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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.’”
Just love these multimillionaire lefties. Socialism for the rest of us, limos for them.
She must be off the map.
Did we actually expect more from seeBS?
If she gets any farther to the left of Dan Rather, she'll be right.
I can't believe anyone takes this Bimbo seriously....LOL!
In what other industry do you go from making coffee and sandwiches to Assistant Producer at CNN in less than a year?What were her qualifications?
In what other industry do you go from making coffee and sandwiches to Assistant Producer at CNN in less than a year?What were her qualifications?
And so it's been since this misbegotten excuse for a political system was invented. to me it's just feudalism with a fancy name.
I must give some credit to George Soros. He at least publicly admits to being a limousine liberal, and looking to kick away the ladder so no one else climbs up.
She was "perky"!
"In November 1997, Couric asked a jilted bride on "Today": 'Have you considered castration as an option?'"
Has anyone asked "Katie" if she's considered a lobotomy as an option?
Katie's move will not make me more likely to watch the Evening News, but it will make me more likely to watch the Today Show.
Katie Cou-Cou - will be over in the blink of an eye.
This litle woman can't stand being behind a desk and not letting her footsies appear (she has a shoe fetish)
Please do my watching for me! I don't wanna' watch her: I can SMELL that liberal stench of hers, and that's enough.
You're noble to do this for the Nation.
Whoever the ham sandwich lady is.
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