Poor Hill!

[NanceGreggs]

I'm an Obama supporter, but Hillary really got the raw end of the deal on tonight's "60 Minutes" - getting stuck being interviewed by Katie "I Was Born Without a Brain" Kouric.

Hillary Clinton is running for the presidency of the United States. And yet she had to answer questions about how she keeps up her stamina (i.e. "Do you pop vitamins? Do you mainline coffee?"), and her nickname in high school.

All I can say is :wtf: was "60 Minutes" thinking when they added Ms No-Brain to the show - and to answer my own question, apparently, they weren't thinking at all.

[usregimechange]

1. Kouric would fit in on Fox

[Tatiana]

9. Even the Fox Friends have to display competence at pushing the right-wing agenda.

I wouldn't even call Couric competent. At anything.

[usregimechange]

21. She could maybe be trained?

[saltpoint]

2. Hi, Nance. Agree. Evidently it's a contract clause or something, since they

invested so much cash in Couric's star power.

But she can't really interview anyone in politics. 60 MINUTES ought to pay Jim Lehrer any amount he names and just have him do their whole show.

[ingac70]

3. People should know better...

than to think an interview by Katie Kouric is going to enhance their image.

[WillYourVoteBCounted]

20. tell me that HIllary didn't see that coming

Seems that Hillary would have required more control over that interview.

This crap is taped ahead of time, right?

[ingac70]

24. more bad judgment. n/t.

[Maddy McCall]

4. She asked nothing of substance. A ten minute discussion of...

how she keeps her energy up on the campaign trail.

I'd rather have seen a hard-hitting journalist ask her some SERIOUS questions instead of the fluff that Couric threw at her.

Couric needs to go back to the morning shows.

[mrreowwr_kittty]

5. Couric sucks.

I didn't get a chance to see the show but I can only imagine the inane drivel that passed for "journalism" in that interview.

[npincus]

6. & what the hell was the NYT thinking when they hired Bill Kristol?

I have to remind myself not to buy the paper on Mondays.

[Debi]

7. Katie heard Clinton and thought she'd get to giggle and flirt her way through an interview

God how she misses the today show when she was the cute sassy one.

[GrpCaptMandrake]

8. I heard Guy James the other day

and he called her "Cutesy Couric." I've yet to hear a more apropos moniker for her. She's the anchor for those who answer "Yes" to "Would you like cotton candy with your news?"

[nomorewhopper]

10. think she chose Katie to do the interview?

i'm not sure how it works, i would assume that both the candidate and network agree on the interviewer?

funny, because when i started watching the segment, i thought, oh god she's being interviewed by Katie. and I was pretty sure that she'd start to ask questions like "OMYGOD HOW DO U DO IT HILLARY?!!" and of course, that's what happened. apparently drinking lots of water is her big secret to success. that and eating lots of hot peppers.

[Cooley Hurd]

11. Despite the interviewer, the interviewee did an AWESOME job!

:thumbsup:

[KAZ]

14. Agree!

[NanceGreggs]

34. She did!

Kudos to Hillary for being able to salvage something out of the ashes of a Kouric interview, and she did so with style. She managed quite artfully to get the discussion back to the issues - but she shouldn't have been put in the position of having to do so.

[BleedingHeartPatriot]

12. Couric is the supposed alpha female. Hill is an actual a.f.

Haven't seen it, but after reading that Coric was the 60 minutes "correspondent", I felt absolute confidence that it would be a debacle.

The poseur interviewing the possible POTUS.

:-(

[Blue State Bandit]

13. WHERE'S DAN RATHERS NUMBER!!!???

[ursi]

15. I'd agree with you but they went on the Tyra Banks Show on Faux!

For crying out loud! What did they expect?

[elixir]

16. Too bad. She doesn't deserve that. Did you see her in VA today at the rally? She looked tired.

Poor Hillary. I'm not worried though, she'll keep on running and we need to support her.

[ursi]

22. they showed Hillary today speaking, not sure where, on CSPan and she looked exhausted!

We gotta give these people some credit! Can you even imagine the schedules they've been cranking out? Their voices are wearing!

[Mz Pip]

17. Did she ask

Hillary what her favorite color was?

Did she use the "Some people say..." before she took a swipe at her? I agree, Katie is terrible at anything resembling serious journalism. Her pieces always come off as fluff.


It won't be on here for a couple more hours. Maybe I'll pass.

Mz Pip
:dem:

[Jed Dilligan]

18. Did she really say "mainline coffee"?

That's a horribly distasteful and distressing suggestion.

[JVS]

31. Hillary could have responded that she hears that Couric is big on the Coffee Enemas

and that you could really notice the coffee stains on her nationally broadcast colonoscopy.

[NanceGreggs]

36. She did. n/t

[Bicoastal]

19. Nance is an Obama girl? I didn't know!

Good for you! :hi:

[Kittycat]

23. And why would she ask her about being called, "Fridgidare" in HS?

:wtf: Even I turned my nose up to that one.

[Madam Mossfern]

26. I agree , that was awful

I don't know how Hillary managed to laugh that one off, but it was just downright insulting.

[Madam Mossfern]

27. I agree , that was awful

I don't know how Hillary managed to laugh that one off, but it was just downright insulting.

[JVS]

29. What?!! Couric should be in trouble for that shit.

[Tom Joad]

25. yep, par for the course. They should hire Amy Goodman!

She'd keep asking why Hillary voted for the IWR, the Iran war act, all that other shit. then, if given a chance, she would do pop some hard questions for Obama, too.

[sloppyjoe25s]

28. have to agree

it was terrible. 60 minutes goes to my ignore list now.

[terrya]

30. No kidding.

I wouldn't have been surprised if Katie suggested to Hillary that they braid each other's hair.

Katie Couric is a disgrace as an interviewer.

[stellanoir]

32. Couric was endearing in the early '90's shen she was cheerful.

There was a time when some kids drowned under ice in NH.

She interviewed one of the survivors. She said, "and how did you feel when he let go of your hand?"

This was regarding a kid who had drowned.

Then she furthered, "and so were you excited when you saw the rescuers approaching?"

It was so unbelievably lame and insensitive.

Oh and "navy seals rock." BTW

Ughhh

[BlackVelvet04]

33. The first third of the interview was more about Obama than Hillary...

what a stupid interview.

[BleedingHeartPatriot]

35. OMFG. Watching in great bafflement and stunned.

:wtf: indeed.

on edit, a heart, thank you. :loveya:

[loveangelc]

37. anyone have the video?