I never understood and never will, the attraction that Katie Couric holds for so many people. First off the woman is 53 and is still called “Katie”? Second – I personally am not into “perkiness”. Third, she is not very bright and belongs more with the Barbara Walters School of “Feelings” Journalism. In fact I expect her one day to be a regular on The View. When she asked Sarah Palin what newspapers she read I wish Sarah would have asked her what newspapers she herself reads. I never could understand why the alphabet networks go for the Couric’s and Diane Sawyer’s to host their evening news while a splendid newsman such as Brit Hume is shunted aside (another reason we should be grateful for having Fox News – they hired him to anchor “Special Report”).
You know they’re worried.
Big government, big media, big Barack — they’re all worried. And they’ve brought in the knight in designer armor, the savior of all that is Washington and New York and Rodeo Drive, privileged and Democratic — Katie Couric.
Katie the Palin Slayer is back.
The CBS Evening News anchor is on the cover of Harper’s Bazaar this month, all progressive chic and mainstream media glitter. And just a week ago, she genuflected before Barack Obama to open the Super Bowl on CBS.
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Neither her eighth cover for the glamor magazine nor the Super Bowl interview are meant to inform. Instead, in concert with the White House, Katie is hitting the “reset” button on a failing presidency. I’m-Katie-Couric-and-I’m-here-to-admire-you. Barack, Nancy, Harry, Rahm — don’t worry, got you covered.
They need Katie and her media platform. The Tea Party is gaining ground, The U.S. Congress and Obama job approval ratings are at historic lows, newspapers — long an arm of the Democratic Party — are failing at a record rate, and the networks — bastions of liberalism — are hemorrhaging viewers.
And — OMG!!! — Sarah Palin is back! Quick, hand me the wooden stakes and call Katie! Katie Couric isn’t doing journalism; rather (or…Rather), she is 911 for the Obama agenda. The natives are restless, and who better to call on than Katie the Palin Slayer?
And so Katie has again swung into action. Hail the “conquering Couric,” the Washington Post exults, “a power broker in stiletto heels.” Katie’s back, and as Robert Browning might have written had he been funded by a grant from the Obama administration, “the condom’s back on the banana — all’s right with the world.” (The original line read “God’s in his heaven”; this is Obama safe schools czar Browning, National Endowment for the Humanities poetry.)
Of course, she had no choice. You see, Katie hearts Barack. They are part of what New York Times columnist David Brooks proudly calls the “intellectual class,” a political and media elite that knows what’s best for the rest of us.
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