You are mine kinda gal!"
Posted on 09/02/2007 3:31:21 AM PDT by Excuse_My_Bellicosity
Katie Couric's first blog entry from Iraq is probably one of the best examples of a lack of humility mixed with ditz one could read. Then again, we are talking about a rich, liberal, irrelevant anchorwoman….
August 31, 2007
Katie: Greetings From Baghdad
Here I am, my first day in Baghdad… It is overwhelming to be here and there is so much to take in.
It's all about you, Katie. Enjoy.
I don't think most Americans understand what the Green Zone is, and many people feel those who live and work there are so cut off from what's happening in the rest of the city, it's like living in a bubble. I guess that's why the author of a recent book on the zone named it “Imperial Life in the Emerald City.” Our living conditions are hugely luxurious compared to what most Iraqis experience. We've taken over a house rented from a wealthy Iraqi entrepreneur; it has air conditioning, multiple televisions (which makes sense, of course), and a pretty spacious kitchen.
If most Americans don't understand what the Green Zone is, then it means people like Couric haven't been doing their jobs. Some of us who watch news programs other than "The CBS Evening News with Katie Couric" have a pretty good understanding.
What a waste of air fare….
Read here.
I’m beyond the point of disgust and have started to feel sorry for her.
Here I am, my first day in Baghdad… It is overwhelming to be here and there is so much to take in.
I’m underwhelmed. This is stuff you’d read from a kid’s writing assignment on the first day of school: What I did on my summer vacation.
Daddy packed the suitcases in the car. I waved bye-bye to my friend Johnny. Daddy started the car. We backed down the driveway. I screamed “Are we there yet?” Daddy swatted me over the head with a map. I didn’t care if we got there or not.
Her traveling show should be called "Pimping Socialism".
Just count the number of times she says ‘I’. It’s all about Katie all the time. And it’s nauseating. She’s using the troops to save her sorry career.
Her, and CBS, only presence there is to undermine the recent victories from the offensive surge and compromise the report the U.S. general in Iraq will release shortly.
“It is overwhelming to be here... ”
“there is so much to take in... ”
“there are now three Royal Jordanian flights into Baghdad every day... ”
“there was a duty free store with candy and scores of watches... ”
“Our living conditions are hugely luxurious... ”
“The folks in our Baghdad bureau are brave or crazy... ”
“air conditioning, multiple televisions... and a pretty spacious kitchen... ”
“The city looks like a third world country... ”
“I was in New Orleans last week... ”
“That's it for now... time to go shopping!!!”
I suppose by Monday she will be blogging that it will be seared, seared in her mind where she was on Labor Day 2007.
She wouldn’t even make a good hooker.
No T.P. Oh, the inhumanity! What impoverishment. I had to squat and peed on my ankle.
Wow. Having read the column I have a renewed appreciation for Catie’s utter cluelessness. She’d also not a very good reporter, observer, news professional, or writer.
Let’s see.... she correctly explains that the Green Zone is actually called the International Zone, and then continues to call it the Green Zone.
A genuine newshound, Catie marvels that Iraq’s single civilian airport has three Jordanian Air flights per day. But that’s ancient reportage to to the thousands of civilian reporters, diplomats, and businessmen who have been using those flights for years now. Talk about “living in a bubble”, eh Catie?
OK, as one who spent several years editing columns like this - and also several months in Iraq - maybe I’m being too nitpicky. But why, Catie, do you give us two full grafs about “the road from the airport” before calling it “what the military calls Route Irish”? Perhaps after a few days away from your New York City bubble, and more time in your “Green Zone” bubble, you’ll learn that others beyond the military - embassy folks, NGO staffers, Middle Eastern businessmen, and yes, even reporters my dear Catie - don’t call it “the road from the airport”, but instead use the militaristic shorthand Route Irish .
Suck it up Catie, you can too.
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