[BuckeyeForever]

How does that make Couric a liar on that point???? What Couric said in the 1999 lead-in to the interview with Morris was that MORRIS called Reagan an airhead. He did, in his book.

Look, here are the facts. In an earlier thread, I disagreed with those here who said Couric would be "too scared" or "too intimidated" to do the interview personally. I pointed out that Couric, even though she is liberal, is an intelligent and articulate journalist who is more than capable of holding her own in a difficult interview. I also pointed out that she has a large staff of assistants who would make sure she was well-prepared for the interview. She is and they did. Period. So all the cynical people who thought Couric would duck the show today or cry when confronted by Coulter, etc. were dead wrong, just as I said they would be.
The verdict is in. It was a good debate. Couric held her own, and Coulter held her own, and no big victory was won by either side. Deal with it.

[freedomcrusader]

The fact that Couric focused on that one particular conclusion is prima facie evidence of liberal bias. I haven't yet read Coulter's book (because it's on the way to my doorstep from Amazon.com), so I don't know whether Coulter claims specifically that Couric flat-out called Reagan an airhead, but she started the whole interview of Morris with it, which is very telling.

[SkyPilot]

Deal with it.

I am always amazed that some people actually end posts this way. Do you realize how this makes you come across?

Then you proceed to tell everyone here how right on a previous thread about Couric being a prepared "journalist." Sure, she was prepared. Couric's and NBC's credibility was actually on the line here, and not some ridiculous cooking segment or an insult-the-intelligence-of-the-audience-stint-again regarding Lesbian Single Parents of Vertically Challenged Women of Color. People were acutally watching this time, and they knew it. I will agree with you that the producers and staff of NBC probably stayed up with Couric nights to make sure she could hold her own with Ann. She still hid behind her rapid fire, change the subject, "I am doing the interview here!" bag of tricks, didn't she?

This is what was posted in #109.

well first katie brought the book "dutch" and how the today show portayed reagan as an airhead which katie denied

If you wish to post the exact transcript, be my guest, but it will still remain that Couric was attempting to split hairs and avoid the truth.

What Couric said in the 1999 lead-in to the interview with Morris was that MORRIS called Reagan an airhead

Really?

What is obvious to anyone who wishes to be honest here is that Couric did that cheap quote as an introduction to the Today show to slam Reagan. Read the post here where Morris actually denied it in his interview with Couric in 1999, and then Katie gets to repeat her slanderous question again, just to get her claws in.

Your post insinuated a kind of "Johnny Cochran" logic. So, if the quote don't fit, we must acquit?

No. Couric proved Ann Coulter’s argument today--in spades.