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Katie Couric: ‘Maybe We Need a Muslim Version of “The Cosby Show”‘
Mediaite ^ | December 31, 2010 | Ray Rahman

Posted on 12/31/2010 9:43:34 PM PST by lbryce

As 2010 comes to a close, the media industry is taking its annual breather to reflect upon all the things it had to cover in the past year. Katie Couric, in her CBSNews.com review of 2010, highlighted the controversy surrounding the Park51 project. “The bigotry expressed against Muslims in this country has been one of the most disturbing stories to surface,” she told her panel. In that media narrative, she saw “a seething hatred many people feel for all Muslims,” which she theorized could be remedied by another, more lighthearted narrative: “Maybe we need a Muslim version of The Cosby Show.”

She came to the situationally comedic solution after offering this take on American Islamophobia:

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.

So could funny Muslims in even funnier sweaters be the answer? “I know that sounds crazy,” she said, “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.” She was referring to Daily Show veteran and NPR regular Mo Rocca, who was present for the discussion. A Harvard alumnus, Rocca shamefully confessed that despite having attended “really fancy schools,” he knows basically “nothing about Islam.”

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KEYWORDS: barf; cbs; katiecouric; leftwingpathology
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To: lbryce
This idjit says this with this eve's backdrop of Bomb hits Egypt church at New Year's Mass, 7 dead. What a moosebrain she is.
21 posted on 12/31/2010 9:55:55 PM PST by C210N (0bama, Making the US safe for Global Marxism)
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To: hole_n_one

LOL Maybe we should have a Muslim version of CBS News. Katie, a burqa fitting YOUR head is already on order! You could end your newscasts with, “Courage, Jihadists!” Bob


22 posted on 12/31/2010 9:56:23 PM PST by alstewartfan ("The newly painted fences chip; Life falls into routine." from Al Stewart's "In the Dark")
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To: bmwcyle

“We need a Forensic Files Show trying to figure out who killed Katie Couric.”

Probably the one-handed man.


23 posted on 12/31/2010 9:56:47 PM PST by Rembrandt (.. AND the donkey you rode in on.)
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To: Rembrandt

Too Star Wars


24 posted on 12/31/2010 9:58:07 PM PST by bmwcyle (It is Satan's fault)
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To: Tuscaloosa Goldfinch

Everybody Loves Ramadan

My Favorite Goat


25 posted on 12/31/2010 9:58:53 PM PST by Rastus
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To: o-n-money
We already had one: On America's Most Wanted, they showed a Muslim-who-lived-in-America* father who'd killed his two daughters because they wanted to be normal.

*I believe that to be a muslim and an American at the same time is a mutually exclusive proposition.

26 posted on 12/31/2010 9:59:28 PM PST by bannie (( ))
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To: lbryce

What a moron she is. As if television could somehow civilize Islam.....


27 posted on 12/31/2010 10:00:03 PM PST by GenXteacher (He that hath no stomach for this fight, let him depart!)
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To: lbryce

“Katie dons a Burka”

New season, new show to air in mecca.


28 posted on 12/31/2010 10:01:51 PM PST by taxesareforever (Release Staff Sgt. Frank Wuterich and let him and his family get on with their lives.)
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To: lbryce

Muslims can’t take a joke and most Americans don’t find beheadings very funny. On second thoughts, it would be a huge hit if they limited beheadings on the show to friends and relatives.


29 posted on 12/31/2010 10:02:15 PM PST by balls (Government workers have plundered our wealth. Demand reparations!)
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To: lbryce

She is such a freakin idiot.


30 posted on 12/31/2010 10:03:54 PM PST by pelican001
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To: All
Couric's epiphany has got me thinking of the infinite possibilities in the adaption of our entire TV heritage developing TV shows for the Muslim market.

I'd like to start the competition off with "What's my Fatwah?" based on the fifties show, What's My Line? where a Imam, Muslim cleric is questioned by a panel who must determine the Mullah's Fatwa and more, and "Can't Tell The Truth" rules of which I'll leave up to you.

31 posted on 12/31/2010 10:05:17 PM PST by lbryce (Obama Notwithstanding, America's Best Days Are Yet To Be .)
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To: lbryce

Wait until she has to climb into a burqa.


32 posted on 12/31/2010 10:05:41 PM PST by onedoug
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To: Georgia Girl 2

Instead, we need her to go live in Saudi Arabia

Then we’d all be happy (except the Saudis)


33 posted on 12/31/2010 10:05:53 PM PST by A_Former_Democrat (NO MOS-que AP: It's the "GROUND ZERO MOSQUE")
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To: lbryce

Katie Couric: ‘Maybe We Need a Muslim Version of “Married, Married, Married, Married, Married, Married, Married,
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34 posted on 12/31/2010 10:06:22 PM PST by bunkerhill7
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To: lbryce

The Cosby Show was a gross and massive misrepresentation of typical Black culture and average Black life in America.

See? This is the Liberal thing. Fantasy and surrealism IS reality for them.

What they WANT to be true is more important to them than reality or facts.

In short they are crazy, and “The Perky One” proves that she is a fantasy land moron every time she presents one of her ‘ideas’.

After all, in Couric’s mind she is much more “enlightened and intellectual” than Palin(obviously, duh) because it takes a lot more brains to smile and giggle while reading written words on TV off of cards than to be governor of Alaska.


35 posted on 12/31/2010 10:06:27 PM PST by 240B (he is doing everything he said he wouldn't and not doing what he said he would)
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To: lbryce

It could be shown here in central Indiana on Comcast channel 911.


36 posted on 12/31/2010 10:07:29 PM PST by InvisibleChurch (Tagline: (optional, printed after your name on post):)
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To: Rastus

The Ahdami Fam-al-lee

(snap, snap)


37 posted on 12/31/2010 10:09:25 PM PST by A_Former_Democrat (NO MOS-que AP: It's the "GROUND ZERO MOSQUE")
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To: lbryce

Yep, and the weekly episodes could include the father killing off his wife(s) for bringing dishonor to the family, and killing an occasional daughter also.


38 posted on 12/31/2010 10:11:24 PM PST by calex59
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To: AdmSmith; Arthur Wildfire! March; Berosus; bigheadfred; ColdOne; Convert from ECUSA; Delacon; ...
"The bigotry expressed against Muslims in this country has been one of the most disturbing stories to surface," she told her panel.
She's right -- it is one of the most disturbing stories to surface, which isn't surprising, because she's one of the partisan media shills who helped make it up. Maybe we need a non-Moslem version of beheading for Katie Couric and the rest of the partisan media shills. Thanks lbryce.


39 posted on 12/31/2010 10:12:11 PM PST by SunkenCiv (The 2nd Amendment follows right behind the 1st because some people are hard of hearing.)
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To: lbryce

Maybe we need a version of the CBS Evening News that is hosted by a real American patriot.


40 posted on 12/31/2010 10:12:34 PM PST by JPG (YES SHE CAN!)
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