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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: sopwith
you people watch this crap every morning?

Hell no! I rely on governsleastgovernsbest to watch and report.
81 posted on 10/12/2005 6:41:25 AM PDT by maggief
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To: moose2004
It's worse than that for me . . . .

She is my cousin

. . . by marriage only, but still embarassing.

82 posted on 10/12/2005 6:45:22 AM PDT by AnAmericanMother (. . . Ministrix of ye Chace (recess appointment), TTGC Ladies' Auxiliary . . .)
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To: governsleastgovernsbest
This venomous bitch is the same one who, when the search was ongoing for the Baghdad Butcher said on her show that "hopefully he (Hussein) escaped into Iran" I believe it was also she who wore black the day after the capture of the butcher was announced.
83 posted on 10/12/2005 6:49:01 AM PDT by Eagles Talon IV
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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."

This email concerning Rove's conversation to Cooper in which he said Cooper asked him about Wilson and in which Rove claimed Cooper and he first discussed welfare reform is NOT new. I am sure I heard of it months and months ago.

84 posted on 10/12/2005 6:52:26 AM PDT by Eagles Talon IV
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To: moose2004
I'm ashamed to say I went to school with her at the University of Virginia. Please don't hold that against me!

It's not your fault - the admissions committee made that decision. I'm sorry to say that Joe Lockhart spent one year at my undergrad school when I was there. That thought makes my stomach turn.

85 posted on 10/12/2005 6:56:53 AM PDT by iceskater ("Words are, of course, the most powerful drug used by mankind." - Kipling)
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To: AnAmericanMother

Oy, you poor thing! Family get-togethers must be tough.
You have my sympathies.


86 posted on 10/12/2005 7:00:48 AM PDT by iceskater ("Words are, of course, the most powerful drug used by mankind." - Kipling)
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To: AnAmericanMother
Geeez. That would be depressing. I feel for ya.

What would upset her applecart and bring a reality zing into her world of liberal muck?

What is the parent company of her network? Is she NBC? Or CBS? I cannot stand her and have not watched her even once since she interviewed Bob Dole when he was running for President and practically spit on him with the lizards and toads that fall along with her spittle.

87 posted on 10/12/2005 7:00:58 AM PDT by Republic (Michael Schiavo LIED about having a college degree on his guardianship application,)
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To: Mo1; frankjr; SuzanneC; McGruff; meema; StarFan

(I'm awful at remembering who might want a ping!)

Mo1's # 79 is just too delicious! And doesn't it make sense Sid Vicious would be in on all these "Rove did it" leaks that are suspiciously being reported first by Wass, then repeated as gospel by the MSM.

thanks Mo1.

Last night and today again, Chris Matthews gives credit to these leakers as being " lawyers familiar with the case." In the same sentence he says Fitzgerald is not leaking.


MSMBC bimbo second news hour promo begins with, "The White House anxiety continues to grow". (Does she mean since the first soap opera hour?)

MSNBC keeps replaying the Meet The Press moment when Tim asks Matt Cooper, "Was your meeting with Karl Rove the first time you heard Joe Wilson's wife worked for the CIA?"
Cooper replies, "that's correct". (I don't believe this for a nano second! Cooper would easily lie to Tim Russert, especially to protect democrats like his wife, or other reporters, all of whom had to know from way back, where Joe Wilson's wife worked.)

I would like it noted: I'm watching NBC White House reporter Bob Kur (sp), on the White House lawn make his daily Rove report. He prefaces it by saying, " according to the National Journal..", which makes it look as if NBC does not want to be held responsible for the information it is reporting.


88 posted on 10/12/2005 7:11:36 AM PDT by YaYa123 (@ God Bless President Bush As the MSM and Democrats Seek To Destroy Him.com)
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

Matthews isn't happy unless he can say "ScooterLibby" 10 times each day on his show..


