NBC's Ann Curry Fought With Navy Dad on Vietnam; Oozes We're 'Evolving' in Compassion
NBC Today co-anchor Ann Curry is the cover story of the September issue of Ladies Home Journal and discussed how she fought with her U.S. naval officer father about the Vietnam War, (unsurprisingly) taking the liberal, Walter Cronkite-inspired anti-war position:
"When I was a teenager," she says, "Dad and I would have dinner table debates about the Vietnam War. I was deeply affected by Walter Cronkite's reports, and I questioned our country's role. Sometimes our discussions got so heated my siblings would leave the table. At the end of those conversations my dad would say, 'I don't always agree with you, but I'd still vote for you for president.'
"I knew he was proud of me for caring about something bigger, something beyond my day-to-day life. It tied in to what he always told me: 'Do something of service, Ann, so that at the end of your days, you'll know your time here mattered.'"
Curry also spoke about her motto that “Journalism is an act of faith in the future,” which sounds sunny, but also quickly turns political: that journalism is all about hope and change and a liberal black president and “evolving into a more compassionate species.”
"It used to be that genocide and rape were facts of war, and now they're crimes against humanity. It used to be that children could be begging in the streets of lower Manhattan, and now it is against the law. It used to be you could legally lynch a black man in America. And now we have a black man as president. If you look at the course of history, you can't help but see that we are moving in this beautiful direction. We are evolving into a more compassionate species," she says as she touches my arm for emphasis.
The magazine discussed why Curry was passed over for the co-anchor spot before. One obvious reason – her spacey tendencies – came up:
The position went to outsider [Meredith] Vieira. Why? Who knows for sure? Curry herself says she was always a "natural reporter, but not a natural anchor." She was warm and earnest, but also a little spacey; Al Roker once called her "our ambassador from Planet Zebulon." And she had a kind of ditzy, girlish innocence. In 1998, when I interviewed her for this magazine, a Today staffer told me how they were going to cover picture hanging on the show, and they were all discussing it. "Yes!" Curry piped up. "It's so important to be well hung." "We all started snickering," the staffer said, "and Ann was going, 'What? What? What did I say?'"
Since Ladies Home Journal was trying overall to promote Ann Curry as a wonderful “brunette Doris Day” character, they also used the official NBC endorsement:
And it is Curry, perhaps more than anyone else on the show, who connects with guests, audience members, and staffers in a way that can't be faked. "The warmth is utterly genuine," says Lauer, who recalls how Curry was one of the few people who stopped to introduce herself when he came to work for NBC in New York City. When I interviewed Al Roker years ago, he said of Curry, "When you see her reporting a story that's tragic, you can see the pain. She is genuinely affected by what she's doing. She doesn't have a switch she can turn on and off."
A feel-your-pain journalist often ends up sounding like a liberal feel-your-pain Democrat. See Ann Curry’s profile in bias here.
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Vote for her
Submitted by JPTSO3 on Mon, 08/08/2011 - 11:18pm.
I wouldn't vote for her for dog-catcher.
And, I believe, her dad likely recalls the conversations quite differently particularly the endorsement. Perhaps she was running for class president of her middle school and was running unopposed
Seriously?
Submitted by mandrake on Mon, 08/08/2011 - 12:41pm.
I mean I understand it is your mission to combat liberal media bias..but the Ladies Home Journal? But do you really need to hunt down every single liberal thought that ever occurs? Should I warn my very liberal wife to expect a knock on the door any day now?
mandrake
Submitted by hydrodynDM on Mon, 08/08/2011 - 12:53pm.
Are you purposely missing the point of Mr. Graham's post as an excuse to post a snide comment or are you really that dense?
Actually, considering the fact that you like to brag about being a troll, I'll give you the benefit of the doubt and assume it's the former.
No
Submitted by mandrake on Mon, 08/08/2011 - 12:58pm.
I really am that dense. Ladies Home Journal..for real?
What...
