Couric Has Cushy Chat with Biden, Will She Be as Warm with Palin?

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If Katie Couric is to be consistent and treat Republican vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin, whom Couric is scheduled to interview this week, as gently as she did Democratic VP nominee Joe Biden in her day with him Thursday in Ohio which became a story on the Monday night CBS Evening News, she will (Couric quotes from the Biden story in the parentheses):

♦ Not apply any ideological label: (“We decided to take a closer look at the 65-year-old Senator from Delaware.”)

♦ Hail her outspokenness: (“You say what's on your mind and I think people appreciate that.”)

♦ Ignore obvious factual/historical flubs: (Biden: “When the stock market crashed, Franklin Roosevelt got on television...”) FDR was not in office at the time of the 1929 crash and his "fireside chats" were on the radio.

♦ Relay as reality positive campaign spin about her attributes: (“Relating to the fears of the average American is one of Biden's strong suits.”)

♦ Cue up campaign rally attendees to praise her: (“What was it about what he said that really resonated with you in particular?” Answers: “I think he expressed what most working Americans feel at the moment. He seems to relate to our pain.” and “I want him in office because I believe he will do things for women.”)

♦ Empathize with the challenge she faces at the upcoming debate: (“Are you worried you're going to have to pull your punches a bit because of her gender and you don't want to seem like you're bullying her? It's a different dynamic when it's a male/female thing, isn't it?”)

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♦ And if she repudiates a McCain-Palin TV ad, CBS and Couric will not jump to publicize the internal dispute and wait until the story airs to mention it late in the story, then give her the last word to say the other campaign's ads are worse:

(“Are you disappointed with the tone of the campaign? The 'lipstick on the pig' stuff, and some of the ads -- you guys haven't been completely guilt-free, making fun of John McCain's inability to use a computer.” Biden: “I thought that was terrible, by the way....I didn't know we did it and if I had anything to do with it, we would have never done it....I don't think there was anything intentional about that....That's very different than deliberately taking a vote Barack Obama had to teach children about how to deal with child-predators and saying he was teaching them sex education in kindergarten.”)

The “Katie Couric Reports” story, “Joe Biden: Behind the Scenes,” on the Monday, September 22 CBS Evening News:

KATIE COURIC: The way it usually works, after the conventions the nominees for Vice President usually fade into the background, but not this year. The choice of Sarah Palin has focused a lot of attention on the number-two spot on both tickets. Joe Biden spoke today to the National Guard Association and said the Guard should have a greater voice at the Pentagon, noting more than half the Iraq and Afghanistan war veterans are guardsmen and reservists.

We decided to take a closer look at the 65-year-old Senator from Delaware, the Chairman of the Foreign Relations Committee, and his new role as a vice presidential candidate as he stumped for votes in the swing state of Ohio.

ANNOUNCER AT CAMPAIGN EVENT: The next Vice President of the United States, Senator Joe Biden!

COURIC: He's the close-talking, free-wheeling, ice-cream eating Democratic nominee for Vice President. Senator Joe Biden isn't holding back.

COURIC TO BIDEN ON A BUS: You say what's on your mind and I think people appreciate that. Have you found that you have to be uber-careful and disciplined in terms of being out on the campaign trail?

BIDEN: No. I feel passionately about what I'm doing and saying. I know the Republicans are going to take anything I say, no matter what it would be or anybody, and take it out of context. They're going to take any piece and if I have to parse through every single thing that I'm going to say, then I'm not me.

COURIC: On the trail, Biden is unmistakably himself, from occasionally cursing to getting emotional, as he did in Canton, at the Pro Football Hall of Fame. We were with him last Thursday during one of the rockiest weeks in history for the U.S. economy, something that wasn't lost on the six-term Senator.

BIDEN: Part of what a leader does is to instill confidence, is demonstrate that he or she knows what they're talking about and to communicates to people. If you listen to me and follow what I'm suggesting, we can fix this. When the stock market crashed, Franklin Roosevelt got on television and didn't just talk about the, you know, princes of greed. He said, “look, here's what happened.”

