Posted on 09/26/2007 5:50:45 AM PDT by teddyballgame
The former “Today” show anchor traced her discomfort with the administration’s march to war back to the aftermath of the Sept. 11 attacks.
“The whole culture of wearing flags on our lapel and saying ‘we’ when referring to the United States and, even the ‘shock and awe’ of the initial stages, it was just too jubilant and just a little uncomfortable. And I remember feeling, when I was anchoring the ‘Today’ show, this inevitable march towards war and kind of feeling like, ‘Will anybody put the brakes on this?’ And is this really being properly challenged by the right people? And I think, at the time, anyone who questioned the administration was considered unpatriotic and it was a very difficult position to be in.”
Couric referenced comments made by Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad on Monday’s “The Charlie Rose Show,” and said she actually agreed with Ahmadinejad on one point. “Oftentimes Westerners don’t really understand fully the values of this particular culture,” said Couric. “And I think the jury is still out as to whether democracy can really thrive in Iraq.”
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Jubillent???? I don’t seem to recall any jubillence in the days between 911 and the war. what I saw was resolve, and a grim determination to end the threat.
I guess perhaps the crowd she hangs in was jubillent because they knew that they would soon relive their good old days of antiwar protesting and america bashing.
what a maroon!
Well Katie if ‘we’ dont fully understand them WHY dont you go move there for 10 years and tell us how its going?
Trying to once again be the Belle-of-the-Ball on the liberal Cocktails Circuit, instead of the punchline.
Sounds like Dan Blather is channeling himself through her.
Couric is all the proof you need
No, she isn’t just a ‘lib’. In truth, she’s a drooling idiot. It’s just that some are only now starting to fully realize it.
So when it comes to Bush and war she of course sees the press as playing its role as adversary. But when her idol Hillary becomes president she will just be a mouthpiece for her administration, as most in the “news” media were for Bill.
Many “professional journalists” sneered at my work. The most common criticism was that I lacked “objectivity” because I called enemy fighters “terrorists” when they used car bombs to blow up civilians, or because I openly admitted that as an American, I hoped “our side” would win. I seemed to get particularly bad marks for describing the outcomes of combat missions with terms like: “killed the enemy,” “shot the terrorist,” or “captured the suspects.” But in the context of the war as I was seeing it, the terminology was accurate.
No one at the UN said Saddam was living up to his agreement when he signed onto 1441. There were those (crooks) wanting to give Saddam endless time, but 1441 was all about “immediate and unfettered compliance.”
Is Couric trying to prove she is an idiot or does she think we are all idiots? That’s the only issue here.
Feel free to move to France ... or maybe even Iran.
It never ends....until it is ended. I would like to see the U.S. end it, because America didn't start it, in spite of what the old media, and the majority of congress say.
I believe it is time to WINONE4THEGIPPER, as well as win one for ourselves unless we want our ladies covered from head to toe and being stoned (murdered) for daring to show a mouth, or ankle and if you like the old media and our current congress, Americans will love being forced into prayer five times a day towards mecca and directed at the devil, allah.
America could have ended this war on the week after 9-11. The arabs should remember all Americans are and do not agree with the old media, or the traitors in our congress. America will win because the other choice, to lose, means the end of America. America is not ready to lose, the world, the U.S. Congress and the old media would be wise to remember, We the People, will decide, not they (the world, the U.S. Congress, or the old media)
She reveals herself as a true idiot - many have thought so already but now we have confirmation from the horse’s mouth!
These demons will never go away. It will never end until we do something more drastic in the littler box known as the Middle East.
Just hours after 9/11/01 liberal callers to the conservative talk shows I listen to said they absolutely refuse to show the Flag in any fashion. The Flag is too Republican they said.
And not long after that Senator Dianne Feinstein (D.-Cal.) said that wearing an American flag lapel pin causes her "embarrassment."
We're not even in the same library -- forget ever being on the same page.
There two ways a person gets to keep a “cushy” news anchor job. Draw a large audience,which little Katie isn’t doing or spout anti-American rhetoric that pleases the people that produce these objective news shows !!!
