Hell, someone cue the laugh track.
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,’ it’s clear we aren’t 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."
They all need to get out of NYC for a while!
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This is not a satire. It really has been done.
Hell, someone cue the laugh track.
I'm in total agreement with her, I'd love to see a muslim lampooning his own religion on national TV......I wonder what his lifespan would be?
A delightful and professional rendering of this seeming innocuous show. Said to reflect some of the sometimes comical goings on in a small Saskatchewan community. What is not realized by most Canadians is the numbers factor. If certain new immigrants arrive and are about half a percent of any community they wisely act in a simplistic and funny way. This disarms the locals.
The jokes fly thick and fast about this custom and that custom maybe clashing with local values. Any objectors are jumped on. Bigots ahoy. Later, as those new immigrants (not European stock or even from India get to five percent of the population locally, things change.
Change so quickly, that old traditions are stamped on. The dumbfounded locals crawl away, wounded all to blazes. They do not know what hit 'em. The leaders of the self effacing new arrivals, get more and more vociferous. The rotten human rights system assures them of credibility.
Poor Canada.
The show would have to walk a fine line to avoid ticking off people, some of whom thrive on being ticked off.
Canada has been lost since 1968, when Trudeau ushered the socialist lifestyle into vogue.
Today, one needs only look at Mississauga as an example of Canuckistan.
See post # 131.
I’ll admit I zipped through the posts to see if anyone had posted about this. I must have missed yours. The first time I heard of this from a fellow freeper a few years back I had to go watch some episodes on youtube. Nothing like making muzzies look all cute and cuddly and soo open minded and ready to just be one of us.
The CBC is taxpayer supported like PBS here but times 100.
Indoctrination, my FRiend.
Trailer Park Boys is another gem.
I guess it’s like the BBC. Very slanted and very P.C. but who could forget Keeping up Appearances or Black Adler or Monty Python. There was one Britcom entitled Allo ‘Allo! Very politically incorrect and hilarious. I could go on about Britcoms. I know more of them than anything the CBC put out.
An excellent movie from the CBC is, “The Arrow.” Great movie.
LOL, two episodes were filmed in my hometown...
Have not heard of the arrow. I’ll have to check it out. I see it has Christopher Plummer,Michael Moriarty and Dan Aykroyd amongst others.
Best Dan Aykroyd portrayal ever.
Thanks for the tip on the tagline. I had never noticed that space there before.
Bill Cosby was and is a comic genius. We loved that show when I was younger.
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Anyway, KKKKKatie, you are today’s STUCK ON STUPID award winner.
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