Katie Couric

Katie Couric

Am I the only one in America who doesn't really "get" Katie Couric? To me, this woman is about as exciting as a colostomy bag. So fake "perky" and "on" all the time, with those sharp little cat teeth, she seems so obvious and fake to me.

I remember seeing her at some film premiere interviewing the actor Nicholas Cage. They were on the red carpet and she had this combination adoring/ feral look when she unleashed the typical "must get" question to him about his marriage to Lisa Marie Presley. Cage replies, "I'm not gonna talk about that."
Couric replys, "Oh and I respect that." Yeah, right. This woman has taken ass kissing to new depths and I guess that's how she's come this far.

There is something about Katie Couric that just symbolizes the end of the glamour age of television. She just seems like the type of woman with baby puke on the back seat of her station wagon. It reminds me of Las Vegas in the heyday of Sinatra and the Rat Pack and night life glam being taken over by fat, hairy middle aged couples in Bermuda shorts with three squealing kids taking over the casinos of Vegas.

Probably the saddest sight of all was Bob Shieffer, the CBS anchorman who seems like a very decent person, saying on TV how "happy" he is to welcome Katy to the CBS family. Yeah, right. This guy has just had his balls handed to him and to see him humiliate himself like this is just repulsive.

Maybe I'm alone in these feelings. But I don't think so.