Just to be fair …
Katie Couric
… I’d let Katie Couric sit on my lap, too. She’s 53 (six years older than me) and she looks great.
But this is no news bunny. In an interview about her Harper’s photoshoot, she discussed her infamous hard interview with Sarah Palin:
As for Palin, in the Bazaar article Couric briefly revisits the infamous, election-changing interview in which the governor of Alaska stumbled and fumbled her way through Katie’s hard-hitting questions about foreign policy and her reading habits.
“One day, I will talk about it at length,” Katie says, but for now she’s focused on defending herself against Palin’s charge that Couric asked her certain questions more than “twelve times.”
“I think I probably had to re-ask because she wasn’t as responsive as she needed to be,” Couric argues.
In other words, Couric did her job as a journalist. She kept asking the question until the subject answered the damn question. It’s a lost art in the modern legacy media.
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I bet Palin supporters get nervous every time a microphone is placed in front of her, because they never know what statements they will have to explain or justify. Or maybe it would be simply that the interviewer is "badgering her", or taking something out of context?