[Farmer Dean]

I have no use for Katie at all,but I do understand her position.No one wants to make their children orphans.

[AmericanMade1776]

I understand too, but don't you wonder why this was not discussed before hand, before she took the job.

[ishabibble]

Katie is not taking over the Martha Stewart show. There was a puff piece up here on FR last Saturday about Katie having the "hard news chops" to make a go of her new job at CBS. One week later, she's using her kids as an excuse for not setting foot in a war zone. Since I can't stand that woman, I am greatly cheered that she would use her own nanny raised daughters to hide behind as it only reinforces her reputation as the biggest phony in TV. Why else would there be this retraction article? How many of those TV reporter have kids? I would guess that many do, and for Katie Couric to even say such a thing, irregardless of when she said it, just shows what a lightweight she really is, and why CBS is going to be so so sorry.

[fml]

I have no use for Katie at all,but I do understand her position.No one wants to make their children orphans.

Before anyone makes her mother of the year, read the rest of the interview.....

Those comments give a very different view of how she feels about being on the front line. "I think, yeah, of course I would want to be there," Couric told critics, according to a transcript provided to Page Six by a CBS source. "In terms of traveling, I think it will be done on a case-by-case basis . . . But clearly, if it's going to serve the story, advance the story, and be helpful to the story, I would like to be there. I think it really depends on the situation and what's happening."