Who here wants to have sex with Katie Couric's mouth? Huh? Huh? Come on now. Don't be shy... raise those hands. That's it... be proud.

That would make much more sense...I'll get my coat.

In reply to this comment by dag:
I think the YouTube clip comes from the US HBO version, which was aired at around the same time as the BBC version. I suspect it was released around the same time so people would watch it on HBO, instead of getting it online.

In reply to this comment by gorilla_squad:
That's a great point - I had wondered who Katie Couric was.

Perversely, I'm fairly sure this is the same version originally aired, otherwise I'm not sure how the American edit got up on YouTube so quickly. This copy was published pretty much the day after I watched it on tv.

You've got to expect some pandering to an international audience given Ricky Gervais's popularity, though. I didn't feel that it was any less aimed at the home audience than earlier stuff.

In reply to this comment by dag:
Interesting that this has been edited from the original BBC version I watched.

Katie Couric = Kate Adie
American Idol = X Factor

They have obviously dubbed this version to be more understandable to an American audience. That kind of pandering to American tastes displeases me.

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I think the YouTube clip comes from the US HBO version, which was aired at around the same time as the BBC version. I suspect it was released around the same time so people would watch it on HBO, instead of getting it online.

In reply to this comment by gorilla_squad:
That's a great point - I had wondered who Katie Couric was.

Perversely, I'm fairly sure this is the same version originally aired, otherwise I'm not sure how the American edit got up on YouTube so quickly. This copy was published pretty much the day after I watched it on tv.

You've got to expect some pandering to an international audience given Ricky Gervais's popularity, though. I didn't feel that it was any less aimed at the home audience than earlier stuff.

In reply to this comment by dag:
Interesting that this has been edited from the original BBC version I watched.

Katie Couric = Kate Adie
American Idol = X Factor

They have obviously dubbed this version to be more understandable to an American audience. That kind of pandering to American tastes displeases me.

That's a great point - I had wondered who Katie Couric was.

Perversely, I'm fairly sure this is the same version originally aired, otherwise I'm not sure how the American edit got up on YouTube so quickly. This copy was published pretty much the day after I watched it on tv.

You've got to expect some pandering to an international audience given Ricky Gervais's popularity, though. I didn't feel that it was any less aimed at the home audience than earlier stuff.

In reply to this comment by dag:
Interesting that this has been edited from the original BBC version I watched.

Katie Couric = Kate Adie
American Idol = X Factor

They have obviously dubbed this version to be more understandable to an American audience. That kind of pandering to American tastes displeases me.

Comment hidden because you are ignoring dag. (show it anyway)

Interesting that this has been edited from the original BBC version I watched.

Katie Couric = Kate Adie
American Idol = X Factor

They have obviously dubbed this version to be more understandable to an American audience. That kind of pandering to American tastes displeases me.

Marxist-leftist weenies bend over backwards apologizing to and for, say, Saddam, the 9-11 terrorists and "I'm-a-Dinner-Jacket", the imam-punk'd 'President' of Iran, for these poor souls are/were merely "misunderstood", and "we have no right to judge them, because all cultures are equal."

It takes Ann Coulter, a 100-lb Christian White Woman, whose greatest "crime" is having a point of view in a wussified PC-world that can no longer bear strong opinions on any subject, to evoke the kind of rabid hatred that should be reserved for the aforementioned madmen.

I stand by my original statement, which is correct. Had it been Katie Couric in the hot seat you might recognize the obvious about the no-talent schmuck host, but hey, I'm just shocked the rage even emerged, usually so well-concealed behind the elitist intelligentsian facade. Too bad it's wasted on skinny White girls and not murderous muslims.

Katie Couric is the real lame-o.

good posts, i agree

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“Why? why should people just accept that the societal norm is so juvenile and immature that everyone still gets thier knickers in a twist over every little 'shit'? Most other civilized nations have moved on, they've grown up, cursing on tv and radio is not puritanically censored, its simply accepted as part of the vernacular that adults use. I maintain that there is something DEEPLY awry about a nation that can't handle hearing the word fuck on television yet simultaneously has seemingly few qualms about entering into wars where hundreds of thousands of people die and then seeing this news delivered nightly on thier TV with trademark Kaite Couric smarm. Which is more vulgar?”

Why? why should people just accept that the societal norm is so juvenile and immature that everyone still gets thier knickers in a twist over every little 'shit'? Most other civilized nations have moved on, they've grown up, cursing on tv and radio is not puritanically censored, its simply accepted as part of the vernacular that adults use. I maintain that there is something DEEPLY awry about a nation that can't handle hearing the word fuck on television yet simultaneously has seemingly few qualms about entering into wars where hundreds of thousands of people die and then seeing this news delivered nightly on thier TV with trademark Kaite Couric smarm. Which is more vulgar?

not sure what 'book' you are referencing, wumpus ... as no link was provided ... so i will have to assume that you meant michael j fox's Lucky Man: Memoir. this book was published in april 2002 ( he was diagnosed in 1991) ... the same month as this radio interview in which he states:

Well, actually, I've been erring on the side of caution--I think 'erring' is actually the right word--in that I've been medicating perhaps too much, in the sense that a lot of times the symptoms that people see in some of these interviews that have been on are actually dyskinesia, which is a reaction to the medication. Because if I were purely symptomatic with Parkinson's symptoms, a lot of times speaking is difficult. There's a kind of a cluttering of speech and it's very difficult to sit still, to sit in one place. You know, the symptoms are different, so I'd rather kind of suffer the symptoms of dyskinesia. . .this kind of weaving and this kind of continuous thing is much preferable, actually, than pure Parkinson's symptoms. So that's what I generally do.

this is almost what he says 4 years later in his interview with katie couric ... an understanding of PD and consequent side effects of medication to treat it (dyskinesia) would greatly increase someone's ability to debate this issue.

Wumpus, hurling an accusation without backing it up is SO Rush Limbaugh of you.
I'm aware of Limbaugh's half-assed "apology", followed immediately with the Coulter-esque accusation of the Democrats putting up pitiable victims, which Fox answered in the clip above:

COURIC: I called Rush Limbaugh and he told me: I believe Democrats have a long history of using victims of various things as political spokespeople because they believe they are untouchable, infallible, they are immune from criticism.

FOX: Well, first thing, he used the word victim. And on another occasion I heard him use the word pitiable. And understand, nobody in this position wants pity. We don’t want pity. I could give a damn about Rush Limbaugh’s pity or anyone else’s pity. I’m not a victim. I’m someone who is in this situation. I think I’m in this situation along with millions of other Americans, and we have a right, if there’s answers out there, to pursue those answers with the full support of our politicians. And so I don’t need anyone’s permission to do that.

I know for a fact that you didn't watch the entire clip, or you would have seen that, as well as Fox's point that he's recorded campaign commercials for Arlen Spector, a Republican who supports stem cell research. Just like Nancy Reagan.

So the "context and facts" were pretty much all right there in the clip. Thanks for watching.

Tags changed from "lara, logan, katie, couric, cbs, afganistan, new format, ratings war" to "lara, logan, katie, couric, cbs" by gold star member James Roe.

This is what the Big 3 network newscasts need to be relevant again -- actually investigating the truth instead of just broadcasting press conferences. Lara Logan > Katie Couric