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XXXXX DRUDGE REPORT XXXXX SUN SEPT 03, 2006 19:41:35 ET XXXXX BUSH, CLINTON, LIMBAUGH, CRONKITE TO LAUNCH COURIC **Exclusive** Plans for the opening week of CBS EVENING NEWS WITH KATIE COURIC have surpassed network executives' wildest dream: Presidents Bush and Clinton, radio king Rush Limbaugh and broadcast legend Walter Cronkite have all agreed to appear, a CBS insider reveals! A top network source says scheduling of "guest editorials" are still in flux. But the addition of Rush Limbaugh to the CBS EVENING NEWS is bound to generate maximum commotion and tune-in hits.

Walter Cronkite To Introduce Katie Couric On CBS News August 28, 2006 11:00 a.m. EST Maira Oliveira - All Headline News Reporter New York, NY (AHN) - Katie Couric is set to debut on CBS in early September as the "queen" of CBS News. To make her foray extra special, the former bubbly co-host of NBC's "Today" show-will be introduced on her first day on the newscast by legendary anchorman, Walter Cronkite.

In a high-profile interview coinciding with her debut as "CBS Evening News" anchor next week, Katie Couric will sit down with President Bush to discuss homeland security for an upcoming special, the network says. The CBS News special on the aftermath of September 11, titled "Five Years Later: How Safe Are We?," will air next Wednesday with reports examining the continuing threat of future attacks, the nation's state of readiness and how Americans are coping with post-9/11 fears and anxiety. Excerpts from Couric's interview with Bush for the special also will be aired next Tuesday during her first broadcast as...

CBS News Unveils New Couric Web Ad CampaignNew York, August 30, 2006(CBS) CBS News announced Wednesday a new internet-based advertising campaign to promote the premier of Katie Couric as the new anchorwoman of "The CBS Evening News". CBS News President Sean McManus made the following statement:"We here at CBS News - which, if you haven't heard, is the new home of Katie Couric - want to reach out to former audience members who, in a bout of confusion, seem to now prefer highly questionable internet based news sources rather than the traditional trusted evening news broadcast. We would also like...

"Talk about a waistline touch-up," an e-mailer says: The left photo is the official first-pic-of-Katie released by CBS at this year's upfront. (TVNewser posted it in May.) The right photo is an edited version of the same photo, from the September issue of Watch magazine, which is owned by CBS. (Here's the PDF of the magazine.)

In its last gasps a large animal is known to thrash around. Dinosaur fossils are often found in a classic death pose, with their heads bent backwards and their tails twisted up. I don’t mean Fidel Castro, who may be thrashing around in one of his first rate national health care beds right now, relying on the tender ministrations of a group of doctors feverishly working over him at the point of drawn Tokarev pistols and a few AK-74 rifles to insure medical accuracy and to lessen the chance of those dreaded "slip ups," which might foreshorten his colorful and...