Katie Couric: “Maybe We Need a Muslim Version of The Cosby Show:”
In her @katiecouric Web show analyzing the trends of 2010, the CBS Evening News anchor made a serious speech (in her serious, deep-thinker glasses) against the deep “seething hatred” against Muslims in America:
I also think sort of the chasm, between, or the bigotry expressed against Muslims in this country has been one of the most disturbing stories to surface this year. Of course, a lot of noise was made about the Islamic Center, mosque, down near the World Trade Center, but I think there wasn’t enough sort of careful analysis and evaluation of where this bigotry toward 1.5 billion Muslims worldwide, and how this seething hatred many people feel for all Muslims, which I think is so misdirected, and so wrong — and so disappointing.
AdvertisementShe really winced on that last word. When comedian Mo Rocca said he went to “really fancy schools” and “I cannot tell you five things about Islam,” Couric shot back “Maybe we need a Muslim version of The Cosby Show.”
But we’ve already had one in real life. Like Heathcliff and Clair Huxtable, the prosperous and well-dressed couple enjoyed the good life in New York State. And Like Cosby himself, the paterfamilias of the series worked in the television industry:
Unfortunately though, while the writing held up well during much of the series, as with the ambiguous final episodes of Seinfeld, the Prisoner and Twin Peaks, the show’s ultimate denouement confused many newspaper critics, casting a slightly negative light on an otherwise boffo show business run.
“the bigotry expressed against Muslims in this country has been one of the most disturbing stories to surface this year.”
Funny. But you knew it was coming. Despite all statistics proving that there has been no trend toward actual bigotry against Muslims in the years since 9/11, this was a narrative that couldn’t be stopped. Civic protest over a triumphalist Islamic monument over the ruins of an Islamic attack on American soil would just HAVE to be seen as “bigotry”, with lynchings soon to follow.
Any ordinary and socially alert citizen would have to objectively note that, if we’re going rate bigotry against groups as a story this year, the overwhelmingly newsworthy one would have to be of the bigotry against the tea party. Never has a group of peaceful and civically responsible Americans been so concertedly maligned by their fellow Americans in modern times.
Nevermind. That’s a non-starter, as the bigotry was generated and sustained by elites like Couric.
I’m sick and tired of reading about accusations of bigotry against “Muslims” whenever anybody criticizes specific Muslims who commit crimes — like beheading their wives.
The hypocrisy of the Leftist accusers is laughable. First they say we’re supposed to “understand” them, and why they hate us.
Because they’re Muslims and are taught, by their understanding of Islam, and Sharia, and local imams, to hate us.
But we’re not allowed to mention that their hate-filled ideology is a cause for caution, if not always alarm.
Ha ha ha — they need to be laughed at.
Kinda reminds me of the mock headline I saw that read: Muslims worldwide fear backlash following tomorrow’s Terrorist attack