Submitted by CobraMan on Mon, 08/08/2011 - 12:59pm.
What, it's not manly enough for you?
The Citizens of each State shall be entitled to all Privileges and Immunities of Citizens in the several States. The US Constitution
Unless you're a fetus. The US Supreme Court
Or Anwar al-Awlaki.
Well if Ann Curry had said
Submitted by mandrake on Mon, 08/08/2011 - 1:06pm.
Well if Ann Curry had said that stuff in the Sports Illustrated Swimsuit edition I might take it seriously.
You do know who she is, right?
Submitted by CobraMan on Mon, 08/08/2011 - 1:49pm.
You do realize that she's the Co-Anchor of NBC Today, don't you? But, hay, it's the Ladies Home Journal, and who reads that, right? I guess I'll tell my wife to disregard anything written in that publication. After all, Mandrake says it's not a serious publication. Not as serious as, say, Soldiers of Fortune.
The Citizens of each State shall be entitled to all Privileges and Immunities of Citizens in the several States. The US Constitution
Unless you're a fetus. The US Supreme Court
Or Anwar al-Awlaki.
Women are a major voting
Submitted by ant on Mon, 08/08/2011 - 1:40pm.
Women are a major voting block. Ann Curry is an alleged "informed journalist", one watched by many women, it doesn't matter what venue interviews her, her positions are relevant, especially considering the left-media's inability to comprehend the idea of "objective reporting". Nice picture of her on the cover, BTW, a far cry from Bachmann's cover treatment in Newsweak. Doncha think? There's that unbiased thingy again.
mandrake
Submitted by hydrodynDM on Mon, 08/08/2011 - 1:14pm.
OK, I'll do with you what I do with the kids in my classes - I'll point you in the right direction as opposed to simply giving you the answer.
Concentrate on what Curry says and how that reflects on her as a supposed objective journalist as opposed to the particular publication her words appear in.
Does that help?
Here's the thing
Submitted by mandrake on Mon, 08/08/2011 - 1:27pm.
I actually have no idea who Ann Curry is, I don't watch NBC news. I do this for other reasons.
So I gather you're a teacher. Do you have students with OCD?
You must not have read the NB article
Submitted by CobraMan on Mon, 08/08/2011 - 1:50pm.
"I actually have no idea who Ann Curry is, I don't watch NBC news."
Then you must not have read this NB article. I mean, really, the fact that she's the Co-Anchor of NBC Today was stated in the first sentence!
The Citizens of each State shall be entitled to all Privileges and Immunities of Citizens in the several States. The US Constitution
Unless you're a fetus. The US Supreme Court
Or Anwar al-Awlaki.
And you miss my point.
Submitted by mandrake on Mon, 08/08/2011 - 2:03pm.
I don't care if it was Rush Limbaugh..if it was in the Ladies Home Journal, then who cares?.
I have read many times on this site about the demise of the print media. In fact the demise of the NYT's is regularly fortold and applauded. So I say you are going after a fly with a hammer..why bother?
One fly can be a major annoyance
Submitted by ant on Mon, 08/08/2011 - 2:08pm.
Because this particular fly is nefarious enough to call for a hammer, IMO, no wiggle room should be left for the 'fly' to infect everything. It is how we end up with people like Barack Obama.
Not you, obviously
Submitted by CobraMan on Mon, 08/08/2011 - 2:16pm.
Who cares? Not you, obviously. To the millions of women who read the Ladies Home Journal, which, by the way, has been in existence for over 125 years? Well, that's a different story, is it not?
The Citizens of each State shall be entitled to all Privileges and Immunities of Citizens in the several States. The US Constitution
Unless you're a fetus. The US Supreme Court
Or Anwar al-Awlaki.
If not NewsBusters, Uncle M---
Submitted by matthewdean on Mon, 08/08/2011 - 2:23pm.
who?
If not now, when?
Hammer? Poor analogy as far weapon of choice for committing mayhem on a fly, even if desirous of demonstrating overkill.
