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Katie Couric's Notebook: Endless Announcements
CBS News ^ | Feb.14, 2007 | Katie Couric

Posted on 02/14/2007 9:07:01 AM PST by COUNTrecount

Hi, everyone.

Yesterday, former Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney declared his candidacy for president. Last Saturday, Illinois Senator Barack Obama did the same.

Why was neither announcement a surprise? Maybe because everybody knows that both these candidates--along with all the others--have been running for months.

And yet, we --the media -- and they -- the candidates -- conspire with each other, and pretend that these announcements are actually news.

The game has been played every election since 1988 and it goes like this:

Candidates announce they're thinking of exploring--we cover that. Candidates announce they're officially exploring--we cover that. Candidates announce they're--quote--"pretty sure" they're going to run--we cover that. And finally, candidates announce that they're actually running--and as you'll see this week, we cover that.

It's a win-win for the press and the politicians...we both get the stories we want. But the public just gets information overload.

That's a page from my notebook.


TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: katiecolonic; katieklinton; katiekommie; katydid; rottennewsanchor
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To: BamaDi

Sela, age 19, was Alabama's 1975 Homecoming Queen.

Sela (top left) and teammates on the 1977 Varsity Squad

Crimson Tide cheerleaders of 1976: Debbie Purifoy, Carol Wheeler, Sela Ward, Sandra Whitehead, and Beth Troxell.

And today:


21 posted on 02/14/2007 10:17:41 AM PST by rawhide
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To: COUNTrecount

22 posted on 02/14/2007 10:22:22 AM PST by Yo-Yo (USAF, TAC, 12th AF, 366 TFW, 366 MG, 366 CRS, Mtn Home AFB, 1978-81)
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To: monkapotamus

OH MONK I saw that that was on last season ROFL LMAO


23 posted on 02/14/2007 10:22:50 AM PST by SevenofNine ("We are Freepers, all your media belong to us, resistence is futile")
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To: COUNTrecount
The game has been played every election since 1988 and it goes like this:

Candidates announce they're thinking of exploring--we cover that....after making up crap about the Republican and fawning over the Democrap as "Superman without a cape!".

Candidates announce they're officially exploring--we cover that...by outting all Republicans as Gay or even worse....Christians, and hail all Democraps as "this years messiah!" Candidates announce they're--quote--"pretty sure" they're going to run--we cover that...unless they are Republican. And finally, candidates announce that they're actually running--and as you'll see this week, we cover that...unless they are 'gay' republicans.

24 posted on 02/14/2007 10:27:15 AM PST by Bommer (Global Warming: The only warming phenomena that occurs in the Summer and ends in the Winter!)
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To: rawhide

any why didn't you post the world famous pix of her with Bear Bryant......I love that picture....


25 posted on 02/14/2007 10:31:45 AM PST by BamaDi (George W - my hero! !)
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To: COUNTrecount

BAD FACE LIFT


26 posted on 02/14/2007 10:40:39 AM PST by woodbutcher1963 (Lumber Broker)
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To: Yo-Yo

27 posted on 02/14/2007 10:41:05 AM PST by Tokra (I think I'll retire to Bedlam.)
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To: Yo-Yo

http://www.awfulplasticsurgery.com/


28 posted on 02/14/2007 10:42:50 AM PST by COUNTrecount
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To: I see my hands
>Her observation fails to rise even to the paltry level of insight that my posts do. Now, this is a sad day

Well, hell IMAGINE
if media types were held
to the same standards

serious Freepers
expected of themselves and
see in normal posts!

29 posted on 02/14/2007 10:45:41 AM PST by theFIRMbss
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To: woodbutcher1963

Katie has some type of Botox-induced Tourette facial syndrome.
Even if she was serving up Rush Limbaugh doctrine, she would still be visually unwatchable at this point.
the seeBS liberal tripe just makes it worse........

Sela Ward, OTOH is just peachy
JMHO - beauty is in the eye of the beholder


30 posted on 02/14/2007 10:47:34 AM PST by nascarnation
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To: COUNTrecount

31 posted on 02/14/2007 10:48:03 AM PST by reagan_fanatic (Every time a jihadist dies, an angel gets its wings.)
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To: rawhide

She has always been one of the more stunning females in Hollywierd. Very very lovely...oh yea...


32 posted on 02/14/2007 10:52:59 AM PST by oust the louse
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To: reagan_fanatic

33 posted on 02/14/2007 10:55:38 AM PST by COUNTrecount
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To: MPJackal
She'll be confined to mornings, if she wants face time. Or maybe the occasional puff-piece special on Hitlery.

One of the local talk station runs the Hightower lies, then Couric's vapid observations fifteen minutes later. I change the station or turn off the radio.

34 posted on 02/14/2007 10:57:28 AM PST by Calvin Locke
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To: BamaDi

35 posted on 02/14/2007 10:58:22 AM PST by rawhide
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To: BamaDi

36 posted on 02/14/2007 11:02:15 AM PST by rawhide
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To: rawhide
You guys got it all wrong. I love Sela Ward, always have,,, but the perky one looks more like this cutey:


Vampira

37 posted on 02/14/2007 11:05:46 AM PST by JoeSixPack1
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To: reagan_fanatic; All

You decide.
38 posted on 02/14/2007 11:20:12 AM PST by NCC-1701 (PUT AN END TO ORGANIZED CRIME. ABOLISH THE IRS.)
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To: rawhide

no no no....with the Bear - not with a glass of champagne....in fact, I think it was his very last game....


39 posted on 02/14/2007 11:23:58 AM PST by BamaDi (George W - my hero! !)
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To: rawhide
What a weird shadow she cast!!! Kinda looks like E.T.

She's one of my faves ever since Sisters.

40 posted on 02/14/2007 11:27:59 AM PST by MadelineZapeezda (Madeline Albright ZaPeezda, no doubt about it!)
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