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HER TURN! Fri Nov 13 2009 07:27:12 ET Going Rogue: An American Life by Sarah Palin Chapter Four; Section 8, pages 255-257 By the third week in September, a “Free Sarah” campaign was under way and the press at large was growing increasingly critical of the McCain camp’s decision to keep me, my family and friends back home, and my governor’s staff all bottled up. Meanwhile, the question of which news outlet would land the first interview was a big deal, as it always is with a major party candidate. From the beginning, Nicolle [Wallace] pushed for Katie Couric and...

How long before we hear from Team Lightbringer that CBS isn't really a credible news organization? The latest bedtime story from the Obama administration was released today and, darn it, they just can't bring themselves to tell the truth. "Jobs saved" is no more measurable than "hugs hoped for" but when you have the smartest president in the history of EVER he's probably privy to some super-secret genius metrics that we Earth-bound beings couldn't handle. We're moving into new territory here. The formerly unquestioning MSM is showing signs of realizing that they might still need work one day after Barack...

I am sick to death of Baby Barack whiny like a little baby over ONE STATION not bootlicking and rubber-stamping everything socialist he wants to do. I am sick of the MSM who opposed EVERYTHING the last president proposed because a Republican proposed it. I am even sicker that the MSM, with their obvious bias (why do you think your viewing and circulation numbers are dropping like rocks and you're all getting laid off???), sit there and tell us they aren't biased but Fox News is. They all sound alike, you can pick ANY news day and they are all...

Back on October 7, when the Congressional Budget Office reported that the federal deficit had ballooned to a massive $1.4 trillion during President Obama’s first year on the job, Katie Couric’s CBS Evening News did not tell viewers. But Couric finally caught up to the bad news after the Obama White House put out its final numbers on Friday afternoon. Couric disclosed the news in a brief item on the October 16 Evening News that never mentioned Obama by name: “It’s the biggest IOU Uncle Sam has ever written. Government figures out today show for the last fiscal year, which...

In the first few minutes, Couric asks him about his party affiliation (he leans libertarian), and he starts his answer by saying that when he was younger, he was socially liberal, but that he was also an alcoholic. When he got sober, he realized that liberalism was really not all it was cracked up to be. Couric didn't like that at all, but Beck just does an aw-shucks and gets out of it. It is a great.

Controversial Fox News host Glenn Beck tells Katie Couric he thinks GOP nominee John McCain would have been worse for the country than Hillary Clinton or Pres. Barack Obama. Go to CBSNews.com/katiecouricwebshow for more.

Here is a short video clip of CBS News Anchor Katie Couric interviewing Glenn Beck, who told her he very well might have voted for Hillary Clinton over John McCain had she won the Democratic Nomination. In fact, Beck said he believes John McCain would have been worse for the country than Barack Obama. . . . (VIDEO)

For much of 2008, the TV cognoscenti assumed that Katie Couric would be anywhere but in the “CBS Evening News” anchor chair by now. But despite some of the lowest ratings in the newscast’s history, she says she will remain there until her contract expires in 2011. Borrowing from Mark Twain, she said cheerfully in a recent interview, “I think reports of my death were greatly exaggerated.” What changed? For one thing, Ms. Couric and her bosses say her departure was never actually imminent, despite reports to the contrary. They also credit her work ethic and her election coverage —...

Everything you needed to know about the unorthodox roll out of the now-notorious ACORN sting videos was hidden in plain sight in my Sept. 7 column, “Katie Couric, Look in the Mirror.” ACORN was not the only target of those videos; so were Katie, Brian, Charlie and every other mainstream media pooh-bah. They were not going to report this blockbuster unless they were forced to. And they were. What’s more, it ain’t over yet. Not every hint I dropped in that piece about what was to come has played itself out yet.Stay tuned. When filmmaker and provocateur James O’Keefe came...

A new "elite interrogation unit", that President Barack Obama has appointed to quiz terrorism detainees, will apparently be run by CBS News anchor Katie Couric, rather than the Central Intelligence Agency. If the report from anonymous sources proves accurate, the former NBC "Today" hostess, would head up the High-Value Detainee Interrogation Group, or HIG, under the president's National Security Council. Detainee-questioning sessions would be filmed before a live studio audience in Burbank, California. "The president wants to ensure that these folks receive all the protections the U.S. Constitution affords other citizens," said White House press secretary Robert Gibbs. "We can't...

