Katie Couric Mocks Dan Rather In YouTube Video

Who knew?

CBS anchor Katie Couric has a biting sense of humor - and she levels it at Dan Rather in a new video clip on the Internet.

Couric, who comes off staid and somber night after night as anchor of the "CBS Evening News," shows a softer, downright funny side in a clip available on YouTube.com.

Keep reading.

Watch Katie Couric's video making fun of Dan Rather.
Watch Dan Rather's original video that Katie Couric was spoofing.

Comments

[angrykeyboarder]

03:04 AM on 11/20/2007

Rather is weird. Always has been. Don't you remember the bizzare/goofy sayings he was alwyas coming up with?

[CammyV]

09:07 AM on 11/19/2007

It's great to see the old Katie again. I miss her humor. Good on'ya kid.

[ipitombi]

06:48 PM on 11/18/2007

The tart... I mean, Ms. Perky should be careful about mudslinging at Dan.

Sure Katie, you are reigning now. But be careful. In a few years from now (if you make it that far), when the botoxed foundation in your face begin to crack, the shit-ass overpaid CEOs that employed and overpaid you $15mil per year are going to throw you under the bus like they did to good ol' Dan. Then, you gonna wanna swallow your pride and call on ol' bitter Dan to testify on your behalf.

By that time, even Faux Noise won't even wanna mess you since your perky factor would have been downgraded, your chest gone flat, and guys look away when you cross your legs.

Better to remain humble and grateful for transient opportunities. Anytime you feel the urge to get cocky or to ridicule your predecessor, remember Dumbya. You know, "bring it on", "gotta to spend my political capital", and other mindlessly juvenille I-am-on-top-of-the-world haughtiness.

[kroses98]

06:03 PM on 11/18/2007

After watching CBS News for decades, the only news I now watch on TV is Keith Olbermann's "Countdown." I also trust Bill Moyers and a few of the "comedians." The others are not worth my time or energy!

[avicenna]

03:41 AM on 11/18/2007

It was a good attempt to showcase her sitcom talents to CBS - since the news thing isn't exactly panning out as planned (you have to at least be convincing in knowing enough to comment on world affairs for that gig). I think she should go for it - audition for Hope and Faith and the like and mayhap you can find a more suitable day job, Katie.

[cmk1967]

02:59 AM on 11/18/2007

Is it just me or did the whole thing kind of seemed staged?

[Independent voter]

07:01 PM on 11/17/2007

Dear katie

Go to the store, but a nice big cucumber and f*ck yourself.

[Witchitalineman]

04:28 PM on 11/17/2007

Well the darling little "sweetheart" as lots of people used to think of Ms. Couric is just as shallow as the rest of them. What a great lesson in life to teach your daughters.

[longislandlol]

11:00 AM on 11/17/2007

C.B.S. knew they would never, ever find another Cronkite- Dan Rather was homey (a male version of Lady Bird); Katie is cute, feisty, a modern widowed single mom millionairess- having fun with a way younger guy; trends come and go and in 5 years she'll be replaced by what is au courant; it may be that by this time someone with "gravitas" might make his or her to that evening news slot.

[sa]

08:31 AM on 11/17/2007

couric is doing a nice
swiftboat of rather
for the lawsuit.
a good team player.

except couric is to journalism
as bush is to leader.

and rather is to journalism
as journalism is to journalism.

mocking is a tool of those
above their subject -
and katie, you are clearly not that.

[VivaZapata]

07:34 AM on 11/17/2007

Mass media has always been selective about what is presented to us, but since Cronkite and Huntley/Brinkley were replaced by all those cut-out-of-scott-foresman-basil-reader faces, the presentation has steadily gone down. Coat, no coat? Guts, no guts? What's the news?

[truthyguy]

05:53 AM on 11/17/2007

Hi. I'm smiling Katie Couric. I have no talent and for a whole 22 minutes a day 5 days per week I read scripts written by someone else and get paid a shit load of money to do it. Aren't I great? Don't you just love me for being so cutesee?

[GeoLee]

04:03 AM on 11/17/2007

I turn to ABC at national news time...Katie does not have it and Brian Williams is too supportive of the current administration for me to feel like I am getting all the news.

[Nonamnesiac]

03:41 AM on 11/17/2007

Couric realized that Rather always had greater ratings than she has ever had because he was substantive and an expert journalist and thinker while she is a mediocrity. So she tried to elevate her ratings by including something Ratheresque in her video -- and covered something about which she has great expertise -- fashion.

Kudos to Katie's sense of Rather's fashion. Maybe she'll get a ratings spike.

[vet64]

02:55 AM on 11/17/2007

Couric is nothing more than a bought off Neo con Parasite who has prostituted herself to the Neo Con ideals of which is shown on the movie 1984.
She's is a partisan hack who is part of the Neo Con owned conglomerates of which the News Media and Communications, Pharmaceutical, Insurance, War Material and Supply and even the United States Chamber of Commerce are part of..
They are also recipients of the millions, billions and tens of billions of American Taxpayer dollars in Cntracts, Tax Breaks, Kickbacks and outright theft.. After slipping the Republican and Democratic Legislators several thousand dollars in campaign contributions and outright bribes.