Posted on 10/12/2005 4:53:45 AM PDT by governsleastgovernsbest
by Mark Finkelstein
October 12, 2005 - 07:23.
Does the MSM sense blood in the Bush administration water? That seems to be the case, judging from the breathtaking accusation that Katie Couric just leveled at it.
The context was Couric's interview of Chris Matthews on the subject of the investigation by special prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald into possible leaks in the Valerie Plame affair.
Matthews was hostile enough, musing whether the Bush administration "in defending themselves against the charge we went to war for a corrupt or bogus reason, that there wasn't any weaponry, a deal with nuclear weapons, did they break the law?"
But that evidently wasn't venomous enough for Katie. She cut Matthews off peremptorily, interjecting:
"Yeah, and Chris isn't it more than just Iraq, doesn't it speak about the way this White House possibly operates" risibly seeking to distance herself from what was clearly her own notion by tacking on at the end of her question "in the minds of some?"
Matthews, perhaps shocked at the scope of Couric's charge, turned the matter back to the specific question at hand - whether the Bush administration, in seeking to discredit Joe Wilson, broke the law.
But just in case there were any doubts, now we know: Katie Couric, the most widely-watched, most powerful morning talk show host in America, views the President as heading a rogue administration whose modus operandi is to break the law. Stunning
While turning through the channels I saw Chris Matthews talking about underlings doing questionable things so that those above them aren't involved. He said he saw it happen all the time when he was in Washington. He was attempting to attack the Bush administration, but I thought that it was funny that what he really did was admit complicity to questionable practices on a daily basis.
She cut Matthews off peremptorily, interjecting WOW THAT must have been a feat!
isn't it time for her next televised colon exam? I've got a rusty piece of good 'ol rebar right here...
Today Show/NewsBusters ping.
Katie makes breathtaking charge against Bush administration.
pigs could possibly fly.
Is that really news? Haven't we known that (her view) for some time?
I hate her.
Matthews said, from the beginning, Rove and Livvy were suspected of being involved with the leak about Wilson's wife being CIA, "so really, nothing's changed", he said, "except what we've learned from these leaks we get, from lawyers involved in the case".
Matthews also said, What we know now that we didn't know back then, is Karl Rove's email to Steven Hadley, and Judith Miller's notes.
Nasty!
I'm sorry you had to endure even a second of that hag. It is useful to report on how sad and useless she has become. Not that she was much more before.
NBC should cut the snake off at the head and get rid of Katey Couric.
Perhaps. But still, I was stunned to hear her explicitly mouth the words.
and she never once noticed this about the last administration?
No, not really - I'm _leaving_ that big mushroom-shaped plastic cap on th' end...
Is the Today show really a news show? I thought it was just an entertainment show now where they do silly stunts, like Matt Lauer dressing up in drag, to delight their clueless audience outside.
If that's true, we are doomed.
She's a Barking Moonbat.
Don't you just know she lies--the last administration in her warped view is clean as a whistle--what a phony joke she and her counterparts in the MSM are--a truly sad, pitiful, joke.
"leaks from lawyers involved in the case", said Matthews.
I just have to wonder why Murray Waas, writing for National Journal, is the only "journalist" receiving these leaks. Everything important that's been leaked recently, are first reported by Wass, and only after he writes about the leaks, do the MSM use the information as if it's valid, as if it's their own revelations.
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