Katie Couric Lashes Out at 'Vultures' (priceless!)

PeopleMag ^ | 12-18-06 | Stephen M. Silverman

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Katie Couric admits that her new gig as anchor of the CBS Evening News has been "a little harder than I thought it would be."

"Some people out there are rooting for me to fail," Couric, 49, tells Esquire in its January issue. "You have to be unwavering in your convictions that you're doing something good, because there are a lot of circling vultures that will eat you alive."

Couric points out that Esquire itself criticized her after her Sept. 5 debut. "You guys even take a shot at me," she tells the magazine. "You have something in the November issue, something about how since I've become an anchor, you don't know me anymore. You don't know me anymore? Bite me."

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Wonder if the irony will dawn on her the next time she criticizes Pres. Bush and his convictions.

[TheKidster]

"You have to be unwavering in your convictions that you're doing something good, because there are a lot of circling vultures that will eat you alive."

What did she rip that straight out of one of Bush's press conferences? She can dish it out but she can't take it, poor katie

[jdm]

She would know.

[Suzy Quzy]

Hey, the left is rooting for Bush to fail, and with it America to fail because they elected Bush. Get over yourself, Katie.

[Volunteer]

Katie:

Hi. I am rooting for you to fail.

Remember being nasty to Barbara Bush all those years ago?

I do. For that reason and so many others, I can't wait until CBS fires you and you end up trying to sell paint by numbers sets on the Home Shopping Network at 2 AM.

I know, you think it can't happen. But, I can dream.

Merry Christmas, Long Memory

[Extremely Extreme Extremist]

She knew what she was getting into when she took this stupid gig. The people at the Today Show are probably laughing at her, giving up a cushy job as a quasi-celebrity in exchange for being a news reader.

[twigs]

Is she so arrogant that she did not think this would be difficult?

[OldFriend]

Well, lovie, what goes around comes around. You've hoped for failure for our President, for our country, and for ALL republicans.

You can bet we're hoping for your failure.

So nice to see you suffer and struggle.

[#1CTYankee]

"Bite me."

Oh my, Kattie has some real class eh?
Funny how when a lib falls on hard times their true colors show through.

Hey Kattie, I've got just one thing to say to you, in the words of our Vice President ---- you.

[RedRover]

...because there are a lot of circling vultures that will eat you alive.

Uh, actually vultures don't eat live prey, Katie. If vultures are circling, it's because you'll soon be dead.

[rightinthemiddle]

They'll replace her with another liberal. Then another. Then another...

[SF Republican]

Bite me how perky, what a tramp

[Bloody Sam Roberts]

Is she so arrogant that she did not think this would be difficult?

In her world, she believes that the higher the salary, the easier the job.

[SF Republican]

They'll replace her with another liberal when they were making this choice someone pointed out how did you know they would be liberal, the reply, same reason they don't replace the Pope with a Baptist.

[Ouderkirk]

Katie,

as you well know, and as your recent ratings have demonstrated your abilities to get and hold an adult audience in hard news are marginal at best. It's not like the Toady show where you give little snippets of opinion sprinkled with a little news between baking cupcakes.

Your skill set is clearly better utilized under the desk, instead of in front of it.

[Vigilanteman]

Hey Katie, I'm rooting for you to stay with CBS just as long as you possibly can. Your bosses deserve to be dragged down even more than you do. In time, Al Jazera will be able to buy your network for pennies on the dollar. Maybe they already have.

[SIDENET]

"Some people out there are rooting for me to fail,"

Feel free to include me in that category!

[tumblindice]

"Some people out there are rooting for me to fail"

I beg your pardon . . .
we never promised you a rose garden.
Along with the good times, there's got to be a little rain some time . . .
So smile for a while and let's be jolly,
the news shouldn't be so melancholy
Come along and share the good times while you can . . .

[xarmydog]

Katie's Colon Blow!Look out below,or above,or wherever!

[dighton]

“You have to be unwavering in your convictions that you’re doing something good ...”

What might that be?