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Mapes Says Couric 'Uncomfortable' To Watch, Looks 'Drugged' (& Kiddnapped!)
Newsbusters.org ^ | July 16, 2007 - 17:19 ET | Ian Schwartz

Posted on 07/17/2007 7:53:57 AM PDT by hardback

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1 posted on 07/17/2007 7:53:57 AM PDT by hardback
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Mary Mapes is jealous because Mapes has a face that was made for radio.


2 posted on 07/17/2007 7:55:35 AM PDT by wideawake
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Maybe Mary can get hold of some memos from Texas to coroborate her theory.....


3 posted on 07/17/2007 7:56:22 AM PDT by Right Cal Gal (Remember Billy Dale!!!)
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To: hardback

This only seems to be a back door method for Danno Rather to get in some snide comments. What a sore loser.


4 posted on 07/17/2007 7:56:32 AM PDT by Socratic (“Worry does not empty tomorrow of its sorrow; it empties today of its strength.” - Corrie Ten Boom)
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former CBS producer Mary Mapes said she is “uncomfortable” watching Katie Couric anchor the network's evening news.

Well, I guess that makes it unanimous.

5 posted on 07/17/2007 7:56:40 AM PDT by Izzy Dunne (Hello, I'm a TAGLINE virus. Please help me spread by copying me into YOUR tag line.)
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To: Socratic

Excellent point. I believe he and Mapes are still buddies.


6 posted on 07/17/2007 7:57:04 AM PDT by Right Cal Gal (Remember Billy Dale!!!)
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To: wideawake

What you say about Mapes is certainly true, but she happens to be right this time. To thoroughly confuse metaphors, Mapes has a face that would stop a clock, but even a stopped clock is right twice a day.


7 posted on 07/17/2007 7:57:10 AM PDT by lady lawyer
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8 posted on 07/17/2007 7:57:17 AM PDT by poindexter
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She has a drug test faxed from a Kinko’s in Abilene to prove it.


9 posted on 07/17/2007 7:58:33 AM PDT by steve-b (It's hard to be religious when certain people don't get struck by lightning.)
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Actually, I think Mapes is spot on in this instance. No matter how dishonest you are you can’t work in the TV industry for 20 years and not pick up a few insights. She’s absolute right - Katie is uncomfortable to watch and this description fits her to a T.


10 posted on 07/17/2007 7:59:42 AM PDT by joebuck
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Takes one to know one.

11 posted on 07/17/2007 8:00:42 AM PDT by evets (Beer)
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As bad as Couric is, nobody is talking about the other reality which is that if Thomas Jefferson himself were to reappear and they stuck him in the same time slot reading the same tripe, still no-one would watch. I’m not saying that Couric doesn’t suck, because she does, but the format is dead as well. It’s a double whammy. New media beats old media every time. Deal with it.


12 posted on 07/17/2007 8:01:00 AM PDT by 2 Kool 2 Be 4-Gotten
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Leave it to pMSNBC to give Mapesr a soapbox... Matthews is dragging on Sheehan tonite.


13 posted on 07/17/2007 8:01:35 AM PDT by johnny7 ("But that one on the far left... he had crazy eyes")
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‘Actually, I think Mapes is spot on in this instance. No matter how dishonest you are you can’t work in the TV industry for 20 years and not pick up a few insights. She’s absolute right - Katie is uncomfortable to watch and this description fits her to a T’

Is there anyone that has said Couric looks good in this role?

Nope.

Is there anyone that has said Couric will improve?

Nope.

Mary Mapes just told us the sun rises in the east, and people want to give this woman who tried to change an election cycle by promoting forged documents against a sitting US President ‘credit’ for it?

What the hell is wrong with this picture?

Sheesh.


14 posted on 07/17/2007 8:02:47 AM PDT by Badeye (You know its a kook site when they ban the word 'kook')
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I wouldn’t know about Couric because I haven’t watched a single second of her show. I do know that Mary Mapes is no Helen of Troy.


15 posted on 07/17/2007 8:03:11 AM PDT by VR-21
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If you really want to see a poison pen column, one of the NY paper’s TV critics did a review of a Victoria Beckham TV show yesterday and it was hilariously scathing. It was written on an Ann Coulter level of poison pen brilliance and was a treat to read. I didn’t see it here on FR although it was posted on Drudge.


16 posted on 07/17/2007 8:03:55 AM PDT by joebuck
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I hesitate to agree with Mapes but, on this one point, I can. The few times I’ve seen Katie broadcasting, I’ve felt the same way. Her face is wrong—plastic surgery that shows? I dunno. Maybe she looks uncomfortable. Whatever it is, I wouldn’t watch her if I liked her.

Ms. Mapes’s comments come across as meowing and hissing. What is it about liberals? They think they’re morally superior, but when push comes to shove, they’re as mean-spirited and vile as it’s possible to be.


17 posted on 07/17/2007 8:09:43 AM PDT by Clara Lou (Fred Thompson, '08-- imwithfred.com)
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To: Right Cal Gal
Maybe Mary can get hold of some memos from Texas to corroborate her theory.....

LOL - Mapes could come up with stuff in a New York minute...

18 posted on 07/17/2007 8:14:40 AM PDT by GOPJ (A bunch of bands taking big tax breaks isn't a "movement" - Live Earth = "rent a crowd"...)
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To: wideawake

Boy, no kidding. Who is she to talk?


19 posted on 07/17/2007 8:17:03 AM PDT by rlmorel (Liberals: If the Truth would help them, they would use it.)
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"I’m not saying that Couric doesn’t suck, because she does, but the format is dead as well. It’s a double whammy...."

If I am not mistaken this is Couric's format. This is what she wanted as the format.

20 posted on 07/17/2007 8:20:42 AM PDT by Spunky ("Everyone has a freedom of choice, but not of consequences.")
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