CBS's Katie Couric: 'I Feel Like Right Now in Many Ways, We’re a Very Angry Nation'

NewsBusters ^ | December 22, 2009 | Jeff Poor

[Rufus2007]

Angry, frustrated, troubled, disappointed, disgust, disrespect - words not normally associated with holiday season. However, they were words Katie Couric used to describe where she sees the mood of country right now.

Couric, the anchor of the "CBS Evening News," in a live Facebook video chat on Dec. 22, took on illustrating her view of the populace - a not very sunny picture (emphasis added).

"I think more distant - I hate to say that, but I think, I think the economic situation in this country, I think, when people are struggling, that sometimes they need a place to vent their rage and to channel their rage and I think, I feel like right now in many ways, we're a very angry nation," Couric said. "Very frustrated, troubled and disappointed in many ways in terms of people feeling that the American dream just isn't within their reach. I mean I still think it's a place of incredible opportunity and entrepreneurship. But I just think that, I don't know - maybe it's because what I do for a living, I feel that the country is pretty polarized right now."

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[Real Cynic No More]

"... I feel that the country is pretty polarized right now."

Wow! She oughta be some kind of detective, to figure that out all by herself!

[cranked]

If she got anymore clueless than she currently is, Webster's Dictionary would have to redfine the word....

[catarac]

God that rocks!!! I have bookmarked it and plan to play it during the revolution.These bastard have another thing coming and I don’t mean just a little bit. Hey Hey what that sound? Merry ChristX.

there’s something happinin here
what it is aint exactly clear
theres a man with a gun over there
tellin me i got to beware

i think it’s time we stop, children
what’s that sound
everybody look what’s goin down

there’s battle lines being drawn
nobody’s right if everybody’s wrong
old people speakin there minds
getting so much resistance far behind

it’s time we stop,
hey what’s that sound
everybody look what’s goin down

what a field day for the heat
a thousand people in the street
singin songs that they carry inside
mostly say hurray for our side

it’s time we stop,
hey what’s that sound
everybody look what’s goin down

fear strikes very deep
into your life it will creep
it starts when your always afraid
step out of line the man come and take you away

you better stop
hey what’s that sound
everybody look what’s going down x4 Merry ChristX American brother, Do something.

[Gay State Conservative]

Wasn't it K-K-K-Katy who recently interviewed some rap star and breathlessly asked him (her?) how wonderful is it to be a star? And she's Cronkite's successor?

(Not that Cronkite was worth anything himself)

[SeattleBruce]

“maybe it’s because what I do for a living, I feel that the country is pretty polarized right now.”
++++++++++++++++

What a maroon - her hero bammy the socialist was supposed to solve all this. What happened to your surefire solution Katie? You maroon.

[matt1234]

Anne Coulter nailed this ditz years ago when she called her the “affable Eva Braun of morning TV.”

[lgjhn23]

“Buy a clue airhead...go do some interviews in Flyover Country..by yourself...without your multi-million dollar SeeBeeSss entourage pre-shaping the interviewees. You’ll get an eyeful and an earful....”

She knows, and we know, she can’t. Without that “special protection”, she’d be taken out and probably strung up in a matter of seconds, especially in fly-over country.

[GOPJ]

Katie doesn't seem to understand that WE DON'T want to pay for crappy health care while Katie and friends opt out for better - better care without having to deal with the middle class messing up their elite doctor's waiting rooms.

Katie - it's YOU and your fellow elites that we hate.

[lonestar]

My exact thought!

[Nevadan]

re: I’ll take “Dizzy Leftist Bitches Who Are Going to be Crushed By Reality Like a Falling Piano” for $500, Alex.

Thanks for the good laugh I got when I read this. Merry Christmas and keep the jokes coming Comedian.

[GOPJ]

Katie doesn't seem to understand that WE DON'T want to pay for crappy health care while Katie and friends opt out for better - better care without having to deal with the middle class messing up their elite doctor's waiting rooms.

Katie - it's YOU and your fellow elites that we hate.

Oh - and Katie - when Obama and friends come for YOU - as they will because they hate elites more than we do - WE WON'T defend you.

[DoughtyOne]

Well, I’m not fond of her. That’s for sure.

[Hardastarboard]

Why the /sarc tag? You exactly identified what she left unsaid. No sarcasm at all. I’m sure she feels that way.

[R0CK3T]

Polarized?

ALL of THIS is laid at the feet of the current Communist occupant of the White House.

[mad_as_he$$]

WOW 75 posts and this is the first:

W’s FAULT!!

[2CAVTrooper]

“I feel like right now in many ways, we’re a very angry nation”

Really?

What Katie Commie fails to realize is that this anger is the result of the meddling by her and her fellow America hating leftists in the media who white washed and buried everything about 0bama to get him (s)elected.

Then there is the actions of congress who are stepping outside the bounds defined in the Constitution.

It’s no longer a matter of if a new civil war will start, it’s now a matter of when.

[rbosque]

Hey Katie, want to know why we’re pissed? Stop hanging around your Marxist Martha’s Vineyard crowd for once you out of touch little mutant.

[Frantzie]

All the more reason people need to cancel TV (cable & sat) service. TV is used to enslave us. The sports programming keeps them alive because news is a big loser.

And Fox as our savior? Saudis own 25%.

[Stultis]

I feel like right now in many ways, we're a very angry nation,"

You can fully expect, in the none too distant future, to "feel" that anger in many more ways, Katie.

[behzinlea]

No @#$%, Katie, you stupid %*$#@.

The Obamassiah and his Chi-town thugs have brought this to us.