Katie Couric Should Get Another Colonoscopy; She’s So Full of Crap
Here’s a follow-up on Charlie Kirk vs. Charlie Hebdo, on Islamic extremism in France. I was riveted to see how Senator John Fetterman wiped the floor with Katie Couric. My mother would have washed my mouth out with soap if I spoke like that, but I think the four letter word is acceptable in this case.
When Katie Couric underwent a live colonoscopy on March 7, 2000, on NBC’s Today show, she made history. In 1998, her young husband had died of colon cancer. The petite, morning “cutie,” in bringing to the public a disease that was and is curable if caught early, was praised for her courage to expose herself to such an intimate procedure. Like many Today viewers, I made appointments for my husband, Richard, and me to undergo the unpleasant experience. We passed and, because of our ages told to come back in five years.
For some years, I’ve no longer thought Couric, now 68, is “cute.” It has nothing to do with age but everything to do with being part of absurd, uninformed, far left-wing bias. Her latest attempt to still be relevant with her Katie Couric Media production company by interviewing (supposedly about the senator’s newly released book, “Unfettered.” The once star of morning TV asked Fetterman: “Do you consider that some of the things Donald Trump is doing undermines democracy? Some people think Charlie Kirk’s words instigated violence.” I have paraphrased.
Fetterman said in response: “If you think we live in an autocracy, this is not an excuse for shooting someone for what they think.” Again, I paraphrase.
Couric was clearly trying to get the senator to answer her ridiculous questions the way she wanted and to get him to agree that Trump is an orange monster. It backfired big time on Couric. Fetterman came out as one of the few reasonable and reflective Democrats, despite still down dressing in a black hoodie and shorts in winter.
The Charlie Hebdo Massacre
I wasn’t living in France on January 9, 2015, when Islamic terrorists stormed the Parisian offices of the sarcastic weekly publication Charlie Hebdo, killing nine staff and injuring 11 others, for publishing a cartoon of Mohammed. Three days of anti-Semitic mayhem and more murder followed.
What I remember, besides the press coverage, were the millions of French who poured into the country’s streets to protest the violent assassinations, many wearing white tee-shirts that read: “Je Suis Charlie,” (“I am Charlie.”) Most western press denounced the horrific murders and supported the press’s right to biting sarcasm.
What a difference a decade makes.
Following the assassination of Charlie Kirk, I heard on Thomas Snégaroff‘s political program on France 5, the author Judith Perrignon, of “The Other America; When Roosevelt Challenged Capitalism in the United States,” claim that when she watched the memorial for the 31 year-old martyr, “I thought of those Nazi rallies that took place in the United States in the 1930s. American white supremacy is completely connected to Hitler’s radical thought....”
A similar sentiment was expressed by former French Minister of Culture, Aurélie Filippetti on France’s public broadcasting station: “It inspires me with disgust and fear. All fascist movements have as a characteristic to victimize themselves and to instrumentalisé their so-called heroes who died in combat.”
Left-Wing Bias Prevalent
When I moved to France three years ago, I tried to watch French nightly news to be better informed about what was happening in the country where I had become a resident. It didn’t take me long to get the French left-wing bias that underlines most news programs.
So, I stopped watching.
I started to buy the weekend edition of Le Figaro, France’s classy, conservative daily, whose feature articles are thoughtful and usually excellent and whose editorials tend to be centrist. Nevertheless, it was difficult to find any meaningful, factual coverage of the assassination. Hélène de Lauzun à Paris correspondent for The European Conservative did write: “The assassination of Charlie Kirk....could well incite further acts of violence. ....For several weeks now, prominent figures on the Right have been explicitly targeted by the far Left and subjected to death threats.”
Are the editors of Le Figaro, the esteemed French newspaper, founded in 1926 as a literary and satirical publication, also fearful of being “taken out?”
My curiosity about the lack of fact-based coverage on TV or in the press led me to ask neighbors if they’d heard about Charlie Kirk’s murder. None had. They seemed puzzled I’d asked. It was clear to me they were thinking: “What does what happens in America have to do with us?”
I now await more storming and burning of synagogues and churches in France,
If I were younger and had a death wish, I’d get an artist friend to design a white Tee shirt printed simply with the phrase, “Je suis Charlie Kirk,” and flog them on a Parisian sidewalk, much like another American – my age – Jean Seberg, did selling the New York Herald Tribune in 1960.
And I’d send one to Katie Couric (probably size medium – as she looks like she’s gained a few pounds and suffers from the virulent Trump Derangement Syndrome with which she is inflicted.)
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Nothing really to do with the political bent of the fine article, but thank my Dad if a colonoscopy saved your life or the lifecof someone you love. Carl Pernicone was an optical engineer, including laser optics. Dad invented the camera scope that goes up the ole gazoo during the colonoscopy. Typical for my father, I never knew that about him until about 6 years ago when my own procedure revealed a trespasser on my appendix into the colon. After surgery, I called him to relate what had happened. Dad says, "Thank me for saving your life." (What the heck, I say!) He explains. For sure he was only paid an hourly rate for developing the scope, not profitting. And that was my father too. In Defense and Weaponry most of his career, he had always wanted to create stuff that saves life as opposed to destroys. Thanks Dad!
Katie is non-thinking radical that is driven by her hate for Trump and ALL-things American. Why she didn't take her nest egg and retire somewhere that has no TVs can only be answered by her desire to "be seen and heard". "We hear you Katie, you hate us..." Please go away....Blessings