Katie Couric just won the CBS School of Journalism’s Alfred I.duPont Award for her 2009 interview with Sarah Palin. Couric has been praised for over a year now as the woman who “nailed” Sarah. In what way?  When Palin was asked for an example of John McCain trying to warn congress that Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac needed more oversight, Palin offered one example, not two. Couric pressed her for a second example and later on in the interview, brought it up again, saying, “I don’t mean to belabor the point but…”

Then, she continued to belabor the point by repeating the showstopper question. Couric also got kudos because Palin did not feel like listing examples of newspapers and magazines she has read.

Great job, Katie!  I guess the CBS School of Journalism didn’t catch your other big interview of 2009 with that alternative Vice-Presidential nominee, Joe Biden.

Good ol’ Joe talked to Katie about Franklin Roosevelt going on television when the stock market crashed to talk to the American people. Katie smiled and went right on with the interview, failing to point out that Hoover, not Roosevelt was president when the stock market crashed. Oh yes: American families owned radios in those days, not television sets. Oh well, I suppose that isn’t as important as Sarah providing one John McCain example instead of two.

Let me see if I’m understanding this:  Biden displays the worst knowledge of history since Lumpy Rutherford flunked his junior year on Leave it to Beaver. Katie Couric either chooses to let it go (which should disqualify her as an objective journalist) or herself does not understand a fairly pivotal event of American history (which would make her about as ignorant as her elite media peers seem to think Sarah Palin is.) Either way, it does not speak well of Katie, or the award. Maybe next year the Alfred I. duPont prize will be given to the first one who finds it buried in the bottom of a box of Crackerjack.

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