Posted on 09/01/2004 6:06:30 AM PDT by governsleastgovernsbest
In perhaps the most stunning morning news show interview I've ever seen, Katie Couric just got through thoroughly trashing Michael Moore.
She began by criticizing the scenes in Fahrenheit 911 depicting a pre-war Iraq of children peacefully playing and weddings taking place. "Wasn't that misleading?" Moore claimed he only used the footage to show the kinds of people killed by US bombing, not to suggest Saddam's Iraq was a "utopia."
Next, Katie said that "many people say the Dems don't want you to be the face of the party."
"Who said that?" demanded Moore. "Well, Tim Russert for one," answered Katie.
She added: "let's face it, many people think you're a jerk."
An obviously hurt Moore responded: "but you don't think I'm a jerk, do you Katie?"
Katie refused to come to his aid: "well, my views aren't important, it's the views of the Dem party."
"But come on, Katie, you know me."
"I really don't know you very well."
"But, come one, from talking after the shows, etc. You don't think I'm a jerk, do you?"
"I really don't know you well enough to say that."
Finally, in a scene so amazing I could hardly believe my eyes and ears, Moore virtually asked Katie out on a date, and was shot down with a classic co-ed line.
Katie asked Moore if he'd be going back to the convention and Moore said he would, probably tonight and tomorrow. Then Moore added: "will you come with me, Katie?"
A shocked Katie replied: "No," then, incredibly, added: "I HAVE TO RE-ARRANGE MY SOCK DRAWER."
Yes, she actually said it. Katie made it clear that she loathes Moore and fears that as the prominent face of the party, he is dragging down her boy Kerry.
An absolutely stunning TV moment. Catch a replay if you can.
The Bush twins were booed, too.
The Bush twins were good yesterday. Anyone notice how Barbara and Jenna look nothing alike. Same thing with the Kerry sisters.
It's not that odd. One favors GHWB and the other favors Barb.
It could all just be an act for public consumption. I've seen it before. In public she treats him like trash, but in private, she's his personal perky love toy and rides him like a saddle.
Tell him about the Twinkie.
Ugly, fat boy asks cheerleader out for a date.
Predictable results:
Come on...somebody must have a video link or something regarding this exchange....Please I gotta see this!
Don't trust Snopes on their political stuff; they're lefties.
Our intrepid Freeper GLGB watches the Today Show for us.
I'm beginning to think more and more (no pun) that Moore is a Republican agent, and did all this to play the biggest snow job in history on the Dems. We'll never know, but Katie might just know something about him that we don't. She's in denial that she's just been had! LOL
Conspiracy theories rule!
Nice Ghostbusters line
Nnnnniiiiiiccccceeeee!
My wife expressed the concern last evening that if sKerry slips badly in the coming weeks the Dems might pull a "Torricelli" on him and replace him at the top of the ticket with Shrillery.
I wonder what would have happened if Alec Baldwin asked Katie to go to the convention?
I hear a lot about Katie Couric, but I really do not anything about her other than things said concerning her very partisan liberalsm on live TV. I am not even certain about what she looks like, but I might recognize her if I saw her picture.
That was fun to read, I wonder why it happened.
That's a big twinkie...
That's been the plan all along.
Actually, they will need a "Torricelli-Wellstone", since the red states will follow their ballot laws. HRC will then sue to have Kerry's votes counted for her (a la Wellstone votes counting for Mondale)
It's gonna be a mess, but they've been spoiling for a fight.
The time is now.
Hahahhaa, I love Ermey. That guy was sooo funny in full metal jacket. Also good in The Boys From Company C.
I call it the Bogdanovitch Syndrome.
Dweeby director/writer gets on the Hollywood A-List. All of a sudden the girls he could only dream about in high school are throwing themselves at him. He loses all judgement and proportion. He thinks himself a genius and starts treating the people who kept him centered like flunkies. It's all downhill from there.
Moore really began seeing himself as some kind of kingmaker, as the leader of the American Left since Jesse Jackson (Ever see A Face in the Crowd ? That was a great 50's movie where a Andy Griffith played a folksy kind of Will Rogers who is plucked from nothing, given a TV show, becomes a superstar, goes powermad, thinks he can pick the next president, alienates everyone around him with his newfound megalomania, and is ruined by it.).
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