Thank God! Someone else gets to be the butt of 'ham sandwich' jokes...
Posted on 04/05/2006 5:00:05 PM PDT by Aussie Dasher
Katie Couric’s politics "are apparently even further to the Left and more partisan Democratic than Dan Rather’s,” commentator Lowell Ponte writes.
"For this reason, she is unlikely to restore CBS’s credibility or redeem CBS’s well-deserved reputation for left-wing bias.” If Couric’s previous work is any indication, she could bring to CBS not only her liberal bias but also her penchant for making potentially inflammatory comments.
In November 1997, Couric asked a jilted bride on "Today”: "Have you considered castration as an option?”
Critics noted that if any male interviewer had even jokingly proposed sexually mutilating a woman, he would have been fired. Later that year Couric reported that commercials directed at men are simple-minded compared to those aimed at women because women are capable of more complex thought.
Any male reporter who claimed that women's minds are less complex than men's would probably be fired, Ponte notes.
Now CBS has named as its news anchor "this woman who joked of castrating men and declared men to be more simple-minded than women,” Ponte writes for FrontPageMagazine.com.
"This might attract a certain kind of female viewer, but what self-respecting American male would ever again tune to ‘The CBS Evening News?’”
Couric didn’t exactly set the world on fire after she graduated in 1979 from the University of Virginia with a degree in American Studies. She became a desk assistant at ABC in Washington and "basically made coffee, answered phones and got [then network anchorman] Frank Reynolds ham sandwiches,” Couric told TV Guide. "It was the most humiliating job I ever had.”
After less than a year Couric became an assignment editor in fledgling CNN's Washington Bureau. After seeing her first on-camera reports, CNN President Reese Schonfeld told producers he never wanted to see her on CNN again, Ponte disclosed.
Couric moved to CNN's Atlanta headquarters as Assistant Producer of the talk show "Take Two,” then went to local TV stations in Miami and Washington. When she asked the Washington station's news director about opportunities to anchor, she was advised to look for a "really small market somewhere.”
In May 1990, Couric accepted the newly created position of national correspondent on NBC’s "Today” show. The next year, she filled in when co-host Deborah Norville took maternity leave – and her "girl next door” demeanor helped her land the job permanently.
But "Katie Couric is not the girl next door. She is wealthy, powerful, and according to critics a temperamental diva,” Ponte writes.
In a March 18, 2004 profile in the Left-leaning Salon.com, Rebecca Traister detailed the stories of "Queen of Mean” Couric "throwing temper tantrums on the set, bullying her staff and using her influence to get people fired, mailroom boys and network executives alike,” Ponte reports.
"Ann Coulter was right to describe Couric as the ‘affable Eva Braun of morning TV … she hides behind her Girl Scout persona in order to systematically promote a left-wing agenda.’”
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Whoops, sorry about the double post. My bad.
I can't stand Katie. Any bets on how long she lasts....
I give it 2 months...
"Actually, FR should have a photo gallery of election night and day after photos"
My favorite has to be on election night when Teddy Kennedy was live on the air here in Boston with Kerry, and he announced that "homeboy John Kerry" was the new president. Then Teddy had to eat his words!
She was "perky"!
She "WAS" perky
Uh, no gag reflex?
Perky Katie Airhead as "managing editor"? Either the president of CBS News forgot his meds the day he hired her, or I did while reading this story!
If you consider jumping from a lifeboat onto the Titanic (after it struck the iceberg) a "qualification" - that is what the drift seems to be on the switch.
I never watch the Today Show, so all I know about Couric is what I've read here. After their problems with Rather, CBS should have gone with someone with a less obvious leftwing bias...maybe Cindy Sheehan or Nancy Pelosi.
Thank God! Someone else gets to be the butt of 'ham sandwich' jokes...
Maybe putting America's perkiest socialist into the anchor chair will finally guide Americans to the understanding that First Amendment protections should not apply to the hateful and subversive crap that CBS spews across the continent every day.
Few sights would give me greater pleasure than to see Katie & Co. frogmarched out of CBS at the business end of a bayonet under Executive Order.
"What were her qualifications?"
Couric is the newsroom equivalent of Harriet Miers.
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