Katie Couric was with the same live-in lover for five years. Did you know that? Not only did she have herself a nice piece, he’s 17 years younger than her. The dude’s name is Brooks Perlin. Brooks and Katie met in 2006, and according to sources, once they got together, Katie couldn’t stop bragging about how she bagged a hot young piece. Earlier this year, they were even photographed together in Miami, where Brooks was showing off his furry moobs and Katie was sunning herself. Anyway, Brooks and Katie are over! Ten bucks says she finds herself another young stud.

Katie Couric has split with her boy-toy boyfriend Brooks Perlin after five years, Page Six can exclusively reveal. Sources tell us things have been rocky between the couple for months, and handsome Brooks, 17 years Katie’s junior, is moving out of her Upper East Side home.

A friend, speaking on Couric’s behalf, confirmed to us, “They have decided to move on. Brooks is a great person and a real gentleman; he and Katie enjoyed their time together. But after five years, they have decided it was time to go their separate ways. Brooks is in the process of moving out of her home.”

Another source told us, “Three months ago, Brooks was looking for a broker to find a new place to live. He stopped looking because they decided they were going to try to make things work.”

In May, Couric, hinted the future was cloudy for her and Perlin, CFO at Eco Supply Center, a green building-materials distributor. She told People, “I am in the process of figuring out the future, and so is he. I am really happy in my personal life . . . but it is complicated.”

Mother-of-two Couric, 54, who lost her husband, Jay Monahan, to colon cancer in 1998, met Perlin in 2006 at an event to raise money for cancer research at the Louis Licari Hair Salon.

Speaking of their meeting, she said, “I thought he was really cute. He asked me if I wanted to have dinner sometime, and I liked that it was so direct and natural.”

Of the age difference, she told People, “I’ve been called all kinds of things. I’ve been ‘cougared,’ which was just obnoxious. But it’s good enough for Demi, right?”

Of Perlin she added at the time, “He’s incredibly kind, caring and sensitive . . . Even if we are not on the same page all the time, I like being in his space.”

But Couric isn’t sitting around nursing a broken heart, her friend added. She is channeling her energy into her syndicated daytime talk show with ABC, which starts in September.

[From Page Six]

It sounds like both Katie and Brooks knew that it wasn’t going to last forever, and they were surprised that they could make it work for so long. And yes, Katie is a cougar. Before Brooks, it was Chris Botti, another much-younger dude. The one thing that I liked about Katie and Brooks, however, was that although Brooks got the “boy-toy” label, he had his own stuff going on. He had family money AND a job. He’s 17 years younger than Katie, but that makes him 37 years old right now. Not really a “boy toy” at the end of the day.

Photos courtesy of Fame & WENN.

I thought this news was already reasonably official, but Katie Couric is now making it even more hardcore. Not content to simply a skid mark on Dan Rather’s old seat with a note that says “Smell ya later, d-bags,” Katie has given an interview to People Magazine formally acknowledging her desire to leave CBS News. It’s extremely interesting to me that Katie gave this exclusive to People, rather than, say, Newsweek. Or Time Magazine (same parent company as People Mag). Or Politico. Or CBS News for that matter. No, Katie went to the bible of official celebrity gossip. Interesting choice, right? Like… she’s preparing for what comes next, and she’s signaling that it will be heavy on the fluff (no judgment, I get paid for fluff too!).

After weeks of widespread speculation about her future, Katie Couric is finally ready to go on the record.

“I have decided to step down from the CBS Evening News,” Couric tells PEOPLE exclusively. “I’m really proud of the talented team on the CBS Evening News and the award-winning work we’ve been able to do in the past five years in addition to the reporting I’ve done for 60 Minutes and CBS Sunday Morning. In making the decision to move on, I know the Evening News will be in great hands, but I am excited about the future.”

What’s next for the 32-year broadcast veteran? “I am looking at a format that will allow me to engage in more multi-dimensional storytelling,” she says, adding that other details, including when and where the show will air, are “still being discussed.”

As she launches the next phase of her career and her new book, The Best Advice I Ever Got: Lessons from Extraordinary Lives, she is also juggling exclusive interviews with astronaut Mark Kelly, husband of Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, as well as British Prime Minister David Cameron – and she’s covering the royal wedding.

“The bottom line is that I love doing all kinds of different stories,” says Couric, 54. “I have a lot of areas of interest and I want to be able to fulfill all of that.”

