Katie Couric Debuts New Web Show

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Welcome to the home of @katiecouric, a new Web show hosted by CBS Evening News anchor and managing editor Katie Couric. The Webcasts will feature Katie's candid and incisive one-on-one interviews with high-profile guests ranging from politicians and celebrities to business titans and other top newsmakers.

The premiere Webcast of @katiecouric is Tuesday, Sept. 22 at 7:00 p.m. ET 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.

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. 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.

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"No one has a better feeling for this mood, and no one exploits it as well, as Beck. He is the hottest thing in the political-rant racket, left or right. A gifted entrepreneur of angst in a white-hot market. A man with his ear uniquely tuned to the precise frequency at which anger, suspicion and the fear that no one's listening all converge."

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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 ...."

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Be sure to tune in to Katie's interview with the controversial Beck at http://www.cbsnews.com/katiecouricshow Tuesday night or anytime after on CBSNews.com. It's sure to be fascinating and illuminating.

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Following the Webcast, CBSNews.com is 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.

Disclosure: Glenn Beck's book "Arguing with Idiots" is published by Simon & Schuster, a division of CBS corporation; also Mr. Beck and Katie Couric are both represented by Hiltzik strategies.

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by mlindl September 28, 2009 7:36 AM EDT: I thought this was a terrific interview. Katie didn't let him off the hook on the President being a racist and on the "what is white culture" question.

Glen Beck is an "ENTERTAINER", just as Rush Limbaugh or Alan Colmes. Fox News isn't really a news channel, it is the Fox Opinion Network and that's how it should be called.

Beck said he is in the opinion business as is Limbaugh, Colmes, Hannity and any of those other people.

They are ENTERTAINERS. Beck just has a high school education. Sorry all you folks that don't have that or more but you would be a rare bird to have exercised your brains enough to really understand the complexity of today's issues without only a high school education.

So, I learned a lot about Beck today. Seems like a nice guy, he's a wacky Mormon (Jesus went to Illinois - yea, right!) and he will never irritate me again because he just isn't smart enough to.; Reply to this comment


by engineer1503 September 26, 2009 4:09 PM EDT: The problem is my free speach reaches 10 people. Beck's free speach brainwashes 10 million people and I have no equal acces. You do not have equal access because it's all about making money.

Free Speach has limits when it comes to groups that inflame and lie. There is responsiblity with free speach. Beck and Dobbs show none.

The law of the land is still that you may not shout "FIRE" in a crowded theater, Beck does so every night, just to make a buck.; Reply to this comment


by engineer1503 September 26, 2009 3:53 PM EDT: How sweet, CBS news with Katie, pushing a Beck book published by division of CBS!

Walter C. is turning ovre in his grave.

CBS has just as much credibility as the Disney Channel News, GE News, CNN, and Fox News.

Fewer newspapers. Not many credible sources left.; Reply to this comment


by fritzthereddog September 23, 2009 8:03 PM EDT: MY NAME IS WILLIAM REID AND LIVE IN WACO,TEXAS ON TUESDAY OF THIS WEEK MR HARTMAN ON YOUR NIGHTLY NEWSCAST DID A SPOT ON A ELDERLY FELLOW WHICH WAS GREAT BUT IN 1964 BEFORE PRES. KENNEDY WAS KILLED HE GAVE A SPECIAL PRESENTATATION ON MY GREAT GREAT GRANDFATHER HIS NAME WAS ISSAC BROCK AND LIVED IN THREE DIFFERENT CENTURIES 1700'S 1800'S AND DIED IN THE 1900'S THE PRES. SPOKE ON HOW HE LOVED TO WALK AND EVEN AFTER BEING OVER A 100 YEARS OLD AND LEGALLY BLIND WOULD WALK FROM CHINA SPRINGS TEXAS TO WACO AND STILL BEAT THE OXEN TO TOWN I STILL HAVE THE ARTICLE THAT WAS IN THE LOCAL WACO,TEXAS LOCAL PAPER WHICH SPOKE ABOUT IT WITH HIS PICTURE IN THE LITTLE CEMETART OF CHINA SPRINGS TEXAS RIGHT OUT SIDE OF WACO IS A STATE COMMEN. PLAQUE THAT I HAVE PICTURES OF TALKING ABOUT HOW HE LIVED TO BE A 122 YEARS 6 MONTHS AND 6 DAYS IN LENGHT ,BACK IN THE 70'S WHEN I WAS MUCH YOUNGER I CONTACTACTED THE WORLD BOOK OF RECORDS ABOUT THIS AND THEY TOLD ME I WOULD HAVE TO PRESENT A BIRTH CERTIFICATE AND ALL I COULD FIND OUT HE WAS BORN IN TENNEESSSEE AND THEY DIDN'T KEEP RECORDS THAT FAR BACK BUT IF MR HARTMAN WANTS TO CONTACT THE CHINA SPRINGS CEMETARY OR WACO TEXAS NEWSPAPER I'M SURE THEY WOULD HAVE INFO. ON IT I DO STILL HAVE THE ARTICLE THATS LAMINATED SO IF HE WANTS TO CONTACT ME WILLIAM T.REID 4200 NORTH 19TH APT.#338,WACO,TEXAS 76708,254-754-2751 THANKYOU WILLIAM REID; Reply to this comment


