Couric honored in DC


	Couric honored in DC

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6-11-2008 5:31 PM

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<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://www.clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/dc36fc84-784c-4181-b6ee-4ca03642e0de/46D108CD-62A4-448F-9BA0-A29C1E8A9BFB/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.mediabistro.com/fishbowlDC/television/couric_gets_honored_in_dc_86823.asp" href="http://www.mediabistro.com/fishbowlDC/television/couric_gets_honored_in_dc_86823.asp" style="font-size: 11px;">www.mediabistro.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.mediabistro.com/fishbowlDC/television/couric_gets_honored_in_dc_86823.asp">Yesterday, CBS' <STRONG><A href="http://www.mediabistro.com/Katie-Couric-profile.html" linkindex="12" set="yes">Katie Couric </A></STRONG>was honored by the Sewall-Belmont House and Museum at their Alice Award Luncheon Gala.</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.mediabistro.com/fishbowlDC/television/couric_gets_honored_in_dc_86823.asp"><P>Some thoughts from Couric at the event:</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.mediabistro.com/fishbowlDC/television/couric_gets_honored_in_dc_86823.asp"><table background="undefined" bgcolor="#ffffcc"><tr><TD>However you feel about her politics, I feel that Sen. Clinton received some of the most unfair, hostile coverage I've ever seen.</TD></tr></table></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.mediabistro.com/fishbowlDC/television/couric_gets_honored_in_dc_86823.asp"><P>Couric went on to say that latent sexism contributed, in part, to Hillary's defeat. </P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.mediabistro.com/fishbowlDC/television/couric_gets_honored_in_dc_86823.asp"><P>She referred to one "prominent member of the commentariat" who said he "found it hard to be objective when it came to Obama."</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.mediabistro.com/fishbowlDC/television/couric_gets_honored_in_dc_86823.asp"><P>"That's your job," she remembers thinking when hearing this, before suggesting that he "find another line of work." (<A href="http://www.mediabistro.com/fishbowlDC/television/what_obama_does_for_chris_matthews_77379.asp" linkindex="13" set="yes">Was it</A> <STRONG><A href="http://www.mediabistro.com/Chris-Matthews-profile.html" linkindex="14" set="yes">Chris Matthews</A></STRONG>? <A href="http://www.mediabistro.com/fishbowlDC/television/journo_love_for_obama_74502.asp" linkindex="15">Or was it</A> <STRONG><A href="http://www.mediabistro.com/Lee-Cowan-profile.html" linkindex="16">Lee Cowan</A></STRONG>?)</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.mediabistro.com/fishbowlDC/television/couric_gets_honored_in_dc_86823.asp"><P>Channel 4's <STRONG><A href="http://www.mediabistro.com/Barbara-Harrison-profile.html" linkindex="17">Barbara Harrison</A></STRONG>, the emcee and a longtime friend, said, "Katie, you're a real fighter, and I'm watching where you're going next." 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