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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

Appearing on MSNBC's 'Morning Joe,' Disgraced former CBS producer Mary Mapes said she is “uncomfortable” watching Katie Couric anchor the network's evening news. Mapes came to this conclusion not because she is a woman as Katie would like you to believe, instead because she looks “drugged” and “kidnapped.” Video available here

.Partial transcript:

Mapes on Couric: She is "...someone who looks like they've been kidnapped and drugged and are making a hostage tape. It has nothing to do with her being a male or female, it's just not comfortable to watch."


TOPICS: News/Current Events; Political Humor/Cartoons; US: New York
KEYWORDS: couric; mapes
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To: wideawake

That was a mean-spirited, hateful thing for you to write. It was also funny as hell and the truth!


21 posted on 07/17/2007 8:22:33 AM PDT by geezerwheezer (get up boys, we're burnin' daylight!!!)
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To: hardback

I guess Mapes wants them to hire the LIAR Rather back!! Couric is UNWATCHABLE but so was RATHER.


22 posted on 07/17/2007 8:23:51 AM PDT by Suzy Quzy (Hillary in '08.....Her PHONINESS is GENUINE !!!!)
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To: Spunky

I also mean the whole concept of tuning in at 5:30 or 6:30 to watch a half hour of the day’s “news” is a concept that is dying. The premise simply doesn’t make sense any more. It’s about as relevant in today’s world as 15 minute “newsreels” are in a movie theatre. 50 years ago people watched the news as a “newsreel” between features at the movies. Nobody does that any more either. Times changed. What worked a generation ago, doesn’t work today.


23 posted on 07/17/2007 8:24:11 AM PDT by 2 Kool 2 Be 4-Gotten
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To: geezerwheezer
That was a mean-spirited, hateful thing for you to write.

Well, I agree with Eric Blair (a.k.a. George Orwell) that "a man of forty is responsible for his face" - in this case it's a woman of fifty.

She looks like Monty Burns with a blond wig.

24 posted on 07/17/2007 8:26:38 AM PDT by wideawake
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To: evets
Wow, if anyone looks like she was drugged and kidnapped it's Mapes.

I'll bet nobody offered to pay a ransom, either.

In fact, the kidnappers probably had to pay someone to get her off their hands.

Leni

25 posted on 07/17/2007 8:27:04 AM PDT by MinuteGal (Three Cheers for the FRed, White and Blue !)
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To: hardback
I'm happy to say I've never watched...Perky.

And can say with confidence I probably never will....

26 posted on 07/17/2007 8:29:49 AM PDT by Osage Orange (“To call illegal aliens, undocumented workers, is like calling drug dealers unlicensed pharmacists.”)
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To: hardback

The drugged hostage look!!....I guess Couric is finally “benefitting” from Rick Kaplan’s production expertise.


27 posted on 07/17/2007 8:33:26 AM PDT by rod1 (uake)
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To: lady lawyer
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.

I was going to say something similar, but without the metaphors. The metaphors are amusing, though because they sound like something that Dan Rather would have said.

28 posted on 07/17/2007 8:34:14 AM PDT by Eva
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To: joebuck
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.

My wife watched that show last night. I had to get up and leave. Why anyone would watch such drivel is beyond me.

29 posted on 07/17/2007 8:34:43 AM PDT by AlaskaErik (Run, Fred run! I will send my donation as soon as you announce.)
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To: hardback

I am not interested one iota in what Mary Mapes thinks about anything!


30 posted on 07/17/2007 8:35:27 AM PDT by ontap (Just another backstabbing conservative)
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To: wideawake

Mapes has a face that was made for radio.


So does Couric.


31 posted on 07/17/2007 8:35:58 AM PDT by kenth (I got tired of my last tagline...)
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To: kenth
So does Couric.

For a woman of fifty, Katie Couric looks perfectly passable.

32 posted on 07/17/2007 8:40:20 AM PDT by wideawake
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To: kenth

Ok who has the Katie picture with all the sharp teeth?


33 posted on 07/17/2007 8:42:00 AM PDT by bmwcyle (Satan is working both sides of the street in World Socialism and World Courts.)
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To: VR-21

You said: I do know that Mary Mapes is no Helen of Troy.
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Now now. If I were on a boat, near shore, and Mary Mapes showed up on that shore, I would launch my ship, and I am confident that there are at least a thousand more like me.


34 posted on 07/17/2007 8:45:12 AM PDT by NCLaw441
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To: hardback

The problem is that there is no real difference between her reading the “news” and her colon video.


35 posted on 07/17/2007 8:49:36 AM PDT by fungoking
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To: hardback

If Mapes could only look through the television and see what is sitting on the other side of the screen. The tens of viewers who watched Rather and who watch Couric and Morning Joe, are all either drugged or being held hostage, the fact is the bottom of the MSM sewer of which Mapes is familar has NO free will viewers.


36 posted on 07/17/2007 9:02:40 AM PDT by Biblebelter
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To: hardback; potlatch; devolve; ntnychik; dixiechick2000

37 posted on 07/17/2007 9:21:59 AM PDT by PhilDragoo (Hitlery: das Butch von Buchenvald)
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Mapes on Couric: She is "...someone who looks like they've been kidnapped and drugged and are making a hostage tape. It has nothing to do with her being a male or female, it's just not comfortable to watch."

It must be the chair. Dan Rather fit this description as well.

38 posted on 07/17/2007 9:32:33 AM PDT by BushMeister ("We are a nation that has a government - not the other way around." --Ronald Reagan)
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To: evets

I think even Rosie O’Donnell would think twice before hitting that.


39 posted on 07/17/2007 9:35:37 AM PDT by reagan_fanatic (Press 1 for English, press 2 for deport)
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To: fungoking
The problem is that there is no real difference between her reading the “news” and her colon video.

There is a big difference. You go through a thorough 'cleansing' before a colonoscopy.

CBS Views does not have a similar process.

40 posted on 07/17/2007 10:58:07 AM PDT by magslinger (Be wary of strong drink. It can make you shoot at tax collectors. And miss. R.A.Heinlein)
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