Katie Couric on Dan Rather: "sloppy work is sloppy work"

[Enrique]

Katie knows what side her bread is buttered on. Heavily buttered.

http://www.nypost.com/seven/09272007/tv/finger_pointing.htm

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Couric, whose newscast is mired in third place, also slammed Rather for his "60 Minutes II" report questioning George W. Bush's service in the Texas Air National Guard in the 1970s.

The report, which aired just before Bush sought reelection in 2004, was discredited - and led to Rather's eventual ouster from CBS News.

"There were things in there that were quite egregious in terms of how it was reported," Couric said of the report.

"And sloppy work is sloppy work."

"I don't believe Ms. Couric knows all the facts," Rather told The Post yesterday.

"When they come out, she may well change her mind."

[Solly Mack]

1. LMAO. Because she's such a hard-hitting journalist

[Enrique]

4. it's like Scottie Pippen criticizing Michael Jordan

like Scottie saying, "Michael should have practiced his free throws more."

[AnotherGreenWorld]

22. Scottie Pipped actually mattered though. t's more like Jud Buechler

criticizing Jordan. No serious person would give a shit. The only proper response is: Shut the fuck up.

[The Backlash Cometh]

33. Sadly, even teen pagent contestants that land on their asses don't respect Couric's opinion.

Although I agree that the teen deserved a little dig by Couric's friends, I think it was particularly mean-spirited to loop the fall and play it over and over again. Maybe the media would have been kinder to her if she had gone AWOL instead?

[matcom]

2. "Navy Seals RAWK!!"

:eyes:

[Double T]

3. cbs has become another bushco propaganda shill conduit.........

you'd almost think it was time for elections as the msm is once again heavily promoting the rethug RW.

[deacon]

12. If CBS is this bad, can you imagine how bad Fox is? Maybe while

cheney is in his bunker, he writes for them.

[Double T]

38. NEVER seen it this bad this early in the election cycle.

[sam sarrha]

13. they're all corporate whores now.. bricks in the wall of lies to protect th wet brain alki pResident

[Skidmore]

5. And KC would be an expert on sloppy work....

[peace13]

6. Katie why don't you just crawl back up on your desk and

cross your legs for us. That was so professional. On second thought don't. Good luck with your life after *ush and his buds are gone when your parrot qualities will no longer be needed.

[urgk]

7. Which is exactly why she's not Katherine Couric.

I'm not sure Katie Couric is anything like qualified when it comes to matters of real journalism. She's like a little girl in front of the mirror, trying on her mother's nationally-televised-anchor outfit for an expose on why some lipstick-wearing teddy bears have been missing the tea parties. I may listen to her the next time she brings us hard-hitting "Today" show content like "which cut of diaper is trendy this season?" or tells me how to make the most out of my Christmas Season, punch-bowl dollar. If she has an opinion on which fun shapes my ice cubes should be made into or how I can deal with those whispery gossips at the office water cooler, maybe I'll give her opinion some credence, but when it comes to the news you couldn't find at the checkout counter between hot photos of Ben and Jen out on the town I'll listen to the real journalists.

[malaise]

8. She'a an

asshole. Why would she believe that she is anywhere close to Dan Rather's league? Katie you're little league and Dan is world series. :puke:

[deacon]

9. She's an idiot. 100% idiot. She should get together with paula zahn

and start a britney spears constant update web site.

[KharmaTrain]

10. Total Lack Of Class

When Katie does some REAL journalism, maybe her comment are warranted. This bobblehead needs to earn some bona fides or shut up. At one time CBS was the "Tiffany network"...one major reason was its news department..."Murrow's Boys". Now look at what they throw out there. Time for Katie to go back to the steno pool and let those who know journalism and the law decide Mr. Rather's case.

[charlie]

11. 1. Go to Iraq

2. Admit on air that you're seeing what the Pentagon wants you to see.

3. Marvel over an open air market you've visited and declare parts of Iraq are "definitely" improving.

4. Kick Dan Rather for sloppy journalism.

5. Combine a salad lunch, giggly banter, some eyeliner, and Hershey Kisses with death and mayhem, for a new kind of journalism every bit as head-wrenching as Thompson's gonzo, only chirpier:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mD0qx6_Uua4

[deacon]

14. I tip me hat to this post. Well done. n/t

[Bluebear]

23. If only a post could be recommended. nt

[burythehatchet]

30. Thanks, Chuck. Well said.

[City Lights]

15. No Surrender on the news anchor caboose: media whore is media whore.

Katie, I'm tickled pink that your evening "news" show is in the shitter. You're a pathetic excuse for an anchor. Too bad you don't have the mental capacity to figure that out.

