(2007-08-29) — Sen. Hillary Clinton, D-NY, today said that the decision by CBS to send Evening News anchor Katie Couric to Baghdad, Iraq, was a “desperate move” that she called “too little, too late.”
“When what you’re doing isn’t working, you need to cut your losses and pull out,” said Sen. Clinton, noting that, “Almost a year into the Couric anchorage, CBS News has failed to unite any substantial group of viewers and the evening news landscape remains a hopeless quagmire of sectarian fighting.”
CBS producer Rick Kaplan, however, said that sending a widowed, single mother of two young children into a war zone would “demonstrate that we mean business.”
Mr. Kaplan called on Sen. Clinton to “allow the Couric surge plan time to work, rather than advocating a defeatist strategy of cut-and-run.”
12 responses so far ↓
1 boberinyetagain // Aug 29, 2007 at 7:10 am
Cut and run! Run as though your life depended on it!
Does anyone actually watch the evening news? I can’t believe that anyone cares.
God Bless Puerto Rico!
2 JamesonLewis3rd // Aug 29, 2007 at 7:25 am
God Bless America
3 camojack // Aug 29, 2007 at 7:28 am
“When what you’re doing isn’t working, you need to cut your losses and pull out,” said Sen. Clinton, noting that, “Almost a year into the Couric anchorage, CBS News has failed to unite any substantial group of viewers and the evening news landscape remains a hopeless quagmire of sectarian fighting.”
Things like this are what keep me coming back for more…
4 Darthmeister // Aug 29, 2007 at 7:33 am
Katie Couric? Talk about a media quagmire. She has lower approval numbers than the Democratically-controlled Congress!
5 Roguet55 // Aug 29, 2007 at 7:33 am
Personally Iraq can keep both of them! Wait, that would send the insurgents scurring!
6 Darthmeister // Aug 29, 2007 at 7:34 am
Dang, you beat me to it, camo. When I first logged on there was only bober’s comment!
7 conserve-a-tips // Aug 29, 2007 at 7:42 am
Well, this news surge into Iraq may be working, but the leadership at CBS is totally ineffective and corrupt.
8 University Update - West Virginia University - Hillary: Sending Katie Couric to Iraq ‘Too Little, Too Late’ // Aug 29, 2007 at 9:51 am
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9 Darthmeister // Aug 29, 2007 at 11:19 am
AP - Idaho
Republican Senator, Larry Craig, announced today he will become a Democrat in his next bid for his Senate seat. “I think I will get more support given that I have only been accused of engaging in enlightened liberal behavior. Democrats always support gay men, particularly people who are considered to be latent gay males.”
Responding to a question why he believes the Democratic Party would be more supportive of someone who was merely being true to their natural sexual impulses, Senator Craig claimed, “If Ted Kennedy and Barney Frank kind find a home under the big tent of the Democratic Party, then I would be a fool not to change my party allegiance.”
Barney Frank is a Democratic Representative who claimed he was completely ignorant of the gay prostitution ring being run out of his home by his male partner for many years.
When Ted Kennedy was reached for comment, his spokesman pointed out the difference between the two. “Larry Craig waited months to reveal his story to the American people and his family whereas Senator Kennedy waited less than forty-eight hours to inform the police of his unfortunate accident where a young debutant he was driving home in his Oldsmobile convertible was in the process of drowning as he left the scene of the accident. Within the day every news outlet was reporting the story.”
10 mig // Aug 29, 2007 at 1:07 pm
Be careful doing dance steps in a public restroom stall.
11 Ted // Aug 29, 2007 at 7:14 pm
Katie will have her own talk show on MSNBC next fall!
It will feature her favorite high school cheers, yummy food choices, and Baghdad Bloopers!
Ted
12 gafisher // Sep 2, 2007 at 6:44 am
God Bless the Troops!
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