Katie Couric: "I Don't Know Much About Huckabee"
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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Huffington Post | Rachel Sklar | January 15, 2008 06:19 PM