Couric to Crocker: Random idiocy roundup
Maybe it’s better for beauty-pageant contestants to shut up: Miss USA, Rachel Smith, dissed Katie Couric: "I just don't want to end up like Katie Couric. I want people to take me seriously."
Of course, she also said, "I always wanted to be a reporter — maybe some TV. Who knows? Some serious news — but some modeling, too." Because nothing gets people to take a reporter seriously like a little stroll on the catwalk.
Even Couric's spokesperson couldn’t let this one go, issuing a statement: "If she continues to offer such profound insight, she will not have to worry about anyone taking her seriously."
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Incredibly, Crocker’s interviewer was so taken aback by such a humbly blithering statement that she couldn’t manage a follow-up, such as, “Oh, yeah? How do you figure?” So we don’t know if he has any proof of that or not.
Crocker seems to think he and Spears are some sort of soul mates, as they’re both Southerners, “entertainers” (depends on how you define the word, I guess) and “easy targets.” Crocker, a Sagittarian, was wary of being queried by the AP’s Capricorn, which, were any more proof necessary, explains the “easy target” thing.
As does this: “I always say Britney's been my mom ... Britney's been there for me when my parents haven't.” So, what – Britney’s fed him Cheetos for breakfast and sat him in her lap as she’s tooled down the PCH?
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David Kronke was appointed Mayor of Television after a bloodless coup in 2000. Since then, he has improved infrastructure, championed greater educational opportunities and fought for reforms that have utterly erased corruption and incompetence from the television industry. Since Mr. Kronke has ascended to power, Television is a far better place.
I don't think her comments were intended as a slight, but were just some ill-chosen words. Then Miss Couric overreacted and turned a proverbial molehill into a mountain. So when you think about it what did she say that's so outrageous?
The network of Edward R. Murrow and Charles Collingwood, the network that once took on Joe McCarthy at his peak, caved to right-wing pressure and fired Dan Rather for daring to blow the whistle on our chickenhawk President's war record and replaced him with with a lightweight cheesecake anchorwoman that can't win the public's respect. Couric has become a joke that's dragged the CBS Evening News' ratings to record lows. Rather has talked about the Evening News being "dumbed down and tarted up." Rachel Smith is just starting her career, and she doesn't want it to end that way; who would?
For the record, before she was Miss USA, she earned a journalism degree magna cum laude from a prestigious college and served an internship in the news department of a local TV station, so she's entitled to her opinion on the subject. She's already achieved far more than most young women her age (22), so based on her record there's a good chance when she's Couric's age she'll be taken more seriously than Couric is now.