Couric wins award for Palin interviews; Update: Why not the Biden interview? Update: Video added
posted at 9:29 am on March 14, 2009 by Ed Morrissey
Well, if this thread doesn’t get 200 comments, it’s back to Anna Nicole Smith posts for the rest of the weekend. Katie Couric won USC Annenberg Norman Lear Center’s Walter Cronkite Award for her interview with Sarah Palin. The school noted the impact the interview had on the election:
Evening News anchor Katie Couric was honored for her “extraordinary, persistent and detailed multi-part interviews with Republican vice-presidential candidate Sarah Palin” which judges called a “defining moment in the 2008 presidential campaign.”
She was given the award for Special Achievement for National Impact on the 2008 Campaign.
The award was given by Reliable Resources, a group run out of the USC Annenberg Norman Lear Center at the University of Southern California. It’s mission statement says “Reliable Resources was created to help generate conversation and ideas on improving broadcast political coverage. Broadcast news, network and local, has declined significantly as a primary source for campaign news. Our project seeks to design and distribute tools which would make political news enlightening, informative and exciting to local and network broadcasters.”
For the conspiracy minded, some may remember that the man helped most by Couric’s gotcha moments worked for an Annenberg outfit at one time himself. Barack Obama ran the Chicago Annenberg Challenge, his only executive experience and a complete flop at improving education. Norman Lear also had an obvious political interest in seeing Couric torpedo Palin, as his “Born Again Americans” website proudly proclaims.
Did that have any impact on the decision to give Couric the award? I doubt it, at least not directly, but it certainly provides some context for the mindset of this particular slice of Academia.
Clearly, though, Couric didn’t win the award for journalism. Couric is busy defining “anchor” back to its original meaning. She has pulled CBS news to the bottom of the ratings for broadcast news programs, far back from her two competitors. All three networks have seen their audiences rapidly decline over the last 15 years, but Couric has made the trend line much worse for CBS since taking over in 2006, as this graph from TV By The Numbers shows:
Of course, quantitative analysis doesn’t address quality, which is the point of this award. Qualitatively, though, CBS falls into the same position, according to this Pew Research poll. CBS ranked dead last in both broadcast and cable news shows for informing their audiences. Viewers apparently realize this and have fled CBS as a news source. That’s what makes the name of the award so ironic; Cronkite was the most trusted name in broadcast news during his career and CBS the unquestioned king of the jungle. Now they’re a joke, and while that may not be all Couric’s fault, she’s at least a major part of the problem.
None of this comes as a shock to John Ziegler, whose new documentary Media Malpractice dissects the Couric interview and criticizes its hostility and advocacy. I’d send a copy to the USC Annenberg Norman Lear Center, but the advocacy is probably what they liked the most.
Update: I guess the USC Annenberg Norman Lear Center never saw Katie’s crack journalistic work with Joe Biden. CBS crabbed at YouTube and got the video taken down, but the flavor remains:
Joe Biden’s denunciation of his own campaign’s ad to Katie Couric got so much attention last night that another odd note in the interview slipped by.
He was speaking about the role of the White House in a financial crisis.
“When the stock market crashed, Franklin Roosevelt got on the television and didn’t just talk about the princes of greed,” Biden told Couric. “He said, ‘Look, here’s what happened.’”
FDR wasn’t President when the stock market crashed, and he didn’t get on TV until a decade later — but Couric never seems to notice either gaffe. Why? She wasn’t out to get Joe Biden.
Update II: Ed Driscoll found the video of the Biden interview and has more:
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Don’t care.
bluelightbrigade on March 14, 2009 at 9:31 AM
And so who is this Couric person of whom you speak ?
JonRoss on March 14, 2009 at 9:32 AM
Should have been the Dan Rather award for creative editing.
2ipa on March 14, 2009 at 9:35 AM
…to which Obama never did and never will subject himself. Palin wins my “ballsiest politican” award.
ddrintn on March 14, 2009 at 9:35 AM
The way Couric goes after her on abortion is really distasteful.
