'Are you illiterate?' Katie Couric can't define 'eschatology'; Mocking ensues

This is going to leave a mark. Katie Couric tweets:

Be4 I sign off learned a new word in church today: Eschatology. Anyone?

— Katie Couric (@katiecouric) December 1, 2014

WTF.

How in 35 years of journalism w/a degree in "American studies" did @katiecouric not encounter this word before? pic.twitter.com/pdDwjccauE

— Marcus R. Brown (@marcusbrown) December 1, 2014

.@katiecouric Good lord. You're a major journalist that ignorant of words common to half the country?

— KeepCalmAndDrawl (@FormerlyFormer) December 1, 2014

Good questions.

@katiecouric @moderncomments Here's another new one for you – immanentize. Put 'em together, see what you get.

— Patrick H. (@trogdor8768) December 1, 2014

Better to be thought a fool, than to tweet and remove all doubt. RT @katiecouric: @Olivianuzzi yes it's a big problem.

— Matthew Hoy (@hoystory) December 1, 2014

Until today, @katiecouric thought this was eschatology. pic.twitter.com/rOFQhcgZGt

— Bob Owens (@bob_owens) December 1, 2014

And more than one Tweeter linked Couric’s inane question tonight with her questioning of Sarah Palin in the 2008 election:

https://twitter.com/NoahPollak/status/539258425461714944

Boy howdy, that Sarah Palin sure is dumb! @katiecouric: Be4 I sign off learned a new word in church today: Eschatology. Anyone?

— Rick Wilson (@TheRickWilson) December 1, 2014

.@katiecouric Good lord. You're a major journalist that ignorant of words common to half the country?

— KeepCalmAndDrawl (@FormerlyFormer) December 1, 2014

I bet @SarahPalinUSA could explain what Eschatology is to @katiecouric.

Maybe on national TV. I'd watch that.

— Drew McCoy (@_Drew_McCoy_) December 1, 2014

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And here’s a serious question from Daily Beast reporter Olivia Nuzzi:

https://twitter.com/Olivianuzzi/status/539254443465003008

To which Couric responded:

@Olivianuzzi yes it's a big problem.

— Katie Couric (@katiecouric) December 1, 2014

Yes. It IS a big problem, and Couric doesn’t get it.

Couric later tweeted this:

My minister introduced it as a new word so guess he's an idiot too. It must hurt to hate so much. Have a nice night!

— Katie Couric (@katiecouric) December 1, 2014

Um, yes?

And this is hilarious:

Explain yourself, @katiecouric. pic.twitter.com/1Au7ymR2ud

— Jimmy (@JimmyPrinceton) December 1, 2014

Ka-boom. Here are her tweets from 2011:

#WOTD Eschatology, noun. A branch of theology concerned with the final events in the history of the world or of humankind

— Katie Couric (@katiecouric) May 23, 2011

After all the hype, it looks like we survived the #rapture described in Christian eschatology! #WOTD

— Katie Couric (@katiecouric) May 23, 2011

Over to you, Katie.

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