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February 28, 2003

Are You a Gullible Idiot?

If so, Larry King has just the show for you tonight!

Friday, February 28

Has someone you love "crossed over" to the other side? Acclaimed psychic medium John Edward says he can communicate with the dead. He joins Larry for the hour and takes your calls.

I bet the first caller's name will start with "R." Or maybe "K." Or "B."

Update: The transcript can be found here. Some excerpts that prove that either the dead have a lot of trouble getting their point across, or John is a fraud. I leave it to you, dear reader, to make the distinction.

EDWARD: And I feel like I need to acknowledge that either there's some type of connection to the month of February or the second of a month, which to me means that there's either a birthday or an anniversary in the month of February, or something took place in the second of the a month. That's what they're showing me, OK?

Wow, how's that for specifics, folks? The month of February - that's 28 days to work with, or maybe the second of a month, that's another 11 days outside of February - and a birthday or anniversary around there. Gosh, if I could pick a 40 day period, I bet the chances of me landing on a birthday or anniversary are pretty damn good.

However, check the transcript - when he didn't get a hit with it, he never returned to the birthday/anniversary theme again with the caller.

KING: Bethel, Connecticut, for John Edward. Hello.

CALLER: Hi, John.

(snip)

EDWARD: Well, let me tell you this. Before you even started to speak, when he was saying -- announcing where you were calling from, the first thing I wanted to talk about was a Catholic priest. So I don't know if you guys have a Catholic background.

Holy shit, a Catholic family in Connecticut? No way! What mystical observation next, John - Baptists in Alabama?

Oh, good lord, I can't keep on with this - it's amazing how willing some people are to believe such obvious crap - and everytime he's not getting a good "reading," what happens?

"Oh well, that's what I'm seeing, figure it out sometime - next caller!"

He's a fraud, and those who follow him are dim-witted gene pool rejects. I mean that in the best way possible, of course.