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Couric Giggles with Hillary, Frets about Kerry's Ability to Attack W on Iraq
The Today Show

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.


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: New York; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: alkatie; hilliarylovefest
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To: governsleastgovernsbest; Mo1; Howlin; StriperSniper
"unfans."

Pardon me while I add this to my NEWSPEAK dictionary.


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."

Note to self: The VRWC is now the RRWA.


"It's just that I profoundly disagree with him about his vision for the future of the country."

Yeah There's a big difference between wanting a Socialistic society and a wanting to keep the Republic strong.



81 posted on 04/16/2004 7:09:17 AM PDT by OXENinFLA
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To: SquirrelKing
Setting up the sandbags in my living room as we speak!
82 posted on 04/16/2004 7:12:31 AM PDT by governsleastgovernsbest
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To: Hand em their arse
Please see my response to a similar point, at #43.
83 posted on 04/16/2004 7:13:58 AM PDT by governsleastgovernsbest
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

Paraphrased from The View:

Ann, have you ever seen two women going at it?

ANN: Well I saw katie Couric interview Hillary Clinton...

84 posted on 04/16/2004 7:17:04 AM PDT by SquirrelKing (Hi, I'm SquirrelKing, and I approve this message.)
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To: governsleastgovernsbest
Didn't see that, very good point in the way the question was posed...
85 posted on 04/16/2004 7:17:09 AM PDT by Hand em their arse
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To: SquirrelKing
Any excuse to display a photo of Ann Coulter is a good excuse.
86 posted on 04/16/2004 7:20:11 AM PDT by governsleastgovernsbest
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To: OXENinFLA
Speaking of Socialistic society ... I wonder if anyone has ever done a list of all the people Hellary worked for ..

like in a resume form one would give when applying for a job
87 posted on 04/16/2004 7:21:28 AM PDT by Mo1 (Make Michael Moore cry.... DONATE MONTHLY!!!)
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To: governsleastgovernsbest
Any excuse to display a photo of Ann Coulter is a good excuse.

:D

88 posted on 04/16/2004 7:24:23 AM PDT by SquirrelKing (Hi, I'm SquirrelKing, and I approve this message.)
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To: Mo1
She's had a job before?
89 posted on 04/16/2004 7:37:26 AM PDT by OXENinFLA
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To: governsleastgovernsbest
I still get nauseous thinking about that obnoxious special Couric did on Hillary during Clinton's first term, "America's First Lady." She tried to paint Hillary as the stereotypical first lady showing her adjusting table settings before a state dinner. Was this show before or after Her Heinous' attempted healthcare coup? Couric is just a PR machine for the DNC. Laura Bush is a real first lady and doesn't need some fake TV special to try and deceive the American people.
90 posted on 04/16/2004 7:46:52 AM PDT by BloomNTn
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To: texasflower
I've said this before. Every time I see Bill beezel Bubba Clinton or hear his name, I think of Nicholae Carpathia in the popular Left Behind series.
91 posted on 04/16/2004 8:04:19 AM PDT by showme_the_Glory (No more rhyming, and I mean it! ..Anybody got a peanut.....)
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To: showme_the_Glory
Anybody got a peanut?

Katie is a she-nut.

Whoops, sorry about that. Forgot about the no-rhyming rule.

92 posted on 04/16/2004 8:32:49 AM PDT by governsleastgovernsbest
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To: governsleastgovernsbest
There's a need here for my one, consistent prayer for the Clintons ...

That the Lord would render the Clintons, and ALL their minions, totally powerless and useless and nameless and faceless and voiceless and homeless and penniless, and that He would strip them bare before the world, such is their evil, leaving only their immortal souls, and it is for these souls I pray ...

For those talented FReepers with photo expertise, could we have some pic comparisons of Her Heinous ... methinks I'm seeing another alteration to her face. Thanks ...

93 posted on 04/16/2004 8:56:18 AM PDT by Pegita ('Tis so sweet to trust in Jesus, just to take Him at His Word ...)
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To: governsleastgovernsbest
GLGB you is da man for doing this day after day. I watch, I stomach it, but I don't know if I could journal it the way you do. I missed the massive gag-fest this a.m. since my husband and I went to an "apprentice party" (I know I know it does sound scary) and were up much later than normal so I slept through most of it. When is the Dateline piece with Hillary? I'm going to record that, transfer it to DVD and have some fun with the editing!!!!!
94 posted on 04/16/2004 9:50:05 AM PDT by gopwhit
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To: gopwhit
The Dateline segment is tonight at 8:

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/3032600/

Enjoy?!
95 posted on 04/16/2004 1:34:39 PM PDT by governsleastgovernsbest
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To: governsleastgovernsbest
God bless you for your service in watching that horsec**p. You're a better person than I am. I couldn't do it, at least without destroying my TV screen.
96 posted on 04/16/2004 1:39:48 PM PDT by Marathoner
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To: showme_the_Glory
Good comparison. Some charmed, others repulsed, but dangerous either way.
97 posted on 04/16/2004 5:22:24 PM PDT by texasflower (in the event of the rapture.......the Bush White House will be unmanned)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
Kerry looks like he's trying to hide a woody with his hands.
98 posted on 04/16/2004 5:46:26 PM PDT by Uncle Meat
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To: governsleastgovernsbest
This could be your best "Today Show" report ever.

Really enjoy these. Thanks (and keep it up).

You should ask for danger pay.
99 posted on 04/16/2004 5:47:35 PM PDT by Auntie Mame (Why not go out on a limb, isn't that where the fruit is?)
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To: mhking
"The photo op is over now,you can get your filthy paws off of me you male chauvenist pig"says Hillary to Kerry.
100 posted on 04/16/2004 5:51:12 PM PDT by Uncle Meat
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