I've always thought Bob Costas was pretty much a dildo. Prematurely smug, George Willian, and destined for bow ties. He's probably a nice guy, and he knows a great deal about sports and seems sincere and all, but he's just unlistenable. It's half his voice, which is guaranteed to drive me to the mute button whenever they let him talk during a baseball game, but mostly just his mannerisms, which are very nerdy, in the most unendearing way.
That being said, I've got to hand it to the guy for having some decency and integrity. Apparently he's been guest hosting the Larry King Show this summer, and when the producers insisted on doing a show on Natalee Holloway, he said he was not going to drag his career through the muck, and they had to find
a guest guesthost for that night.
NEW YORK - While some cable TV hosts are making their living off the Natalee Holloway case this summer, Bob Costas is having none of it.
Costas, hired by CNN as an occasional fill-in on "Larry King Live," refused to anchor Thursday's show because it was primarily about the Alabama teenager who went missing in Aruba. Chris Pixley filled in at the last minute.
"I didn't think the subject matter of Thursday's show was the kind of broadcast I should be doing," Costas said in a statement. "I suggested some alternatives but the producers preferred the topics they had chosen. I was fine with that, and respectfully declined to participate."
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There were no hard feelings at all," Costas said. "It's not a big deal. I'm sure there are countless topics that will be mutually acceptable in the future."
Wendy Walker, senior executive producer of "Larry King Live," described it as a mutual decision for Costas not to do the show because he was uncomfortable with the subject matter.
"We love having Bob... and since `Larry King Live' covers an extremely extensive palate of subjects, there will always be shows that he will enjoy hosting," she said.
Natalee Holloway, if you're like me and had long since forgotten, was the mildly-attractive blonde female college student who was murdered and dumped down a dry well or buried in a garbage heap somewhere, while on vacation in Aruba some months ago. I can't really imagine why she's still news in some quarters, and I haven't seen a mention of her on TV or any of the blogs I read in months, but apparently someone's keeping the non-story alive. The media does love their young white females in jeopardy.
