Posted on 10/01/2007 2:39:25 PM PDT by NonValueAdded
Before Katie Couric's confession that "saying 'we' when referring to the United States" makes her uncomfortable fades from the news cycle, two observations:
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2) It does help explain one of Katie's sillier comments, a few years back when the space shuttle Columbia crashed. On the Today show, she saluted the fallen crew as follows: "They were an airborne United Nations - men, women, an African-American, an Indian woman, an Israeli ."
No, they weren't an "airborne UN". They were an airborne America. For a start, if there was such a thing as a UN rocket, the Israeli guy wouldn't get anywhere near it, except on a one-way ticket to establish the viability of Ahmadinejad's new designated homeland for the Jews on Planet Zongo.
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Steyn ping, please
ping.
The man could write a grocery list and it’d be worth reading.
3) On the other hand, Miss Couric’s reluctance to say “we” may simply reflect the fact that, given her current ratings, the plural may be a tad presumptuous
LOVE HIM!!! :)
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