Katie Couric Mocks Dan Rather In YouTube Video

[Herman Munster]

http://www.nydailynews.com/gossip/2007/11/16/2007-11-16_katie_couric_imitates_dan_rather_on_yout-2.html

Who knew?

CBS anchor Katie Couric has a biting sense of humor - and she levels it at Dan Rather in a new video clip on the Internet.

Couric, who comes off staid and somber night after night as anchor of the "CBS Evening News," shows a softer, downright funny side in a clip available on YouTube.com.

In it, she's shown outdoors preparing for a newscast last week in Nashville. She's seen fixing her overcoat, and immediately makes a reference to a 20-minute clip on YouTube of Rather fixing his coat while doing the news in Seattle.

"I'm going to be like Dan Rather on YouTube," Couric says, laughing.

[Cha]

1. couric wishes she could

hold a candle to Dan Rather but since she can't she'll just laugh it off.

[El Supremo]

2. We finally see the pure narcissism of Katie Couric.

She is the embodiment of all the crap that is network news today.

[Al Federfer]

3. The lame mocking the looney. Great. n/t

[tkmorris]

5. You think Dan Rather is looney?

Why?

[Al Federfer]

10. Yeah. n/t

[cboy4]

4. Oh my. She can't be happy this got out.

She showed the stereotypical side of broadcast journalists, and that can't be good for anyone who works in television news.

[muntrv]

6. Katie's better off on YouTube than CBS, given her shitty ratings.

[tanyev]

7. Downright funny? Downright insipid, if you ask me.

No wonder so many people in this country are walking zombies. The members of the corporate media are more interested in primping and in asking how they look on camera than doing real reporting.

[spanone]

8. can you imagine huntley & brinkley making fun of cronkite?

journalism is dead

[Orsino]

9. If she works hard and applies herself...

...she might one day be capable of fixing her overcoat as classily as Rather.