Katie Couric's interviews with Sarah Palin have racked up another award: this time, the Alfred I. duPont-Columbia University Award from the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism.
The Couric-Palin award was just one of two coveted duPont-Columbia batons awarded to CBS News; the other was for its series on the children of the recession.
"CBS News is proud to be recognized with these prestigious awards, representing two very different and singular achievements," said Sean McManus, President, CBS News and Sports. "One award is for a high-profile interview that has become an iconic moment in television journalism and a testament to Katie Couric's excellence.
Yeah "iconic" for the fact that it revealed Sarah Palin as being completely unfit for the job of Vice President of the United States...or Governor of Alaska...or Mayor of Wasilla....or cashier at the Wasilla McDonalds....or hallway monitor at the local elementary school....etc., etc., etc..
I was never much of a Katie Couric fan when she was on the Today show, and virtually ignored her when she became an anchor, but damn I have got to give her mad props for exposing this train wreck to the American public.
I was going to post the interview for everybody to watch, but then I thought "Haven't we had enough Sarah Palin videos today?" Which is when I remembered that a whole chunk of this interview showed up in SNL, and watching THAT would be much more enjoyable.
So here you go. This is still my all time favorite SNL bit.
I'm gettin' tired with the gossip and rumors and the SNL humor concerning Sarah Palin. Can't someone finally dispatch this blight on the American scene as summarily as Joseph Welch did with Joe McCarthy?
ReplyDeleteI, too, have Palin fatigue, Flynn. That said, kudos to Couric and my hat is still off to Tina Fey, who is also a major American heroine in my book.
ReplyDeleteGood for Katie Couric. Hey S'carah how does it feel? The perky won an award even thou you tried to discredit her in your book of fiction.
ReplyDeleteI just read an appropriate comment about Palin.
ReplyDelete"Palin shattered the basement glass ceiling for women and all humanity." "Basement glass ceiling" --- fits Palin who is a mess and started a mess in politics.
I used to think Couric's "journalism" career peaked when she had a camera up her ass. Mebbe I was wrong.
ReplyDeleteHeck man there is fun to be had.
ReplyDeleteSomeone i mean someone has to put "It's all over now baby blue" to video and stills. Wish i could do it but still learning. Someone please pick up on it.
How about Rush Limbaugh latest rant.
ReplyDelete"The US military is now Meals on Wheels.It always is with Democratic President.
Just read about it on Kos.
I think he is sicker than Palin.
A mission that should make the American millitry proud.
You are a Disgusting creature Limbaugh.
Rush is satan's twin brother. That man is pure evil. The evil just oozes from his pores. He's full of sh*t!
ReplyDeleteI'll admit, I never had anything but scorn for Couric, either. Didn't even bother to watch the interview since I expected it to be all softball nonsense ( watched it later on YouTube). The truth is, Katie is about the only journalist out there who is like a bulldog--she doesn't let her interviewees slide away without answering the question. I've since watched her interview Beck and was even more impressed.
ReplyDeleteShe deserves every honor heaped on us. Without her interview, god only knows what would have happened. It's scary to even think about.
hrh, you were badly mistaken. That camera wasn't up Couric's ass. That camera was in fact, in front of Palin's face. I know, I know, it's hard to tell to the difference between Couric's ass and Sarah's face.
ReplyDeleteYes, I, too, am ready for the bring down Palin news...Waiting for the custody trial...Waiting for the bury Palin...Waiting ...waiting..is sure getting to my nerves....
ReplyDeleteThat video is so god damn funny
ReplyDeleteI agree: PFS!!!
ReplyDeleteIt's All Over Now, Baby Blue
You must leave now, take what you need, you think will last.
But whatever you wish to keep, you better grab it fast.
Yonder stands your orphan with his gun,
Crying like a fire in the sun.
Look out the saints are comin' through
And it's all over now, Baby Blue.
The highway is for gamblers, better use your sense.
