Filed under: Media

Why? Because Candy enjoys picking on the old and senile.

Larry King interviews a reporter about how he broke the Mark Foley story (the Congressman who sent sexually explicit IMs to a 16-year-old male page):

BRIAN ROSS, ABC NEWS CHIEF INVESTIGATIVE CORRESPONDENT: Well, Larry, it began with the instant messages coming over the website to us last Friday, prior to that we had received the e-mails, which were tamer, not sexually explicit at all. We asked Foley about them last Thursday. He said it’s just a case of being overly friendly.

We posted that on the ABC News website, the Blotter, and within hours we heard from former pages who said, “Foley’s not telling the truth. Would you like to see some instant messages?” And we got those and on Friday afternoon, Matty Souer (ph) of my staff called the Foley office. They called back an hour later and said, “He’s going to resign.”

KING: Whoa.

Oh, what the hell, one more…

VIDEO CLIP: DAVID ROTH, FOLEY’S ATTORNEY: There was absolutely never any inappropriate sexual contact with any minor. He has acknowledged full responsibility for the inappropriate e-mails and inappropriate IMs. There never has been any sexual contact with a minor, and any suggestion that Mark Foley is a pedophile…

(END VIDEO CLIP)

BUT KING DOESN’T REALIZE HE’S STILL ON THE AIR.

KING: We got those instant things here, right? OK, and they’re in the — I’ll use them in these two segments, and we have three graphics, right…?

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