you just won the straw poll in terms of presidential candidates for conservatives. and yet, you know, this party is already said they're going to obstruct. they're going to filibuster whoever the president nominates. how do you feel about that? >> well, we don't know exactly he'll do. but if i were there and they were going to appoint something that was exactly opposite of a libertarian, to me that would be the opposite of the constitution, i would object, and i would argue against it.
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i don't particularly enjoy filibusters because i don't think it changes the outcome. but no, i think that's their obligation. i don't think they should roll over and that president nominate somebody, and the senate consents. i think that's the rule. i don't know why anybody should get upset about debating and voting for it and using the rules of the senate. that just doesn't disturb me too much. but i know that's the big issue is there going to be a fight, is there going to be a filibuster. of course there is going to be. there is going to be objection unless you elect a libertarian, and this would please everybody. >> wait, wait. >> -- >> obama filibustered as well. so to talk about. stephanie, where you okay with barack obama -- >> excuse me. bart stupak's sudden retirement. did the tea party do him in? that's next. we got to go to break. stay with us. ♪
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vacillate, bow, dither, yes we can. but somebody needs to tell the president to just because we can does not mean that we should. >> jesse: welcome back to "larry king live." i'm jesse ventura sitting in for larry tonight. sarah palin. you know, she is everywhere this week. you can't go anywhere without seeing her. and, you know, she was in new orleans, and they always say that's a cattle call for the next presidential nominee. is sarah palin going to be the republican nomination for president? >> andrea, please say yes. >> i don't have a crystal ball. i know you think i'm a genius, stephanie, but i don't know everything. you know what? i'm not so sure about that. i think the woman is on a track to building a media empire. i think she is focused on other things. i'm not certain that the presidency is top of mind for her. but look, she is out there. she is allowed to have free
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speech. we still have that in this country, i think, thank god. they haven't taken that away from us yet. and she is organizing communities. and what is wrong with a little community organizing, right? she is rallying. and essentially the people that she is rallying, this tea party movement is responsible for bart stupak resigning today. so i think the group that was called manufactured outrage is proving pretty effective. >> jesse: congressman paul, could she be the nomination for the next president for the republican party? >> oh, she could be. i don't think it's likely. i'm much more interested myself in pushing the republican party into defending what they say they believe in. they claim they believe in individual liberty and personal liberties, and personal freedoms. but, you know, when it comes down the wire and they have to have legislation, you know, they're not very good at it, you know. they endorse the drug war and invasion of privacy and all these things, and government gets bigger. they don't even defend their budgets and spending. so it's totally out of control.
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so i'm looking for somebody that will stand up and say, you know, republicans believe is personal liberty and limited government. across the board, not just when you're out of office or not just in certain areas, but across the board all the time. and that we haven't seen the republicans have had a chance in 1980, 1994, 2000. and every time they get in office, you know, they tend to drift from their beliefs. they tend too act too much like democrats and expand the role of government and the size of government, which i think is unfortunate. >> jesse: well congressman, they always say balance is the key to the ticket. could it be a palin/paul ticket? [ laughter ] >> i don't think that will happen. i don't think they're looking for my kind of balance because i think we'd have a disagreement on foreign policy. i'm looking to bring the truth home. the country is totally bankrupt. i know a little bit about history. i know how empires end. and i know how ours is going to
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end. it's going to end badly. but it's a bipartisan effort. i'm tired of hearing this bipartisanship. that's all we have in washington. bipartisan supports the war. obama wants to expand the war and republicans love it. and when there is big spending, yeah, they agree. well, you spend on this item and this item, and both sides agree to it. so i think we need somebody to stand up and say we need a new idea. i like the idea of progressives and libertarians and conservative constitutionalists getting together and starting talking about civil liberties and this war issue, because this is bankrupting our country. and i'll tell you politically it's much easier to sell spending a little bit less overseas. why are we building an embassy in london, now over a billion dollars. london? why do we have a fortress there? we have a fortress in baghdad, a fortress in kabul. it makes no sense whatsoever. and i think there can be a coalition. to me that would be a very good bipartisan coalition. but it would be principled people on the libertarian
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conservative right and principled people on the progressive left. >> well, i'm a principled person on the progressive left, as andrea can tell you, governor. and i get accused a lot as a woman of being just jealous of sarah palin. let me say i do want that stevie nicks outfit she was wearing but i don't think she is intellectually or spiritcally qualified to be president. >> you were a navy seal. what happens when you quit in the middle? >> you don't. or you're not a navy seal. >> i don't disagree with what some of the other guests said. but i think it would be a mistake to underestimate sarah palin. but i'd like to say something about what congressman paul said. i really believe america is ripe for a political realignment. i think both parties are basically controlled and owned by the big powerful special interests. the political industrial complex that does business in and around washington.
