Katie Couric Lashes Out at 'Vultures' (priceless!)

PeopleMag ^ | 12-18-06 | Stephen M. Silverman

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Katie Couric admits that her new gig as anchor of the CBS Evening News has been "a little harder than I thought it would be."

"Some people out there are rooting for me to fail," Couric, 49, tells Esquire in its January issue. "You have to be unwavering in your convictions that you're doing something good, because there are a lot of circling vultures that will eat you alive."

Couric points out that Esquire itself criticized her after her Sept. 5 debut. "You guys even take a shot at me," she tells the magazine. "You have something in the November issue, something about how since I've become an anchor, you don't know me anymore. You don't know me anymore? Bite me."

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Wonder if the irony will dawn on her the next time she criticizes Pres. Bush and his convictions.

[TheKidster]

"You have to be unwavering in your convictions that you're doing something good, because there are a lot of circling vultures that will eat you alive."

What did she rip that straight out of one of Bush's press conferences? She can dish it out but she can't take it, poor katie

[jdm]

She would know.

[Suzy Quzy]

Hey, the left is rooting for Bush to fail, and with it America to fail because they elected Bush. Get over yourself, Katie.

[Volunteer]

Katie:

Hi. I am rooting for you to fail.

Remember being nasty to Barbara Bush all those years ago?

I do. For that reason and so many others, I can't wait until CBS fires you and you end up trying to sell paint by numbers sets on the Home Shopping Network at 2 AM.

I know, you think it can't happen. But, I can dream.

Merry Christmas, Long Memory

[Extremely Extreme Extremist]

She knew what she was getting into when she took this stupid gig. The people at the Today Show are probably laughing at her, giving up a cushy job as a quasi-celebrity in exchange for being a news reader.

[twigs]

Is she so arrogant that she did not think this would be difficult?

[OldFriend]

Well, lovie, what goes around comes around. You've hoped for failure for our President, for our country, and for ALL republicans.

You can bet we're hoping for your failure.

So nice to see you suffer and struggle.

[#1CTYankee]

"Bite me."

Oh my, Kattie has some real class eh?
Funny how when a lib falls on hard times their true colors show through.

Hey Kattie, I've got just one thing to say to you, in the words of our Vice President ---- you.

[RedRover]

...because there are a lot of circling vultures that will eat you alive.

Uh, actually vultures don't eat live prey, Katie. If vultures are circling, it's because you'll soon be dead.

[rightinthemiddle]

They'll replace her with another liberal. Then another. Then another...

[SF Republican]

Bite me how perky, what a tramp

[Bloody Sam Roberts]

Is she so arrogant that she did not think this would be difficult?

In her world, she believes that the higher the salary, the easier the job.

[SF Republican]

They'll replace her with another liberal when they were making this choice someone pointed out how did you know they would be liberal, the reply, same reason they don't replace the Pope with a Baptist.

[Ouderkirk]

Katie,

as you well know, and as your recent ratings have demonstrated your abilities to get and hold an adult audience in hard news are marginal at best. It's not like the Toady show where you give little snippets of opinion sprinkled with a little news between baking cupcakes.

Your skill set is clearly better utilized under the desk, instead of in front of it.

[Vigilanteman]

Hey Katie, I'm rooting for you to stay with CBS just as long as you possibly can. Your bosses deserve to be dragged down even more than you do. In time, Al Jazera will be able to buy your network for pennies on the dollar. Maybe they already have.

[SIDENET]

"Some people out there are rooting for me to fail,"

Feel free to include me in that category!

[tumblindice]

"Some people out there are rooting for me to fail"

I beg your pardon . . .
we never promised you a rose garden.
Along with the good times, there's got to be a little rain some time . . .
So smile for a while and let's be jolly,
the news shouldn't be so melancholy
Come along and share the good times while you can . . .

[xarmydog]

Katie's Colon Blow!Look out below,or above,or wherever!

[dighton]

“You have to be unwavering in your convictions that you’re doing something good ...”

What might that be?

[FormerACLUmember]

Wonder if the irony will dawn on her the next time she criticizes Pres. Bush and his convictions.

Never gonna happen. Humorless liberal liars like Katie are without the slightest insight.

