FOXNews Attacks Single Mom Katie Couric For Going To Iraq
By Nicole Belle Thursday Aug 30, 2007 7:02pmJust when you think they can't be more absurd...don't get me wrong, Katie is hardly capable of the "in the field" coverage that CBS used to be known for, but this angle is just ridiculous.
As ThinkProgress reported today, Fox News attacked CBS rival and single mother Katie Couric for her upcoming trip to Iraq. But while Neil Cavuto, John Gibson and the gang at Fox grew hysterical about Couric, they remained silent about 26 year old Michelle Ring and other single mothers fighting for the United States in Iraq.
The issue for Fox, of course, is that anyone else's coverage of Iraq inevitably brings the facts of Bush's Baghdad fiasco directly to American television screens. But in a new low even for Fox, Couric (whose husband passed away from colon cancer in 1998) was accused of placing her children at risk all in the name of ratings. As guest Janice Crouse of Concerned Women for American put it:
"She's saying my ratings are more important than my children. That's the bottom line."
If only Fox News would focus such concern on all of the American single mothers who are fighting - and dying - for us in Iraq. That would include women like Michelle Ring of the 92nd Military Police Battalion based in Fort Benning, Georgia. Ring, who joined the Army in 2005, recently reenlisted with the hope of becoming a military police officer. Ring was killed by mortar fire on July 5th while on guard duty.
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And FOX attacks Americans for ratings. What's the difference?
Frist!
Ah yes Fox News that Beacon of Values... does the the word Falafel mean anything ?
Thanks for pointing out the hidden obvious - that our military sends single moms into dangerous duty, that our reserves call up the mothers of infants, thereby damaging these infants psychologically, intellectually, socially, and physically, in order to go mess up Iraqi kids and make lots of money for Bush. It's one of the many sickening things about how things are going in the USA right now.
but isn't it really safe now that the surge is doing so well?Might even be safer than NYC, so she's probably doing a good thing...
Katie Couric is single? I bet she's rich too... hmmmm...
maybe she's going to see for herself and to report what she sees....She is a reporter.As for Fixed news....hell we all know it's not a News Org...
Leave it to Fixed News to attack a journalist for doing actual journalism. If it was up to Faux News, we would just belive the President when he tells us that everything is going just fine.
Sure, attack an anchorwoman's judgment in the midst of all the GOP scandals that are unhinging the media and the country and the law... While Nifong gets ONE DAY in jail. While Vitter and Foley get a "bosom" GOP buddy. While Bush prepares to flub the fallaciously dubbed "Petraeus" Report.
Yeah, pick on the decision of a successful media personality in the midst of ALL that.
I often wonder just what the squeaky wheels sound like in the mind of Brit "I'm melting! I'm melting" Hume.
i thot iraq is a very safe place? isn't that what the white house and the republicans have been telling us? what's the fuss...?
the band played on as the titanic sank.
Old Billy @ 5:
and she aint to bad lookin either.Single,Rich and good lookin.....yep....that'll work.
jon kip @ 4:
Yeah, I thought it was like an Indiana summer market over there, any way . . . .
Ms. Couric is hardly in the tradition of Murrow, Cronkite and Rather. Still, I hardly see this as a ploy to boost ratings. She is an anchor of a major news enterprise. And I doubt she is a poor mother. Fox News is absurd and for Ms. Crouse to pose as head of "Concerned Women for America" and speak such hateful comments is beyond the pale of reason. The weight of such hypocrisy is crushing the Republican right and none too soon.
facta non verba @ 13:
Concerned Women for America is a scary organization. More masochism than the log cabin republicans.
i woulder why that spokeperson for concern women of america chose to single out katie coric yet express no remorse or concern whatsoever about all the wives who have been widow due to their husband death in iraq, or the sinlge military mom who have to go over there to increase the profit for blackwater nor have CWA show any anger about the children who have been orphan. i guess when it comes to making profit for a magacorporation such as the oil industries et al is more important than the orphan children at home.
She's a widow. Like me.
http://arts.ucsc.edu/gdead/agdl/throwing.html
The problem with the Fox Freaks is that one of them might be asked to do the same thing in order to counter any bad news reported by Couric. The only one worth a damn at that network is Shep Smith. I'll bet he ends up having to go.
