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Katie Couric: ‘Maybe We Need a Muslim Version of “The Cosby Show”‘
Mediaite ^ | December 31, 2010 | Ray Rahman

Posted on 12/31/2010 9:43:34 PM PST by lbryce

As 2010 comes to a close, the media industry is taking its annual breather to reflect upon all the things it had to cover in the past year. Katie Couric, in her CBSNews.com review of 2010, highlighted the controversy surrounding the Park51 project. “The bigotry expressed against Muslims in this country has been one of the most disturbing stories to surface,” she told her panel. In that media narrative, she saw “a seething hatred many people feel for all Muslims,” which she theorized could be remedied by another, more lighthearted narrative: “Maybe we need a Muslim version of The Cosby Show.”

She came to the situationally comedic solution after offering this take on American Islamophobia:

I also think sort of the chasm between, or, the bigotry expressed against Muslims in this country has been one of the most disturbing stories to surface this year. Of course, a lot of noise was made about the Islamic Center, mosque, down near the World Trade Center, but I think there wasn’t enough sort of careful analysis and evaluation of where this bigotry toward 1.5 billion Muslims worldwide, and how this seething hatred many people feel for all Muslims, which I think is so misdirected, and so wrong—and so disappointing.

So could funny Muslims in even funnier sweaters be the answer? “I know that sounds crazy,” she said, “But The Cosby Show did so much to change attitudes about African-Americans in this country, and I think sometimes people are afraid of what they don’t understand—like you, Mo.” She was referring to Daily Show veteran and NPR regular Mo Rocca, who was present for the discussion. A Harvard alumnus, Rocca shamefully confessed that despite having attended “really fancy schools,” he knows basically “nothing about Islam.”

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KEYWORDS: barf; cbs; katiecouric; leftwingpathology
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To: lbryce

She needs another made for TV colonoscopy to clean the impacted shi’ite in her brain..


81 posted on 01/01/2011 1:24:39 AM PST by sheik yerbouty ( Make America and the world a jihad free zone!)
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To: lbryce
Hey Katie,

Shove yer Foolaide right back up yer colon!

We aint buying it anymore!

82 posted on 01/01/2011 3:27:34 AM PST by rawcatslyentist (Jeremiah 50:31 Behold, I am against you, O you most proud, said the Lord God of hosts.)
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To: lbryce

Ya think so there Katie you ignorant slut?

Then maybe you should invest YOUR own money to produce such a project? Cause it would have a very poor audiance.
Also I’d personally lead a protest against ANY company that would advertise on it.


83 posted on 01/01/2011 3:39:43 AM PST by Joe Boucher
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To: lbryce

She should hook up with a Muslim gent, move to a Muslim country, and bask in the rapture of being a female amongst these noble people.


84 posted on 01/01/2011 3:44:17 AM PST by jla
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To: lbryce

Perhaps the Muslim TV show should be more along the lines of Archie Bunker where Achmed is the crusty jihadist who beats his wife, has a daughter who wants to live a western lifestyle and is married to Ali to whom Achmed is constantly preaching jihad.


85 posted on 01/01/2011 3:48:08 AM PST by The Great RJ (The Bill of Rights: Another bill members of Congress haven't read.)
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To: lbryce

Maybe we need an intelligent version of Katie Couric, if that’s possible.


86 posted on 01/01/2011 3:53:13 AM PST by meyer (Obama - the Schwartz is with him.)
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To: lbryce

>>”The bigotry expressed against Muslims in this country has been one of the most disturbing stories to surface,” she told her panel.<<

Oh, I don’t know. Maybe the fact that 3000 people died on September 11, 2001 at the hands of Mohammedan terrorists has something to do with the “bigotry”. Or maybe Daniel Pearl’s gruesome death. Or maybe the continued senseless slaughter of Mohammedans and non-Mohammedans, indiscriminately. You think?

Couric is a stupid cow.


87 posted on 01/01/2011 3:54:36 AM PST by NTHockey (Rules of engagement #1: Take no prisoners)
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To: lbryce
I also think sort of the chasm between, or, the bigotry expressed against Muslims in this country has been one of the most disturbing stories to surface this year. Of course, a lot of noise was made about the Islamic Center, mosque, down near the World Trade Center, but I think there wasn’t enough sort of careful analysis and evaluation of where this bigotry toward 1.5 billion Muslims worldwide, and how this seething hatred many people feel for all Muslims, which I think is so misdirected, and so wrong—and so disappointing.

