By Lee Pfeiffer
It's been a while since we had a great Larry King moment to share with readers, but this one's a gem. Larry, who prides himself on doing no advance research on his guests, relies solely on some notes provided to him prior to each interview. He can sometimes bluff his way through celebrity interviews, but when everyday people are guests, Larry is treading water to the next commercial break. on Monday night, Larry was interviewing Katie Hall, a woman who was victimized many years ago by the same rapist who is at the center of the bizarre tale that was revealed last week in which he allegedly kept a young girl captive for 18 years and fathered two children with her. King asked Hall, who was raped in 1976, a series of questions so insensitive you have to see it to believe it. Told by Hall that she had been returning from a trip to the grocery store when she gave the man who would end up raping her a lift in her car, King makes her describe the gory details of precisely how the man "consummated" the act, as though they were a couple on their honeymoon. King then asks her what the man did with the groceries that were in the car! To cap things off, he then asks Hall's husband if she told him about her experience many years later when they started dating, the sordid implication being that the man might have rejected her as being damaged goods. Told that he was aware of the crime committed against Hall, Larry asks the husband, "How did you feel about that?" This is Larry's favorite line to stall for time until the next break - no matter how insulting it is. He once asked Maureen O'Hara the same question after she related how her husband died in a plane crash.
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