COURIC: Relating to the fears of the average American is one of Biden's strong suits-

BIDEN AT CAMPAIGN EVENT: If I sound angry, it's because I'm angry.

COURIC: -as he did recently with these union members in Akron.

BIDEN: I started my career in the Iron Workers hall in Ellsburg, Delaware.

COURIC: It's something that comes easily for this son of a car salesman from Scranton, Pennsylvania.

COURIC TO PEOPLE IN AUDIENCE: What was it about what he said that really resonated with you in particular?

MAN: This is where the true middle class is Akron, Ohio.

SECOND MAN: I think he expressed what most working Americans feel at the moment. He seems to relate to our pain.

WOMAN: I want him in office because I believe he will do things for women.

COURIC: In fact, women, who usually lean Democratic, have suddenly become one of the most coveted voting blocs of this election.

COURIC TO BIDEN: Polls show that Senator McCain and Sarah Palin are making some inroads among white female voters who are less educated.

BIDEN: I don't believe that. Every election people are making up their minds later and later because there's more and more at stake. You know, everybody should just be a little patient here. Eventually Sarah Palin is gonna have to let people know what she thinks, what her record is.

COURIC: How's it going preparing for the debates?

BIDEN: It's kind of hard to prepare, because I don't know what she thinks. There's been no, I just don't know a lot about her, so therefore I'm assuming; I have to assume for purposes of the debate she agrees with John on everything.

COURIC: Are you worried you're going to have to pull your punches a bit because of her gender and you don't want to seem like you're bullying her? It's a different dynamic when it's a male/female thing, isn't it?

BIDEN: I don't know, is it? We're sitting here doing it right now, aren't we? Look, all kidding aside, maybe it's a generational thing but I don't start this thing thinking “Oh my God, this is a woman, I better treat her differently.”

COURIC: But the way the campaigns are treating each other is raising some eyebrows.

McCAIN AD: Learning about sex before learning to read?

COURIC: Especially from two candidates who pledged to take the high road.

OBAMA AD: He admits he still doesn't know how to use a computer.

COURIC TO BIDEN: Are you disappointed with the tone of the campaign? The “lipstick on the pig” stuff, and some of the ads -- you guys haven't been completely guilt-free, making fun of John McCain's inability to use a computer.

BIDEN: I thought that was terrible, by the way.

COURIC: Why'd you do it then?

BIDEN: I didn't know we did it and if I had anything to do with it, we would have never done it. And I don't think Barack, you know. I just think that was-

COURIC: Did Obama approve that ad? He said he did, right?

BIDEN: The answer is I don't think there was anything intentional about that. They were trying to make another point. That's very different than deliberately taking a vote Barack Obama had to teach children about how to deal with child-predators and saying he was teaching them sex education in kindergarten. Very different in degree.

The CBSNews.com version, with video. The online story text is markedly different from what aired.

—Brent Baker is Vice President for Research and Publications at the Media Research Center


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Katie is hoping for a bigger

Katie is hoping for a bigger job than just CBS...

>>> Katie is hoping for a

>>> Katie is hoping for a bigger job than just CBS...

Wouldn't be difficult to find.

sean robins
blog.seanrobins.com

Katie's first statement to Average Joe was...

"Hi, I'm Katie Kouric - aren't I just the kutist thing you've ever seen? Don't I just give you a warm fuzzy feeling sitting next to you?"

"Mediocroties everywhere! I absolve you! I absolve you!" - Antonio Salieri in Amadeus

>>>Ignore an obvious

>>>Ignore an obvious factual/historical flub: (Biden: “When the stock market crashed, Franklin Roosevelt got on television...”)  

How about a double-flub?

Roosevelt did not take the oath of office for the first time until almost 3-1/2 years after the October 1929 "crash."

