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Katie Couric: 'Hopefully' Saddam Made it to Syria (Barf Alert)
NewsMax.com ^
| Thursday April 10, 2003; 1:32 p.m. EST
| Carl Limbacher and NewsMax.com Staff
Posted on 04/10/2003 10:46:11 AM PDT by sr4402
Is perky "Today Show" host Katie Couric actually rooting for Saddam Hussein to survive U.S.'s military's repeated attempts to take him out?
It sure sounded that way during a report she delivered on the fate of the Baghdad Butcher yesterday.
While chatting about Saddam with NBC's Pentagon correspondent Jim Miklaszewski, the multi-million-dollar morning host asked whether U.S. officials had been able to "confirm reports he was taken to Tikrit, and then Mosul, and then hopefully to Syria."
Hopefully?
Surely Ms. Couric didn't mean to suggest that she actually hoped the brutal dictator would escape justice by fleeing to another terrorist-sponsoring state.
Or did she?
The full exchange went like this:
COURIC: Mik, we only have a few seconds left. But quickly, anymore information about Saddam Hussein's fate?
MIKLASZEWSKI: Not at all. Wild speculation. But U.S. officials insist they still don't know what happened when--after they bombed that site in western Baghdad earlier this week.
COURIC: So they haven't been able to confirm reports he was taken to Tikrit, and then Mosul, and then hopefully to Syria.
MIKLASZEWSKI: That--that's very unlikely considering the kind of U.S. forces that are arrayed up there.
COURIC: OK, Mik. Thanks. [End of Excerpt]
NewsMax thanks an alert reader for pointing out Couric's outrageous comment, which an NBC News transcript confirmed.
(Excerpt) Read more at newsmax.com ...
TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Front Page News; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: aidandcomfort; axissally; baath; baathism; baathist; celebritytyrants; couric; evil; freudianslip; hopefully; iraq; katiecolonic; katiecouric; mediabias; mediaelitehatesusa; saddam; syria; terror; tokiorose
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posted on
04/10/2003 10:46:11 AM PDT
by
sr4402
To: sr4402
no, that interpretation is a stretch.
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posted on
04/10/2003 10:47:32 AM PDT
by
RJCogburn
(I mean to......)
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To: governsleastgovernsbest
ping
To: sr4402
I hope he turns up in Syria too.
heh-heh
To: sr4402
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posted on
04/10/2003 10:49:19 AM PDT
by
thoughtomator
(I predict hysteria at the UN)
To: sr4402
I think we would be guilty of the left-wing rhetoric if we try to make too much of theis comment - it's just as likely that she was discussing what a plan would entail and any plan would have to "hopefully end in Syria"...
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posted on
04/10/2003 10:49:27 AM PDT
by
trebb
To: RJCogburn
Yeah, it was probably mere stupidity, incompetence, and infelicity with the English language.
To: sr4402
Im kind of hoping he "got away", too. Im sure that one of our allies would gladly beat all kinds of information out of him when he was subsequently caught.
To: The Hon. Galahad Threepwood
Or a Freudian slip.
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posted on
04/10/2003 10:50:56 AM PDT
by
mewzilla
To: RJCogburn
COURIC:
So they haven't been able to confirm reports he was taken to Tikrit, and then Mosul, and then hopefully to Syria. Sure looks like her boo-boo to me. Perky Katie joins Arnett in the trash can.
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posted on
04/10/2003 10:51:08 AM PDT
by
sr4402
To: DigiLinus
Katie is an affirmative action employee for two reasons.
1. Perky dumb girl
2. Sympathy for dead husband girl.
To: sr4402
"What's the frequency, Rather" probably told her about his dreamy eyes (*sigh*)
To: sr4402
the multi-million-dollar morning hostess They pay the perky little socialist millions while David Bloom's family passes the hat to educate his children.
Does anyone else have a problem with this?
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posted on
04/10/2003 10:51:35 AM PDT
by
TC Rider
(The United States Constitution © 1791. All Rights Reserved.)
To: RJCogburn
"...and then hopefully to Syria." I don't see that interpretation as being a "stretch" at all. Perhaps I am too literal-minded, but I tend to believe that people mean exactly what they say- especially in unguarded momemnts (Perky Katie was apparently under some time pressure to get these final comments/questions in).
I don't really see any OTHER possible interpretation, than that she is hoping that Sadam escaped to Syria.
To: sr4402
And NOT WORTH A PLUG NICKLE.
My apologies to plug nickles.
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04/10/2003 10:51:54 AM PDT
by
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To: sr4402
Isn't Couric an Arabic name?
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posted on
04/10/2003 10:52:11 AM PDT
by
dfwgator
To: CROSSHIGHWAYMAN
I think she suffers from intern envy
To: sr4402
NewsMax is good for catching this type of thing. It may be their singular contribution to journalism.
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posted on
04/10/2003 10:53:48 AM PDT
by
The Great Satan
(Revenge, Terror and Extortion: A Guide for the Perplexed)
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