Here is video from last night where Katie Couris of CBS News slammed the New York Times for an article it did on Walter Cronkite that she said contained "not one, not two, but seven errors." She reeled off several of the errors and then concluded with saying that as journalists, we need to be careful that when we say "that's the way it is, it really is." Cronkite died one week ago at the age of 92. Amen to that. . . . . . (Watch Video)

Here is video of a CBS News report by Katie Couric investigating the problem of teen prostitution in the United States. Studies apparently show the number of prostitutes under the age of 18 is exploding in many American cities. The report looks at the cases of several teens who wound up trapped in this devastating world. . . . . (Watch Video)

MSNBC.comWill health coverage be compulsory - Interesting what a few bad Obama polls mean. Here NBC asks a rhetorical question, but upon reading the article you realize that while the headline sounds almost negative (in terms of its reaction to ObamaCare), the article is full of left-wing lies. Among the quotes: For the vast majority of Americans who have health insurance, the change would mean little more than submitting a form with their tax returns proving that the plan they carry meets certain minimum standards. Many of the nation's 47 million uninsured people, however, would be required to purchase a...

Here is video of CBS News' Special Report tonight announcing the death of longtime anchorman Walter Cronkite. Current CBS Anchor Katie Couric does the report, which gives a summary of Cronkite's life and career. The report shows Cronkite talking about having been at the Nuremberg War Crimes Trials following World War II, where he said he wanted to "personally cut the throat" of Julius Streicher, known as "Jew-Baiter Number One." The report reviews his career with CBS, where he covered events from the coronation of Queen Elizabeth to the Inauguration of Ronald Reagan. Cronkite knew and covered 12 American Presidents....

What would Kate Couric ask Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin if she could interview her again? "I have no idea!" Couric told Usmagazine.com Tuesday at High Voltage's 60th birthday bash in NYC. "If I get the opportunity, I'd be thrilled to talk to her again." Last September, the CBS Evening News anchor conducted an awkward interview with the former vice presidential candidate, pressing Palin to explain why Alaska's proximity to Russia gives her foreign policy experience. She also asked Palin what newspapers and magazines she reads regularly. ("Um, all of them, any of them," an uncomfortable Palin replied.) Asked about her...

Is it any wonder that Katie's ratings have gone into a crap-covered death spiral? When you're a journalist with no journalistic integrity... what else do you expect?

Remember all the faces like this after President Bush won not only the election in 2000, but in 2004 as well? :-) I am praying for many more liberals to be looking like this in 2010 and 2012!!! LOL!

Drudge Report headline: "CBS EVENING NEWS FALLS TO ALL-TIME LOW; 5,180,000 VIEWERS FOR COURIC" Ratings via Media Bistro: NBC 7,960,000 ABC 7,150,000 CBS 5,180,000* *Lowest Total Viewer delivery since NIELSEN records kept

(CNSNews.com) – CBS News Anchor Katie Couric told Princeton's graduating seniors last week that they should avoid "nastiness" and then mocked Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin and Miss California Carrie Prejean, while praising Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, First Lady Michelle Obama and Judge Sonia Sotomayor. The latter two are Princeton graduates. Couric was speaking at Princeton's "Class Day," an annual event held by the school's seniors the day before they graduate. She was chosen to speak by a vote of the graduating class itself. As she started her address to the Class of 2009, Couric told the students, “Coming here...

Cougar Katie to Wed! CBS anchor Katie Couric has sunk her claws into a hunky 35-year-old toyboy - and pals reveal the 52-year-old widow has no intention of letting go! After Couric's two girls gave their blessing, the TV newsgal agreed to marry her young stud later this year, insiders say. GLOBE brings you all the details!

The Perky Katie is so funny, no really, she's a complete fool, throwing any hint that she's an objective journalist right out the window. You'd probably get more objectivity watching Al Jazeera...

