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Mag: Couric 'Slapped' Staffer
Drudge Report ^

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...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: couric; ivorytower; katiecouric; physicalabuse; seebsnews; sputum
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To: Crawdad
“A CBS insider says Couric slapped the staffer in a playful manor.”
Maybe they were at Batman’s house.
**************
You mean stately Wayne Manor?
61 posted on 07/08/2007 5:32:32 PM PDT by toddlintown (Six bullets and Lennon goes down. Yet not one hit Yoko. Discuss.)
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To: CAWats

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?


62 posted on 07/08/2007 5:33:48 PM PDT by Crawdad (I cried because I had no shoes, until I met a man who had no class.)
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To: CAWats

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.


63 posted on 07/08/2007 5:34:54 PM PDT by Crawdad (I cried because I had no shoes, until I met a man who had no class.)
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To: golas1964

She insists on using the proper medical term, ‘loogie’.


64 posted on 07/08/2007 5:35:56 PM PDT by ArmstedFragg
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To: Laverne

“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.


65 posted on 07/08/2007 5:36:16 PM PDT by Screamname (On this date in history; Al Gore invents the Algorithm)
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To: ArmstedFragg

“She insists on using the proper medical term, ‘loogie’.”

No, no. “Hocker.” She’s going for the younger demographic.


66 posted on 07/08/2007 5:37:38 PM PDT by toddlintown (Six bullets and Lennon goes down. Yet not one hit Yoko. Discuss.)
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To: airborne
If you get slapped by a b#*ch, does that mean you’ve been b#*ch slapped? ;^)

Nah, means you just bin slapped by a beeotch.

67 posted on 07/08/2007 5:38:12 PM PDT by X-FID
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To: Screamname

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.


68 posted on 07/08/2007 5:38:15 PM PDT by Numbers Guy
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To: BenLurkin

...thanks for the memory ;)


69 posted on 07/08/2007 5:39:55 PM PDT by krunkygirl (force multiplier in effect...)
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To: Crawdad
Ricardo Montalban (Khan): From hell’s heart, I stab at thee. For hate’s sake, I spit my last breath at thee.

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

70 posted on 07/08/2007 5:40:14 PM PDT by infowarrior
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To: CAWats
Sputum is matter that is coughed up from the respiratory tract, such as mucus or phlegm.

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.

71 posted on 07/08/2007 5:40:36 PM PDT by Tribune7
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To: CAWats
This idiot is sooo irrelevant. She prances around like Queen of the castle when she is nothing more than a chamber maid.

Pull your bottom lip over the top of your head Couric and turn yourself inside out!

72 posted on 07/08/2007 5:41:52 PM PDT by stm (Fred Thompson in 08! Return our country to the era of Reagan Conservatism)
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To: CAWats

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.


73 posted on 07/08/2007 5:42:28 PM PDT by cubreporter
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To: Tribune7
Why would that have to be inserted in a news story?

No doubt the TB story.

74 posted on 07/08/2007 5:42:55 PM PDT by ArmstedFragg
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To: maggief

what was this from????


75 posted on 07/08/2007 5:43:17 PM PDT by cubreporter
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To: maggief

what was this from????


76 posted on 07/08/2007 5:43:24 PM PDT by cubreporter
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To: Crawdad
What rhymes with sputum?

Toe Jam?

77 posted on 07/08/2007 5:43:24 PM PDT by Red_Devil 232 (VietVet - USMC All Ready On The Right? All Ready On The Left? All Ready On The Firing Line!)
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To: stm
This idiot is sooo irrelevant. She prances around like Queen of the castle when she is nothing more than a chamber maid.

Pull your bottom lip over the top of your head Couric and turn yourself inside out!

HA HA HA HA HA !

78 posted on 07/08/2007 5:43:48 PM PDT by CAWats (Women should be well-behaved)
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To: krunkygirl

Always nice to hear from you!


79 posted on 07/08/2007 5:43:55 PM PDT by BenLurkin
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To: CAWats

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.


80 posted on 07/08/2007 5:45:18 PM PDT by FormerACLUmember (The ideal tyranny is that which is ignorantly self-administered by its victims.)
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