Old Billy @ 14:
Yeah, I was going to something about CWA, because they sounded vaguely familiar. Aren't they some fundamentalist Christian group pretending to "fight for women's rights
to be barefoot and pregnant" or some bullshit like that?This is nothing but a FoxNews smokescreen. Move along, nothing to see here. Let's focus on the REAL news.
fox is fighting
a losing battle
heh...
keep up the good work
Awesome. This is great. I've been waiting a long time for the major networks to wage war on FOX. With this sick attack, maybe the rest of the MSM will get of its collective ass and take on FAUX.
They picked on the wrong woman here.This woman has worked her tail off for a very long time.She's earned her place.....The CWA is worried she will influence more women around the country.And they should be worried.We can expect more insane and ludicrous comments from the wrong wing...after all...they got nuthin.
Why are you calling it Fox News? Nothing in the story has anything to do with news, it is opinion, and like daddy always said opinions are like assholes everybody's got one.
This whole right wing media game is designed to distract their viewers and Bush supporters from the real issues.
The blanket rape of the U.S. Treasury, Americans tax dollars, pensions, jobs, health, and their children's future by the Bush Administration.
is she a crook or just a liar...and also a stupid mom ...remember woodruff, and what happened to that idiot!!! couric manufactures consent and opinion inj realtime for all to see and hear....she HELPED get us into this mess!!!
One possibile solution, which I used, was to select a satellite plan that does not include Fox News. I never watch it unless it is forced upon me at hotels, etc. It's such an obvious propaganda channel.
Sorry this is OT. O'Reilly just claimed he didn't say anything about terrorists attacking San Francisco.
mudshark @ 22:
earned her place as a MsM bullshit artist????? i guess, if earning your place means selling your soul!!!! she's a tool of the miltary insustrial mediatainment big pharma complex that apparently "mudshark" ( a racist term btw) seems to approve of!!
Robert Loren @ 26:
Carry foam earplugs with you where ever you go.
Works like a charm.
Old Billy @ 14:
Possibly alot of closeted tough macho lesbians(no offense to the gay community)hey with the way their going......it could happen.
Why would anyone expect Fox news , the right arm and hit squad of Cheney and his administration , say anything other their BS and propaganda for this dictatorial administration that we are under. The destruction of this administration on this country will never be undone unless our leaders get a backbone and care more about this nation and what is right , then winning the next election.
Say It Now , tomorrow with be to late...
I'm confused. I thought it was safe to walk around in Iraq. Just like a stroll at the outdoor market in a small Indiana town.
fox news, just one more dump taken by bush and cheney
Los Populistos @ 28:
don't get your panties in a knot......She worked for her place...as for my name..it's from an old Zappa song.....you don't even know she is somewhat liberal......
Aren't we done with Faux News already?
Let me get this straight...
Everything is wonderful in Iraq but Katie Couric is risking making her children orphans by going to a place "safer than Detroit?"
Los Populistos @ 28:
Ha-Ha! I had no idea what mudshark meant. From the Urban Dictionary:
Wow. Learn something new every day. Wait, I understand that this is a racial term (pertaining to race), but is it racist?
Fox News says bring all single-mother soldiers home from Iraq!
xoites defends Constitution @ 36:
Her writing seems very nervous. As if everything she writes is being scrutinized. Like she's being watched over. How the hell she get into this mess?
mudshark @ 34:
Heh-I just gave a guy directions to the Edgewater Inn a few hours ago...
Mudshark by Zappa
http://www.oldielyrics.com/lyrics/frank_zappa/the_mud_shark.html
Look I know this is off topic, but mudshark's name is from this song.
miss_kitty @ 40:
Thank You Miss Kitty....ever been to a holiday inn?................................magic fingers
This is Fox's bread n butter.
How about we send Gibby to Baghdad with no flak jacket or with no military entourage...lets boost Fox's ratings that way. I'd watch that.
Hey, now... What kind of country do y'all libs want? One in which closeted, pseudo-Christian, priveleged white males and self-loathing women can't attack a single mother working for a living without repercussions? I, for one, welcome our sadistic, perverted, self-conflicted overlords.
