MsCouric, you waste of skin. Please step right up and kiss my gnarly ass.

[Stinky The Clown]

You're supposed to be the current warmer of the chair of Murrow and Cronkite. You're not fit to warm their toes, you weasely-assed slime bucket.

You call that an interview? Why did you find it necessary to cop a 'tude? Play it straight. Ms. Plame seems perfectly capable of articulating her view of things and relating her own story. She really didn't need you to be so childish and, dare I go for alliteration, churlish in steering things the way you wanted .... to fit your views. A real news person cultivates that skill. You, on the other hand, who have been paid all your life simply to be perky, do not.

I won't call you stupid. I don't think you are. I will, however, call you ignorant. I do think you are. I also think you have an agenda and I do not think showing it is acceptable.

Ms. Couric, I hope you soon find yourself in the same unemployment line as Connie Chung, who, in many ways, was you predecessor over there at CBS, but for very different reasons.

I knew Murrow and Cronkite. I trusted them.

You're no Cronkite. You're no Murrow.

You, ma'am, are a cheap hack.

Be gone.

[zabet]

1. Katie's not stupid...

she is just bought and paid for.

[dkofos]

62. That makes her a media WHORE!!

[babylonsister]

2. Hear, hear, hear! nt

[Canuckistanian]

3. I missed it. Was it that bad?

Of course, we all knew in advance it wasn't going to be a Pulitzer prize effort, but what was said?

[Stinky The Clown]

5. I'm being kind. It was worse.

Couric did everything she could to perpetuate the Plame as Glorified Secretary meme.

Plame did a very credible job.

I wonder who edited that piece.

They forgot the supposedly promised mention of her work in stopping nuke proliferation to Iran.

[BornagainDUer]

39. Husb2 stole my rant. That fucking whore asked Plame in this "come on

and admit it" attitude if she was fucking "partisan". Like this was some fucking politically motivated act against these fascist swill. I rank Couric along the lines of Ann Coulter, but worse because she is more subtle in her sleazy attacks. Couric is the new face of the corporatist media.

[tavalon]

64. Um, if I remember correctly, I believe they were Republicans

before all of this shit. I doubt they are now.

[Canuckistanian]

71. Joe claimed he was

At least, that's how his donations went.

[malaise]

4. KO will serve Katie her ass on a platter

when he interviews Valerie this week. I hope she watches and learns. Poor Katie is beyond shallow.

[Subdivisions]

6. Off to the greatest page with yee. n/t

[shireen]

7. pathetic interviewer

Fortunately, Plame saved it from being a total disaster.

[SalmonChantedEvening]

8. Best stomp on Couric by Valerie:

Hack with a tude: "Some people say...'

Valerie: "Who are these pople and what is their agenda?"

Well done Valerie, the perfect counter to lazy reporting.

[BattyDem]

10. That was PRICELESS!

That should be the response of EVERY Dem whenever they're hit with that "some people say" shit!

[Pacifist Patriot]

61. Anyone presented with "some people say" should ....

immediately respond with "and who exactly are "some people?"

[snappyturtle]

68. It was great to hear. More interviewers need the tables to be turned on

THEM!

[japple]

69. In the immortal words of Molly Ivins, "Oh, those awful

'SOME'." Thanks H2S for this response. I didn't see the "interview." Just can't bring myself to turn the TV on much anymore.

[godai]

9. Worst Couric comment :Rove's wife didn't work for CIA

When discussing how Valerie Plame was outed as a family member of Wilson (fair game), Wilson/Plame mentioned that Rove's wife was not outed. Couric responded...Roves' wife was not CIA. Wilson/ Plame responded: How do you know?? Good response but what makes Couric look stupid is that her response implies that BEING CIA makes it OK to be outed! She's a pathetic excuse for a journalist.

[Manifestor_of_Light]

24. Joe Wilson is great.

He kept saying, "How do you know?" (their wives don't work for the CIA).
"How do you know?".

Good way to shut her up.

[Raksha]

29. "How do you know?" was a great comeback in answer to that question.

The Wilsons were completely unflappable and saved the interview from being a total disaster, despite Couric's best efforts to make it one.

[emilyg]

11. Send this to the network.

k*R

[Whisp]

12. katie is there just for the effect you are effecting.

think about it.
the dumbing down of everything, and what acceptable recepable is more acceptable than a stupid woman. Let us forget al the stupid men.

[hfojvt]

13. interesting flip there

I did not see it, since I was watching KeithO on NBC. 60 Minutes used to be known for "going after" the people they interviewed. When they morphed into Sunday's episode of "Entertainment Tonight" they switched to doing almost all 'suck up' interviews, like their recent puff piece on Blackwater. So now they will pretend to be the old muckraking 60 Minutes when they interview Democrats or critics of Bush. Oh come on, are we supposed to believe this is objective?

[TreasonousBastard]

14. And all that vinegar without...

knowing how the uncut interview went.

