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Roland99 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Feb-01-06 07:12 AM
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OMG!! Katie Couric sounds like Ann Coulter grilling Sen. Kerry!
BLATANT partisanship on the part of Couric. She's almost combative and you can tell she can't stand Kerry and is laying into the Democrats and defending * and the media, too.
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liberal N proud Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Feb-01-06 07:13 AM
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1. Couric is a Coulter wanna be
All she needs is the adams apple
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shaniqua6392 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Feb-01-06 07:15 AM
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5. And a few months snorting some cocaine.
That Man Coulter is definitely a coke head.
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Nomen Tuum Donating Member (396 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Feb-01-06 10:33 AM
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74. I CAN'T BELIEVE IT'S NOT COULTER!
Yeesh, what a wench. I hope Senator Kerry had a crucifix and a vial of holy water handy!
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LaurenG Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Feb-01-06 07:13 AM
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2. How can someone with as much life experience and education
as Couric apparently has be so ignorant and blind themselves purposely?
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XanaDUer Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Feb-01-06 07:21 AM
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10. Because she is rich, rich, rich.
...and she knows who signs her paychecks.
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ComerPerro Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Feb-01-06 07:41 AM
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19. LOL. Exactly right
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shance Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Feb-01-06 12:00 PM
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91. She is paid to keep the wealthy white males in their establishment seats.
The Media Industrial Complex is a tool of the Necon/Republican regime.
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SammyWinstonJack Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Feb-01-06 08:37 AM
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32. M O N E Y!
Pretty simple for her, that is. Greedy trumps all.
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OmmmSweetOmmm Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Feb-01-06 07:14 AM
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3. She is such a freaking pimp for the sociopath in chief and Kerry handled
her shrillness beautifully!
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Cobalt Violet Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Feb-01-06 07:20 AM
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8. He did handle Katie Coulter well. n/t
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linazelle Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Feb-01-06 10:27 AM
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67. "What DID you like about the SOTU address.." was her first question
as though she had been listening to him complain and criticize ad nauseum. She might as well have asked when he stopped beating Tereza.

But, he did handle it well, and he got some very good points across--especially about Bush saying one thing then doing another when it comes to divisiveness.
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LostinVA Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Feb-01-06 07:15 AM
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4. She's so disrespecting her sister's memory
It makes me sick.
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Clark2008 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Feb-01-06 07:16 AM
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6. I don't think it's blatant.
I think it's because she's a former weather girl (NOT a meteorologist) and her cheerleading and beauty contest days have outweighed any formal education she ever had in journalism.

And, I say this as a female Comm major and former journo.

She's a face - a patsy - an "entertainer." Not a reporter. I doubt she writes her questions. Her corporate bosses do that for her.
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OmmmSweetOmmm Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Feb-01-06 07:31 AM
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13. I beg to differ. I find it blatant. She never, ever treats mouthpieces
for the administrtion like this, and in facts simpers with them. She is only like this with anyone who challenges bushco. Remember, she is paid by GE.
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Clark2008 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Feb-01-06 10:15 AM
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61. To each his own.
I just think she's a bad "journalist."

But we do both agree she's :puke:
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Cha Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Feb-01-06 10:18 AM
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63. And probably looks in the mirror
and practices her rough little rottweiler face.
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OmmmSweetOmmm Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Feb-01-06 10:35 AM
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78. hehehehehehehehe! I just had a visual of that!!!! eom
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linazelle Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Feb-01-06 10:28 AM
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69. I have watched her for over a decade, I used to think the same way
but lately, I've noticed it IS blatant. She is not the person I used to like.
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kayice Donating Member (252 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Feb-01-06 04:09 PM
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108. Fire off an email to the witch and the Today Show like I did.....
and to CBS so they never hire that witch for the anchor chair. She thinks her pile doesn't stink...:puke:
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patricia92243 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Feb-01-06 07:19 AM
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7. Isn't she wanting to be a nighttime news anchor? I guess she was showing
how tough she could be and let the money in charge of the networks know that she is on the "right side" (Republican) and will help promote their program.
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XanaDUer Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Feb-01-06 07:21 AM
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9. She is like this everytime she questions dems...
Edited on Wed Feb-01-06 07:23 AM by XanaDUer
I just saw that disgusting "interview" with Kerry, who held his own.

