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Katie Couric: "I Don't Know Much About Huckabee"

Huffington Post   |  Rachel Sklar   |   January 15, 2008 06:19 PM

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This clip of an unplugged Katie Couric from Harry Shearer at My Damn Channel has been making the rounds today with lots of observations: Katie says "shit," Katie imitates Meredith Vieira, Katie talks about Cindy McCain's freaky eyes, Katie near-yodels the names "Wheatland!" and "Cynthia!", Katie's sister watches her. All nice background patter, nothing too crazy or gotcha, not even "Give me one interesting exit poll, please!" or deep-voiced "Time for the weather, and Al."

Until this, that is: "I don't know much about Huckabee." I literally stopped and rewound. Again. "Okay tell me — I don't know much about Huckabee." She repeats. "Huckabee." Here's the point where I'm backtrackin, trying to fiugre out at what point it was possible to not know much about Huckabee. This video was recorded on January 8th. That's after the Iowa primary — which Huckabee won. That's after the floating cross ad which made headlines and airtime everywhere. That's after he was the where-did-he-come-from frontrunner about whom everyone was scrambling to catch up, and after everyone started catching up with all sorts of his old dirty laundry in the news. That's even after November — when she sat with Huckabee as part of her presidential candidate "Primary Questions" interview series. So how the hell can she not know much about Huckabee? I have no answer for that question that does not trouble me greatly about how much one of the nation's top three anchors actually knows about the freaking news.

Also her assistant - Jen - has great hair.

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- TJS I'm a Fan of TJS permalink

Let's adopt the British policy of referring to news anchors as "news readers." It is a more honest title, and does away with the pretense that the attractive person with great teeth and perfect hair reading the teleprompter is actually a journalist.

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 10:56 AM on 01/18/2008
- PeteBogs I'm a Fan of PeteBogs permalink

don't know much about Huckabee... don't know much trigonometry...

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 02:14 PM on 01/17/2008
- InofTouch I'm a Fan of InofTouch permalink

Just love the bashing of women in this...clinton and who else

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 12:14 PM on 01/17/2008
- GoodbyeKitty I'm a Fan of GoodbyeKitty permalink

When I read Schearer's piece, I thought he was being silly.

You on the otherhand, made an astute and damning observation about not only Kouric but the MSM in general.

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 12:10 PM on 01/17/2008
- gypsy508 I'm a Fan of gypsy508 permalink

I don't get the uproar over this. She seems like a completely normal human being and fun to work with. All TV is fake, including that stern serious look anchors give, but people are so taken it by it I guess they are criticizing someone for being real.

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 11:53 AM on 01/17/2008
- Britisher I'm a Fan of Britisher permalink

I concur with truth 101 in that Couric seemed to be asking for an update on Huckabee, not that she was admitting total ignorance. She asked several other questions of her staff in that context as well. This post is just histrionic.

I did note that she proposed saying "The Pentagon released DRAMATIC footage" of an encounter with Iranian boats--adding the adjective purely for the sake of punching-up the story regardless of whether it was really applicable. It clearly wasn't applicable if she'd seen it and if she hadn't seen it she shouldn't have suggested the adjective.
THAT I think is the more telling moment in the footage and a reflection not just on her but the TV 'news' industry as a whole.

Yes she's an overpaid unqualified emabarassment totally inappropriate as an anchor for "hard news"---but we know that already.

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 11:46 AM on 01/17/2008
- kdjoins I'm a Fan of kdjoins permalink

...as in election night results - how his exit polls went, is he speaking soon, has he made comments about the results, what place is he in relative to others, etc.

But did Katie make any cracks about running for "Lezident?"

like at http://www.lezident.com

what a goof ball. did you get a hairbrush yet?

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 09:14 AM on 01/17/2008
- kdjoins I'm a Fan of kdjoins permalink

You are still ditzy. I hate Couric, but she is sitting on the hotseat looking for Election Night info on Huckabee - not him in general. She needs to be fed facts to say on air.

Class warfare sucks.

But did Barack make any cracks about running for "Lezident?"

like at http://www.lezident.com

this is getting silly!

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 09:08 AM on 01/17/2008
- VOTER I'm a Fan of VOTER permalink
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Couric - the "best" investment CBS ever made!

LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL

And to quote Katie, "Shit, shit, shit, shit, shit.................!"

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 08:34 AM on 01/17/2008
- truth101 I'm a Fan of truth101 permalink
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I watched the video and disagree about your
negative interpretation of her Huckabee
comment. She had to have known quite a bit
about Huckabee given his prior meterioic rise
from obscurity and infamous cross, and was
merely asking for an update on his
current situation in New Hampshire. Your
interpretation is a real stretch.

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 11:46 PM on 01/16/2008
- TitusPullo I'm a Fan of TitusPullo permalink

Broadcast News - that movie was totally real.

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 04:38 PM on 01/16/2008
- JohnFromCensornati I'm a Fan of JohnFromCensornati permalink
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She's a news reader. What's the big deal?

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 09:24 PM on 01/15/2008
- Advocate123 I'm a Fan of Advocate123 permalink

She's an abject idiot. I posted this video earlier today.

What gets me most angry is that when people told her the "real story" she kept filtering it, masking it, or making up her own story.

Advocate123
http://copiousdissent.blogspot.com

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 07:47 PM on 01/15/2008
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