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congressman paul knows exactly what i'm talking about. both parties basically decide what the solutions are that confront the american people based upon the different special interest groups that descend on washington. your success in minnesota, jesse, i think had a lot to do with the fact that even in the late '90s there was a real hunger for some sort of new political way. and i think america particularly now with the economy being what it is ripe for that. and i think congressman paul says it exactly right. why are we in america in so many far away places fighting wars in different places when you really have to ask yourself whether or not that is really a vital american interest. and so i think the right person who speaks on these issues, there is a place for them. go ahead, sorry. >> jesse: i can tell you about the wars. people are making money off the wars, big money off the war. >> right. >> jesse: that's why we fight them now. is obama the most radical president in american history? newt gingrich thinks so. we'll see what the panel thinks. stay with us. we'll be right back.
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the president of the united states, the most radical president in american history, has now thrown down the gauntlet to the american people. he has said i run a machine. i own washington, and there is nothing you can do about it. now that's where we are. >> jesse: welcome back to "larry king live." we're talking politics and other news of the day with rod
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blagojevich, ron paul, stephanie miller, and andrea tantaros. well, you know, my problem with sarah palin -- well, first, let's get to gingrich there. how can he make a statement this is the most radical president in the history of the united states? was he around 200 years ago. >> thank you. >> jesse: to know what the presidents were like back 200 years ago? i think that's the silliest statement i've ever heard. >> governor, he is one of the most centrist presidents we've ever had. the thing that is hilarious, sean hannity has a book out now, a chapter how i'm a reagan conservative. he doesn't agree with reagan on anything. reagan is more of a socialist than barack obama will ever be. he was for zero nukes. he raised taxes more than any president in peacetime. he deficit spent every year of his administration. he signed an amnesty bill on illegal immigration. i mean governor, where do we start here? >> jesse: well -- >> i don't think barack obama would be so upset by being
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characterized as a radical. i think if you asked barack obama he would say that he is a radical. i don't think he views that -- >> no. >> as a bad word. and if you look at where we have been, and now where we're going, what he is doing is pretty radical. >> how? >> a trillion dollar -- a trillion dollar entitlement program creating one when when he said he would come in and balance the budgets? this vat tax we're talking about too. governor blagojevich brought about the politicizing everything out there. we're supposed to -- special interests are everywhere. a vat tax would essentially politicize every single thing in the economy. i mean think about it. if it's a tax on goods and services, you have just created a lobbyist feeding frenzy. you're going to have any kind of lobbyist out there funneling millions of dollars on special interest campaigns. that's pretty radical. so you go through the list of all the things that he has done, and, you know, it is a far cry from where we've been. it's definitely a different direction for the country. but i think that's what liberals want, and i think it's the wrong
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answer. but i think barack obama would agree that he is a radical. >> jesse: i think that george bush is more of a radical, the president we just got finished with. i think he is far norad cal. he takes us to a war based upon lies. in iraq. i find that very radical. >> i think he is probably -- barack obama took us to a war as well. but i think -- >> jesse: excuse me, what warred by barack obama take us to? >> a good war, afghanistan. >> jesse: wait a minute. afghanistan and iraq were both started under the bush administration. how can you possibly say that barack obama took us to a war? >> he has continued a war. >> jesse: well, because it was fed to him. what is he supposed to -- >> so you don't think we should be there? >> jesse: i stand with ron paul. when you say we marched in, let's march out. that was a great answer. am i right, representative paul? >> that's what i think it is. it's not too much more complicated than that. i wouldn't call obama a radical. i mean, he may be -- he may turn
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out to be. he has had in a little over a year and most of the talks are on medical care. what did the republicans do? they gave awes prescription drug program. so the republicans aren't immune to the dharjs move us towards a socialized system. but to say he is a radical. and newt is an interesting guy, but he says nobody can stop it, nobody can do anything. he is a strong believer in the strong executive. he pushed always to get more power. of course at that time it was a republican executive. i think that's where the problem is. there is no real separations. there is no desire on the role for the congress to retain their prerogatives. over the war issues or anything else. the president, even in this medical debate, oh, we can't settle this dispute on abortion. oh, i'll write an executive order. that has the same aspect as a law. so they have executive orders and signing statements, regulations, and the congress just rolls over. and that's why the president does these things.
