Katie Couric Beats Male News Editor
If Joe Hagan’s New York Magazine article “Alas, Poor Couric” is correct — that Katie Couric slapped a fellow male editor in anger “over and over and over again on the arm” — she should be fired immediately.
It appears that feminist spin control is already working overtime. The early release on Drudge indicates “It had seemed like a joke at first, but it quickly became clear that she wasn’t kidding”. But an “insider” claims otherwise: “Look, it wasn’t serious, whatsoever.”
But Couric grudgingly agrees that her act was not a mock act: “I sort of slapped him around,” Couric admits. “I got mad at him and said, ‘You can’t do this to me. You have to tell me when you’re going to use a word like that.’ I was aggravated, there’s no question about that.”
This morning, Couric dropped her own countermeasures pointing fingers at CBS, painting them as rigid fuddy-duddies holding her news broadcast back – in spite of all the changes at CBS Evening News making the show “more personable, more accessible, a little less formal, a little more approachable,”.
Sorry, Katie – changing the subject does not change the subject.
Couric and a few other feminist “news” hounds blame sexism for Couric’s failure. I disagree. Being an exciting “reality” talk show personality who gets on-air colonoscopies does not qualify one as a serious news reporter or analyst.
If there is any point about sexism to be made, it is that news does not feminize well. News junkies want the straight stuff not filtered by pink sunglasses bespectacled with catchy bling. In fact, it would be sexist to not hold Couric to the same standards of professional behavior others are held to in the workplace – including the standards on workplace violence.
Couric is a card-carrying feminist who thinks adherence to feminism is more important than facts – revealed when she accused Christina Hoff Sommers of “throwing the baby out with the bathwater” for proving that feminist statistics on “Football Sunday” domestic violence are hogwash.
Couric now wants a free pass to move feminist faux-patriarchalism into the CBS news room. This would be a smart move only if CBS wants its news show to be rated against Oprah – and lose there too.
Here is the take-away that CBS has yet to realize: at the gut level, most Americans know that feminism suffers from an insurmountable credibility gap of its own making. Americans believe in equality, but know that feminism is no longer a vehicle working for it. Most Americans will never accept a self-absorbed feminist activist as an oracle of wisdom or fact. Mark Twain forespoke CBS’s tragic management mistake this way: “Never teach a pig to sing. It wastes your time and annoys the pig.”
If a male news anchor slapped a female staffer even once, he would be out the door before the news even hit the streets. Physical violence is never acceptable in the workplace – even if your name is Katie Couric.
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July 8th, 2007 at 7:03 pm
Chickens roosting at home? RE: her comments about castration in ninety seven. Once a violent gender offender…..
July 8th, 2007 at 8:12 pm
alot of women are in deep do-do- if men start to see themselves as victims like women have for the last 40 years…
Women are simply more out of control and will slap and hit at will…
right now they face very little responseability for their actions and their violence against men has risen sharply…
men if she’s hitting you…talk with john dias @ dont make her mad …
July 8th, 2007 at 9:22 pm
Whoever got slapped has a million-dollar lawsuit to pursue.
But it would take a great lawyer to overcome the image of Katie as a kind of hysterical sock puppet slapping away at shadows and doing absolutely no damage….
Pretty much equivalent to her impact on broadcast journalism.
Katie is a fluffer. (And not so skilled at that, either…).
Look it up!
July 8th, 2007 at 10:13 pm
Every woman who slaps a man should be arrested and charged with assault. Men have been letting women get away with gratuitous violence for far too long. It has to stop.
If the law won’t help, then private prosecutions need to happen. Clog the courts with civil suits.
July 9th, 2007 at 5:25 am
she probably has been watching all the sit-coms, movies and commercials that depict women hitting men, laugh track included without charge, for the last 20 years or so.
nothing will happen here. we must understand that. look for it and you will get a migraine. the guy is in a female dominated industry. if he complains, he will have to grab a lunch bucket and find a real job. not gonna happen i tell ya.
July 9th, 2007 at 7:42 am
she may or may not be held accounteable for her actions…
no women will ever be held accounteable for their actions unless we raise awareness..be bold and broach the conversation of mensrights with a friend!!
July 9th, 2007 at 8:00 am
I want to see Mark Rudov debate Katie Couric. When she starts slapping him around what do you think he will say?