And Palin does a great job smacking her down
Of course, all of that was left on the editing room floor.
joey24007 on March 14, 2009 at 9:35 AM
Wow, WTG Katie!
Finally, she has proven she can snip and edit her way into being a bonafide libtard.
Conservative_SAHM on March 14, 2009 at 9:36 AM
You mean she got an award for asking questions like , “What do you read?” Wow, tough question that.
promachus on March 14, 2009 at 9:36 AM
Shouldn’t a face that’s had so much plastic surgery have one of those little recycling logos on it?
Josiah on March 14, 2009 at 9:36 AM
Funniest thing is, I don’t think she was aware at the moment that Biden was committing a gaffe with his FDR comment. Duhhhhhh.
ddrintn on March 14, 2009 at 9:37 AM
journalism is the standard by which reporters hurt the GOP. Expect DL Hugley to be up for this award soon.
rob verdi on March 14, 2009 at 9:37 AM
RINO support for Couric in 5…4…3…2…
Saltysam on March 14, 2009 at 9:37 AM
I guess the Pulitzer is next or is that reserved for the journalists that went through Palin’s garbage cans?
repvoter on March 14, 2009 at 9:40 AM
Question for posters to ponder:
Is it possible for Couric to take the ratings for CBS below zero? Would that mean they would have to pay people to watch?
Bonus question: Has anyone ever seen Couric and getalife in the same room at the same time? Cluelessness and adherence to talking-points-lists seems to approximate the same level; just sayin’.
Yoop on March 14, 2009 at 9:40 AM
And Tina Fey wins entertainer of the year. How obvious these associations are at thanking the people who dessimated Palin and ensured an Obama win.
My reward – Katie Couric will be gone from her anchor position by the end of the year.
sherry on March 14, 2009 at 9:41 AM
Exactly right. They were just itching to be the first one to “bring down Palin”.
ddrintn on March 14, 2009 at 9:41 AM
Those groups on the left continuously give awards to their own kind for attacking those in the center or on the right. It’s their way of congratulating their comrades for a victory against capitalism.
Couric’s ratings though…..sadly southbound.
afotia on March 14, 2009 at 9:41 AM
Absolutely incredible. At least they feel comfortable enough now to just be blatent and open about it.
Couric’s current gig is to be a reporter, and deliver what happened, what’s happening, and what the results may be. If she were a commentator, such as Hannity, O’Reilly, Olbermann, or Matthews then it WOULD be her job to have a “national impact on the 2008 campaign.”
It’s something we’ve known for years, and hopefully there will be more people waking up to it.
JamesLee on March 14, 2009 at 9:41 AM
It will be the only award she ever gets…….pretty soon she’ll be doing Roto-Rooter commercials and Fixadent ads. I mean she isn’t all bad – she’s abysmally stupid and a Dem, so that in a way is good – because when Sarah comes back strong….Katie will know where to put her new award.
Cinday Blackburn on March 14, 2009 at 9:43 AM
Well, a new low has been firmly established.
Well done USC Annenberg Norman Lear Center at the University of Southern California. Can’t wait to see who wins in the Octomom Category. (/sarc off)
Zorro on March 14, 2009 at 9:43 AM
More awards for leftists by leftists…. Is there a surprise here? There should be no surprises, leftists love each other, and no one else is going to give them props….
Exit question:
Did Dan Rather win this one a few years ago as well?
ZagChuck on March 14, 2009 at 9:44 AM
I’ve noticed recently that Katie now has “serious” hair to go with her “serious” glasses.
KelliD on March 14, 2009 at 9:44 AM
Katie Couric won USC Annenberg Norman Lear Center’s Walter Cronkite Award for her interview with Sarah Palin.
I knew the moment I saw Annenberg that the only reason she could have possibly won an award for that interview, was because the media used it to hurt Palin.
