Poor Katie Couric isn't comfy:
“The whole culture of wearing flags on our lapel and saying ‘we’ when referring to the United States and, even the ‘shock and awe’ of the initial stages, it was just too jubilant and just a little uncomfortable. And I remember feeling, when I was anchoring the ‘Today’ show, this inevitable march towards war and kind of feeling like, ‘Will anybody put the brakes on this?’ And is this really being properly challenged by the right people? And I think, at the time, anyone who questioned the administration was considered unpatriotic and it was a very difficult position to be in.”
Let's mash up those first and last bits: "The whole culture of wearing flags on our lapel and saying ‘we’ when referring to the United States...was just a little uncomfortable...and was considered unpatriotic."
Couric doesn't want to call herself an American, but she also doesn't want people to think she's unpatriotic. What exactly are we supposed to think, Katie?
UPDATE: Some-kind-of-minds think alike. Over at NRO, Jonah Goldberg said almost the exact same thing, and quoted the exact same graf. Although to be fair, I required a lot fewer words. (H/T, Insty.)
UPDATE: My hot wife, who is also smart*, asks, "How is Katie supposed to change people's minds when she doesn't even know her own?"
*Or is it the other way around?
Well, her biggest skill is being perky, not smart. Perhaps the Peter* Principle applies to her.
*Polly Principle?
And Katie Couric is . . . who, exactly?
Your wife is hot first, smart second.
Women only say they want the smart first, so you probably ought to say smart first, but when it comes down to it, what women want most of all is to be thought *hot* by the person who is supposed to think they are hot.
We're usually pretty confident about our smartness even without constant reassurance. Confidence about hotness is a little harder to come by.