Take what you have gathered from coincidence.
The empty-handed painter from your streets
Is drawing crazy patterns on your sheets.
This sky, too, is folding under you
And it's all over now, Baby Blue.
All your seasick sailors, they are rowing home.
All your reindeer armies, are all going home.
The lover who just walked out your door
Has taken all his blankets from the floor.
The carpet, too, is moving under you
And it's all over now, Baby Blue.
Leave your stepping stones behind, something calls for you.
Forget the dead you've left, they will not follow you.
The vagabond who's rapping at your door
Is standing in the clothes that you once wore.
Strike another match, go start anew
And it's all over now, Baby Blue.
Baby Bitch Lyrics
ReplyDeleteSend "Baby Bitch" Ringtone to your Cell
It's been a while since I've seen you smile
But now you've come back again
Came into the room and you saw my girl
And you asked her how long it's been
"A year" she said and you shook your head
Said "I'm surprised it's gone on that long"
Baby, Baby, Baby Bitch
For words I am at a loss
Baby, Baby, Baby Bitch
I'm better now please fuck off
What else you gonna say while you're back on your stay
Maybe something, maybe nothing we'll see
It's just too bad, you're beautiful I guess
I wasn't for you and you weren't for me
Baby, Baby, Baby Bitch
Please slip back into yourself
Baby, Baby, Baby Bitch
Go conquer someone else
People say, "How beautiful, how sweet, how kind"
You're perfect, you've got nothing to hide
But I, for one, have seen the sun
And the bitch that you've locked up inside
Got fat, got angry, started hating myself
Wrote "Birthday Boy" for you babe
Now I'm skinny and sick and paranoid
Without a cent to my name
Baby, Baby, Baby Bitch
Fuck you, you stinkin' ass ho
Most beauty I've seen
You come from a dream
But I can't close my eyes anymore
No, I can't close my eyes anymore
Imagine the state of utter disbelief Katie must have been experiencing as she listened to Palin's responses to her questions. Without a doubt, the most consequential political interviews in recent history - perhaps in the history of television.
ReplyDeleteWell, they chose quite a week to introduce Palin on Faux didn't they? Upstaged by Conan/Couric and Haiti...Poor Sarah, no one's focused on her!
ReplyDeleteYep, Katie deserves the award. She was great and wouldn't let Sarah slide with her questions. She did us all a big favor in showing us how really uninformed and unqualified she really was for the VP slot...no wonder Sarah can't stand her.
ReplyDeleteIt was sure fun to watch that again, Gryphen. I don't think I'll ever get tired of Tina Fey and Amy Poehler. Both of them, and Katie Couric, deserve all the honors they can get.
ReplyDeleteI don't think Katie's questions were hardball, and that's what made the interview so funny. Sarah could not even answer a softball question. Look at her performance on Glenn Beck. Should she have learned not to use the "All of 'em" answer by now?
I don't think she will look good in an orange jumpsuit, and I think that is where she is headed. Maybe they will offer her a rubber room, so she can bounce around a bit when she has her nervous breakdown.
NY Times today is claiming what a smart move she made going faux, and predict she will win repub. nomination for 2012. MSM fails to look at the mess she made in your state.
ReplyDeleteI maintain that Couric was very close to being ousted as anchor of CBS News. The Palin interview saved her career. The funny thing is, her questions were not very tough at all. The one thing that Couric did right was to not let Palin bullshit her way past questions by spewing meaningless word salad. To her credit, Couric actually listened to what Palin said and forced her to at least openly display that she didn't have the slightest idea what she was talking about.
ReplyDeleteI give Couric due props for behaving like more of a real journalist than all but a very few of her contemporaries.
Tina Fey won a special Emmy for portraying Sarah Palin, and making a significant contribution to the 2008 Campaign.
ReplyDeleteWe know someone who works in London for Reuters News Service. Before Katie did her now famous interview, she was not held in very high esteem by them. After Katie's interviews aired, they were passed around on You Tube.
