Katie Couric's ratings for the CBS NIghtly News are the lowest they've ever been. Rush seems to think it's Katie's fault - and it might well be but it might also have something to do with the economy and the fact that people don't want to watch news anymore - they know its only bad news.
But the point is, he compares her to Dan Rather. Now, Katie Couric never faked emails or was accused of anything unsavory. Dan Rather was. Dan Rather shuldn't even have a job anymore! But he does - because he's a guy.
Rush thinks if Katie weren't a woman she wouldn't be given another chance. Well...what about Elliot Spitzer, "Client Number 9" as Rush repeatedly calls him. He was given another chance, wasn't he? Not in politics but as a news commentator.
What about all those CEOs - men - who drive their companies into the ground, leave with their golden parachutes, and then are given jobs as CEOs of yet another company, even though they've proven that they're no good. While a pretty face might get a woman a job in the TV industry, it pulls no weight in the boardroom. THere, if a woman can't cut it, she's fired and probably won't get another job, because there's no "old boy network" that will look after her. But male CEOs, presidents of companies, etc., no matter how poor their records, will always find another job - at an even higher salary, too!
Let me give you another example here, we talk about the chickification of things. ABC recently released a photo of all of their news babes, "World Women Tonight." Had Diane Sawyer in there, Barbara Walters in the picture, Christiane Amanpour, Katie Couric. Now, does anybody really think that Katie Couric would have been hired by ABC after this dismal failure on the CBS Nightly News if she were a man? You look at her work and her ratings on the CBS Evening News, that's hardly a track record, hardly an entree into another network job. But she got one. She goes into the CBS Evening News, she takes those numbers to the lowest they've ever been. She ends up with a talk show on ABC. A man would not benefit that way.
Now, don't get mad at me too much here, folks, but just as an example, look at poor old Dan Rather. All he did was book fake a National Guard thing on Bush, and he had to get caught at that and they tossed him out. I mean they did a little awards dinner for him but he had to go find work at HDNet with Mark Cuban after his CBS News train wreck. After Dan Rather's train wreck at CBS News, where's he? He's in oblivion. He's on HDNet doing stories on milk deliveries in Africa. Where's Katie Couric after her failure? ABC, perhaps the next Oprah; based on what? She's a woman. It is what it is. Why can't we blame liberal women for what these politicians are doing? They have feminized politics to such a degree that men can't be men anymore. They all gotta be out there trying to prove that they're Alan Alda or whoever is the definition of a real man, Michael Kinsley, I don't know.
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