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Rather than link directly to Katie Couric's new blog, I thought I'd go through Charlie Pierce's post on The American Prospect. I haven't taken the time to tune in "Hard News" Couric since she stepped behind the anchor desk, but her early and fawning interview with Bush (and all the talk about her wardrobe) were a pretty clear indication of how much news we'll be dished up every night.
But Couric's blog continues the proud tradition of news-studs your David Brinkleys and John Chancellor. But with a sorely needed dose of jaunty fun in place of all that boring grown-up stuff.
I’ve been working this week on a profile of Condoleezza Rice for Sunday’s 60 Minutes.
This is a woman who is “scary smart” – so intelligent, it’s scary. She seems to have a photographic memory. She can tick off events and dates in a way that made my head spin. She’s also an astute, passionate student of history--and history is what is giving her enormous confidence and comfort in the crafting of the Bush Administration’s foreign policy.
During our interview, she cited the Civil War, the Cold War, and other dark days in international history to demonstrate that very trying times are often worth the end result.
Don't you feel safer knowing that the Secretary of State has heard of the Cold War and the Civil War? She really is smart! The whole entry is worth a look, though, in this funny-yet-sad decade. Couric seems to be channeling the presimuhdent himself when she claims to have divined global policy after hearing a couple of anecdotes about Rice's childhood.
But Couric's blog continues the proud tradition of news-studs your David Brinkleys and John Chancellor. But with a sorely needed dose of jaunty fun in place of all that boring grown-up stuff.
I’ve been working this week on a profile of Condoleezza Rice for Sunday’s 60 Minutes.
This is a woman who is “scary smart” – so intelligent, it’s scary. She seems to have a photographic memory. She can tick off events and dates in a way that made my head spin. She’s also an astute, passionate student of history--and history is what is giving her enormous confidence and comfort in the crafting of the Bush Administration’s foreign policy.
During our interview, she cited the Civil War, the Cold War, and other dark days in international history to demonstrate that very trying times are often worth the end result.
Don't you feel safer knowing that the Secretary of State has heard of the Cold War and the Civil War? She really is smart! The whole entry is worth a look, though, in this funny-yet-sad decade. Couric seems to be channeling the presimuhdent himself when she claims to have divined global policy after hearing a couple of anecdotes about Rice's childhood.
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