New
York
(ANI):
Larry
King
engaged
in
a
verbal
snipe
fest
with
Howard
Stern,
after
he
called
him
'tasteless'
in
an
interview.
After
learning
that
the
CNN
talk-show
host
had
trashed
him
in
an
interview
published
last
week
in
Steppin'
Out
magazine,
Stern
retaliated
by
calling
King
a
'loser'
and
'the
luckiest
man
in
show
business'
at
a
Hamptons
party
over
the
weekend
-
and
a
'f-ing
ass-'
on
his
Sirius
radio
show
Monday.
King
initiated
the
verbal
back-and-forth
when
he
was
asked
if
Stern
would
make
a
good
replacement
for
him
when
he
steps
down
from
his
talk
show.
"No,
I
wouldn't
want
to
be
compared
to
Howard
Stern," the
New
York
Daily
News
quoted
King
as
saying.
"He's
not
tasteful
at
all.
You
go
to
the
least
common
denominator
and
that''s
Howard
Stern,"
continued
King.
He
also
said
the
shock
jock
"would
like
you
to
print
that
I
called
him
a
smock"
-
presumably
a
euphemism
for
the
Yiddish
word
'schmuck'.
King
ended
his
diatribe
with:
"I
regard
Howard
Stern
as
worthless."Stern
reacted
to
the
trashing,
by
saying:
"It's
alleged
he
was
banging
his
wife's
sister
and
he's
saying
that
I'm
tasteless?"
He
added,
"He's
a
frog
…
an
imp
and
he's
the
luckiest
man
in
show
business."
As
for
King's
'smock' remark,
Stern
said:
"Is
that
something
you
wear
when
you
paint?"
The
self-described
King
of
All
Media
then
summarized
the
career
of
the
soon-to-be
King
of
no
media.
"Larry
King
did
overnight
radio.
He
got
no
ratings.
He
moved
to
CNN,
where
he
had
no
competition.
As
soon
as
MSNBC
and
Fox
News
gave
him
a
little
bit
of
competition,
the
cards
folded,"
said
Stern.
He
claimed
he
has
no
plans
to
take
over
King's
show,
but
were
the
job
his,
he
“would
do
everything
that
Larry
doesn't
do
because
Larry's
a
loser
and
he
lost
his
entire
audience.
Let's
be
honest,
he
didn't
retire
willingly.
The
man
had
one
foot
in
the
grave.
It's
obvious,
he
is
no
longer
relevant," said
Stern.