KATIE COURIC CHEATED IN PALIN INTERVIEW

As we have reported on numerous occasions, CBS and Katie Couric took every opportunity possible to slam Sarah Palin.

And, we have also reported that inept McCain campaign staffers made a big mistake in immediately putting Palin, who had never before been on the national stage, in front of anti-conservative news sharks like Katie Couric, Brian Williams, and Charles Gibson.

What we did not know, however, is that Katie Couric had deliberately laid a trap for Palin by consulting with anti-Palin advisers prior to the interview!

Her objective? To study with those who had watched Palin and knew her weaknesses, and then to go for the jugular at the very point of those weaknesses.

Barack Obama had been on the national stage but had never been interviewed by Couric. Yet it would be laughable to think Couric would consult with a team of anti-Obama advisers to discover his weaknesses so that Couric could zero in on those very weaknesses in her interview.

Given how it appeared as if Couric were flirting with Obama like an adolescent during that interview, we all know she would not be the least bit interested in making him look bad in any way.

Palin was not so lucky.

Couric Looked Foolish Before McCain, Palin

When Katie Couric decided to interview John McCain and Sarah Palin together while on a campaign swing through Ohio, no doubt she thought she would put another nail in the coffin of the Palin phenomenon by putting both candidates on the spot concerning recent criticism of the Vice-Presidential candidate.

Instead, Couric came off looking like a fool.

Couric attempted to make Palin look foolish by taking a statement to a voter's question out of context, spinning it to appear as if she were contradicting McCain's official policy toward Pakistan.

McCain jumped in with both barrels blazing, accusing the media of playing the 'gotcha game' when in actuality there is no controversy.

As for Palin, she was poised, focused, determined, relaxed, and confident as she went on the offensive against unfair portrayals by the mainstream teleprompter-readers such as Couric.

McCain was even more direct as he referred to such persons as 'self-appointed experts.'

Couric was visibly uncomfortable.

The interview was a big coup by McCain-Palin and a disaster for Couric-CBS. We can only hope we see more of this in the days ahead as the McCain campaign goes after the blatant unfairness of the mainstream media in holding him and his running mate to a different standard than that to which they hold their darlings Obama and Biden.

Perhaps the best thing that could happen in this campaign is for either McCain or Palin to engage in another George H.W. Bush 'ambush' of Dan Rather back during the 1987 campaign. Bush the elder had 'had it' with Rather's blatant partisan attacks, and he proceeded to blast Rather in a live on-air interview on the CBS Evening News.

One of these worthless scumbags of the media is long overdue another such ambush.

Sophomoric Couric Does It Again

The sophomoric Katie Couric does it again, showing the American public that she is but an amateur and not a real news professional.

Tonight on the CBS Evening News, Couric attempted to lay 2 traps for Sarah Palin in her much-touted interview with the GOP Vice-Presidential candidate.

First, Couric asked Palin if 'the present financial crisis could lead to another Depression if steps are not taken to address it.'

Palin correctly answered that such a thing is possible if something isn't done to enact necessary reforms on Wall Street.

But Couric turned right around and asked John McCain in her interview with him this evening if it is 'appropriate for Sarah Palin to be using the term "depression" at a time such as this.'

Well, Ms. Couric, it was YOU, not Palin, who brought it up. And it has been YOU and your Obama-supporting colleagues in the media who have been playing up to the hilt the 'dire financial situation' with the economy, that this is 'the worst since the Great Depression,' and that unless the government undertakes a massive FDR-era bailout of Wall Street, we could see circumstances similar to the 1930s (hint-The Great Depression).

This kind of trick is the stuff of amateurs and not seasoned professional journalists, Ms. Couric.

Couric's 2nd attempt to lay a trap for Palin was in her question about the sincerity of John McCain in attempting to reform Wall Street. Palin cited the fact that McCain was calling for reforms for Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae long before it was cool to do so.

Couric would have none of it.

She continued to press Palin for other examples rather than the Fannie Mae/Freddie Mac reform proposals put forth by McCain. It was obvious Palin couldn't think of any right off the bat, but she quickly added, 'Well, you know, Katie, I will look those up and get them to you.'

The exchange was bit too much like the old 'gotcha' trick that Charles Gibson used on Palin and that countless other mainstream media idiots have used on various politicians in the past. Excuse me, Charles, Katie, Brian, Chris, and others, but YOU are not the all-knowing teacher giving an ignorant student a pop quiz.

If fact, if we would put all of your brains together in a paper bag, it would be quickly discarded as human refuse.

I would like to give Katie Couric a pop quiz on the air. Katie, can you name the first 10 amendments to the U.S. Constitution, and can you tell me the Founders' original intent for wanting to place the 2nd amendment in a bill enumerating basic human rights?

Yes, I would love to see you, Charlie, and Brian, and especially Chris Matthews, squirm attempting to answer those two very basic questions concerning our country.

Katie, perhaps you made a colossal mistake in taking over at CBS News. Your style of amateurish, sophomoric baiting tactics are more in line with The View rather than a news program...not that there is any real, hard news on CBS or the other networks to begin with.

Perhaps the mainstream talking-head teleprompter readers should start each broadcast with the disclaimer--'We admit that we are attempting to get Barack Obama elected to the Presidency. All of the stories we present should therefore be viewed with that basic fact in mind.'