Hmm, Did Couric Save the Country?

[MTI]

From the roast of CBS anchor Katie Couric this past week

Rick Kaplan, Couric's executive producer at Evening News was first up.

"Roasting your anchor... can be really dangerous," he opened. "We did have to edit out a couple of comments that Katie made during the interview, for instance, when Governor Palin said "I can see Russia from my house", Katie actually said, "well I can see Jersey from mine but that doesn't mean I know where Jimmy Hoffa is buried."

We'll let the roasters speak for themselves...

"The transition from NBC to CBS was a little rough. Katie went from asking 'where in the world is Matt Lauer' to 'where the hell are my viewers?'" -David Axelrod

"People were surprised by the intensity of that interview with Sarah Palin, but I wasn't. To me, it made perfect sense. After all, Katie has made it her civic responsibility to conduct public colonoscopies. But I'm sure that will be the butt of a lot of jokes tonight." -Axelrod

"What a delight to see Sam, ABC's favorite son. Many of you think that's an incomplete sentence, I know." - Jeff Greenfield on Donaldson

"Our audience thinks YouTube is a hemorrhoid cream." -Greenfield on CBS

"Everyone at FOX News has been fantastic to me. Bill O'Reilly even tips me when I park his car." - Mike Huckabee

"She saved the country." - Helen Thomas on Couric's Palin interviews