“anyone who questioned the administration was considered unpatriotic “
Hey Katie, got links? This is something the Left repeats over and over, but who can recall anyone calling questioners unpatriotic? I don’t mean here or at DU or wherever, I mean government officials, congress, the MSM? The president, Secretary of State, who says this?
This is a strawman argument and must be challenged.
If she is so understanding of their culture ...she should know that had she been in Iran, she definitely would be in jail today with all her blustering knocking of the administration.
Ironically, she is right. Westerners like her don’t understand the “values of this particular culture.” Just as people like her could not understand the “values” of the Germany of 1933-1939.
Contrast our pitiful attempts at understanding Middle Eastern culture with their diligent efforts at understanding ours. (sarcasm)
Well said thank you!
Eventually, I do not know when, but eventually America is going to WINONE4THEGIPPER. The old media and the traitors in congress can attack America all they wish, for they only reveal themselves as the idiots, they are. When an idiot speaks, alway allow that idiot plenty of rope, with which that idiot will hang themselves. The old media and the current congress has the rope, they have strung themselves up, and the current drop is causing the rope to grow shorter each time their (the old media and the current congress) mouths open.
Couric...just another usefull idiot. She is more in agreement with Ahmadinejad than President Bush.
Usually these news-readers don’t spout out until after they are out of the anchor chair. She must know here days are numbered.
The greatest success in the history of the armed forces of The United States of America with coalition and Iraqi help, and this POS domestic propagandist has tried her best along with other domestic and foreign enemies to "put the brakes on this".
What would that pig know about “culture”? She can’t even present the news minus the liberal spin.
thank you for the compliment....
Does she actually believe that anyone with a brain will care what she thinks, or is she just talking to fill air time?
The view from the penthouse and limo sure is different than what the rest of us see daily, Ms Couric.
You REALLY need to get the hell out of New Yak more often.
Maybe they don’t “understand” our culture. You kill us and we will kill you. That is not too hard to understand and I think they are slowly learning.
We understand them a damn sight more than they try to understand us. Sure, Katie, these crazy mofos kill 3K of our people and we should try and understand them more. A neutron bomb would carry all the understanding i need.
Fixed it...
Well if she’s really sympathetic to Iran’s plight against the evil west she should be wearing a berka. I mean it’s only right.
Being uncomfortable in wanting one's Nation to win means that one supports the enemy. Traitors always feel uncomfortable when confronted with Patriots.
Sounds like a Paulbearer to me.
Well of course those Iraqi savages could never live under Democracy. What an elitist snob.
Fact is their gummit has passed more legislation than Do Nothing Nancy.
Pray for W and Our Troops
“What an elitist snob”.
Yeah, I liked the “most Westerners don’t understand” line. ie most Americans are idiots because they’re aren’t as knowledgable about world affairs. Hey, Katie STFU. Why don’t you look at your ratings - no one’s listening to you.
Yes, it was a gritty resolve to finish a bad job that most Americans felt. But again we have Comrade Couric leading the usual leftist parade to ever so slightly twist the truth. It is a subtle shift, but critical. No one was jubilent in the march to war (with blood dripping from the sides of our mouths) as Couric suggests. No one was eager to go to war for "the thrill of it", as Couric suggests. Through this subtle, yet deliberate deceit, Couric means to suggest that Americans, and mostly the Bush Administration, needlessly and mindlessly went to war. It is a leftist lie of the first order.
We are waging a very important and necessary fight for freedom not to be overtaken by Islamic extremism. After all it was Clinton who kicked this can down the road for 8 years while America suffered Islamic attack after attack with all the associated warning signs of what was to come. But I know, Couric and her Manhattan liberal buddies simply pine for the days of the Clinton vacation from history period where all was right in their own little selfish world.
I was struck by that “right people” comment. Who did she think was the “right people” to deal with the response to 911 if not the government, duly elected, by the people of this country.
Who did she mean? George Soros? Bill Clinton? The NYTimes?
Yes the “right people” comment caught my attention, I would like someone to ask her exactly who are these people and why aren’t they ruling this country??
As soon as we began to fight back, well............
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