...yeah put it on NBC, so they can fall further back in viewership..
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."
May that ignorant piece of Obama-stuff life in a muzzie country.
Good luck with that burka, b*tch.......
“Katie Couric: ‘Maybe We Need a Muslim Version of The Cosby Show’ “
Sure. Beating wives and using kids as suicide bombers would be real funny.
...yeah put it on NBC, so they can fall further back in viewership..
Seriously, we are not in the mood for a Muslim comedy show. I can assure you
Seriously, we are not in the mood for a Muslim comedy show. I can assure you
Seriously, we are not in the mood for a Muslim comedy show. I can assure you
I can’t wait for the episode when Fatima runs away from her father after he threatens to kill her.
Muslim comedy mostly consists of Jew turning into pigs and then slow roasting in Allah’s well of fire.
“I am famous, therefore, I am smart.” Thank, Ms. Katie, what would we do without you?
Why do these people care more about Muslims than they do about Christians?
Putzes.
The depth of this woman’s stupidity is unfathomable.
I am beginning Saudi oil money is paying a LOT of people who are in the public eye to do just that.
Maybe NOT! Cosby was not trying to chop our heads off.
Them muslims is a barrel of laughs.
Katie still believes that they are going to kill her last.....
Even Bill Cosby’s comedic genius could not squeeze a second of humor out of the pedophilic, pathologically sexist, Death Cult.
Episode 2: Theo beats Vanessa because he sees her flirting with a Christian boy at school.
Episode 3: Cliff decides to circumcise the girls himself and hilarity ensues.
Do NOT question liberals when they have their Smart Glasses on and talk in deep, sonorous, intellectual sounding tones.
“We” are not the problem.
Maybe we don’t.
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