World Trade Center, Beirut Marine Barracks, Kenya Embassy, London buses and Underground, Spanish trains . . . I can see why anti-Muslim bigotry is the story that concerns her the most. We need to do something about those who hold the terrorism of a tiny minority (okay, 99% but still that's not all of them) against all followers of that one faith. If we just had episodes of "Oil in the Family", "I love Aisha", "Married and Married and Married and Married with Children", "Balqis the Infidel Slayer", and of course "Burqawatch", then we could all get along. At least somebody is addressing the underlying problem!


88 posted on 01/01/2011 3:59:23 AM PST by Pollster1 (Natural born citizen of the USA, with the birth certificate to prove it)
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To: DemforBush

How about a variety show, called “Jihad?” The theme song would be sung to the tune of “Hee Haw.”


89 posted on 01/01/2011 4:08:08 AM PST by scrabblehack
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To: Concho
She needs to be sent to Afghanistan to live out her days as a Muslim woman

I like her idea. The show could show a father doing an "honor" killing of his two daughters, or the stoning to death of a young girl because she was raped.

Sounds like a real family show to me. /S

90 posted on 01/01/2011 6:04:14 AM PST by dearolddad
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To: lbryce

A muslim Cos. In the first episode Cos Muhammad honor kills his daughter..


91 posted on 01/01/2011 6:30:37 AM PST by JDPendry
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To: lbryce

Didn’t they have one back in the 60s? “Bazzi and Harriet”? or something like that?


92 posted on 01/01/2011 6:35:00 AM PST by sand lake bar
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To: lbryce

When I listen to air-headed liberals like Couric, I don’t know whether to laugh or cry.


93 posted on 01/01/2011 6:46:15 AM PST by popdonnelly (Class warfare is Obama's thing.)
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To: Dallas59

I can assure you that any such show will bear about as much relationship to real life as any other TV sitcom - that is to say, zilch. What “Katie the Cheerleader” is really asking for is better propaganda.


94 posted on 01/01/2011 6:46:36 AM PST by Senator John Blutarski (The progress of government: republic, democracy, technocracy, bureaucracy, plutocracy, kleptocracy,)
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To: lbryce
We need to air drop katie the walking cottage cheese arsed butt monkey into Somalia... with nothing but a flashlight and a slab of bacon.

LLS

95 posted on 01/01/2011 7:06:49 AM PST by LibLieSlayer (It is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than a dim to enter the kingdom of GOD!)
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To: LibLieSlayer
Camile Paglia, writer for the liberal Salon magazine, had Katie Couric pegged in January 2009.

"And let me take this opportunity to say that of all the innumerable print and broadcast journalists who have interviewed me in the U.S. and abroad since I arrived on the scene nearly 20 years ago, Katie Couric was definitively the stupidest. As a guest on NBC's "Today" show during my 1992 book tour, I was astounded by Couric's small, humorless, agenda-ridden mind, still registered in that pinched, tinny monotone that makes me rush across the room to change stations whenever her banal mini-editorials blare out at 5 p.m. on the CBS radio network. And of course I would never spoil my dinner by tuning into Couric's TV evening news show. That sallow, wizened, drum-tight, cosmetic mummification look is not an appetite enhancer outside of Manhattan or L.A. There's many a moose in Alaska with greater charm and pizazz."

Camile has surely defined Katie's limited abilities.

96 posted on 01/01/2011 7:43:51 AM PST by MasterGunner01 (To err is human; to forgive is not our policy. -- SEAL Team SIX)
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To: lbryce

MAYBE CBS needs a serious nightly news anchor/reader.

I suggest that CBS stop working on a new contract for the AIRHEAD & put Harry Smith into that spot.

Katie has had one too many colonoscopies-—they finally flushed her brains out!!! It was such a small mass, no one noticed!!


97 posted on 01/01/2011 8:07:14 AM PST by ridesthemiles
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To: lbryce

A Harvard alumnus, Rocca shamefully confessed that despite having attended “really fancy schools,” he knows basically “nothing about Islam.”


You don’t need to go to fancy schools to know what you need to know about islam.


98 posted on 01/01/2011 8:12:28 AM PST by 2 Kool 2 Be 4-Gotten
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To: Tuscaloosa Goldfinch

Some more suggestions for a muzzies-in-a-positive-light TV shows, The Life of al-Raheem, Allah Knows Best, Caliphate 54 Where are You?, I Dream of Djinni, The Burkha Bunch, Rahulla and Muammar’s Laugh In.


99 posted on 01/01/2011 12:23:29 PM PST by Impala64ssa
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To: MasterGunner01
couric is certainly one stupid, ugly and evil apparition.

LLS

100 posted on 01/01/2011 2:22:28 PM PST by LibLieSlayer (It is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than a dim to enter the kingdom of GOD!)
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