Couric's Unintended Candor: War on Terror Began on 9/11

CBS Evening News/NewsBusters ^ | Mark Finkelstein

[governsleastgovernsbest]

by Mark Finkelstein

September 5, 2006 - 20:32

In the coming hours and days, my colleagues at MRC and NewsBusters are sure to provide comprehensive, in-depth analysis of Katie Couric's debut this evening as the anchor of the CBS Evening News. From the opening segment, whose message was that things are worse in Afghanistan than you realize, to an interview with MSM foreign policy fave Thomas Friedman decrying tax cuts, to anti-McDonald's crusader Morgan Spurlock, ahem, spuriously trying to pass himself off as an opponent of hype, it was all pretty predictable liberal stuff.

But Katie did - unintentionally no doubt - permit a telling moment of candor to slip through the MSM filter. Introducing a segment on Pres. Bush' speech today on matters of national security, Couric said:

"The war on terror began of course with the September 11th attacks on the United States."

"Of course"? Really? Did Katie Couric just acknowledge that despite the multiplicity of terrorist attacks on US interests during his administration - from the first bombing of the WTC in 1993, to Khobar Towers, the African embassy bombings and the attack on the USS Cole - Bill Clinton failed to recognize the threat and launch a war on terror? Is Katie really admitting that it took 9/11 - and George Bush - for the US to take terrorism seriously?

Sure sounds that way.

[governsleastgovernsbest]

CBS Evening News/NewsBusters ping to Today show list.

[ml1954]

Is Katie really admitting that it took 9/11 - and George Bush - for the US to take terrorism seriously?

She probably thinks WWII began with Pearl Harbor.

[avacado]

I watched Katie Couric tonight. It was as bad as expected. Total slam on Afghanistan and then a slam on the Bush Admin about how "the world doesn't like us," and then on to slam Bush himself. And of course she had to gush over herself about being the new item on CBS Evening News.

Her voice was trembling most of the time. That's what a person's voice usually does when they know they are being dishonest.

Bad move on the part of CBS executives. It's a dead show and came off like something from Entertainment Tonight or the View.

[unkus]

COURAGE, COURAGE

[stm]

"Fat, drunk and stupid is no way to go through life, Katie"

[YaYa123]

Katie's white jacket screamed summer, and made her look fat. Standing, sitting...Katie should sue her dresser. Her hair was flat, her lipstick too pale, and the heavy eyeliner made her look like a raccoon. I watched through the first two reports, both very very down...Afghanistan is going to hell in a handbasket. And who was that man screeching his unhappiness with life? I hate screeching men. Other than that I don't know because I didn't want to miss Brit's roundtable.

[Mo1]

"The war on terror began of course with the September 11th attacks on the United States."

Hey Katie

It didn't begin on 9/11

because of 9/11 we finally rolled up our sleeves and punched back hard

Those who fail to learn from history are bound to repeat it again

[rhombus]

It's a dead show and came off like something from Entertainment Tonight or the View.

Yawn, just another dino thrashing in the tar pit. Good thing global warming keeps that tar nice and sticky. /sarc

[governsleastgovernsbest]

Exactly.

[Enchante]

No, she thinks WWII began with D-Day and ended with the liberation of Paris, like in a movie she once saw..... she also thinks that the French resistance won it all with barely an assist from the USA and UK........ and she doesn't know that there was a vast Russian front or Pacific front or south Asian front, etc.......

[rhombus]

Someone should remind Katie News of the following:

