Here she goes again: COURIC: Is America ready for a President who grew up praying in a mosque?

[DeepModem Mom]

CBS News: Katie Couric's Notebook: Obama's Background
Posted by Katie Couric

Is America ready for a President who grew up praying in a mosque?

Barack Obama has arguably the most diverse religious background of any candidate, ever. But will that help him or hurt him?

http://www.cbsnews.com/blogs/2007/04/11/couricandco/entry2673784.shtml

[Chimichurri]

1. Isn't that old news that already been debunked? Maybe Katie

should start doing her own homework. there seems to be some incredible incompetence at the helm over there.

[NormanYorkstein]

51. I wonder who wrote the speech that Couric read off the teleprompter?

I'm hardly going to get upset with her, as obviously she's just reading her lines. She's an actress, who cares what she "thinks"?

[BOSSHOG]

2. Katie, some people say yes

and Some more people say you are a fucking joke of a journalist. Is CBS satisfied being in last place in the evening news ratings? Many people don't care.

[mtnsnake]

3. Years of plastic surgery, liposuction, & botox injections have finally taken their toll

What a dumb thing for her to even suggest that it should matter.

I couldn't stand her on the morning show she used to do on NBC and I can't stand her now.

[Cha]

41. Yeah, did couric write that or

did she crib it from the wsj?

[FloridaJudy]

4. This is pathetic

Edward R. Murrow is spinning in his grave.

:puke:

[BluegrassDem]

5. What's wrong with her?

Didn't she see the uproar when Fox tried to imply the same thing and it debunked across the board?

[Tuesday_Morning]

7. Her new exec producer, Rick Kaplan, is a long time friend of the Clintons

I'm disgusted.

[Colobo]

14. Now I understand...

[draft_mario_cuomo]

24. Ok, and Faux's Murdoch also supports her (faux first promoted this meme)

Rupert Murdoch, who owns the channel that brought the "Obama is a closet radical Muslim" smear to television, is also a supporter of Clinton.

http://www.wsws.org/articles/2006/may2006/murd-m10.shtml
http://www.commondreams.org/views06/0510-20.htm
http://www.tnr.com/doc.mhtml?i=20060116&s=smith011606

==As the Washington Post reported: “Clinton spent an hour at Cafe Milano schmoozing with News Corp. Chairman Rupert Murdoch (very chummy since last year’s truce), Fox News Chairman Roger Ailes, and most of the Bush administration, including Karl Rove, Josh Bolten, Karen Hughes, Dan Bartlett and former Fox host Tony Snow, just hours after he was named the new Bush spokesman.”==

From the first link.

Perhaps it merely coincidental that this smear is being pushed by people linked to the Clintons but this does raise some questions...

[kestrel91316]

9. I know Robert Pierpoint's son. Pierpoint's got to be livid over this

dumbing-down of his network. Oy vey.

His son is a good liberal, BTW.

For those who don't remember, RP was CBS White House correspondent during the Kennedy, Johnson, and Nixon administrations.

[central scrutinizer]

6. as compared to candidates who pretend to pray in Xtian churches

only for pandering and political expediency purposes?

[dae]

8. Since I can't use "Dumb A$$ Ho", what PC terms can I call

her?}(

[FloridaJudy]

13. "Clueless Twit" works for me n/t

[dae]

29. Thanks. BTW, I like your avatar, is that a pink camellia?

:hi:

[FloridaJudy]

45. It's a Lotus

The waterlily, not the car, with an "Om" sign. I got from my Zen study group.

[qwlauren35]

18. Um...

You can always use "dumb ass", because either it refers to an animal, or it refers to a part of the body that is gender neutral. You just don't need that last word!

I have also found that "ass-wipe" is equally gender and race neutral, and still gets my point across.

[dae]

31. Both good answers, thank you for your assistance, I do

hate to be limited in my vocabulary, especially when it comes to insulting another.:)

[Bucky]

57. Isn't it wonderful how, as you improve your vocabulary, your mind cleans up too?

Not talking (or typing) like a misogynist asshole is its own reward.

[Norquist Nemesis]

10. Gee, Katie...please tell us which candidate grew up praying in a mosque

Sure wasn't Obama. Is there someone else running that we're not aware of?

:banghead:

[baldguy]

11. Was America ready for a President who tortured small animals as a child?

[Cha]

42. Or as Chris Rock said when asked

.."Is America ready for a Black President?"..Chris said, "They were ready for a retarded president(sic)".

[Ninja Jordan]

12. She's really trying to hurt the Democratic candidates

[mtnsnake]

15. It wouldn't have anything to do with the fact that she's making at least $15 mil/yr, would it?

She's just worried to death that she might lose a few bucks to taxes if the Dems take over the WH. I would imagine she'd qualify as one of those individuals making in excess of $200,000/yr.

[Marnieworld]

16. Campaign 2000- Is America ready for a President who seems like a total idiot?

Sure he has credentials but they don't match what he seems to be. He often makes up words or uses words incorrectly. He dismisses intellectualism and elitist book learning. He has no clear knowledge of any other culture (little knowledge of his own). He disrespects science. He disrespects tradition and precedent. Pretty much disrespects every person he comes in contact with whether it is a reporter or a World Leader. In crisis, he will be clueless and paralyzed and completely unreliable. Every major decision will bleed the treasury and often results in the death of thousands. When asked to alter these choices he re-affirms them despite any evidence to the contrary. Throughout his term he will deny all evidence contrary to his pre-conceived notions and surround himself only with those who follow this rule. He also will make efforts to attain complete, unrestrained power despite running a campaign as a "uniter". This candidate cannot handle the job, wants to destroy the job and will be the worst person to ever hold the job.

But at least he doesn't pray in a Mosque!