[From People]

I think Katie is probably looking for a magazine show on NBC, and in an ideal world, NBC would just give her what she wants. I see Katie following the Barbara Walters path – making her bones doing “fluff” celebrity journalism, and maybe some good faux-political stories too (like, cheating politicians, gay politicians who get caught up in scandals with lovers/hustlers, etc). What I think will actually happen, however, is that NBC is going to try to shoe-horn Katie back into the Today Show.

By the way, I’m really liking her hair these days. A superficial observation, I know, but this current color and cut is stellar on her.

Photos courtesy of WENN.

There have been rumors about Katie Couric possibly leaving the CBS Evening News anchor chair when her contract is up in June. The rumors have been steady – and there has never really been a explicit denial about it either. I tend to think that it’s a situation where nobody is happy – Katie finds the anchor chair too stifling and boring, and CBS News isn’t happy with the ratings or the ad revenues. Then, this morning, TMZ started the rumor mill churning anew, claiming that Katie is ready to “bolt” soon and that she’ll likely move on to a syndicated show. Then, just a short while ago, TMZ reported this update:

Katie Couric has not officially quit CBS, but nonetheless network sources tell us it’s a virtual certainty that she will be leaving.

Sources connected with Couric tell us … Katie has no hard feelings toward CBS and may end up staying at the network, but feels her role as anchor of the CBS Evening News has been way too confining.

We’re told Couric is most interested in doing a syndicated show — probably a talk show — but wants to end up somewhere that has a news operation where she can contribute. Sources say she’s in serious talks with CBS, NBC and CNN. Her reps are talking to ABC, but that’s a long shot.

Katie’s exit from CBS Evening News is “not 100%” but it’s just a matter of time before Katie announces her departure — sources say it will come in the next few weeks. Katie’s plan is to start a syndicated show in September, 2012.

As far as front-runners, a Katie source says there are none — “Everything and everyone is in play.”

[From TMZ]

I wouldn’t mind seeing Katie move to CNN, but she might not want to enter that sinking ship. I mean, what would she do? Take over from Piers Morgan? That bastard needs to go anyway, but surely they can find someone sassy to take over (NOT Dame Seacrest, more like Anderson Cooper). My guess is that Katie will return to NBC, her one-time home, and that she might get a magazine show, like Dateline or something.

As for who will take over the CBS Evening News…Gawker has a list here, complete with betting odds. Once again, Anderson Cooper’s name is in the mix, which could be interesting. He already contributes to 60 Minutes, so he already has a relationship with CBS. He could be our first gay network anchor! Will CBS’s core audience of Olds care for him, though? My guess is the CBS will hire internally for the next anchor, and go with Harry Smith. Still, it’s interesting to see Keith Olbermann’s name in the mix.

Photos courtesy of WENN & Fame.

I don’t keep up with Katie Couric news, so I still kind of thought she was still dating that musician guy… what was his name…? Chris Botti! That took way too long to find. Anyway, Katie has apparently been dating this new-ish guy for a while. His name is Brooks Perlin, and they’ve been together for a while now. These are photos of Katie and Brooks vacationing together in Miami. I guess Katie doesn’t feel the need to go to Egypt and do a live news show from there? Bitch is on vacation!

But what I really wanted to point out is that Brooks is 17 years younger than Katie, and that he’s got a really good body. Katie enjoys the young beefcake, doesn’t she? She’s 54 years old – he’s 36. It’s not like me and Jack Nicholson, but Katie’s dated a string of younger men, and why not? She seems to enjoy them, and they seem to enjoy her too. Good for them. And look at Brooks’ furry moobs! I think the fur makes them look more mooby than they really are.

Photos courtesy of Fame.

You know what kills me? It kills me that Kim Kardashian looks really good when she’s styled by professionals. When she’s doing a formal photo shoot, Kim rarely looks cat-faced, although her face does tend towards “farty” in professional shoots. She’s a terrible model, in general, but the difference between Kim for a magazine shoot and Kim in real life is drastic. What also kills me is that I rarely see a magazine pictorial with someone like Christina Hendricks, a pale, busty redhead, where the pros even try to make her look half as pretty as Kim Kardashian. I think the pros must have some kind of collective trauma when it comes to pale redheads, and tan brunettes are their comfort zone.

