Couric Cheers Female Harvard President, And Feminist 'Bean Counters'

In her latest "Couric & Co." blog entry to support quotas (oops, "affirmative action") and whisper "Hillary for President" between the lines, Couric cheered Drew Gilpin Faust, the new female president of Harvard and jeered outgoing Lawrence Summers. She also mourned the loss of feminist Harriett Woods, best known to political junkies as the Democrat who almost beat Sen. John Danforth in 1982:

Harvard, the nation's first university, is NOT the first to put a woman at the head of the class. Princeton, Brown, and Penn all beat Harvard to the punch. But nationwide, less than a quarter of colleges and universities are run by women.

Harriett Woods, head of the National Women's Political Caucus, died last week. She pushed to elect women and to name them to powerful positions. Bill Clinton once called her a "bean counter." But sometimes, bean counting really counts.

Women in power create MORE powerful women.

That's a page from my notebook.

Couric apparently did not have time to share the Washington Post's surprising note in its pro-Faust editorial Tuesday that they hoped she would show the "vigor" for reform, such as "bringing diversity to the political outlook of the faculty."

Everyone knows that diversity's never been the plan for the political outlook of CBS.