You can thank me later for the visual. <|:)~
Posted on 09/13/2002 12:56:35 AM PDT by Draakan
A time for healing, according to NBC’s Katie Couric, not for the reading of the Gettysburg Address or the Declaration of Independence. In the fifth hour of Wednesday’s Today, Couric also hit Senator Clinton from the left on arming pilots: “Of course a lot of critics have said this is insane, this is a ridiculous notion. Why did you decide to support that measure?”
At the top of the September 11 show, MRC analyst Geoffrey Dickens noticed, Couric scolded Mayor Michael Bloomberg about the then-upcoming “Ground Zero” ceremony:
“There will be some very moving silences, frankly, during the ceremony. But you made the decision not to have any original speeches. The Gettysburg Address will be read, the Declaration of Independence, later you’re gonna be reading the, of course, Freedoms, written by Franklin D. Roosevelt. Why that decision? Because some people might say, 'Mr. Mayor, you know, we need, we need words to help us heal. We need relevant words to put this into context and give us some understanding.’”
Two hours later, at just past 9am EDT, Couric’s colleague Matt Lauer took up the concern with historian/cut and paste from other people’s books author Doris Kearns Goodwin: “I’m joined in the studio by Doris Kearns Goodwin, a presidential historian. And Doris I’d like to ask you about the significance and, and, in your opinion the appropriateness of the Gettysburg Address being read by Governor Pataki on this occasion.”
Lauer at least countered her criticism: “But Doris some people think that the Gettysburg Address is a great example of, of a leader rising to the occasion and reaching for words to describe the uncomprehensible. And, and shouldn’t our leaders try to do the same?”
Just before 12 noon EDT, Couric hit Senator Hillary Clinton from the left: “When it comes to the government I wanted to ask you, you voted in favor of having guns in cockpits of airplanes. Of course a lot of critics have said this is insane, this is a ridiculous notion. Why did you decide to support that measure?”
Regards, Ivan
You can thank me later for the visual. <|:)~
Regards, Ivan
You are presuming she has anything resembling ideas.
Regards, Ivan
All right!! Celebrity Grudge Match. Be there!!
Whoah, Mamma!! Crack out the chitlins and the moonshine! We gonna have us a show tonight!!
Does anybody seriously doubt that if George Pataki had made an original speech the idiots on TV and The New York Times would have missed the opportunity to take him to task for injecting politics into this tragedy? Even if the speech was completely innocuous, he would have been vilified. And if the speech was actually good (not likely, with Pataki), the ensuing controversy would have completely overshadowed the event.
It's a shame that it has to be that way, but Pataki and Mayor Mike made the right call. I think the President's speech said what needed to be said and could scarcely have been improved upon, anyway.
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