89 posted on 10/12/2005 7:12:21 AM PDT by ken5050 (Ann Coulter needs to have children ASAP to pass on her gene pool....any volunteers?)
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To: iceskater
Oh, she's much too high and mighty to acknowledge us country cousins.

She doesn't really like to talk about our side of the family, we're so, you know, flyover country. Don't think we've EVER seen her at a reunion, even before she got famous. I think she's kin to us on her mom's side.

90 posted on 10/12/2005 7:13:23 AM PDT by AnAmericanMother (. . . Ministrix of ye Chace (recess appointment), TTGC Ladies' Auxiliary . . .)
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To: Republic

91 posted on 10/12/2005 7:16:05 AM PDT by AnAmericanMother (. . . Ministrix of ye Chace (recess appointment), TTGC Ladies' Auxiliary . . .)
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To: yoe
She champions the rapist and his enabling wife, and ‘tis obvious she is gearing up to defend the woman who would be king.

This should not be surprising either from the woman who said we can only hope Saddam escaped to Syria.

92 posted on 10/12/2005 7:21:20 AM PDT by ichabod1 (The Governments #1 Defense against Terrorism is Pretending It Wasn't Terrorism~!)
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To: YaYa123
As I posted on the other thread, Bob Schieffer (the new Dan Rather) may have leaked the democrats strategy with the coming conclusion of this investigation.

"This special prosecutor wouldn't be spending all of this time and not indict anyone".

Implying that he must indict somebody to justify his investigation.

93 posted on 10/12/2005 7:21:37 AM PDT by McGruff (The speculation continuessssss.)
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

Also alma mater of Ann Coulter, so that makes up for it a little.


94 posted on 10/12/2005 7:22:23 AM PDT by ichabod1 (The Governments #1 Defense against Terrorism is Pretending It Wasn't Terrorism~!)
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To: YaYa123
Murray Waas also seems to be good friends with Seymour Hersh

(snip)

Waas recalls a series of phone messages he received from Hersh the day Hersh broke a major story in the New Yorker: "'It's 8:30 in the morning. Why aren't you home like every other normal person in the world having your milk and Cheerios?'" Then another message: "'So what the hell are you doing that you aren't home to read my story? What do you have going on in your life that's more important than this? What do you even have going on in your life at all?' It's shtick," Waas says. "It's self-deprecation. And it's funny as hell."

95 posted on 10/12/2005 7:24:29 AM PDT by Mo1
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To: AnAmericanMother
Exactly ( but missing the lizards! ) - lol.

Katie Colic-primo prima donna, brain dead, spiritually dead and willing to slant anything and everything to protect a rapist and his ilk.

96 posted on 10/12/2005 7:24:42 AM PDT by Republic (Michael Schiavo LIED about having a college degree on his guardianship application,)
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To: governsleastgovernsbest
"Yeah, and Chris isn't it more than just Iraq, doesn't it speak about the way this White House possibly operates"

I don't understand what everyone is upset about. She said possibly. She didn't actually accuse the administration of acting this way, any more than Laura Bush was name calling when she said we were all possibly sexist yesterday. You are taking everything out of context.

97 posted on 10/12/2005 7:32:34 AM PDT by massadvj
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To: Republic
Well, I thought I was doing pretty well to find snakes and toads!

( . . . but I knew the old fairy tale ahead of time.)

98 posted on 10/12/2005 7:33:21 AM PDT by AnAmericanMother (. . . Ministrix of ye Chace (recess appointment), TTGC Ladies' Auxiliary . . .)
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To: TC Rider

LOL. "W-Hatuh" perhaps?


99 posted on 10/12/2005 7:36:00 AM PDT by governsleastgovernsbest (check out my posts on Today show bias at www.newsbusters.org)
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To: real saxophonist

LOL. And yes, I can attest that he did, because 'he' is 'me'!


100 posted on 10/12/2005 7:37:18 AM PDT by governsleastgovernsbest (check out my posts on Today show bias at www.newsbusters.org)
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