What we don't realize is how global that kind of network really is. The people at Reuters passed around the videos of the now famous "what do you read" interviews, playing them over and over for two reasons: pure admiration for Katie and pure amazement that someone running for Vice President of the United States was that dumb.
In order to appreciate the scope of this, Reuters is the British version of the Associate Press Wire Service. Their network is global, and that video went global in an instant. They claim that within the first week, there were over two million hits. (Take that, Susan Boyle). The impact was felt world wide. (Take that, Sarah Palin).
Today, nothing happens in a vacuum. If and when Sarah flubs (again) count on it also going global. Information travels faster than ever before. Sarah dreamed of being a TV celebrity like Ivana Trump. Be careful what you wish for. Sarah is so sure that the next interviewer will ask gotcha questions, that she is already in defensive mode. Answer: all of them.
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ReplyDeleteIf you click on the title and listen to the 29 minutes of the interviews (yep, I put myself through it again), you can see that Katie was very professional and knowledgeable. What is funny after all this time is how idiotic Sarah Palin is in those interviews. I know Gryphen posted the Tina Fey thingy, but if you have 29 minutes, go back and watch her. It is incredible how vacuous she is on every question that Katie asks.
ReplyDeleteAt the movies today, we saw the preview for Tina Fey's newest movie, "Date Night." Of course, it made me think of her SNL work. Here you are giving me a clip of one of the funniest. Thanks for the laugh!!!
ReplyDeleteTo Patti @8:05 p.m. I believe hrh was talking about the time Katie Couric allowed her colonoscopy to be televised. Because her husband had died of colon cancer, she was trying to encourage everyone to get a colonoscopy by demonstrating that it was "not that bad." It worked -- many, MANY people did, indeed, go out and get the test as a result of her report.
ReplyDeleteI think Katie Couric has more class and smarts under her right thumbnail than Sarah Palin has in her entire body. She could have become very frustrated with Palin's stupid responses and just given up. However, she was smart enough to realize that those responses were the TRUE Palin and that is what the American people needed to see.
Bravo, Katie. We salute you. You did, indeed, open our eyes. Many, many thanks.
In television interviews she was out of her depth in a shallow pool.
ReplyDeleteShe was limited in her ability to explain and defend her positions, and sometimes in knowing them.
She couldn't say what she read because she didn't read anything.
She was utterly unconcerned by all this and seemed in fact rather proud of it:
It was evidence of her authenticity.
She experienced criticism as both partisan and cruel because she could see no truth in any of it.
She wasn't thoughtful enough to know she wasn't thoughtful enough.
Her presentation up to the end has been scattered, illogical, manipulative and self-referential to the point of self-reverence.
"I'm not wired that way," "I'm not a quitter," "I'm standing up for our values." I'm, I'm, I'm.
In another age it might not have been terrible, but here and now it was actually rather horrifying.
What the mainstream media wants is not to kill her but to keep her story going forever.
She hurts, as they say, the Republican brand, with her mess and her rhetorical jabberwocky and her careless causing of division.
Really, she is the most careless sower of discord since George W. Bush, who fractured the party and the movement that made him.
Why wouldn't the media want to keep that going?
Peggy Noonan..........Republican
Gasman @ 9:43 nails it.
ReplyDeleteNow now...I think she'd be a fine hall monitor. Lots of opportunities there for petty abuses of power without endangering, you know, our nation. Also, too.
ReplyDeletePat in Texas
SNL needs to make a faux Sarah Palin commentator a permanent memeber of their weekly update now that the real Sarah Palin is a commentator on Fox.
ReplyDeleteThe only problem is Tina Fey probably wouldn't do it, and I don't think there's anyone else that could be as spot on.
It would be a ratings hit EVERY week.
This was, to quote Steve Schmidt, "...the most consequential interview from a negative perspective that a candidate for national office has gone through."
