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of all the innumerable print and broadcast journalists who have interviewed me in the U.S. and abroad since I arrived on the scene nearly 20 years ago, Katie Couric was definitively the stupidest. As a guest on NBC's "Today" show during my 1992 book tour, I was astounded by Couric's small, humorless, agenda-ridden mind, still registered in that pinched, tinny monotone that makes me rush across the room to change stations whenever her banal mini-editorials blare out at 5 p.m. on the CBS radio network. And of course I would never spoil my dinner by tuning into Couric's TV evening news show. That sallow, wizened, drum-tight, cosmetic mummification look is not an appetite enhancer outside of Manhattan or L.A. There's many a moose in Alaska with greater charm and pizazz.

Worth the price of admission!

Damn right Doc!

Paglia: of all the innumerable print and broadcast journalists who have interviewed me in the U.S. and abroad since I arrived on the scene nearly 20 years ago, Katie Couric was definitively the stupidest.

I have loved Camille for years -- her "Blue Light" essay spoke to me because I worked on a college campus at the time I read it and knew the women she spoke of...

As to Couric, she has some stiff competition for the "Stoopit Noozecaster" award. I think Diane Sawyer beats her hands-down with this:

"You know, I wanted to sit on a jury once and I was taken off the jury.
And the judge said to me, 'Can, you know, can you tell the truth and be
fair?' And I said, 'That's what journalists do.' And everybody in the
courtroom laughed. It was the most hurtful moment I think I've ever had."

- Diane Sawyer, Good Morning America, 7/12/07

because Sawyer has proven time and again since that date that she learned absolutely nothing from the experience.

Not saying that Katie would learn, just that Diane has proven she is stupid; that she can/will not learn.

Peet (who despises MSM)

The widespread notion that Obama is inarticulate came from stunt tapes broadcast on conservative talk radio where his occasional hesitations on the road were stitched together to make him sound like a stuttering Bugs Bunny.

She's totally wrong on this. The "widespread notion" exists in conservative circles, so it's not "widespread." The MSM will not allow BO to look like anything but the messiah they believe he is. But one only has to check (as conservatives apparently have), on YouTube for his un-edited verbal gaffes - and there are plenty to choose from. Paglia is dead wrong on this one - and sounding a bit like PIAPS and the Vast Right Wing Conspiracy theorists.