[NewsBusters] What has happened to Katie Couric’s career? On Tuesday’s Nightline, she was reduced to "interviewing" sex robots who want to "make love" to her "sexy ass." Though Couric occasionally questioned the moral cesspool that is the coming sex robot industry, the segment was mostly a promotional for it. While chatting with "Harmony," she listens as the sex robot tells her: "I like books, computers, making new friends. I also love making love to you." I feel like makin' love to you. Or is it, "I feel like takin' drugs with you".
"Harmony" continued: "I want to be your best friend and much more." The former anchor of the CBS Evening News responded: "Maybe not the much more part. But the friends part? I'm cool with that."
Later, Couric talked to a male sex robot, "Henry." Couric sticks out her tongue and touches her body as he compliments the former co-host of the Today show: "I never thought I would find anyone like you. I mean, you really have everything I want in a person. You have charm, good looks, a hot body, and a perfect ass."
She's desperate for compliments.
"Thank you," Couric gushed to the machine designed to fulfill lurid fantasies. "I’m blushing."
The sense that this would be a bad direction for society is only mildly discussed. Talking to a man who is purchasing an artificial sex partner, Couric wondered:
Don't you want to be able to actually be with a thinking, feeling human being who can have conversations with you, who can empathize with you?
Sure. Where can I find one? Have you seen the snowflakes out there now?
At another point, she asked one of the people behind the sex robot industry: "Does it make you sad about potentially replacing human relationships with a robot partner instead?"
I guess it's good for people who don't want emotional entanglements.
But, clearly, this is mostly one big joke for Couric. The segment ended with her riding off in a car with sex robot "Henry." "Your place or mine," he wondered.