Ed KLEIN's latest hit piece on women: He claims COURIC is librul

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http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/08/27/AR2007082701413.html

The Unauthorized Katie Couric: Smiling Ambition

By Louis Bayard,
a novelist and critic
Tuesday, August 28, 2007; Page C01


KATIE The Real Story By Edward Klein Crown. 278 pp. $25.95





Katie Couric is bad.

.... ...You may wonder why making that point was worth a book. You may also wonder if the same book would have been written about a male broadcaster. Finally, you may wonder why you should expect anything very serious from the author of "The Kennedy Curse," which describes the late Carolyn Bessette Kennedy as "sprawled on the floor in front of a sofa, disheveled and hollow-eyed, snorting cocaine with a gaggle of gay fashionistas."

It takes a tough man to write a phrase like "gaggle of gay fashionistas," and, in fact, Klein has made a second career of leaving knuckle prints on famous women. Hillary Clinton got what was coming to her in "The Truth About Hillary"; Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis apparently needed three Klein volumes to be brought down to earth (four, if you count "The Kennedy Curse"). And now it's Couric's turn to be publicly caned for the crime of projecting a persona at variance with her true self -- or perhaps for "her unabashed bias in favor of liberal causes," or maybe just for being "the most popular female broadcaster of her generation." ....

No one could be happier about the whole CBS misadventure than Klein, who devotes a good quarter of his book to it. "At heart," he concludes, in a tone somewhere between sorrow and anger, "Katie was not an anchor." But who is this mystical "anchor" he speaks of? And can we make it go away? Does a mature society really need someone popping up four or five minutes a night to pat our hands and express the hope that we had a good day?

As it is, the very premises that undergird broadcast news are being undercut every day by the blogosphere, which revels in the greatest number of voices and which will almost certainly leave future generations wondering how we could have placed our trust in a single smiling entity (connected via earpiece to omniscient producers). We are becoming our own news anchors, and maybe it's time. Maybe it's time, too, for Edward Klein to find an ambitious woman he likes.

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[MethuenProgressive]

1. "Maybe it's time, too for Klein to find an ambitious woman he likes."

Maybe it's time, too for America to find an ambitious woman it likes...

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2. Maybe it's time for Klein to admit that he doesn't really like

women. Especially ambitious women.

edit: Although I think Couric is a disaster too.