Katy? STFU

Oh boy oh boy oh boy, I just love it when Katy Couric gives me an opportunity to shred her blonde cheerleading ditzy...stuff.


Couric Wouldn't Go To War Zone
Posted Friday July 21, 2006 at 10:45 AM
Couric is right to point out that a single parent (of already bereaved kids) has an extra duty to be responsible with her children's only remaining parent. Unfortunately, given her earlier statement about cheerily rushing into the zone in service of the story, the burden is now on Couric to resolve the inconsistency, and decide which one she means so that either can be credible.

Lori Piestewa

She was a single mother with two small children, a boy, 4, and a girl, 3.

A Wrong Turn in the Desert
By Osha Gray Davidson
Rolling Stone, 27 May 2004
Only twenty-three years old, Piestewa saw herself as a Hopi warrior, part of a centuries-old tradition developed by a people who once resisted an invasion and occupation by the U.S. military – much as the Iraqis are today. She went to war, but she believed above all in peace, in doing no harm to others. "I’m not trying to be a hero," she told a friend just before the invasion. "I just want to get through this crap and go home."
Her fellow soldiers remember her differently. When Jessica Lynch thanked a long list of people at her triumphant homecoming in West Virginia, she devoted her final words to Piestewa, her former roommate at Fort Bliss, Texas, where the two had been stationed before the war. "Most of all," Lynch said that day, "I miss Lori."
Since the attack, Lynch has insisted again and again that she was not a hero, that she was only a survivor. Asked who was a hero that day in Nasiriyah, she doesn’t hesitate. "Lori," she says firmly. "Lori is the real hero."
Jessica Lynch with a picture of Lori. (Photograph by Ben Lowy page 2)

Mom, Hopi, hero: Piestewa an icon
By Billy House and Mark Shaffer
The Arizona Republic
April 10, 2003

And oh, look, the wing-nuts who have controlled Arizona since it became a state decided it was time to change the name of Squaw Peak.

Climb Piestewa Peak, (formerly called Squaw Peak)

Update: Katy Correction
(corrected section)
The big question remains: what about Katie?
Katie Couric, who takes over CBS Evening News in September, told Access Hollywood on May 30th that she would not venture into Iraq, in response to an interview regarding injured CBS News correspondent Kimberly Dozier. At the time Couric was still a co-anchor of NBC's "Today" show.
"I think the situation there (Iraq) is so dangerous, and as a single parent with two children, that's something I won't be doing," Katie said.
But following growing tensions between Israel and Lebanon in recent weeks, and her stepping in as the sole anchor at CBS Evening News, she now says she would travel to the Middle East.
At the CBS TCAs on July 16th Katie said, "I think, yeah, of course I would want to be there. I think -- in terms of traveling, I think it will be done on a case-by-case basis. I think sometimes correspondents who have been covering beats for months and even years often have a great handle on what's going on in a certain global hot spot. But clearly if it's going to serve the story, advance the story, and be helpful to the story, I would like to be there. I think it really depends on the situation and what's happening."
(Access Hollywood regrets that the earlier version of this story was misleading)

So, what you're trying to say here is basically if there's no risk in a war zone you'll go, right Katy? Ohhhh.....just smile pretty OK, Katy?