Last week speaking at the National Press Club (hey who invited her anyway, isn't that for "Journalists?") CBS News Katie Couric announced that the Iraq War was a "Mistake?"
Really now? Y'think? (Video)
Now the right-wing via Fux News is punching back, and not every swing is above the belt!
Via Thinkprogress
"Everyone in this room would agree that people in this country were misled in terms of the rationale of this war," said Couric, adding that it is "pretty much accepted" that the war in Iraq was a mistake.
"I’ve never understood why [invading Iraq] was so high on the administration’s agenda when terrorism was going on in Afghanistan and Pakistan and that [Iraq] had no true connection with al Qaeda." [...]
Couric [criticized] "the feeling that we’d be welcomed as liberators and didn’t need to focus as much on security." She added, "I’d feel totally comfortable saying any of that at some point, if required, on television."
It's interesting that when she had a chance to make all these points to David Petreaus while intervieing him in Iraq just recently, she didn't even bother. She was so nice to Ole' Betreaus that the right-wing has dubbed her their Sweatheart.
Maybe not so much after this.
Particularly not from from Hannity & Colmes who ironically found it inappropriate for a network anchor to mix News and Commentary even though her comments were not made on a News cast.
Now what's really amazing here, besides the fact that they decided to talk with conservative media shill Brent Bozell about Couric, is that the ultimate conclusions drawn are that a) The fact that we we're "Mislead" into this war is just and "Opinion" b) Somehow the Clinton Administration has as much to do with this War as Bush c) The Surge is Working and Couric was right to say so and d) her comments at the Press Club were an attempt to "Genuflect at the Altar of those George Soros Funded Crazies Media Matters - just look what their doing to "poor Bill O'Reilly".
Except that we really were Misled into this War, the Clinton Administration ended long before we invaded Iraq, The Surge isn't working and George Soros has nothing to do with Media Matters and even if he did - So-F-ing-What!?
Truly stunning no?
Vyan
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