In October, Katie Couric admitted that she hid awkward comments from an Ruth Bader Ginsburg interview in order to “protect” the late, far-left Supreme Court Justice. But this is by no means the first time Couric’s status in the corrupt media has been confirmed in public. Twenty four years ago, celebrity Whoopi Goldberg outed Couric as a fellow pro-abortion protester, blurting that the two had marched together.
On the September 29, 1997 Today, Couric was interviewing Goldberg about her new memoir. Talking about abortion, the actress related the shock of finding out her 14-year-old was pregnant and keeping the baby. Goldberg then spilled the details on marching for abortion with Couric:
KATIE COURIC: So you write about choice meaning what?
WHOOPI GOLDBERG: Well because, you know, when you get out there and you march, because we've marched together.
COURIC: [Feigning ignorance]: Noooo. I'm not allowed to do that. [She giggles]
GOLDBERG: [Embarrassed that she just outed Couric] Oh, no that's right. We have not marched together. It was somebody that looked like you.
[At this point Couric is staring at Goldberg who is laughing ]
Chagrined that she had just exposed Couric on abortion, Goldberg lamented, “Uh, I forget where I am sometimes.”
Couric was a Today host for 15 years and the anchor of the CBS Evening News for five more. Reporters in the liberal media tried to pretend she was a serious journalist and not a radical activist. But the example above proves otherwise.
So it shouldn’t be a surprise that Couric admitted in her 2021 salacious memoir that she “wanted to protect” the liberal Ginsburg from a perceived gaffe. In 2016, the judge said this to her about kneeling athletes: “[They are] showing contempt for a government that made it possible for their parents and grandparents to live a decent life.” That part never aired. Couric cut it to protect Ginsburg, saying in the book she was “a big RBG fan.”
Like so many others in the media, Katie Couric is a partisan Democrat pretending to be a journalist.
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(Media Research Center Director of Media Analysis Geoffrey Dickens first caught the Couric moment back in 1997.)
A transcript of the 1997 exchange is below. Click “expand” to read more.
Today
09/29/1997
8:20 AM ET
KATIE COURIC: Let's talk about the chapter you write called, 'Choice,' it's a very, very personal chapter about getting a call from your 14 year old daughter telling you, “Hey mom, Guess what?”
WHOOPI GOLDBERG: “I'm pregnant.” Yes. Shock, but relief that she told me.
COURIC: Then she gave you a double whammy and said, “Mom.”
GOLDBERG: “I'm gonna keep this baby.”
COURIC: So you write about choice meaning what?
GOLDBERG: Well because, you know, when you get out there and you march, because we've marched together.
COURIC: [Feigning ignorance]: Noooo. I'm not allowed to do that. [She giggles]
GOLDBERG: [Embarrassed that she just outed Couric] Oh, no that's right. We have not marched together. It was somebody that looked like you.
[At this point Couric is staring at Goldberg who is laughing ]
GOLDBERG: Uh, I forget where I am sometimes.
[Couric tries to get off the subject as soon as she can, prompting
COURIC: You were talking about, want me to remind you? About the pro-choice movement and what pro-choice means to you?
