Katie Couric must have left Courtney Love's cocker spaniel pictures at home when she visited the hair salon, because she came out looking like a Hillary Clinton-esque pixie instead. The CBS news anchor debuted her new hairstyle on last night's broadcast, and we're going to go out on a limb and predict that it won't boost the ratings.
David Letterman, still irked that John McCain chose to go on Katie Couric instead of his show, calls up the perky CBS news anchor and demands an explanation. Her excuse? McCain never mentioned that he was supposed to be on The Late Show.
What a liar! Also, keep ridin' that zeitgeist, Dave!
Somehow, when Nate Archibald from Gossip Girl can't answer a question correctly about countries and uh, fashion, it somehow comes off adorable and charming. A certain governor from Alaska could have used this video of Chace Crawford answering a Grazia Guy Fashion Quiz as a template for how to field inquiries by Katie Couric.
Sarah Palin was on The Today Show yesterday with secretly-roasted Matt Lauer to discuss how annoying it was that Katie Couric asked her about what newspapers she read in Alaska:
To me that was a little bit annoying. Because I'm like, what do you mean, what do I read in Alaska? I read the same things that you guys read in New York. And there in LA and in Washington state. What do you mean what I read up there? But anyway, just– just some annoyance, that certainly I'm sure showed through. And, you know, perhaps that annoyance that showed through would have led some to be annoyed with me watching the interview.
Except, erm, hate to stop ya there Sarah, but we have this thing called YouTube now, and you can see for yourself that's not the question the Couric asked you.
COURIC ON PALIN • "I think she should keep her head down, work really hard and learn about governing."
You knew this was coming! Sarah Palin took to the gentle, fair and balanced Fox News this morning to discuss her absolutely pathetic Katie Couric interview, which the Alaskan governor said was "annoying."
Palin continued, saying Couric's questions were unfair and that she would have preferred to discuss all the stupid fucking lies she's been trained to believe are the truth, because she's the goddamn Manchurian candidate.
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Here's something new: A clip of Sarah Palin looking like an uninformed twit as she is asked fairly basic questions about politics. This scenario was brought up Tuesday, when we said Sarah couldn't name any Supreme Court cases, but the video shows she just can't name any with which she disagrees. Minor difference, but you know she couldn't even name a single one if she tried. Hell, she couldn't even name a newspaper when asked.
Compared to Joe Biden's intelligent, well-spoken answer, this lady is clearly out of her league. She's not the first politician to not give a direct answer — but she's just so bad at it, it's unbelievable.
Ha ha ha ha! With this clip, we're of course setting ourselves up to be pyred by cranky do-gooders demanding we be "balanced" if we're going to be political. Sorry, do-gooders, but we just can't find any footage of Barack Obama or Joe Biden so obviously ducking questions about what they read.
To quote Kathleen Parker: "If BS were currency, Palin could bail out Wall Street herself."
Palin's wearing off on McCain! Yes! Like a blob that simply absorbs whatever stands in its way, Sarah Palin's crazy inability to say anything rational when faced with even slightly difficult questions has overtaken her favorite running mate/father figure, destroying his mavericky image.
How else to explain this answer, puked out when Katie Couric asked McCain how he felt about Palin declaring to a group of supporters that she would have no problem invading Pakistan, a proclamation the Arizona senator called dangerous when opponent Barack Obama made it.
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As if Sarah Palin's disastrous interview with CBS Stepford wife Katie Couric wasn't enough, the network reportedly has more footage that is even more damaging to the Alaskan governor. One of the tougher questions Palin faced? Discussing Supreme Court decisions, which was met with awkward silence.
Not to worry though, a Palin aide is clearing it all up for us:
The mere thought that Alaskan idiot Sarah Palin could very well be running our country in the near future is no longer funny — but Tina Fey's impression of the VP nominee is. The former SNL-er's shtick is so dead-on that we stopped laughing after a while because it's not even that exaggerated: This lady truly is absurd. Tina, you are the only one who can help us through this.
This whole feud between David Letterman and John McCain remained entertaining for the second day in a row after Dave found out even more damning evidence: Upon canceling his Late Show appearance Wednesday to rush to the aid of the dying economy, Johnny boy not only stopped off to visit with Katie Couric — he stayed in New York City until Thursday morning. Now there's a man in a hurry.
Letterman summed it up by admitting he felt like an ugly date: "I feel used. I feel cheap. I feel sullied. I feel cratered." John McCain has that effect on us, too, Dave.
From the second half of Katie Couric's interview with vice-presidential nominee Sarah Palin, airing tonight:
COURIC: Explain to me why [Alaska's proximity to Russia] enhances your foreign policy credentials.
PALIN: Well, it certainly does because our– our next door neighbors are foreign countries. They're in the state that I am the executive of. And there in Russia–
The lesson of this nine-minute excerpt from last night's Late Show? Don't cancel on David Letterman at the last minute with the a bald-faced lie. He will show a clip of your lying ass planted firmly in makeup chair several hundred miles away from where you said you'd be.
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Which godawful stunt did you watch last night? The one in which David Blaine, notorious cheat, hung on the monkey bars like a weird, magical third grader, or the one in which vice-presidential nominee Sarah Palin tried to dodge Katie Couric using every last trick in the "Unprepared Student" handbook?
Click through for the highlight reel.
Our favorite parts are at :50, when a toughie from Couric is met with complete silence before Palin then repeats her previous answer, and at around 4:30, when, after Couric asks Palin to give specific examples of the famously anti-regulation McCain "reforming" Wall Street, the Alaskan Governor literally says: "He's known as THE MAVERICK, though." (SERIOUSLY, THIS FREAKIN' LADY SAID THAT UNIRONICALLY!) When Couric very reasonably asks Palin to quit dodging and give some examples, Palin replies, all folksy, "I’ll try to find you some and I’ll bring 'em to ya." Thanks, Sarah! You do that; we've got all the time in the world.
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It has descended upon us: The Sex and the City movie premiered last night in New York City, much to the delight of … Eli Manning? He was one of the guests in attendance, for reasons unknown, at the type of over-the-top shindig that should only be reserved for stuff like the second coming of Xenu.
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IS COURIC LEAVING? WHO CARES? "O.K., out there: Raise your hand if you've caught any of the Big Three's evening news in the past year? I know I haven't. Like most folks I know, I'm not home when it airs at 6:30 p.m., and even if I was, I've already had my fill of news from Google, Yahoo!, or the news alerts from the Washington Post that show up on my e-mail. There's a reason why only about 25 million folks get their news from the Big Three news readers each night, according to Nielsen. 'It's appointment television in a world where no one gets their news by appointment any longer,' says Brad Adgate, senior vice-president at advertising buyer Horizon Media."
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