Couric Gets Bush Interview For CBS Debut

[gatorboy]

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2006/08/29/couric-gets-bush-intervie_n_28258.html

In a high-profile interview coinciding with her debut as CBS Evening News anchor next week, Katie Couric will sit down with President George W. Bush to discuss homeland security for an upcoming special, the network said on Monday

The CBS News special on the aftermath of September 11, titled "Five Years Later: How Safe Are We?," will air next Wednesday with reports examining the continuing threat of future attacks, the nation's state of readiness and how Americans are coping with post-9/11 fears and anxiety
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I hope Katie brings her "serious" eyesglasses to the interview so she can hit him with the hardball questions! :eyes:

[matcom]

1. "Presidential Interviews RRRRAAAAWWWWWKKKKK!"

:eyes:

[corkhead]

2. John Mark Karr must be busy, probably on CNN

[bryant69]

3. She won't.

Why would she? What reward would she get for asking the President Tough Questions?

Bryant
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[leftchick]

4. I wonder how many times she will giggle

and say "MR. president"? :puke:

[annabanana]

5. Talk about a high stakes opening night!

I suspect she will bat her eyes and allow him to ramble on...

[Avalux]

6. I WON'T be watching.

How on earth can they think this is a good thing? "post 9/11fears and anxieties" - lol.

[datadiva]

7. Well of course she does

Who else to spin the BS but the queen of BS!

[Bzzzz]

8. Kkkkkatie...

will not have our household as viewers.

[wryter2000]

26. I'm going to be channel flipping

ABC for national news, CBS for local news. Ever since I caught some of Pete Wilson's talk show on KGO, I can't watch him on the nooze. Blech.

[sinkingfeeling]

9. Sadly, I will stop watching CBS News the night Katie takes over.

[bahrbearian]

13. So much for CBS.

[ginnyinWI]

35. I'm also a former cbs watcher.

I watch Charlie Gibson now on ABC. Give him a try--I think he's an honest journalist. Although all of the mainstream media is intimidated by the administration to some extent--comes with the package. Better than CNN's or MSNBC's mostly whorish coverage.


edit: actually, I approached this scientifically. I watched all three networks for two weeks--well, two of them each night, in rotation--and decided whose stories were more informative and interesting. ABC won by a wide margin for me. CBS second, NBC third.

[Iwasthere]

10. We should all email her

... would love to have a Cronkite moment here... Bush won't allow it though... there will be a few second delay I am sure... beside Katie wouldn't do it.

But what would ask if you had the interview. Have to be a quick and dirty question.

[11 Bravo]

11. I hope she remembers a napkin to wipe her chin off after the "interview".

[RethugAssKicker]

22. Bwaaaahahahaha !!!!

[kurth]

12. "Mr. President, what's your favorite color?"

"Katie, we're dealing with terrarrriSSSSSSS. They want to kill Americans... zzzzzzz"

[glitch]

14. Kissy-face Couric comes to lil boots' rescue!

Good luck with that. :rofl:

[teryang]

15. Puke

:puke:

Who gives a rats ass?

[mmonk]

16. Is this her confirmation?

Will she show us her loyalty oath?

[Justice Is Comin]

17. I wish they'd just tie him under a bridge somewhere

and leave him there.

[eccles12]

18. Well that surely sends the signal about what the new show will be

doing. This gurantees that I will not be watching. Just another forum for putting out the RRepublican talking points. Another Rovian win.

[depakid]

19. How fitting

What a way to start of her "illustrious" career as a propagandist.

[MarianJack]

20. She'll Have Her Serious Napkin...

...in case ** took a dump right before she kisses his ass.

She IS the anchor of the network that caved to right wing hissy-fits over telling a true story about bush. The toughest question she'll probably ask is weather he enjoyed reading Camus Or shakespere more this summer :sarcasm: . And then she'll take his line of bullshit at face value :dunce: !

[intaglio]

21. Just hope she is wearing a nice blue, dress

that can later be sent for DNA testing

[EstimatedProphet]

23. I can just see her first question:

"Mr. President, in your opinion, why exactly are you the best president in the history of the country?"