Fact Check (part of Annenberg) was used all through the campaign as a liberals best friend in order to defend their dopey “facts.”
jcheney on March 14, 2009 at 9:45 AM
Norman Lear…didn’t he write sitcoms? How ironic. As for her even being mentioned in the same sentence as Cronkite, well, that’s hilarious. Even she probably knows that.
scalleywag on March 14, 2009 at 9:45 AM
ohhh Blinky no one cares …why you may ask
“Because, Katie, you’re not the center of everybody’s universe”- Sarah Palin
min 5:03
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xv4P1oGQuxE
alexraye on March 14, 2009 at 9:46 AM
Tina Fey and Katie Couric win back to back awards yet their ratings suck. Their attack on Palin is the single reason they got awards and “strange new respect.” Now they are back to being no names. Fey’s show will get canceled in a year, and Couric will get dumped.
jencab on March 14, 2009 at 9:47 AM
Not if they’re interested in my business…
Saltysam on March 14, 2009 at 9:47 AM
couric-obama
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The interview to give her an award from would be this one… Especially this line here. Prophetic. His weaknesses are too many to count, and his inability to choose “excellent people” to help him not look so inexperienced is …incredible.
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RalphyBoy on March 14, 2009 at 9:51 AM
The MSM should rot along with those who did everything they could in their power, and still do, to cover for Hopeychangy.
javamartini on March 14, 2009 at 9:52 AM
Great catch on the Biden interview.
As far as I’m concerned, any serious-minded group of critic that is still using the expression defining moment has to be composed of a bunch of journalistic hacks in dire need of a decent copy editor.
Shake your heads and shrug it off. All that we can do is get up each day and be prepared to slug the Left in the face with a four-by-four made up of the facts.
It took the USSR decades to fall. Eventually, frauds such as Couric, NBC, MSNBC, the NYT, and on will tank too.
BuckeyeSam on March 14, 2009 at 9:53 AM
I’ll comment 200 times myself if you promise not to post any Anna Nicole Smith!!!
repvoter on March 14, 2009 at 9:53 AM
Couric should be sure to send Sam Nunn a fruit basket, since he wrote the questions for her.
chunderroad on March 14, 2009 at 9:55 AM
Too late!
http://hotair.com/archives/2009/03/13/smiths-boyfriend-attorney-doctor-charged/
BuckeyeSam on March 14, 2009 at 9:57 AM
She’s getting old, which is why I was surprised when she wore that bright blue bustier and matching jacket while interviewing Palin about her pro-life views. I have never seen a serious journalist just pop ‘em up there like that.
chunderroad on March 14, 2009 at 9:58 AM
Wow! An award given to a liberal butt-lick by a bunch of other liberal butt-licks? So unexpected.
AubieJon on March 14, 2009 at 9:58 AM
katie couric is a waste of skin.
Ghoul aid on March 14, 2009 at 9:59 AM
I hate her with the passion of a thousand suns.
Amadeus on March 14, 2009 at 9:59 AM
She is an ‘All-American Story’. Former cheerleader sleeps her way to the top.
JoeySlippers on March 14, 2009 at 9:59 AM
A clear case of the blind leading the deaf.
The only thing that surpasses the Left’s level of stupidity is their arrogance.
Saltysam on March 14, 2009 at 10:02 AM
USC Annenberg Norman Lear Center’s Walter Cronkite Award?
LMAO … ROTFLAG. Second place was the nine month long interview of supporters by Barack Obama asking “Can we do it?”
Dusty on March 14, 2009 at 10:05 AM
For selective editting.
Mr. Joe on March 14, 2009 at 10:07 AM
Don’t threaten us like that, Ed. And I am going to be busy this weekend, with some target practice. Not that I’m worried that the inexperienced person is at the top of the ticket, not the bottom.
rbj on March 14, 2009 at 10:07 AM
Should have been called The Partisan Hack Award
oxnard777 on March 14, 2009 at 10:08 AM
Exactly right Ed. and exactly why network news in dying the slow death it so richly deserves… I’d love to see the new media turn the pages on the network news people, by taking each of the talking head one at a time, and investigating every square inch of their lives dating back to 1st grade, and then running special stories enlightening all of as to who the people that are busy destroying the lives of others are, what they do, what they did (drugs included), and who they slept with along the way.