One could use the political method, I suppose, and talk that fly to death.
For want of a nail, a shoe was lost; for want of a shoe, a horse was lost; for want of a horse, the battle was lost.
Go after ALL liberal bias, ALL the time, EVERYWHERE, or take the half-arsed approach and don't bother to be thorough.
MD
Good evening hydro
Submitted by cocodrie on Mon, 08/08/2011 - 2:09pm.
You are obviously speaking to one of my late wife's students. She taught LD and BD students in high school. Then again you may have a grammar school one here.
Jesus Loves You so much He died for you
Mandrake
Submitted by LSBeene on Mon, 08/08/2011 - 6:37pm.
Whatever Curry says, in whatever venue, it ORIGINATES with Curry, right?
Let's suppose she said something highly relevant, but only on a blog or an internet forum, but it was clearly impactful on how she thinks .... does that make it less newsworthy?
And the comment about "my wife expecting a knock at the door" - excuse me? Victim complex much? No one said anything about hunting down all subscribers to LHJ - so I don't know where that came from. Victocrat mentality?
If Ann Curry were replaced with Ann Coulter, and Ms Coulter were speaking in Guns and Ammo, Sports Illustrated, or Knitting Today, and it was relevant, timely, and reflected on how she thought ... would it not be fair to use it?
I think you got what was being said, but "misunderstood" or "took offense" - classic tactic in getting a person on the defensive : unless they point it out.
:)
Steven
Well, Uncle mandrake---
Submitted by matthewdean on Mon, 08/08/2011 - 1:06pm.
if your avowed and assigned mission were to find books, would you limit yourself to looking in library interiors only?
In seeking to expose bias, a competent professional scribe goes wherever it may be found, regardless of the source.
Would you prefer half-arsed efforts in ALL things, or just exposition of liberal inanities?
MD
Methinks ole Mandrake has had
Submitted by ant on Mon, 08/08/2011 - 1:44pm.
Methinks ole Mandrake has had his question answered sufficiently. Will it 'sink in' is another question.
If the Ladies Home Journal had published an article about
Submitted by lrgon on Mon, 08/08/2011 - 4:52pm.
the evidence that Richard Nixon's National security advisor and Secretaty of State Henry "Dr Strangelove" Kissinger had betrayed US servicemen into spending the rest of their lives locked up to rot in Communist North Vietnames POW camps, then we'd cheer the LHJ. As it is that rag is not any better than the Trotksyite publication the weak Weekly Standard..
Shhhh.The Loon always returns to the source of food.
Submitted by The Vet on Tue, 08/09/2011 - 12:31am.
Once the Loon has discovered a likely food source, it will return again and again. Shhhhh. Don't disturb the Loon boys and girls. They startle quite easily.
Numbers....
Submitted by JPTSO3 on Mon, 08/08/2011 - 5:42pm.
Ladies Home Journal has a readership of 3,800,000. Newsweek on the other hand has 1.5 million. The last time I checked woman had the right to vote and most can read. Now granted, I'm assuming a few things like your wife votes and can read, but if you have a publication twice the readership of the birdcage liner Newsweek, I'm assuming that articles might reach some people, like your wife or Dan Savage and StudioTodd...
A leftist since way back then?
Submitted by Tomorama on Mon, 08/08/2011 - 12:49pm.
She is what she is, a somewhat attractive, mouth breathing liberal who spews and believes only one side is right.
Every issue is from the left.
The only thing NOT typical of her liberal leanings is that she is somewhat attractive.
Usually that biased andd wholly liberal you are a Behar type.
She still get's no points at this address.
Megyn Kelly would destroy her and leave her crying in 5 minutes all with a twinkle in her eye and facts to cause the jelly like weeping............................
Skin Deep Looks
Submitted by Tugboat Phil on Mon, 08/08/2011 - 1:08pm.