The point of it was that the edited interview was entirely in Plame's favor, and if they really wanted to do a hatchet job they would have edited out her answers. As it was, they included Couric's nasty questions and her good answers.

Perhaps a puff piece with only softball questions and agreement with her would have been preferable?

[Arugula Latte]

15. Like, oh my god, you guys? Like, Katie is such a cool sorority sister? You know?

Oh my god, you are like being so harsh on her?

[CoffeeCat]

30. You and I are like, so on the same page...

Katie IS such an awesome-wicked sorority sister, and I know because
she brought the BEST cheese dip to last Friday's exchange with the Betas.
She used like, a half gallon of fat-free cheese and a gallon
of fat-free sour cream. It was like, so fat free. You could
drink it all night and not gain weight. Goes great with Fat
Free Tostitos and Lite Rolling Rock.

See ya!

[Arugula Latte]

47. Oh my god I like ate so much of that

Then I totally got drunk and made out with that guy? You know, he's like a new pledge and Trevor's little brother and he's like really hot?

[CoffeeCat]

50. I'm like totally freakin...

...because I like made out with Trevor? Oh my God? I think that means
we're related now?

Did you make it to 8am psych? I missed the bus because I was like curling my
eyelashes and Jen came around the corner and bumped me and I like pulled out my
eyelashes? Total Max Factor nightmare?

Can I like borrow your notes?

We'll talk later? We're so like, sistas foreva?!?!?!

[Arugula Latte]

51. Totally sistahs. Text me during psych, okay? I've got soc.

BFF!!

[CoffeeCat]

53. AweSOME!

I'll like text you?

Let's study at the Health-Sci library tonight? Totally
like cute pre-doctor students study there?

Like let's wear argyle sweaters? Gotta look cute AND smart?

Can I borrow your Lip Smacker?

TTFN!

[riverdeep]

60. Hah!

I didn't know what TTFN* meant and went looking it up. Nice exchange.


*(Ta Ta For Now)

[Stinky The Clown]

65. OhMyGawd. Is this like good for like a DUzey or what?

You two are like so funny. I mean, totally.

(Is it like possible to nom like a subthread????)

[Cha]

16. You mean like couric "interviewed"

the Edwards..Elizabeth and John?

Do not the Wilsons and every other Seeker of Truth know that katie couric will go down on repukes and get a Spanish Inquisition attitude on people who are fighting the fascists like her?

[Major Hogwash]

17. Worst interview . . evah!

What made Katie think that by waving her hands around like that, it meant that she had something important to say?

And what was up with that lame, two-handed "this is the church, this is the steeple" gesture?

Vacuous questions, limp responses to known acts of criminality, talking about convicted criminals - who actually are traitors - as if they were simply misunderstood public servants.

"Well, in all fairness, Karl Rove's wife is not a CIA agent."

Oh really?! Tell me more, you little Bush toadie!!

If we were talking about "in all fairness" those guys would already have been charged with treason, tried in a criminal court (because they are criminals, after all), convicted, and then hung.

Because that's the penalty for traitors committing treason, lil' Katie - or haven't you read any US history books lately, like in the last 40 fuckin' years!!

[Manifestor_of_Light]

25. Joe Wilson kept saying "How do you know she's not?"

He said it three or four times to shut her up, after she used 2 or three other famous-repubes-wives as examples.

:loveya: JOE!!! A True Patriot! And Valerie Too!

[Control-Z]

59. Please tell me -

what was her answer? Did she squirm? Stutter? Argue? What?

(Fire broke out in OC last night - I ended up missing the show.)

[HCE SuiGeneris]

18. Brilliant.

60 Minutes up in a 1/2 hour here. I will be impartial. :evilgrin:

[NMDemDist2]

19. yup

what Stinky said

:puke:

[Disturbed]

20. I was going to watch it but now I won't waste my time.

Couric is a RWing shill & vapid.

[NMDemDist2]

21. nah, it's worth watching just for Plame n/t

[Booster]

22. I haven't seen the interview yet, but my question is out of all of the

people who could have done the interview, why did the Wilson's agree to Katie doing it? Keith O will interview her next and he is an excellent choice, but Katie??????

[Stinky The Clown]

27. Maybe they knew how bad she'd be. And her degree of bad is SO bad .....

.... that even a nutter can see how awful she is. She makes any adversary look good.

[Booster]

28. I finally saw the interview and I thought the Wilson's did well.

Valerie got in her digs at the Dimson and they were effective, especially saying Bush's word wasn't worth a shit. ha Katie looked very old and out of touch, but I think did a fairer job than I've been reading. I would have liked someone else to have done it, but I think Valerie came across good, intelligent, articulate, etc.

[CTyankee]

36. My response, too! Valerie rolled right over Couric. I felt she had righteous

indignation on her side and was brilliant. Couric, iMHO, did not lay a glove on her. Couric's points were old, lame, outworn, stupid and very dull. The RW is in sad shape, indeed, with a performance like that!