If it was a Republican, she'd be wiping her chin off after the fellation. Then giggling.
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jeff30997 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Feb-01-06 07:24 AM
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11. Lol! Or wiping her brown lips after the butt kissing.
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saigon68 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Feb-01-06 07:30 AM
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12.  Hmm Wiping off her chin
Taking lessons from Monika

I wonder if she wears a thong

I hear that's a mandatory clothing item for these "encounters"
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tsuki Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Feb-01-06 07:33 AM
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14. The $14,000,000 Bionic Eyeliner. Fire her and hire a staff of REAL
journalists.
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no_hypocrisy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Feb-01-06 07:34 AM
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15. This is one reason I don't agree with blending news/journalism with
Edited on Wed Feb-01-06 07:36 AM by no_hypocrisy
entertainment.

Here we have Katie Couric, a co-host of The Today Show. She's made her ascent being cute, effervescent, and good-natured, America's morning sweetheart. Viewers like and trust Katie and her viewpoint.

You take her and match her up with a guest like John Kerry or Howard Dean to interview. Watch how her cheerful pleasant demeanor disappears and is replaced with suspiciousness, hypervigilance, and distrust that is supposed to represent a hard-nosed journalist getting "the facts". Viewers see this behavior and start questioning whether these democrats are trustworthy, likeable, and worthy of holding office because they trust Katie. In other words, the network doesn't particularly care of these guys, tells Katie to turn up the heat on them, she does, and the viewers don't watch the interview objectively; they go along with Katie's position and there is not much of a chance of rehabilitating the dem's presentation on air.

Score one for Katie and the network.
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nonconformist Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Feb-01-06 08:11 AM
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26. Excellent analysis, and I agree completely. nt
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no_hypocrisy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Feb-01-06 09:14 AM
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34. Part II of my critique of Katie Couric
It is all a Roman Circus set-up for the democrats. They HAVE TO appear on these programs or they don't get airtime - period. So they have to put up with the tenor that the entertainer-interviewer sets. In the case of Katie, if the the dem gets "testy" or "combative" or just contradicts Katie, she has the option of reacting in a hurt, injured manner that is designed to get the audience sympathetic to her viewpoint, like hey, I just asked a question; don't snap at me. And she and the network "win" again.

I'm not interested in the motivation behind this entertainment-journalism. All I care about is that it is the new standard and being an objective interviewer is passe and highbrow. It is another nail in the coffin of "The Press".
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mwb970 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Feb-01-06 10:08 AM
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56. In an emergency, she could cry. That always gets 'em. (n/t)
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kevinbgoode Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Feb-01-06 10:13 AM
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59. I think she might still be ticked off because her butt got caught
misquoting that Dems took money from Abramoff - and the Today Show got an earful/mailbox full over that mistake....and then Matt Lauer barely admitted it the next day.

She seems the type who would hold a grudge.
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Cha Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Feb-01-06 10:27 AM
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And it boggles my mind that
Edited on Wed Feb-01-06 10:28 AM by zidzi
she was going out with Tom Werner for years who was at(and spoke) the last Kerry campaign rally I went to in Manchester, New Hampshire.

