Universty alumna Katie Couric interviews Emily Couric Women's Leadership Award winner Caroline Kennedy at the Omni hotel downtown yesterday. (April 13, 2005)
Posted on 05/22/2006 6:17:41 AM PDT by governsleastgovernsbest
by Mark Finkelstein
May 22, 2006
"Let every nation know, whether it wishes us well or ill, that we shall pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend, oppose any foe, in order to assure the survival and the success of liberty." JFK Inaugural Address, 1961
"We can do just as much by withdrawing our troops." John Murtha, Winner, Profile in Courage Award, on Today Show, 5/22/06
The Kennedys have come a long way since JFK gave his inaugural speech. Pres. Kennedy was a cold warrior, not only in the words of that speech, but in action. He stared down the Kremlin over the Soviets' installation of nuclear missiles in Cuba, and with his Cuban embargo took the world the closest it has ever been to the brink of nuclear war.
Forty-some years later, his daughter honors, in JFK's name, a man calling for America to cut and run from Iraq, leaving that country to dissolve into anarchy and chaos that could threaten not just the region but the entire world. So much for bearing any burden, supporting any friend, opposing any fore to assure the survival and success of liberty.
This year's other Proile in Courage is Alberto Mora, former general counsel of the Department of the Navy, who, according to the JFK Library web site, "waged a campaign inside the Bush administration" against "cruel and abusive practices of United States military interrogators at Guantanamo [that] were the result of significant policy shifts at the highest levels of the U.S. government."
And there to publicize these profiles on this morning's Today show was Katie Couric.
Now, if there's one thing that takes absolutely no courage, it is for a Democrat to criticize President Bush's handling of the Iraq war. In interviewing Murtha in a segment devoted to highlighting this year's Profiles in Courage Award Winners, Katie really had to dig deep to find an example of any price Murtha paid.
Katie: "You did take a lot of grief from the Bush administration for making this speech, Republicans in Congress for making this speech. Some people even suggested you didn't deserve the two Purple Hearts and Bronze star you were awarded during the Vietnam War. How difficult was it for you personally in the aftermath of standing up and speaking your mind, how difficult was it to deal with the criticism?"
Oh, please. The relatively obscure Murtha overnight became a hero of the left, instantly lionized like he'd never been before. If 'Caroline,' as Couric repeatedly referred to her friend, was looking for real profiles in courage, she could have chosen from the many Iraqis who risked, and often sacrificed, their lives by accepting positions as judges, political leaders, etc. Or someone like Pres. Hamad Karzai of Afghanistan, whose life is in constant danger as he works to give his country a shot at modernity and democracy. And if the Kennedys are siincerely concerned about inhumane prison conditions, they could have looked to the other parts of Cuba, where truly brave and heroic pro-democracy dissidents languish in Castro's cruel jails.
Instead, Caroline Kennedy has transformed her father's legacy into little more than a vehicle for taking partisan shots at a Republican administration, confident that Couric & Co. will be there to accord it respectful treatment.
It's a mad house!
Spamalot.
Today Show/NewsBusters ping.
A profile in courage award for a cut and run strategy. Shameful. An award to a congressman who only recently said our marines murder iraqi civilians "in cold blood". Yup, thats the ticket -- Carolyn Kennedy continues to destroy any integrity that may remain of this award.
That is next year's award! LOL
The only thing missing from his bloated side is Edgar Bergen.
You GOT to be kidding.
Nice work, Carolyn. We can all rest assured that Shamalot continues.
He won in terms of getting those missiles out, but it was a loss because he promised the US would never invade, thus allowing a communist satellite nation 90 miles from our shores. Which reminds me, how legally binding is that promise of JFK's?
Isn't she the little freak who's on in the morning?
I just happened to flip the channel over to NBC when Katie was having a love fest with Murtha. SICK!!!
LOL. I sincerely appreciate the thought, but won't start preparing my acceptance speech quite yet ;-)
BTW..FYI..this weekend's NY POST TV section had a blurb that her last week on Today, besides being a trubute to her..will also get some good digs in...they're gonna show a lot of tape of some of the more ridiculous, even stupid things she's done obver the years..
Profiles in Treason, more like.
A profile in courage award for a cut and run strategy.
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The leftist MSM is traitorous and nothing but a bunch of euro-style weak, limp socialists. Their emblem is the white flag...
Isn't she gone yet?
This is reminding me of the opening of the second act of Pirates of Penzance.
The policemen sing about going off to do battle with the pirates, but never actually go.
The major general repeats, "Go, go, please go!."
By the way.....how do we know the missiles ever came out? All we did was take the word of some Russians that the tarp covered objects on the ships were not only missiles but all of the missiles. JFK did not "Trust but verify".
No independent verification of the removal of missiles from Cuba ever happened.
Murtha is a Profile in Senility and Camera-Hogging.
John Kennedy's courage was in banging his White House secretaries in the swimming pool.
I must say that, even ignoring his opinions, he did not cut an impressive figure in his appearance this morning.
JFK lost.... Supposedly the Soviets removed theri missiles, but we also agreed to remove our missiles from Turkey.
If JFK had simply supported the Bay of Pigs invasion, this situation would probably never have come up.
What a joke this award is. Murtha not only did not pay any political price for his stance but he has actually benefitted. Meanwhile truly deserving people are ignored. How slimy the left and their media allies are.
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| He stared down the Kremlin over the Soviets' installation of nuclear missiles in Cuba, and with his Cuban embargo took the world the closest it has ever been to the brink of nuclear war. Statements like this have always given me a case of gas. JFK's incompetence allowed Kruchev to place those missiles in Cuba in the first place. His failure to remove the Jupiter missiles as promised in Turkey, his intelligence failure to learn of the intent to install missiles in Cuba or spotting them in transit and then to top it all off, he committed the United States to a policy of never ever removing a dictator in our sphere of influence. President Monroe would be ashamed of President Kennedy. Come to think of it, Kennedy had much less intelligence proving missiles in Cuba than did President Bush on Iraq. All he really had were photos of flatbed trucks with tarps covering long tubes. Hell, the left today would have called these things dual use items... grain silos and or missiles.
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Two anti-war Democrats. Shocking.
......... without an injection from Dr. Feelgood.
;-)
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At NewsBuster's there's a video clip that shows that after Murtha finished his rant, Chen chimed in, saying 'absolutely'!
http://newsbusters.org/node/5476
'Princess Summer Fall Winter Spring' was real nice back in the 50's.
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My memory may be a little shaky but I think JFK ask for the ships' captains word for having them but never verified that they were indeed missiles or if they were all of them. I heard from another source just a few months later that there were still some sites that were ready to go.
(Ted Koppel)
Murtha and Kerry are the best the left can do when it comes to their "war heroes."
Yep, Madhouse. Thats the way I'd describe "Today". It's a worthless propaganda rag for the extreme left, and supports leftist cowardice as exhibited by Murtha.
"Semper Fi"
Gerald R. Baxter
Msgt USMC (Retired)
most thinking people understand, I suspect, that it's really a profile in cowardice, and that everyone associated with this is a buffoon. Did I spell that right?
A RAT/lib/socialist organization giving an award to one of their own. How objective! Just like the Nobel society giving their "peace" prize to Arafat!
LOL..............
To the ratmedia courage is stabbing your country in the back so this is no surprise. Nevertheless, if surrender murtha was saying some leftist scumbag was guilty before a trial they would be killing him day after day.
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