Couric Advises GOP: Stay Away From Fringe Players Like Palin & Rush (Video)
Posted by Jim Hoft on Thursday, October 29, 2009, 3:47 PM
What media bias?
State-run media darling Katie Couric advised Republicans to stay away from fringe players like Former VP Candidate Sarah Palin and the nation’s top talk radio host Rush Limbaugh.
Of course, Katie has always had the the GOP’s best interest at heart:
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NewsBusters has the transcript, via FOX Nation:
KATIE COURIC: As Politico reported, there’s growing concern among some GOP leaders that controversial commentators and far-right conservatives have hijacked the message. People like Rush Limbaugh and Sarah Palin appeal to the base - and you certainly need that base to win elections. But in an age when 42 percent of Americans call themselves Independents – you can’t win with just the base, either… Before the 2010 midterm elections roll around, Republicans need to get the focus back onto the Big Tent where all are welcome and off the sideshows that are popping up along the party’s fringe.
Note: Fringe according to Couric means any wildly popular conservative who can stir the base to action.
More… Magnum added this:
Is she going to give the libtards the same warning, or are Obama’s lefty fringe acquaintances acceptable?
Last time I checked neither Rush nor Palin bombed a clinic, killed a cop, or swore allegiance to the communist party.
Exactly.
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Jeff commented:
That’s one scary looking picture of Katie and she hasn’t even opened her mouth…
Joanne commented:
I never realized Couric had such beady eyes.
stacy commented:
I don’t know why, BUTT when I see her I think about such things as colonoscopies, sigmoidectomies, hemorrhoids, polyps, and such.
It must be the tone of her sphinct….I mean message.
Thankfully, no one is listening to her.
Aitch748 commented:
It never fails to move me when the opposition takes us aside and gives us some warm and friendly advice on how to win elections.
/sarc
Joanne commented:
If Palin and Rush are on the fringe, then why are they so darn popular and the objects of the greatest attacks from the left……I’m thinking Couric is on the fringe, and she isn’t liking it.
Zipity commented:
god I just f**king hate that woman. I cannot switch the channel fast enough. What a stupid git!
Ruth Damiano commented:
Hey Katie – Thanks but no thanks for the advice. When I need to decide who to listen to about issues and how to vote in elections I will not be showing up at your door for the answers. Wacko.
Karen commented:
Why should Republicans take advice from a MSM anchor with the lowest ratings in the history of the network?
Sasja commented:
It has been said the eyes are the windows to the soul and her eyes tell me her soul is lost.
There is alot of malevolency there. Deep, dark, lost soul she is.
IOpian commented:
I would advise her to stay away from fringe players like Obama and Pelosi.
What she and the GOP fail to realize is that Limbaugh and Palin aren’t ‘leading’ the conservative base, they are merely echoing the things that appeal to the conservative base of the GOP.
They remind me of the EMT’s pounding on the chest of a party collapsed on the floor from heart failure yelling ‘fight dammit, fight!’
wanumba commented:
So, shall we compare the size of Journalism Major Sarah Palin’s FACEBOOK audience to cheerleader camera-babe Couric’s audience?
Amazing how many people Palin reaches for practically nothing while Corporate Couric, with all the money and resources and national stations broadcasting CBS is managing to reach fewer and fewer people every week.
Media-wise, Couric is stagnant NASA, Sarah Palin is the X-Prize.
TheScribbler commented:
Thankfully her message isn’t getting to many people. They are all over watching Fox. I’m just saying….
Sally commented:
This person should be run out of her job for not doing it. She looks evil, not the perky person she claims to be. I really don’t think any GOP people are watching her anyway. She must be stumping for the RINO’S of the GOP.
The Triguy commented:
Let’s see: if we couple this post with the actions that the DNC is taking to discredit Palin on Facebook, I wonder? Nah. I’m just smoking dope to think the two are working together.
Poopsicle commented:
Wow. Even an idiot can be right once in awhile.
BK commented:
In the words of Rick Perry, “I think I’ll stick with Sarah”.
Kevin commented:
What? Katie is trying to act like a journalist now? LOL!!!
Kate, Kate, Kate…..what you don’t realize is that those “Independents” you speak of are mostly disaffected GOP’ers who have had enough of RINOs and are exactly the people who WILL vote for Palin and listen to Rush.
Once again you have proven that you just…don’t…get it.
Magnum commented:
She going to give the libtards the same warning, or are Obama’s lefty fringe acquaintances acceptable?
