Katie Couric mirrors the media and their avoidance of the Giuliani/Kerik story
Let's see...What story would you consider important news? A phony story about Hillary not leaving a tip or Giuliani's BFF getting indicted after he had nominated him to run the DHS a few years ago?
Couric has the answer. (email Julia) "Near the end of this week's Le Show, Harry Shearer has audio of Katie Kouric asking her producer if, since they're tight for time, they should maybe not cover Bernie Kerik's indictment, since nobody really cares. (rough transcript)
Couric: ...Can I make a suggestion. I guess we have to follow the Kerik story, but does the rest of the country care that much? I mean if we're really in time trouble...we're so tight for time, do you think the whole country really cares that much about Bernard Kerik. I don't know, I'm just curious?
Nice attitude Katie. I think the story does instruct us on the type of man Rudy associates with and vouches for....Harry Shearer makes some good points why the Kerik/Giuliani story is BIG news....
My brother in law thinks I'm being funny when I say that politics and shit smell the same.
Harry Shearer always has insight into the topics of the day. Everone should listen to his "Le Show"
Gee, I don't know Katie maybe the American people care as much about that as they do the planted questionaire at Hillary's stump.
But you better believe Brian Williams had the "scandalous" Hillary Clinton campaign planted questioner on tonight's NBC Nightly News.
The Leebrul media!!
don't rock the boat, Katie. you get paid good money just so people WON'T care about important things.
Entertainers like Katie Couric should NOT be deciding for us what we care about. More waterskiing squirrels!
Fantasy Couric:
Could we not cover the vapid Edward's hair cut story? Can we nix the Obama-Madrassa story? Could we not cover Hillary's tits?
Reality Couric:
Let's ax the story about Mr. 9/11's choice of a mobbed up lackey for Dept. of Homeland Security.
the liberal media!
Katie thinks everyone seeing her colonoscopy is news.
You're a disgrace, Katie. A contemptible disgrace.
Is Couric still a news anchor? Why? She was never any good at television to begin with.
JasonC @ 9:
They all are.
I just hear this crop of "news" readers after they've retired [been forced out or fired] and are on the book circuit... "We were just following orders"
I don't know why but that sounds familiar for some reason...
If Katie really cared about what the public wants, she'd let Bob Schieffer have the job.
A brain is a terrible thing to lose, poor Katie, she can't help it, she was born with a lose screw.
I think someone should say something good about Katie.
Good job, Katie.
You are a nice pleasing news that does not upset anyone.
What nice person you are.
You are a tribute to journalism and the search for truth.
Nobody in the country cares about Katie Couric.
Katie, some people say you go out of your way to cover up for Republicans...
justsomejazz @ 2:
Wasn't aware he was doing this show. Do recall Mr. Shearer writing about New Orleans after Katrina and the aftermath.
Actually, Katie Couric making this comment should be a big story on any other network but it won't be.
"Do you think the whole country really cares that much ......."
Not anymore Katie, thanks to traitors like you .
Wow, this is pretty heavy.
Thank goodness for the intertubes - otherwise we'd probably never know about something like this!
Giuliani can go to hell. He will never be president. Hopefully he comes closer to more scandal and potential charges.
The MSM and Couric can also go to hell. They are already there, in fact.
Hillary should join them there as well, because she is now playing the George Bush Card from his first presidential election. It reads, "Don't you idiots get it. I'm gonna be president, so whatever...." The MSM buys it, and that's why she is the only story they have time for when it comes to the election.
And all of them accept this already, except Giuliani. Though God knows why he keeps playing the game. Maybe he's been promised that there will be another 9-11 event.
she is and always has been a real tw*t
Katie Kerik??? What?
Tune in next time when Katie asks Mrs. Kucinich about her tongue ring. Thanks Ms. Couric, you're a puppet.
Katie - I care.
You may be curious, just not very smart.
I try to usually at least keep an open mind... but this is just enraging! I mean, hard confirmation of what everyone has already been wondering about her bullshit approach to "news". Why is she not fired yet?
What a brainless twat.
Girls everywhere: THIS IS NOT YOUR ROLEMODEL. Good point about neither is Hannah Storm. What happened to decent women journalists like Christiane Amanpour?
whoah.
i remember a time when someone would lose their job for this kind of thing.
Katie deserves utterly the bad ratings she's definitely earned. Hey, Katie, why not go back in time to 1930s Germany where you seem to fit in better than these times. You surely love the idea of Dictator Giuliani, and.youre.doing.a.great.job.for.him.by.not.covering.those.pesky.little.stories.about.him.that.could.shed.serious.light.on.his.autocratic.leanings.
