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VIDEO: Larry King Admits He’s Never Used The Internet

thinkprogress.org — Last night on his show, Larry King asked Roseanne Barr, " ‘Do you punch little buttons and things?" Barr even offered to show King how to use the Internet. [VIDEO]

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  • benlundquist, on 10/12/2007, -3/+49lol nice digg. I'll bet his wife is using the internets all right.
    • sockpuppets, on 10/12/2007, -6/+85Larry King's so old he left his wallet on Noah's Ark. when he ran the 100 metre dash in college they timed him with a sundial. when he was at school there was No history class. He sat in front of Jesus in 1st grade. He got the first copy of the Ten Commandments...
    • sockpuppets, on 10/12/2007, -2/+91Oh and Larry King's social security number is really easy to remember, it's 000-00-0001.

      Thank you and goodnight!
    • rasterbator, on 10/12/2007, -21/+2He has never used the internet because his melon is too big to get around it.
      /sarc/
    • FunkyWitDaSysTm, on 10/12/2007, -0/+15larry king is probably in the fortunate position of not having to use the interweb tubes as he undoutedly has a massive staff doing it for him.

      on rosanne barr: my respect for her just jumped a notch. then it jumped another when she offered to teach LARRY KING how to use the internet. not in a "oh, here, try this" kind of way, but with a definite undertone of urgency and importance.

      she should become a spokeswoman for something internet-y (due to her directness and clarity of vision regarding the i-net) ... something important like net neutrality...
    • praisethelard, on 06/06/2008, -3/+13Larry King is a smart man. Seriously. Stay away from the Internet. Once you're in...there's no coming out.
    • dracostimpy, on 10/12/2007, -0/+17@FunkyWitDaSysTm

      You said "he undoutedly has a massive staff". Heh heh mm heh heh heh.
    • skankyBacon, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3I hope I'm not that stubborn and curmudgeonly when I'm that old. It seems like everyone assumes that what *they* grew up with is the best way to do things, and anything new is not worth the time.
    • goldylocks7621, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2larry king gets interviews with the most powerful people in the world. That should tell you everything you need to know about him. He's a worthless piece of *****. FYI, that's why he put down the internet.
  • tomaszpw, on 10/12/2007, -4/+46Larry King does not use it.
    Ted Stevens thinks it's a bunch of PIPES.
    And, Ted Turner has no idea what YouTube is.
    I wonder if K-Fed fits into this group?
    • FunkyWitDaSysTm, on 10/12/2007, -9/+2stevens called it a "seiries of tubes" (also, rememer that he has his own personal internets, too, which may in fact BE a series of tubes)

      normally i wouldnt nitpick, bbut around my geek friends, when referring to the internet, i imitate stevens saying that quote. me and my loser friends (i own up to it) laugh every time.

      i also like interweb, interweb tubes, intertubes.
    • zspade, on 10/12/2007, -8/+4Probably on myspace.
  • iching, on 10/12/2007, -1/+30That is why he is so insightful, knowledgeable, probing, investigative, technological aware which has prepared him for his deep interviews. (sarcasm)

    Larry brags about how he doesn't prepare questions ahead of time for his program and it shows in the dumb, fluff questions that he asks. He said that Cathy Lee Crosby was once ranked 7th in the world in tennis when in reality, she wasn't even in the top 100.
  • supaflystud, on 10/12/2007, -3/+66I bet if he knew how much porn was on it, he'd be game.
  • remove, on 10/12/2007, -2/+42Too bad Larry King will never read this digg submission, for obvious reasons.

    Best quote "What do you punch little buttons and things?"

    On a side note, how is he even qualified to discuss whether or not the internet is a "viable political medium" if he hasn't even been on Google?

    Somehow, I think Ted 'series of tubes' Stevens would get along well with King.
  • rekrapt, on 10/12/2007, -2/+47Un-F*cking-believable. Out of touch is an understatement.
    • robbiedo, on 10/12/2007, -19/+7Why is he out of touch? We have no clue how he stays informed. I bet you he has a lot of sharp people who do his interneting for him. I worked with a number of executives who don't touch a computer. They have people who do that for them. They are successful and well informed about what they need to know.

      I know a guy who does corporate real estate who doesn't have a computer, and his secreatary prints his email. He makes several hundred thousand a year.