I keep wondering what he thinks of her vicious little performances on Dems. (couric)
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Warren Stupidity Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Feb-01-06 07:35 AM
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16. Can we use the 'c' word?
That Kouric is a creepy conservative cretin. Is that allowed?
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Obamarama Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Feb-01-06 07:50 AM
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21. You for got the word that rhymes with PUNT.
She's that, too...and SO much more.
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greekspeak Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Feb-01-06 07:40 AM
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17. Did she have her gnarly old legs exposed, flashing them around?
I cannot stomach Today Show (or the Morning ShrubCo Whore Brigade of NBC as they should be called) so I rarely see that woman. But I cannot think of a time seeing her in a skirt longer than mid-thigh. I guess some men like her gnarled, creepy looking legs. She can say whatever she wants as long as she can play "pin-up girl," helping set women's rights back another generation or 4.
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Catfight Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Feb-01-06 07:40 AM
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18. Who cares about little bimbo, "navy seals rock," katie. nt
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Loge23 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Feb-01-06 07:46 AM
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20. Couric illustrated her own point
The administration's AM spokesperson asked Kerry why the polls suggest that the Dems are losing the awareness battle with the public.
Could it be biased interviews like this AM's Couric interrogation of Kerry?
BLATANT INDEED!!
Turn it off. Walk out.
We are not listening anymore.
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journalist3072 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Feb-01-06 07:56 AM
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22. What I noticed right away
Even before the interview started, was that little graphic they had that said "Do Democrats have a plan."

And then Katie starts asking Kerry basically if there was anything he liked about Mr. Pissy Pants' speech.
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stevedeshazer Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Feb-01-06 10:27 AM
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68. Bingo! n/t
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journalist3072 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Feb-01-06 07:56 AM
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23. What I noticed right away
Even before the interview started, was that little graphic they had that said "Do Democrats have a plan."

And then Katie starts asking Kerry basically if there was anything he liked about Mr. Pissy Pants' speech.
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Cobalt Violet Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Feb-01-06 08:08 AM
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24. And she wants to go into "important journalism"
Edited on Wed Feb-01-06 08:08 AM by Cobalt Violet
:rofl:


http://www.aarpmagazine.org/people/couric.html

What would suit her best, Couric believes, is an opportunity to do "important journalism. I have a real appetite for smart journalism that's not being done currently. I'd like to provide some type of forum for more intelligent discussion of the issues, so it's not just one person on one side and one person on the other and a lot of screaming."



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annabanana Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Feb-01-06 08:40 AM
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33. but it would be imporDant. . .mclelleanspeak. . . . . . ...n/t
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Straight Shooter Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Feb-01-06 11:55 AM
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90. You should see the print version of this issue of AARP.
Here's the cropped pic online:


The full image in the print magazine shows her lying on a couch, very nice sweater, but blue jeans that don't quite look right, with her legs up and her ankles crossed. "Girl next door" version of coquettish. The other image shows her with a very low-cut dress but she obviously forgot to put on her Wonderbra.

Katie wants to be taken seriously but she never does anything in the field of journalism that warrants such respect. F her.
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Cobalt Violet Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Feb-01-06 02:40 PM
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98. I saw it at work.
That's were I saw this lovely quote of hers. I think someone at work threw it out.

From what I remember the pictures were really bad.
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Mass Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Feb-01-06 08:09 AM
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25. The ultimate media goal: be sure that the story is about them
not who they interview. I dont think it is by chance.
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dogday Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Feb-01-06 08:12 AM
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27. For the money she has, he hair always looks like caca!!!!
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aaronnyc Donating Member (183 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Feb-01-06 08:16 AM
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28. I think she is just trying to do "serious journalism"
Couric wants to be respected as a serious journalist, and not just as some friendly face from the morning news. She wants to show that she can do a "Meet the Press" style confrontational interview, instead of the "Today Show"'s traditional soft-ball style of interviewing. Hopefully, Couric will continue to grill future political interviewees, and won't just stop with Senator Kerry.
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tanyev Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Feb-01-06 08:35 AM
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30. Did she have her little half glasses on?
She usually wears those when she needs to look "serious".
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seabeyond Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Feb-01-06 09:47 AM
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48. or when you are our age, to see....... n/t
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earth mom Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Feb-01-06 03:02 PM
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100. Naw. She wears them so people will "think" she's smart.
Edited on Wed Feb-01-06 03:03 PM by TheGoldenRule
We're way smarter than her-we know she's nothing more than an ignorant dumb-ass HO.
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tanyev Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Feb-01-06 03:15 PM
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101. The only time I ever see her wear them
is when she does "serious interviews" and she puts on her "I'm a serious journalist" face. The rest of the time she must see just fine.
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fujiyama Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Feb-01-06 08:29 AM
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29. She always struck me
as one of the most shallow and idiotic of all the morning day time show people. She's not a journalist. She'd be more suited as a talk show host discussing vapid tabloid gossip and nothing else.
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The Backlash Cometh Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Feb-01-06 08:35 AM
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31. Couric is a democrat, and probably a DLC Democrat.
Kerry is beginning to appeal to the activist core of the party, which is probably the one thing that DLCers will resist at all cost. They want our votes, but whether it's civil rights for minorities, gays and women, environmental or pro-choice issues, they'll only give lipspeak, like Lieberman. What the "Centrist" DLCers believe in are issues that can appeal to the right: Health Care, Social Security, Perpetual War.

