Katie Couric! David Letterman!

[Warren Stupidity]

After all of the rude nasty and downright vile things I have had to say about Couric, it is only fair to say that her interview of Palin is a work of art, a work of genius, and that Couric is a master of her craft. Her craft is not of course evening news reader, it is the up close and personal tv interview, the intimate interview, a tv form also mastered by her direct predecessor in failed women newsreaders, Barbara Walters.

All due respect Ms Couric, and you are due plenty.

And along the way a certain David Letterman is doing something that is quite extraordinary and perhaps unprecedented on Late Night Television. I don't even know what to call it other than Comedic Vendetta. David has invented a new art form. I am speechless, and he it seems cannot stop speaking.

What a very strange election year.

[barack the house]

1. Precisely we must praise great journalism wherever we find it and this has been the finest of >

Katie's career. Long may true journalism continue.

[liberalmuse]

2. McCain's worst mistake was standing up Letterman.

Letterman isn't going to let it go. It's comic gold, and he's going to milk this cow dry.

[BlooInBloo]

3. Katie "Navy SEALs RAWK!" Couric is a worthless braindead cheerleader...

Who had the WONDERFUL good luck to interview somebody stupider than she is.

C'mon people - Give high praise for "Can you name a newspaper?" ?

:rofl:

[Warren Stupidity]

6. If it were a one off incident you might have a point

but Couric set up and slaughtered, calculatedly slaughtered, Palin, over and over and over again. And she did it simply by letting the nasty and stupid and arrogant Palin dig herself into one bottomless pit after another. What Couric did was to not move on. She did not let Palin off the hook, not even once.

[BlooInBloo]

7. "Name a Supreme Court case". Wow. What genius...

:rofl:

I can keep going with such GENIUS examples of her inimitable dastardly calculating.

[Warren Stupidity]

9. You just don't get it. Fine.

Name one regulation McCain voted for - and Palin couldn't name one, but Couric if she were just a cheerleading dope, would have moved on. She didn't she kept pushing Palin's non-answers and evasions, again and again and again.

What do you read? - and Palin couldn't name one thing, and had Couric simply been a cheerleading dope that would have been it, on to the next question. But instead Couric persists, refuses to accept the evasions and counter attacks and stays on the question.

Name one supreme court decision other than Roe V Wade - and the ignorant nasty stupid Palin can not name one decision other than Roe v Wade, like a grade school child trying to desperately answer the question by restating the question as the answer, and again Couric does not move on, does not let it go, keeps us on focus until we undestand just how vacant Palin is.

Couric undid the media flummox put on the public after the Palin nomination. You claim it is all accidental, I beg to differ, but it doesn't really matter. By chance or by calculation Katie Couric exposed Palin for what she is and took the glamor off the beauty queen. She deserves your respect for what she has done for our cause, even if, as you insist, she knew not what she did.

[BlooInBloo]

10. Silliness. I never said, suggested, nor implied that Couric didn't know...

she was asking braindead questions of someone who was even more braindead that she is.

I only dispute whether or not she deserves praise for asking questions that a 3rd grader could think of.

[renate]

13. it was a perfect storm

Katie needed to improve her journalistic standing, and Sarah was the sacrificial (well, self-sacrificing) cow that needed to be slaughtered for Katie to do that.

[firedupdem]

4. They became a bit too comfortable after 8 years of Bush doing

whatever the hell he wanted and thought they could pull the same thing with this election. America is waking up and we're tired and we're not dealing with it anymore. McCain has been reckless and america has had enough of that. He had every opportunity to pick a competent running mate and he didn't need to have his campaign run by lobbyist. He has shown us his true colors and made it clear that he is just as dangerous as the current administration.

[Cha]

5. "Comedic

Vendetta"! Super description~

[Yanez Houston Jordan]

8. God bless David Letterman!

[Greyskye]

11. Nothing against Ms. Kouric, as you note she does a fine intimate interview...

I don't feel that it was so much Katie Kouric's masterful interviewing style so much as Sarah Palin's incredibly predictable, yet surreal answers.

And in the end, those were softball questions, no matter how insistently they were asked. Palin failed on the most basic levels, the type of questions no politician should ever be in need of being 'coached' on. "How do you keep yourself informed." That's the question that was asked, when you strip away any reference to the method of media delivery. Either she doesn't keep herself informed (and nothing so far has convinced me that she does), or she felt the need to lie by omission. And that says something about her style as well.

[ginnyinWI]

12. I agree with you on both people.

I too must revise my opinion of Katie Couric. She is uniquely qualified to go after Palin because she's a woman and can't be accused of victimizing a "poor little woman". Being a network anchor she had the clout she needed to get the job done. Palin couldn't just blow off CBS.

Couric was tougher on Palin than some cable news anchors are to their guests. She just kept asking and asking.

[No Elephants]

14. Katie was okay. Tina Fey was genius.

[Hekate]

15. Katie Couric did EXACTLY the kind of interview that was called for: iron hand in velvet glove...

Katie is so soft, so maternal. Rachel Maddow said her manner was so much like a therapist that she expected Katie to say, "Your hour's up. Hold that thought."

Sarah Palin has spent her whole life charming MEN. Well, a lot of them. Charlie wasn't charmed. Sarah can turn a question on its head without giving any content -- she's very good at that. Don't underestimate that skill.

What Katie did was come up with a line of questioning that ANYone in politics could be expected to answer -- any sophomore Poli Sci student, for that matter. And Sarah Palin, Governor of Alaska, wannabe VP of the US, wannabe President, COULDN'T answer them.

Instead of moving on after each non-answer, Katie kept exploring the questions, kept exploring the issues, kept probing. Not deep issues, just relevant issues. Not gotcha issues, just freshman Poli Sci issues.

All in that soft, maternal, non-threatening manner of hers.

And no matter how hard she tried, SARAH COULD NOT ANSWER THE QUESTIONS.

I don't know how Katie Couric kept a straight face. She's miscast as an anchor, but she is very very good at this. Now the whole damn country can see what we see.

:applause: :applause: :applause: :applause: :applause: :applause: :applause:

Hekate