Posted on 08/29/2006 11:28:48 PM PDT by Aussie Dasher
In a high-profile interview coinciding with her debut as "CBS Evening News" anchor next week, Katie Couric will sit down with President Bush to discuss homeland security for an upcoming special, the network says.
The CBS News special on the aftermath of September 11, titled "Five Years Later: How Safe Are We?," will air next Wednesday with reports examining the continuing threat of future attacks, the nation's state of readiness and how Americans are coping with post-9/11 fears and anxiety.
Excerpts from Couric's interview with Bush for the special also will be aired next Tuesday during her first broadcast as anchor of the CBS Evening News, the network said.
Couric left NBC's top-rated morning program "Today" after 15 years as co-host to join CBS as the permanent replacement for Dan Rather, who stepped down as anchor last March under criticism for his role in a botched report about Bush's military service.
Couric is the first woman named as the solo anchor of a major U.S. network evening newscast, and CBS has mounted an unprecedented publicity campaign to promote her arrival.
A CBS News spokeswoman also said on Monday that Walter Cronkite, who served as anchor from 1963 to 1981, had recently taped a voice-over for the opening introduction of the newscast -- "This is the CBS Evening News ...," but the network had not decided whether to use it.
She said there were no plans for Cronkite to appear in studio with Couric.
Couric has said she has spoken with Cronkite about her upcoming role as the new face of the Evening News, and she would seem to gain an added measure of credibility by having the legendary journalist once known as "the most trusted man in America" introduce her newscast.
I only wish I could have summoned the Viking Kitties in time. BTW, the apology was not for abusing the troll, but for any offense to the FReepers in the way I went about it.
LOL!
This may be a good development. Katie will not dare get in his face. That is going to make the whackjob left very angry. They will turn her off, and that will hurt Hillary. Katie is in that chair for two reasons: big bucks and to help escort Hillary into the White House.
This partisan #%*! was on the verge of tears when it was announced that George W. Bush won on election night back in 2000. I stayed up that night.
Then she wore black on the Today show (in mourning?).
Screw this non-objective talking head. Might as well sit down with Michael Moore, at least people agree where he is coming from and that he plays fast an loose in the editing room.
Katie's in the chair because the racists at Viacom would never put an asian woman in the anchor chair.
This is one "interview" I will NOT watch. The station that tried to destroy him with bogus "documents" and he goes to them. *shaking head*
Why not just go back to another Scott King funeral. grrrrrr
Couric was a perky a--hole far earlier in her career, also.
Back in 1988, when she was still fairly new on TODAY, she interviewed the POTUS 41, the President's father, when he was running. She transformed from the her royal perkiness into an attack kitty. She did a lousy job trying to trap POTUS 41 but my wife, who always enjoyed TODAY back then, wondered what medication she was on, or how bad her PMS was. Ever since we have not watched her royal perkiness. But her leftist tendencies have gotten far worse and she fully came out of the closet as a confirmed liberal.
This woman is a rabid Bush hater. Why would President Bush would want to give her an interview is beyond me.
Wasn't she crying during the election coverage when Gore lost? Probably hates GWB even more now than then. I don't understand why he'd give her an interview either. The sooner she sinks into oblivion the better.
I'd love to see him do an interview with HGTV or something of that nature. :) Talk about sticking a barb in the eye of your adversary... that would be great!
this is that Evil Genius Rove, I can smell his handiwork all over this!!!!
kidding aside, i think it's a good move. katie is so obviously biased that everyone but the media whores she works with/for knows this. Getting "the Big Fish" is a scoop of sorts; getting the most Trusted Communist in America to introduce her is as good a stamp of approval as was Michael Moore's "look who's next to me" moment at the dhimmi-crat national convention with the peanut farmer/manchurian candidate Carter.
there'll be thorny moments to come, that's for sure; katie will have the resources of a major media machine behind her (maybe underneath and on top, too) ever brooding, ever looking for it's next Bush was AWOL/memos moment... and ever not. quite. able. to cover it's brazen anti-Conservative - ergo anti-American - bias.
Wunderkinder Katie fits the bill; we know what she does, what she believes, and how what she believes seeps into every word she paints and effuses out of every pore she has...
This is no change from CBS; quite the contrary, it's more of the same, except now it's a girl up in the hot seat, so we'll have to a little extra careful whenever we criticize her. Think of it as Ann Coulter's "doctrine of liberal infallibility"-lite --- you won't be reading any "...her moral authority is absolute..." bullshit lines like that Dowd broad from the slimes when describing how criticism-proof Cindy Sheehan was about katie, but it will be close.
...And it will also hasten the slide to irrelevance that CBS has experienced these past 15 years. Oh, they'll try to cover it up; they've got all the glitzy, shiny TV guns and cannons to distract us with noise, shows, etc..., but they're diminishing. And they know it, they just don't know how to stop it (couric wasn't the answer; a Brit Hume on the other hand??? - neither we nor CBS will ever know now...)
...And the so-far 52%-and-growing part of America which continues to grow because of the Roe Effect death knell the liberals adhere to... will continue to note this bias, and continue to trend republican... even as the self-styled elitist voices get shriller in response.
What a Rovian sense of irony!
All Bush is doing by granting her this interview, is granting her credibility. He has always been gracious to his critics and opponents and will not get into the same gutter with her when she starts taking cheap shots and low blows.
Frankly, I think he should have come up with a "scheduling conflict" to avoid ever doing an interview with her.
You people are missing the point here, big time! Bush does the interview because he knows everyone is watching it to see how Katie handles herself. She either is gracious and respectable, or childish and arrogant, either way she'll make Bush look GOOD!
How cluless can one be? The President granted her an interview because he knows people will watch and it's a chance for him to get a message out. Furthermore, how would it look to people if he said no to the FIRST female head anchor in history of the big three network news if he denied her?
Bush is all about being COMPASSION and maturity (or did you miss that about him?)and showing he's not petty. It would be a missed opportunity for him to pass up this interview. The man has been President since 2000 and you don't know him any better than that? He hasn't changed...
No matter what Republicans do, the MSM will portray them badly. The only way a conservative can get good media coverage is if they trash a fellow Republican, talk up democrat talking points, or come out against President Bush. What's a good solution?
Then she wore black on the Today show (in mourning?).
Yeah. I remember. She looked like she was having another colonoscopy, only this time no anesthesia, and with a barbed wire 'scope...
The good solution is not being afraid of them and giving good interviews. Yes, it's an unfair playing field, but so what? It always will be for some. The best we can do is take opportunities and show up and beat them, the way Ann Coulter and David Horowitz do. We have to stay in the arena.
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