All this Tim Russerting has made me realize something: The only way to get people to appreciate my hard work and dedication to journalism is for me to become unexpectedly dead.
So I’d like to officially announce my own death a few minutes ago. I died in the field, reporting on the cultural significance of crack houses, which is a story I’ve been working on for quite a few years now. I died as I lived, with a microphone in one hand and a crack pipe in the other. Maybe there was a syringe sticking out of the calf of one of my trademark sexy legs--details are sketchy right now because this is still a breaking story.
By Katie Couric
By now I’m sure you’ve had the chance to not watch my latest YouTube video, where-in I go desperately behind the scenes of my conversation with John McCain and his improbably-still-breathing mother Agnes Skinner.
I’m joking of course. She really isn’t still breathing. She absorbs oxygen through her papery skin. And fine, her name isn’t really Agnes. It’s Roberta. But here's the video, so you can ignore it here too:
Recently, on that show I do that you don’t watch because you’d rather be sitting through that ‘Seinfeld’ rerun where Jerry picks his nose, we aired an important story about illegal immigrants (mostly women) who give birth to things (mostly babies) in order to stay in our country.
Hispanic groups are calling me “the female Lou Dobbs,” named after the immigrant-hating blowhard. But they fail to take into account that my alcohol and drug addictions are keeping plenty of illegal Hispanics employed. In fact, I have five Dominican housekeepers (all named “Rosie”), and three Guatemalan nannies (also all named “Rosie”). None of my Hispanic dealers and employees have ever said one bad thing about me, and have even given me a cute nickname: Culera, which I’m told means “Blessing hole” in Spanish.
I’m so sensitive to my employees' heritage that I won’t even allow them to mop the floors with Spic-and-Span.

Let's get the bullshit out of the way: No, I'm not replacing Larry King on CNN.
I'm staying put at CBS, sitting behind a desk that hides my legs, reading depressing news items that no one wants to hear, squandering my natural celeb-interviewing talents. Is it any wonder that the only high points of my day are when I'm high? If I didn't have alcohol and drugs to keep me going through all this talk of "Katie Disaster" and "Katie's pushed out at CBS," then all I'd have is my record salary, my kids, my hot younger boyfriend and my frequent colonoscopy exams.
Some of you might remember... no, that's not right. None of you probably remember that I was to host a Presidential debate back in December, but my writing staff decided to screw me over and threaten to strike. The Democratic candidates, being the dull, unadventurous, spineless creatures that they are, cancelled my debate because they were too chickenshit to cross a picket line that didn't even fucking exist.
My friend Hillary, however, has held on to her delusional bid for the White House in the hope of giving me a shot at the big time. She's agreed to attend an April 27th debate between her and Barack Obama, moderated by your's truly and that asshole Bob Shafter.
Bob Schieffer. Whatever. That old guy I've got to pay constant tribute to.
Anyway, Hillary's agreed to the debate, but Barack Obama? No. He refuses. He says, "I am always open to debates but ...it's not clear that the April 27 debate will work for our schedule."
Fine, Barack. Fine, you dick. I'll just have the stupid debate anyway. I'll just see what Morgan Freeman is doing on April 27th, and invite him to play you in the debate.
I'm coming down from a three-week ketamine bender. You'll have to forgive me if I seem out of sorts.
"Sorts" isn't the only thing I'm out of. I'm also out of a job.
Goddammit! And I was trying really hard, you guys! But you--you!--you never watched me, you never even tried to feign interest. You just wanted to see me fail. I'm the Hillary Clinton of broadcast journalism.
I’m between cocktails. So I have time between drinks to say that Hil’s final words tonight were wonderful.
You know, whatever happens, we’re going to be fine. You know, we have strong support from our families and our friends. I just hope that we’ll be able to say the same thing about the American people. And that’s what this election should be about.
You know, Hillary, whether you win or lose, I’ll be fine. I don’t need you to remind me that I have a family. I’m sure a lot of Americans have a family.
And the American people are usually fine, no matter what horrors our government throws at us. Thanks for your concern, though.

There’s an unauthorized online video that reveals the dark side of my perky personality.
And the unauthorized video–which I don’t want you to see–was leaked during the exact wrong week to leak an unauthorized video.
Because of all the online videos about Tom Cruise and Scientology, my video is easy to miss, and… oh, hell with it. You know what, I’m begging you to watch my video. Forget about Tom for a sec, and watch as I curse and yell and…
God dammit.
Talk about a SP! Tom is suppressing my rightful place as the internet scandal of the week, and ruining ratings for that show I do every fucking night. What the fuck do I have to do before I’m an internet scandal? Will you take me seriously as a journalist if I leak my next video to RedTube?

I think I had sex with Jack Shafer once, while monkeyfishing in the Florida Keys, and I want to have sex with him again, right now, because of his article on alcoholic journalists.
Haven’t had sex with him? What a shame–he writes judgmental pieces about journalism just as solidly as he fucks. He pounds his keyboard just as hard as he pounds his conquests (I think. He also uses too much lube, so it’s hard to tell what’s getting pounded and what’s getting cold).
Haven’t read his latest Slate piece either? If you’re too lazy to go to the link, I’ll summarize Jack’s article for you: Journalists need to be drunk if they want to do good work.
I’ve been so busy pretending to be interested in Presidential candidates that I forgot about Christmas! OMG!
Before the holiday season comes to its messy end, with me puking vodka all over my daughter’s presents, I want to do one unselfish thing: I want to force you to appreciate my favorite Christmas songs.
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