MargeAggedon @ 1:
How many Courics do you estimate per politician?
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2007/10/12/couric-coined-the-unit-_n_68211...
actually it's kind of funny. you see her pathetic ratings. you hear her say something like this. you understand why.
but she doesn't get it!
How much coverage do you think this would be getting if the candidate's name was, oh, I don't know, Clinton?
Ruthless People @ 3:
Didn't Jeff Gannon/James Guckert plant more than questions in the White House? More specifically, in BuSh's "rose garden".
What a media! Of all the people I ask, no one has even heard of JimmyJeff.
start_beating_around_the_bush @ 31:
compared to katie jeff gannon/james guckert is edward r. murrow.
Couric just passed her final exam for her job interview at FOX news. She'll fit right in, "un-fair and off-balnce".
For God's sake, John, please put together an internet-based news source that is regularly fed by bloggers throughout the world throughout all hours every day. A place were we can visit and get the news without someone trying to manipulate every message. Then we can lay all the Couric's, Russerts, Williams, Fox news imposters etc. to rest.
Dreamy huh - too much Lambrusco.
Katie should be doing the weather in Yuma, AZ.
Honest George @ 34:
I haven't had cable or satellite in a long while now, but... isn't that what they were trying to do with Current.tv? As in, indies could roll their own newscasts and submit them, effectively having access to a national audience? I wonder if that channel ever worked... of course, there is still something to be said for the newsroom staff and deep pockets to pay for embedded journalists and foreign news desks...
Katie's stooped over from digging memory holes to hide republican wrong doing
fedup @ 33:
It's a toss up between Katie and Tucker. I wonder who will get the Faux job first.
BIMBO!
Fox won't offer Katie a job. They've got younger, equally dumb newsreaders to spread their agenda on Fox. But if someone this dumb is working for their competition they don't have to worry about their agenda being challenged. If NBC wants a dumb republican shill as their anchor, Fox won't woo her away.
Why do you think they hate Keith?
Rufus @ 35:
"Its hot!"
I still remember KC's interview with the Mormon girl (Elizabeth Smart, I think) that was kidnapped by the nut-job and forced into marriage with him. She was a cute girl and everybody wondered about her - myself included. We didn't know at the time that she had been forced to "marry" this jerk, and frankly, once that came out there was no need for details.
So here this girl was - having survived an incredible ordeal and kept her sanity somehow. I was very impressed with her composure after that ordeal and the media frenzy, she had probably decided to participate in just so she would be left alone. If that was the plan, it worked - when was the last time you heard of Elizabeth Smart?
I had never watched Couric - and I am certainly no prude - but appalled doesn't really cover the nausea engendered in me by the leering "feaux sensitivity" KC repeatedly exhibited in the course of that interview. She could barely keep the drool from running down her chin. She kept bringing it back to sex and I could list the questions she was dying to ask - looked like she was on the verge of orgasm. It brought to mind the hot-eyed, fervid attention of degenerates at some sex show where screaming children were the involuntary participants.
I was beyond appalled when CBS hired her to sit in the same chair Walter Cronkite had filled honorably for so long - but after 30 years of watching CBS news, I changed channels. There was a bit of regret, because CBS had just hired the best - and gutsiest - war correspondent in the business today - Lara Logan.
I have been a 60 Minutes regular since the first episode, so when she interviewed my candidate, John Edwards and spouse, I suppressed my revulsion long enough to hear what "some people" (the RNC) were asking about him. I nearly destroyed my TV.
Guess you could say I'm not a fan.
Actually, the media went crazy on Kerik on all of the the Sun morn bobblehead shows. TPM has a good write-up/video about it.
I heard that fecal matter is measured in "Courics" for purposes of the world record.
Coincidence? You decide:
http://www.southparkzone.com/episodes/1109/More-Crap.html
justabill @ 43:
That is probably the only reason the thought crossed her pea brain.
Forgive my language but Harry Shearer is a fucking legend! I get his podcast every week. It gives me faith in America.
Don't forget to check out his work at mydamnchannel.com too.
Katie is the GOP cheerleader and she must save Rudy from being seen as the crook he is.