What's the problem? It's like any Indiana market in summer time. We should all go. (I need some new carpets.)
Old Billy @ 37:
I never took it as racist.....I just thought the song was funny.
Old Billy...to be honest..I never knew that was the meaning either......
Robert Loren @ 26:
I've only seen Faux news once, and those clips here at C&L. I was in a hotel in Thailand which had FOX, so I watched for 10 minutes--- and HAD to turn it off. Lucky me, eh? I never tuned in again.
What fucking assholes! They don't care about the US troops killed for nothing, but worry about Katie's kids in the extremely unlikely event she is killed in the Green Zone? Well, Gibby and the rest of the Faux Concern Trolls, I think Katie's kids will have plenty of dough if she buys it. Besides, its for "freedom" right?
On the one hand, the crackpots at Fox attack everyone, so who in their right mind would be offended by anything they say.
On the other hand, it will take more than "war correspondent" bona fides to make The Katie Couric Show watchable.
miss_kitty @ 41:
better luck next time
Her ratings can't be that bad where CBS is trying to salvage her career by sending her into a death zone can it?
What about all the moms and dads, single or otherwise, that shrub co. deliberately sent into harms way for the sake of oil? Why don't they mention that?
Edwin @ 45:
Just FIVE DOLLARS! Get'em while they're hot (about 120 degrees this time of year)!!!!
as if john "bomb thrower" gibson cared.
I wish the wingers would get their story right. Is Iraq safe or not?
I mean, you can't bash Katie Couric for going deep into harm's way if the place is all pacified ... right?
Katie Couric is to journalism what McD's is to burgers. Nothing. She is no journalist. She's a pretty face for the media to trot out to the tune of around 15 Mill a year to distract people from REAL NEWS.
While I'm no Couric fan, let's at least try to be "fair and balanced" when presenting the Faux News. It is your tag line after all.
Just more of the boys club stepping on a woman to keep her down.
I'd like to see them have the stones to go to Iraq with her. Wusses, all of them.
I've even lost respect for Brett Baier on Faux who jumped there from WRAL in Raleigh, NC.
wait a god darn minute, the republicans told me that Baghdad was as safe as market in idaho or something, and now they say they the Green Zone is just too dangerous to go to?
Brain hurt.
Look, I don't much like Katie Couric....I don't watch her newscast and I hardly watched her on the other morning show.
She's cute, makes great money and has a steady gig. She knows who she is and what she can do. She knows the business and all of the shit she needs to do to get ratings.
She is lightweight, yes. So what do you want from her? Heavy duty reporting from the field like Rather, Murrow? Forget it!
On to other meaningfull stories. did you hear the one about Lohan and Spears getting.......
Janice Crouse of Concerned Women for America.
Looks like Kyle's mom from South Park.
[...] FOXNews Attacks Single Mom Katie Couric For Going To Iraq » This Summary is from an article posted at Crooks and Liars on Friday, August 31, 2007 This [...]
So did Fox do the Same thing when Kyra Phillips went to Iraq?
Los Populistos @ 28:
I'm not a big fan of the mudshark. From what I've read of him, he's an anachronistic, racist little man.
Yeah, sorry for the personal attack.
Uhh..., Katie isn't going to bring us the facts about Iraq. She's going to do shallow feelgood "reporting" about how the
surgeescalation is making "slow"progressfailure. Fox is just trying to give her cover as aLiberalcorporate media talking head. After all, if aLiberallike Katie says it's working, it must be true.anonymous @ 64:
I'm not going to let you make his about me....but your wrong........
anonymous @ 64:
Then why even attack.
mudshark @ 66:
just seems like they dont like what you have to say, and they single you out.
CensoredFan @ 57:
regardless, the message fox news is sending is a message of hypocrisy.
Bokonon @ 56:
don't expect them to do their research now. lol. they are a propaganda tool, they don't care what they spew, as long as it follows the party line.
anonymous @ 64:
mudshark is racist? Prove it. He's always been a complete gentlemen as far as I know, and I've been around for years.
So....Her kids are more important than any military person who serves in Iraq?
How about the army private that gets her fucking head shot off and leaves a family behind?
Are the less important than Katie's kids?