[blondeatlast]

43. The interview was bad, but Plame owned Couric.

The Wilxon/Plames are media savvy indeed. Couric came off looking like a HS girl doing a piece for the yearbook.

[Irishonly]

55. CBS owns the

publishing company which published the book.

[Poiuyt]

23. I hope you plan on sending that to CBS

[young_at_heart]

26. I've been watching CBS News for 48 years---I stopped with Katie

I gave her a chance when she first started and knew instantly that I could not continue with her. After tonight's debacle I may give up on 60 Minutes. I will miss Andy Rooney, though!

[Pachamama]

31. Once again, Katie Courics "contempt" was revolting....She kept saying to Wilson with a scowl on her

face "Your still seathing, your still seathing".... Well, no shit Katie, ofcourse he's "still seathing"!!! We should all still be seathing after what the Bush Cheney administration did to Wilson and outing Valerie Plame and Brewster Jennings! I'm surprised that when people are being treated with such contempt by Katie Couric that they can avoid telling her to shove it or call out her bias and her stupidity. Wilson was calm and looked at her like she was an idiot - "ofcourse I'm still seathing - it violated National Security"...

Duh...and yet Katie Couric sits there with her scowl, her glare acting as if "how dare Wilson and Plame make the suggestions they do"....

[flyarm]

32. what a damn shame that anyone in this country would consider Katie a journalist!

She was abominable.

The Wison's came off as so sincere and so professional..and Valerie is so beautiful..in every way,...and so intelligent..

Katie came off as an utter boob!

a nasty , utter boob!

Thank you Joe And Valerie for being such wonderful Americans and for your service to our nation, on my families behalf.

fly

[Usrename]

33. Couric is a hack and that was a huge disappointment.

Not really, cause I knew it would be pathetic before I even watched it.

[KT2000]

34. Entertainment Tonight!

must be calling after that pathetic interview.
Katie is a lightweight through and through - send her to the red carpet with her mike in hand.

[unhappycamper]

35. Ahhhh. The Couric unit.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2007/10/12/couric-coined-the-unit-_n_68211.html

[Uncle Joe]

37. I totally agree Husb2Sparkly, it was the usual MO of attempting to blame the victim.

With Couric, anyone that gets screwed over or betrayed by the Bush administration is supposed to say "thank you sir, may I have another."

[Catherine Vincent]

38. Katie would tell you that you're being too partisan about her.

:)

:kick:

[Dinger]

40. K & R!

That is all.

[MonkeyFunk]

41. What did she do wrong?

It was a very good interview - Plame came off looking great, the administration came off looking awful.

[Kurovski]

42. Couldn't agree more.

Rec'ed

[degreesofgray]

44. There is no worse interviewer than Couric

she is maddeningly awful and all the while Dan Rather is hidden away on the HD channel

[Auntie Bush]

45. Please accept my condolences ..

I didn't know your ass was gnarly. But you can still call a jerk a jerk.

[Stinky The Clown]

46. *Most* people don't know that .......

.... cuz i tend to wear pantz ...... well .... shortz ..... mosta the time. :)

[Joanne98]

48. She was soooo weak. Bowing down to Bush! *&^%

[BrklynLib at work]

49. I applaud your eloquence.

:applause:

[KansDem]

52. Was there any "I'll check into that and get back later with my viewers" moment?

When challenged on her facts, she'll back off with that comment. The only problem is she never "gets back" with us!

[earth mom]

54. You have quite the way with words! A fitting tribute to that snarky b*tch Katie!

Wish I had written that! :thumbsup:

[devilgrrl]

56. I didn't bother watching because I knew the interview was going to go the way you described

Did I call it or what?

[Javaman]

57. purky cops the tude because she fully knows that she's not the brightest bulb in the lot

and that Plame can run circles around her, but then again a cold rock can run circles around here as well.

[riverdeep]

58. I don't think I saw what you saw.

Maybe I just have lowered expectations, but that wasn't the hatchet job I was expecting. It actually surprised me with it's lack of vitriol, and saying boldly she was covert. My ear perked up when I heard that Plame's new book is corporately tied to CBS. This was my personal explanation for the relative even handedness. Anyway, regardless of Kouric, Plame came off very, very well.

I haven't seen the non-broadcast clips, though. I need to check those out.

[kimmerspixelated]

63. It almost didn't matter what the body of your post was,

I thought, as I laughed my ass off!...Touche' Yeah Couric is a real nimrod!...But you did forget Bob Shieffer!

[lonestarnot]

66. And what's more you're no fucking anchor!

:toast:

[anitar1]

67. Thanks , H2S, perfect.

After last night I am through with 60 Minutes until that almost whiny little person is gone. What
a bitch. Have never cared to watch her through the years. The show is slowly fading, imo.

[Yukari Yakumo]

70. I rather watch Springer than Katie. 'nuff said. {nt}

uguu