Difference between the old media and the new media will be the accuracy of the reporting; back-up data with no Hollywood cutting and slicing to fabricate the story.
Keemo on March 14, 2009 at 10:09 AM
Didn’t watch them…can’t stand Couric. Not interested in anything she does or says since she was promoted over her pay grade.
zeebeach on March 14, 2009 at 10:09 AM
I second that!
scalleywag on March 14, 2009 at 10:10 AM
In Katie’s defense, exposing Joe Biden as an idiot would not be news.
Right_of_Attila on March 14, 2009 at 10:12 AM
I have a hard time getting bothered by this.
If they gave it around around here for his Palin-work, I know who’d receive it.
Marcus on March 14, 2009 at 10:13 AM
“Couric is busy defining “anchor” back to its original meaning.”
LOL. That was funny, Ed. Nice one.
Dusty on March 14, 2009 at 10:13 AM
I haven’t watched a network or local news since around 2007, sometime, and I’ve never watched Couric. They’re all nothing more than lying-head liberal partisans, and have nothing to say that I want to hear. Couric is also one of the prime reasons that the Internet is beating the living Hell out of TV, magazines and newspapers. Maybe instead of criticizing bloggers and Conservative talk radio, they can exercise their support of the Fairness Doctrine and volunteer for interviews with Rush Limbaugh, Sean Hannity and Mwark Levin. THAT would make for some award-winning journalism.
Virus-X on March 14, 2009 at 10:13 AM
So Couric was a cheerleader , and Palin was the team leader .
Nothing has changed then..
the_nile on March 14, 2009 at 10:15 AM
How’s the Rogaine working out for you Comrade Kuric?
Wade on March 14, 2009 at 10:16 AM
[Right_of_Attila on March 14, 2009 at 10:12 AM]
Yeah, everyone already knows there is no reason to question the John Blutarsky’s of this world.
Dusty on March 14, 2009 at 10:19 AM
I’m all for having women get jobs as anchorpersons, but why do they always pick the ones least qualified? Couric is a lightweight and belongs in the early a.m. slots where no one expects to take any of the seriously.
Watching her is like drinking decaf coffee. What’s the point?
scalleywag on March 14, 2009 at 10:19 AM
FIFY
D2Boston on March 14, 2009 at 10:19 AM
An organization funded by the same foundation that employed Obama and Ayers gives an award to a CBS news Anchor for an interview showing a Republican Candidate in a bad light?
Quel surprise! …not
kingsjester on March 14, 2009 at 10:20 AM
She is not stupid.
Wade on March 14, 2009 at 10:21 AM
6 more Leftist words one will never see.
Del Dolemonte on March 14, 2009 at 10:24 AM
And I’ll add (since we’re trying to make 200 comments) that putting her on the news is like serving up a raw veggie tray with no ranch dressing.
scalleywag on March 14, 2009 at 10:24 AM
Palin can’t name any newspapers she reads or any Supreme Court decisions, and the blame goes to the media? We know they’re liberal but come on, she wasn’t asked about Einstein’s relativity here.
Couric should have asked her, like Chris Matthews to Ari Fleischer, to defend her party’s economy and foreign policy of the last 8 years.
The Dean on March 14, 2009 at 10:27 AM
This was a given with Al Gore setting the bar so low.
Rovin on March 14, 2009 at 10:27 AM
If you don’t watch Katie, you’re sexist. If you don’t approve of Obama, you’re racist. If you make fun of Biden, you are retardist.
