Embed This/She Said What?
April 22nd, 2008 - 4:36 pm
I dare you to watch this entire video without wondering why her ratings aren’t down even more.
“That cat with multiple lives?” Not only is that about the silliest thing I’ve ever heard a major network anchor say (minus everything ever uttered by Dan Rather), but she didn’t even get the idiom right.
Wow.
Its like a sixty-ish Christina Applegate trying to play Kelly Bundy trying to play Charles Kuralt.
Apparently, picking an anchor based gender equity is just as disastrous as as picking an Attorney General and Secretary of State that way was. Unfortunately I can’t get too excited about the fact that the country appears to have turned away from gender equity in selecting a president because the affirmitive action they’ve embraced instead is sure to be just as bad if not worse.
Yes I will be clinging to God and My Guns because after two years of President Obama those will be the only things in this country protecting me.
Ouch, Jay.
Accurate as all hell. But, ouch.
She’s also misusing the phrase “whack-a-mole.”
She should’ve said she was taking a licking but keeps on operating. Or that she’s like the Cadbury bunny, she keeps going and going and going.
Wow. People still watch CBS for their news? Huh, who knew.
Inured as I am to the video parade of appalling things life presents us with every day, I STILL could not bring myself to watch. You are all made of much tougher stuff.
She makes a chill run up my leg.
Don’t disrespect Christina Applegate. She’s actually a fairly intelligent actress.
To say “a cat with nine lives” would be demeaning to cats with fewer than nine lives left? Is that how her perky little mind works?
Geez, this is very petty.
There are lots of substantive things to complain about her for, I’m sure. I haven’t paid her much attention so I wouldn’t really know. But all the complaints I hear about her have amounted to nothing. The videos of her chatting to the crew before she goes on air were all innocuous and showed a person of fine temperament. This is just a variation on a well known idiom, a common technique.
If there is something to complain about her for, this isn’t it. If these examples are the best that people can come up with, I really might have to re-evaluate my instinctual distrust of her.
“If these examples are the best that people can come up with . . .” Nope. They’re just evidence of a tin ear, either hers or her writers.
I listen to the local CBS radio station for the traffic news, and she comes on with “Katie Couric’s Journal (or Diary, or random jottings or some such)” and I keep *praying* that she doesn’t write that crap herself. It sounds like a self-indulgent, self-important 15-year-old girl *’Splainin’* things to her idiot parents. (You know, like “War is bad.” and “Wow! Sex is fun. I know you never tried it, but, Wow!”) She has a very mediocre mind and it is shoved in our face by CBS at every opportunity.
They do try to push her on us. I was minding my own business last night watching an especially good episode of NCIS, when I found her telling me info about the election I had known for hours. My boyfriend was literally yelling, “Get the #$@% off my tv”. For someone so seemingly innocuous, she certainly elicits some strong responses.
“Mr. momentum!”
My god, this is nothing more than a haphazard string of cliché’s!