Posted on 05/30/2016 8:58:18 AM PDT by marktwain
Just in time for the Presidential campaign, old friend Katie Couric has been kind enough to remind us just how little we can trust journalists, how arrogant they are regarding their unethical methods, and how the profession that is supposed to protect democracy is now a threat to it.
Having failed in her effort to be a network news anchor and a talk-show host, the former “Today Show” star is now biding her time at Yahoo News waiting for a comeback opportunity. She served as executive producer and narrator of “Under the Gun,” an anti-gun documentary written, produced, and directed by anti-gun activist Stephanie Soechtig. In one powerful scene (above) , Couric is seen asking members of the Virginia Citizens Defense League, gun rights supporters all, “If there are no background checks for gun purchasers, how do you prevent felons or terrorists from purchasing a gun?” The pro-gun members of the group with the motto “Defending Your Right to Defend Yourself”can’t answer the question! The documentary shows blank stares and a damning, awkward, 9 second period of total silence.
Fortunately, one of the gun owners in the sequence, VCDL President Philip Van Cleave, recorded the actual event before it was edited to make gun owners look like mutes. There was no pause. The members offered several answers. They were omitted from the documentary, with a pause inserted instead to bolster an anti-gun agenda.
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Katie who??
“If there are no background checks for gun purchasers, how do you prevent felons or terrorists from purchasing a gun?”
Being the liberal she is, maybe a good question to ask her is
““If there are no background checks for refugees and illegal immigrants, how do you prevent felons or terrorists from getting their free stuff?”
Very well done.
The mask is off. Journalists lie to us to push their chosen agenda. Old ideas like ethics, professionalism or truth have been put in the dustbin of history.
Gummie Chiclets lost big this time.
Her excuse is the lamest ever known.
Reporters relate the truth. They just tell it like it is. “Journalists” aim to change the world. And usually for the worse.
Phone rings in Dan Rather’s bunker office.
Hello.
Hi Dan, Katie here. Thanks for nothing.
Katie, hold on a minute - I told you not to allow interviewee recording devices during the interview.
It’s over Katie, you blew your one last chance.
Goodbye and don’t call back. [click]
There are no journalists. Only JournOlists.
And take her agenda to the its final destination...propagandists like her would be in a gulag.
The old liberal has been news reader who is no longer perky.
Presence of Malice ... think we’ll ever see that movie?
Supply the airhead pseudo reporter with a list of mass killings in recent years all of which were registered democRATS. Therefore, democRATS should not be allowed to own firearms.
Katie should have held on to her cheerleader job.
I remember “Laugh-In” would have a segment on editing an interview, playing both the before and after (after and before?) clips.
OTOH, as a colonoscopy model/actress...
LIE.
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Maybe not a lie. Quite a few liberals own guns thought only a scattered few, a dozen? belong to NRA.
You know the liberals don’t believe in their own causes when they have falsify events to shore up their agenda. Dan Rather is a prime example.
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