While NBC was so concerned about the menace of softball-throwing reporters in the White House, the network’s own Katie Couric saved all her softballs for a liberal group promoting new legislation sponsored by Ted Kennedy and Rosa DeLauro to mandate every employer with 15 employees or more offer at least seven sick days a year. Remaking American society to look more like Europe is essential, suggests Katie: “So obviously the legislation may be helpful, but the whole mentality of the workplace needs to change as well, right?”