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Couric being attacked by liberals over the Edwards’ interview.

Couldn’t happen to a nicer leftist shill.

She does creep me out a bit. I think it was Gloria Steinem who once said Playboy Bunnies had fixed, glittering, maniacal smiles. Katie Couric to a T.

But when John was asked about his two youngest children, still in the nest at ages 6 and 8, he said they’ll ‘need to learn to fly’. The way he said it was telling, to say the least.

I agree. That was an extremely off-putting answer to this devoted mom. They’re six and eight years old, for Heaven’s sake! They shouldn’t have to “learn to fly” yet! I interpreted this statement by Edwards as, “They’re on their own. I’m too important to coddle them, and they’re gonna have to deal with the fact that their mom’s gonna die. No room for snot-nosed brats in the Oval Office, baby!”

But when John was asked about his two youngest children, still in the nest at ages 6 and 8, he said they’ll ‘need to learn to fly’. The way he said it was telling, to say the least.

If John hadn’t wanted this kind of scrutiny, he shouldn’t have called a press conference to publicize the matter.

I so much enjoyed your hard-hitting interview with Democrat presidential candidate John Edwards, and his wife, with her horrible disfigurement.

So, I assume, in your patented “Fair and Balanced” way, you’ll be interviewing Rush Limbaugh, who forges ahead in the face of unprecedented pain, anguish, and humiliation, with cysts on his ass.

I look forward to this, with much anticipation.

Your devoted fan,
Frank

Katie Couric’s hit job on John and Elizabeth Edwards reminded me why I do not watch her at any time. She had all her little Republican talking points ready and used every one of them. She is a low-life who didn’t seem to have the same qualms when her husband was dying of cancer. Double standards seem to run all through the Republican party. Couric should stick to “Perky”. Anything else is way out of her range.
By: kenoshaMarge on March 26, 2007 at 10:27am
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I hesitate to use the word “grilling”, because that would imply a tough interview, with tough questions on things that matter. What she did was just repeatedly say “some might say” and obsess over how they are handling Mrs. Edwards’ health issues, which was stupid and pointless.

There are a number of reasons this could have happened. 1. Katie is a failure at CBS, and getting crappier ratings all the time. She needed to “toughen up” her image as a real hard news reporter, because clearly America hasn’t been buying it, but she chose to do it over something stupid. 2. She’s shilling for Hillary. 3. The whole thing was basically scripted to elicit the reaction it got from the media and particularly Democrats. It stirred up the nutroots to go full force for Edwards, etc. etc. Edwards comes out as a “victim” of outrageous grilling over personal issues, and passes the test with flying colors.

My opinion? It’s a combo of 1 and 3. She needs to try to do the tough reporter thing (but no one is buying it), but I think it’s likely that the questions, while probably not submitted by the Edwards campaign, were reviewed by campaign staff before the interview went forward. And this isn’t conspiracy thinking, campaigns and politicians attempt to get a list of questions from interviewers ahead of time regularly. In fact O’Reilly has lost big interviews because certain potential guests refused to appear without getting the questions in advance.

http://johnedwards.com/news/headlines/20070326-couric/

“The Edwardses appreciated the opportunity 60 Minutes afforded them to respond to tough questions which have been raised in response to last week’s diagnosis that Mrs. Edwards’ cancer had returned. Mrs. Edwards also called Ms. Couric today to thank her for the interview and to say that she and Senator Edwards thought the interview was both thorough and fair.”

During a roundtable today in San Francisco to discuss his plan to halt global warming, Senator Edwards was asked about the matter and said: “My reaction was that Katie Couric asked questions that the American people are asking themselves, and I think they were completely legitimate questions. And I think the American people deserve answers from me and from Elizabeth to those questions.

I mean, I’m asking America to support me and vote for me as their next president, and I think part of the evaluation of a candidate for president is a personal evaluation of the character and integrity and honesty of a candidate. So, no, I thought the questions were fair. Tough. I thought they were tough, but they were fair.”

“… and that’s all I have to say ’bout that…”

If this is an interrogation, it explains quite a bit about the liberals’ ever-shifting definition of “torture.”

Give that man a see-gar!

PUHLEEZE!

Couric did lose her husband, Jay Monahan, to cancer some years ago, so she has some familiarity with the subject at hand.

For people to whine about this shows they just can’t handle anything resembling a tough question to a Democrat.

If she had been asking for details about how they found out or more about the likelihood of treatment success, that would be gossip. In my opinion, the questions about why he would choose job over family and the distraction topics are the most current and relevant questions I have about him as a potential future leader.

Sure, there are other political questions to ask… but those come in time. With his announcement about his wife’s health, he opened the door to exactly these types of questions. I’m just surprised Couric, who has been tagged pretty liberal, was the one to go through that door.

I hope the liberals get mad enough at her that she loses what little audience she has and fades away into obscurity.

Actually, if Katie would do more of this and do it consistently, with everyone she interviews, I would have to re-evaluate my opinion of her and might actually have to give her credit as an actual journalist. She brought up all the questions and challenges that real people want to know about concerning John Edwards’ candidacy and how Elizabeth’s illness figures into that. The guy’s running for the most important job in the world, after all. He should expect hard questions and be able to answer them to voters’ satisfaction. To his and Elizabeth’s credit, I actually think they answered most of the questions quite well. I still wouldn’t vote for him if I were a Dem, but he wouldn’t have lost any points.

I hope the liberals get mad enough at her that she loses what little audience she has and fades away into obscurity.