[Ouderkirk]

[Whiteman]

I don't have to root for her to fail. She will fail.

Political leanings aside. When you look at her or listen to her, you can't take her seriously. Seriously.

[jazusamo]

Bite me."

LOL!...Perky line Katie, and you wonder why people are hoping you'll fail?

[Hegemony Cricket]

Hawks, on the other hand, do go after live prey.

I heard about an occurrence that happened recently in my hometown, where a not-so-nice person died, and at the funeral service at the graveside, a dove was released. A hawk swooped down, grabbed the dove, and pinned it to the ground - squawking, feathers flying, etc. A number of those present who knew the truth about this person were very hard-pressed not to laugh out loud...

[busstopsindetroit]

Add me to the "rooting to fail" list. Unfortunately in the MSM it will all be chalked up to sexism, not to the fact that she's a smarmy, annoying, left-wing hack. The "not ready for a female anchor" comments have already begun.

[Dr. Bogus Pachysandra]

"Bite me."
Teeth Katie! Teeth!
You're not supposed to use your teeth Katie!

[AD from SpringBay]

Takes a vulture to know a vulture. And, yes, I too am hoping she fails. May her ego deflate loudly and often.

[NonValueAdded]

I should note that it is now "Kate Couric" with a stern visage used as the illustration, judging from the commercials played during a Sunday football broadcast. I guess their polling showed using "Katie" lacks gravitas. Damn the NFL for keeping the AFC games on SeeBS.

[haywoodwebb]

"Bite me."

Guess she found her sign off line!

[Ukiapah Heep]

No, it won't. She's too stupid!

[Ouderkirk]

The "not ready for a female anchor" comments have already begun.

The "not ready for a female president" comments have already begun, WRT SHrillary!

I point out to those who suggest such things....no, is not female in general, it's this female in particular

[dmw]

How come 99% of us here on FR KNEW she would fail in her new gig, but CBS couldn't figure that our for themselves? Maybe they ought to check with us before replacing the (not so perky) cheerleader in very near future.

[TheKidster]

Nice.

I'd like to add a "blessing"
May she live in interesting times.

[rbmillerjr]

You stay classy San Diaago.
Bite me.

[lp boonie]

"Bite me".
_________________
Katie, Uhhh no, you bite me. Sucks to be you.

[SpinyNorman]

"Bite me."

No doubt the taste of shagged out, gristly, clueless cheerleader is, in a word, unappealing.

[pa_dweller]

Katie has a (usually) well concealed temper. I remember an interview she did years ago. The interviewee refused to be driven into the little slaughter pen she had set up for him. As she chased him around this figurative barnyard her anger grew and grew. Toward the end it was obvious the woman was simply seething at this disobedience.

Also, she really should learn how to mix a metaphor.

[Aeronaut]

"Some people out there are rooting for me to fail,"

That'd be me, for one.

[TheKidster]

Awesome, I would love to see that on her last day.

This has been Katie Couric, signing off for the last time, bite me you sexist neocons!

[Puppage]

You don't know me anymore? Bite me."

Wow! Such journalistic genius shining through.

[RedRover]

I wouldn't have been able to restrain myself! That's hilarious!

[OB1kNOb]

"Goodnight for CBS news,and BITE ME!"

[hsalaw]

"You have to be unwavering in your convictions that you're doing something good"

Good grief. She's reading what someone else wrote off a monitor and asking stupid questions a five year old could come up with. Where's the "something good" she thinks she's doing?

[Sacajaweau]

She sounds like an 8th grade school teacher trying to impress the children on their first day as to how nice she is.... Kids aren't dumb and neither are we. She stinks as both a teacher and news caster.

[twonie]

Never mind pain by number sets - maybe she could go on a second banana to Ivana Trump and hawk some of that jewelry Ivana makes out of old hubcaps and spray paint!

[sappy]

3rd place and dropping.....

[T. Buzzard Trueblood]

Bite me

Bite me. Classy, Katie.

[Graymatter]

"Kate Couric?" Hmm. My bathroom pipes make that sound sometimes. Sort of a belch, often accompanied by an odor. When I hear it, I know it's time to break open a bottle of Clorox.