Sugar Land on March 14, 2009 at 10:31 AM
2008 Tool of the Year: Couric
Runners up:
MSNBC: Andrea Mitchell and Chris Matthews
CBS: Harry Smith
NBC: Tom Brokaw and Brian Williams
TN Mom on March 14, 2009 at 10:31 AM
Enjoy your award you partisan hack.
SoulGlo on March 14, 2009 at 10:32 AM
The left paying tribute to the left . . . meaningless.
rplat on March 14, 2009 at 10:33 AM
Couldn’t have said it better myself. It was my exact thought upon reading the headline. (I had different adjectives in mind but yours will work just fine.)
thomasaur on March 14, 2009 at 10:34 AM
She is an ‘All-American Story’. Former cheerleader sleeps her way to the top.
JoeySlippers on March 14, 2009 at 9:59 AM
What’s the story?
Was this while she was at CNN?
Please share: we are on a quota to hit 200!
TN Mom on March 14, 2009 at 10:37 AM
I haven’t watched network news in a couple of decades. My father would always be swearing at the TV when Walter Cronkite was on. This was over 40 years ago. Walter Kronkite was not good back then either. When I married, my husband would do the same. It got so bad that I had to enforce a no TV rule at dinner time. We eventually watched reruns of Seinfeld. Then finally, we got satellite TV and Fox News and we have never looked back. My point being that network news has always been left since I was a kid. Katie is just the blip on the radar screen, so is her “award”.
I watched her once. Rush was on and it was her first or second show. Never went back. Nothing to see there.
After watching Seinfeld reruns it is becoming very clear that this administration is the Seinfeld show. My husband and I can take just about every episode and apply it to the administration. Jerry’s bizzaro world is becoming the same as Obama’s. I don’t know whether to laugh or cry.
BetseyRoss on March 14, 2009 at 10:38 AM
As usual in life, the truth points to itself.
TheRook on March 14, 2009 at 10:40 AM
I love stories like this. Keep ‘em coming. A bunch of elitists from a group no one has ever heard of (thus all the more self-important) gives an award to a media elitist for an effort in support of a political elitist (splits his time between that and being a deity). What a lovely combination of masturbation and incest.
Now, as for the substance of the award, how can you keep from laughing! It’s like one of those competitions where everyone wins an award.
The real turning point in the election was when McCain suspended his campaign to posture about earmarks and sign TARP (or as most of us refer to it CRAP). Since this didn’t involve any left-wing journalists, this group had to manufacture a turning point that did. But if you’re going to give awards for these non-events, why not give it to Charlie Gibson, whose interview with Palin at least had some substance. He asked questions about the Bush Doctrine; Couric asked what newspapers Palin reads. Whatever. Journalism is a dying craft anyway.
By the way, that chart is devastating. Katie Couric is one toxic asset that I’m sure CBS news can’t wait to unload. What is the journalistic equivalent of a credit default swap?
EMD on March 14, 2009 at 10:41 AM
Meanwhile Sarah Signs agreement not to take Stimulus money
Back atcha Barack.
William Amos on March 14, 2009 at 10:42 AM
Maybe Ms. Perky can put her beloved award on her night stand next to her gilded vibrator.
Wyznowski on March 14, 2009 at 10:43 AM
Couric- attack Chihuahua for the Obama team of socialist swindlers.
Of course they threw her a bone.
Probably stolen.
profitsbeard on March 14, 2009 at 10:43 AM
If you recall, it was a tough question for Palin to answer. During the interview, Couric did her best to present Palin to America in a sympathetic, positive fashion–it was Palin who turned it into a train wreck. I think Couric deserves an award for not laughing out loud at her.
hicsuget on March 14, 2009 at 10:44 AM
I’ve always said the way to beat the MSM once and for all is to use lib tactics against them.
Imagine if some wonk in the commerce department could champion a legislative proposal to require Cable and Satellite television subscription contracts to be cafeteria-like selections of only the stations you want in your home.
