Couric's Advice To GOP: Get Focus Off Rush & Palin 'Fringe, Sideshow'

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If her Evening News gig doesn't work out, maybe Katie Couric will seek work as a Republican strategerist . . .

Couric dabbled in her possible new profession in her Notebook segment yesterday, offering some carefully considered advice to the GOP.  According to Katie, Republicans should get the focus off Rush Limbaugh and Sarah Palin.  They're nothing but "fringe" elements, "sideshows" that drive people out of the Republican Big Tent.

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.

Of course we all know that Katie Couric has the best interests of the GOP at heart.  Republicans should rush to embrace her advice, marginalizing the man the GOP saluted as the Majority Maker when they last won control of Congress, and the woman who injected life into the otherwise moribund McCain campaign.  Right.

Update: Over at Free Republic, where this item was cross-posted, reader bolobaby offered this zinger: "With her ratings, she knows ALL ABOUT fringe."  Ouch.

—Mark Finkelstein is a NewsBusters contributing editor and host of Right Angle. Contact him at mark@gunhill.net.


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Too late, Katie. 

Too late, Katie.  Conservatives are goin' RINO hunting. 

"Beauty is only skin deep, but liberal's to the bone." - me

LMAO

Taking advice from Katie is like Churchill taking adivce from Hitler.

You are the sworn enemy of the US of A as defined by the constituion and bill of rights Couric.

The day anyone on the right starts taking your advice is the day hell freezes over.

Stupid Prestitue, quit worrying about serious things and get back to the casting couch to defend your ratings or you will be back out hooking for your pimp husband again.

Never thought of that...

You are the sworn enemy of the US of A as defined by the constituion and bill of rights Couric.

I never thought about it that way, if this is true then the whole "game"

That settles it. Get the

That settles it. Get the focus on Rush, & Palin is the next leader of the Free World.

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And of course, according to

And of course, according to Katie, the Republican "big tent" is made up of people who think  like Democrats.

This health care thing is the first time I've ever heard any Democrats referred to as "moderates" 

Amazing.

We all know there are only "moderate Republicans" and the "extreme right wing" so are the rest of the Democrats "extreme left-wingers"?

Riiight

     Alas poor Katie....we hardly knew ye.  Heres the deal,  Rush and Palin arent the fringe,  both of them keep trying to push the party towards fiscal responsibility and reagan conservatism.

 

 The problem is the party,  for the most part,  dosent want to go in this direction.  When you have Newt Gingrich,  mr contract with America,  the darling of Fox News,  endorsing a RINO republican,  well you have a perfect example of why republicans have lost 2 major elections in a row.

 

 

 

Talk about moribund--

That's Katie's ratings.  

RINO Hunting

Thin the herd ...

The GOP needs to stand for something other than I am not as bad as they are. 

Katie's Help

You could build a campaign with Katie's picture and and mentally challenged commentary.  It's a perfect storm for the GOP when these idiots are exposed for what they are.

"If a liberal didn't live it, it doesn't exist."

 

Pickersenior

 

Sigh...

This is her commentary a few days after polls show 40 percent of the country call themselves conservative???

All are welcome now in the Republican party.  Just give up your statism and commit yourself to the constitution, and come right in.

Taking advice from the

Taking advice from the broadcast news basement dweller. Yeah that sounds like a winning strategy. 

offering some carefully

offering some carefully considered advice to the GOP.  -Mark Finkelstein

That's a good one, Mark!!   LOL!

Oh, wait, she's serious!! Just look at her face....gravitas indeed, even without her "smart glasses."

perhaps financial advice is next

Katie doesn't need her "smart glasses" since she now has the Suze Orman haircut.

                  ~~save your tea, dump congress~~

"People like Rush Limbaugh

"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."

Yeah Katie, But 40% of americans consider themselves CONSERVATIVE, more than either Moderates or Liberals - and that's what really has you scared

Why would she give good advice to republicans?

This is the only question anyone needs to ask to know we are doing the right thing by informing Newt, and the republican party we won't stand for them being dem lite any more...

Take your bag of wind Couric and place it where it belongs....

The fire is in the Dim's tent, Katie; tend to that.

Katie should be trying to help her own party solves its own problems, it’s in a mess.

- Relying upon the Liberal Media for your information is like relying upon an embezzler for your portfolio management.

- I didn't leave the Republican Party; the Republican Party left me.

Another genius

Couric, another genius on the left. Unfortunately, millions of Americans think just as she thinks. And many of them are Republicans. Then there's the view that she's been given her orders to say what she is saying. Some of us remember 1964. The media demonized Goldwater who, for starters, wanted to be strong against our enemies. Of course, we elected the Demos and , oops-- Vietnam for ten years, until a conservative Republican finally got us out. But it's easy to be a "liberal" and listen to personal attacks on anyone who dares to disagree with you. Couric, and most "journalists" today, are ignorant, unprincipled twits who'll keep us on the road to disaster, while they cry all the way to the bank. Sad.

 P.S. Of course, a third view is that the poltroons are afraid as Hell about the likes of Limbaugh and Palin, who make sense to so many people. Personal attacks are all most "liberals" have in their "intellectual" arsenal.

NEVER,NEVER trust a "liberal"

Dear Katie Couric,

Your notebook sucks.

Hugs,

Rob

I wouldn't take

I wouldn't take Katie Kommunist's advice on how to butter toast. 

Facts are like kryptonite to the liberal.

Katie Kredentials?

being cute on the Today Show

Please pass the peptol

You left out the most important skill she possessed....

