Larry King Just Doesn’t Get Text Messaging

August 22, 2008

So we’re knee-deep in Barack Obama’s VP watch and he’s all set to announce it tomorrow in the morning. I was watching Larry King Live on CNN since I heard about there being some activity at the house of Sen. Joe Biden (D-DE) and the ever close decision that could result in a Obama-Biden ticket. But what really piqued my curiosity and quite honestly, surprise is that Larry King just doesn’t get the concept of text messaging. He kept asking one of the CNN pundits about the way text messaging was going to work.

Larry King: “So when are they going to send the text message?”
Pundit: “Chances are that they’re going to send it in the morning.”

Larry King: “So let’s say that they (Barack Obama’s team) sends out the text message at 6 in the morning. What’s stopping the first person from sending it to CNN?”
Pundit: “We won’t have to worry about it because we’ve all signed up to recieve the text message, Larry.”

Uh…are you serious? Larry…you don’t understand text messaging? What? You honestly thought that it would be sent out in increments? C’mon…that just made Larry lose some credibility with the technology. He’s so old school.

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