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CBS picks Katie Couric as Evening News Anchor: "We didn't want a pretty face" -
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| December 7, 2005
| Emma Dubin
Posted on 12/09/2005 9:55:14 AM PST by UnklGene
NEW YORK — CBS will name Today Show anchor, Katie Couric, as the replacement for Dan Rather on the CBS Evening News. 
“The networks have been criticized over the years for choosing ‘pretty faces’ for the evening news anchors – think of Peter Jennings, Tom Brokaw, Diane Sawyer, even the brief tenure of Connie Chung. Well, we didn’t want just another pretty face, and we have certainly achieved that goal, “said a CBS spokesman. “Katie is pretty damn ugly with her lopsided face and too-big grin.
“We did want some journalistic heft, which Katie clearly doesn’t have, and someone who appealed to the important youth market, which Katie doesn’t do either. But we had to make some trade offs, and not being a pretty face trumped everything else.”
Emma Dubin
TOPICS: Political Humor/Cartoons
KEYWORDS: cbsnews; katiecouric; satire
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posted on
12/09/2005 9:55:15 AM PST
by
UnklGene
To: UnklGene
We wanted a stupid blonde.
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posted on
12/09/2005 9:56:01 AM PST
by
bmwcyle
(Evolution is a myth -- Libertarians just won't evolve into Conservatives.)
To: UnklGene
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posted on
12/09/2005 9:56:11 AM PST
by
neodad
(Rule Number 1: Be Armed)
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To: Baynative
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posted on
12/09/2005 9:57:49 AM PST
by
Wolfie
To: UnklGene
She resembles a fireplug if you ask me. Same shape.
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posted on
12/09/2005 9:59:00 AM PST
by
mewzilla
(Property must be secured or liberty cannot exist. John Adams)
To: UnklGene
...with her lopsided face... It's not as lopsided as Greta's.............
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posted on
12/09/2005 9:59:26 AM PST
by
Red Badger
(Dan rather didn't say "Courage", he said "Couric"..................)
To: UnklGene
Well, we didn’t want just another pretty face, and we have certainly achieved that goal, “said a CBS spokesman. “Katie is pretty damn ugly with her lopsided face and too-big grin. Well, I'm "not just another pretty face", and could probably do just as good of a job as Katie Couric........ ;-)
To: UnklGene
Maybe this is the reason Matt Lauer wore a palestinian support scarf....."Hey, I need attention, too!"
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posted on
12/09/2005 10:00:14 AM PST
by
add925
To: mewzilla
I've never seen a fireplug with two spigots on the same side.......
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posted on
12/09/2005 10:00:25 AM PST
by
Red Badger
(Dan rather didn't say "Courage", he said "Couric"..................)
To: UnklGene
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posted on
12/09/2005 10:00:30 AM PST
by
zarf
(The BCS sucks.)
To: Red Badger
Greta wasn't picked for her pretty face either.
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posted on
12/09/2005 10:00:52 AM PST
by
conservativewasp
(Liberals lie for sport and hate our country.)
To: UnklGene
Warn us next time, please!
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posted on
12/09/2005 10:00:57 AM PST
by
citizen
(History shows Muslims are Jihadists....The real radical Muslims are the live-and-let-live moderates.)
To: NotJustAnotherPrettyFace
Well, I'm "not just another pretty face", and could probably do just as good of a job as Katie Couric........ ;-) But you couldn't lie....er, report the news without bustin' out laffin'!>............
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posted on
12/09/2005 10:01:50 AM PST
by
Red Badger
(Dan rather didn't say "Courage", he said "Couric"..................)
To: Red Badger
I've never seen a fireplug with two spigots on the same side.......She's got spigots?
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posted on
12/09/2005 10:02:29 AM PST
by
mewzilla
(Property must be secured or liberty cannot exist. John Adams)
To: conservativewasp
I like Greta, but her mouth seems to creep up the side of her face as the hour proceeds, like a lip implant gone terribly wrong......
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posted on
12/09/2005 10:03:14 AM PST
by
Red Badger
(Dan rather didn't say "Courage", he said "Couric"..................)
To: Red Badger
Unlike Couric, though, Gretter* only talks out of one side of her mouth...
*(I prefer the Ted Williams pronunciation...)
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posted on
12/09/2005 10:03:47 AM PST
by
ErnBatavia
(403-3)
To: UnklGene
I had a friend who worked on her show for a brief time. He said that her nickname among the crew was 'Kewpi', which she despises. On mornings when she is particularly snotty to people, just before they return from commercial someone wil call her Kewpi. They hope she'll lose it just as they go live again. If she appears beet red, someone may wel have dropped the "K-bomb".
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posted on
12/09/2005 10:04:02 AM PST
by
theDentist
(The Dems have put all their eggs in one basket-case: Howard "Belltower" Dean.)
To: mewzilla
She's got spigots? Okay, sprinklers............
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posted on
12/09/2005 10:04:15 AM PST
by
Red Badger
(Dan rather didn't say "Courage", he said "Couric"..................)
To: bmwcyle
I think they clearly said a stupid ugly blonde......
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posted on
12/09/2005 10:04:18 AM PST
by
tioga
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