I was going to put this on our links page (The Reader) but it’s just too priceless. Too perfect. It says it all.
Katie Couric’s producer says the reason nobody watches her is because she’s stuck behind a desk but now they’re going to send her out into middle America. Hilarity ensues.
Hot Air reports:
Rick Kaplan, her executive producer, says that “when she’s on the road—in Iraq with David Petraeus—she has a great way with people. People like her and she likes them. There are anchors who consider being on the road a pain in the butt. She really looks for opportunities to feel the earth and touch people.”
That’s why 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.
The funny part of that quote is that the producer is attempting to explain why Couric hasn’t connected with viewers and does exactly that albeit unwillingly.
The funnier part is that Howard Kurtz relayed this quote and didn’t think it worthy of a comment.
One can assume that if you live in New York, DC or Los Angeles you’re considered “the washed” but anywhere between there and you’re kinda’…shall we say…frowned upon.
Btw, I haven’t studied geography in a while (ever?) but I’m pretty sure that Alaska is not between New York and L.A. but I’d bet anyone from there (especially former governors) would be considered unwashed.
I love it when people say what they actually mean.
Katie, good luck at CNN or MSNBC or wherever you end up.
October 27, 2010 at 3:57 pm
You guys seriously need to report on what she finds. From her perspective. 😀
October 27, 2010 at 4:05 pm
New Brunswick and New Jersey aren't exactly middle America either…
This quote is also very confusing: "She really looks for opportunities to feel the earth and touch people.”
Feel the earth and touch people???? Like Jo Biden and that cop? (BTW was that a hoax??)
~Coffee Catholic
October 27, 2010 at 4:16 pm
BOSTON (?!) is the "great unwashed middle of the country" — Henry James, the pilgrims, and yeah, Thomas Jefferson, roll over and get out of bed. Your friend, John Adams, needs your help throwing a tea party.
"She enrolled at her father's alma mater,[5] the University of Virginia, in 1975 and was a Delta Delta Delta sorority sister. Couric served in several positions at UVA's award-winning daily newspaper, The Cavalier Daily. During her third year at UVA, Couric was chosen to live as Head Resident of The Lawn, the heart of Thomas Jefferson's academical village.[6] She graduated in 1979 with a bachelor's degree in English with a focus on American Studies.[7]"
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Katie_Couric
October 27, 2010 at 4:31 pm
Anon, Are you sending out her resume because you think she'll be looking for a job soon?
October 27, 2010 at 5:04 pm
Couric and her producer are typical New York, eastern establishment snobs. "Great Unwashed" are we?! I'll have you know we do take baths and showers every day! But if Katie comes out here with her schnoz high in the air, she shouldn't be too surprised if she gets some md thrown her way!
October 27, 2010 at 5:27 pm
The elite think that it's only Manhatten plus a bit of Hamptons for vacation and LA for entertainment- um- the world is bigger than that
October 27, 2010 at 7:06 pm
Sounds like their forebears landed in the Plymoth Rock.
October 27, 2010 at 7:54 pm
I hear they have an opening at NPR…
October 27, 2010 at 8:48 pm
I live in Massachusetts (easily the most ludicrous state in America), was born and raised in NYC and I can't stand that little broad.
October 27, 2010 at 10:26 pm
She must have come across my teenaged sons…she better not have touched them!
Just Plain Crazy, Me.
October 27, 2010 at 11:51 pm
Isn't she the fatuous woman who really thought the world would be interested in pictures of her washed colon?
Mack
October 27, 2010 at 11:51 pm
Funniest response I saw on Twitter is that Couric is the great unwatched.
October 28, 2010 at 3:13 pm
Chicago? Wait, the O is from Chicago. That means she thinks the O is part of the great unwashed! She is a racist!
October 28, 2010 at 8:24 pm
How does she explain the rats, lice, bedbugs, stinkbugs, etc in New York City?
http://www.nydailynews.com/lifestyle/2010/10/27/2010-10-27_concerns_over_bedbugs_and_other_pests_still_have_new_yorkers_crawling_away_from_.html
http://www.associatedcontent.com/article/958981/the_rats_of_new_york_city.html
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/03/19/AR2007031901867.html
October 29, 2010 at 5:12 am
What a snot.