Anyway, here are some photos from Kim Kardashian’s Glamour Magazine cover shoot. Katie Couric did the interview (full piece here). The fact the a network news anchor is interviewing Kim Kardashian… yeah. That sucks. Here are some highlights:

Katie Couric: You are such a phenomenon right now that I wanted to first ask: Why do you think you have so completely captivated the public’s imagination?
Kim Kardashian: At first, I think that people were intrigued by the glitz and glam of my family’s lifestyle in California. But they stayed interested because we were a lot more normal and relatable than they had assumed. We might be spoiled in some people’s eyes, but we are not brats. I get letters from little girls begging me to adopt them.

Katie Couric: Why? What is it about your family?
Kim Kardashian: We work really hard, and we fight like normal sisters fight, and we make up. We’re so supportive of each other. We always stick together. Having lots of siblings is like having built-in best friends. I also think that my parents did a really good job of putting their [divorce] behind them. We had family vacations together. It might seem odd to some people, but Father’s Day included all of us—Bruce, my dad, my brother, my sisters, cooking breakfast at my mom’s house, and all the guys golfing together. We [still] do everything we can to keep my father’s presence really heavy in our everyday lives. [Kardashian’s father died of cancer in 2003.]

Katie Couric: Is it bizarre having every aspect of your life recorded?
Kim Kardashian: I once commented to Lamar [Odom, Khloeacute;’s husband, who plays for the L.A. Lakers] after I introduced him to a guy I was dating, “Do you think the cameras freaked him out? I hope he gets used to it and knows it’s normal.” And Lamar looked at me and said, “What you need to really understand is this isn’t normal.” But as a family, we realize that this life is crazy, but as long as we don’t change and we all stick together, nothing can affect us.

Katie Couric: Can you go out on a date, Kim, and say, “This is just me and there are no cameras”?
Kim Kardashian: Oh, absolutely. But it’s easier to just be single and not have a relationship. How do you get to know someone on a reality show? Some people think that they can handle it, and then they really can’t.

Katie Couric: I can’t imagine, if I were a guy, signing up for that. I would be like, “Check, please.”
Kim Kardashian: [Laughs.] Exactly! Hence, I’m single right now.

Katie Couric: You’re known to be quite a workaholic, and I mean that in a positive way, as it takes one to know one. [Laughs.] How did your parents instill such a strong work ethic in you? Where did you get your entrepreneurial streak?
Kim Kardashian: Being little and watching my dad get up, put on his suit every single day, go to work—seeing how hard he worked. He let us know that when we turned 18, we were going to be cut off, and we had to sign a contract for everything. When I was 16 and it was car time, it was negotiated that I had to pay for my gas, and if I crashed the car, if anything happened, I was liable. Everything was a contract with my dad. And I still have them—I saved them all. Well, when I was 16, I bumped someone and I had to pay for it. So I got a job working at a clothing store, and ever since then I’ve loved to work.

Katie Couric: Did your father encourage you girls to go to college?
Kim Kardashian: Absolutely. I went to college for four years. I got married at 19 [to music producer Damon Thomas, whom she later divorced], so I ended up not finishing. But the last thing [my dad] said to me before he passed away was “I know you’ll be OK. You will be successful.”

Katie Couric: Because a lot of young women read this magazine, I wanted to ask you about issues you’ve had with your body in the past and growing up and being bullied. You developed early, is that true?
Kim Kardashian: Kourtney probably bullied me the most because she hadn’t developed. She was always making fun of me. I mean, when I was 11 I was a C-cup and I got my period. I was just insecure.

Katie Couric: But how did you sort of come to love, accept and appreciate the body you had?
Kim Kardashian: I remember I would sit in the bathtub, and I would put a hot washcloth on my boobs and think, Please, Lord, just please, I don’t want to grow any bigger. I would cry. My mom would say, “You are going to love this one day.” And she was like, “You’re Armenian. Look at all your aunts. They’re super curvy, and this is your family. This is who you are.” We were raised around all of our Armenian cousins, and I know a lot about the culture. So I think that made me confident in who I am.

Katie Couric: Let’s get to some reader questions. This is Glamour’s Guy Issue. What would you do if you woke up as a man?
Kim Kardashian: I love being a girl. I’m such a glamour girl. I would be a tranny! [Laughs.] I would find a wig.

