Posted on 12/30/2010 10:43:40 AM PST by Sub-Driver
Katie Couric: 'Maybe We Need a Muslim Version of The Cosby Show' By Tim Graham Created 12/30/2010 - 1:04pm
By Tim Graham | December 30, 2010 | 13:04 Tim Graham's picture
In her @katiecouric Web show analyzing the trends of 2010, the CBS Evening News anchor made a serious speech (in her serious, deep-thinker glasses) against the deep "seething hatred" against Muslims in America:
I also think sort of the chasm, between, or the bigotry expressed against Muslims in this country has been one of the most disturbing stories to surface this year. Of course, a lot of noise was made about the Islamic Center, mosque, down near the World Trade Center, but I think there wasn't enough sort of careful analysis and evaluation of where this bigotry toward 1.5 billion Muslims worldwide, and how this seething hatred many people feel for all Muslims, which I think is so misdirected, and so wrong -- and so disappointing.
She really winced on that last word. When comedian Mo Rocca said he went to "really fancy schools" and "I cannot tell you five things about Islam," Couric shot back "Maybe we need a Muslim version of The Cosby Show." She continued:
I know that sounds crazy, I know that sounds crazy. But The Cosby Show did so much to change attitudes about African-Americans in this country, and I think sometimes people are afraid of what they don't understand -- like you, Mo.
Rocca said "I think religion should be taught as an academic subject in public schools." Couric said "I totally agree with you." But left unsaid is this: how well do network news people do in explaining the tenets of Islam or any other world religion? If there's great ignorance of Islam in America, Katie Couric has done nearly nothing to solve it -- and nominating Hollywood to solve the problem with a lovable family comedy isn't really taking responsibility.
No one on the set wondered if Couric was being reckless in taking the idea that many Americans had -- that a mega-mosque two blocks from the hole of Ground Zero was insensitive and should merely be located somewhere farther away -- and wildly extrapolating that with "seething hatred" of "1.5 billion Muslims worldwide."
This is not new for Couric. In a quote that made our Best Notable Quotables of 2010, Couric devoted a "Couric & Co." commentary to denouncing the Islamophobes:
It might be Islamophobia, Obamaphobia, or both, but when loud speakers are blaring Born in the USA and signs say No Clubhouse for Terrorists, its clear we arent just talking about a mosque anymore. There is a debate to be had about the sensitivity of building this center so close to Ground Zero. But we can not let fear and rage tear down the towers of our core American values.
Earlier in the show, Couric did talk about other things CBS failed to accomplish on the air:
What about the Nashville floods? Larinda Sue [sp] on Twitter asks if the Nashville floods will make our list, and it made all of us think, as w're preparing for the show...what other stories were underreported? The Nashville floods were really underreported. Anything else come to mind that we should have been paying attention to that we didn't? I would say we're probably not paying enough attention to Iraq. Does anyone else agree with that?
Martin agreed and said "We're in danger in the media, but also as a people, of becoming inured to war, sort of a permanent war," and "because there's no draft, a lot of us don't have skin in the game, as they say."
So if you hate someone who openly professes that they want to kill you, then that’s wrong?
Couric ain’t got an FN clue. They would slash her throat in a New York minute if they had a chance.
And she, and all the liberal media, just want to go on smooching and sucking up to them, trying to make it sound like they’re all so high and mighty and so tolerant...
Surely he has others?
-PJ
LOL. Now, you're dating yourself (and me, too for getting the reference).
How about: Welcome Back, Qatar. "Leave It To Burqa". "My Three Sunnis"?
Yeah, Katie, especially since it’s the muzzies who HATE Hollyweird. I’m sure they’d jump at the chance to showcase their beliefs in a Hollywood sitcom.
Being Muslim and acting civilized can get you killed.
Episode 6:
Bill decides to put ‘sex with infants’ (approved by Islam)
into practice.
Episode 6:
Bill decides to put ‘sex with infants’ (approved by Islam)
into practice.
The title alludes to the classic American book and drama series, Little House on the Prairie. The two series are not related aside from the modified version of the title logo.
I don’t see much similarity between the black people in America and the crazed Neanderthals from the Middle East.
It would have to be made by lefties in Hollywood rather than by real Muslims. If real Muzzies make it, they’ll be chopping heads off by the middle of the first season...
To them this is news.
I’ll never forget the day that Katie Couric had the children of the man who kidnapped Elizabeth Smart on her show and asked them, on air, if they had ever been sexually abused by their father. It was a stunning moment.
I immediately emailed the station and demanded that they put Katie’s children on the air and ask them the same question.
A Muslim family show would be a great comedy.
Oh thanks for bringing that up Katie. What a great idea! Lets put it on TV. I can’t wait. How about a group of Muslim teens coming of age at “Halal High”. In the opening episode Hussein steals an apple from the teacher’s desk and they cut off his left hand.
How about “The Bel-Airabs”
http://www.dailymotion.com/video/xasgz2_saturday-night-live-the-bel-airabs_fun
Hopalong Jihadist
Leave it to Mufti
Have Bomb Will Travel
Guess Who’s Coming to Dhimmi
Including, literally, very little of any DNA but that of their own close relatives.
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