King and Woodward
Most days, I can't handle the sugary schmoozing interview style of Larry King, a man who'd butter up Saddam Hussein if he was sitting across the studio from him.
But I'll give credit where credit is due. He asked some surprisingly feisty questions during
last night's hour-long interview with his frequent on-air companion Bob Woodward, who is now under fire for waiting so long to say and do anything about his conversation with a government official regarding outed CIA agent Valerie Plame. While Woodward seemed tense, dry-mouthed and keenly aware that his reputation had taken a hit, good old Larry bore in, asking him whether his symbiotic -- I'll scratch your back if you'll scratch my back -- relationships with his sources wasn't simply a case of "quid pro quo." (You go boy!)
Anyway, if you read the transcript, you'll see how often Woodward invoked Watergate as if to remind viewers of his glory days as a journalistic watchdog now that some, including Larry, are raising the idea that he's become a Beltway lapdog. (More on this in next week's Phoenix.)