Posted on 07/08/2007 5:05:39 PM PDT by CAWats
CBS EVENING NEWS anchor Katie Couric is being accused of slapping an editor -- after he injected a word she detested into a script!
"The stress has caused her to blow up at her staff for small infractions on the set," charges NEW YORK magazine reporter Joe Hagan, in a story set for publication on Monday.
"During the tuberculosis story in June, Couric got angry with news editor Jerry Cipriano for using a word she detested— 'sputum' —and the staff grew tense when she began slapping him 'over and over and over again' on the arm, according to a source familiar with the scene. It had seemed like a joke at first, but it quickly became clear that she wasn’t kidding."
A top CBS executive tells the DRUDGE REPORT that no formal complaint has been filed against Couric over the incident.
"I sort of slapped him around,” Couric admits to the magazine. “I got mad at him and said, 'You can’t do this to me. You have to tell me when you’re going to use a word like that.' I was aggravated, there's no question about that.' But she says she has a good relationship with Cipriano. 'We did ban the word sputum from all future broadcasts. It became kind of a joke."
A CBS insider says Couric slapped the staffer in a playful manor.
"Look, it wasn't serious, whatsoever."
The magazine fronts the nearly 6,000-word expose with the headline: "I have days when I'm like, 'Oh my God, What did I do?' KATIE COURIC'S IMPOSSIBLE YEAR"
Developing...
Unforgiven
Movie Quotes (1992)
Morgan Freeman (Logan): All right, so what did these fellas do? Cheat at cards? Steal some strays? Spit on a rich fella? What?
Star Trek: The Motion Picture
Movie Quotes (1979)
Ricardo Montalban (Khan): From hell’s heart, I stab at thee. For hate’s sake, I spit my last breath at thee.
She insists on using the proper medical term, ‘loogie’.
“CBS is not smart”
You can say that again. Don`t know if you remember this, but I do; When they hired this idiot Couric one of the higher ups was quoted as saying “We are going to kill in the ratings”....They truly believed after firing RaTHer for his liberal extremism, hiring another liberal extremist was the only solution. That my friend is 1000% complete mental idiocy. And just figure how much these idiots get paid to do this.
“She insists on using the proper medical term, ‘loogie’.”
No, no. “Hocker.” She’s going for the younger demographic.
Nah, means you just bin slapped by a beeotch.
I’ve been saying for years that Katie Couric is not very smart, as in “Couric’s actual IQ is in the double-digit range”.
It would not surprise me at all if she did not know the meaning of the word “sputum” and thought it had sexual connotations.
...thanks for the memory ;)
Ricardo was uttering lines taken from a literary masterpiece, there. The "original" quote is by Captain Ahab, from Herman Melville's "Moby Dick"...
the infowarrior
Why would that have to be inserted in a news story?
OTOH, I can see where it would make sense in a Katie Couric-type health story.
Pull your bottom lip over the top of your head Couric and turn yourself inside out!
She saw the word coming...couldn’t she substitute anything else? Is she THAT dense? By the way, I hope the slapping was in fun cause if it wasn’t ms kirick and I would be meeting in COURT.
No doubt the TB story.
what was this from????
what was this from????
Toe Jam?
Always nice to hear from you!
If true, the perky moron and CBS face a major (and well deserved) lawsuit.
Whether or not this particular incident happened, there are many, many other reasons for CBS to dump this loser.
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