All posts tagged "Katie Couric"

Sen. Bill Cassidy (R-LA) snapped during an interview with veteran journalist Katie Couric when talking about a Trump nominee.

During an episode of Couric's podcast, she dug into what should be the standards for accepting a Trump nominee for a top health official job. Cassidy, a physician, cast the deciding vote to confirm Robert F. Kennedy Jr. as Health and Human Services secretary, but he grew visibly irritated when Couric pressed him on Dr. Erica Schwarz, the Trump administration's pick to lead the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

Couric pointed out that Cassidy is the chairman of the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee, which means, "You play a central role in vetting nominees who will work directly under Secretary Kennedy, including the nominee for CDC director Dr. Erica Schwarz," Couric told Cassidy. The interview had mostly focused on Kennedy and his questionable health advice and position on vaccines before turning to Schwarz....

An ex-Republican insider relied on a handy Star Wars analogy to name the "Sith Lord" who he said helped turn Trump into who he is today.

"Donald Trump was always going to be a sociopath," George Conway, the ex-husband of right-wing commentator Kellyanne Conway, said during an interview with Katie Couric.

"But Roy Cohn was like the sociopath teacher, right?" Conway went on. "He was the mentor, you know, kind of like the Sith Lord or the senior Sith Lord to the junior Sith Lord."...

Sarah Palin won’t rule out a possible run for elected office, but she insists she won’t appear on “Dancing With The Stars.”

A bioethicist at Loyola University claims that comedian Jon Stewart is currently the top public intellectual in the United States, a position that has typically been attributed to Henry Kissinger.

The polls agree with me: Biden won pretty easily last night.

John Cole links to Michelle Malkin's endorsed hypothetical takedown of Katie Couric. Unfortunately, the takedown involves hypothetical Palin asking hypothetical Couric a hypothetical question whose hypothetical answer involves a whole series of other hypothetical things, and by the time you've reached this level of hypothetical involvement, I'd better either be watching porn or a porn-based adaptation of something which lends itself to the imaginings of porn.