You might well be right. I wasn't regularly watching Katie at the time, so haven't focused on the acclaim she got. But in any case, the vulgar criticism she frequently gets on FR for having done something useful befuddles me.
It's the media went overboard on playing it up. It was like John Effin' Kerry served in Vietnam. They had to remind you constantly.
I don't even know you anymore, glgb. ;^) Seriously though, I never saw the colonoscopy she got, but from what I heard it was a giggly little lovefest that wasn't really taken seriously as it was happening. I don't really know that that warrents vulgar critcism, but I'm sure some of her vulgar Criticisms of America and the military could.