This war of george w. bush is nothing more than an attempt to control the world's oil, and the world, while attempting to portrtay themselves as patriotic. That is bull-shit!
Wake up before you become laves.
they won't prove it. they sign on as anonymous. i'll be surprised if that person returns. just leaves a flaming turd and runs for cover
Tom Belt @ 72:
who are you talking to
Professor Farnsworth @ 73:
The Flaming Turds...what a great name for a punk band, Prof. Yes, I'm a closet punk rock lead singer...don't tell anyone.
To clarify---- bush is attempting to control the world's oil while portraying himself as a hero and keeping Amerika safe from her enemies.
This is bull-shit. Wake up before becoming SLAVES to this ass-hole.
Thanks folks... these are the people I've been talking about...they just want to say something that persuades people to get bummed out at the Dems...so they apparently are coming after me...thats ok...those who know me...know me....but this is getting off topic....thanks again...I for one respect Katie Couric....I don't always agree with her...but I like and respect her......as for those other folks...better luck next time.
I like fox...I only have one channel to hear/read the bullshit of the day. Shall we say fox's bullshit de jour?
fox is a channel for stupid journalists (they can't write a story without making me lmao.)
reporters(?)> (they got rid of them long, long ago)
Poor caption editors (wrong captions all too often, especially against dems and anybody that doesn't agree with them or watered down captions when it's repugs.)
I bet they are the lowest graduates from pat robertson's regents college(?), school of bullshit. Please, somebody bet me.
fox has many Homer-ese qualities. I think they got rid of the wrong unfunny news program.
Is there any groups stupider than repugs?
There are. People who let chimpy's-repug-shit to happen, ad nauseam (I'm throwing up bile now.)
The dems were suppose to come out swinging.
The dems are slow in showing some teeth (grrrrr) also too old fashion ("Well! Glory be." is their motto.)
We need a new party that's up-to-date and stronger.
That's really, really low. It's also completely sexist.
I'm not a fan of Couric - not for a network's anchor, she's too much of a lightweight - but here she's trying to do something important, and deserves encouragement.
Strawberry @ 75:
Your secret is safe with me. However, I don't know about everyone else. :p
Snowball @ 65:
I wouldn't be surprised if she does the exact opposite....
xoites defends Constitution @ 36:
HAHAHAHAHA W
hat about all people who have children.
Professor Farnsworth @ 68:
Then I must be doing something right.....
kiemer @ 27:
No he did-ent.
See, they have jokes.
mudshark @ 83:
exactly. :) usually when people get up your ass like that...you know they iz madddd
mudshark @ 83:
i have a feeling they come from Poli pundit....the darkside......They really don't like me there...insults and attacks all the time.....they hate it when I prove them wrong........like i said...They got nuthin.....notice they don't stick around to debate any real topics here......
Snowball @ 65:
BINGO!!!!!
and a special thank you to Strawberry.........thank you very much.....did you have that talk with your sons yet?
anonymous @ 64:
This from the pathetic, pedantic, racist, flame-baiting anacronism who won't even use a fake name, thus demonstrating a lack of character to match the lack of courage.
Thanks again folks gn....time for Real Time.....
This may be the single most ridiculous item I have ever read.
Anywhere!
I do not like Katie Couric, but who gives a rat's ass if she goes to Iraq, Iran, or Israel?
What? My kids are supposed to look to David Vitter, Larry Craig, Ted Haggard, Rudy Giuliani, Newt Gingrich, and, for that matter, Bill Clinton as paragons of moral virtue? Who programs this crap at FOX? Can anyone really believe this crap!
Isn't Katie 50? That would make her child what... 20?
And if not, something tells me she can afford a babysitter, but I might be wrong.
the racial/sexual connotation of mudshark is very recent. The term is generally associated with Led Zeppelin and a few groupie stories involving the edgewater hotel.
but it's safe enough for the single mother soldiers serving tour after tour? Gee Foxnews, i guess that wouldn't be "supporting" the troops.
Katie is...uhhh..."Mas stickable"...but more importantly (well,maybe not) we need to see the report before we pass judgment,maybe the shallow and vapid have something important to say about the ground we are currently deployed on...I'm just sayin'.
