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Snooty Katie

9.29.08 @ 12:01AM

CHEATERS NEVER WIN
Re: The Prowler's Couric Diminishes Gov. Palin:

I have never been so disgusted with the way Katie Couric or Charles Gibson talked down to Sarah Palin during their interviews. For Katie not to address Governor Palin the proper way as "Governor" is disgusting. I am an independent and do not know at this time who I will vote for but these people make it very easy to vote Republican. Their biases are so evident -- they should not be doing world news or conducting these types of interviews.

I was also disgusted with the way the View and Barbara Walters behaved when John McCain was a guest on their show. Barbara had folded arms and did not even look at him but stared down at the floor. If you compare the way they treated Obama to McCain it was the most unprofessional, nasty interview I have ever seen.

I will not watch Katie, Charles or Barbara again and I don't think that I am the only American that feels this way. I believe each network would be best served if Katie was doing the weather and Charles doing sports and Barbara consider retirement. Let's get balanced reporting going and it might make this world a better place and American television a place to view honest reporting instead of biases that are untrue, mean and questions that have no relevance to this election.
-- Saundra Skiesgelas
Independent

Thank you for getting the word out about the media bias, no, more than bias against Gov. Sarah Palin.

It is appalling to me that the news media have gone so in the tank for one political party. The Internet is now my source for news, but I worry about the voters who are exposed to this garbage. Why on earth do they think they have the right to influence elections, why not just let the better man win? Their choice is a loser and they have to cheat to help him win.
-- Margaret Kelley
Buckhannon, West Virginia

Interesting article. However, who in the world would have known had you not reported the slight? As for as I know, no one views Couric newscasts anyway, few even watch CBS. It's kind of like 'if a tree falls in the forest and no one is there, does the falling tree make noise?' If Couric does or says anything, who but her bosses at CBS even know?
-- Jim Ashcraft

In addition to the diss Couric gave Governor Palin with respect to title, look at her video interview with the Governor. The interviewer was the first one to use the word "depression." When Governor Palin used the word in her reply to Couric, Couric then went on in her interview with Senator McCain to say as a question, "Sarah Palin used the word "depression," do you think it's right that that kind of language should be used in these troubled times?"

Be very careful Katie, your Mother is watching!
-- David Bonner

I just read your article and I can't say enough how much you are right . This will turn out in November because all the bulling and piling on by the elite medical will have to recon this hatred of her . I feel the WOW women's movement has done a real disservice to both Ms Palin and Senator Clinton. They loved Barack so much they used every sexist shot at these two they could but I don't think the Republicans will stand for like the Democrats did. I live in Texas and Hillary beat Barack by tens of thousand votes and should have won the delegates but we have thanks to Howard Dean a caucus too that Barack supporters bullied their way and he won on this stupid way the Democrats do their primaries .
-- Alvin Clemons
Now pulling for Governor Palina

What is it with those jerks at CBS and the rest of the media? Sarah Palin is the "Governor" of the state of Alaska and is due more respect from the media. How low you media junkies stoop to be disrespectful. Katie Couric is an overpaid pompous ass.
-- S.B.
Alabama

POCKET LINERS
Re: David Boaz's Equal Opportunity Corrupters:

Any legislator who received contributions from any financial entity should gracefully recuse himself from a bailout vote. Posting a list of offenders and bribes accepted could hasten the process.
-- David Casanova

I have to take exception to the title of David Boaz's piece; "Equal Opportunity Corrupters." This implies that the people running Fannie Mae and Freddy Mac made the members of Congress "an offer they could not refuse" and forced them to accept money and other compensations to allow these companies to bilk the American people. This is patently ridiculous. In this country, we have the best legislators that money can buy and we always have. No one has to twist their arms or threaten their families to get them to except extra compensation, they seem to be more than willing to do so with no encouragement what-so-ever.

We pay the members of Congress $169,000.00+ every year to represent us and safeguard our interests. Yet, year after year they fail to do so. Now, they are asking us to fork over $1 trillion of our money to correct a situation that they caused. And it might not work. The S&L crisis of the 1980s and 1990s was addressed with a government bailout. It put this country into a six-year recession. As a result, credit regulations were tightened. But, thanks to the Clinton Administration and the Congress, those regulations were weakened and were kept weak by the current Congress. Because of this we have now assumed responsibility for all of the subprime paper held by Fannie and Freddie, we have assumed responsibility for $85 billion for the purchase of AIG, and are on track to spend $25 billion on direct loans to the automobile industry, $200 billion in FDIC payouts and, the whopper, $700+ billion for the acquisition of all of the insolvent loans held by the credit industry. It might just be cheaper to nationalize private industry. Unfortunately, should that happen, Congress would lose access to a source of secondary income.

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