Katie Couric on Matt Lauer allegations: I had no idea
If all Couric had to say was that she didn’t know, why wait 5 weeks to say it? It just feels as if she spent those weeks calculating, coming up with the response that would play best and then rolling it out to a friendly media outlet not known for hard-hitting follow-up questions.
Classic Joan Rivers bitching about Johnny Carson, who probably did more for her than any person in her career. His sin? Not continuing to prop her up after she stabbed him in the back, publicly and mean-spiritedly, as was her wont.
Many of the commenters laud her as a truth-telling, liberated and empowered woman, and her complaining and victim stance made them “love her even more!”
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Californians always think the rest of the country considers them the coolest, hippest, trendiest fucks on the planet, and that we all wish we lived there too and had such super cool lives and mingle with the celebutards and the Z-listers and skanks and druggies and no talent hacks and showbiz phonies and hangers on and gofers and Raiders fans and stalkers and maniacs and addicts and critics and other assorted assholes.
It’s with this spirit that the first lady of California backs Obama, in a show of non-solidarity with her husband, basically calling him out as a fucking dickwad idiot jerk-faced prick with ears for backing McCain, the sensible candidate.
The Hollywood establishment to which she belongs is creaming their collective panties in jungle fever for the minority candidate they can all support to assuage their liberal guilt and swim in the glory of how tolerant and past racism they all are – unless it’s a black Republican like Clarence “Uncle Tom” Thomas, or Condi “Aunt Jemima” Rice or Colin “House N1gger” Powell or Michael “Simple Sambo” Steele. In that case it’s ok to be a hateful racist motherfucker because race traitors to the Democrat party masters cannot be tolerated.
Bob Schieffer, long time reporter and current anchor of the CBS “news” said, “We’re going to love Katie,” regarding CBS’s decision to hire a celebrity with zero reporting experience, zero gravitas, zero credibility and zero balance or neutrality, plus the added value of questionable intellect and shallow understanding of the world she’s supposed to “cover”. Even the increasingly liberal and ever-dwindling numbers of CBS viewers are going to find much to hate about Couric.
New Rule: when you are a preening, smug, self-referential, talentless, unfunny hack whose one remaining schtick is to bash America wherever possible and “Bush is dumb” jokes, who plays the perpetual victim for being fired from one show because
A. the show sucked
and
2. you’re guests were vapid, out of their depth, uninformed and stridently obscene, leftist and inappropriate re: the content you debated
and
III. you offended what remained of your audience, yet you frame it as a “free speech” issue, ooh, you’re a ginormous asshole.
CBS said Wednesday it is cancelling the Wednesday edition of “60 Minutes,” insisting the decision was made because of poor ratings and not last fall’s ill-fated story about President Bush’s military service. Dan Rather, the newsmagazine’s lead correspondent, will contribute stories to the Sunday edition of “60 Minutes,” said CBS Chairman Leslie Moonves. “This was a ratings call, not a content call,” Moonves said Wednesday.
Well, HuffPo has been good for one thing. I never realized Jim “the Lamps are on but nobody’s home” -ley was a raving nutball.
He never was much of a sportsreader, an avocation that requires only that you have television hair and speak without a lisp. You don’t even have to be marginally literate, since an earpiece not only instructs you on what to say, but how to say it.
Having failed as a sportsreader, I guess he’s trying his hand at punditry. Risky move when he’s so used to mouthing the writings and opinions of others. Come to think of it, most lefty pundits do just that, taking marching orders from the ravingest rabid lambs of the fringe leftwingnutroots.
Congrats dude. You accomplished what most ‘war correspondents’ can only dream of. You’re famous. You’re bigger than the story. You scored an enormous scoop, and I imagine it will net you speaking engagements, cherry assignments, hell probably even a book deal. And you’re a hero to all the Dems who are still smarting from Kerry’s loss and are looking for anything to bring Bush and “his” war down a notch or 2.