I hear you, Tom. What is disappointing to me when I meet someone like Curry, is that they have lived for so long and yet haven't really seen how life works. Most liberals show their real inner ugly when they speak.
No Room for Megyn at NBC or ABC
Submitted by libBuster on Mon, 08/08/2011 - 1:24pm.
There is no room for Megyn Kelly at NBC or ABC News. These networks business models require inchoate lightweights like Curry or The View's Behar. NBC and ABC are appealing to rather vacuous women who think Oprah Winfrey is a profound thinker. The intellect of a Megyn Kelly, Ann Coulter or Laura Ingraham would be very threatening to the women of their target audience.
The mediocrity of Curry or Behar matches up well with the target demographic. The left wing politics also helps. It subtly influences the voting habbits of the target group.
vacuous women who think Oprah is a profound thinker
Submitted by MaximusBraveheart on Mon, 08/08/2011 - 2:30pm.
Good point LibBuster. They cultivate their drones very carefully and don't want to confuse them with ANY semblance of truth. Strong light (and the dry truth) can kill their dark moist mushroom crop of "tolerant" perfection.
Curry is quite a disgrace to the intelligent stereotype of Asians (which is often true). If compared to a computer, I would guess she ranks "up there" as a Commodore PET in the scale of things. Wish she would interview more conservatives who can take her to task when she brings up her "little" DNC comments.
Guess Ann has no clue about the history of corrupt, mostly black leadership, in many African countries. That is why they are starving and undeveloped. Something to strive for?
-- Maximusbraveheart -- Is TRUTH knowable? Moral Relativism is the abandonment of Truth. Truth is knowable. Truth conforms to Reality. Reality is observable by evidence & witness in this day & from history. Relativism is Sesame Street play land.
Don't be hatin' on the PET
Submitted by Rukus on Mon, 08/08/2011 - 8:03pm.
I bought a PET in '80, that was fun. The computer itself was a pain to use, lol! Smallest keyboard ever! Moved from there to a C64, C128, Apple IIe, PC jr. (what a piece of crap!), DEC Rainbow (another POS) an Amiga (great computer). Then I got my 1st and only ready built PC (8088 clone). Been building them ever since. I'm an AMD man myself... and Nvidia graphics! Crap! What was this blog about?
Oh! Lib bias in the media! Yeah! That's the ticket! (Don't nail me for all the exclamation points Vet... I get excited about computer stuff!! oops!, oops again!, dangit!... help! I can't stop! ) Whew! Dammit!
I'm gonna go stand in the corner now... : (
Curry was born in 1956
Submitted by Dutch Man on Mon, 08/08/2011 - 12:51pm.
Will I look as good when I am 55? Since she doesn't say anything worthy of my attention, I shall simply ogle her.
Born 1956. Viet Nam over 1973. Curry is 17 in '73.
Submitted by Red Jeep on Mon, 08/08/2011 - 1:22pm.
So when was she doing all this arguing at the table? When she was 14? 15? 16?
Hmmmmmmmmm?!?!
Spacey? You mean the vacant one between her ears?
Submitted by drsamherman on Mon, 08/08/2011 - 12:54pm.
I doubt the substance of the conversations with her father. She would have been only 12 years old at the Tet Offensive in 1968. Given her rather nebulous intellect, her father was probably yelling at her for the usual teenage nonsense and she mentioned Cronkite once--probably wondering when her favorite soap would be back on the air so she could stop gabbing to her friends on the phone.
"Fictional History"
Submitted by MaximusBraveheart on Mon, 08/08/2011 - 2:36pm.
Surprised she does not recount being "shot at" when getting off an airplane like ol'Pelousy. Didn't Nancy say that one time & was proven BS?
-- Maximusbraveheart -- Is TRUTH knowable? Moral Relativism is the abandonment of Truth. Truth is knowable. Truth conforms to Reality. Reality is observable by evidence & witness in this day & from history. Relativism is Sesame Street play land.
