When Is A Slap Not Really A Slap

Tomorrow we will be reading in NEW YORK Magazine about the slap that wasn't a slap.  According to today's Drudge Report, Katie Couric was more tense than usual during the TB story in June.  CBS News Editor Jerry Cipriano included the term "sputum" in the copy.  Katie lost it.  She began "slapping him over and over and over again on the arm."  The word was removed.  No charges have been filed by Cipriano. 

When then-president Bill Clinton claimed that he really did not have sex with that woman Monica Lewinsky because oral sex is not sex, the nation laughed.  Tomorrow we might also be snickering that a slap is not really a slap if it's administered sort of by an anchor of the evening news on an arm.  Although we have to wait until tomorrow to check this out, those who've had a peek claim that Katie claims, "I sort of slapped him [Cipriano] around."