Sep 22, 2009 11:15 am US/Eastern
New Katie Couric Web Show Debuts With Glenn Beck
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@katiecouric is a Web show hosted by CBS Evening News anchor and managing editor Katie Couric. It's debut episode Sept. 22, 2009, features an interview with Glenn Beck.
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@katiecouric, a new Web show hosted by CBS Evening News anchor and managing editor Katie Couric, premieres Tuesday, Sept. 22, at 7:00 p.m. ET. The debut episode features an interview with Glenn Beck, a major conservative presence on TV, radio and the web, and the author of "Arguing with Idiots, How to Stop Small Minds and Big Government."
The new series of Webcasts will feature Couric's candid and incisive one-on-one interviews with high-profile guests ranging from politicians and celebrities, to business titans and other top newsmakers
Beck has been in the news lately, and is on
the cover of Time magazine this week.
David Von Drehle described the climate in which Beck is delivering his messages in his Time article, "Is Glenn Beck Bad for America?"
"The old American mind-set that Richard Hofstadter famously called 'the paranoid style' - the sense that Masons or the railroads or the Pope or the guys in black helicopters are in league to destroy the country - is aflame again, fanned from both right and left," wrote David Von Drehle. "Between the liberal fantasies about Brownshirts at town halls and the conservative concoctions of brainwashed children goose-stepping to school, you'd think the Palm in Washington had been replaced with a Munich beer hall. No one has a better feeling for this mood, and no one exploits it as well, as Beck."
As an example
Beck's on-air style, which he calls a fusion of entertainment and enlightenment, he critiqued the Obama administration's bevy of czars, or special advistors to the White House; "America cannot give the benefit of the doubt of things like the czars. I am waiting for a good reason why every person that pops up in this administration is a Marxist...."
In the interview with Couric, Beck shows he can be just as critical on Republicans as he has been on the current Democratic administration.
Couric: Let me do a quick name game
thing for you, can I? Just quick responses. "Hillary Clinton."
Beck: I can't believe I'm saying this, I
think I would have much preferred her as President and may have voted for her
against John McCain.
Couric: Why?
Beck: Because I think
John McCain is this weird progressive like Theodore Roosevelt was. I think John
McCain would have been worse….how about this? I think John McCain would have
been worse for the country than Barack Obama…how's that?
Couric's interview with Beck at will post online at
http://www.cbsnews.com/katiecouricshow Tuesday night following the CBS Evening News broadcast.
Following the Webcast, CBSNews.com will be teaming up with Facebook to host an online video chat for the community to talk directly with Katie after her interview with Beck. The live video player from CBSNews.com will be posted on the
CBS News Facebook page,
Katie Couric Facebook page, and
CBSNews.com.
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