1968 Robert Kennedy assassinated
1972 Munich Olympics Sep-5,1972 (Black September)
1976 Entebbe Hostage Crisis, June 27, 1976
1979 Iran Hostage Crisis, Nov. 4, 1979 444 days
1979 Grand Mosque Seizure, Nov 20,1979
1981 Assassination of Egyptian President, Oct 6,1981
1982 Assassination of Lebanese Prime Minister, Sept 14, 1982
1983 Bombing of US Embassy in Beirut6, April 18,1983
1983 Bombing of Maring Barricks, Beruit, Oct 23,1983
1984 Hizballah Restaurant Bombing, April 12,1984
1985 Egyptian Airliner Hijacking, Nov 23,1985
1985 Rome Airport murders
1985 TWA Flight 847 hijacked, U.S. Navy diver murdered
1985 Achille Lauro hijacking, Homacidal maniac lived in saddams Iraq
1986 Aircraft Bombing in Greece, March 30, 1986
1988 Pan Am 747 Flight 103 Bombing, Lockerbie, 100's murdered
1988 Berlin Discoteque Bombing, Dec 21,1988
1992 Bombing in Israeli Embassy in Argentina, March 17,1992
1993 Attempted Assassination of Pres. Bush Sr., April 14,1993
1993 First World Trade Center bombing, February 26th, 7 Killed, Hundreds injured, Billions
1994 Air France Hijacking, Dec 24,1994
1995 Attack on US Diplomats in Pakistan, Mar 8,1995
1995 Saudi Military Installation Attack, Nov 13, 1995
1995 Kashmiri Hostage taking, July 4,1995
1996 Khobar Towers attack
1996 Sudanese Missionarys Kidnapping, Aug 17,1996
1996 Paris Subway Explosion, Dec 3,1996
1997 Israeli Shopping Mall Bombing, Sept 4, 1997
1997 Yemeni Kidnappings, Oct 30,1997
1998 Somali Hostage taking crisis, April 15,1998
1998 U.S. Embassy Bombing in Peru, Jan 15, 1998
1998 U.S. Kenya Embassy blown up, 100's murdered
1998 U.S. Tanzania Embassy blown up, 100's murdered
1999 Plot to blow up Space Needle (thwarted)
2000 USS Cole attacked, many U.S. Navy sailors murdered
2000-2003 Intifada against Israel - 100's dead and injured
2000 Manila Bombing, Dec 30,2000
2001 4 Commercial airliners hijacked, 250+ murdered
2001 World Trade Center attacked, 2800+ murdered
2001 Flight 93 murders
2001 Pentagon attacked, 180+ murdered
2002 Reporter Daniel Pearl, kidnapped and murdered
2002 Philippines American missionary, Filipino nurse killed
2002 July 4, El Al attack Los Angeles LAX, several murdered
2002 Bali bombing - 200 dead, 300 injured
2002 Yemen, French Oil Tanker attacked
2002 Marines attacked / murdered in Kuwait
2002 Washington D.C. sniper
2002 Russian Theater attacked, 100+ dead
2002 Nigerian riots against Miss World Pageant, 200 dead, dozens injured
2002 Mombasa Hotel Attacked, 12 dead, dozens injured
2002 Israeli Boeing 757 attacked by missiles, fortunately no one injured
2002 August Hotel bombing in Jakarta, Indonesia. 12 dead, dozens injured.
2003 Rusian concert bombing
2003 Phillipines airport and market bombing
2003 Foiled SAM plot in the USA
2003 UN Baghdad HQ Bombing
on and on and on and on it goes .........

[unkus]

Yawn, just another dino thrashing in the tar pit. Good thing global warming keeps that tar nice and sticky. /sarc
I love it.

[governsleastgovernsbest]

Well done, thanks for posting.

[Vision]

This is why since day one of all this I've said she'd fail. She's in over her perky little head.

[demkicker]

"Of course"? Really? Did Katie Couric just acknowledge that despite the multiplicity of terrorist attacks on US interests during his administration - from the first bombing of the WTC in 1993, to Khobar Towers, the African embassy bombings and the attack on the USS Cole - Bill Clinton failed to recognize the threat and launch a war on terror? Is Katie really admitting that it took 9/11 - and George Bush - for the US to take terrorism seriously?

Sure sounds that way.

Don't get excited. She and her CBS cohorts are already mixing their Bash Bush Brew for tomorrow's news cast. Move along and stop being a fly in their ointment. ;-)

[samadams2000]

Perky Liberal Deathcamp Vamp will never sell.

[Mo1]

btw .... Did Perky Katie happen to mention what aniversay today is???

Munich massacre remembered
http://www.abc.net.au/news/indepth/featureitems/munich.htm

[xp38]

She wore white? I look forward to her wearing black if the pubs hold the senate and the house this november.