Two of My Favorite Loons in one Package

Tonight on Larry King Live, you are liable to see some ridiculously entertaining stuff. I know this sounds dubious, but bear with me.

If you don't know, Larry King is a crotchety old TV personality with his own show. In theory, King interviews various famous people. In reality, he does no such thing. Mr. King is a train wreck. This website recaps some awesome moments. CNN has the show transcripts, which are really great reading. I dissected one in this post. Larry, you see, doesn't prepare questions for interviews, has never used the internet and doesn't listen to his guests, preferring to bounce around at random with unrelated and typically ill-conceived questions. He is a broadcasting genius.

Now, let's add to the mix a lovable ex-cop and father, Drew Peterson. Mr. Peterson, a 54-year-old (now former) police officer in Bolingbrook, IL, is a suspect in the October 2007 disappearance of his fourth wife, 23-year-old Stacy Peterson. This eventually prompted the reinvestigation of the accidental drowning of his third wife, Kathleen Savio, who was found dead in a dry bathtub in March 2004. From the Tribune "Dr. Larry W. Blum is the forensic pathologist who performed the Nov. 13 autopsy. In his report, he determined that 'compelling evidence exists to support the conclusions that the cause of death . . . was drowning and further, that the manner of death was homicide.'"

If you have a minute, you really need to look through this nice aggregate of stories from the Chicago Tribune. It's spectacular. Just reading the various headlines will leave you positive this is a plot from a CSI episode.

So, Peterson and his attorney will appear on Larry King Live tonight (CNN) and allegedly will answer viewer questions.

"Joel Brodsky, Peterson's attorney, said he's not worried about the types of calls his client will have to face."There's no rules. Larry King's people tell me that they screen out the nuts. Which is fine," he said."

The potential for awesome here is unbounded. I hope it turns out as swell as Peterson's appearance on Chicago radio legend Steve Dahl's morning show, which ended in Peterson agreeing to do a Win a Date with Drew contest (which never happened, of course). The Matt Lauer interviews were also quite wonderful as Peterson explains that his wife ran off with "a 'nudder man" and that he isn't going to look for someone that isn't missing. He explains to us that he is a jokester and that this is all very hard on him, what with the media bothering him. You may also find out that Drew and Stacy's children believe their mum went on vacation.

No I'm not making this stuff up. We can only wait with baited breath to see what manifests on CNN tonight.