Katie Couric reminded us why we’re happy to now be done with network news. In an interview with Howard Kurtz, she said she is touring “this great unwashed middle of the country” to learn about the mood at the midterms. She was then caught off guard when people found this insulting because, you know, she’s so smart.
It wasn’t that long ago we had pretty much had no option for news other than one of these out of touch idiots who read news off a teleprompter and get in their head they’re smarter than everybody. Luckily, we now have more TV options, and better yet, the internet. On the internet, pretty much everyone is upfront about their biases, which for some reason old media liberals resist more than anything. Like you know coming in I’m a conservative, so you can factor in that if a conservative does something bad, I’ll play it down (“Yay head stomping!”), and if a liberal does something good, I’ll engage bearded Spock in hand to hand combat in this alternate universe I’m now stuck in. Also, with the internet, people can be journalists in their spare time, which makes it a lot more likely for conservatives to participate.
This is obviously much better than the former status quo of someone like Couric, who is happily ignorant of most of the country, picking out what she thinks we should know about. The internet has proven what we want to know about, and it’s kittens doing cute things on YouTube.
She should stop by at the beginning of the month. That’s when most of us take our monthly baths.
It was an honest mistake. She meant to say “unbrainwashed”. Had she not misspoken she would have been correct.
Leave it to a blonde, right?
It’s hard to believe people in the middle of the country could wash less than the ghetto dwellers on the coasts. Maybe she meant Chicago, that’s in the middle somewhere. I’m glad she was was generalizing by only insulting filthy white people, otherwise someone might think she was racist.
Blond? Yeah – she’s blond like Biden is smart.
Unwashed people are helping to save the planet by conserving water, I thought that was a good thing?
It’s those stomping bible and gun clinging unwashed fools who pay the bills she is talking about. Shades of Dan Rather and Walter Cronkite.
I think we have evil bearded Spock for president.
You’re conservative Frank!? That goes strangely with the ads for Jerry Brown on the page… 😉
Hey, I took my weekly shower and brushed my tooth last night. Who’s that she’s talkin’ bout? I put the same clothes on, however. They are good for another 2 to 3 weeks! We don’t cotton much to city folk tellin’ us here in Minneapolis how it’s done…
Cushy job? CHECK, Pampered by staff? CHECK, Delusions of superiority and great intelect? CHECK, Inflated Pay for a talking head? CHECK, Contempt disguised as compassion for the average American? CHECK – Looks like she has all the right qualifications to fit into the Kos crowd. Boy, are they freaking out nowdays LOL. Oh well hopefully their helmets will keep them safe.
Bryan:
Frank’s not only a conservative, he’s a capitalist. He’ll gladly accept money from stupid people.
Unwashed??? We’re not the over-the-hill gang doing the dirty dancing.
Katie Couric
*Shudder*
The funniest part? She’s all important and yet more people read the Puppy Blender than watch her show and he does it without a teleprompter and people writing for him.
Of course, she doesn’t like puppy smoothies.
So far as I know.
That could explain the perkiness though. She’s awfully perky for being so dense.
I am proud to say, Mister Shave, that I deleted that link from my browser history if only to convince myself I never saw what I saw.
Jeeze, Frank, you missed the katie’s Punch Line. All those unwashed masses she’s going to tour are in NJ, Philadelphia, Boston and Chicago….basically, the only people who still watch CBS.
I can’t for the life of me remember specifically when this has happened.
“Couric has spent recent weeks in Chicago, Philadelphia, Boston and New Brunswick, New Jersey. She is touring what she calls ‘this great unwashed middle of the country’ in an effort to divine the mood of the midterms.”
She can’t go farther south than Chicago?!
Yeah, Couric (a measured unit of sh*t according to Cartmans’ dad) thinks that air travel from NY to South Beach Miami is fly-over country. I bet she has more ‘wipes’ in her carry-on than Monk.
Oh, & Frank, it’s not “Rarr!”, it’s “RAWR!”. Japanese based gaming sites have confirmed this. 🙂 (Their version of “roar”.)
Urban dictionary – The Great Unwashed:
1. A person of a lower order who is looked down upon by most of society.
2. A term to refer to anyone who is common and or stupid in their ways.
3. Can also be applied to a person who follows ‘the crowd’ and doesn’t have a mind of their own.
(Sounds like Katie is projecting.)
If by “kittens” you mean “guys with big guns” and by “cute things” you mean “blowing things to bits”, then, yeah.