Katie 'Oakley'? Couric Suggests Air Marshals Shoot at Specific Body Parts

Today Show/NewsBusters ^ | Mark Finkelstein

[governsleastgovernsbest]

Katie-git-yer-gun ping to the Today Show/NewsBusters ping list.

[Lurker]

Perky Katy is at best a low grade moron.

L

[A.A. Cunningham]

Yesterday Wolf Ditzer was asking "Why didn't they use a taser?" and "Why are they blowing up that luggage?"

[Capriole]

Katie has never even held one of those icky, scary gun things, because guns are so violent and she's such a nonviolent person.

[gridlock]

Shoot him in the foot. He will be so upset about his ruined shoe, that he will quite forget about the bomb.

[military cop]

Al-Quatie is without a doubt the dumbest excuse for a morning "anchor" since Bah-wah Wah-Wah.....


RLTW

[NonLinear]

Better yet, what would Katie say when the bullet passed through the perps hand, and killed the nice little old lady behind him upon lodging in her brain?

[goldstategop]

I agree with the shoot first, ask questions later philosophy. The air marshal averted a potentially castatrophic loss of life. He should get a medal here. As usual, Perky Katie is looking from the wrong end of the horse.

(Denny Crane: "I Don't Want To Socialize With A Pinko Liberal Democrat Commie.Say What You Like About Republicans. We Stick To Our Convictions. Even When We Know We're Dead Wrong.")

[kevinm13]

People on the Upper West Side are not "average persons". They are mostly wealthy and more often than not without children or spouses.

[STATING THE OBVIOUS - in case anybody out there didn't understand:] Katie is not living in the real world.

Thank God for the air marshall on that flight yesterday. Acting irrationally and threatening with the word "BOMB" is the reason the guy was shot. Putting him down was the only way to control the threat.

[nuconvert]

"Katie Oakley"

LoL. That's funny

[MinuteGal]

Just think, this ditz may soon be an EVENING anchor.

Leni

[apackof2]

Yup, liberalism is a mental disease

[YaYa123]

just goes to show how far TODAY Show will go to stir up controversy. Making Katie look the fool is fine, if it might possibly arouse public anger at the shooting.

This man was a saint, a community volunteer, he didn't deserve to die this way, dontcha know?

Katie's questions were absurd, especially since we'd heard them all yesterday, by equally ignorant MSNBC news babes.

[ken5050]

What he should have said was "..OK Katie..you and you daughters are on that plane...now do you want me to kill the bastard before he detonates the bomb, or try and wound him..?"

[Aquinasfan]

I think we need to open the lines of communication with suspected terrorists. I just don't think we've tried hard enough yet. Come on everybody, group hug!

[Gay State Conservative]

Katie....let's go back a few months to the London Underground.You clearly recall that Brazilian guy who security officials thought was a terrorist. Do you recall that he was killed with one or more headshots?

These security agents used headshots for one reason.... if you shoot him anywhere else,he still has the ability and opportunity to detonate his bomb!

Any other questions,K-K-K-Katie?

[Mathews]

"Center Mass of the target presented" That's what I've been taught and that's what I'll do if I have to. Basically it means aim for the center of the biggest portion of the bad guy that you can see. If he is facing me... I aim dead center chest. If he is bent down and charging... dead center of his bulk (head/middle of shoulder blades).

[Bahbah]

Do you think that air marshals should be taught to shoot at a specific location on a body?"

Well, the head sounds like a good start it the marshall is in a position to get a hit; otherwise whatever will kill quickly and certainly seems like the way to go.

[Dallas59]

Katie roots for the bad guys. She would love to see a plane blow up or crash into building killing hundreds or thousands, something she could be the FIRST to report on. She missed out on 9/11/2001. She was too busy morning Al Gores defeat.