At The Today Show, the Abu Ghraib-a-thon Goes on, as Katie Frets Kerry Overshadowed

The Today Show

[governsleastgovernsbest]

Somewhere, perhaps in France, Jerry Lewis is green with envy. His telethons last a mere 24 hours. But every morning, Today sets a new world record for its continuing Abu Ghraib-a-thon.

Dutiful soldiers in the liberal army that they are, Matt and Katie were at their posts again today.

Matt led with an interview with a Washington Post journalist. The Post has obtained additional abuse photos and paraded its findings in a front page above-the-fold story this morning. Blah, blah, blah, cue the hand-wringing.

Then it was on to Katie's interview with Tim Russert.

Asked Katie, fingers crossed: "What will be the political impact be of the new photos and videotape?"

Replied Russert with grim face firmly in place: "This continues the very bad political problems for the Bush administration. The new photos will have 'an enormously powerful effect on the American people.' Something has gone terribly wrong."

Katie is never better than when she is offering "helpful" advice to Republicans. "Instead of drip, drip, drip wouldn't it be better to get all this out?"

Russert: "That is the view of John McCain and Lindsey Graham. Yes, it would give us a higher moral authority."

Katie is clearly impatient and concerned that the taint hasn't reached high enough. "There have been congressional hearings, a parade of generals, Sec. Rumsfeld. All have insisted this is limited to a group of rogue soldiers. When will the American people know just how high this gows? It seems the animus toward the US is growing daily. Isn't time of the essence?"

Russert 'sagely' observed that Abu Ghraib has become "A metaphor for the mismanagement of the war."

Referring to W's meeting with congressional Republicans yesterday, Katie asked "did Pres. Bush smooth any ruffled feathers or reassure congressional leaders?"

Russert implied the meeting was a failure: "Deep down there is a lot of anxiety. These pictures are just devastating."

With echoes of Carole Simpson's taunting referral to Pres. Bush I as the "education president," Katie then asked, butter not melting in her mouth: "Is the Bush campaign rethinking the strategy of running the President as a war President in view of all the bad news coming out of Iraq?"

Nope, said Russert.

The most telling moment came at the very end.

Katie asked: "Has John Kerry been overshadowed [by all the Abu Ghraib news]?" She then clearly was beginning to ask "How," and then at the last second caught herself and rephrased her question "Is he breaking through?"

In other words, Katie's instinct was to ask "how can Kerry break through?" as if she were a campaign adviser or at the least the avid supporter that she is.

She might have thought she covered her tracks, but the merciless eye of Free Republic sees all, tells all!

[governsleastgovernsbest]

Thanks for your kind words!

[Christian4Bush]

I can hardly wait for the Wednesday morning program after the election. Miss Katie will have tears in her eyes. They will be asking? How did this happen? They won't figure it out. We will all be chuckling, thinking how well our VRWC plan worked. A lot of RATS fell for our "Rats vote on Wednesday plan".

Were I not planning to wear a suit at the RNC Headquarters in Los Angeles (wherever that will be) on Election Night, I would love to wear a t-shirt that says "Proud Member of the VRWC"!

On the back, I could say, "I actually did vote to feel sorry for John Kerry...before I voted against it."

[Christian4Bush]

Those 'news' programs have moved so far left that they are now by definition, propaganda. I guess if someone held a gun to my head I would watch them.

Heck, no...I would tell them that I'd never watch that stuff, and tell them where to aim. Trust me, I'd rather see God for eternity, than 1 hour...1 segment...of the Fraudcast Lamescream Communist Media.

[Behind Liberal Lines]

I realize that this has been SOP for a few years now, at least, but all of a sudden this tactic of reporters interviewing other reporters has really gotten my goat.

[Wolfstar]

(1) Lindsay Graham is a member-in-good-standing of the McCainiac wing of the GOP, along with Chuck Hagel and a few others.

(2) The best that can be said of the entire US Congress these days is that they'll soon be on hiatus for Memorial Day, followed quickly by hiatus for July 4, the conventions, summer recess, and then they leave Washington to go campaigning, followed by recess for the holidays.

[Wolfstar]

...this tactic of reporters interviewing other reporters...

You mean like this example of Katie the Intrepid Reporter interviewing her peer?

[Wolfstar]

Speaking of funny, here's another example of Miss Katie's interviewing skills:

[an amused spectator]

"Liberals, we live in a world that has walls and those walls need to be guarded by men with guns. Who's gonna do it? You? You, Michael Moore?"

If the liberals betray the men on the walls by getting Janus F'n Kerry elected, perhaps the men on the walls should return the favor by abandoning the walls.

I know that I'll never let one of mine serve in the military if Kerry is elected, and I'll be suggesting to others that they're fools to be bullet-catchers for the Left, after the Left has called them fools for serving, and dying, in Iraq and Afghanistan.

Let the Blue Cities take care of their own in the event of a Kerry election. The Islamofascists will be coming after them first, and I wash my hands of their fate.

[RottiBiz]

Thanks for suffering so we don't have to.

You paint wonderful word pictures!

;-)

[governsleastgovernsbest]

Thanks RB, it's my pleasure.

[Oztrich Boy]

Katie asked: "Has John Kerry been overshadowed [by all the Abu Ghraib news]?"

"John Kerry could be overshadowed by day-old meatloaf news" pace Dave Letterman

[governsleastgovernsbest]

Sounds like you saw the same clip from Letterman I did that FNC showed on Special Report earlier this evening, where Letterman said that a fly on the wall in the Kerry/Nader meeting would have been "the most charistmatic thing in the room."