Last time I checked neither Rush nor Palin bombed a clinic, killed a cop, or swore allegiance to the communist party.
liberalsabide commented:
We’re still waiting for your turn at being right, Poop. BTW, Pelosi and Reid aren’t exactly paragons of competent leadership.
Ladue Pundit commented:
This advice from a woman who listened intently as Joe Biden, the Vice Plagiarist, described President Roosevelt taking to the TV airwaves during the Great Depression.
Which one is the bigger idiot?
………………………
Elizabeth commented:
She’s still on tv?!
olm commented:
Well, this continues to be a train wreck. People with no audience, giving people with an audience advice.
OK, Katie. Whatever you say.
liberalsabide commented:
This advice from a woman who listened intently as Joe Biden, the Vice Plagiarist, described President Roosevelt taking to the TV airwaves during the Great Depression.
LP, at least VP Hairplugs knew that the French helped us kick Hizbollah out of Southern Lebanon…you know, back to Hizbollahbad!
TQ commented:
Whoa! Katie, no one had the stones to tell Joan Rivers or Micheal Jackson not to get another plastic surgery until it was too late and they looked like freaks. So I am doing you the favor Katie, do not have anything nipped or tucked again. You’ve had way to much work to hide your aging and are right on the border of becoming “Barbie doll skin” with the next plastic surgery.
We al lget old, have crows feet and sagging skin Katie. Numerous plastic surgeries will not help you
Cargosquid commented:
Who is Katie Couric and what’s CBS?
I have cable……
Marianne7 commented:
I admit I was looking at that photo and thinking the same thing… I wonder if she can still close her eyes?
penny commented:
Has Couric checked her ratings lately?
chili palmer commented:
As Rush has said, the media will tell us who are best candidates are. The louder they complain about someone tells us whom they’re most afraid of. They loved McCain because they knew he didn’t want to win and wouldn’t try. They’re telling us Sarah Palin should be our candidate.
Otter commented:
I suspect poopsicle Is couric…. that high opinion of herself is telling.
K Reactor commented:
Stay away from jackasses like k.c.
Hypogean commented:
Before the 2010 midterm elections roll around, Republicans need to get the focus back onto the Big Tent where all are welcome and off the sideshows that are popping up along the party’s fringe.
Yes, because the GOP Big Tent worked so well in the 2006 and 2008 elections.
Yesterday the creature Martin who comments here also told us how to win elections. He said we need to listen to Newt, because we’re “misguided.”
How many of us here think Couric and Martin are giving us good-faith advice?
olm commented:
Chilli Palmer, you are right on.
The Elector of Saxony commented:
Isn’t she the least successful news anchor in the history of her business? Has anyone ever lost as many viewers on a nationwide broadcast? Maybe Cop Rock, but it’s possible that with time, the ratings for Cop Rock would have increased. I think Katie has been on a downward slide from day one.
Opus #6 commented:
How DARE she! This smacks of Axelrod’s admonishment in April that the Tea Party movement could turn into something “unhealthy”. Er, thanks for your advice. Now go pound sand!
David commented:
Is that Katie’s Official ‘perspective’?
The Whitehouse targets Fox for having a ‘perspective’, but in this case I’m sure they will reward her with a new Obama interview.
What’s up her ‘butt’?!!!
TearDownThisWall commented:
Of course Katie Couric is saying this. Liberals and Progressives are shaking in their boots right now because they know the Republican party is being taken back by force, by the base, and that is sending shockwaves around the political world. They know if the Republican party get’s its soul back, democrats are in trouble in 2010 and 2012, and beyond.
crosspatch commented:
How many people hear what Couric has to say every day vs. how many hear what Rush has to say? There is no comparison. Couric is preaching to a choir that is diminishing in scope.
It is probably safe to ignore whatever she has to say on the subject.
Solaratov commented:
Poopsicle
October 29th, 2009 | 12:26 pm | #15
Wow. Even an idiot can be right once in awhile.
Typical leftist, aren’t you. poop? Willing to compromise any belief in servitude to Teh Won.
You trolls are so predictable.
Solaratov commented:
Hypogean
October 29th, 2009 | 1:40 pm | #35
How many of us here think Couric and Martin are giving us good-faith advice?
Ooh! Ooh! I know! I know!
…………………….None of us!!……………………
Solaratov commented:
And, btw, wasn’t martin the troll who called for “more deaths in Afghanistan”, because his generation “needs its own Vietnam”?
Typical leftist anti-American.
