Whatever they’re paying her, it’s way too much.
Watch this candid video of Katie Couric “anchoring” CBS coverage of New Hampshire. The breathtaking ignorance of the candidates, the issues, even her medium of television is so pronounced that one wonders how anyone that bad could actually have the hubris to appear on camera every night.
She is that bad.
At one point she says “I don’t know much about Huckabee.” At another, she carefully rehearses what she is going to ask the remote reporter.
It is a shocking, depressing thought that this woman is sitting in the same chair as Douglas Edwards, Cronkite, and Rather. Say what you will about the relative biases of those gentlemen, they were journalists to the core of their beings. Douglas Edwards literally invented the TV anchor position, bringing journalistic standards to the job honed through a career that included covering D-Day. Cronkite reported for Stars and Stripes during World War II and picked up with CBS toward the end of the conflict. Rather was in Dallas on November 22, 1963 and knew his way around a newsroom before ever going on the air.
And now…Katie Couric? A brainless twit of a woman whose ignorance of the personalities and issues she is reporting on makes her unfit to cover an American election.
Put the broad on the weather desk. Or maybe she could do sports. She and Olbermann were made for each other.
6:12 pm
I dunno. I kinda like Olbermann’s Special Comment segments.
8:01 pm
[...] We’re in that dead zone of waiting for news but not having any to report. So how about a throwaway post that might make us laugh. First up, Katie Couric anchors the New Hampshire primary on January 8. On camera, she’s Miss Perky. Behind the scenes, she’s Miss Perky Who Likes to Swear. Or the Anchor Who Doesn’t Know Anything. Seriously, she doesn’t seem to know the first thing about, well, anything. And she likes to swear. [...]
1:12 am
Many television news people could not survive without relying on the wire services or by getting their ideas out of other newspapers. Katie Couric is hardly unique. None of this surprises me.
3:29 am
Finally! Something conservatives and liberals can agree on: Couric stinks!
8:23 am
You may not agree with what he says but “...ignorance of the personalities and issues she is reporting on makes her unfit to cover an American election…” absolutely does not apply to Keith Olbermann. In fact, he like Dennis Miller, oftens strays way too far into trivia and arcane references for my taste.
So attack Olbermann to your hearts desire, but in this case, this attack is inaccurate.
11:25 am
Great Posting! All Katie Couric has really done is keep up her “college freshman looks”, study up on recipes, human interest stories where you jerk a tear while nodding your head during an interview and you are “acclaimed”. There is a big difference between Good Morning America and serious news and world events.
Couric has enough money, she should just retire.
7:28 pm
Katie a right wing nut!????Have you ever even listen to what comes out of her mouth, or are you too busy filling out your hope to be soon universal healthcare application? So what do you call all the Left Wing Nuts?????Obermann & Rosie make a great couple don’t you think.
8:58 am
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Of course you do, since Olbermann uses this segment to appeal to the “Bush haters” in particular. He’s got about a year to come up with another shtick. Will the “Bush haters” focus their seething, obsessive anger on another target after he leaves the White House, or will they attempt to become functioning members of society?
9:30 am
[...] The thing I find really interesting is the comments that the video clip has gotten, not just on My Damn Channel’s site, but on other sites as well. [...]