BaScOmBe @ 93:
I generally associate it with Zappa and the Mothers. Song is on Fillmore East and interview on Playground Psychotics explaining the whole story.
To be fair to Fox, Iraq is a dangerous place for journalists. Why do you think they sent Geraldo there?
Single non-combatant parents should not be going to iraq. let's face it, mothers are more important for raising children than fathers. that's why couric is getting criticized. I think it's a big risk for her to go and i woudn't have done it if i were her!
children need their mothers
The GOP is begging the insurgents/evildoers/terrorists to kill soemone important so Amerika gets behind this war. Hopefully they don't choose Katie!
Thing Fish @ 96:
I suppose I could change my name...to...lets see..............hmmmmmm???.....how about Bwana Dik......that song cracks me up too
Fox only wants women catapulting the Bushian propaganda or baking cakes
she's a fucking twit and a disgraceful "journalist." so screw defending her as a single mother. fux news should be dismissed out of hand by anyone w/ even a bush-sized brain.
What is she going to Iraq for? She has been spinning and lying like all the rest of these right wing criminals all along.
So now she wants to hopefully tell the truth to somehow build up her sagging ratings.
Forget it Katie. Like Ms Paula Zaunn, you are through.
facta non verba @ 13:
Agreed.
As for hypocrisy, remember when FOX pundit Talkin' Michelle Malkin paid a visit to Iraq (I forget exactly which province), thus putting her kids at risk? Sure, the footage only made it to her aptly-named vidblog outlet Hotair.com, but still...
Come on now you guys.
I know that the level of political discussion in the US is driven by left vs. right but this story is simply ridiculous. Of course Couric going to Baghdad is a hail mary for the sagging ratings of CBS. Of course Faux is going to try and make some kind of stupid protest. But is it any less ridiculous for Think Progress to use Michelle Ring as a juxtaposition to Faux?
Michelle Ring was a single mother who re-enlisted in the US military -- hoping to become a military police officer of all things. She full well knew about the atrocities carried out by those types in Iraq. She should have known that as a "guard" she would be exposed to terrible dangers and retributions from the "enemy." Yet her stupid re-enlistment showed that she was more gung-ho for a continued servitude to the US occupation than the more important role of mother to her single parent child.
I would suggest that if comparisons are going to be made, at least try to make them appropriate. Michelle Ring willingly gave her life to a monstrous military machine while at the same time knowing that there was a child who needed her more -- and for a more noble purpose.
Couric's stories from Baghdad are for ratings -- Ring's reenlistment was for real. She chose the chance of death over life with her child. That doesn't make a hero to me. If we are to make comparisons, we should make them appropriately -- if not, the left and the right just show their petty stupidity of "gotcha" politics that have spoiled the real debate between right and wrong.
I really couldn't care less if she meets her ignoble end in Iraq. Katie is a big cheerleader for Bush and his criminal reign, so it would be justice.
Although Katie is a widow herself- and kept her carrer going while her husband was terminally ill- she charged John Edwards with "putting his family second" to his ambition because he is running for president while his wife is ill.
And, remember the first day of her anchoring the CBS Evening News? She made the decision to bring on Rush Limbaugh to spew lies and venom.
Also, last year Katie went after Howard Dean, calling him a liar (he wasn't- she was reciting Repug talking point lies) and refusing to address him properly as "Governor" or "Dr."
The bitch is seriously stupid and sick.
This is another last ditch effort from CBS to salvage their ratings since Couric took the helm. They, like Larry Craig, are in the toilet.
Katie's elder daughter turned sixteen on July 23. In two years she will be eligible to go to Iraq as a soldier. The younger child is 11. Let's face it, Katie is hardly a "stay at home mom" and her children have been largely raised by others. Just like the children of the thousands of women stationed in Iraq and the millions of women who must hold TWO jobs to support their offspring in the superior american economy.
Katie could stop working tomorrow and her children would never have to worry or get a job. The leadership of the Concerned "Women" for America is for the most part male or women so old that their ovaries quit working during the Reagan administration.
Capabilty Jones @ 106:
I don't remember this one.......I always thought she leaned left.........I was out of the country when boosh invaded Iraq.....and only got a tiny bit of news once a week.So I didn't see her ramping up the rhetoric...and I never really watch her...I just thought for some reason she was liberally minded...........but I still respect her for her accomplishments......she has worked hard for a very long time......
do the mudshark baby.......
