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Surprisingly, it’s quite perky!
Actually, it’s more the blog of one of her lackeys, a fellow named Greg Kandra, who can lay claim to the most embarrassing gig in the entire blogosphere. But yesterday Katie did make a couple of posts herself, including offering up this stirring (albeit now clichéd) Theodore Roosevelt quotation as the “quote of the day”:
It is not the critic that counts: not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles or where the doer of deeds could have done better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood, who strives valiantly, who errs and comes up short again and again, because there is no effort without error or shortcoming, but know the great enthusiasms, the great devotions, who spends himself for a worthy cause; who, at the best, knows, in the end, the triumph of high achievement, and who, at the worst, if he fails, at least he fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who knew neither victory nor defeat
Is this a none-too-subtle rebuke to Couric’s many critics? If so, it is to laugh. A network anchor-person apparently thinks of herself as the “man in the arena,” blissfully numb to the fact that all she does is read a teleprompter detailing the actions of people who actually are in the arena. Every time I think the blogosphere’s self importance and self regard is without parallel, a member of the legacy media steps up and shows me who the real masters of the game are.
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