From the LA Times -- "Larry King's last Larry King Live show was a nonstop promenade of high-profile names and faces Thursday, including a current and a former president, a gaggle of news anchors and the like and Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger declaring it "Larry King Day." Tony Bennett serenaded the host with "The Best Is Yet to Come." But the standout, perhaps, was Katie Couric. Who wrote a poem. For Larry."
MSNBC's Rachel Maddow --"Tonight is the end of the Larry King era in American television. Larry King tonight signing off his CNN show that airs in this hour for the last time. After 50,000 interviews, 50 years in the business, 25 years on that specific show on CNN after all of that, Larry King does not have an enemy in the world. He is a giant of this medium and this industry, and all of us here at this other 9:00 p.m. show all of us here at MSNBC wish him all the best. We salute you, sir.
Yeah, Larry King did interviews with everybody without making himself the star of the interview, and without badgering or kissing up to the interviewee. He did straight interviews, asked the questions people wanted asked, not the gotcha questions, just the questions that revealed a little bit more about the interviewee, It takes great skill and wisdom to pull this trick off for twenty five years on live television.
Larry King, I'm pleased to have watched your work.
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