Faux noise propaganda and stupidity is quickly going down the tubes and they know it, so just keep up with the hilarious jokes.
Fuck Faux News.
Honestly C&L - who the F cares what Fox is up to?! Is there truly nothing better to blog about?
Site Monitor: Here's a quarter, buy a clue. Look at the name of the blog. Think real hard. Why do you suppose a blog like CROOKS & LIARS would cover Fox?
Women soldiers in Iraq are there to serve their country. They are not getting rich doing it, either. If they die or are injured, it's a tragedy for their family, but at least they died doing their duty, politics aside. Their kids can be proud of them.
Katie already told the network "no" once when asked to go to Iraq, saying she was a single mom. Now her ratings are terrible and she's hanging on to her job by a thread. She doesn't have to go to Iraq - she can quit and get a job on some empty headed show like "The View" for big money still, if her kids are so important. I can't believe a single mom would be so foolish as to put her fat paycheck above her life and her kids' wellbeing. She's no journalist, so it's not like we can't get by without her opinion of Iraq. Nobody will even care what it is.
Capabilty Jones @ 106:
I think there's a video in the C&L archives when Dean goes toe to toe with her about politicians taking money from lobbyists. I think it was around the time of the Duke Cunningham scandal.
While I don't really care for Katic Couric, I don't think she's stupid. This is a calculated move, albeit a bad one in terms of her family. I know people are saying that she could get killed over there, and they're right, but she could also get killed walking across the street.
Katie's worked hard because many people never took her seriously. I personally don't like cutsey news, or any type of talk show, let alone morning one. I saw her E! True Hollywood Stories segment a while back. She had a few lucky breaks, and she's ambitious, but I can't take her seriously as a journalist. For me, it's not so much about her going over there, but I don't a cutesy spin on Iraq. I can hear about Iraq from BBC World News. Like Dot said, nobody (except soccer moms) would probably care what her opinion is, because she's not taken seriously.
So, this is sounds like another day of right leaning media eating their own.
Give Me Convenience @ 112:
Since you ask - self important pomposity, that glowing feeling deep inside that you have delivered faith to the choir, to demonstrate yet again that the horse is dead by beating it further? HEY EVERYBODY - C&L NEWS FLASH - FOX NEWS LIES! Tell somebody - QUICK - before they lie again! Apparently there is nothing better to blog about...
Site Monitor: Speaking of self-important pomposity, what's it like to tell a top tier blog that had 4 out of the top 10 most linked to items last year how to do their business? Thanks for your 'concern', but I think we know what we're doing. If you're not interested in FoxNews hackery, feel free to move to another post.
Dot @ 113:
Women soldiers in Iraq are there to serve their country. They are not getting rich doing it, either. If they die or are injured, it’s a tragedy for their family, but at least they died doing their duty, politics aside. Their kids can be proud of them.
actually, the women who serve in Iraq are victim of bush lust for profit for blakwater, haliburton, and the oil industries, not only that, many of the women can't just quit their job if they wanted to because people like you value the life of the CEO and shareholder of the magacorporation more importantly than that of the mother ability to be home with their children, that is why chicken hawk like you won't send them home,
so don't come here and give me some bull crap about how coward like you who never serve in the military in their who entire life nor would you join to go fight them over there give the people of crooks and liars some moral lesson about Katie couric putting her career above her children when people like you would rather the American women military mom dies horrific death to make billion for the corporation then send them home to be with their family's, who needed the most.
laurie @ 3:
It's the hidden shame of our military--that we must deploy young, single mothers to combat zones because our manpower shortages are so acute.
No country can claim the high moral ground under such conditions; and it's absolutely horrible that the DoD won't provide deployment waivers to these women.
The military took Katie and a bunch of Marines shopping in Faluja today. She said pretty much what they wanted her to say. There were kids playing and there were families just like families right here in America. That the "Surge" seemed to be showing progress there.
She didn't mention things like there are almost no Shites living in Anbar Province so it is ridiculous to use Anbar as an example of a reduction of sectarian violence. There never has been much sectarian violence in Anbar Province.
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