I think it's time to put these issues out in the open. When someone like Couric comes out to speak, she should be asked if she is a DLCer.
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BlueEyedSon Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Feb-01-06 09:31 AM
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36. Source for "Couric is a dem" pls?
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The Backlash Cometh Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Feb-01-06 09:45 AM
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45. You're kidding me, right?
Edited on Wed Feb-01-06 09:52 AM by The Backlash Cometh
I won't deny you this pleasure. Go and do a google on Katie Couric and find out what the right has to say about her. Don't be lazy. Meanwhile, I'll try to find a source for you, but I doubt in these times, whether the information that was available on the net five years ago, is still available today.

What concerns me more about Katie, is that she may be taking the same route as Matthews and Russert. The DLC may now appeal to her, because it's all about the money.
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seabeyond Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Feb-01-06 09:49 AM
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49. you KNOW she is a democrat. could be the dem that attacks kerry
at every turn that we see on this board time and time and time again. but you know, ..... educated, northeast, female..... that she is a democrat. she was willing ot have a tube stuck up her ass? on tv to help people. repugs dont do that.
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BlueEyedSon Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Feb-01-06 09:54 AM
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53. Russert, Tweety, Couric are DINOS
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seabeyond Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Feb-01-06 10:11 AM
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58. oh denos dinos. i am tired of that one. i have been hearing a lot
of crap thelast two or three days. i ask what is the dino. yell dino didnt vote filibuister. they say hillary and biden dinos.... they voted for. they say kerry is, i dont see it. they say reid is i dont know

no one knows. just another bullshit line for lazy thinking as far as i know
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The Backlash Cometh Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Feb-01-06 10:23 AM
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64. I think people can change.
300,000,000 people in this country, and you really only need to satisfy the interests of 60,000,000. The Mainstream Media is trying very, very hard to influence the public to think like a right-wing white Republican, which is why you have the DINOs popping up one minute, and gone the next.
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seabeyond Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Feb-01-06 10:36 AM
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80. well, it would help if we didnt work so damn hard to put them in a box
so we could easily know how to think, without much effort or work. not a big dal to me. big deal to others.
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BlueEyedSon Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Feb-01-06 10:26 AM
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66. As lazy as not using the SHIFT key?
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Cha Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Feb-01-06 10:30 AM
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71. :)
:)
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seabeyond Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Feb-01-06 10:35 AM
Response to Reply #71
77. lol lol ya, wasnt that cute. a zinger huh. ooooo, you got me. n/t
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Cha Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Feb-01-06 10:37 AM
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81. Damn Straight! n/t
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seabeyond Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Feb-01-06 10:35 AM
Response to Reply #66
76. hey, i am lazy in keyboard manner, others lazy intellectually
i dont have a problem with that. call it like it is. go brother or sister. sometimes...............shhhhhhh, i dont use a comma or a period at the end of the sentence, it is the last sentence, after all. i kinda assume, end of post, you would get it without me having to put a period. sometimes, i just really make assumptions. sorry.
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txindy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Feb-01-06 12:03 PM
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92. She's not a Democrat. Not anymore, if she ever was.
Not everyone fits a sterotype. Kindasleazy Rice is an educated female and lives in the NE. So what? As for the outpatient surgery on TV, Couric did it for the ratings. Yes, repubs do things for money and fame. Her late husband died of the cancer her surgery was attempting to locate in her, but she didn't need to have the procedure done on TV. That was pure ratings grabbing, right there.
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Chiyo-chichi Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Feb-01-06 10:09 AM
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57. Who cares what the right says about her?
They still carp about the liberal media. Do we believe that?
I don't even give a shit if she votes Democratic or calls herself a Democrat. She has done a superb job of damaging the party's image by denegrating Dems and sucking up to * for the last several years. Ya don't need to do any research to find evidence of that other than watching the Today Show for 15 minutes a day.
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The Backlash Cometh Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Feb-01-06 10:33 AM
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75. Katie is changing.
I know why. I have this friend who is Republican, religious, family oriented, but doesn't have one clue about what is going on in the world. She's a very polite Tennesseer. More polite than most. But she knows that something is wrong because things are not going well in this country, but she has no clue where to go for answers.