[Supersedeas]

17. Framing at the behest of her producers again -- a fake shill to the bitter end

[LynneSin]

19. Well clearly America is not ready for a Perky Bush Suck-up to host the evening news

Which is why you're news show is lagging behind NBC and ABC.

[CreekDog]

20. Egads, dumb as a bag of hammers

Good thing nobody is listening.

[Mz Pip]

21. I sent her an email

for what it's worth.

Couric is no journalist. She used to be a morning TV variety show personality. Now she's turned the evening news into a night time variety show. She's lazy in her fact checking and consequently is rapidly becoming irrelevant.

Mz Pip
:dem:

[Azathoth]

22. Ah, another swing and miss in Couric's neverending quest to be a "serious" journalist n/t

[FourScore]

26. good one

:rofl:

[knight_of_the_star]

23. Katie go back to High School

Cause it seems like you would fit in just fine there with all the gossip and slander that flies around.

[eppur_se_muova]

37. Wow, I just flashed on an image of KC as one of the cheerleaders on SNL ...

"And now it's time for ... the Perfect Cheer!"

NBC should put Cheri Oteri (sp?) on against her, just to show how seriously Couric should be taken.

(Yes, I'm really out of date. I have no idea who's on SNL now.)

[FourScore]

25. Is there any way to bring Walter Cronkite out of retirement? n/t

[IndianaGreen]

44. Cronkite wrote his own material. Couric plagiarizes hers.

Perhaps Couric will be more comfortable as co-anchor with John Gibson at Faux.

[Tellurian]

27. Is Katie taking over where Imus left off?

Katie is a Republican shill...she always drooled over Poppy!

[KansDem]

28. Is America ready for a CBS anchor who is an empty-headed bimbo?

:rofl:

edited to add: Apparently, the suits at CBS did...

[GalleryGod]

30. Katie? "Some People Say"

:patriot: Blow Me ! :spank: **


















** Blow Imus and Limbaugh, instead :puke:

[Tiggeroshii]

32. Looks like she changed it

..to reflect the facts better.

Is America ready to elect a President whose connections with Islam were the subject of rumor and innuendo?

[DeepModem Mom]

33. YOU'RE RIGHT, TIGGEROSHII, SHE DID CHANGE IT!

I know she heard from some people here, and I'm wondering if she might have even heard from the Obama campaign. How can she be so ill-informed -- or so willing to do damage to a campaign?

(Note: I didn't mean to "shout" at you, Tiggeroshii. I was hoping others who came to the thread would see the all-caps and note the info that the "notebook" has been changed. Thank you for observing and reporting!)

[bettyellen]

40. gosh Katie.. WHO MADE THIS THE SUBJECT OF RUMOUR AND INNUENDO? grab a mirror and

tell us all about it, Katie. :eyesroll:

[renie408]

34. Wow..Katie has really gone bat shit, hasn't she? n/t

[lpbk2713]

35. Katie .....

F**k off will you please?


Thank you.

[kdpeters]

36. Why does Katie Couric hate America?

[rosesaylavee]

38. WHAT is her problem?

He grew up with his grandparents who were either UCC or UU, spent some time in Indonesia and may have attended a mosque (if so, who cares!) but primarily spent his youth with his grandparents in Kansas and Hawaii.

[Zandor]

39. Her Blog Entry Was Changed!!

She must have gotten a clue. Several changes there now. Here are some of the updates...

"...whose connections with Islam were the subject of rumor and innuendo?"

"..rumors later disproved"

"In a later Chicago Tribune article, however, the source said he was not certain whether they prayed together."

[Chulanowa]

43. She's as useful as a bag of hair

but only half as smart

[zulchzulu]

46. Is America ready to have decent journalism finally become extinct?

Couric forgot to mention that Obama prayed in a mosque with a bomb belt around his waste while burning an American flag and chanting "Death to America"... after all, that's what ALL Muslims do. Plus he stank and was a camel jockey raghead who liked to throw rocks at people.

Right, Katie?



:sarcasm:

[WCGreen]

47. Well we are suffering from one who grew up in a so-called

Christian Household...

I doubt if anything could be worse than that...

[tabasco]

48. Ever heard of religious freedom, Katie?

It's one of the pillars of our democracy.

Not that a lying, un-American propagandist such as yourself would give a shit.

[HuffleClaw]

49. its stuff like this that is, imo, FAR worse than what imus said

its insidious and calculated.

[Mabus]

50. it looks like the changes were just as bad

The repetition of this crap is insideous because it helps keep it alive. More over, it isn't anything new or original. Much like I find Couric personally. I'm proud to say I haven't watched a program with Katie Couric on it for more than a few minutes in years, at least 10. I've only watched her for as long as it took me to find the remote. I find her annoying. I had a roommate that thought she was the cat's pajamas so I was forced to watch her on the "Today" show for the six months he lived with me.

[OneBlueSky]

52. hmm . . . seems Obama is starting to worry the powers that be . . . n/t

.

[slampoet]

53. "Is America Ready to have a newscaster hit in the face with a Tire Iron?"

..."Some people say it is.."

[Bucky]

58. Psst, hey Slampoet. It's possible to be sarcastic without promoting violence against women.

Read around this thread and note how others on DU express scorn without revealing their woman-beating fantasies.

[Chulanowa]

59. I think he's more promoting violence against a dumbass.

Still not recommended, but that appears to be the gist of it.

[donsu]

54. is america ready for a prez that wears Mormon underwear

(the Mormons wear a special kind of religious underwear)

[w4rma]

55. Ugh. It'll get worse for Obama. (I don't want to watch.) (nt)

[SunDrop23]

56. We're more ready than that than we were for an AWOL DRUNKARD as C in C!

F you Katie Couric.

F you too GWB.

[Cabcere]

60. Better that than one who never grew up at all. n/t