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but i think that this is a continuation. i've been more annoyed because he hasn't done a much better job on civil liberties and on the war. and economic liberties, i didn't expect him to do any better. but believe me, if you go back and look at history, i would think you could get woodrow wilson healthcheck was bad on war, bad on civil liberties, put people in prison, and it was a disaster all the way around. and it was totally unnecessary. so yes, i think -- i don't think there is a difference between the two parties. you had a bush policy and it's been continued. we have to have something new and put something together which will bring some people together that care about this country. >> on the left and the right by ron paul. >> jesse: boy, i like this guy. we'll get rod's take on this when we come back. i like ron paul, i'll tell you. we don't want anything... ...to slow us down. but even in your 30s... ...your bones can begin to change. overtime, you can begin to have bone loss.
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>> jesse: rod blagojevich, is president obama the most radical president in history, as newt gingrich says? >> no, he is not. no, he is not. president obama is governing i think slightly to the left of center. frankly, i kind of expected that
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he would. i'm disappointed that he is not more radical. the public option, for example. here i know congress paul probably disagrees with me. but the democrats promised the american people a public option, a place where consumers can go and test the marketplace when the private insurance companies aren't offering you a fair rate. that was scuttled. and unfortunately, the democratic congress didn't give the president his public option, and he accepted the compromises in his health care bill, which i think is a step forward, but not nearly what it could have been. i'd like to see him be more radical in afghanistan and iraq. he didn't start those wars. he has a perfect opportunity to heed the lessons of history and make the decision to start withdrawing american troops and bringing them home. especially in a place like afghanistan, where history tells us you'll never, ever achieve a mission there in such a faraway place in the mountainous regions. that's going to benefit the country and instead it's a place that is ripe for being stuck and ultimately leaving at a time when you didn't want to leave. so i'd like to see him make
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those bold changes as opposed to essentially governing from the center, which is what i think he has been doing. >>. >> jesse: well, sarah palin says it's no shame to be the party of no. and newt gingrich is urging republicans to pivot and become the party of yes. which one of them is right? >> you know, they have to make up their mind. that's the problem is that, you know, they keep talking about the democrats, governor, being in disarray. i think it's the republicans that are. the tea party is pulling them to the radical right, you know. i think they're in a lot of disarray. and all they've known how to do is obstruct, obstruct, obstruct. even their own ideas, when the president is for it, governor, they're against it. >> the democrats never obstructed when the republicans held the majority? >> no not to this degree. >> oh, please that's absolutely false. to say the republicans are in disarray after we watched the democratic party basically conduct a civil war over health care. i mean, you talk about barack obama being more radical with
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the public option. he would have if he could have. >> we won. >> stephanie, it was the democratic party, your own party that wouldn't let you have the public option because the people didn't want it. >> but 70% of the american people wanted it. governor blagojevich is right. 70% in every poll wanted the public option. the governor is right. >> stephanie miller institute, that where the polling was done? >> every poll that was done over the last year said about 70% of the american people wanted a public option, right, governor? >> i would love to see that poll. >> jesse: rod -- >> i agree. >> jesse: rod, obama socialist, like republicans like to brand him? >> no. no, these are the talking points that the gingriches and some of the conservative -- i don't want to put a label on it. but certain republicans, republican political operatives try to label democrats who are now the president. it's out of their old playbook. we've seen it before. it's the same sort of thing they said about bill clinton. it's the same sort of thing they said about previous democratic
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presidents. i, again, believe that president obama has a tremendous amount of skill. but i wish he would be more of an activist president. here probably again congressman paul disagrees me. but he was elected by the people. i believe the executive branch, i believe in a strong executive and i believe president obama, frankly, on the health care bill could have been stronger in pushing the public option. i think he has the ability with his skill to lead our country out of wars like iraq and afghanistan, and then use that money to benefit people here back home in america and hold the line on taxes. i don't disagree with those who are advocating we shouldn't raise taxes on people, especially now at a time when people don't have any money. >> jesse: okay, thank you, rod. did you know the issue of slavery played a part in the civil war? the governor of virginia apparently didn't think so. that's ahead. stay with us.