Betsy Ross commented:
If being conservative means being “fringe”, well then, we are in great company since a recent poll counts 40% of Americans as saying they are conservative.
Anon commented:
If being conservative means being “fringe”, well then, we are in great company since a recent poll counts 40% of Americans as saying they are conservative
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One of millions of former Democratic voters here. I’m “fringe” too. More crossing over every day
Ruebacca commented:
So it was Curic that piked the Repub in NY-23.
Mahdi Al-Dajjal commented:
Gee, Katie. Don’t you have something better to do? Like… sleep with another important corporate big-wig working your way up the corporate ladder like you admitted to in your book? Or have you screwed them all?
aprilnovember811 commented:
That is all the more reason to embrace Sarah and Rush. Whatever the fringe State News says, do the opposite.
Richard of Oregon commented:
most political advice offered by pundits is self-serving c**p. This is no exception.
Male Silverback commented:
She used to be a very pretty lady. Her socialist mind has broken her down and aged her beyond her years.
Tim commented:
Oh my god- what happened to her? She used to be cute and perky looking. Looks like she has had some very bad plastic surgery. She actually looks scarier than Joan Rivers.
Ginger commented:
She’s just jelious that Palin and Rush are sooooo loved and she is NOT!
dallasdan commented:
I wouldn’t piss on Couric if she was burning. Her opinions are meaningless to me.
Conservative1st commented:
This bleached blonde idiot needs to look at the most recent Gallup poll showing more people claiming to be conservative than moderate. And the liberal tag was hanging on by a thread at 20%.
jb commented:
I am not saying when or where but I know for a fact that Katie has poor personal hygiene habits.
Just saying.
syn commented:
One lovely thought I’ll have when I leave Manhattan, knowing that Couric and all the other useful idiots will be paying more of the hefty city and state tax tab that I will no longer be paying.
Serfdom is going to suck this woman into a dried-up shriveled hag she has always been.
jb commented:
Serfdom is going to suck this woman into a dried-up shriveled hag she has always been.
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Yes she is not as well put together when seen close up and in person.More so in the A.M. a good description would be Yikkes .
Don commented:
Ha Ha listining to Couric on this issue is like listening to Russia warning us not to put a missile defense shield in Georia………oh wait. Damn
Arch commented:
Our mothers were business partners.
She was a cheerleader at UVA because she could not get into a school that my mother’s family founded where her sister and my son graduated – Dartmouth. Time to put away the pom-poms and grow up.
MPFS Indentured Fish Stick to the State commented:
Hey Katie, I have some advice for you. Stay away from the buffet you are looking a little puffy there.
reader2551 commented:
This woman has never had an original thought in her life. If someone hasn’t written and posted it on a teliprompter she has nothing to say. Reminds me of a puppet where the DNC are pulling her strings. An absolute brainless twit.
c m romeo commented:
Jealousy has aged you into a real crone, Katie. Just ask the women who used to work at CBS before you scored that anchor job there.
wanumba commented:
Ya’ll realize that this eye-ball-to-eyeball decree to the shrinking masses means she didn’t succeed in her assignment to take Sarah Palin down. Palin’s numbers keep going up up while Couric’s numbers go down down down. And all Couric has to do of a day is read news, Palin MAKES news. All Couric has is a shrivelling group of viewers, while Palin has a growing group of SUPPORTERS. Someone has to PAY people to work with Couric, but Palin has people who’ll happily work for FREE for her. Palin TOTALLY IGNORES Couric, and Couric would love to ignore in return, but Couric is OBLIGED to report on her anyway, because Palin is a genuine mover and shaker.
Desperation! Hah! Epic FAIL!
JR in FL commented:
Couric thinks she’s a “real” reporter – news broadcaster. Keep drinking the kool aid Katie. Rush and Sara run circles around you. As with the rest of the MSM, you’re a JOKE and your nightly news ratings show it !!!
Nahanni commented:
LOL!
She will be out a job soon. CBS is about to go bankrupt and she is a big part of that. Her contract is so huge and her ratings are so small that she costs them $3/per viewer.
Maybe Obamao will give her a job as a “fluffer” at the White House.
Patrick Chester commented:
Hypogean
“How many of us here think Couric and Martin are giving us good-faith advice?”
Oh, I think they’re faithfully giving advice designed to serve their own cause.
wanumba commented:
Give that woman an award!
Ha!
AuntieMadder commented:
Who pissed Couric off? Man, she looks angry.