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Posted on 04/16/2004 4:55:54 AM PDT by governsleastgovernsbest
Katie Couric put together a double-headed gag-a-thon on this morning's Today Show.
First, an interview with Terry McAuliffe (AKA "America's Most Loathsome Man") - RNC head Ed Gillespie being allowed along for the ride. Then, an exclusive interview with Her Hillaryness Herself.
Consider the implications of Katie's opening question to McAuliffe: "How much does Kerry's early support for the war in Iraq hamstring his ability to criticize it now?"
Is she a journalist, or a Democratic strategist, worrying and game-planning how Kerry might work around his vote for the Iraq resolution?
The Loathsome One proclaimed that "Bush has had a disastrous week," throwing in for good measure that "he lied." McAuliffe must have a stipulation in his DNC contract: "you may not make a media appearance without accusing President Bush of being a liar."
After McAuliffe bloviated on interminably, Katie eventually deigned to let Gillespise get in a word edgewise. But rather than asking a substantive question, she totally took her cue from McAuliffe, and in the best tradition of the "gotcha" journalists at W's press conference asked "So you don't see this as a disastrous week for the President? Why?" [And when did W stop beating his wife, by the way?]
McAuliffe went on to claim that the "the talk about coalitions is a joke. Some countries have just two soldiers there."
I thought Gillepsie used a clumsy emotional tactic to respond. Rather than simply laying out the facts of the coalition, he said "I don't think the mothers of soldiers who have died [from various foreign countries] think the coalition is a joke." That strikes me as more of a Dem debating tactic.
Then it was on to an "exclusive" Katie interview with Hillary. It was an excerpt from a longer interview to be shown on a Dateline show.
Katie began by asking: "You have a lot of fans, but also a lot of . . . ." She paused, obviously uncomfortable at the prospect of suggesting to Her Majesty that any of the serfs could be displeased with Her Exalted Serenisssima.
Hillary therefore 'helpfully' suggested a word herself for those unworthies incapable of seeing the transcendent wonderfullness that his Her Rodhamness: "unfans."
The two then burst into laughter like two best-friend fifth-graders at a sleepover. Somehow I don't see this happening in Katie's next interview of John Ashcroft. Instead, the question would be: "millions of Americans despise and fear you. Don't they have a point?"
The laugh-in continued: "If Kerry called and said [imitating a man's voice] 'Hill, I want you to be my VP candidate' would you do it?"
Giggles all around. Hillary said the answer would be no.
Couric set up her next question by claiming in a voice-over that Hillary had softened her view on the VRWC. You be the judge.
Q. "Do you regret saying VRWC?"
A. "The evidence has proven that it might not be a conspiracy, because it's right out in the open. But there's clearly a network with a radical right-wing agenda." Some softening!
Then there was this for an upchucker: "Do you dislike W personally?"
"No, not at all. After 9/11 I told him privately I would do anything to help because of my concern for what had happened." [Guess your 'private' generosity of spirit ain't too private anymore, huh Hill?] "It's just that I profoundly disagree with him about his vision for the future of the country." I'll bet.
I must admit that the final exchange was a challenge to my faith in the Almighty. Because if ever lightning should have struck someone for a bald-faced lie, this was it. Yet Clinton escaped unscathed.
Q. "Some people say that you don't want Kerry to win because that would mess things up for your run in 2008."
A. "People make a lot of money imagining what I think. I just don't think like that. I'm very happy doing what Im doing."
Consider the audacity of her response. The most cold-blooded, scheming, ambitious woman in American political history flatly denying that she even THINKS about how the current political situation could affect her own burning ambitions.
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Thanks again for your report.
I suspect Hillary really believes in the VRWC. If a great many people despise you, that's got to be artificially organized by somebody, doesn't it? They can't really spontaneously despise you because you're actually...well...despicable?
She really should try to put a few pounds on her hips.
She still can get through doors.
The simple answer is, quite literally, that I don't. Since starting these reports I've been diagnosed with acid reflux. Why do I continue? Too dumb to stop, I suppose.
Hmm, would that mean that after three more Today Show reports, I'd qualify for a transfer out to Fox & Friends?
Hellery will always be able to get through doors provided one is willing to grease the frame and throw a cheeseburger on the other side....
Naw. Viewers of Fox & Friends are REMFs.
You are destined for the front, m'boy. Tell your mama you ain't comin' home.
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