Years ago she complained about Katie Couric and felt that Katie should not espouse her political views on television. Katie was very openly Democratic at the time. I think she may have even been opposed to the Iraq War, I can't really remember. The point is, that this Republican friend, wanted to be entertained, she wasn't interested in turning on the t.v. and being challenged. Liberals challenge people and it makes them uncomfortable.

I think it was the Today Show and all this right-wing woman wanted, was to be entertained, not educated.

But that was five years ago. Now she's asking poignant questions. She and her husband are very religious, the kind of people who believe that it is their religious obligation to listen to the elders in their church and obey them as if they are their own parents. But she just asked me last month as to what religious group was everyone complaining about? I told her Evangelicals and when she accepted that. I told her Southern Baptists, too. She started to fight it, because she is a Southern Baptist, and then I just let it go.

You know how they see me? They think I'm unhappy, because I know too much. They don't question what I know, mind you, just that I'm unhappy because I know it.
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Chiyo-chichi Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Feb-01-06 11:20 AM
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88. Well, WHY did she change...
and WHY can't she be objective?

You don't need to answer because I may become unhappy if I know too much.

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philosophie_en_rose Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Feb-01-06 03:53 PM
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105. Because the jocks are in charge of the school - Revenge of the Nerds Style
It's not cool to be a thinker or a liberal or a compassionate human being.

It is, however, cool to pick on the smart kids.

Just a guess.
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Strawman Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Feb-01-06 10:04 AM
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54. Of course, so she's going out of her way to avoid freeper flak
You have to spew RW talking points when you're one of those "liberal coastal elite" media types in order to prove you're an unbiased "professional." Oh and you don't want to offend the ignorant "family values" that you project onto those simpleton rubes in Middle America. They'd just be too stupid to understand, you know. :sarcasm:

How about being biased in favor of reality, Katie? How about having a responsibility to your viewers to tell the truth instead of feeling compelled to spew talking points to provide "balance" where it is not warranted?
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Chiyo-chichi Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Feb-01-06 10:31 AM
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72. That may be coming into play here.
And your point about "reality" is a good one.

It is called OBJECTIVITY, Katie.

Katie is more an actress than a reporter. I have a BFA and an MFA in Acting. Listen to her tone of voice when she asked Kerry about the poll that said that 63% of Americans feel that the Democrats have offered no better alternative plans. She could have asked that question in a more objective tone of voice, but noooo. She put a lot of emotion into it. The subtext, her inner monologue, and her objective were blatantly obvious.

She is a bad actress. Her delivery of that question brought to mind *'s bad acting on the "uranium from Africa" line in the SotU.

Her tone of voice aside, she CONSTANTLY talked over him.

THEN... at the end... she exchanged pleasantries and thanked him for sharing his perspective... AND KERRY LAUGHED AT HER!
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The Backlash Cometh Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Feb-01-06 10:40 AM
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83. You came very close here:
"Oh and you don't want to offend the ignorant "family values" that you project onto those simpleton rubes in Middle America. They'd just be too stupid to understand, you know."

I don't know if stupid is the right word. They just don't see the urgency is pulling off their sheep's clothing. Some of them are taught to obey authority and this is reinforced in their churches where they're suppose to obey their elders. They're not really use to going out of the fold to think for themselves.

