Mapes Says Couric 'Uncomfortable' To Watch, Looks 'Drugged' (& Kiddnapped!)

Newsbusters.org ^ | July 16, 2007 - 17:19 ET | Ian Schwartz

[geezerwheezer]

That was a mean-spirited, hateful thing for you to write. It was also funny as hell and the truth!

[Suzy Quzy]

I guess Mapes wants them to hire the LIAR Rather back!! Couric is UNWATCHABLE but so was RATHER.

[2 Kool 2 Be 4-Gotten]

I also mean the whole concept of tuning in at 5:30 or 6:30 to watch a half hour of the day’s “news” is a concept that is dying. The premise simply doesn’t make sense any more. It’s about as relevant in today’s world as 15 minute “newsreels” are in a movie theatre. 50 years ago people watched the news as a “newsreel” between features at the movies. Nobody does that any more either. Times changed. What worked a generation ago, doesn’t work today.

[wideawake]

That was a mean-spirited, hateful thing for you to write.

Well, I agree with Eric Blair (a.k.a. George Orwell) that "a man of forty is responsible for his face" - in this case it's a woman of fifty.

She looks like Monty Burns with a blond wig.

[MinuteGal]

Wow, if anyone looks like she was drugged and kidnapped it's Mapes.

I'll bet nobody offered to pay a ransom, either.

In fact, the kidnappers probably had to pay someone to get her off their hands.

Leni

[Osage Orange]

I'm happy to say I've never watched...Perky.

And can say with confidence I probably never will....

[rod1]

The drugged hostage look!!....I guess Couric is finally “benefitting” from Rick Kaplan’s production expertise.

[Eva]

What you say about Mapes is certainly true, but she happens to be right this time. To thoroughly confuse metaphors, Mapes has a face that would stop a clock, but even a stopped clock is right twice a day.

I was going to say something similar, but without the metaphors. The metaphors are amusing, though because they sound like something that Dan Rather would have said.

[AlaskaErik]

If you really want to see a poison pen column, one of the NY paper’s TV critics did a review of a Victoria Beckham TV show yesterday and it was hilariously scathing.

My wife watched that show last night. I had to get up and leave. Why anyone would watch such drivel is beyond me.

[ontap]

I am not interested one iota in what Mary Mapes thinks about anything!

[kenth]

Mapes has a face that was made for radio.

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So does Couric.

[wideawake]

So does Couric.

For a woman of fifty, Katie Couric looks perfectly passable.

[bmwcyle]

Ok who has the Katie picture with all the sharp teeth?

[NCLaw441]

You said: I do know that Mary Mapes is no Helen of Troy.
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Now now. If I were on a boat, near shore, and Mary Mapes showed up on that shore, I would launch my ship, and I am confident that there are at least a thousand more like me.

[fungoking]

The problem is that there is no real difference between her reading the “news” and her colon video.

[Biblebelter]

If Mapes could only look through the television and see what is sitting on the other side of the screen. The tens of viewers who watched Rather and who watch Couric and Morning Joe, are all either drugged or being held hostage, the fact is the bottom of the MSM sewer of which Mapes is familar has NO free will viewers.

[PhilDragoo]

[BushMeister]

Mapes on Couric: She is "...someone who looks like they've been kidnapped and drugged and are making a hostage tape. It has nothing to do with her being a male or female, it's just not comfortable to watch."

It must be the chair. Dan Rather fit this description as well.

[reagan_fanatic]

I think even Rosie O’Donnell would think twice before hitting that.

[magslinger]

The problem is that there is no real difference between her reading the “news” and her colon video.

There is a big difference. You go through a thorough 'cleansing' before a colonoscopy.

C^BS Views does not have a similar process.