Nah, that was Hillary Rodham Clinton,---
Submitted by matthewdean on Mon, 08/08/2011 - 2:59pm.
same beast, different skin.
MD
Hilary Said that
Submitted by LSBeene on Mon, 08/08/2011 - 6:48pm.
It was Hillary Clinton who said she was shot at when she came off an airplane - with Chelsea no less.
The real fun moment was when Chelsea was campaigning for mom in 2008, someone brought it up, and Chelsea got her braids in a bunch and haughtily dismissed the question with: "That has already been discussed" kind of answer.
IMO - slightly off topic, I think with the advent of the "New Media" that liberals, like Hilary, who were oh-so-used to never having to be probed and exposed for their utter B.S. are not used to it.
Remember some Hilary classics:
Named after first man to climb Mt Everest, errrr, but, that event happened like 3 years after she was born.
Committed domestic violence on at least 2 occasions against a sitting President during the Lewinsky affair, and never has faced any serious questions about it.
Swindled dozens of people during the Whitewater affair, but during that time, before Fox and bloggers, the media so INTENTIONALLY badly explained the story that no one, including myself, and I was watching and TRYING to understand, fully grasped what had happened. - Dozens of people bought land, paid for homes, and if they missed more than **1** payment, EVER, cumulatively, they lost everything - with no return on equity.
And that's just the first 3 things that occur to mind.
Hilary is an evil elitest who has traded everything for power - and her viciousness has never really been questioned.
Though we all lost when BHO was elected, the one juicy piece of irony, was that HRC finally got to know what affirmative action felt like on the short end of the stick - and it's got to gnaw at her.
:)
Steven
Agreed, Dr. Sam,
Submitted by UpNorth on Mon, 08/08/2011 - 7:29pm.
I highly doubt Ann was concerned with much of anything, other than clear complexions and which cute navy enlisted man walked past her quarters. I don't think she was aware that the North Vietnamese were laying down the model for Pol Pot, as to what to do with teachers, village leaders, police officers and Army personnel.
I think she was upset with Cronkite, because she couldn't watch the Monkees on TV because Walter was opining on things far beyond his paygrade.
Anne Curry, Proof That Stupidity Wins
Submitted by Motormouth KOS on Mon, 08/08/2011 - 12:55pm.
This is so comical to read about her "conversations with Daddy..." I am wondering if there is some kind of subconscious attempt to remember it her way, not confronting the obvious latent incest theme at work here.
This dolt is the flag-bearer for sappy, sophomoric, bleeding heart liberalism, none of which is ever cloaked in fact.
The Village Idiot can't find Illinois on a map and she couldn't find her fat ass in a small closet.
The Obamination... A crisis leading to a catastrophe..(please donate to MRC)
Well, that explains it
Submitted by CobraMan on Mon, 08/08/2011 - 1:04pm.
"We are evolving into a more compassionate species."
Well, that explains Obama's bombing campaign in Libya. He's merely expressing his highly evolved compassion.
The Citizens of each State shall be entitled to all Privileges and Immunities of Citizens in the several States. The US Constitution
Unless you're a fetus. The US Supreme Court
Or Anwar al-Awlaki.
Yes, the latest conversion of
Submitted by ant on Mon, 08/08/2011 - 2:04pm.
Yes, the latest conversion of the most popular women in the entertainment realm into 'pole-dancers'. The demonization of the TeaParties and anyone else disagreeing with the establishment meme. The up is down, down is up morality standard. The 'beat whitey' flash mobs, LaRaza, the "shut up, we won" platform, etc., etc.,. Sure getting real 'compassionate' lately. Sounds like the 'compassion evolution' is as tangible as 'global warming'.
Least we forget
Submitted by CobraMan on Mon, 08/08/2011 - 2:37pm.
