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In Latest YouTube Dispatch, Katie Couric Gets Back in Touch With Her Tri-Delta Days

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October 2, 2008 | 4:42 p.m

With Katie Couric's stash of amazing Sarah Palin footage running perilously low, we thought we'd check back in with the CBS News anchor's personal YouTube channel.

Lucky us!

Turns out that yesterday, Ms. Couric posted her latest candid camera video, which was shot last week at the University of Mississippi on the eve of the first presidential debate.

There, Ms. Couric catches wind of a banner bearing her name hanging outside the university's Delta, Delta, Delta sorority.

Ms. Couric promptly hops in a golf cart to investigate and, in an aside to the camera, admits—er, proudly reminds viewers—that she was a Tri-Delta as an undergraduate at the University of Virginia.

Once at the sorority house, Ms. Couric interviews a passel of bubbly coeds about who they're going to vote for in the election. During the video's best moment, Ms. Couric asks one of the undergrads about a button approving of a certain "Archie." Like Archie from Dagwood, asks Ms. Couric?

No! "Archie Manning!" roar the disbelieving Tri-Deltas, referring to the legendary Ole Miss quarterback (and father of Eli and Peyton).

Which reminds the Media Mob of an old TV adage: if you want an Archie sensitive news anchor, hang a Shepard Smith banner.

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