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 agree.
The $72,000/yr that I make is pretty luxurious compared to my first year out of college ($37,000/yr). Typical liberal, Katie will sit and bitch about the Iraqi standard of living and blame it on anybody but the perpetrators. Saddam gets a pass, even in death.
Maybe islamic dictators and imams who care more about blowing up non-muslims than modern plumbing and irrigation share a little responsibility here, hmmmmm, Katie?
You are so right - after all, she's there to see what it's like for our troops, right?
Better yet, let her go like my grandson and his squadron in Afghanistan - the "Sky Soldiers" who parachute out with all that gear.
Like the old Cherokee saying goes, to paraphrase = you can't judge another until you have walked in his/her moccasins many moons... I think we all aught to send her a pair of moccasins - with apologies to our Native Americans
I LOVED my combat boots!!!! After they broke in, they fit like my own skin.
I would love to buy a pair of those new brown boots, but they wouldn’t be the same. I’d never break ‘em in like we had to in basic; so they’d never totally fit.
Yep, I definitely agree.
She got the interview with Bush.
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