by ABM_21 September 23, 2009 2:07 PM EDT: Let's get soemthing straight: Glenn Beck is, at best, a Rush Limbaugh wanna-be. Amazing how all of these conservatives come about after they've battled drug and alcohol addiction and 'discovered religion', isn't it? I know they called alcohol 'spirits', but has it ever occured to them these 'spirits' are evil?
Also, any conservative is not good for the country. They have no ideas, are all warmongers and want to force their religious beliefs on the rest of the nation. McBush would not have been better than Obama, Caribou Barbie would not have been better than Obama, and Bush will never be as good as Obama. Carter was right, a lot of the criticism Obama is taking is largely because he is black. Conservatives can be 'outraged' all they like; the truth hurts, doesn't it?
Beck is no more imaginative than Joe Scarborough, another Retardican idiot. Beck is proof that, in order to be called a 'thinker', it might help if you had a bit of education. Amazing how Limbaugh and Beck appeal to the more racist, paranoid parts of the conservative base yet neither one of them have more than a high school diploma. And, these are the 'thinkers' the conservative base worships. If they could 'think', one might be impressed.; Reply to this comment


by NotPartyControlled September 23, 2009 2:02 PM EDT: Why are so many reporters interviewing reporters these days? Are the producers not able to get qualified interviews setup? Realistically, most reporters are on camera because they are pleasing to look at and they good at getting ratings. It seems that the news media is wrapped up in self-promotion. It's disappointing to see another reporter being interview about their opinions as though they are providing news.; Reply to this comment


by thincaboutit September 23, 2009 2:01 PM EDT: See Glenn Beck in ?I Crossed the Line? at http://parodyandson.blogspot.com; Reply to this comment


by tomanyt September 23, 2009 12:17 PM EDT: Why would they have picked him as the first guest? What a turn off.; Reply to this comment


by blitzder September 23, 2009 3:11 AM EDT: He is only after the big bucks paid by huge corporations and republican morons to Ann Coulter, Rush Limppaw etc. and use this polarization to inflame racist passion primarily to enrich themselves.; Reply to this comment

by JackieMoy September 22, 2009 9:19 PM EDT

Add Pres Clinton to the list of crazies, along with Carter. Clinton has now also come out and said that opposition to Obama's health care plan is racially motivated. How incredibly stupid. I guess the opposition to the Clinton health care plan back in the 90's was also racially motivated. Oh wait - Clinton is white. Oh shoot - now how are the libs going to work their way around that one???

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by weetsie September 22, 2009 9:28 PM EDT: I don't know how these idiots were elected, I know I didn't vote for them. Oh wait, I remember how they were elected THE MOTOR VOTER LAW. Hmmm, wonder who passed that? CLINTON!!!! With the help of the director of The Illinois Project Vote... BARACK OBAMA!!!!!!

Where did all the libs go that were on earlier. Havn't seen anything from them lately.

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