Posted on 08/04/2010 9:27:52 AM PDT by Qbert
Katie Couric, whose real name is Katherine Anne Couric, mocked the names of Sarah Palin’s children during a rehearsal in her studio. Her comments, made during the 2008 presidential campaign, are being discussed in the blogosphere today after being leaked.
“Where the hell do they get these names from?” she asked, referring to Palin children Trig and Track, sending her crew into peals of laughter.
I have some new names for CBS. In a tragedy in Louisiana this Monday, six young teenagers drowned.
Their names were: Takeitha, JaMarcus, JaTavious, Litrelle, LaDairus and Latevin.
These, like the names of Palin’s children, are American names.
Times have changed since Jews newly arrived from Europe named their boys either Marty or Bernie and black people in the South named their kids either Bessy or Washington. You don’t really want to go into things like where the hell a name like Katherine got a K on the front of it instead of a C, as it was spelled in the tradition. The neurosis could drag all the way back to Prague, say, in the 1600s.
The singular feature of America that persists west of 57th Street, where “Katie” and CBS live in paralysis, acting out an early-’60s fantasy equal to that of “Mad Men,” is that we Americans are born free and find and take that freedom in every generation.
In terms anthropologists like Mircea Eliade and Sir James George Fraser would use, you could say we chop down the father’s tree in every generation; an archetypal reenactment of George Washington chopping down the cherry tree to free us from our pasts — European, personal and otherwise — and their anchors to the prisons of orthodoxy and tradition.
In this regard we plant our own tree and we take our own names. It is sacred and symbolic. And in this sacred act we name our kids any damn thing we please.
Katie is nothing but a Democrat slut.
Go away.
She knew, rightfully, she could do a lot more good for a) her family, from the money brought in, and b) Conservative causes, by being a national spokes person/commentator, instead of a tiny (in population) state's governor.
People quit politics all the time for family and/or personal reasons....which is understood as quite admirable. Other than that, or her conversion to evangelical Protestantism--hardly being a "quitter," in what other areas has Sarah Palin shown a pattern of quitting when things get tough?
Well, she has explained the names on numerous occasions, and she didn’t have all those other experiences. THe names have family meanings for her and that’s enough
Broker in the cotton business. Wonder if he held slaves (can’t tell if it was early or late 19th century). While I don’t hold folks responsible for the actions of their parents, there are some circles where that is important.
Actually, I think “Track Palin” is kind of a cool name. It’s manly. “Willow” is also very pretty. The other names, IMO, are sort of odd. Not what I’d choose.
LOL. Look at some of the names in FR. Gitmo, avacado, ...
This woman had a different take on names:
“You named your baby WHAT?”
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1606343/posts
I don’t know either of you - but I never seen Sarah Palin have a fit like you are having.
I’m not sure napscoordinator is really a Republican/Conservative
Facts about Chelsea’s new husband’s father not being covered by the MSM......
Monday, August 02, 2010 1:16:48 AM · 62 of 71
napscoordinator to Frantzie
And George W. Bush got the cushy Presidential job because of his father...what’s the difference....hint...there is none.
Wait! I never heard of that one. Was Dipwad born before Trig or did he come after Track? Wasn't he in those pictures with Piper or was that Ooga-Booga and Apple?
So Couric was a cheerleader as a youth. Good training for her future career in the MSM.
“Broker in the cotton business. Wonder if he held slaves (can’t tell if it was early or late 19th century). While I don’t hold folks responsible for the actions of their parents, there are some circles where that is important.”
Heavy emphasis on the word “some”, of course (for many Libs):
http://www.suntimes.com/news/politics/281332,CST-NWS-oside03.article
You may only name your children:
Pat, Mike, Harry, Nancy, Al, John, Mary, Obama, Winky-Tink, Okey Dokey, Bamboozler, Wee-wee, Adolf, Hermann, Karl, Vladimir, Joseph, Fidel, Che, Michelle, Obamaisgreat, Hussein or Barack.
Henceforth all other names are VERBOTEN!
Submit your choice (see BrainWashington DOES give you a choice!) to the Ministry of Names Division of the EPA.
If you join the Amerikan Socialist/Communist/Progressive Party the Name Czar may grant you the ability to name your own child, restricted of course to this list.
All hail our leaders!
One thing for sure, reading his posts here, he's got a fourth class brain and a fourth grade mentality.
A mind is a terrible thing to waste........
"I was baptized Catholic as a newborn and then my family started going to non-denominational churches throughout our life.
Glenn Beck left Catholicism, too.
So did Jack Kinsella; my favorite spiritual advisor.
dry up.
And a lot of people are laughing at your PDS.
- JP
Is a pity party in order?
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