Katie Couric jumping to CBS

[SuzeQuze]

Originally Posted by Brwn_eyes0511

I was actually watching it that day.. about pissed my pants..

God bless Joy, I tell you what..

She rocks. I've gotta watch that!

I like Katie and think the move is great. I guess I'm in the minority in giving a sh*t there. I no longer watch Today though since my morning routine now includes the internet and AAR - not TV. I don't think Katie is brilliant by any means but I like her and chicks rule.

[bikerchic]

So with Meredith gone from the View, who will replace her? I say Rosie O'Donnell. She can't stand Star and the tension and fireworks would be awesome. Besides, they need a gay chick at that table.

[strandinthewind]

Originally Posted by bikerchic

Oh, do tell.

The Couric-Coulter Catfight
by Bridget Byrne
Jun 27, 2002, 2:45 PM PT
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The biggest catfight on daytime Wednesday wasn't on any soap opera. Nope, it was on NBC's usually claw-free Today Show.

Katie Couric dropped the perky persona and went hiss to diss with conservative writer Ann Coulter over perceived political bias.

Despite vowing she "didn't want to go tit for tat", the $65 million cohost of NBC's popular morning show did just that, sparring vigorously with the media-savvy Coulter.

Coulter was on the show to hawk her new book, Slander: Liberal Lies About the American Right, which just happens to accuse Couric of liberal bias and calls her "the affable Eva Braun of morning television."

Before the 12-minute Q&A, Couric noted that Coulter had been referred to as "a right-wing telebimbo." Not long thereafter, Couric challenged Coulter's description.

Couric: "You call me the 'Eva Braun' of liberalism--"

"Affable," interjected Coulter.

"Thanks...that makes me feel soooo much better," replied Couric, her trademark grin giving way to a scowl.

Couric also took Coulter to task for claiming the Today host called Ronald Reagan "an airhead." Couric vehemently denied it, saying it was Regan biographer Edmund Morris, not her, who made the remark. Couric said she was just quoting Morris. "You used me an example of liberal bias against Ronald Reagan. I'm just wondering why you took that out of context."

"Well, I don't think I did," responded Coulter. "You're taking it out of context."

"No, I'm not," snapped Couric.

Couric also challenged Coulter for having alleged that Couric blamed the murder of gay-rights victim Matthew Shepard on Christian evangelicals.

Then Couric brought up Coulter's infamous quote about Muslim countries. "We should invade their countries, kill their leaders and convert them to Christianity," Coulter wrote. The comment, Couric pointed out, was too much even for the conservative periodical National Review, which fired Coulter. (Coulter maintains her contract simply ran out.)

"Do you still believe that's the best way to fight terrorism?" Couric demanded. Coulter offered up the "quote taken out of context" excuse, previously utilized by Couric.

Coulter insisted that after September 11 the first two points "had become official government policy." "As for converting them to Christianity, I think it might be a good idea to get them on some sort of hobby other than slaughtering infidels. I mean, perhaps that's the Peace Corps, perhaps it's working for Planned Parenthood, but I've never seen the transforming effect of anything like Christianity."

The spat ended with Couric's saying, "It's always interesting to talk to you, to say the least."

The Washington Post dubbed the showdown a contest of "The Morning Mugger and the Human Uzi" and declared Coulter the winner, because her book immediately jumped to number one on Amazon.com's bestseller list.

Couric, who made headlines earlier in the week for ending her two-year romance with television executive Tom Werner, has so far declined to comment on the bout.

Coulter, on the other hand, is milking it. She emailed the Post to say, "Katie is obviously charming--I wouldn't care what her political agenda was if she were my next-door neighbor rather than a popular TV host."

Then she rushed over to one of her favorite venues, Fox News Channel, to discuss the tête-Ã*-tête, and, not content to refer to Couric as Hitler's mistress, compared the Today host to Nazi propagandist Josef Goebbels.


http://www.eonline.com/News/Items/0,1,10167,00.html

[SuzeQuze]

Coulter didn't win that in my mind, the book sales have nothing to do with whether or not she won, her appearance alone would boost them. Also, citing the book makes people interested in it. People are dumb.

[bikerchic]

Coulter is a Canada basher and I hate her guts.

Thanks Strand, that was a good read. I'm sorry I missed that interview, sounds like it was a good one.

