Today's Examiner report on a speech by CBS "Evening News" anchor Katie Couric, of course, follows the admission earlier this week that The New York Times gives discounts to antiwar liberal democratic groups.
Katie spouted off about every liberal talking point in the book during her speech at the National Press Club Tuesday evening:
“Everyone in this room would agree that people in this country were misled in terms of the rationale of this war,” said Couric, adding that it is “pretty much accepted” that the war in Iraq was a mistake.Here's another look at Katie's Botched War effort:
“I’ve never understood why [invading Iraq] was so high on the administration’s agenda when terrorism was going on in Afghanistan and Pakistan and that [Iraq] had no true connection with al Qaeda.”
Further, 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...[and] whether there were enough boots on the ground, the feeling that we’d be welcomed as liberators and didn’t need to focus as much on security.” She added “I’d feel totally comfortable saying any of that at some point, if required, on television.”
"...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. And I remember feeling, when I was anchoring the ‘Today’ show, 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? And I think, at the time, anyone who questioned the administration was considered unpatriotic and it was a very difficult position to be in.”
Only a liberal could make this war look like a failure at the expense of the nation.
It's just too bad "everyone in this room would agree" that the liberals control the American media.
Flopping Aces has more.
UPDATE: As if the ugly mainstream media could not get more twisted- they are now playing gotcha games with dead soldiers.
At the National Press Club event Katie Couric spoke with Marvin Kalb for broadcast on the Kalb Report AND spoke after the broadcast. Here is a portion of those remarks.
ReplyDeleteCouric speaks (on air) :
""It's important to observe what's going on and to ask challenging
questions," Couric answered confidently. "We need to be skeptical of
what we're told and always check facts and figures. But it's not my
place to say that the war is wrong." She encouraged seeking facts to
report the truth but admitted that "advocacy journalism" is not her
role."
But once air time for The Kalb Report ended, Couric exclaimed, "Now
it's time to have fun. We're not on TV anymore!"
http://www.dailycolonial.com/go.dc?p=3&s=4489
Couric then continues (off air) :
"Everyone in this room would agree that people in this country were
misled in terms of the rationale of this war," said Couric, adding
that it is "pretty much accepted" that the war in Iraq was a mistake.
"I've never understood why [invading Iraq] was so high on the
administration's agenda when terrorism was going on in Afghanistan and
Pakistan and that [Iraq] had no true connection with al Qaeda."
Further, 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...[and] whether there were enough boots on the ground, the
feeling that we'd be welcomed as liberators and didn't need to focus
as much on security." She added "I'd feel totally comfortable saying
any of that at some point, if required, on television."
http://www.examiner.com/blogs/Yeas_and_Nays/2007/9/26/Couric-weighs-in-on-Iraq-Rather
Katie Couric also used her National Press Club speech to take on Dan Rather and the CBS News producers who were fired for their roles in Memogate.
ReplyDelete"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 the I's and cross their T's when it came to that story."
I wonder how her comments were received by the mostly liberal goup of journalists. A lot of them still like Rather, and they think the producers she was blasting got a raw deal from CBS. Maybe it was CBS brass she was sucking up to.