Rebecca Traister at left-wing Salon.com (yes, endure the leftists' commercial) brings the feminist scolding to Katie Couric for granting a whiny, bitter interview to New York magazine, including the odd detail that she slaps male producers for using medical terms for lung mucus. Traister wants to see a "mofo" in action:
Suddenly, the woman who used to refuse to talk to reporters about her astronomical salary and hard-bargaining skills, who unapologetically drove the high rate of turnover among "Today" show producers, and who radiated a steely self-confidence, cannot shut up about everything that's gone wrong since she left NBC for CBS! Oh, girlfriend: Get a grip....
Slam a table; grow a pair; be the mean motherf---er we know you can be. Tell them all that everything is going just exactly as you planned, that you couldn't be more proud of your program or more confident about your decisions. It might be a crock, but if you start to believe it, then maybe the rest of us will too. And maybe that's the only way, at this point, that you can win.
She added:
Would Barbara Walters consent to a confessional about how things spun out of control on "The View"? Forget it: That woman could face the camera, while Elisabeth Hasselbeck and Rosie O'Donnell barbecued each other's livers behind her, and assure viewers that everyone was best friends, with the low pulse of a serial killer.
And would Diane Sawyer, whose "creamy insincerity" was immortalized by the New York Times, chew over her own shortcomings with a reporter after she lost ABC's evening news berth to testicularly advantaged Charlie Gibson? Hell, no. She would smile gorgeously and convince everyone that everything turned out precisely how she, Diane Sawyer, wanted it to.
In other Couric commentary:
-- At Newsday.com, TV writer Verne Gay does a very interesting tea-leaf reading of Katie's interview headlined "Sputum Wars."
-- The CBS "Public Eye" blog, dedicated to bringing transparency to CBS News, files another weak item merely noting that the Couric interview exists. (That's not how new Public Eye writer Matt Felling saw Katie a little while back, eh? When he urged CBS not to hire "Carson Daly's Cool Mom?")
—Tim Graham is Director of Media Analysis at the Media Research Center
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“Slam a table; grow a pair;
July 10, 2007 - 07:40 ET by HelenS“Slam a table; grow a pair; be the mean motherf—er we know you can be…”
Yeah, now there's a believable visual.
...so why can't I shake this echo of a screeching Hillary?
"Cry havoc and let slip the dogs of war" - Shakespeare
And isn't it so 'progressive'
July 10, 2007 - 07:56 ET by ThisnThatAnd isn't it so 'progressive' -- being able to punctuate every statement by swearing?
I can never remember who is w
July 10, 2007 - 07:40 ET by AlgerHissI can never remember who is who.
Is it KD Couric and Katie Lang?
Rochester, Minnesota: A Fem_Leftist City!
"It might be a crock, bu
July 10, 2007 - 07:54 ET by ThisnThat"It might be a crock, but if you start to believe it, the rest of us might too". Isn't this the standard liberal line -- tell a lie enough times, and 'presto' it's as good as the truth?
We need a "how long wi
July 10, 2007 - 07:57 ET by sarcasmoWe need a "how long will Katie last at this job?" poll. I say the over/under is about Sept. 1st.
JMR
The start of the fall season
July 10, 2007 - 08:39 ET by mvfreemanThe start of the fall season makes sense. I'm guessing her agent is already looking for an out that leaves her some semblence of credibility with the network crowd.
Mommy, who made Salon.com the boss of you?
July 10, 2007 - 08:28 ET by acumenMommy, who made Salon.com the boss of you?
The last two paragraphs perfe
July 10, 2007 - 08:44 ET by mvfreemanThe last two paragraphs perfectly illustrate how fake and phony these anchors/faux journalists are. No matter what they're just supposed to look into the camera and smile pretty.
This is interesting to watch.
July 10, 2007 - 08:55 ET by PeskyDaneThis is interesting to watch. Here is a woman who has had things go her way for a long, long, time. Now she's faced with a situation which is pretty much out of her control and the slow, public meltdown says volumes about her. I guess (I have to, having never experienced it myself) that when you are surrounded by people telling you all day long how wonderful you are, this public rejection may be hard to take. What little Katie seems to miss is that most of the country are not made up of her personal assistants, her make-up people, her personal trainers, her managers, agents, or people otherwise dependent on her to put bread on the table. The public has an option to watch or not to watch. This simple market concept seems to ever escape the libtards. I would bet that somewhere, deep down in the dark recesses of her brain, the part she will never show to anyone, she thinks people should be forced to watch her.
Never happen Rebecca, the wom
July 10, 2007 - 09:06 ET by tracheostomyNever happen Rebecca, the woman flinches at saying sputum. Which is about what the rest of what she says is actually worth.
-PJ
"Trake: Your lofty convictions are another blemish on the rump of congregational sectarianism." -Tumbler 5/15/07
Hey, tracheostomy, I say 'sputum' to 'em all.
July 10, 2007 - 09:17 ET by acaiguanaHey, tracheostomy, I say 'sputum' to 'em all.
Actually sputum is my second most favorite word. I find a way to work it into a sentence regularly. Sputum is very common on the street.
ACA
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Quoted from: 'Acaiguana Notes from the Bomb Shelter' (soon to be a movie at theaters near you)
What other words are on the b
July 10, 2007 - 10:02 ET by ThisnThatWhat other words are on the banned list? Hmmmm, let me think...
I could go on....
"It might be a crock, bu
July 10, 2007 - 09:59 ET by mattm"It might be a crock, but if you start to believe it, then maybe the rest of us will too." Kind of like "tell a lie often enough...." That's lib-think for ya.
Little Lady Katie goes Ka-Boom!
Yeah...be a tough broad....Th
July 10, 2007 - 16:21 ET by bigtimerYeah...be a tough broad....
That'll show them and earn ya' ratings Perky One.
We owe a debt of thanks to th
July 11, 2007 - 12:24 ET by BeowulfDel
We owe a debt of thanks to th
July 11, 2007 - 12:26 ET by BeowulfDel
We owe a debt of thanks to th
July 11, 2007 - 12:28 ET by BeowulfDel
We owe a debt of thanks to th
July 11, 2007 - 12:28 ET by BeowulfWe owe a debt of thanks to this blogger. She clearly dictates (maybe a poor verb for a feminist ;-o) the philosophical concept of liberalism:
Slam a table; grow a pair; be the mean motherf---er we know you can be. Tell them all that everything is going just exactly as you planned, that you couldn't be more proud of your program or more confident about your decisions. It might be a crock, but if you start to believe it, then maybe the rest of us will too. And maybe that's the only way, at this point, that you can win.
Spew hatred, vulgarities, and vituperation and keep repeating the lie. If you say it enough, it becomes the truth. EXACTLY what the liberals and the MSM have been doing for years. A fact to which I attribute Bush's low numbers, the antipathy towards the war, what miniscule support for the immigration bill exists, and the Dem takeover of congress.
I guess it really does work...
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