Bite me, Katie Caboose.

[deacon]

16. Maybe if she was worthy of the job, she would actually investigate

what's going on instead of just speaking off the top of her head. Her idiotic remarks shows that she is without commitment to doing the legwork needed.

[tanyev]

17. And Katie's an expert on sloppy work.

[trotsky]

18. The *report* was never discredited.

The facts it contained are all true. Never once disputed by anyone.

But because the documents were re-typed copies of the originals, the whole thing got flushed along with Rather.

[MilesColtrane]

19. Like Goebbels, only perkier. n/t

[MetaTrope]

31. Come on, Goebbels was equally perky

[Annces]

20. What a fool she is n/t

[Cass]

21. Katie knows about sloppy work...

An entry from the CBS's anchor's video 'Notebook' shares some uncomfortable similarities with a Wall Street Journal column. How musings about a library led to some embarrassing moments—and the firing of a network producer. http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/18046837/site/newsweek/

[Nutmegger]

24. That's why I don't watch you, darling. [n\t]

[JerseygirlCT]

25. And sloppy lip gloss is sloppy lip gloss... nt

[FreeStateDemocrat]

26. Classic example of: "Open your mouth and remove all doubt."

[riverdeep]

27. Did she say this with a cute flip of the hair and a winning smile?

She's doing PR for CBS. That's all she's doing here, protecting her present employers from the suit. When she gets fired, and she will, she can go and say 'see, I stand up for my masters, whoever they are.' She's in show business, not journalism, and the thing they hate more than bombing at the box office is disloyalty. People who bad mouth their projects are never heard from again.

She has the ethics of a loan shark.

[Enrique]

34. exactly

and she doesn't mind stomping on Dan Rather's face with her spiked heels in the process.

I hope Dan's lawyers subpoena her and force her to tell the truth about her beloved boss.

[burythehatchet]

28. Katie has obviouly been visually inspecting her colon for too long.

[a kennedy]

29. oh gag me.......like she'd know what great reporting would ever be.

:puke: :puke: :puke:

[Canuckistanian]

32. Not only is she a bubblehead, but also remarkably uninformed

She's obviously never looked into the facts of the case.

[BlueIris]

35. Okay, Ace. Remind me about the work you did on ELECTION FRAUD.

Oh, wait, that's right...YOU DIDN'T DO ANY. And as far as you know, it didn't happen in the last two (or three) American presidential elections. You probably can't even spell fraud.

[mod mom]

36. Anyone have an email for the audacious perky Ms Couric?

[ananda]

37. She's a Bush groupie.

Give me a big fukkin break!

[sinkingfeeling]

39. Well, Katie Couric should certainly know 'sloppy' and 'egregious' work when she sees it!

[HughBeaumont]

40. Cheerleader Katie Strikes again!

BUSH!! BUSH!! HE'S OUR GUY!
WHO CARES IF OUR SOLDIERS DIE!??!?

Piece of garbage. You're BEWSH league, Kathy. BEWSH league. Dan Rather is your superior, trollop.

[Virginia Dare]

41. Is this the same Katie Couric who got caught plagiarizing?..n/t

[youthere]

42. Well, to be fair...Katie is the authority on sloppy work.

[peekaloo]

43. I remember when she told Colbert she liked to "sniff Rather's chair".

To me that best represents Katie's style of "journalism".

[JimboDem]

44. Katie is (again) in over her head .

Thank you, Mr. Rather.

[Fresh_Start]

45. Gotta listen, Couric is an EXPERT on sloppy work

like her military escorted/edited Iraq report

[Richard Steele]

46. "And that's the way my teleprompter says it is!". Pfft. nm

[Javaman]

47. She's such an egomamiac, talking about herself that way. nt

[frylock]

48. NAVY SEALS ROCK!!!