Millionaire Newsreader Fakes Sympathy

© Copyright 2008 Stan Spire


Recently on the CBS Evening News anchordoll Katie Couric uttered something along this line:

You put a few food items on the conveyor belt at the supermarket and your eyes bug out when the total is run up on the checkout register.

As if Katie Couric shops at a common supermarket with the hoi polloi, trying to stretch her budget. It’s said she pulls in 15 million dollars a year for reading the news on TeeVee. It’s more likely that her eyes would bug out from too much Botox.

There’s an anecdote about a politician running for office who said he understood how hard it was for the average family to put food on the table. So a reporter asked him: What does a quart of milk cost? How much for a loaf of bread?

The politician had glib answers to all sorts of questions – except those two.

Hey, Katie -- What are you paying for milk and bread?

15 million dollars a year. Using my calculator from the dollar store, I estimate that what I’m living on is less than .06% of Katie’s modest income. Not 6%. Not .6%. Just .06%.

I love it when one of these wealthy TeeVee journalists go on about the poor, especially when they mention that a small percentage of Americans control over 90 percent of the wealth. These journalists pretend to care, going through the motions without complaining too loudly or forcefully. After all, their corporate masters wouldn’t be happy.

Another phony concern by overpaid TeeVee newsreaders is the high cost of medical insurance for the average American.

Gee, I hope Katie is covered. After all, those treatments to keep her looking young can’t be cheap (even though the results look that way).