Katie Couric: I think I know the answer to this, but I’m going to ask it anyway. How do you feel about being a sex symbol? Is it empowering or degrading?
Kim Kardashian: It’s definitely powerful. I don’t find myself as sexy as everyone thinks. I’m a lot more insecure than people would assume, but with little stupid things. When I get dressed, I’m always so indecisive.

[From Glamour]

Ugh. Katie Couric was actually sucking up to her for most of the interview. I get that Kim is relatively harmless (honestly, she is), but that doesn’t mean we should go out of our way to suck up to her. And I’m so, so tired of hearing about Kim being a “businesswoman”. She’s not. She’s a famewhore who gets paid. There’s a difference.

Photos courtesy of HuffPo.

I’m not sure how you bitches feel when we cover pure media stories, but this gossip pretty juicy. Apparently, Katie Couric’s CBS contract comes up for renewal next May, and Page Six’s sources claim that she’s thinking about leaving her gig as anchor of CBS’s Evening News. They also think that Couric might go back to the Today show, because apparently, Meredith Vieira is also considering leaving, because her husband is sick and she wants to spend more time with her family:

Katie Couric might end up back on the “Today” show when her “CBS Evening News” contract expires at the end of May. A spot will be open because Meredith Vieira is expected to leave “Today” to spend more time with her family.

Sources say Couric had been talking with her old friend Jeff Zucker, her producer at “Today” before he rose to CEO of NBC-Universal. But Zucker’s just-announced exit from the network won’t preclude a Couric move to NBC.

She’s also lunched with Time Warner chairman Jeff Bewkes, whose empire includes CNN. Sources also say she gets along famously with CBS boss Les Moonves and might stay with the Tiffany Network, although for a much lower paycheck than the $15 million a year she’s said to be making now.

[From Page Six]

I kind of think it would be a dumb move for Couric to go back to Today. Even though she would probably get a lucrative contract, everyone would be like “Oh, she couldn’t hack the hard news, she had to go back to morning television.” I don’t think that – I think Couric has ended up being a solid anchor, with a few bumps here and there. I also think it would be step down to go from network news to CNN – especially since CNN’s ratings are plummeting. Of course, CBS’s ratings aren’t awesome (for the news anyway).

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Warning: this shows the inside of the colon during the procedure
It’s colorectal cancer awareness month (and national nutrition month, so eat your veggies!) and Early Show host Harry Smith is doing his part. He had a live colonoscopy this morning on The Early Show, and fellow hostess Maggie Rodriguez noted that “he’s the first anchor to have this done live on network TV,” as if that’s something we’d ever expect to see! In all seriousness, it’s an important health screening procedure that can save lives. Smith was accompanied to his colonoscopy by CBS Evening News anchor Kate Couric, who lost her husband in 1998 to colon cancer when he was just 42. Katie herself had a colonoscopy that was aired in March, 2000, which may have contributed to an over 20% increase in people seeking the procedure. Katie’s colonoscopy wasn’t live, though, so now we have Harry Smith making television history.

While I didn’t expect the actual colonoscopy procedure to be shown on television they did show it! I had one years ago and was blissfully unaware of anything that was going on, but Harry was conscious toward the end. He even sat up and talked during the procedure! They showed the inside of his colon while Kate Couric narrated and called it “clean as a whistle.” I’ve seen more graphic stuff on CSI, but seeing the inside of Harry’s colon turned my stomach. The doctor even showed where the blue part of his liver was visible through the colon.

Smith, 58, got a clean bill of health afterwards. I know I’m due for another colonoscopy soon and that I’ve spoken to my loved ones about getting them. By showing there’s nothing to be afraid of, Smith and Couric are doing a great service. Colonoscopies are recommended around every 10 years for older adults depending on what your doctor advises. Nearly 147,000 people were diagnosed with colorectal cancer last year and almost 50,000 people died from it. Good for Katie and Harry for raising awareness of this important procedure.

Here’s a link to the longer video of Smith’s colonoscopy prep and results. You can also learn more on CBS.com.

Katie Couric was invited to give the annual Class Day address at Princeton University for some reason this year. Even though I know Katie’s accomplishments make her a great candidate for that kind of honor, she’s not a Princeton alumni (she graduated from UVA), so I don’t really get it. Anyway, in her speech, Katie made a couple of interesting references. She quoted Martha Stewart (“It’s a good thing”) and name-dropped First Lady Michelle Obama, who actually is a Princeton alum. Katie also made some self-deprecating jokes about her cougar-hood, but I didn’t find that particularly interesting. The part that most people will notice is that Katie made a sideswipe at Gov. Sarah Palin, saying “Coming here was a real no brainer! After all, I can see New Jersey from my house!” Zing.

