January 13, 2009
Take that, Katie Couric!
In a passage addressing Dick Cavett's attack on Sarah Palin's speaking ability, leftist iconoclast Camille Paglia offered this take down of Palin's cattiest critic who's not a Dick. Cavett, that is.
And let me take this opportunity to say that of all the innumerable print and broadcast journalists who have interviewed me in the U.S. and abroad since I arrived on the scene nearly 20 years ago, Katie Couric was definitively the stupidest. As a guest on NBC's "Today" show during my 1992 book tour, I was astounded by Couric's small, humorless, agenda-ridden mind, still registered in that pinched, tinny monotone that makes me rush across the room to change stations whenever her banal mini-editorials blare out at 5 p.m. on the CBS radio network. And of course I would never spoil my dinner by tuning into Couric's TV evening news show. That sallow, wizened, drum-tight, cosmetic mummification look is not an appetite enhancer outside of Manhattan or L.A. There's many a moose in Alaska with greater charm and pizazz.
It's a two-fer! A Cavett-Couric craptacular, courtesy of Camille's caustic keyboard. Well done.
Posted by Mike Lief at January 13, 2009 08:48 PM
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