We’re not sure how this old story slipped by everyone, but it did. Dan Rather called Katie Couric a whore. We’re sure you’ll agree that there’s no other way to interpret the wizened old newsman’s words.
The Media Research Center has the details:
Speaking of sexism, on the June 11, 2007 Morning Joe, Rather attacked Katie Couric, his successor at the CBS Evening News, this way: “The mistake was to try to bring the ‘Today’ show ethos to the evening news and to dumb it down, tart it up in hopes of attracting a younger audience.”
Tart it up? That didn’t sound very nice to us, so we checked the definition of “tart” at Princeton.edu’s online dictionary:
Tart: prostitute, a woman who engages in sexual intercourse for money
Now in interest of full disclosure, the second definition of tart is “a small open pie with a fruit filling.” But we doubt that that’s what Dan Rather meant.
No, Rather clearly called Katie Couric a whore, a prostitute, a harlot, a hooker, a fallen woman, a slut, a strumpet, a tramp, a working girl, a streetwalker, a lady of the evening news, if you will.
Damn. First time we’ve ever agreed with Dan Rather on anything.
Source: MRC
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Calling Couric a whore is an insult to prostitutes world wide
Uhm... this story is actually kind of old and she responded to that in a video that was out for a while. I dont know her so I dont know if she is a whore or not, but she is definetly not a person that I would trust and she has shown herself to be a socialist progressive so I have no respect for her in that vein.
Try communist pig
Let me get this straight - it's late and maybe I'm not thinking clearly. One definition of tart is a prostitute, and the other is a small open pie?
Wait, let me start over.
You're saying that it has to be one definition or the other, right? ... Oh never mind.
Whores serve a needed purpose, many are actually honest, many are attractive, many are patriotic. . . sorry Dan, you have insulted whores.
So Tart means: prostitute, a woman who engages in sexual intercourse for money.
So all these years and I now find out the candy Sweat Tarts really mean "Sweat Prostitutes"... Fascinating Captain...
As noted, a tart is a pastry, defined in the dictionary as: "a small pie containing jam, fruit, etc."; this is a fair description of Couric's
brain and intellect. So maybe ole Dan was passing judgement on her I.Q., not her morals. On the other hand, Dan whored himself out for years, so maybe he was saluting a fellow political ho'.
What do you call a large pie filled with good intentions and semen?
A frank.
Giving a job to a woman attached to a smile and perky set of boobs is nothing new. Rather may have a point but common, a lot of places do that.
For a moment, I thought this was one of those "give a man a fish" things. You know,
"Give a woman with a smile and a perky set of boobs a job, you're sexist. But if you give a woman with a smile a perky set of boobs..."
Go on. Finish it.
i prefer the term gutterslut
Just in time for Christmas, Hoe, Hoe Hoe!!
it makes Rather a pimp'n mofo. he undoubtedly has some "authentic" letters to back his assertions