Couric weighs in on Iraq, Rather (True colors come out!!!)

Examiner ^ | 9/26/07 | Jeff Dufour and Patrick Gavin

[From One - Many]

Uncomfortable being patriotic?!?

Being uncomfortable in wanting one's Nation to win means that one supports the enemy. Traitors always feel uncomfortable when confronted with Patriots.

[Petronski]

Sounds like a Paulbearer to me.

[bray]

Well of course those Iraqi savages could never live under Democracy. What an elitist snob.
Fact is their gummit has passed more legislation than Do Nothing Nancy.

Pray for W and Our Troops

[teddyballgame]

“What an elitist snob”.

Yeah, I liked the “most Westerners don’t understand” line. ie most Americans are idiots because they’re aren’t as knowledgable about world affairs. Hey, Katie STFU. Why don’t you look at your ratings - no one’s listening to you.

[Obadiah]

Jubillent???? I don’t seem to recall any jubillence in the days between 911 and the war. what I saw was resolve, and a grim determination to end the threat.

Yes, it was a gritty resolve to finish a bad job that most Americans felt. But again we have Comrade Couric leading the usual leftist parade to ever so slightly twist the truth. It is a subtle shift, but critical. No one was jubilent in the march to war (with blood dripping from the sides of our mouths) as Couric suggests. No one was eager to go to war for "the thrill of it", as Couric suggests. Through this subtle, yet deliberate deceit, Couric means to suggest that Americans, and mostly the Bush Administration, needlessly and mindlessly went to war. It is a leftist lie of the first order.

We are waging a very important and necessary fight for freedom not to be overtaken by Islamic extremism. After all it was Clinton who kicked this can down the road for 8 years while America suffered Islamic attack after attack with all the associated warning signs of what was to come. But I know, Couric and her Manhattan liberal buddies simply pine for the days of the Clinton vacation from history period where all was right in their own little selfish world.

[Popocatapetl]

[cajungirl]

I was struck by that “right people” comment. Who did she think was the “right people” to deal with the response to 911 if not the government, duly elected, by the people of this country.

Who did she mean? George Soros? Bill Clinton? The NYTimes?

[my right]

Yes the “right people” comment caught my attention, I would like someone to ask her exactly who are these people and why aren’t they ruling this country??

[RedMonqey]

Oftentimes Westerners don't really understand fully the values of this particular culture, said Couric. And I think the jury is still out as to whether democracy can really thrive in Iraq.

Imagine if Couric said this during the Apartheid period and ask if Africans were really ready for self rule.

Now who is the Western Supremacist/ Racists now Katie?

[roses of sharon]

Katie and her leftoids were jubilant after 9/11, they love the feeling of being victims, and that the world loves us only when we are dying.

As soon as we began to fight back, well............

[redstates4ever]

[VaBthang4]

Look at me...I'm dead last in the ratings but damnit, I am still relevant!!

"And I remember feeling...this inevitable march towards war and kind of feeling like, ‘Will anybody put the brakes on this?’ And is this really being properly challenged by the right people?"

I wonder if by "right people" she means her and her media confreres, Liberal politicians who at that time held little to no authority over the process or the leadership of the the legislative branch of government.

If it is the latter, then the "right people" were themselves [at the time] in agreement with the march towards war.

Or was she waiting for someone else to object, for objection's sake? If so, then why did she not object?

Eitherway, who really cares about her cerebral flatulence?

[RedMonqey]

"The whole culture of wearing flags on our lapel and saying "we" when referring to the United States and, even the "shock and awe" of the initial stages, it was just too jubilant and just a little uncomfortable."

Interesting. Considering that Edward R. Morrow of CBS long considered the epitome of Investigative Journalism had no problem with being too jubilant and not at all a little uncomfortable and urging US participation in joining the fight when he was broadcasting live by radio during the London Blitz of WW2 fame.

Maybe Katie needs to do some "in-depth investigative journalism" go down to the CBS's vaults and listen to them sometime.

[RedMonqey]

Couric said the Bush administration botched the war effort, calling it ?accepted truths? that it erred by?disbanding the Iraq military, and leaving 100,000 Sunni men feeling marginalized and angry..

No Katie . A botched job is what Clinton did in Somalia. Letting our men get overwhelmed despite pleas from the "boots on the ground" for heavy Armour. Then leaving with our collective tails between our legs.

And the Iraqi Army "disbanded" themselves when they dropped their guns and changed into civilian clothes...

[finnigan2]

““anyone who questioned the administration was considered unpatriotic “

- Actually you are right - no one in the Administration called Katie and her crowd unpatriotic but that’s the way she FEEEEELS, and so, in that sense, it’s true.

[ishabibble]

>>Look at me...I’m dead last in the ratings but damnit, I am still relevant!!<<

The last time Perky was relevant was when she was modeling shoes during her interview segments on the Today show.

No shoes...no relevance!

[DBrow]

I have never seen or heard someone cll the anti-war people “unpatriotic”, but lefties from Mrs Clinton down to Katie Couric whine that they are being called names for their stance.

[finnigan2]

My question about this whole matter is how does a news anchor who is in a position of public trust go so far as to reveal herself as someone not to be relied upon to give fair and impartial news reports?
Doesn’t this destroy her journalistic credibility? Will it not lead to even more of an erosion in her viewer-ship?
How does the network feel when their star news reporter reveals herself to be as politically biased as Whoopi Goldberg only with a perky grin?
Finally, just how stupid do you have to be to put your overpaid career on the line just so you can flaunt your liberal credentials and suck up to a room full of pampered elitists?
My own guess is that Katie thinks the nightly news gig is just the same as her old morning show, only it’s in the dark.

[COUNTrecount]

Couric also weighed in on the lawsuit recently filed by Dan Rather against CBS, in which Rather alleges he was unfairly squeezed out of CBS by network executives following a controversial 2004 story about President George W. Bush’s Texas Air National Guard service record. After evidence emerged that the story’s primary documents were possibly faked or forged, Rather stated on air that “if I knew then what I know now, I would not have gone ahead with the story as it was aired, and I certainly would not have used the documents in question.” Couric took Rather to task for his reporting. “There were things in there that were quite egregious in terms of how it was reported,” she said. “And sloppy work is sloppy work…They did not dot their I’s and cross their T’s when it came to that story…And our job is to get right.”

Catfight !!

[stratboy]

This is the location of her credibility as well as her ratings.