ReplyDeleteThese interviews brought the Mean Girl out in Paylin because Katie Couric represents what Sister Sarah wants to be--an attractive and successful JOURNALIST, known as "America's Sweetheart." Her envy and disdain for Couric was palpable and she finally lost control over the reading material question.
But I still say it was Tina Fey's performance that drove it right out of the ballpark, especially the skits where she used Paylin's words verbatim.
My favorite part about the SNL skit is that there is virtually no writing! They played off what Palin actually said. Awesome.
ReplyDeleteCarrie
WTG Katie Couric!! Wow, that's pretty damned good, I'm sure it will help her "low self-esteem" Sarah Palin said everyone was so worried about!!!!
ReplyDeleteha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha!!
There was quite a spirited discussion over at the sea of pee last night. The bots are very unhappy about the treatment of their Queen over at Faux and really went into defense mode at a couple of trolls who crept in. I was amused by this comment:
ReplyDelete"Bill O'Reilly was condescending and Glenn Beck - well, just weird. When he started to read his drivel from his diary, I thought Gov. Palin was going to kick him - she should have!
What a strange way to treat her. You may disagree with this, but even Katie Couric was more respectful than her so-called "friends" at FOX."
And this one explains the vitriol against Nicole Wallace:
"Has Sean ever asked Nicole Wallace anything in any way about the campaign?
It was her call to do the many segmented interview with Katie Couric, and yet, Governor Palin who knew the whole vibe stunk, is the one asked ad nauseum about it. And Nicole goes merrily along her way.
Had anyone extensively asked Nicole Wallace about her role in that set up?
It should follow her for the rest of her life, just like it seems to follow Governor Palin. Sickening!"
And to think that crybaby beck got her AGAIN on the Founding Father Fiasco!
ReplyDelete"All of them", she told him. Then she said George Washington, which of course aint rite.
ITS THE SAME THING SHE TOLD KATIE.
too funny. over a year later and she isnt any smarter.
OT
ReplyDeleteI guess I hadnt seen this part of the Hannity/Palin interview.
Brown in MA better be scared, very scared:
Palin: Scott Brown is a conservative, “would love” to see him take Kennedy’s seat
http://www.dailykos.com/tv/w/002476/
Moseyon @ 7.48:
ReplyDeletePat Robinson is either sickeningly cynical and/or equally deluded.
RL has my blood pressure up, but what really got me riled when I read his sponsor list on DailyKos is that the American Forces Network (AFN) is a sponsor! WTF???!!! Oh, I understand:
What better way to continue the age old method of dehumanizing and demonizing the "other"?
Who is in charge of AFN at this time? This inquiring mind wants to know. It might be interesting!
Sunnyjane,
ReplyDeleteI remember when Couric's husband had died. I do think that hrh's remark of:
"I used to think Couric's "journalism" career peaked when she had a camera up her ass. Mebbe I was wrong",
was meant as mean sarcasm.
Sarah is cute, charming and has charisma and if that is all it takes to get to the Oval Office then she is a shoe-in. If it requires more, Houston there is a problem.
ReplyDeleteUsed to be that asking leading questions was just plain old professional journalism. Not something you got a prize for. An everyday thing. Well, anyway good journalism job Katie.
ReplyDeleteNow, we have interactive journalism, that's if the editor likes you, or what you predictably say (the parameters of what you may say are defined and pre-determined by the editor/owner of blog, based upon your demographics and if the internet access remains open). News print is useful for archives and now except for federal uses blogging and cable news organizations don't need to retrieve historic news. Don't have to. "Now" is all that matters. Bummer for the nostalgic types or picking up on large scale political patterns instituted by wealthy, socially improved, stylish "shadows".
Anonymous at 9:20 AM - Sarah is none of those things in my opinion, but even if she was - dream on!
ReplyDeleteAfter 8 years of Bozo Bush, the American people will not be fooled again!