Katie Couric jumping to CBS

skcin · #1 04-05-2006, 11:41 AM

Whoop-dee-friggin-do.

Does anyone care? I despise the Today show, I think Katie and Matt are both poor interviewers & not likable. I always watch CBS This Morning, or GMA. Never Today. So I guess now I won't be watching the CBS Evening news. Not that I watched it much anyway.

I guess it's cool that a woman will be anchoring the evening news solo, but I really don't care.

JazmenFlowers · #2 04-05-2006, 11:55 AM

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Originally Posted by skcin

Whoop-dee-friggin-do.

I guess it's cool that a woman will be anchoring the evening news solo, but I really don't care.

lmao. I swear. I don't give a ****, really. I never really liked her anyway.

bikerchic · #3 04-05-2006, 12:30 PM

Oh and by the way, I think Marine's rock!

It looks like the "apple doll" will be replacing her. Good god, where's the "fuzzy lens"?!

JazmenFlowers · #4 04-05-2006, 02:14 PM

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Oh and by the way, I think Marine's rock!

It looks like the "apple doll" will be replacing her. Good god, where's the "fuzzy lens"?!

poor Merry.

I heard she was initially cast as Leatherface in TCSM, but Star threatened to quit if Meredith was in a movie before she was.

Nixxxed · #5 04-05-2006, 02:24 PM

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poor Merry.

I heard she was initially cast as Leatherface in TCSM, but Star threatened to quit if Meredith was in a movie before she was.

Did you see the video of Star vs. Joy from last week's speakerphone breast-lift report?

JazmenFlowers · #6 04-05-2006, 02:27 PM

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Did you see the video of Star vs. Joy from last week's speakerphone breast-lift report?

I didn't, but I heard about it...like 10 billion times.

dissention · #7 04-05-2006, 02:29 PM

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Did you see the video of Star vs. Joy from last week's speakerphone breast-lift report?

Ha. Stah called Joy a bitch after Joy told her to shut up & enjoy her new tits, so they hung up on her.

Joy Behar > Stah Jones

Oh, and definitely flip through Stah's book if you can. There are chapters devoted to her favorite stores across the globe, with the phone numbers & addresses listed for your convenience. That bitch.

Nixxxed · #8 04-05-2006, 02:05 PM

I wish she was jumping off a cliff instead.

dissention · #9 04-05-2006, 02:16 PM

Never trust a woman who shows you the inside of her ass on national television to give you the news.

strandinthewind · #10 04-05-2006, 02:44 PM

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Never trust a woman who shows you the inside of her ass on national television to give you the news.

Yea - but the catfight between Katie C. and the Coultergeist was fab.

bikerchic · #11 04-05-2006, 03:45 PM

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Yea - but the catfight between Katie C. and the Coultergeist was fab.

Oh, do tell.

strandinthewind · #12 04-06-2006, 11:06 AM

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Oh, do tell.

The Couric-Coulter Catfight
by Bridget Byrne
Jun 27, 2002, 2:45 PM PT
back to story
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 tÃªte-Ã*-tÃªte, 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 · #13 04-06-2006, 11:20 AM

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.

DavidMn · #14 04-05-2006, 04:41 PM

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Originally Posted by dissention

Never trust a woman who shows you the inside of her ass on national television to give you the news.

Leave it to you to come up with the laugh of the day.

UnwindedDreams · #15 04-06-2006, 06:13 PM

I love Katie...

I care...I have been watching Katie for the past 15 years and I think she is a great interviewer along with Diane Sawyer and she will surely be missed

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Originally Posted by skcin

Whoop-dee-friggin-do.

Does anyone care? I despise the Today show, I think Katie and Matt are both poor interviewers & not likable. I always watch CBS This Morning, or GMA. Never Today. So I guess now I won't be watching the CBS Evening news. Not that I watched it much anyway.

I guess it's cool that a woman will be anchoring the evening news solo, but I really don't care.