Posted on 12/10/2004 3:30:41 PM PST by Muzzle_em
NBC Defends Couric's Anti-Christian Rant by Gary Schneeberger, editor
Network refuses to apologize for the "Today" host's 1998 intimation that groups like Focus on the Family incited the murder of Matthew Shepard.
NBC News has refused to apologize to Christians maligned by "Today" show host Katie Couric's insinuation that biblical teachings on homosexuality in part prompted the 1998 murder of gay teenager Matthew Shepard.
In a Dec. 8 letter to Focus on the Family, a network executive rejected the ministry's call for an apology, made in light of a recent news report on ABC's "20/20" that debunked the longstanding notion that the attack on Shepard was a homophobic "hate crime."
(Excerpt) Read more at family.org ...
I wonder if Katie Curic's dad ever gave her a swat on the rear for acting up. She appears to me as the most undisiplined, bratty little girl I have ever seen.
I'm taking the liberty of pinging this to the Today Show ping list.
No accountablility at NBC? I am shocked. Shocked, I tell you.
What did 20/20 say was the motivator?
I keep hearing of how "popular" the Today show is with Katie Couric.
When I think of the Today show I think of the huge audience they have alienated by being so stridently hatefilled against traditional Americans.
Katie does herself, her show and her network no favors with her anti Christian bent.
It's our job to make sure people are aware of statements like this.
Bratty kid that grew up into a bratty adult that acts like a kid.
in the bizzaro world of liberalism, its ok to be anti-christian. not anti-gay.
you dont actually expect liberals to live by the standarad they set forth for others now do you???
Why do you say she grew up? So far as I can see she's still in the anal phase.
"It's our job to make sure people are aware of statements like this."
People like the Advertisers of the program.
And if the advertisers don't change, we gotta boycott their products and bring 'em to their knees. Fiscally, if not morally. Viva Mervyn's letting the Salvation Army back on their lots--we just won one battle. (other thread of today)
I seem to recall that it was drugs (meth in this case). Based on interviews with the killers and the court case itself.
She must be especially upset at the recent news Shephard wasn't killed because he was gay - but from a drug deal gone bad. I feel for his family that he was murdered, but he has become a poster child for hate crimes for all the wrong reasons.
If you'd like to weigh in to Couric and NBC News President Neal Shapiro about the latest developments in this case, you can find contact information, including an easy-to-use e-mail form, in the CitizenLink Action Center. Click here to reach Couric, and here to reach Shapiro.
FR thread here:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1288709/posts
Looks like Katie needs another colonoscopy.
Wow. Who'd of thunk it?
She wants acceptance by the "art & croissent" croud. A la rush!
I have always found Katie Couric obnoxious, overbearing and totally full of herself.
Her late husband was a nice guy and I felt sympathy for her when he died, but she has not earned my respect, she is still a pompous, hateful little spit.
What are her educational credentials? She appears to have no intellectual depth or common sense.
If Frau Couric had offended Muslims, the network would be falling all over itself to apologize.
Ahhhhh, Katie. You're so predictible.
Are people actually still watching this has-been?
When you reject sound doctrine you then call right wrong and wrong right. this is also known as liberalismn.
I still chuckle to myself when Katie the Kommie and her male counterpart wore black the morning that Dubya was elected for his second term.
She sat there pouting and with her arms crossed the entire show.
Robbery and methamphetamine induced violence. It even turns out that one of the murders was bi-sexual.
Uh...maybe I'm wrong here, but does it really matter?
Are people actually still watching this has-been?
Today show is looking like "Entertainment Tonight" with a tid bit of current news thrown in. Katie is a bore and a celebrity hound...
I remember this, but why is it coming up now, 6 years later?
Oh NO, she would have been FIRED.
No doubt, making what, $14 million per year, she can afford to be a brat...
It's outrageous that people get that kind of money for simply being perky.
bttt
I will pray for Katie Couric. God is in the business of changing hearts and minds, even Katie Couric's.
Will Katie Couric also then link the Kinsey report to the 2
Gay men who tied up and soddomised a boy who died of suffocation????
I'm waiting Kattie.....
sure is quiet......
Kattie I have a question for you...
remember when you asked the family of a fallen soldier if his death had changed their mind about war?
well did the death of your Husband change your mind about
Cancer Teatments?
Do you Oppose them now?
You are way too nice. What you meant was ," Socialist left wing bitch", right?
It should'a happened to her.
What a stupid little spoiled bit*h...
From the other end this time; all the way through.
"She appears to me as the most undisiplined, bratty little girl I have ever seen."
You forgot "skank".
Don't you think it did help frame the mind set of those that did kill Shepard... ?
She insisted on having pro-gays on who blamed Christians for inciting the sort of violence against gays that killed Matthew Shepard.
The truth was she was helping these gay rights activists exploit the death of Matthew Shepard in an attempt to silence Christians they saw as standing in the way of the total normalization of homosexuality, gay marriage etc.
Obviously the last election shows it didn't work.
INTREP
Who was her husband?
Wow. Who'd of thunk it?"
Man, Dave Garroway must be 100 years old! Guess this Katy Couric replaced J. Fred Muggs.
"If you look closely at the transcript of the interview, you will note that Ms. Couric was quoting 'gay activists' who were quite vocal at the time of Mr. Shepard's death," McCormick wrote. "She was not making a statement of fact and she was certainly not insinuating that" Christians were responsible for Shepard's murder.
Hodel[Focus President] wasn't buying that line of reasoning.
"As we allknow, the tone and manner with which a question is posed can convey a great deal of information," Hodel wrote to McCormick on Thursday. "It was clear six years ago, and remains clear today, that Ms. Couric's tone and manner were not that of an impartial journalist seeking the truth about a tragedy. It was the tone and manner of an advocate intent on repeating an unfounded accusation disguised as a question.
"She set up this question by asking one leading and loaded question after another at the besieged governor of Wyoming, pressing him to express the intention of going back to Wyoming and pushing for "hate crime" legislation, making plain that she clearly considered the killing to be a hate crime.
"Then, finally, she named three Christian organizations (one of them Focus on the Family) and asserted the gay rights activists' charges of 'contributing to this anti-homosexual atmosphere' by having an ad campaign that suggested that gay people might like to change their orientation," Hodel added. "It was definitely a 'have you stopped beating your wife?' type of question, and her meaning was inescapable."
Hodel concluded his response by suggesting that NBC's refusal to admit its wrongdoing is likely to have repercussions.
"It is viewers who understand that . . . the nightly news is increasingly becoming the nightly opportunity to mock traditional values who are turning away from the broadcast networks for their information," he noted. "They, like us, are disappointed — but hardly surprised — at NBC News' refusal to admit the truth about Ms. Couric's ugly insinuation.
I don't remember his name - can see his face. Was also a reporter or pundit. Now I'll have to look it up on the Net.
Thanks a lot :)
Named in honor of Jay Monahan - the late husband of NBC "TODAY" show co-anchor Katie Couric - who died at age 42 of colon cancer,
HAPPY NOW? ;)
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