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Couric: Breaking the Law is "the Way this White House Possibly Operates"
Today Show/Newsbusters ^ | Mark Finkelstein

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


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To: governsleastgovernsbest
Did he really say 'shocked at the scope of Couric's...'?

Katie Couric Shows Her Butt

Yes, it's one of my favourites. Was that really 5 1/2 years ago? 8~)

61 posted on 10/12/2005 5:53:59 AM PDT by real saxophonist (The fact that you play tuba doesn't make you any less lethal. Semper Fi)
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To: YaYa123

I thought the media was sore about this WH not being communicative. Now, they're saying there are leakers in the WH? Which is it?


62 posted on 10/12/2005 5:58:06 AM PDT by Carolinamom (Weeping may endure for a night, but joy cometh in the morning......Psalm 30:5)
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To: Bahbah

Ditto on Katie. Chris Matthews makes me just change the channel to Fox News.

But this chick Valerie Plame was not undercover or anything like that, right ? She worked for the CIA but at a desk job, for example. Is there an old article you can direct me to explaining what really happened here, her husband was investigating WMDs in northern Africa, right ? (sorry)

IMO, this was another big lie by the liberal left to put a bad mark on Bush Administration. I cannot stomach either of these people. Get the remote !! LOL


63 posted on 10/12/2005 5:59:27 AM PDT by citizensgratitude (Our Military, present & past, the Highest example of Brotherhood of Man and doing God's Will)
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

I failed to change from the local news in time
this morning and I had to hear voice for about
4 or 5 words.
BUMP


64 posted on 10/12/2005 6:01:10 AM PDT by WKB (If you can't dazzle them with brilliance.. then Baffle them with BS)
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To: Bahbah

I hate her.


She is a lib and loves her position to spout off her views. Hollywood loves her and so do many dumb americans.

I like you do not care for her one iota.


65 posted on 10/12/2005 6:03:10 AM PDT by JFC
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To: YaYa123; kcvl
I just have to wonder why Murray Waas, writing for National Journal, is the only "journalist" receiving these leaks.

My mind is going blank, but his name is ringing a bell

But I can't remember why

Gosh I hate getting old

66 posted on 10/12/2005 6:04:06 AM PDT by Mo1
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To: citizensgratitude
Is there an old article you can direct me to explaining what really happened here

Click back and look at the top of the page, then click on CIA LEAK (Plame). That will bring you up to speed.

67 posted on 10/12/2005 6:04:30 AM PDT by Bahbah ( Water Buckets UP!)
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

Just like Howard Dean -- no presumption of innocence until proven guilty -- unless you're Osama Bin Laden of course.


68 posted on 10/12/2005 6:09:26 AM PDT by Unam Sanctam
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To: governsleastgovernsbest
Still upset at not being raped by Bill Clinton, Couric continues with her anti-American, anti-Conservative diatribes. If only Bill had been able to satisfy her out of control libido, just think how much more pleasant this show might be.

My advice to the one and a half Americans still watching this pap: Turn it off!

69 posted on 10/12/2005 6:09:50 AM PDT by Doc Savage (...because they stand on a wall, and they say nothing is going to hurt you tonight, not on my watch!)
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To: governsleastgovernsbest
Why would anyone watch this piece of garbage program???

I have not seen the Today Show since the early 70s.
They had snotty, condescending host even in those days.
There was a guy named Heart, and it was when Jane Pauly
started. She was cute at first, but turned into a shrew.
I would not know this Couric bit** if she bit me.

The Today Show was great in the 50s.
70 posted on 10/12/2005 6:12:37 AM PDT by AlexW (Reporting from Bratislava)
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To: solitas
"isn't it time for her next televised colon exam?"

Well she just had a mammogram on TV. Seems that woman will do ANYTHING! She goes under the premise that it's to "enlighten" the masses... and who benefits most from Couric and her type of journalism... COURIC!!

Nana
71 posted on 10/12/2005 6:14:46 AM PDT by Texas Termite (Please pray for Texas Cowboy & Simcha7)
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To: Mo1

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1500795/posts?page=42#42

I had the same questions about National Journal and Murray Waas. the helpful link above is from cyncooper.

