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Friday, August 19, 2005

Bob Costas Is Sane!

Costas Refuses to Host Show on Holloway

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."

Costas' manager declined to elaborate on what Costas didn't like about the topic.

Finally, someone in the media has the gall to stand up to this stupid "pretty young white girl" phenomenon. Maybe others in the media will follow suit... or maybe pigs will fly.

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