This would be an act of CPR on our culture. Imagine MTV and E! and the various forms of intellectual garbage — including the ABC/CBS/NBC network broadcasts — being a matter of active choice, rather than some pornography piped into your house.
I guarantee you this would change our culture in the right direction.
Anyone who wants to have that decadent crap on their television can have it. Nobody will challenge their right to have it. But these people will become the dwindling and marginalized minority they deserve to be.
The technology exists. The only thing that forces this garbage into your family room is a contractual agreement between the crap channels and your local cable system. Contracts can be re-negotiated if Congress says they have to be.
Fight the power.
jeff_from_mpls on March 14, 2009 at 10:47 AM
Anyone remember ‘The Bad Seed’? Cute little girl batting her eyes and acting demure as she shoves you off a cliff.
That is the tactic the lefties are using.
“It’s for the children”—-(push)
Limerick on March 14, 2009 at 10:48 AM
Norman Lear — that says it all.
KS Rex on March 14, 2009 at 10:57 AM
Warning: You need to check your cup for traces of KoolAid! Then, contrast Couric’s interview with Biden and you will clearly see her bias.
Head on over to newsbusters.org to see/read of Couric’s ongoing daily bias…
TN Mom on March 14, 2009 at 11:00 AM
Former ‘News Anchor’ exchanges microphone for ‘Pom-Poms’…sleeps her way back to the bottom.
JoeySlippers on March 14, 2009 at 11:06 AM
The Norman Lear Center’s award (Norman Lear? You gotta love it) to Ms. Couric for this hatchet job is a disgrace that beclowns both the giver and the recipient.
Mason on March 14, 2009 at 11:08 AM
Wow. Amazing. I have never read the unedited transcript. Simply amazing. I like how it bolds the parts edited out. What blatant dishonest journalism.
Joe Caps on March 14, 2009 at 11:09 AM
Purrrr-keeeey!
hawkdriver on March 14, 2009 at 11:12 AM
If Palin had won, no award would have been given to Couric.
johnnyU on March 14, 2009 at 11:17 AM
In other news, Pravda has awarded the annual Pravda Award to Pravda.
Crusty on March 14, 2009 at 11:18 AM
OMG. There are 6 million people who watch this bimbette every night? The country is in worse shape than I thought.
angryed on March 14, 2009 at 11:18 AM
I’d thought to browse the Norman Lear Center site to see who were the directors, and haven’t finished, but have come upon these items of interest:
– That Annenberg & the Lear Center jointly cooperate in this Award isn’t coincidental. The Lear Center is “on campus, from its base in the USC Annenberg School for Communication.” So these two are symbiotic in their relationship. I suppose that helps with earmarks and such.
– Here’s the Lear Center’s opening About: “The Norman Lear Center is a nonpartisan research and public policy center that studies the social, political, economic and cultural impact of entertainment on the world.” Aside from the laughable assertion they are non-partisan, their sole focus is how entertainment impacts the world. So, Katie Couric won an Entertainment award. Nice!
– one of the interesting Themes of Interest to the Center:
– Martin Kaplan is a/the? Director. Don’t know anything about him, but an altavista indicates most of his time researching/learning/teaching/expousing doesn’t have as much to do with “entertainment” as it does with have to do politics.
Dusty on March 14, 2009 at 11:18 AM
Now maybe Couric could focus on important things, like that chrome dome she is beginning to grow. Maybe Joe can recommend his pluggist.
bloggless on March 14, 2009 at 11:20 AM
Ummmm…did you actually read this?
It’s not what you imply that it is. Far from it.
I won’t diss Palin for sucking on the federal teat. Unless all 50 governors walked away from Osama Obama’s counterfeit money giveaway, we’re stuck with it.
But Palin didn’t take some kind of courageous stand here. She agreed to the child-president’s terms.