Katie Couric, in her commencement speech today at Princeton, made a few jokes at the expense of Rush Limbaugh, Donald Rumsfeld and Sarah Palin. The full speech is at HuffPost, but here are a few highlights. - When Princeton called to invite me, I was thrilled. It also gave me a perfect excuse for turning down Harvard and Yale — my safety schools! And since I’ve been called a cougar lately in the tabloid press — today I’m very happy to be an honorary tiger! Coming here was a real no-brainer! After all, I can see New Jersey from my...

She also is following a wide variety of politicians including Gov. Bobby Jindal, Tim Pawlenty, Gov. Mike Huckabee Gov. Schwarzenegger, and Jim DeMint. McCain, although a stalwart Tweeter, is noticeably absent.

The University of Southern California likes broadcast journalist Katie Couric's pitches, provided that the CBS anchor lobs hardballs at conservatives and softballs at liberals. Specifically, Couric baited Alaska Governor Sarah Palin on her foreign policy experience when the Republican was John McCain's running mate in his unsuccessful quest for the U. S. presidency. Couric's colleagues lionized her for the exchange when they had previously dismissed the former Today anchor as a lightweight. Still, none questioned her failure, in an interview with Palin's opposite number, then-U. S. Senator Joe Biden, D-Delaware, to question him about his inability to correctly name the...

click to listen, or use widget Link: See what just happened to videographer, John Ziegler, 4/15, outside an event awarding Katie Couric for her interviewing prowess, during the presidential campaign. Sarah Palin got it then. Palin sympathizer, Ziegler gets it here. You see, John Ziegler is producer of "Media Malpractice; How Obama Got Elected and Palin Was Targeted." Keep that in mind, as you watch what happened to him.

Katie Couric's ratings as anchorwoman for the CBS Evening News may be in the toilet, but her slanted reporting smells like roses to her media peers. On Wednesday, Ms. Couric was bestowed with the Walter Cronkite Award for Excellence in Television Journalism from the Annenberg School for Communication at the University of Southern California. Most Americans have never heard of this award, but it is a useful indicator of what passes as worthy of respect in the Fourth Estate these days. In Ms. Couric's case, the work wasn't very respectable. In short, she was praised for doing a demolition job...

Video of the events before John Ziegler was detained at USC, his clash with security and Press Relations, he blows holes in their arguments in seconds..

His crime? Daring to interview USC journalism students about Katie Couric’s journalistic practices. You can contact the Dean of the Annenberg School of Communications here: Office of the Dean Annenberg School for Communication University of Southern California 3502 Watt Way Los Angeles, CA 90089-0281 tel. (213) 740-6180 fax (213) 740-3772 The school of Journalism Department (A division of the ASC) here: School of Journalism USC Annenberg, Suite 303 tel. (213) 740-3914 fax (213) 740-8624 http://en.sevenload.com/videos/Mq9kYJs-Ziegler-Arrest

John Zeigler: John went to USC to witness and ask questions about Katie Couric getting the Walter Cronkite journalism award for her interview of Sarah Palin. He intended to also give away copies of his film but was literally prevented from doing so. He did not go there hoping for or expecting any sort of confrontation, especially with law enforcement. He was simply shocked and horrified by what happened there, as should every freedom loving American. He did absolutely nothing wrong and was handcuffed, detained and literally abused by law enforcement at the event. The video speaks for itself, John...

From John Ziegler, creator of the documentary Media Malpractice: How Obama Got Elected and Palin Was Targeted. On April 15th, the once upon a time prestigious (and apparently now openly a political leftist propaganda tool, akin to the Nobel Prize given to Paul Krugmann -not elevating leftist quacks, but rather tarnishing once noble institutions) USC Annenberg School for Communication will be presenting CBS Evening News anchor Katie Couric with the Walter Cronkite Award for Excellence in Television Journalism. Now, for there to even be such a thing as an prize for Excellence in Television Journalism, in an age where a...

"Isn't it interesting that many of Chris Matthews metaphors come from phallic symbols." "Newsweek - it's sorta like Pravda with pictures." "Countdown with No Ratings with Keith Overbite" Mark Levin

Remember when Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin accused journalist Katie Couric of "exploiting" their disastrous exchange — the one in which Palin couldn’t name some of running mate John McCain’s policies? Couric’s work obviously paid off, because the 52-year-old today received the prestigious Walter Cronkite Award for the exchange. The Baltimore Sun elaborates: "Couric, who weathered one of network TV’s most criticized anchor-desk launches when she took over from interim anchor Bob Schieffer, was named winner of the University of Southern California’s Walter Cronkite Award for Excellence in TV Political Journalism for her focused and illuminating interviews with Republican vice-presidential candidate...