But, if a conversation I had with one of these protected women is any indication, they are beginning to seek answers outside of their comfortable circles.
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Strawman Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Feb-01-06 10:44 AM
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85. I used the sarcasm tag for a reason
This, in my view, is probably Couric's elitist perception that motivates her to spew RW talking points. It's not necessarily my perception.
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The Backlash Cometh Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Feb-01-06 10:48 AM
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86. Oh, I wasn't criticizing you.
You just triggered something, and I was thinking out loud.
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Blue_Roses Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Feb-01-06 09:27 AM
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35. I saw that and it was horrible!
she butted in with "oh, surely Senator Kerry you don't blame the media,"...what a bitch. Igot on line to email her, but got derailed with getting the kids off to school. I've been brewing about this all morning.

Who the hell does she think she is? She's become very pompous in the last few years.

:mad:
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gatorboy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Feb-01-06 09:40 AM
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41. Isn't it funny how the Repugs main gimmick for years has been
Edited on Wed Feb-01-06 09:40 AM by gatorboy
"Blame the Lefty Media" yet Katie never has any trouble when they're on?

Didn't they have O'Reilly and Coulter on within a few weeks of each other? I don't remember Matt or Couric getting the rough treatment for their opinions and they certainly love to blame the MSM....
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linazelle Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Feb-01-06 10:24 AM
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65. I saw that smug retort too, I only wish Kerry had said
let's see what you cherry pick from this interview to run over and over--the strategies that I've laid out that you claim dems don't have, or my assertion that we get very little air time. Check. Mate.
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npincus Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Feb-01-06 09:34 AM
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37. what about the screen caption:"Do Democrats Have a Plan?"
below Kerry during his appearance, which is BIASED (and combative) as hell- it presupposes that Bush HAS a plan and we probably don't. So, how much airtime does NBC typically give Dems to present their message? (rheotrial) All they do is trumpet that we don't have one.

Just like the standard screen slogan "Fight for Iraq"... Fight "FOR" Iraq? Isn't that f*cking biased? Perhaps "Fight IN Iraq"... or "Iraq War"... NBC is TELLING us we are fighting FOR Iraq... this caption has a built-in explanation/ justification for our invasion of a sovereign country for a panoply of excuses served by Bushco. Who can doubt they are doing propaganda 24/7 for the GOP?
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seabeyond Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Feb-01-06 09:53 AM
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51. and you will hear it said on this board repeatedly by dems
where is the dem plan. i turned off new oct 2004. kerry finally had speech on msm... oct 2004. i think it was the 12th. less than a month before election, we finally got to hear full kerry speech on msm. i was so excited. listened to all the 20 mintues. i understood every word. simple words to me. he laid out iraq, health care, education and small business. pretty good for 20 minutes. boring to an extent, because it was a "plan". not sexy stimulating conversation. but a mere 20 minutes, surely as adults we could sit down for 20 minutes and the future of our country

the commentators after speech, boring kerry, dry kerry no plan kerry. hugest wtf..........

there you go
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gatorboy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Feb-01-06 09:54 AM
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52. Isn't it funny how they didn't mention Bush's "Addicted to Oil" crap?
I mean, wasn't that something the Democrats have been pushing? Wasn't that their plan? But Bush brings it up last night and suddenly it's his idea! :puke:
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seabeyond Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Feb-01-06 10:43 AM
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84. sittin in the panhandle of texas, headline in paper, americans addicted
Edited on Wed Feb-01-06 10:44 AM by seabeyond
to oil. my 10 year old was perplexed when he got back in the car. you know what they say, bush said........ americans addicted to oil????????

as hummer and suv block my view, creating real danger, and sucking the gas..... i sittin in a car, that conserves the best i can. always with wasteful driving on my mind.

yup. all the way to school we talked about this very subject.
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lpbk2713 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Feb-01-06 09:34 AM
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38. Poor Katie just hasn't been the same.....



since she had that camera shoved up her ass.