MrScribbler on March 14, 2009 at 11:20 AM
Couric’s time will come…and when it does, i will try my hardest not to cheer too loud…
Equality 7-2521 on March 14, 2009 at 11:24 AM
If Couric had asked Biden similar questions, you might have a point. But she didn’t, so you don’t. In fact, Couric later admitted in a panel discussion that she had “prepared” for the interview by getting briefings from anti-Palin “experts” like Sam Nunn, who later would head O’bama’s transition team.
In other words, she came into the interview with a clear bias against her subject. Therefore what she did wasn’t “journalism” at all, it was a political hit job that succeeded beyond her and her masters’ wildest dreams.
Del Dolemonte on March 14, 2009 at 11:27 AM
Why did you have to bring her up? She was an ugly model a bad actress and a messed up person. I didn’t like her when she was alive and I care less now. STOP IT!
Gwillie on March 14, 2009 at 11:29 AM
During the interview, Couric did her best to present Palin to America in a sympathetic, positive fashion–it was Palin who turned it into a train wreck. I think Couric deserves an award for not laughing out loud at her.
hicsuget on March 14, 2009 at 10:44 AM
Del Dolemonte on March 14, 2009 at 11:30 AM
The ONLY way Kat-E gets 6 million viewers is that it is pumped into every prison and jail in the US. A captive viewer is the only audience she has.
lasertex on March 14, 2009 at 11:31 AM
Mffffft!
I stopped reading here. Can’t stop laughing…somebody help me please!…I’m begging you….
whitetop on March 14, 2009 at 11:32 AM
Meanwhile, the folks that hand out the adult video awards are basking in the warm glow of their significantly heightened credibility.
Seriously, I will not be joining those above that are saying “meh”.
This self-congratulatory circle jerk is patently offensive to me. These people that are being held up as paragons of objective journalism deserve their fair share of the blame for the rot that infests our country. Believe me that I will cheer loudly when the Boston Globe, New York Times, CBS, etc fail. Their apologists say that we will be worse off for not having the benefit of their reportage. I think we will be finally free of their malicious propaganda.
I’d write more but I headed over to sarahpac to make a donation.
turfmann on March 14, 2009 at 11:35 AM
I think not.
Brat4life on March 14, 2009 at 11:36 AM
Like getting the Che Guevara prize for Humanitarianism.
Libs are funniest when they act oblivious to their deepest contradictions.
jeff_from_mpls on March 14, 2009 at 11:37 AM
Still waiting to see comedy gold: ambush reporter springs a 9th Grade Mathematics test on National News Anchors.
They’re dumb as rocks and yet we allow them to preach to us.
Sick.
jeff_from_mpls on March 14, 2009 at 11:38 AM
Katie Couric:From Cheerleader,Delta Delta Delta Sister,TV anchor. What a journey. And they bash Palin for her rise to power.
Couric the Plagerist:
“In April 2007, one of “Katie Couric’s Notebook” columns on the CBS News website, a piece about the declining use of libraries, was shown to bear striking resemblances to an article by Wall Street Journal author Jeffrey Zaslow, “Of the Places You’ll Go, Is the Library Still One of Them?”. In the ensuing controversy, it was revealed that Couric does not generally write these columns, although they often include first-person recounting of supposed events. On April 12, 2007, CBS admitted that her most recent column was indeed plagiarized from a Zaslow article without her knowledge, and that the unidentified producer who provided the material had been fired. Couric continues to maintain that she wrote the article. The article has since been removed.
Couric covering for Barry O’Bama
Also in April 2007, in a “Katie Couric’s Notebook” titled “Is America ready for a President who grew up praying in a mosque?”, Couric’s video cited a Los Angeles Times article which reported that according to childhood acquaintance Zulfan Adi, U.S. Senator and Presidential candidate Barack Obama had “prayed in the mosque.” The video was later taken down from CBS’s website and the transcript amended with “In a later Chicago Tribune article, however, the source [Adi] said he was not certain whether they prayed together.”
Katie Couric. Journalistic excellence since…Never?
portlandon on March 14, 2009 at 11:39 AM
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