Reply #72: Today show - get your act together!

[Orion The Hunter]

Here is my e-mail to the Today show:

[email protected]

I am writing in response to the interview on the Today show between Katie Couric and Dr. Howard Dean. I specifically want to highlight a quote from Katie Couric:

<<COURIC: Let me just tell you — According to the Center for Responsive Politics, Abramoff and his associates gave $3 million to Republicans and $1.5 million to Democrats, including Sen. Minority Leader Harry Reid.>>

Can you folks at the Today show, rather than just spew right-wing sound bites, actually try doing some of your own fact checking? I mean, the FEC reports are the ones submitted and verified by the Federal government for contributions, and as Dr. Dean correctly noted, NOT ONE DIME went from Jack ABramoff to any Democratic representative. If Katie Couric has facts to the contrary, then she should actually raise them (which to date, no one else has been able to do so since there are none to dispute the FEC reports). If she wants to call herself a journalist, then she needs to get off her duff and do some actual research before making such factually inaccurate statements.