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.
Ditto that.
You couldn't pay me enough to watch that commie witch.
May her ratings sink like the Titanic.
I DVR'd Katie tonight. After dinner and some other stuff I put it on. Fast forwarded to Limbaugh. Watched Rush. Hit delete.
I tuned in the last couple of minutes for Rush, he was good. He really ought to give TV another look. If FOX ever gets that national nightly news off the ground, Rush should be the anchor. But I spared myself the heart burn of watching Katie.
I know CBS.
And I know Katie.
I gave Rush my viewership, not them. And luckily these days they are so damn predictable I guessed correctly down to the minute when Rush's segment would open. You'd think they'd at least mix it up a bit, so that viewers like me could be trapped watching other segments.
"Ah have a nice lollipop for ya, Katie - wanna see it?"
He gets around with his talking points doesn't he? Here he is on CNN on Anderson Cooper 360 on November 29th, 2005:
KING: Vietnam and Desert Storm combat veteran Jim Van Riper supports the war and agrees that any talk of specific withdrawal timetables is a mistake.But recently Van Riper wrote his congressional delegation saying he could not longer support the Republican Party, calling Iraq a textbook case of how not to wage a war. Van Riper says the president is in a mess of his own making for standing by his Defense secretary.
COL. JIM VAN RIPER, U.S.M.C., (RET.): I'm more convinced than ever that Secretary of Defense Rumsfeld will be the Republican's Robert S. McNamara, when history is written that is the way he'll be viewed.
Katie Who???
Then the Pope would be WRONG.. Sharia law IS democracy.. since democracy is Mob Rule.. Tribal government.. Rule by one or a consortium of Mobs.. As is Monarchy and any other dictatorship.. The dictatorship of the proletariat....
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Democracy is the road to socialism. Karl Marx
Democracy is indispensable to socialism. The goal of socialism is communism. V.I. Lenin
The meaning of peace is the absence of opposition to socialism.- Karl Marx
I simply don't watch them anymore....none of the alphabets.
I tend to listen to Fox while I surf the news on the net.
I don't have to actually view child pornography to know just how vile it is, and what a poison it is to society.
Likewise, I don't have to watch the See-BS Evening Snooze to know that it is terminally infested with a left-wing, America-loathing, Bush-hating mindset, it starts at the top at Black Rock, and spews forth it's daily foul smelling bile into any home where the viewers are stupid enough to think that there is some kind of objective reporting going on.
The viewers who tune in to that garbage probably thought that Bill Clinton was the greatest president of the 20th Century too.
She does the news, too? I though she was just a colon model.
See my new thread: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1697499/posts
For all her promises of "innovative ideas," tonight's opening was the most egregious Bush bashing I can remember. The lame old video was hyped as bad timing for the Pres., who hoped his big war speech would be relevant.
Interesting to me, Charlie Gibson briefly mentioned the video about 22 minutes into the broadcast. I'll try him next.
Also interesting was CBS' lack of curiosity about Armitage's lame "apology". Oh, just an honest error (like Burglar's pantful). Nothing to see here. I kind of hoped that Scooter's nightmare would be mentioned. Or maybe Powell's complicity in silence.
I'm cable-deprived, so usually watch PBS, which will at least have two people of opposing views on a topic, and will play extensive clips from the president's speeches.
"He was a product of Vietnam," said retired Marine Col. Jim Van Riper, who lives in Jacksonville. "He saw what a disaster that was."Does this sound like someone who "voted Republican for year and years and years"?Van Riper, who served in Vietnam and the first Gulf War, believes the Bush administration erred by not heeding the Powell Doctrine before marching to Baghdad. And while he "reluctantly" voted earlier this month to re-elect the president, a cabinet minus Powell is now even less appealing, he said.
"Politics determines policy, and policy drives war," said Van Riper, 66. "Powell clearly understands that. He understood that winning the war wasn't the entire thing - that knocking off Saddam Hussein and the Iraqi army wasn't going to be the end of it.
"I don't think he's perfect, maybe too cautious. But he's a hell of a lot better than Rumsfeld."
"... he "reluctantly" voted earlier this month to re-elect the president."
[Also interesting was CBS' lack of curiosity about Armitage's lame "apology". Oh, just an honest error (like Burglar's pantful). Nothing to see here. I kind of hoped that Scooter's nightmare would be mentioned. Or maybe Powell's complicity in silence.]
Exactly. Will Armitage be charged with anything?
He's exposed on another thread as a professional Bush-basher. It was a set-up.
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