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get back in the game. >> jesse: there is my two guests holding up my new best-selling book, "american conspiracies."
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i've got a question now. that book has been on "the new york times" top ten best-seller list now for four weeks. wait. and yet there hasn't been one mainstream review of that book. why do you think the mainstream media will not do a proper review of my book? >> let me do one right now. let me read it real quick. i did evelyn wood. hang on. >> jesse: well, you don't have to -- but why wouldn't they do a review of this book? it's obviously popular. it's selling like crazy. they review every other book, and not one mainstream media outlet has reviewed that book yet. >> that's the problem, jesse. we're so polarized these days. you've come on my show. you talked about 9/11. a lot of people have questions about 9/11. that doesn't mean everybody is a kook about it. >> i think maybe the media is too busy following sarah palin around the country and trying to figure out her next move.
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and that's why they're just too busy. >> jesse: i doubt that. >> i'm kidding! >> jesse: congressman paul, why do you think they won't review my book? >> i am not sure, but if you figure it out, i want to know and maybe i can get a review of "the revolution, a manifesto" and we can all be happy. >> jesse: they wouldn't review your book? >> well, if there were some, maybe i missed it or something. but i don't remember seeing any significant reviews of it. i think everybody is biased, you know. if you have a website or you have a radio talk show, you're biased because you have opinions. there is nothing wrong with that. so when people are in the business of reviewing books, they're very biased, and they reveal that. they feel no obligation to give the people that they disagree with any time. so, you know, that to me is sort of accepted. i think they're just biased, but i don't strongly criticize them for them because i'm very biased with my views. i'm very strong on my views.
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and try to do it in a more diplomatic method than exclusion. but they just exclude people that they think will stir up too much controversy. >> jesse: rod, any opinion why they won't review my book? >> well, i think, again, you raise questions that are not considered by the elites as mainstream. this has been, frankly, among the reasons why you've been so successful, that you have an ability to go directly to the people. you obviously are successful at that. and by the way, congratulations on being in the top ten best-seller list. but no, i think there are elites who sort of make these decisions in some of the usual places, and they've made a decision somewhere along the way that what you have to say is not something that they want to spend any time talking about or frankly give you a forum. and it's great to see that you can go over their heads directly to the people and people trust you and believe you and are buying your book. so congratulations. >> jesse: well thank you, rod.
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>> let me take one second to say i've read the book because you're coming on my radio show. it's a great book. you're a much better governor than sarah palin, and a much better wrestler than roddy piper. >> or jake the snake. >> were you as good as goldberg, jesse. >> jesse: what's that? >> were you as good a wrestler as goldberg? >> jesse: i never wrestled goldberg. we're kind of a different time, a different generation. by the time goldberg came along, i had already retired. it's kind of like looking at babe ruth and hank aaron. i don't know. tiger woods had another great day on the golf course. is his nightmare over? it's ahead on "larry king."
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>> jesse: welcome back to "larry king live." i'm jesse ventura, the guest host. and as you know, tiger woods is back on the golf course now, and he is playing what he does best, and that's golf. and my opinion is this. i love tiger woods on the golf course. he is the best on the planet, and i want to see that man play golf to the best of his ability. and you know, i personally feel it's none of my business. now, i don't condone his
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behavior, but that's between him and his wife, and it should be left there, not to be aired out completely across the public like "national enquirer" journalism that we have in this world today. opinions, ladies? >> wow. well, that's a hot one. this isn't partisan. this is like a man-woman thing. i had one of tiger woods' friends on my radio show today, one of his alleged mistresses. and, you know, i see both sides of that, jesse. there were women that now they were with a married man. so i see both sides of it. but it was pretty egregious, his behavior. and i did sort of ask the mistress. she says she has been hounded by the press. she's got a website where she put the texts up that he sent her. so how much can you really not want press when you're putting the dirty texts up on the internet? the whole thing is kind of sad. >> and governor, you said that what he does best is on the golf course. that's where he plays the best. i'm not sure that that is so true anymore.
