One more datapoint

Katie Couric at the National Press Club:

“The whole culture of wearing flags on our lapel and saying ‘we’ when referring to the United States and, even the ‘shock and awe’ of the initial stages, it was just too jubilant and just a little uncomfortable. And I remember feeling, when I was anchoring the ‘Today’ show, this inevitable march towards war and kind of feeling like, ‘Will anybody put the brakes on this?’ And is this really being properly challenged by the right people? And I think, at the time, anyone who questioned the administration was considered unpatriotic and it was a very difficult position to be in.”

If her discomfort with being an American becomes too much to bear, Couric can always use her network-derived millions to helicopter away to a Switzerland, or a Singapore, or a Moscow. There, as a member in good standing of the international nomenklatura, she can continue to observe comfortably, in splendid insulation from the consequences of her actions here.


More on the Couric speech:

• The Corner at National Review: The Nefarious "We"
• examiner.com: Couric weighs in on Iraq, Rather
• Flopping Aces weblog: Katie Couric Gets a Little Uncomfortable About Patriotism
• Daily Pundit: Nobody I Know Voted for Nixon
  

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