Katie Couric poked fun at her “cougar” label while giving the annual Class Day address at Princeton University on Monday.

“I’ve been called a cougar lately … but today … I’m very happy to be an honorary Tiger instead!” Couric, 52, said, referring to the school’s mascot. (Her boyfriend, entrepreneur Brooks Perlin, was 33 when they began dating in 2007.)

She then made a subtle dig at Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin, whom she interviewed last year: “Coming here was a real no brainer! After all, I can see New Jersey from my house!”

Kidding aside, Couric told the crowd, “As you head out into this daunting job market, at least you have many illustrious alumni lighting the way.”

She cited Michele Obama as an example: “She was class of 1985, and now she’s wowing them in Washington.”

Couric continued, “There are a few noteworthy men who were proud to go to Princeton as well…a list that reads like a who’s who of American History. James Madison, John Foster Dulles, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Malcolm Forbes, James Baker….and Lyle Menendez, who’s currently serving a life sentence at the Mule Creek State Prison in California. Hey, you can’t win ‘em all!”

“Don’t be a hater,” Couric later added. “Princeton has taught you to think critically, to approach things with a healthy dose of skepticism … and that’s a good thing, as Martha Stewart would say. … Rise above the collegial nastiness and instead celebrate excellence.”

[From US Weekly]

I hope people don’t get too worked up over this. It was just a gentle joke that seemed like a Saturday Night Live castoff from eight months ago. And Sarah Palin already singled out Katie as one of the people she blames for her election loss and fraught media image, saying several months ago, “In those Katie Couric interviews, I did feel that there were a lot of things that she was missing, in terms of an opportunity to ask what a VP candidate stands for, what the values are represented in our ticket.” Let the catfight continue!

Katie Couric is shown in the header on 2/13/09 at The Heart Truth’s Red Dress Collection 2009 Fashion Show in NY. Credit: WENN.com

In the January issue of Vogue (the one with Anne Hathaway on the cover), CBS’s Katie Couric, MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow and CNN’s Campbell Brown are interviewed “exclusively” right after the election. All of the interviews are revelatory – from reading the Couric interview, I really get a sense that Couric was quietly rooting for Hillary Clinton in the primaries; in the Maddow article, I get a sense of how comfortable Maddow is with being an “out,” proud and non-chalant gay woman; from the Campbell Brown article, I was surprised to find out she grew up in a very Democratic Party-oriented family, yet somehow ended up converting to Judaism to marry a Republican Jew. And she’s pregnant, which I didn’t know. I watch Keith Olberman at 8 p.m., not Campbell.

Katie Couric talked extensively about how she felt like she came into her own throughout the 2008 election cycle, the finale of which was her up-until-three-a.m. election night live coverage. She also gets retrospective and introspective about Hillary Clinton, and how Sen. Clinton’s journey reflected her own.

Any discussion of Katie Couric raises the specter of sexism, not just for our apparent resistance to seeing a lone woman read the evening news and our fixation on female appearance but, more tellingly, because of the complicated relationship we have with high-profile women. Commenting on the Couric phenomenon, columnist Liz Smith cites “Elizabeth Taylor’s idea about the yo-yo theory of success. When you’re down, they pull you up; when you’re up, they pull you down.”

Indeed, Couric’s career trajectory as CBS anchor closely resembles Hillary Clinton’s as presidential candidate: A distinct Schadenfreude greeted Couric’s tumble from the ratings grace she enjoyed at NBC (“Alas, Poor Couric: But Pity Her Not” was the title of a New York magazine cover story), as if her hubris in aiming high (not to mention her dizzying salary) deserved to be punished. This was followed by a fierce protectiveness when she was attacked: We wanted to see Couric, like Hillary, chastened but not persecuted.

[From Vogue]

Couric also goes in-depth about her now-infamous Sarah Palin interviews. The interviews were the first serious “vetting” Gov. Palin had received from the mainstream media. Post-election, some of the gossip coming out of the McCain campaign suggested that Couric was selected for Gov. Palin’s first media roll-out because the McCain campaign viewed a female journalist as being more sympathetic (i.e. “softer”) to Gov. Palin.