      Internet use is not necessarily equal to success for the older generations.
    • Ignignokt01, on 10/12/2007, -3/+15And his clothes have been out of style for over 20 years.
    • yttrx, on 10/12/2007, -6/+12So? What do you care if he doesn't use the internet? Does knowing what "www" stands for somehow trump nearly fifty years of broadcast experience?
    • Ignignokt01, on 10/12/2007, -1/+9Because the internet is more amazing than any other technological revolution in history, including the invention of the radio and telephones. The time it takes to send and receive information over long distances is now in the milliseconds. You can talk to somebody LIVE through videochat across the world, with a simple DV camera and an internet connection. It has allowed for free, non-corporate controlled news to be available to anyone with an internet connection.

      For a man who prides himself on being a 'newscaster', a person who should be on top of everything happening NOW, this is pretty ridiculous.
    • eean, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4yttrx, have you seen Larry King? The guy is not well informed in general.
    • GeneralAntilles, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2With as much influence as the internet has on today's society? A lot.
    • sheldonwilson, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3Jack Hannah once brought a skunk on Larry's show. Not even joking... Larry King asked what it was. He had never seen a skunk before. God, I wish I had that on video. Jack couldn't believe that Larry had never seen one. Priceless.
    • closethipster, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0I agree. I think my exact reaction was "What the hell..?!"
  • protossss, on 10/12/2007, -14/+2My father has never used the internet either - and he leads a more than successful life at the moment!
    • goffy59, on 10/12/2007, -2/+3it doesn't matter about that, its just a good thing to know how to use, and if you don't use it you will stay back in history like all those other religious fanatics on TV preaching on how bad the Internet is.
  • suntereo, on 10/12/2007, -2/+31It's easy to see he's stuck in the Stone Age... look at his "Lite-Brite" stage backdrop... he probably thinks "all them colors is pretty high tech!"
  • LaueOfficer, on 10/12/2007, -8/+1They're (Kind and Barr) both dumbasses. God damn, "We're everywhere!" second best quote.
  • rocko213, on 10/12/2007, -2/+26a phone call to Larry King:

    "yes, that's right Mr. King, goatse.cx, uh-huh, yeah it's a great site to learn how to use a computer"
    • ZippidyDoo, on 10/12/2007, -2/+12.cz now not .cx ^_^
    • Burmask, on 10/12/2007, -4/+1God damn goatse dot cx is fu*king sick!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
  • Mooinakan, on 10/12/2007, -12/+3THE INTERNET IS A SERIES OF TUBES
  • TheBigBrother, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4http://www.cnn.com/CNN/Programs/larry.king.live/
    [witty comment about this site here]
  • SuperBTZ, on 10/12/2007, -0/+24Ive never used the internet.
    • martalli, on 10/12/2007, -2/+14I'm just here looking for the tubes.
    • lordsandwich, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3Psst... it's behind the truck.
  • whozyodaddy, on 10/12/2007, -6/+1Psshh... we all know he really does use the internet, and for what purposes ;)
  • voodoom, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6Larry King = Luddite
  • Cyberdactyl, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6Larry's a DINOSAUR?! . . . . .no way. . . .really??!!
    • unknownunknowns, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1I always wondered why his arms are so small and he's always hunched over.

      /The more you know.
  • COYOT3, on 10/12/2007, -0/+20I find it interesting that Larry King both makes an obviously "stupid" joke (what do you push little buttons and things," and refuses to even acknowledge that he might desire to "try out the Internet."

    I suspect he knows all about how easily a person can get online, and how much potential for profit there is for a figure like himself. However, his fan-base I can visualise as sittin' in a chair guffawing out, "Har har! That's right, Larry! Screw the Internets, we don' need 'em!"

    The joke itself seems like he's pandering to his demographic.
    • eean, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6Heh yea probably. I sure as hell don't watch Larry King.
  • JKrem, on 10/12/2007, -15/+3Honestly, who cares?
    • razei, on 10/12/2007, -2/+16Currently, 119 people.
    • joeydoo, on 10/12/2007, -0/+8now 277

      .... this is fun. :)

      It can be digg's equivalent of " FIRST!"
      I hate those assholes though.
  • jonro, on 10/12/2007, -6/+3No Internet? He may be a dinosaur, but he's probably a very productive dinosaur.
  • otaleks, on 10/12/2007, -1/+8An internet Virgin?

