Imus: 'Unwatchable' Couric Can't Do 'Big Boy' Evening News

NewsBusters ^ | Mark Finkelstein

[governsleastgovernsbest]

After his comments this morning, if Don Imus ever gets invited to a party on the terrace of Katie Couric's midtown apartment overlooking Central Park, he would be well advised not to get too close to the ledge.

Chatting with Imus on MSNBC at 8:45 ET this morning about the travails of the CBS Evening News and the advent of Rick Kaplan as executive producer, media maven Howard Kurtz observed: "I don't know if this is attributable to Rick, but it seems to me that in the last week the show has a little bit of a harder edge, a little bit of a faster pace."

That set Imus off on an anti-Couric tirade: "It's unwatchable. And it's unwatchable because she's unwatchable. I'm sure she's a nice lady, but I mean . . ."

View video here.

KURTZ: "She certainly wasn't deemed to be unwatchable when she was #1 at the "Today" show for over ten years."

IMUS: "That's a completely different deal. Doing little stupid chit-chat stuff on an idiotic morning show on NBC has nothing to do with sitting down and doing the news. That's big-boy television."

KURTZ: "Katie Couric, like Charlie Gibson during all the years when he was on 'Good Morning America,' also interviewed presidential candidates, heads of state and all that as well as cooking and . . . "

IMUS: "This is pathetic. This is unbelievable."

A bit later, Kurtz passed along a bit of condescension toward Middle America from Rick Kaplan: "He told me . . . he thinks that there is a chunk of the audience that, for whatever reason, is not comfortable getting their news from a woman at 6:30 and this is one of the attitudes they have to change."

The MSM: bringing cultural enlightenment to the benighted reaches of flyover America. Kaplan might want to start in Imus' neck of the woods.

Contact Mark at mark@gunhill.net

[mimaw]

I always keep tabs on what the enemy is saying.

[fish hawk]

I missed Imus saying this because he is unwatchable. As much as I dislike Katie, I dislike Imus even more.

[PeskyOne]

Katie is 50 years old, so she's not so cute for that age. She's sort of cute until she opens her mouth, but after that, she's all downhill.

Valerie Plame is, in fact, a babe.

Hatteras, have you had your eyes checked lately? :-) IMO, you can go to any mall in the South, and see women whose behinds would make Valerie Plame a Sunday-go-to-meeting face! I wouldn't even classify her as attractive. At a glance, one might think she was 'striking', but the second glance shows an entirely different classification. She couldn't have too much going for her in intelligence or physical appearance or she wouldn't have hooked up with the lying blowhard she married.

[Lee'sGhost]

"Nah. Imus is every bit as unwatchable as Couric."

Even more so, actually. At least Katie's face does't look like a dried up mule's ass.

[dfwgator]

You might not be able to put up with their yapping for more than a few nights, but you'd still put up with them long enough to git 'er done.

"I hear you, baby. Forget the mouth. Put a muzzle over it and do your business!"

[LetsRok]

KURTZ: "She certainly wasn't deemed to be unwatchable when she was #1 at the "Today" show for over ten years."

That's funny. I did not realize that the Today Show was a solo broadcast that starred Katie Couric. Talk about slapping the other co-hosts in the face.

[BuffaloJack]

Can't stand Imus or Couric.

[governsleastgovernsbest]

Good point. I'll let Matt know Kurtz insulted him ;-)

[YaYa123]

thanks for this one!! I'm a regular Imus watcher, (I can't pass up a car wreck either), and I missed the Kurtz interview/Katie body slam. Loved reading all about it.

[driftless2]

Middle America is uncomfortable with women doing the news??!!! Have Ann Coulter do the news, and watch the ratings skyrocket. I'd pay money to watch it then.

[Fred Hayek]

Whatever cosmetic procedure she has had done has NOT made any improvement. She was actually not to bad looking before the Botox, or whatever it was (I can't believe I just said that).

[Osage Orange]

Let's face the facts here..........

The MarxistSocialistLyingLibDemocrats don't think like we do.

One thing I agree with M. Savage on....is I also think liberalism is a mental disease....at least for the educated sheeple. The regular sheeple are just followers...and don't no know better.

[Victoria Delsoul]

LOL, but Imus himself is becoming unwatchable as well. He is looking more and more like a prune.

[billhilly]

Ic is your tagline. It can be removed, or exchanged for something like My former tag line. See below.

[pepperdog]

I think she looks kind of scary now, whoever did her botox or whatever didn’t do a very good job.