Thank You Katie Couric

[toasty]

Interesting article pointing out the unexpectedly important role Katie Couric ended up playing in this cycle:

Here is where Katie Couric comes into the picture. Her interviews with Sarah Palin were excellent for one simple reason - follow-ups. She did what, unfortunately, so little journalists do these days - she asked pertinent, revealing (yet polite) follow-up questions. This allowed us to see behind the veneer of Sarah Palin and realize it was backed up by absolutely nothing. Real journalism led to real facts we would not have otherwise seen.

Imagine if Couric had not done those interviews - or had not asked those tough follow-up questions - and all we had seen were Gwen Ifill's standard queries from Thursday night, we might never have known how very little Sarah Palin really knows. And that's relevant. It's important for the voters to understand how much or how little these candidates actually know. They are applying for the most important job in the world.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/cenk-uygur/real-winner-of-the-debate_b_131501.html

[AntonyM]

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I missed the debate was Couric a moderator for the event, secondly anyone know where I can watch the full debate, thx. Couric is not a bad journalist, she just happens to be in corporate structure of news that is scrambling to deal with the internet as the new source of information.

[toasty]

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I missed the debate was Couric a moderator for the event, secondly anyone know where I can watch the full debate, thx. Couric is not a bad journalist, she just happens to be in corporate structure of news that is scrambling to deal with the internet as the new source of information.

She was not a moderator, Gwen Ifill of PBS was, and the article was drawing a comparison between Couric actually asking follow-up questions (which led to us all learning that Palin's about a millimeter deep) and Ifill, who did not. Had it not been for Katie Couric, we might not have learned just how unprepared she was -- even though I honestly don't think that was Couric's goal.

Debate here:

[YOUTUBE]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=89FbCPzAsRA[/YOUTUBE]

[superdave]

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Interesting article pointing out the unexpectedly important role Katie Couric ended up playing in this cycle:



http://www.huffingtonpost.com/cenk-u..._b_131501.html

Agree 100% with that quote from the article. Palin was exposed for her knowledge and Couric did so without being overly aggressive.

I wasn't too upset with her lack of disagreements with Supreme Court decisions. I was concerned when she didn't name any newspapers or magazines that she reads. She answered just what's put in front of me. I recall Bush said he didn't read the paper either.

[Steve Graham]

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^^^ yeah, classic "just whatever's put in front of me"

she should have said, wait and I will ask my maverick partner and see if he can tell me what i read, and I'll get back to ya

[shosh]

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^^^ yeah, classic "just whatever's put in front of me"

she should have said, wait and I will ask my maverick partner and see if he can tell me what i read, and I'll get back to ya

stupid bitch should have said she reads [ms]. she would have won the elections for sure plus given us some street cred!

[88Mariner]

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^^^ yeah, classic "just whatever's put in front of me"

she should have said, wait and I will ask my maverick partner and see if he can tell me what i read, and I'll get back to ya

what's important to remember is that she wasn't asked a single followup question. she can only handle enough of one question, and even that. this is, again, prima facia unpreparedness. she has nothing more than talking points, none of which she made up herself. this is the biggest political farce in the political sphere in a long time.

elizabeth dole must be angry as hell right now. i wonder what condi rice thinks of her too.

[shosh]

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thought this was an interesting article on the whole couric interview...

http://www.spectator.org/dsp_article.asp?art_id=13994

[bobjuice]

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yeah i think if sarah p posted a mix of her own we'd have all changed our tune
get her a monthly on mcast and barack as well and we'll fight out the whole election on the d . . e . . x

[Miroslav]

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thought this was an interesting article on the whole couric interview...

http://www.spectator.org/dsp_article.asp?art_id=13994

Wow...I see the people at the American Spectator have strapped those ultra-conservative blinders on so tight, it's cut off the blood flow to their brains! That was the biggest steaming load of shite I've read all week.

These are the same people who rag on Obama for being inexperienced in other articles, then they claim with a straight face that Sarah Palin is just so great; she's so experienced; she's so clever; blah blah fricken blah. And if Palin can't answer basic questions - hey, it's because the interviewer was "condescending"!

I have no particular love for Katie Couric, but to blame her just because Sarah Palin is too dimwitted and inexperienced to give even basic, coherent answers to any question - if the answer's not written down ahead of time for her - is beyond pathetic.

[shosh]

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Wow...I see the people at the American Spectator have strapped those ultra-conservative blinders on so tight, it's cut off the blood flow to their brains! That was the biggest steaming load of shite I've read all week.

These are the same people who rag on Obama for being inexperienced in other articles, then they claim with a straight face that Sarah Palin is just so great; she's so experienced; she's so clever; blah blah fricken blah. And if Palin can't answer basic questions - hey, it's because the interviewer was "condescending"!

I have no particular love for Katie Couric, but to blame her just because Sarah Palin is too dimwitted and inexperienced to give even basic, coherent answers to any question - if the answer's not written down ahead of time for her - is beyond pathetic.

clicked the realclearpolitics site after toasty mentioned it and i saw the link. been there before, just showing you that i found it because of toasty. deep down he hearts palin.

[toasty]

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clicked the realclearpolitics site after toasty mentioned it and i saw the link. been there before, just showing you that i found it because of toasty. deep down he hearts palin.

You might try visiting it more often -- it's probably the single best site for obtaining all sides and viewpoints on all matters political, because they literally compile pretty much every political article that comes out each day, on both sides of the spectrum. Seriously. Reading nothing but World Net Daily, Fox News, Human Events & Little Green Footballs will warp your brain over time.

[Garrick]

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i am sorry but that just goes to show you that palin, although a bold pick for vp, is not schooled enough to even think she can compete with american media or our politicians. and this is in no way saying she isn't good enough to be our vp. i think she did a great job last night in the debate given her limited engagement. if you read the threads waaaaay back in the day i suggested mccain should pick her as his vp running mate and i'll stick by it. high risk = high reward or the latter. i can tell she has no clue what is coming for her. she got a great taste of it in that debate. but ffs, with all the media out there portraying the worst image possible, it is no wonder this country is so biased. your media has single-handedly made up the mind for most of the voters out there. whether she be a potential great vp, a potential bad vp or whatever, our media will ensure that you vote one way. and it isn't for her. but thats not to say i care much for fucking mccain and her anyways. wtf... where did our constitution go???

[chloe harris]

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dude.

she sucks. don't stick up for a cunt like her.

she's not intelligent, she's not capable, and she's not going to be vp.

[chloe harris]

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maybe we could do like she does and hunt her like a wolf.

graphic.

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/v/EQobIUE1zTU&hl=en&fs=1[/youtube]

cunt.