    I couldnt even fathom never using the internet.
  • gotamd, on 10/12/2007, -0/+8He's acting as if the idea of using the internet is scary and repulsive...very odd.
  • Switchnig, on 10/12/2007, -4/+3lol, internets

    holy ***** roseanne is old
  • seancanada, on 10/12/2007, -9/+3He's read more books than every person who posts comments on this story combined.
    • joeydoo, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6Obviously nothing since round-a-bout 1998 though.

      like internet for dummies.

      His assistant must be well pissed at having to print everything for him..... "looking at the ***** screen!!! I could be doing something else all day."
  • thomasthecat, on 10/12/2007, -0/+7lol, noob!!1!
  • wopbobaloobop, on 10/12/2007, -0/+9I remember when he had Bill Gates on, to talk about the Windows 95 launch. It was clear he had no concept of what Windows was.
  • Sassanix, on 10/12/2007, -6/+2From comments:

    That guy’s a dinosaur. He’s so old he farts dust!
  • boobies, on 10/12/2007, -4/+4this is unbelievable... he has a WIFE?!
  • artificial001, on 10/12/2007, -2/+1how is this political opinion
  • mrASSMAN, on 10/12/2007, -4/+5HOLY ***** my ass!! I cannot fathom a person in America in the year 2007 who has never used the Internet before. I mean WOW!

    Has he lived in his CNN studio his entire life?? Don't they allow him out every once in a while?
    • felchdonkey, on 10/12/2007, -0/+8um, MrAssman?

      It's actually 2006 right now. November, in fact.

      Are you in teh FUTURE? Can you give me some stock tips?
    • mrASSMAN, on 10/12/2007, -2/+4Ha, I know, but it's nearly 2007.. I guess that was just my strange way of rounding the year up because we're past the middle of 2006.

      But I'll give you stock tips anyway: sell them all.
    • felchdonkey, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2awesome, mrASSMAN, thanks!

      I had to sell them all really cheap to unload them in time, but I know that I did the right thing. It hurt ditching the Google stock for $2 a share, but I'm not going to argue with the man from the future.
  • BrotherGA2, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3How absurd is it that a prominent person who has had the ears of many an american can be so ignorant and primitive. Even my grandparents that are in their late 70's AND live in Brazil use the internet for e-mail, searching, news, and skype. This is ridiculous.

    Political opinion needs to be heard from as many different people and viewpoints as possible, or else it's too often, too biased and extremist like a lot of popular media such as TV and newspapers.
  • Unless, on 10/12/2007, -2/+0As much as you all want to fault him and consider it blaspheme that he hasn't used the internet, guess what? It's only really existed for what, 16 years now?

    Sixteen years of his last 73.

    You all act like books and newspapers haven't been the main source of information for the last few hundred years. Just because he doesn't use the internet doesn't mean he's any less informed of what's going on in the world, he just learns of it less than 24 hours later, which is fine for a commentator. There are plenty of viewpoints that can be found in print, from the most radical to the most reactionary, and it's probably better written than on the web. Jeez, get off his back and focus on more important things.

    Also, 73 may be old, but c'mon, there are heaps more people older than him in greater positions of power.
    • etnu, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4Not being aware of the Internet puts you out of touch with a great deal of information. It makes you unaware of the services provided by businesses that make up over 25% of our economy. That's a problem if you're going to be a journalist, like it or not.

      I'm fine if Larry doesn't use the Internet as much as a 20 year old, but he should be aware of how it, you know, actually works. It's the single most significant human achievement of the last century.
  • allaboutdatiki, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4Larry King's only 73? Crap! I figured him for something closer to 90. Whatta Fossil.

    Now Lou Dobbs ... he's got a big swinging brass pair.

    WTF ever happened to Aaron Brown?
  • Lahonda, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1If we compared the internet phenomenon to the automotive industry, we're just about at "Model T Stage". Duh!

    Goo goo
  • chaimpot0k, on 10/12/2007, -4/+4"ROSEANNE BARR: I was so scared because I woke up and there was the Drudge, you know. I always read the Drudge Report and it said on there that the Chinese were like, you know, spying on our subs or doing something with our subs and I was like, “Oh no, he’s going to think that’s an act of war and then we’re going to go over there next.” I mean we’re everywhere. We’re everywhere."