[DavidMn]

Originally Posted by bikerchic

Coulter is a Canada basher and I hate her guts.

Thanks Strand, that was a good read. I'm sorry I missed that interview, sounds like it was a good one.

She's a complete idiot who I wish eople would pay less attention to.

[GODDESS6]

i know this won't be popular, but i love katie & have watched her on the TODAY show the whole time~ some of her family lives 1 suburb over from me, & i have met them, they are very kind down to earth people~ now i am not saying that katie is an A1 top journalist as far as conducting an interview, but i do like the way that she is real~ my heart broke for her when her husband died & i admire what she has done as far as colon cancer research & raising money for the cause & how she let the families of the victims speak as long as the needed to at columbine~ i also remember watching 9-11 w/ her & how she handled it touched me~ it didn't matter to her that her face was smeared in mascara from her crying, she just went on, i know alot of others did too~ i like her goofiness on TODAY & that she has made me laugh many a morning trying to sing, ice skate & not drool over the lastest fine hunk~ to me she will be missed, but i wish her all the best~ any speculation as to who will take her spot?~

[DavidMn]

This catfight sounds like it was even better than Krsytle and Alexis' from Dynasty.

[bikerchic]

Originally Posted by GODDESS6

i know this won't be popular, but i love katie & have watched her on the TODAY show the whole time~ some of her family lives 1 suburb over from me, & i have met them, they are very kind down to earth people~ now i am not saying that katie is an A1 top journalist as far as conducting an interview, but i do like the way that she is real~ my heart broke for her when her husband died & i admire what she has done as far as colon cancer research & raising money for the cause & how she let the families of the victims speak as long as the needed to at columbine~ i also remember watching 9-11 w/ her & how she handled it touched me~ it didn't matter to her that her face was smeared in mascara from her crying, she just went on, i know alot of others did too~ i like her goofiness on TODAY & that she has made me laugh many a morning trying to sing, ice skate & not drool over the lastest fine hunk~ to me she will be missed, but i wish her all the best~ any speculation as to who will take her spot?~

I agree with everything you say. I like her too. It was announced today that Meredith Veira from the View is taking her spot.

[SuzeQuze]

Originally Posted by bikerchic

Coulter is a Canada basher and I hate her guts.

Thanks Strand, that was a good read. I'm sorry I missed that interview, sounds like it was a good one.

Here you go, hun.

[SuzeQuze]

Originally Posted by bikerchic

I agree with everything you say. I like her too. It was announced today that Meredith Veira from the View is taking her spot.

I think it should've been Ann Curry, I like her! Maybe not mature enough yet?

[bikerchic]

Originally Posted by SuzeQuze

Here you go, hun.

Go Katie! Thanks Suze. That was good. I think Katie really held her own there.

As far as Katie doing the evening news, I think she'll be great but she won't be able to show her perky, funny side, which we have come accustom to. and the same for Meredith on the Today show. She'll have to tone down herself too. What she got away with on the View, she'll never get away with on Today.

And I'm going to miss the Matt/Katie duo. They were great together.

[strandinthewind]

[QUOTE=bikerchic]Go Katie! Thanks Suze. That was good. I think Katie really held her own there.
[\QUOTE]

That interview really demonstrates how Ann Coulter just keeps saying something over and over again even though she knows it is a lie because the facts have just been told to her. Moreover, her attack on Katie C. was baffeling to me because Nancy Reagan has requested to be interviewed by Katie C., which appears to discredit Ann's faulty assertions ever further

[bikerchic]

Originally Posted by strandinthewind

That interview really demonstrates how Ann Coulter just keeps saying something over and over again even though she knows it is a lie because the facts have just been told to her. Moreover, her attack on Katie C. was baffeling to me because Nancy Reagan has requested to be interviewed by Katie C., which appears to discredit Ann's faulty assertions ever further

Agree. Strand, have you ever seen this? Tell me what you make of it. Is she really this stupid or does she just do it for attention?

[SuzeQuze]

Originally Posted by strandinthewind

That interview really demonstrates how Ann Coulter just keeps saying something over and over again even though she knows it is a lie because the facts have just been told to her. Moreover, her attack on Katie C. was baffeling to me because Nancy Reagan has requested to be interviewed by Katie C., which appears to discredit Ann's faulty assertions ever further

And arguing like she's in the play yard "Why did you take that out of context?" "I didn't, you did!" That's all she's got?