Confidential to Couric: Think more
Hi. Young feminists of America, allow me to introduce your standard-bearer, the irrepressible Katie Couric!
Except from MRC’s December 29, 2003 CyberAlert…
Couric introduced her guests: “Time’s magazine’s Person of the Year issue hits news stands today and this year it honors the American soldier. Jim Kelly is Time’s Managing Editor and veteran war photographer James Nachtwey was embedded with the Army’s First Armored Division in Baghdad and took the remarkable images in this week’s issue, he was also wounded while on assignment. Gentlemen, welcome, good morning, nice to have you both. I was so, I have to say, just personally, I was so pleased to see this.”
Kelly: “Oh, good. Excellent.”
Couric: “Tell me why you all decided to honor the American soldier? Wondering why there’s no woman on the cover too?”
Kelly, reaching forward to point at magazine on table: “This is a woman.”
Couric, putting finger on cover: “Oh, there you go, oh sorry.”
Kelly: “It’s a woman, yes, exactly.”
Couric: “Oh, I couldn’t tell because of her helmet, okay.”
Niiice.
p.s. How many women are actually prowling the streets of Baghdad in full combat gear, as is insinuated by the TIME cover? Well, no matter. Political correctness need not concern itself with patriarchal traditions like accuracy.