I can never thank the decision-makers at NBC News enough for promoting Ann Curry -- the former overly empathetic and hyper-politically correct news-reader on their flagship TODAY Show -- to her new position of co-couch-sitter with Matt Lauer. Now I have considerably less distraction on weekday mornings and am able to get to work on pressing projects much sooner than I used to.
Not that the über-liberal Ms. Curry is ideologically any different than her predecessors, Meredith Viera or that irrepressible cheerleader for all left-leaning causes, Katie Couric. Heavens, no.
It’s just that Ms. Curry’s interviews and “reportage” drip so heavily with breathless sincerity, hand-wringing angst and feigned concern, she routinely gets in the way of her stories and subject matter. Watching her in action feels like pushing a Prius with discharged batteries through a swamp of whipped Crisco and honey mixed with buckets of crocodile tears. Yuck.
The power-off button on the remote is suddenly much easier to push on weekday mornings. To quote Jimmy Fallon, another personality on the same network but at opposite ends of the broadcast day; “Thank you, NBC!”
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