Couric - Liberalism Incarnate

Bernard Chapin over at Intellectual Conservative does a good job of validating the picture created of Katie Couric in the new book Katie: The Real Story. His indictment of the mainstream media's response to the book is also dead accurate. But I don't think he goes far enough to explain both why the mainstream media is beholden to Katie and why she makes most people right-of-center shudder when they see her on television: Katie Couric embodies the modern liberal movement.

Couric's persona, as explained both in The Real Story and in Chapin's review, is quintessentially liberal. And despite what you may think, it has nothing to do with politics, righteous indignation, causes worth championing, or any other virtue carried by the revolutionaries of the 1960's. No, Katie Couric embodies what I like to call the "genetic crap" of the liberal movement. She is their dark side. She has all their weaknesses and none of their strengths, save one: the media.

But I only draw a distinction between the virtues and vices of the left to make a point. The modern liberal movement has little-to-no virtue at all, which goes a long way toward explaining the rise of a person like Couric to the top of the media landscape. Blind ambition, ruthlessness, consistent hypocrisy, selfishness, elitism: these are Couric's constant companions. And the rest of the left know it. But instead of doing expose after expose on how Couric has politicized and criticized and played her way to the top of the empire, they stand in the background and golf-clap her cynical conquests. It occurred to Couric at some point in her career that if she became all the most powerful and destructive things the left had to offer, they'd never be able to take her down without destroying themselves. She was safe to walk naked through the living rooms of America day-after-day while her peers marveled at how beautiful and "empowering to women" her new clothes were.

So let's be clear when discussing Katie Couric. She's not an operative of the left, or a true liberal for that matter. She's a narcissist who realized that the best means of becoming the empress she's always known she's entitled to be was to ally herself with all the other self-serving would-be supreme rulers of the world: your modern liberals.