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it seems like he plays other things much better. >> jesse: but it is private business. >> but jesse, honestly, he just participated in a commercial with nike about his private business. if he wants to keep it private, then keep it private. >> jesse: well, that's because the media is telling him what he has to do. >> no, nike is. and he doesn't have to do it if he doesn't want to. look, coming out and saying this is my private life and then filming a commercial that is supposed to remind us all about your private life just to make more money? i mean, come on, really. i feel no pity for the guy. >> this is not smart. you leave phone messages on people's machines. hi, beep, it's tiger. the famous golfer. >> jesse: i understand all that. >> in a parking lot, come on. >> jesse: i understand all that. but still, to me, journalism today is so pathetic out there. you know, all they care about is trying to take people down no matter what it is. and again, these are private life issues. private life issues. rod, how do you feel about it?
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>> well, i tend to agree mostly with you, jesse. like you, i don't condone it, and obviously he has done wrong. but the wrong he has done is to his wife and to his children, to his family. and you're right. the media sees that, and they like it. they think this is great news. now we've got a major scandal with a major superstar, and we can ride this for weeks and for months, and that's exactly what has happened here. and it is i think more of a commentary on today's modern media and the business of modern media and the trivialization of issues when you have so many serious issues across the world and across our country. tiger woods and his personal relationships with his wife and others, i don't believe is that critical or important. it is between the two of them. and he is wrong to do what he did. but it is a private situation. so i mostly agree with what you say, jesse. >> jesse: congressman paul, your opinion. >> well, i think his nightmare probably is over, especially with the public. as long as he can sell shoes, they think will be okay.
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but, you know, his personal private nightmares on how he feels about himself, i don't think he'll know whether that's over yet or not. and i don't think that's any of our business. but that's probably the only nightmare that really counts. the other is just sort of the gossipy stuff that media people like to dwell on. but, you know, it's the kind of stories that when i hear about them and see people dwelling on them, i just turn it off because i have no control over it and i don't want to deal with it. i think his public nightmare is over. >> jesse: you know what i find interesting, real quick? look at the media. we spent a year or two ago one month on the death of anna nicole smith. give me a break. a civil war history lesson, when we come back. [ male announcer ] rethinking what pain reliever you're taking? fact: for over 25 years, in test after test,
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>> jesse: welcome back to "larry king live." we'll get back to our guests in a minute. but first, let's check in with anderson cooper and see what's on "ac 360" tonight. anderson? >> jesse, thanks a lot. tonight a woman adopts a child from russia, but after six months decides to send him back. she doesn't tell the adoption agency, she just has her mom put
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the boy on a plane to moscow by himself with a note essentially saying "return to sender." the woman said the boy was unstable. russia now says they may halt all adoptions to americans. should the mom be arrested for abandonment? dr. phil joins us for abandonment. sarah palin says the party should be the party of no and takes jabs at the party and newt gingrich and the retirement of justice john paul stevens. who jeff thinks may be picked. new and disturbing details about this young girl's life, phoebe prince and the alleged abuse she had to handle. that at the top of the hour. jesse. >> jesse: thank you, anderson. congressman bart stupak resigns now. was it pressure from the tea party that made the man resign? >> yeah, no question. i mean the tea party took out over $200,000 worth of ads and
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put it up against bart. >> jesse: is that tremendous pressure? >> it is grass root, anti-establishment. >> jesse: they're not grass roots. they're getting financed with dick armey. follow it. there's no grass roots. >> you have to pick one or the other. are they an unorganized grassroots operation, or are they this highly sophisticated functioning well oiled machine? which one is it? at the end of the day. >> there's dick armey. >> at the the end of the day they will cause trouble for democrats and republicans. it is so fragmented you have seven different kind of tea parties in one congressional district going after some republican candidate. this isn't some republican movement that's just being funded by dick armey. it's not and i'm telling you, though, it's going to take out some -- >> jesse: why did it happen to george bush when they were violating the amendment to the fourth amendment -- >> we've never been in more dire