    What a stupid ***** bitch.
    • floorman56, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Was she looking like the crazy old lady down the street or what?
  • zforrester, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1I have no problem with this.
  • viviwanu, on 10/12/2007, -1/+0What do you expect? He's the Alpha male, God's 1st creation!
  • moore757, on 10/12/2007, -1/+0"These times they are a changing..."
  • sheared, on 10/12/2007, -2/+1Wow! I read that comment about China and the subs that Roseanne Barr made, and I thought to myself -- that is EXACTLY the kind of left leaning stupidity that I picture when I read a "poll" that someone somewhere pictures the US as as much of a threat as Iran or North Korea.
  • bs0l, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1I wonder if its a video...
  • tinkertoy, on 10/12/2007, -1/+0Larry King doesn't need the internet any more than you or I need CNN to get our news. Except in his case, his world revolves around interviewing faded pop culture icons like Roseanne or irrelevant, broken down movie stars like Robert Blake. Give the guy a break. He's ancient, like his viewers.
  • capitapf, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1what the ***** does roseanne know about the internet or politics?
    • raid517, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2I don't know. It would be cool if she stod for congress though. She would sure give some of them a hard time.
  • bdwoolman, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6Time for Larry to move to the old age home. When you lose your curiosity it means your noggin is ossified. I for one would like to be shot of the bottom-feeding scum sucker. He pumps every low-life tabloid yarn like a plumber reaming a toilet. If I see him on the air I tune out CNN lest I be assaulted with more hour on the likes of Scott Peterson or poor Jon Binet Ramsey. NOT INTERESTED! When he has top people on his show he just schmoozes and kisses their asses, which is why they come on, but then what is the point?

    When you are out-classed intellectually by Rosanne Barr it is time to take a pill and sit on the porch somewhere and wait for the sweet release of death. I taught my 80 year old father in law to use a computer and the net. Now he writes all his church stuff using word pad. And he regularly prints color photos I send him via email to take to his wife. He just got a digicam and a photo printer. Hell, I'm 54 myself and here I am with you brats.

    Larry, it's time to retire or wake up. Buttons indeed!
    • cypherz, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2>Hell, I'm 54 myself and here I am with you brats.

      heh. 50 here. Programmer for the last 20 years or so. I can't imagine anybody being so uncurious about the internet. Pretty amazing that he can get by. He must have a huge staff (of young people) doing all his work for him. Although from watching his show, I'd say there's not that much research done... he seems to just show up and shoot the sh*t with his guests. Good work if you can get it...
  • JonForTheWin, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2What an IDIOT. YES China is a SERIOUS threat to us, they have control of our deep water ports where are subs are YES they spy on our subs NO we will NOT go to war with them because the neo-cons just ***** love their tyrannical government to ***** death.
  • jdog2050, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1lmao...I'm waiting for spoof footage of King looking in his kitchen cabinets under the sink, trying to find which one is his Internet tube.
  • desert88, on 10/12/2007, -2/+1www.duggmirror.com
  • LoneRanger85, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5Larry King is one of the most overrated people in broadcasting. And he's CNN's TOP show! He actually says he does no prep work for his program because he wants to keep it "spontaneous." If I had that attitude, my broadcasting career would have ended in the first year. That's just laziness.
  • priapism, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1http://www.wipo.int/amc/en/domains/decisions/html/2005/d2005-0570.html

    Hmmm. Looks like Larry "What's the Web?" King is the complainant in a legal struggle with Alberta Hot Rods over the rights to larryking.com. Hello, Edmonton!!
  • ZakColeman, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1He is the only one who knows whats up.
  • Ajajadude, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1Ummm, I'd hardly call this worthwhile news. I can see reading this in one of those magazines that give the public all the "juicy gossip" in Hollywood, but outside of that, I couldn't care less if Larry King uses the internet or not.
  • raid517, on 10/12/2007, -4/+1Good on him is what I say. There are still some real people in the world left.

    You know people with a life to lead don't waste it on the net.

    Sadly, I don't qualify.
    • cwcheang, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3teh internet, buddy, is a way of life. right now nope. but as natural selection takes its place it'll eventually be the norm. =)
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