[video] Crotchety, caustic David Letterman had CBS News anchor Katie Couric howling with laughter when he called Rush Limbaugh a “bonehead.” The late night loser then said Limbaugh looked like an “East European gangster.” Couric joined the in the fun and delivered this rib tickler, “So much for my interview with Rush.” Can someone tell us why either of these two are still paid millions of dollars a year? Letterman was once unpredictable and inventive, but those days are long gone. Couric was once…well…we don’t really remember what her claim to fame was. It’s sad to see what happens to...

When Rush Limbaugh speaks... Fox News and CNN each aired Limbaugh's keynote speech to the CPAC Saturday afternoon. It was the biggest draw all weekend on cable news. • From 4:46pm-6:20pmET Fox News averaged 511,000 A25-54 demo viewers and 2.22M Total Viewers. The network peaked at 6pm with 602,000/2.73M. FNC also produced an hour Sunday night at 9pmET with speech highlights which drew 454,000/1.66M. It was Sunday's most-watched cable news hour. • CNN added another 222,000 demo viewers and 932,000 Total Viewers for their Limbaugh coverage from 4:47pm - 6:12pm. • MSNBC stayed with their documentary programming which, from 4pm-7pm,...

[video] While covering Obama’s Tuesday night address to congress and the nation, CBS’s Katie Couric pointed out speaker Nancy Pelosi, and then Joe Biden, “the white guy.” Now hold on a cotton picking minute! We thought that after electing Barack Obama president, we’d now entered into a post-racial society. We thought we were going to finally be done pointing out color. But sadly guess the “white guy” is still fair game. Incidentally, an IHTM staff member well-versed in lip reading thinks she caught “don’t mess with Joe” Biden whispering to Pelosi just before the giveway to America speech started, “Did...

Katie Couric celebrates a post-racial society Obama style by pointing out Biden: "There's the white guy." Question: If that were turned around and she said of Obama "And there's the black guy," ... would that be less appropriate?

Katie Couric concluded a Thursday night look at the pros and cons of nationalizing banks by seeing the federal government as a comforting security blanket: “Nationalization may have a psychological impact as well, and Uncle Sam wrapping his arms around failing banks in this country might provide a big dose of confidence for the American consumer.” Building to her pro-nationalization conclusion, Couric asserted that “everyone hopes to avoid what happened to Japan back in the 90s when the government pumped good money into bad banks, essentially keeping unhealthy financial institutions that weren't going to make it anyway on life support,...

I don’t follow the television news game that much. I almost never watch television news, broadcast or cable. But I eyeball the numbers. I keep reading about how the ratings are so much better these days for the CBS Evening News with Katie Couric. First I read Tom Shales slobbering all over Ms. Couric in the Washington Post, and then today I even saw our friends at TV Newser write a piece about Couric that mentioned ratings and said, But recently the ratings have greatly improved. I scratched my head and thought, “huh? Really? WTF!?” because my basic regular eyeballing...

After US Airways Flight 1549 crash-landed in the Hudson River in New York last month, flight attendant Doreen Welsh, stationed in the back of the A320 jetliner, tried to close an emergency exit opened by a passenger, allowing water to rush in. According to an interview aired Sunday on CBS News's "60 Minutes," Ms. Welsh said after a passenger "came back and pushed me back and opened the door," garbage cans and coffee pots "were floating" and "things were flying. It was crazy back there." But the veteran attendant at US Airways Group Inc. said she "started yelling...and pushing people...

Appearing on Wednesday’s CBS Early Show, Evening News anchor Katie Couric discussed her White House interview with President Obama regarding the withdrawal of recent cabinet nominees: "He is surprisingly relaxed...extremely comfortable, very focused. It’s very different than sort of the buttoned-up Bush White House...he said to every person who interviewed him...that he ‘screwed up,’ he ‘messed up.’ And I think he really is trying to be the anti-Bush because President Bush was so criticized for never saying, you know, ‘I made a mistake.’" On Tuesday’s Evening News, Couric portrayed Obama as a victim. Early Show co-host Harry Smith agreed with...

