Posted on 04/08/2006 11:21:40 AM PDT by khnyny
Katie Couric's move from the "Today" show to "The CBS Evening News" brings a "journalist" long known for a distinct liberal bias into the anchor chair once occupied by the revered Walter Cronkite.
"Since becoming co-host of NBC's Today' in April 1991, Katie Couric has often used her perch to salute her liberal heroes (including Hillary Clinton and Jimmy Carter) or complain about right-wing conservatives,'" notes the Media Research Center, a media watchdog group.
Here are some other examples of Couric's bias and bloopers:
It must have been a Freudian slip when Couric said last year that Saddam Hussein had "hopefully" escaped to Syria.
She later claimed that the capture of Saddam was only symbolic.
Speaking again about the mass murderer, she said: "No matter how deplorable Saddam Hussein was considered, he was the ultimate referee who kept the Sunnis and the Shiites apart from killing each other."
Couric promoted a defense fund for notorious child killer Andrea Yates.
Discussing Time magazine's Person of the Year issue, which honored the American soldier, she told editor Jim Kelly: "Tell me why you all decided to honor the American soldier? Wondering why there's no woman on the cover, too?" Kelly pointed to the cover and said: "This is a woman." Couric: "Oh, there you go, oh sorry ... I couldn't tell because of her helmet."
Talking about the 35-hour work week mandated by the French government, Couric told viewers: "So great that young mother being able to come home at three every day and spend that time with her child. Isn't that nice? The French, they've got it right, don't they?"
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They weren't artificially "perky."
I agree; these are thankfully the waneing days for Couric. After a few weeks of probable high ratings she will plumet to eventually be taken off the show in roughly a years time and end up like Connie on a "where are they now" snipit.
Within no more than 5 years, CBS evening news will be off the air.
Six months? When the ratings go even further down it won't take that long.
So you think her viewership is going to sag too??
Pray for W and Our Freedom Fighters
LOL! Her perkiness ain't known for her brains, is she? Didn't watch the Communist Broadcasting Station evening news before Katie, and for sure won't watch it now.
"Shes a mean little marxist to the core. It will come through the tv the first week shes on the air. This will be the second worst business decision ever made. "New Coke" being the #1."
Lol, "new coke" - brilliant, wasn't it? Katie's just an idiot too and that will come through in the first week.
I knew she was a marxist elitist but didn't realize how mean she was until recently. I hope you're right about how it comes through.
Actually, Katie has quite a lot in common with Walter: They are both showbiz personalities elevated, without real journalistic achievement, to a sham position as newsreader to the nation.
Walter had a sonorous voice and an avuncular look. He was a Ted Baxter who pulled it off. Katie is...well...Katie is perky. Perky Katie. She was hired on Today for the perky factor. It worked for her, at least in the ultra-fluffy a.m. slot. The network suits are like a ball player who will never change his socks after a success. Perky worked for them in the a.m. so they are trying it in the p.m. Katie is going to the anchor chair for the perky factor just just as Walter was hired for the uncle factor.
Nothing but showbiz.
I agree, although I will be watching the first week just for the entertainment value. This Week used to be must see TV on Sunday mornings until they brought in George "Steffi" Stephenopoulis... now it is unwatchable. Katie on the evening news will be a disaster and I will love every minute of it!
LOLOLOLOL..there are song lyrics in there somewhere. DFU...can come up with something I am sure. :)
And yet New Coke did exactly what it was intended to do! New Coke took the bullet when they substituted corn syrup for granulated sugar! That's why it doesn't taste the same anymore!
Komrade Kouric on the fake but assurate network will go hammer in sickle with each other. Maybe this will provoke an enemedia competition to see who can out Commie the other!
Flush twice folks New Orleans is a long way downstream!
Cruel! LOL
It's called plastic surgery
Hemlines, rather than hairlines, are usually the fashion world's focus, but Katie Couric's [above] current 'do may be worthy of special scrutiny. The new bangs she's been sporting on the "Today" show lately aren't just part of a trend - sources said they're about to double as camouflage.
America's Pixie is on the verge of going under the knife for a major brow-lift courtesy of Dr. Craig Foster, the plastic surgeon best known for reconstructing the face of the Central Park jogger, according to sources familiar with the situation.
I can't imagine who gets their news from the "broadcast networks" anymore except for shut-ins who can't afford computers and cable TV and the elderly who just don't know any better.
I haven't watched a traditonal "networks news" broadcast since Reagan was in the White House and MTV was still playing music videos.
Kenny Rogers was on idiol last week. He does look like himself any more. Katie will be a different face in 5 years.
Walter Cronkite was falsely revered only because of MSM's total control of the "news" during the Nam era.
I read somewhere the commies lost 50,000 during TET and we lost 1,500. Anyone can verify that statistic?
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