Others online said Waas has been around forever, and I found an old Slate article identifying Waas as "an investigative journalist".

Just heard on MSNBC, Judith Miller is before the Grand Jury already this morning.

MSNBC is NBC's echo chamber for Bush bashing. their two breathless bimbos led off the morning news with:

"His aides under fire, his judicial nomination in question, can the President battle back? Chris Matthews will be here ... ".

It sounded more like a soap opera promo than serious news!!


72 posted on 10/12/2005 6:16:28 AM PDT by YaYa123 (@ God Bless President Bush As the MSM and Democrats Seek To Destroy Him.com)
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To: governsleastgovernsbest
Amazingly I usually think of this Couric woman as being an active, practicing supporter of AlQaeda.

At other times I think of her as a motorcycle advertising model.

73 posted on 10/12/2005 6:22:20 AM PDT by muawiyah (/ hey coach do I gotta' put in that "/sarcasm " thing again? How'bout a double sarcasm for this one)
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

Couric's salary for her appearances should be considered DNC donations.


74 posted on 10/12/2005 6:25:40 AM PDT by The Ghost of FReepers Past (The sacrifices of God are a broken and contrite heart. Ps. 51:17)
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To: solitas
isn't it time for her next televised colon exam? I've got a rusty piece of good 'ol rebar right here...

Every time she opens her mouth, she gets a free colon exam!

Katie Couric is living proof that G_d ruined a perfect a-hole when he put teeth in her mouth!

75 posted on 10/12/2005 6:27:16 AM PDT by Itzlzha ("The avalanche has already started...it is too late for the pebbles to vote")
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To: YaYa123
Others online said Waas has been around forever, and I found an old Slate article identifying Waas as "an investigative journalist".

I'm finding a few interesting stuff about him and Sid Blumenthal

76 posted on 10/12/2005 6:30:05 AM PDT by Mo1
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To: governsleastgovernsbest
Guess sissychrissy is still remembering his smackdown from Peter King.

As for the empty headed couric. Ugh, we don't expect intellectual honesty from her. She's incapable of integrity.

77 posted on 10/12/2005 6:30:43 AM PDT by OldFriend (One Man With Courage Makes a Majority ~ Andrew Jackson)
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To: YaYa123
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.

On O'Reilly last night, the blowhard actually made a good observation. He says that, once someone goes to the grand jury more than two times, generally possible perjury is being investigated.

Now, who has lied about this matter?

Why, the two reporters in question, in claiming they did not have a release from their sources.

And this week, Rove testified before Miller did. If you are springing a perjury trap, who testifies second? IMO the person you are trying to trap.

So methinks any indictments will have nothing to do with the original allegation (because no crime was committed) and everything to do with perjury to cover up a conspiracy.

78 posted on 10/12/2005 6:32:12 AM PDT by dirtboy (Drool overflowed my buffer...)
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To: YaYa123; kcvl; Howlin

http://slate.msn.com/id/1000092/

True Love: An excellent conspiratorial moment at a recent Washington, D.C., party given for Salon magazine. Present were: presidential aide Sidney Blumenthal, newscaster Jim Lehrer, columnist Molly Ivins, journalist Christopher Hitchens, stunt man David Brock, and Murray Waas, the oddball investigative reporter who has been chronicling the machinations of the Vast Right Wing Conspiracy for Salon and the New York Observer. At one point, Waas, looking around the room as if to make sure noone was following him, snuck out the rear door into the unlit back yard. A few seconds later, Blumenthal slipped out the same back door to join Waas. They could then be seen having a brief, but intense, tete-a-tete in the darkness. ...


79 posted on 10/12/2005 6:34:06 AM PDT by Mo1
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To: Mo1
Waas writes for Salon and is a Clinton/Blumenthal crony that went after Kenneth Starr during the impeachment hearings:

Who’s Conspiring Against Whom?

The Mob President (See Corrupting the Press section)

"Waas" up?! Where are those 20,000 CIA documents?

80 posted on 10/12/2005 6:40:54 AM PDT by ravingnutter
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