Ex-CBS Reporter: Couric a 'Liberal Democrat...in Love With Hillary'

Newsbusters.org ^ | August 30, 2006 | Tom Johnson

[WestTexasWend]

According to a new biography of Dan Rather, one longtime CBSer -- no, not Rather himself -- believes what most NewsBusters readers believe: that incoming CBS Evening News anchor Katie Couric is in the tank for Hillary Clinton.

In his review of Alan Weisman's Lone Star, Dave Shiflett of Bloomberg News writes that:

[f]ormer [CBS] congressional correspondent Phil Jones tells Weisman that Couric is "a liberal Democrat who is so in love with Hillary Clinton'' that it could pose a problem if Clinton runs for president.

We're left believing that Rather's critics will soon be pining for the good old days when straight-shooting Dan ruled the CBS roost.

It would appear that conservatives who read Lone Star will enjoy certain parts (Shiflett notes that in "Weisman's acerbic telling, [Walter Cronkite] is an arrogant blowhard 'who still believes that the anchor chair should have been retired with him in 1981'") far more than they'll enjoy others (in Shiflett's words, Weisman considers Memogate "a fairly minor error that sparked a gross overreaction").

[WestTexasWend]

Can't post Bloomberg, but the full review's here >>>

http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601088&sid=awjAsiWH2rhg&refer=muse

[TimesDomain]

Couric is liberal?

That falls under the catagory "Duh! No S***!"

:>)

[AmericanMade1776]

I don't believe it, I am almost sure Couric is only in love with herself and same with Hillary.

[neodad]

Kind of like how the dog starts to resemble the master, Porky Katie is starting to resemble Her Thighness.

[Yossarian]

[fhayek]

Weisman considers Memogate "a fairly minor error that sparked a gross overreaction").

Yeah, fabricating news in order to destroy a sitting president, and then whitewashing it afterwards - fairly minor. Almost as minor as your credibility.

[GianniV]

I'm so sick of people who think this wretch is "hot." She's getting uglier by the minute.

[WestTexasWend]

'people who think this wretch is "hot."'

Sweaty, maybe. Definitely not "hot".

[InvisibleChurch]

How would Dan describe it? Fat but accurate?

[JerseyDvl]

If she were hot they wouldn't have had to Photoshop 20 lbs. off her for a promo pic.
She wouldn't even be among the top 10 if she worked for Fox News...in looks or smarts.

[WorkingClassFilth]

The more full of leftist passion she is the better. In fact, if she publicly declared her forbidden love for Hillary, I would be downright ecstatic. Anything these freaks do to blatantly expose themselves and their abnormality is just what the doctor ordered.

Of course, in the most literal sense, extreme viewing caution would be advised.

[labette]

I'm reminded of an Ann Coulter line.
She {Ann] was asked if she had ever seen two women having sex, and she replied, "Not since Katie Couric interviewed Hillary Clinton!"

{Memory, Don't fail me now...}

[230FMJ]

Perky Katie is a sad JOKE.

[AmericanInTokyo]

I predict...we in the Pajama Brigades, will topple her down and off of her show...in two or three years' time. She and her staff will flub up a story with a patent lie--in an effort to smear The Right on something, but get caught red handed on the web, like Dan Rather was. Just watch. It will happen to Katie Couric, too. My prediction.

She is too big for her britches for it NOT to happen to her.

[ladyinred]

This is no surprise of course. I suppose the only new thing here is that someone else dares to say it out loud. Sorry, but Dan Rather didn't keep his bias a secret either.

[Rummyfan]

It was Ann Coulter who once joked that the only time she ever witnesssed woman-on-woman sex was when Katie Couric interviewed Hillary during her 'Living History' book tour.

[BigSkyFreeper]

Dan Rather is the human equivalent of dandruff: Annoying as hell, itches, get rid of him, goes away, comes back for more.

[stm]

And vulgar to boot.

[Proud_USA_Republican]

Brilliant! that made me laugh.

[BigSkyFreeper]

I predict...we in the Pajama Brigades, will topple her down and off of her show...in two or three years' time.

Slacker!

:)