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straits than we were -- >> jesse: come on, george bush, it was way worse. he puts us in two wars and puts it on the credit card. >> and obama tripled that. >> jesse: congressman paul, your opinion on the tea party? >> well, i think it's totally disorganized but they're unified by one issue, they're sick and tired of what's happening. i think it's very diverse. what the problem is why we're at a stalemate, the country is broke and no one wants to admit it. they don't act like they understand anything about arithmetic or financing in washington because they don't stop the spending. if they knew how serious the spending problem was, they wouldn't continue to spend domestically and internationally. it it won't work. everybody still wants stuff. you know -- everybody has a special interest. they're not cutting anything so, therefore, the people are unhappy. they're not -- some people are unhappy because they're not getting what they want. the same people i hear screaming
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and hollering will congress all for getting their programs done not saying we'll cut my program so i think we're at an impasse because it's more an economic issue because we're facing a bankruptcy and the people don't know what to do and the problem is not all that complicated. you just quit spending. you quit spending. you balance the budget and get the government out of our way and trust freedom to work because free people do know how to take care of themselves. believe it or not they're capable of doing that but as long as we assume that the government is going to give us everything, you can't work with a bankrupt social security and medicaid and medicare system and you wonder what's wrong. that's what's wrong. we're bankrupt and we won't admit it. >> well, i'm sorry, governor, i think -- >> jesse: i have to go to break. >> somebody yelled baby killer at him and that was a republican on the house floor. not a tea partyer. an elected representative. >> jesse: to clarify representative stupak announced he's not running for re-election but will serve out the rest of his term when we come back,
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rod's already lost his day job and now he just got fired by donald trump. what happened, rod? we'll ask when we come back. introducing quattron quad pixel technology. it adds a fourth color, yellow, to the standard rgb color system, creating a vast array of colors you can't see with your tv's three color technology. but, you can see this. whoa! oh my. [ male announcer ] quattron from sharp. you have to see it, to see it. [ engineer laughs ]
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>> jesse: rod was a celebrity apprentice until a few days ago and it didn't go too well. let's watch. >> i was trying to get rod to put this stuff together but he
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can't operate a computer. >> unless you get me in the right area. >> get him on a word document. >> can you type? >> yeah. >> pass me by. when you're governor, you have 60,000 people work for you and they research for you. >>. >> jesse: rod, i got to tell you i agree wholeheartedly being a governor myself. i never owned a cell phone and i don't ever plan on owning one and people said how could you be governor without a cell phone. you can because security has them. what happened, rod, on "the apprentice"? >> well, it was a tough fight. we lost, they won. the women were better tahari potter project than we were. i was a project manager. i think it was close. when you're project manager and you lose absent showing one of your teammates did something wrong, the project manager is the guy on the line and i, you
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know, i think there was a possibility i possibly could have survived if i called bret michaels the rock star back into the boardroom but i delegated to him the creative end, he did a real good job and for me to sell him out to sell myself would have been the political thing to do and i felt it was wrong so i kind of saw it coming. we lost that project and when you lose you're the project manager, donald trump is likely to fire you. >> jesse: okay, thanks, rod. >> can i say this, jesse. go ahead, sorry. >> jesse: the republican governor of virginia apologized this week after leaving out a reference on slavery in his proclamation. how could he possibly do that with dealing with the civil war? >> he said it wasn't that significant a part of the civil war. it was the only part of the civil war. >> no question, it was a huge mistake and i heard he said i did it to help tourism. doesn't virginia have wineries or something else you can do to promote it? he should know that.
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>> jesse: congressman paul, any comments on the governor of virginia? >> of course, i think he made a serious mistake and i think he realized it but there's a little more to civil war than slavery. if you analyze it you'll find out the new england liberals like lisander spooner and theroux. they wanted them to have a pure constitution. the principle of secession, the threat of it would have prevented that civil war save 600,000 people and the slaves could have still been released. >> jesse: rod, any comments real quick? >> real quick, the governor of virginia gets an "f" in american history. he obviously got it wrong. if he was a history teacher, he should get fired. joo there you go. well, i want to take out time t

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