I've always loved Katie Couric. She reminds me of former NorCo Council member Peg Ferarro. Both are very gracious. Both know a lot more than they pretend to know. I've always enjoyed the way Couric interviews people. She's very disarming but manages to ask very tough questions disguised as softballs.
Earlier this week, she interviewed Pa. Governor Josh Shapiro. His tell that he's running for President is that he has just published a book about himself, I haven't read it but doubt very much that it is "the short and simple annals of the poor" that Abraham mentioned when asked about his life. Shapiro is a career politician.
During the course of the interview, Katie suggested that he might have been annoyed at being called overconfident about being selected as VP, even to the point of "measuring the drapes" before a decision had been made. "That would bug the shot out of me," she said, making it seem like she was on his side while getting a response on whether he really is overconfident.
Then after telling him how popular he is in Pennsylvania, she added, "I guess some of your fellow Democrats in the state have not been that flattering when they talk about you. One state official said, you don't want to turn your back on him. Loyalty is not his strong suit. Now I need to add to that, this individual still insisted that you'd be a great president. But I wanted to give you a chance to respond. Why do you think some of your fellow Democrats apparently have some ambivalence about you? Do you think at times your ambition gets the better of you? Because that has been suggested."
Very nicely, she hit him with some very tough questions to which he had no real answer.
I like Shapiro. He's a vast improvement over Wolf. I doubt very much that he'll be the Dem nominee.
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