Larry King is such an arrogant, condescending jerk. I’ve never been a fan of his…personally, I think his head has gotten so big over the years that it barely fits into even my big-screen TV now.

But…last night one of his first guests was Matt, one of Ali’s brother Spencer’s friends who was on Phuket Island when the tsunami hit, and Mr. King was in rare form; interrupting Matt and chastising him like an errant child for going down to take pictures of the wave that ultimately kicked the crap out of him and his friends. You think Matt doesn’t also think it was a bit absurd now, in retrospect? No need to rub salt in the guy’s wounds, Mr. I-Won’t-Go-There-If-I-Can’t-Get-CNN!

Then…he just continued interrupting Matt and getting all impatient when Matt wasn’t responding to his questions fast enough. He’s in Thailand. There’s a delay. Ask the question, wait five seconds. If you don’t have five seconds to wait, find a couple of guests who are local and can respond quicker. Oh wait…he did.

Larry’s a news man…he should know better, but once he was able to get his attempt at sensationalism out of the way he could move on to his more “high-profile” guests, which included two people who were nowhere near Thailand, India or anyplace else in Southeast Asia but sure did like to talk a good game because they had relatives there or they had been there before.

When he grew tired of Matt’s story, he basically just cut him off. No wonder Matt hadn’t held on the line when Larry came crawling back for more sticky ratings goo.

The bummer thing was I didn’t even have a new episode of Nanny 911 to cleanse my viewing palate. Fortunately the Larry King hangover didn’t last long.