And, as for television:  The first U.S. broadcast, per se, was in 1927, by Bell Labs, from Washington, D.C. to New York, with regularly-scheduled broadcasts starting in latter-1928, so it might have been possible.  But almost no one would have been watching in 1929 - er, if Roosevelt had been President.

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It's not like a person

It's not like a person could just zip down to the Best Buy and pick up a TV so they could watch FDR (even before he was president, lol).  Come one, Katie, television was to new then.  I mean, my Dad can remember being excited when my Grandfather was able to purchase a television in the 50s.  The way Slow Joe makes it sound, everyone had a TV in their home to watch FDR.  Sadly, too many ignorant people out there will not realize the truth.

And the perky one would have to actually know something about history in order to catch this particular Biden gaffe.  Keep it up Joe!

Republicans believe every day is the 4th of July.  Democrats believe every day is April 15th ~ Ronald Reagan

Katie Couric Warm...An oxymoron!

After the realization that George Bush had been re-elected in 2004, I took great joy in watching the PMSNBC/CBS/ABC/CNN etc "Journalists" looking as though they had just learned that everything that they thought was true had suddenly been proven to be lies. And in this case it was true. Most of the country thinks 180 degrees from them. Katie "the perky one" Couric looked like she had just received a colonic. Her face drooped like John Kerry's, and the dark cloud of shock made her appear to be 10 years older than she is.

The MSM idiots were so sure that the Vietnam Vet from France, JFKerry had won. How could it be. They were like the mafia guy that bets on the fixed fight, but loses because the boxer decides not to take the dive.

No one watches this hag. I think 80% of her viewers are old folks in homes who dont change the channel. The TV is always on CBS. I have never met anyone who admits to seeing this partisan news -caster deliver her biased reporting.

The MSM is never going to learn that the American public see them as the enema( excuse me, enemy) and theyonly drive voters away from their beloved Nobama, and that blowhard Biden.

 

Someone please tell me this was a joke

Please

 

NBC

I heard on one of the satellite radio talk shows an excerpt from a NBC show. It sounded as if there were maybe four speakers. One of them said Todd Palin "must be doing " his girls, further saying something like "Its Alaska were talking about." I guess we know what kind of gutter-mind that speaker has, and what he thinks of Alaskans and Alaska. Anybody out there know what show this trash was on, and why I haven't heard any complains on it.?

SNL

I didn't watch it, don't know 100% for sure, but I thought this was from a Saturday Night Live skit about the MSM heading to Alaska to dig up dirt on Palin.  No complaints, because it was meant to be a humorous take on the media's pre-conceived notions about Alaska and Alaskans.

Confirm

Yes, I just now saw confirmation on Headline News. Still, such garbage is not directed at Obama and his girls, is it?

»→ SNL hypocrisy?

Of course not.  SNL knows any hint of reference would be out of bounds.

Example:  "Senator Obama, are you a disciplinarian with your girls, (sorry, I couldn't let this part of the question stand)"?

"Don't taze me bro" - Joe Biden

being discussed on another newsbusters post

check out this post:

'SNL' Does McCain-Bashing Skit Written by Al Franken

I complained to NBC about this skit because insinuating about incest is simply out of bounds. period.

The portion of the skit which portrayed New York Times reporters as being out of their element in reporting from Alaska was humorous because good satire always contains an element of truth.

What's the difference between Barack Obama and Sarah Palin?
     One is eye candy while the other kills her own food.

Saturday Night Live

Relax Jaywl, it was a SNL skit and they were actually mocking the MSM.  It was still in extremely poor taste, but it wasn't an actual news organization.  Who were you listening to on Satellite?  Air America???

Isn't Katie's Palin interview tomorrow?

This will be a good side by side comparison.  We shall see. 

Katie

I remember when Arnold S. was running for governor of California and had an interview with Katie Couric scheduled and Rush Limbaugh predicted the first question.  Damned if Couric's interview didn't start exactly as elRushbo predicted - something about Austrians and Nazis, of course.

