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Katie Couric Represents All That is Wrong With Media

Yesterday, I spotted a blurb on Crooks and Liars covering how Katie had challenged Howard Dean on the Abramoff deal:

Katie: Hey, wait a second. Democrats took-Democrats took money from Abramoff too, Mr. Dean.

Howard: That is absolutely false. That did not happen. Not one dime of money from Jack Abramoff went to any Democrat at any time.

Katie: According to the CRP, Abramoff and his associates gave 3 million dollars to republicans and 1.5 million to democrats...

Howard: Not-one-dime.

Katie: We'll obviously have to look into that and clarify that to our viewers at a later date...

Well, this morning I was watching the Today show (I'm stuck in a hotel room in Ottawa, my viewing choices were very slim), and low and behold, they DID revisit it. As in Matt Lauer saying "Howard may have been technically correct, but...".
He then went on to generally describe the true state of affairs.

What got me is that there has been a uproar about this for WEEKS. Unless you live in Patagonia, if you know how to read, you MUST have heard about it. How could Katie be so utterly, unabashedly, embarrassingly, stubbornly clueless?

I mean, all she had to do was scan a newspaper. Any newspaper.

Ten seconds later, I got my answer. See, talk turned to the Oprah and how she pimped some fabricated book, the lies of which had been exposed. On this, Katie was fully informed. She gushed about how she watched the whole Oprah episode wherein the lying author was castigated.

Katie seemed outraged that this author had lied about his personal life, and had seem unrepenting in his Oprah performance. I chuckled at the irony of this 'reporter' getting mad about some schmuck, but being OK with all the lies coming from Bush, which she had just finished dutifully repeating to her public.

I kept chuckling as I headed off for a long shower. When I walked back to the TV, maybe ten minutes later, I was completely floored to see that THEY WERE STILL TALKING ABOUT THIS SCHMUCK.

These guys, the corporation that produces them - they're fucking morons.

Posted by carlosmorales at January 27, 2006 06:46 AM