Conservative Hill Aides Call Couric "Our Sweetheart"

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Last week, CBS Evening News anchor Katie Couric reported from Iraq, but her stories largely repeated the Bush administration's talking points. She even admitted that her stories were largely based on "what the U.S. military want[ed]" her to see. The right wing is now embracing her. Roll Call reports that conservative aides on Capitol Hill say that Couric is "our sweetheart."

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- coloradolover See Profile I'm a Fan of coloradolover permalink

I am no fan of Couric and am just as appalled as others about her Iraq reports last week. However, must she be denigrated with descriptions such as "whore" and "bitch"? Do you use similar words to describe the countless men who everyday tout the neocon agenda both on cable news and in print media? Should the focus be more on her actions rather than demeaning her womanhood? Man or woman, those that promote the Bush sell on the war are certainly pitiful pawns. On that we can agree. But can we keep her gender out of it? Certainly people like Beck and O'Reilly and Limbaugh do far more harm in my view.

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 05:52 AM on 09/17/2007
- BillZBubb See Profile I'm a Fan of BillZBubb permalink

Couric has always been a shill for the right wing. She just didn't show it quite as obviously before she hit the evening news. To call her a "journalist" is to abuse the language.

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 11:25 PM on 09/16/2007
- grimm See Profile I'm a Fan of grimm permalink

Oh sure, they're going to eventually replace Couric with a real journalist. And the next president isn't going to be a special-interest whore either.

La la la pixies and unicorns...

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 01:02 PM on 09/15/2007
- winningticket See Profile I'm a Fan of winningticket permalink

Katie Couric: another lamestream media shill for the Bush-Cheney Dictatorship. She's not their sweetheart, she is their bitch.

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 03:38 PM on 09/14/2007
- ajax2 See Profile I'm a Fan of ajax2 permalink

Actually anyone with an empty head would be called your base.

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 11:45 AM on 09/14/2007
- truthyguy See Profile I'm a Fan of truthyguy permalink

Couric doesn't matter for two reasons.
First, no one watches her show.
Second, she will be replaced shortly.

She is an embarrassment to any legitimate reporter. The news is the furthest thing from her mind. Reporting is only an unavoidable inconvenience to her main objectives: making money and rubbing shoulders with celebrities and people in power.

GO AWAY KATIE - YOU HAVE ENOUGH MONEY SO LEAVE US ALONE.

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 09:14 AM on 09/14/2007
- Ginzaman See Profile I'm a Fan of Ginzaman permalink

She will do and say anything that the head neocon Sumner Redstone tells her to do. What was the point of going there at all? I thought $16 million a year anchorpeople were actually supposed to do real work. Boy was I naive....

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 10:20 PM on 09/13/2007
- dr4Will See Profile I'm a Fan of dr4Will permalink

Did anyone doubt her loyalties to bush and dinners,plane rides on af1 and right wing blogs--that why she is a dud as a newsperson--kissing butt doesn't impress aware listeners---she's a media whore,bought off by the highest bidder!!!

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 09:06 PM on 09/13/2007
- VOTER See Profile I'm a Fan of VOTER permalink

Couric: A Shorter Coulter

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 06:20 PM on 09/13/2007
- Janco54 See Profile I'm a Fan of Janco54 permalink

Just what we need - another conservative "Sweetheart" shilling for the administration. I'm sure when CBS dumps her, Fox will gladly pick her up and give her an hour during their busy schedule of ginning up support for another war.

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 03:46 PM on 09/13/2007
- Manx See Profile I'm a Fan of Manx permalink

I don't believe CBS will dump Couric as long as Les Moonves is CBS' president. He made the decision to hire her, and, like Bush, he won't admit he made a mistake.

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 01:55 AM on 09/14/2007
- Manx See Profile I'm a Fan of Manx permalink

Even Admiral William Fallon, chief of the Central Command, is more liberal and perceptive than Couric. During her Iraq trip, she repeated the Republican hype that General Petraeus is a "straight-shooter." In the latest news reports, Admiral Fallon is quoted as saying that Petraeus is "an ass-kicking little chickenshit," a sycophant acting as the front man for the Bush administration.

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 03:21 PM on 09/13/2007
- waiguoren See Profile I'm a Fan of waiguoren permalink

Fallon said ASS-KISSING, not ass-kicking.

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 05:32 PM on 09/13/2007
- GenericBlogger See Profile I'm a Fan of GenericBlogger permalink

Does the perky salesgirl/infotainer working as an overpaid news reader think she can increase her ratings by forming an alliance with Dubya's abysmal unpopular administration?

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 03:11 PM on 09/13/2007
- MovingtoNorway See Profile I'm a Fan of MovingtoNorway permalink

You bet. You suck off the powerful and you'll go far. Katie knows her way around the business. No different than Monica providing services in the Oval Office.

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 11:02 PM on 09/14/2007
- VOTER See Profile I'm a Fan of VOTER permalink

Katie considering the GREAT JOB you did reporting
the "truth" in Iraq, you helped secure our place there
for possibly another 10 years.

Which will likely mean the return of the DRAFT.

Which will likely mean your two daughters will get their
chances to serve on the front lines too.

I'LL JUST BET THEY CAN'T WAIT TO THANK YOU!

"THANKS, MOM FOR FUCKING UP OUR LIVES AND HELPING TO KILL SO MANY PEOPLE. YES, YOU ARE A REAL SWEETHEART."

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 02:46 PM on 09/13/2007
- meandmagoo See Profile I'm a Fan of meandmagoo permalink

Wow,you don't say?

Another member of the "Liberal Media" exposed as a conservative whore,as bad as any Fox fuckstain.

Imagine that.

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 12:55 PM on 09/13/2007
- BadChristian See Profile I'm a Fan of BadChristian permalink

Televangelists have always been confidence artists, and, in the eighties, the telejournalists got on board with that ship of fools.

Televangelists should burn in hell for what they did to Christianity, and telejournalists WILL go down in history as the watch dog that ate the baby they were hired to protect.

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 09:47 PM on 09/13/2007
- JeffDeVore See Profile I'm a Fan of JeffDeVore permalink

You know those folks that go out in the woods in the middle of nowhere and just live off the land and just want the government and society to leave them alone.
I used to think these people were nuts.
It's starting to look pretty appealling.

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 12:37 PM on 09/13/2007
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