[gatorboy]

34. I predict a Colbert spin.

"President Bush: Great president or the greatest president?"

[WA98070]

24. The "Journalist" Katie Couric had the guts to nail 41 but will the

entertainer Katie be allowed by her corporate employers to be a journalist? If Mr. Redstone will fire Tom Cruise for being a nutcase how safe is a journalist?

[wryter2000]

28. Welcome to DU

:hi:

[wryter2000]

25. And so it begins...

...the death rattle of the CBS Evening News.

[Superman Returns]

27. Why do people hate Couric?

:shrug:

[KurtNYC]

36. She is a tool

The * admin pushed Rather out (probably set him up with the TANG letter stuff) and now Couric is in and they reward her with a * interview to kick off.

Michael Moore exposed her true colors in this exchange:

COURIC: You use images of Iraq before the invasion. And if I recall, you have pictures of, film of children playing in playgrounds. You sort of hear the sounds of children laughing.
MOORE: Yeah.

COURIC: You have people eating in outdoor cafes. But even people, Michael, who are vehemently opposed to the war would tell you Saddam Hussein was a tyrannical despot—

MOORE: Mm-hmm.

COURIC: who killed people—

MOORE: Mm-hmm.

COURIC: for absolutely no reason.

MOORE: That’s correct.

COURIC: A murderer.

MOORE: Mm-hmm.

COURIC: And wouldn’t your movie have been better balanced if you had at least included some about Saddam Hussein’s own reputation?

MOORE: You guys did such a good job of telling us how tyrannical and horrible he was. You already did that. What—the question really should be posed to NBC News and all of the other news agencies: Why didn’t you show us that the people that we’re going to bomb in a few days are these people, human beings who are living normal lives, kids flying kites, people just trying to get by in their daily existence? And as the New York Times pointed out last week, out of the 50 air strikes in those initial days, the—we were zero for 50 hitting the target. We killed civilians and we don’t know how many thousands of civilians that we killed. And nobody covered that. And so for two hours, I’m going to cover it. I’m going to—out of four years of all of this propaganda, I’m going to give you two hours that says here’s the other side of the story.

[leftchick]

38. thank you

I thought her bias was pretty obvious on a daily basis, but that exchange is classic couric bushbot.

[Generator]

29. Of course she does!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Could we be any more obvious? Remove the old guy (who you know-was probably a journalist before little Katie was born-but we that would be ageism and don't worry I'm going be sexist too-I hate the PC bullshit-let's call the propaganda by it's real name) that DARES to question the great leader and replace with the nice lady who has kids to feed and whose main concern in life is her own welfare. I understand, Katie, but seriously I do believe you could already retire with the millions you made on the Today show.

But I know, you "believe" you are a journalist. I'm sure you are going to have dear Prez reaasure us how safe he is make us when any idiot could have figured out more lives could have been saved just by having OUR national Guard in the US instead of Iraq. See, this is the nation they are to protect, not Iraq.

Oh and catapult the fear dear Katie, I'm sure your kids will never have to serve in any wars.

[maxsolomon]

30. i'll give her a standard follow-up question for free:

"with all due respect, mr. president, isn't that merely a glib & simplistic answer to a question i didn't ask?"

[Bluebear]

31. "Mr. President if you could be any season what would it be and why?"

:crazy:

[fearthem]

32. Couric is a huge Bush groupie.

[RedStateShame]

33. Wow, what a change!!!

At CBS, Katie Couric will be all up in somebody else's ass!

[Hubert Flottz]

37. CBS has become FOX!

The AWOL wins again.

[Supersedeas]

39. a Lightweight with a Lightweight -- what a perfect interview situation

[WA98070]

40. And why not... they both are cheerleaders.

[mnhtnbb]

41. Why would anybody watch Couric for news? And Bush? Puke.

[natrat]

42. nice maybe it drives that skanks ratings down

[tigereye]

43. actually, she is capable of being pretty intense

in the past, she used to regularly take all kinds of foreign leaders to task.

although I don't like the route she took to the CBS desk, she did used to be a pretty serious journalist, didn't she?

[Libby2]

44. You couldn't pay me to watch it.