A. You hit like a girl.
B. Gimme some sugar baby.
B. You are beautiful when you are angry.
D. What positive solutions do you have Katie to female hostility towards men?
July 9th, 2007 at 8:09 am
I believe that is Christina Hoff Sommers not Suzanne.I wanted to insert a snarky remark here but I am sure that would be edited thoroughly.
July 9th, 2007 at 8:40 am
Couric confuses to violence. “I sort of slapped him around. I got mad at him…” “I was aggravated, there’s no question about that.”
If a man had said he that he would hit a women at work, then 911 most likely be called, and the police would charge the man with battery. I expect that the man would be fired from his job, while the woman would be supported, enduring the abuse of a man.
Yet today in America with equal rights for all at work, there is a different standard for criminal behavior for women compared to men.
Women are just as likely as men to engage in aggression
- Law professor Linda Kelly noted, “Leading sociologists have repeatedly found that men and women commit violence at similar rates.” [Source: Linda Kelly: Disabusing the definition of domestic abuse. Florida State University Law Review, Vol. 30, pages 791-855, 2003. Accessible at: http://www.law.fsu.edu/journals/lawreview/downloads/304/kelly.pdf ]
- Psychologist John Archer reviewed hundreds of studies and concluded, “Women were slightly more likely than men to use one or more act of physical aggression and to use such acts more frequently.” [Source: John Archer: Sex differences in aggression between heterosexual partners: A meta-analytic review. Psychological Bulletin, Vol. 126, No. 5, pages 651-680].
July 9th, 2007 at 8:48 am
Badger, thanks for catching the typo. It has been corrected. I’m not the sharpest axe in the bag when I first fall out of bed in the morning.
July 9th, 2007 at 8:52 am
chiefbiggywigg: I would like to see Lis Wiehl excuse this one away without ending up stone-cold the floor. Mark, how about suggesting this for a Fox debate?
July 9th, 2007 at 9:58 am
Katie “Castration” Couric – does her behavior suprise anyone when she suggests castration as a means to modify behavior?
Perhaps Ms. Couric needs her breasts removed?
July 9th, 2007 at 12:07 pm
Katie Couric calls striking Jerry Cipriano, a co-worker, “a joke.”
http://apnews.myway.com/article/20070709/D8Q941H00.html
http://www.cbsnews.com/blogs/2006/02/21/publiceye/entry1334731.shtml?source=search_blog
July 9th, 2007 at 3:13 pm
Flashback: Imus name called athletes, which was part of his shtick, and lost his job.
http://abcnews.go.com/GMA/story?id=3022039&page=1
July 9th, 2007 at 3:32 pm
It seams this would be the perfect excuse for CBS to fire her. Ofcourse they would be really firing her because of her poor ratings but this could get them out of paying her some huge severance.
July 9th, 2007 at 4:19 pm
scott66..fire her? she would own cbs.
July 10th, 2007 at 4:13 pm
You go Dave!
I’ve writing about this on other blogs all afternoon! Did you read some of the thousands of comments about the article in the AOL piece online yesterday?
NOT ONE mentioned the violence issue.
Imagine ole Brian slapping some woman over there at CBS? They’d be fainitng from Tampa to Seattle.
The comments from obvious female responents were exactly what you wrote, the reason she is doing poorly is because men don’t want a female newsanchor. So, men are the problem. Huh. And she stinks!
You da man, finally someone read how she repeatedly hit a male and it is washed over by every single newspaper and news program.
The mention of her referral to the actual stats on the phony “Superbowl Sunday” , a long kown and acknowledged fact as throwing the babay out with the bath water is another reason she should be tossed. The constant referral to the imbalance of pay between men and women, the coment to the woman who was left at the alter that she should consider castration as the resolution to her being dumped. The woman is a pig.
Thanx Dave!
July 10th, 2007 at 6:19 pm
I’m sure all my esteemed comrades already know this; but –
in most state’s laws, the definition of “domestic battery” IS — “an insulting or provocative act…”
NOTE — this does not require physical aggression, let alone physical contact, or even your presence….
An “intimidating glance” will qualify.
As will “systematically ignoring her needs.”
If you think I am making this up, Google your state’s Attorney General’s Office and follow the breadcrumbs of misandry to domestic violence laws …
In our present legal environment, a man need only be in a space availing communication with a female in order to be charged with DV.
Actually, he doesn’t even need physical proximity.
He can convict himself by sending two “unwanted” e-mails.
That now constitutes “stalking.”
I really wish I was making this up….
Research and read, gentlemen!