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Before I get started, I want to mention that I think Katie Couric is abysmal, bad for television, and embarrassing to the country.

NYT - ‘Today’ Seeks Yesterday’s Glory, By ALESSANDRA STANLEY

NBC executives seem to think that viewers have grown bored with “Today” and want more gimmicks and pizazz. But if that were true, they wouldn’t be switching to ABC. Ms. Sawyer’s appeal on “Good Morning America” is not that she is new and exciting, but that she is a consistently smooth, even restful, presence. Her golden good looks never change, and she handles interviews and chatter with her genial co-host Charles Gibson with a poised, creamy insincerity that never varies or falters.

Huh. Where have I heard that before?

Btw, if you want to know why I hate Katie so much, let’s look at the ridiculous comments she made during the funeral mass of the pope. She thought, evidently, that was the time, on national television, to brush up on her catechism. I mean, there was a priest there, talking to her. Then the insulting things she said during the Olympics. God! The Olympics!

People wonder why Americans are so ignorant about the rest of the world? They say we trivialize them and only think seriously of our own needs?

First, she would not shut up during any part of the opening ceremony. All the lovely music and the dancing and the high wire acts they worked on for years, and she just talked right over it. You couldn’t hear a bloody thing. When Bjork was singing, a popular musician, yes, even in this country, she talked and talked and talked over a song IN English WITH lyrics about that dress she wore to the Oscars. Making fun of the woman as she was singing so the rest of us, depending on her to bring us this ceremony, couldn’t hear what the words were. Brian would say something like “Oh she wrote this song especially for this even and has been working on it for eons” and then Katie just talked over it. I was livid.

And then the Greek costumes! Augh! Brian would point out the pleats in the skirt, 200+ of them, and that they represented each a year Greece lived under oppression. So Katie says oh so wittily “Hate to pay the dry-cleaning bills for that!” And no one laughed.

Yes, that’s our Katie. Trivializing centuries of oppression into being no more important than a dry-cleaning bill.

Now, isn’t she a banner liberal? Why was I, the Neanderthal Republican, trying to learn about and respect other cultures while the banner liberal mocked them? Hmmmmm?

Oh and btw, note that only women who wear silk blouses every day would think automatically of dry-cleaning concerns. And some of us iron our own pleats.