Now I wonder if any Media station or New reporter will make public that Sam Donaldson's
name is on the DC Madam's list. Yes ABC knew that information and that's why they
didn't report any thing on Jan Palfrey's case. Ms. Palfrey's business wasn't for prostitution
only a escort service so Senator Vitter moved on to a DC prostitution service. Katie's ratings
are the lowest in the history of any Nightly News show and she will soon hit rock bottom.
There you have it, folks -- our news being decided for us. I always wondered what it sounded like.
I'd have love to heard what they said all the times that they ignored anti-war protesters.
Didn't some right-wing prat refute Susan Faludi's arguments that America is less feminist than it used to be, by pointing out that Katie Couric is a shining example of a talented woman rising like a star towards glory?
Not that I've ever seen or heard Couric in my life, may I hastily add.
Now why would she want to knock a party that is already dragging in the mud?
She has to I.Q. of a dead flashbulb battery. Would it be so much to ask that she is replaced with a real journalist with some integrity and intellectual curiosity?
UnEasyOne @ 42:
You're thinking Nancy Grace - who is a complete toad.
Couric is an unmitigated hack.
#30--good point!
I do take some comfort in knowing that Couric is The Worst Network Anchor Ever. She has always been know strictly for her smile and her gams. Obviously has very little upstairs.
Why does Katie Couric hate America?
This woman never deserved to be a news anchor. She was a marginally good morning show host. That's it.
How about Katie Couric's lame interview of Valerie Plame Wilson. Where Katie attempts to blame Valerie's outing on Valerie and Joe. Katie really showed her true role once again (a Bush flunkie). She tries to hammer Joe at the end of the interview saying "you are really angry".
Damn Katie you are such a flunkie. Not once not once did you hit it from another angle. Not once did you demonstrate any outrage or even ask tough questions about the Bush administrations intentions in the outing of a woman who served this country by putting her own ass/life on the line by following the path of Wmd'S. Not once did Couric indicate the seriousness of this outing. Katie demonstrated once again that she just does not get it.
Out of all of the interviews with Plame/Wilson, Courics was the most lame
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2007/10/17/60minutes/main3378089.shtml
UnEasyOne @ 42:
I think Katie Couric exhibited some of that primal behaviour during her interview with Plame, as if she were jealous of Plame's intelligence, position, beauty. It was an odd interview and lacked any true and honest grit. Katie did not demonstrate any ability to digest that very serious crimes had been committed towards Plame, her family and to our National Security.
I apologize. I now see that the Giuliani anti-immigrant ad is part of a wider collection of ads. I looked a bit on line about them and wonder if maybe someone else is behind these ads, like McCain perhaps? Decide for yourselves.
http://youtube.com/watch?v=c2Sc_E1llpY
1 MargeAggedon Says: My brother in law thinks I’m being funny when I say that politics and shit smell the same.
They both DO stink.
Couric is such a dirty fucking liberal! Geez, can she please take a shower or something? & OMG KATIE COURIC SHAVE YOUR ARMPITS!
it just goes to show that the ultra loonie left wing liberals still control the media!
(it's only irony if you believe...)
I nominate Harry for Keith O's BEST person in the world tonight.
(and KO should play that recording)
Katie doesn't care much for politics. It's a hormone thing. She's a show girl, makeup,
dress up, singing, dancing, Broadway musicals...*fun stuff*.
IS Couric by any chance a close relative of the Chimp? She is the same brand of intellectually dishonest, incurious, witless douchebag as is the chimperor.
RUDY THE SAUSAGE IS A CLINTONION P-HOUND OF THE HIGHEST ORDER. HE WAS INVOVLED IN SEX OF CLINTONION PROPORTIONS. EVEN HIS BEST FRIEND BERNIE COURIC(NO RELATION) IS A P-HOUND OF CLINTONION PROPORTIONS. THE STORY NEED NOT BE ABOUT LAW ENFORCEMENT LAW AND ORDER TYPES REALLY BEING CRIMINALS, EVEN THOUGH AMERICA WOULD PROPABLY LOVE THAT TOO. THE STORY COULD BE ABOUT HOW THESE TWO LOVE TO GET LOTS OF SWEET P OUTSIDE THE MARRIAGE BEDROOM, JUST LIKE THE P-HOUND CLINTON. JUST A STRAIGHT SEX STORY OF THE 911 HEROES AND THIER P-HOUND WAYS. COME ON KATIE YOU KNOW IN YOUR HEART IT IS A GREAT STORY:911 HEROES GET LOTS OF SWEET P IN THE WTC LOVENEST. AMERICA WOULD BE INTERESTED IN IT.
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