George never asks the confrontational questions, nor rarely an intuitively inspired question, because he rarely asks a question of his own. Every guest, sans RCH, LMH, and such, sends in a list of 20 questions they would like to be asked, and George bases his script from that. He handles the niceties, and the filler, and ad-libs the core content of the question (occasionally), but he generally follows it down the page. Listen to him, you can hear him do it. Why do you think his questions come from nowhere, and quite often address the issue the guest just finished speaking about. He does not really listen, often enough, and rarely does a conversation take place.....
but then out of the blue, some random subject will catch his attention, and what do you know... I smile. I just wish he could pull that 'out his arse' about every ten minutes, rather than every two weeks (yes... Im being a bit generous, I know).
I think his biggest problem, is that he has a warped, perhaps even sick sense of humor. When he is winging it, it can peep in, and sometimes grabs the show from him. He knows this, and so has to walk a fine line, and that limits the show. It is natural to want to be funny, to pull people in that direction, but if you are hiding a sick, lonely monster in your closet..... well it gets tricky. Sucks for us, sucks for him, but he fights the good fight 99.5% of the time, so most do not see this side of him.
but I do
