About the only time we watch HBO is for the fights, but much to our surprise we found out that the cable network has a series called “HBO History Makers.”
If this episode of the series – an interview with former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and perky, ratings-challenged news anchor Katie Couric – had been a fight, it would have been stopped in the first round.
Couric asked Rice about the war in Iraq. She led with her chin and a false premise when she said, “Documentaries have been made about how intelligence was incorrectly analyzed and cherry-picked to build an argument for war, and memos from that time do suggest that officials knew there was a small chance of actually finding weapons of mass destruction in Iraq.”
Rice proceeded to pummel Couric with a combination of lefts and rights and knock-out punches from every direction. Couric never knew what hit her.
Our favorite moment? When Rice started talking about Saddam Hussein’s use of poisonous gas and Couric jumped in to say, “Oh, yeah, he used those chemical weapons against the Kurds….”
Too little, too late, Katie. You’d already been counted out.
Hugo Chavez proved just how out of touch he is this week by calling Hillary Clinton “a blonde Condoleezza.” Wrong historical reference, Hugo. Think Evita instead.