1. Katie Couric goes to Baghdad. Asks "typical family" what it's like "to live in fear." (Answer: frightening).
   
   
   
2. MoveOn shows people just what Katie did in Baghdad:
   
   
   
   
3. Baghdad trip turns out to be not just a snoozefest, but also ratings poison:
   

   
   The "CBS Evening News" tied a record low with just under 5.5 million viewers last week, Nielsen Media Research said Tuesday. Last week and Memorial Day week are the two least-watched CBS evening newscasts since at least 1987, and probably far earlier.

   
   
   
   
   
4. People who expected CBS to actually report something wrote in to complain, and CBS employees wrote back, saying the complainers probably read blogs, and everyone knows blogs suck.
   
   
5. Couric's publicist threatens to sue WebProNews.com for reporting on the nasty e-mail exchanges.
   
   
6. And then, after all this, Couric tells a National Press Club audience:
   
   • The rationale for the war was b.s.
     
   • The war was a mistake
     
   • Invading Iraq was ridiculous since the terrorists were in Afghanistan and Pakistan
     
   • Iraq had no connection with Al Qaeda
     
   • Bush botched the war
     
   • Disbanding the Iraqi military was a disaster and...
     
   • She would "feel totally comfortable saying any of that at some point, if required, on television."

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."

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ORIGINAL: SimplyMichael

Seeing how you read that editorial and what you were able to draw from it explains a lot. Now I understand better how you get your political views. 

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ORIGINAL: SimplyMichael

Either your reading comprehension is non existent or you didn't read the article, no wonder you are a Republican.

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ORIGINAL: slaveluci
BTW:  Welcome back, Sanity.  Even though, as I've told you, I usually don't agree with you, I missed your tenacity while you were away.  Good to see you back keeping things stirred up................luci

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ORIGINAL: popeye1250

I'm neither Democrat nor Republican and I don't care for Katie Couric either.
And I don't like the Clintons or Bushs.
I think we need to *un-do* most of the things they did.
Like these idiotic "trade" deals.
I don't want someone in the White House with good "likability" ratings whatever that means, I want someone in the White House who's a real fuckin' prick!
I want to see half of the State Dept packing their bags and cleaning out their desks.
I want that Mexican border closed and mined not just "secured."
I want out of the "U.N.", Nato, Nafta, Gatt, and a bunch of other things!
I want foreign aid ended.
I want "lobbyists" on "K" street outlawed.
I just don't want to be paying for this kind of stuff anymore!
In short, I do not want "business as usual.
If you want good reporting watch Lou Dobbs on CNN.
He tells it like it is and pisses off both the left and the right.
I wouldn't let Katie Couric suck my dick.

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ORIGINAL: trappedinamuseum

Katie Couric is doing for CBS what Dennis Miller did to Monday Night Football.

She shoulda stuck with Good Morning, America.