:shrug:


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rpgamerd00d Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Feb-01-06 09:35 AM
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39. Couric is an ugly Coulter - and that is SAYING something! :) -nt
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WahooJunkie Donating Member (215 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Feb-01-06 09:37 AM
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40. Transcript?
Is there a transcript anywhere, or can someone summarize?

Although, I'm sure it'll be up at Media Matters by the end of the day.
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Blue_Roses Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Feb-01-06 09:40 AM
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42. TIME FOR MASS EMAIL!
today@nbc.com
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Cha Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Feb-01-06 10:32 AM
Response to Reply #42
73. God..we just mass emailed about
her interview with Dean and Paul Krugman called her out in the nyt..http://www.topplebush.com/oped2503.shtml
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karynnj Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Feb-01-06 09:41 AM
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43. Summary of some of Kerry's points - from memory
because I'm a very lousy typist

On Foreign policy - Kerry said almost verbatim his paragraph that we're not safer and gave examples of problems. Katie counters with "You can't blame those things on Bush" Kerry repeats statement that Bush has not made us safer

Katie showed 63% of people thought Democrats didn't have clear plan - Kerry countered with using last night - Democrats had 10 minutes that few watched because the pundits were already analyzing Bush's speech. Katie, dripping sarcasm and shock, "You can't blame the press" - Kerry pointed out that without control of Senate, House or Presidency - we have smaller megaphone.

Would Democrats work with President on alternative energy-
Kerry: Sure, if it's real (SS reform was not reform and was so bad even Repubs didn't like)< alternative energy was a key issue in his campaign, Bush not proposing as much as could be done, listed several. Cheney let the oil companies write energy policy.

Bush doing poor job on education. I think he said 53% of kids not graduating. few have after school programs.


Overall comment - Kerry (like in other recent interviews) has learned to not stop when the (unfriendly host) wants him to. The combination of speaking with no breaks, his strong voice and his ability to still seem polite as he does this is cool to watch.

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Blue_Roses Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Feb-01-06 09:45 AM
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46. I think he did WONDERFUL!
He countered her spewing comments with strength and knowledge. I was so proud of him!
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stevedeshazer Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Feb-01-06 10:30 AM
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70. Kerry did a great job ande LAUGHED at Couric at the close of the interview
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WahooJunkie Donating Member (215 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Feb-01-06 09:45 AM
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47. Yuk.
I'm ashamed that **** shares an alma mater with me
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blm Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Feb-01-06 09:51 AM
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50. Thanks - needs its own thread, though -it'll get lost way down here. ;)
.
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Cha Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Feb-01-06 10:36 AM
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79. Thanks for that summary..
It's so encouraging to hear Kerry is learning to deal with these fascist mediawhores, too.

If mwhores like couric had their way..you couldn't blame anything on them or bush..what does that say about them?
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renate Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Feb-01-06 11:26 AM
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89. you did a great job!
Thanks for that synopsis!
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LittleClarkie Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Feb-01-06 12:11 PM
Response to Reply #43
94. If you don't mind, I'm going to go ahead and post this
as it's own thread.
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Xenotime Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Feb-01-06 09:43 AM
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44. How disgusting
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Guy Whitey Corngood Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Feb-01-06 10:07 AM
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55. Did she have her "I'm serious and smart" glasses? n/t
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kentuck Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Feb-01-06 10:13 AM
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60. It's an epidemic ! Katie has caught it ...
It's become a natural reflex for the media. Why? Who knows? But every Democratic utterance is met with skepticism or outright opposition by almost everyone in the media. That would be fine and dandy if they did the same with Republicans. But they don't. Even when their lies and distortions are so obvious and crying out for a response, the media lets them slide...
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Cha Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Feb-01-06 10:40 AM
Response to Reply #60
82. "Why?" I can make an educated
guess..GE(War contracts), corporate tax cuts, media monopoly, $$$20 Million a year salary..hmmmmm?
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Cha Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Feb-01-06 10:16 AM
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62. And after Paul Krugman
called her out in the nyt, too!

"A False Balance"

"So Mr. Abramoff is a movement conservative whose lobbying career was based on his connections with other movement conservatives. His big coup was persuading gullible Indian tribes to hire him as an adviser; his advice was to give less money to Democrats and more to Republicans. There's nothing bipartisan about this tale, which is all about the use and abuse of Republican connections.