“An interview like that doesn’t come along very often,” Couric says now. “It was sort of a perfect storm in terms of timing, interest, my approach, all working together to make it impactful.”

While many liberals credit Couric, ably assisted by Tina Fey, with taking Palin down, Couric herself is adamant that the merit of the interview lay in her determination to “remain nonjudgmental. I was just a conduit to get her point of view out there.” Asked what went through her head as she asked the questions, she says, “I haven’t really talked about this.…It was fascinating for me to watch her formulate answers, and clearly she was struggling in some of the areas we discussed. I couldn’t understand why she didn’t want to say what she read.…But really I just wanted to listen to what she said.”

[From Vogue]

Other than the conversion to Judaism and the pregnancy, Campbell Brown’s interview is a little boring. But I am obsessed with all things Rachel Maddow, my imaginary “girlfriend.” The Rhodes scholar, Stanford graduate and “out” lesbian had a hit show the same week “The Rachel Maddow Show” premiered this September, in the nine p.m. timeslot after Olberman. Maddow talks a bit about wearing her liberalism on her sleeve, but still wanting to hold “bad ideas,” regardless of party affiliation, to account.

…What happens to a liberal commentator when a liberal ticket wins the White House and the Democrats control Congress? “I guess I’m interested in making fun of bad ideas, regardless of who has them,” she says. “Obviously you don’t want to randomly scour the world for bad ideas. You want to respond to influential bad ideas. So if you end up in a situation where there isn’t a loyal opposition, where the Republican Party is in disarray and isn’t really surfacing in the discussion, then they won’t be the people I’m making fun of. I will be making fun of the Democrats or the supposed experts.” In other words, an Obama presidency does not change what you might call her quest. “I’m interested in making fun of bad guys, wherever I find them,” she says…

At Stanford, she wanted to be an AIDS activist. At Oxford, in the late nineties, she helped start an AIDS-treatment activist group. She returned to America to write, and in the meantime fell into, first, local radio in Massachusetts, then Air America, which led to MSNBC. Now, on Friday afternoons, her partner, Susan Mikula, an artist, is waiting outside the NBC studios, ready to drive to the Berkshires; there, not too far from a river, they enjoy TV-free weekends—so TV-free, in fact, that Maddow had to ask a friend about The Colbert Report. She also consults with Mikula about what she should wear on cable.

[From Vogue]

Judging from the mainstream media’s reaction (or over-reaction) to the whole Blagojevich scandal, and whether it has anything to do with Barack Obama, I don’t think Maddow is alone is finding enough “bad ideas” in both parties.

Katie Couric is shown on 11/20/08. Credit: WENN

Katie Couric has a little bit of terse advice for Sarah Palin if she wants to be seriously considered as a candidate in the next election. Although Katie is pretty nice about it, it basically amounts to, “Acquire some knowledge and be less dumb. Then people will take you seriously.” But the sentiment is wrapped in much more polite language.

CBS anchor Katie Couric thinks Sarah Palin has a thing or two to learn about politics before she contemplates a White House run in 2012. “I think she should keep her head down, work really hard and learn about governing. But I’m not anyone to give advice to anyone about anything,” she told Page Six at Glamour Magazine’s 2008 Women of the Year Awards dinner at the Essex House. Although her interview with Palin made the Alaska governor look dumb (while rejuvenating Couric’s flagging career in the process), Couric won’t give herself too much credit. “I was really just a conduit that allowed her to air her views,” she said. “I don’t want to judge. I’ll let the voters do that.”

[From Page Six]

It didn’t seem that Palin was very well prepared for her interview with Couric. As Celebitchy pointed out, she was unable to name newspapers or magazines she read – and aside from Roe v. Wade, she couldn’t list any Supreme Court decisions she disagreed with. She also gave a long speech to Couric about how John McCain is a reformer and does what needs to be done regardless of popularity.

Palin talks almost entirely in generalizations, forcing Couric to keep pressing her, saying, “I’m just going to ask you one more time, not to belabor the point: specific examples in his [McCain’s] 26 years of pushing for more regulation.” To which Palin responds, “I’ll try to find you some and I’ll bring ‘em to ya.” She’s not a person who’s great with concrete examples and/or specifics. Couric was nice about her advice, and she’s got a good point.

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Here’s Katie Couric at the Stand Up to Cancer Benefit in Hollywood on September 5th. Images thanks to PR Photos.