Perky Treat Palin As Gently

The inability to script often makes aspects of this very difficult.

Move to jpg/picture at the top of the column and see Perky's glowing face staring at the wannabe lib VP. If her thoughts could be noted next to her head, what is she thinking while smiling/drooling?

JDW


DAILY WAVE

JDW

I cannot remember if it was on NB or Lucianne but someone said that they could tell whether Perky was interviewing a Conservative or Leftist just by her facial expressions.  They didn't have to see or even know who was on - Perky's face doesn't lie.

Now, as far as Gov. Palin's interview, I think she'll do just fine.  Although we will hear the name "Katie" spoken by her several dozen times.

Will Palin be allowed to

Will Palin be allowed to sit on the couch, or will this be a straight-back chair interview, with katie's chair elevated several inches?

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I just hope Katie slips up

I just hope Katie slips up and asks Sarah about the 60,000 people that showed up yesterday at Sarah's rally in Florida. Video of rally here...Sarah Draws 60,000

 

 

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Two words...

CAT FIGHT!!!!!

Ster.

ps.  I will donate $100 bucks to Olby's nonexistant Special Olympics fund if Sarah sais this to the Perky Katie...

Jules Winnfield:
Ezekiel 25:17: The path of the righteous man is beset on all sides by the inequities of the selfish and the tyranny of evil men. Blessed is he who, in the name of charity and good will, shepherds the weak through the Valley of Darkness; for he is truly his brother's keeper, and the finder of lost children. And, I will strike down upon thee with great vengeance and furious anger those who attempt to poison and destroy my brothers! And, you will know my name is The Lord when I lay my vengeance upon thee!

...as she wipes that smirk off her face.

I put up $2 Trillion if she

I put up $2 Trillion if she said that. Of course, I would have to borrow it from Uncle Sam. Then again, he can spare it. BTW - loved Pulp Fiction.

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Couric "interviews" Biden

Couric "interviews" Biden or as most perceive: the Perky One reads from DNC talking points while Biden sits on the couch.  Still others seee it as dumb "interviews" dumber.  

Meanwhile, why didn't Couric ask Biden about his "harrowing"  emergency helicopter landing in Afghanistan? To hear Biden tell it he was surrounded by enemy Taliban.  The reality was that his helicopter was forced down by "enemy" snowflakes.  You can read about it here: http://blogs.abcnews.com/politicalpunch/2008/09/the-story-behin.html. 

»→ Perky goes Radio GaGa

When the stock market crashed, Franklin Roosevelt got on television...”

Two possibilities.  Neither flattering.  Either

Katie is too dumb to recognize the laughable anachronism of 1929 + FDR + Television.

or

Katie will gladly make a flirtatious fool of herself for her liberal gods.

I'm willing to buy off on either scenario.

"Don't taze me bro" - Joe Biden

FDR dancing, Katie

Biden: I remember watching FDR on t.v. celebrating the end of WWII by dancing around his desk in the Oval office laughing and kicking and starting a conga line with the staff and  . . . oh, what am I saying? Stand up for FDR, Katie!

Katie: So it wasn't a conga line?

When is it Charlie's turn?

When is the in depth, 3 part, penetrating interview of Biden by ABC News' Charlie Gibson with his half moon  glasses?

“I want him in office

“I want him in office because I believe he will do things for women.”

As opposed to Bill Clinton who just did things to women.

Ecclesiastes 10:2 - "The heart of the wise inclines to the right, but the heart of the fool to the left."

Scrappy Joe from Scranton

Biden's web page refers to his dating his wife Jill, beginning in 1975. It continues that they married in 1977, after her graduation from the Univ. of Delaware. So a sitting US Senator was dating a college sophomore (junior?).  Obviously, it was her mind that first attracted him! I can't wait for him to attack her "judgment".