Yet over the past few weeks a number of journalists, ranging from The Washington Post's ombudsman to the "Today" show's Katie Couric, have declared that Mr. Abramoff gave money to both parties. In each case the journalists or their news organization, when challenged, grudgingly conceded that Mr. Abramoff himself hasn't given a penny to Democrats. But in each case they claimed that this is only a technical point, because Mr. Abramoff's clients -- those Indian tribes -- gave money to Democrats as well as Republicans, money the news organizations say he "directed" to Democrats."




Much more..
http://www.topplebush.com/oped2503.shtml
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Chiyo-chichi Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Feb-01-06 11:18 AM
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87. Go here to watch the clip.
Edited on Wed Feb-01-06 11:18 AM by soonerhoosier
http://video.msn.com/v/us/v.htm

There is a link on the lower right side of the page. If it gets bumped, enter "John Kerry" in the
"MSN Video Search" Box.

It is worth sitting through to watch Kerry laugh at her at the end.
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Glimmer of Hope Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Feb-01-06 12:13 PM
Response to Reply #87
95. The tone of her questioning is not journalistic.
It is unprofessional and biased. The whole show is a joke.
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wordpix2 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Feb-01-06 04:05 PM
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106. the tone is COMBATIVE. Like it's Dems' fault there's division in Congress
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AX10 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Feb-01-06 12:09 PM
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93. Obviously, she wants to be the next Ann Bin Koulter.
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davidlynch Donating Member (461 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Feb-01-06 12:16 PM
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96. Look At This Picture of Katie--It Tells It All
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Ksec Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Feb-01-06 12:17 PM
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97. Katie Coulter. Great nickname .
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balzac Donating Member (157 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Feb-02-06 03:39 AM
Response to Reply #97
112. I had the same thought
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SeveneightyWhoa Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Feb-01-06 02:58 PM
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99. John Kerry kicked her ass...
Was he this good during his presidential campaign?

And Katie wasn't THAT bad, although its pretty clear she LOVE Bush.. from reading this thread I was prepared to be utterly pissed off, but seeing the video, I was only impressed by Kerry.
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LittleClarkie Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Feb-01-06 03:45 PM
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104. Some of the Kerrycrats saw him in person and said that yes he was
but that the media wasn't much interested in showing that.

Personally, it was the last two months of the campaign when he really started to kick major butt.
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wordpix2 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Feb-01-06 04:06 PM
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107. I was VERY impressed with Kerry, too--so sorry he was seldom like this on
campaign trail
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fedupinBushcountry Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Feb-01-06 08:30 PM
Response to Reply #107
111. So sorry
you depended on MSM for Kerry's campaign. People who really paid attention are not surprised at this at all.
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Tsiyu Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Feb-01-06 03:33 PM
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102. This strategy will backfire
The complacent sheep are slowly waking up. And when they figure out who lied to them?

Hey. These folks don't take betrayal well. Talk to the seniors impacted by **'s Pharm Scam if you don't believe me, Katie Coulter.

Way to go, Kerry!

AND CANCEL THE CABLE!!!!!! STARVE THE BEAST!!!!!!!

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0rganism Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Feb-01-06 07:52 PM
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110. Ever read "The Sheep Look Up" by John Brunner?
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pinniped Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Feb-01-06 03:44 PM
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103. I saw some of that this morning.
Edited on Wed Feb-01-06 03:50 PM by pinniped
That piece of shit Couric sounded like the whackos on hate talk radio.

She is filthy.

I only stopped on that shitty channel because I saw President Kerry talking.
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Roland99 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Feb-01-06 07:38 PM
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109. Holy Cow! I wasn't expecting this type of response!
:)


I guess we're all just a little bit PISSED OFF!!!
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upi402 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Feb-02-06 03:43 AM
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113. yes



EFFING PISSED
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muchacho Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Feb-02-06 07:14 AM
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114. she makes 11 mill
money changes everything.
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