Let's not forget the "compassion" that the North Vietnamese showed to their "brothers" in South Vietnam after the the "end" of the Vietnam War (or "Campuchia," or Laos, or every other East Asian country we failed to protect). Just how many civilians were slaughtered after those "compassionate" men and women finally "won" the Vietnam War? Four, Five Million dead across East Asia? I don't think the world will ever truly know. It's a sure bet that idiots like Ann Curry will never tell us about the actual effects the "compassionate" ending of the war brought to most of East Asia.
Yea, keep evolving, Curry! Eventually that "evolved compassion" which you love so much will kill all of us!
The Citizens of each State shall be entitled to all Privileges and Immunities of Citizens in the several States. The US Constitution
Unless you're a fetus. The US Supreme Court
Or Anwar al-Awlaki.
Great Point CobraMan
Submitted by LSBeene on Mon, 08/08/2011 - 7:08pm.
One thing I've noticed about PC history books in reference to Vietnam: they all seem to stop and end the story in / about 1975.
It didn't end for the 25-30% of the Cambodian population who died by their Communist leader: the Khmer Rouge - helped by communists from Vietnam.
It didn't help the Laotians who had communists running amok in their country.
It didn't end for the MILLION Vietnamese who died in the span of 2-3 years after we left who were sent to camps, worked to death, starved, beaten, and promptly forgotten by our "anti war" crowd.
I mean, who could forget the dozens of peace protests by tens of thousands of compassionate liberals outside the Soviet and Communist Chinese embassies ..... errr, wait ... that didn't happen.
Or how the anti-war press bravely stayed behind in Vietnam and got proof of dozens of "Mai Lai Massacres" that happened before, during, and especially after we left -- but done by the Communists...... errr, wait, that didn't happen either.
Who could not be struck by the bravery of the peace movement press corps and Jane Fonda wanna-bes who traveled to Vietnam to document how the South Vietnamese were being treated after America left - all those photos of stars, luminaries, & peace workers taken by that peerless "fair" press after America left because the Communists had nothing to hide and were so merciful ..... err, wait ... that didn't happen at all.
No - according to PC history books the war ended in 1975, and life went on peacefully with maybe a hiccup or two in Cambodia, but nothing newsworthy was reported, nor historically documented, because our liberal friends "nothing to see her folks ... move along" had accomplished their real goal : Not peace nor the expression of support of human rights, but to trash America and "stick it to the man".
If I'm wrong, please do link the major news spread coverage of those peace protests outside the Communist embassies, the journalism coverage of the suffering of the Vietnamese/Cambodians/Laotians, or link some YouTube of past news vids of our press holding the Vietnamese Communists, or their American enablers to account.
No? Didn't much think so.
It was never about "peace", "human rights", or "stopping imperialsm" - if it were the protests, coverage, and CONTINUED interest would have continued past '75. Since that / those never materialized ..... you make your own judgement.
Steven
Well,
Submitted by panzerakc on Mon, 08/08/2011 - 3:41pm.
To paraphrase Veronica Hamel's character on the old "Hill Street Blues", "some evolve, others mutate".
What a crock of BS! I tried
Submitted by jessieH on Mon, 08/08/2011 - 1:02pm.
What a crock of BS! I tried to watch this moron a couple times. That's why I call her a moron.
Good thing I'm a saver.............
Submitted by Herbster on Mon, 08/08/2011 - 1:14pm.
Good thing I saved the barf bag from my last flight home from overseas...........
Nephews
Submitted by mandrake on Mon, 08/08/2011 - 2:33pm.
This has really been a lot of fun :) But it's time for me to start getting dinner ready for the family..see ya tomorrow. (Unless I get expelled)
I read this article, and all
Submitted by marpel on Mon, 08/08/2011 - 5:07pm.
I read this article, and all it was was a liberal love letter. It was so stupid. I'm ending my subscription to LHJ immediately!!
"Deep within my heart lies a memory. A song of ol' San Antone..."
I wonder if her dad would
Submitted by Pewah on Mon, 08/08/2011 - 5:29pm.
I wonder if her dad would still vote for her to be president...now that he's actually experienced what its like to have an idiot in the White House.