Katie Couric- I am Glad you are #3

Digby writes tonight:

The portion of the interview they broadcast was quite decent. But you can see the whole interview here --- and listen to Katie Couric push him over and over again on the burning question of whether he manipulated his medication and ask him whether he should have re-scheduled the shoot when his symptoms were manifested as they were. And she does it while she's sitting directly across from him watching him shake like crazy. Her questions imply that it was in poor taste or manipulative as if he can magically conjure a film crew to catch him in on of the fleeting moments where he doesn't appear too symptomatic. The press seems to truly believe that it is reasonable to be suspicious of him showing symptoms of a disease that has him so severely in its clutches that if he doesn't take his medication his face becomes a frozen mask and he cannot even talk. (Bold emphasis mine)

Before Katie Couric lectures Fox on appropriate, remember she literally had something stuck up her butt on national TV:

To promote screening, Couric herself underwent a colonoscopy, which was profiled from prep to follow-up, on the Today Show. At the age of 43 years, Couric was not considered a candidate for screening based on either her age or the presence of other risk factors. Her willingness to undergo the test and explain every step along the way in front of a camera apparently had a significant effect on the public. It appears that some people were spurred to visit a gastroenterologist and get screened for colorectal cancer.

I actually think what she did was great. But she of all people should understand very well why Fox is so motivated to turn his own personal tragedy into a public crusade. (Couric lost her husband to Colon Cancer.)