Strangely, it’s not Coulter, but girl-next-door Katie Couric who’s hinted, in a 60 Minutes interview with Elizabeth Edwards, that the couple might be “capitalizing” on the disease. Can’t you just see them cackling over the bone scans, eagerly calculating what the results would do for them in the polls? Convening their children for the good news that, although Daddy’s been almost eclipsed by Obama, Mommy has a potentially fatal disease?
Couric also told John Edwards that some people might judge him “callous” for campaigning through what might be his wife’s last months. Is Couric forgetting that she was working as a $7 million a year NBC anchor while her own husband was dying of colon cancer? And just in case we do get a Gingrich candidacy: Recall that he had his first wife served with divorce papers while she was in the hospital with cancer. In contrast, campaigning with your spouse, for as much time as she will be able to spend on the trail, seems downright romantic.
Preach it, Barbara!
2 comments:
I read quite a few of these critiques of Couric. CBS has her so strung up that I think everything Couric says (or wears), despite her title of managing editor, has been orchestrated by the execs.
That said, I'm inspired by Elizabeth Edwards. . . .
I don't really follow TV news, so Couric is sort of off my radar. But I was interested in Ehrenreich's charge of hypocrisy. People in glass houses and all...
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