Everyone's favorite pilot, Chesley Sullenberger is a little less popular with Matt Lauer this week. Sullenberger originally promised an exclusive interview to NBC's Today Show host. The interview was supposed to take place on January 19. That morning, however, Lauer announced that the interview was postponed because the pilot's union wanted to give the NTSB investigation more time. Lauer said he "completely understands" the request but promised his audience that the interview would happen. Now, it seems the hero pilot is gliding past Lauer and telling his story to CBS News' Katie Couric.

On Thursday’s CBS Evening News, Katie Couric incorrectly called one of the munitions reportedly used by the Israeli military a "banned weapon,"and, after ignoring the numerous violations of international law perpetrated by Hamas, relayed charges that Israel may have committed "war crimes."

If you ever had any doubt how much McCain wanted to lose read this. Read this article: http://www.thedailybeast.com/blogs-and-stories/2009-01-22/republicans-for-obama/full/ This is the handler he put in charge of Sarah Palin who: Arranged the Couric Interview Bought the $150,000 Clothes and then reported it Knifed Sarah after they lost Used to work for CBS Was an liberal in the hen house Republicans are dumb!!! I hate us sometimes.

“So, can you see Wisconsin from your Chicago mansion that Tony Rezko helped you buy?” OK, that was not Katie Couric’s opening question to Pres.-elect Obama in an interview aired in part on this morning’s Early Show. How soft was the Evening News anchor? Downy soft doesn’t begin to describe it. Twice Couric went so far as to help the president-elect answer her own questions. Now that’s the kind of interview a president could get to like! Here was Katie’s actual opening salvo. KATIE COURIC: Are you starting to realize the enormity of your new job? Hard-hitting stuff! And the...

As I have repeatedly said in this column, I have never had the slightest problem in understanding Sarah Palin's meaning at any time. On the contrary, I have positively enjoyed her fresh, natural, rapid delivery with its syncopated stops and slides -- a fabulous example of which was the way (in her recent interview with John Ziegler) that she used a soft, swooping satiric undertone to zing Katie Couric's dippy narcissism and to assert her own outrage as a "mama grizzly" at libels against her family. Ideology-driven attacks on Palin became clotted liberal clichés within 24 hours of her introduction...

And let me take this opportunity to say that of all the innumerable print and broadcast journalists who have interviewed me in the U.S. and abroad since I arrived on the scene nearly 20 years ago, Katie Couric was definitively the stupidest. As a guest on NBC's "Today" show during my 1992 book tour, I was astounded by Couric's small, humorless, agenda-ridden mind, still registered in that pinched, tinny monotone that makes me rush across the room to change stations whenever her banal mini-editorials blare out at 5 p.m. on the CBS radio network. And of course I would never...

Sarah Palin’s New Interview: Did Tina Fey and Katie Couric exploit her? Yes 71% 575 No 29% 238 Total Votes: 813 http://www.cnn.com/CNN/Programs/showbiz.tonight/

If someone told me five months ago that in early January I would pay over $1,400 for an incredibly inconvenient plane ticket and $120 for a 3 a.m. cab fare to get from sunny Los Angeles to Wasilla, Alaska, I would have told them there was a better chance the Dow Jones would be below 9,000 and a gallon of gas less than two dollars. If they would have told me I’d be glad to have made the journey (even with a seven-hour, weather-aided stop in Seattle), I would have told them Sarah Palin had a better chance to be...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=riHC40sNc_c In an interview for the forthcoming documentary "Media Malpractice" Governor Sarah Palin, for the first time at length, takes on the media coverage of her and the 2008 campaign. There is plenty more of the interview to come. To find out more got to www.HowObamaGotElected.com and get on the mailing list.

After two years of relentlessly bad ratings news, Katie Couric finally has something she can smile about. . . That makes four straight weeks where her audience was bigger than at the same point last year, according to Nielsen Media Research. The improvement could be a result of the positive feedback Couric received for her interview of GOP vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin during the presidential campaign. Palin fumbled on a question about what publications she read regularly, and the interview was a launching point for one of Tina Fey's "Saturday Night Live" spoofs.