[Brilliant]

How much abuse can Katie Couric dish out?

[RSmithOpt]

We’ll never know for sure until we hand her over to a Taliban stronghold for ‘proper’ training.

[Ouderkirk]

If Katie succeeds, we all win; she will have proven that people are happy to get their news from a smart, pretty woman. And if she fails? How many times will it be said that America just wasn't ready for a woman in such a powerful role? We will all pay that price. You can bet it won't be another woman replacing her.

If Katie succeeeds is will be by a miracle.

These women like Susan Estrogenless want a woman soo badly, even if she's terrible and completely unsuited for the job.

For most of us, if not all, it is not about women in general...it's that woman in particular. They never seem to keep that in mind.

Would you rather watch this?

Or this?

[wouldntbprudent]

But what really gets to me about the treatment of Couric is not the way the CBS suits are dealing with her, but the way her fellow women journalists are. Of all people, you'd think other women in the news business would understand just what Katie is up against and how her future is connected to ours. You'd think women would appreciate the challenge of settling into a role for which there are no role models, sitting in a chair that is usually occupied by older white men and convincing viewers to accept an attractive woman as equally credible.

It's not that women journalists should be giving her a pass because she's a woman, but that they should be the last to pile on because they understand best what she's up against. It hasn't worked that way.

I believe there is a special place in hell for women who do not support each other, particularly in our attacks on the glass ceiling. Too many women fail to understand that when one woman does make it, we all have an interest in her success, and an even bigger interest in her not failing.

This will happen to the Hildabeast as well. Women actually do not like to cheer on other women, at least of the beast variety.