Posted on 09/07/2006 5:36:41 PM PDT by Recovering_Democrat
Well, I gave Katie a chance...an honest chance. I watched her debut and I watched her tonight, since Rush was on.
Not a damn thing has changed except the gender of the person in the anchor chair.
The leftist drivel is a joke.
Tonight, perky Katie apparently believes a 5 or 6 year old video tape of Useless never-bin-Laiden is a triumph of terror over Bush's liberation of 50 million Muslims in Afghanistan and Iraq. The BIG LEAD of the night was something like "On a day when the President says we're safer in the war on terror, Al Qaeda strikes back--with a video!"
Then some clown named Jim Axelrod proceeded to give us all sort of "See B.S. poll" numbers showing how the war against Al Qaeda is a failure. In other words, instead of describing recent successes in Iraq or Afghanistan, he pounded away at whatever bad news his pollsters could find.
Next up was some other 'reporter' in Jacksonville North Carolina who just happened to find someone he described as a "Christian NRA member who is a retired marine colonel" (I think his name was Van Cliburn or something...) who DETESTS George W. Bush. Of course, this guy voted Republican for YEARS AND YEARS AND YEARS but now he's going to vote the "Straight Democrat Ticket".
Even the people who supported the war were made to look like idiots or know-nothings or people not paying attention.
I Tivo'd through the middle of the newscast to hear Rush Limbaugh, who gave a decent commentary, and then I deleted the show.
Katie, you said you wanted to do a new kind of newscast. Horse crap. You and your producers are not journalists. You're house organs, wittingly or not, for the Democrat party and its operatives.
You had a chance to bring someone back to network news. Your bias blew it. Buh bye.
Next show, Katie and Baghdad Bob, singing a duet.....
I haven't tuned in yet and probably never will.
I will never watch her.
Well, at least you are open-minded enough to have given her a chance.
I'm not to generous. Katie is only a few places below Jane Fonda on my refuse-to-watch list.
It's a game to them. This is a result of the Entertainment Tonighting of the news--it's all made-up antagonism and "human interest" and personalities.
Katie Couric hangs with the same crowd she's reporting on.
If she were unbiased, she would not have found the release of old videotape showing something we already know so interesting, but it's something they can SHOW, and if it's VISUAL, it's news. (Think of how many horrible events happen in a day; the ones that get reported on are those with cool video.)
Why are you watching the "news" with this moron who should be serving pizza slices at a local school lunch program, or showing houses?
Maybe she is too perky for the evening news.
Ummm...well, yes, it's been a long time.
Did the interview with Joe Paterno air? I got an email from Penn State saying he was scheduled to be on tonight, but didn't watch.
Yeah, pollsters are reliable:
Pollster Pleads Guilty to Fraud: (DataUSA and Viewpoint USA)
I watched CBS News tonight to see Rush, but the lead-up was digusting - first with the anti-war segment from Jacksonville NC, then Katies' own introduction of the "opinionated" Rush ... it seemed like I was watching an entertainment program, not a news program.
I wonder who this Van Cliburn guy is? I suspect he's a dem contributor.
CBS should just dump Katie and hire Baghdad Bob. At least he's entertaining.
Unfortunately, while they can photoshop her body to make it appear smaller, they can't photoshop her IQ to make it larger. An intellectual nonentity who should stick to her previous venue. That said, she is no worse than the other two (namely, abysmal).
I wish the State Department would have X'd out all the captured and dead terrorists shown in the video before releasing it. Aired in that manner it would have been an effective tool to put OBL in his place and would have trumped the 'Rats from using it against our leaders.
At least it would UP the show's ratings, I'm sure.
I'm telling you. It's a plot to kill off all the conservatives with high blood pressure first. There is no telling what conservative group they will go after next.
:-)
PS - You're a better man than me if you sat through 5 seconds of the perky one.
Lead story: President Bush's speeches about the "War on Terror" is being eclipsed by a new tape of Osuma/Usama Bin Laden"....Yadda, yadda...yadda.
Sure Katie, truth is always being eclipsed by network news jerks who would like to wear bhurkas and bow to the east. We're gettin' there Katy with your help!
I'm beginning to find this garbage downright treasonous. They're winning the propaganda war on the cheap with network help.
"The pen is mightier than the sword" The TV and Internet is mightier than the pen!
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