 

Being perky on the casting couch.

 

http://gjresult.com

 

From the accompanying

From the accompanying photo, Katie is looking more and more like a paint-by-numbers picture of herself. She's gone from "perky" to hard.

Chris Norman

Re K-K-Katie

That's an HDTV effect, it can be cruel to older women.

Translating from the bizzaro liberal Couric-eese

Rush and Palin are energizing the "base" and widening it. People are leaving the Republican party not because they see it as "too conservative" but because they see it has become "Democrat light".

If the Republicans want to be the party of the conservatives, they have to start running conservatives and not moderate liberals who are just a little to the right of the socialist democrats.

The Scozzafava debacle illustrates this point beautifully.

Throw 'da bums out!!!

Before it's too late. 

www.loyaltoliberty.com

Katie’s not all bad

Whenever Katie opens her mouth she inadvertently energizes the conservative base and gradually adds to it.

- Relying upon the State Run Media for your information is like relying upon an embezzler for your portfolio management.

- I didn't leave the Republican Party; the Republican Party left me.

Who's focus?

Would someone please tell this "journalist" that most of the focus on Rush & Palin is coming from  the Obama attack dogs. 

Mr. Empty Suit and his propagand arm, ( i.e. LameStream Media) have tried for months to discredit anyone who does not follow the teachings of our Fearless Leader.      The only way to get this focus off Rush & Palin would be to have them turn liberal. 

Correct me if I'm wrong...

 

katie has never been inside the 'big tent', so wouldn't that make HER the side show?

http://gjresult.com

 

Obviously...

"According to Katie, Republicans should get the focus off Rush Limbaugh and Sarah Palin."

'Republicans' have not 'focused' on Rush Limbaugh and Sarah Palin, the old liberal media has, and they have because those two are their favorite Republicans to attack. It's not the Republicans that have proclaimed Rush Limbaugh to be the leader of the party, it's liberals like K-K-Katie.

What your saying is similar

What your saying is similar to what I was thinking. The GOP will have to draw the rabid liberal left off of Limbaugh and Palin, Couric and the rest of the left. Perhaps if we get them focused on themselves they will implode! ;-)

precisely, slick...

Liberal propaganda machines concoct Conservative controversies where there are none, then start reporting on each other's reports as evidence of controversy, then warn that Conservatives need to focus on other things.  Who the hell are they fooling but their own dingbat followers?

Even Liberal presstitutes like Perky Couric are adopting the Alinsky playbook for destroying adversaries now.

Plastic Surgery?

She just looks odd.  I suppose that goes along with her Pelosi-junior world view.

Katie, tell it to someone who cares.

I hope he fails, too.

 

 

Katie Cupcake

Miss Cupcake should focus on getting more viewers for the lame CBS Evening News.  She has been a train-wreck ever since she started this gig.

I had the problem of "Where did I see that look before".

It was a nagging thing everytime I saw a picture of her, then one day...

I was watching the movie "The Magnificent Seven" and James Coburn jumped a block wall.

As he peeked back over the top of the wall, the mud blocks were in sharp focus.

The color, the texture, everything, even down to the grimace in the mud as it realized that it could never be more than a mud block in the wall.

IT WAS KATIE!!!

 

 

http://gjresult.com

 

Is it just me or is Katie looking more masculine by the day?

Another year or two and she will be ready to chair the National Organization for ugly Women (NOW).  Is that a five O'clock shadow I see?  Better stop the male hormone treatments Katie.  You could get better journalism from a high school newspaper.  Not much difference between Katie's news and the garbage coming from Olberman or Madcow.  And these dolts wonder why nobody watches.  Don't worry Katie, you've been faithful to the left so CBS should get their fair share of the bailout for MSM.

Winston Churchill ~ "Socialism is the philosophy of failure, the creed of ignorance, and the gospel of envy."

The Great Cupcake

Why does this shock you?  This woman spent the better part - like 90% - of the 1990s trying to look as masculine as possible on the Today show.  Once she hit her 40s, she suddenly decided to start looking feminine again.  Too little, too late.   

"CONSUMED DEMOCRACY RETURNS A SOCIALIST REGIME" - Slayer, "Fictional Reality", from Divine Intervention (1994)

Re Masculine

I think she looks more like Chris Matthews every day, kind of Matthews' mini-me. Not to imply that Matthews is masculine.

When a genuine lefty,

When a genuine lefty, pan-fried newsreader offers the Republicans "advice", I think we know what that's all about.

Hey Couric, yer ratings are dropping like rocks thrown off a cliff. Fix your own house before giving advice to anyone.

No citizen's right to life, liberty, pursuit of happiness, or property is safe as long as Obama is President of the United States.

Quiet

Katie, just report the news. If you want to give opinion, go to MSDNC. Geez, you are a moron.

i am sure the "perky one'

i am sure the "perky one' really has the best intentions when it come to the GOP. Her sage advice is what we really need...right. As far as "fringe", rush has 20 million listeners each week. Bet Katie would like some of that "fringe" too.

When your view of America is

When your view of America is shaped by the boundaries of the East and Hudson rivers this is the obvious tack. Katie, go take a walk in the park. You need some air.

The icky

I'm afraid Katie Cupcake just might take your advice...by walking around Central Park.  See, that will keep her fully within those bounds you so accurately describe, and thus keep her away from those icky people who live beyond those rivers.   

"CONSUMED DEMOCRACY RETURNS A SOCIALIST REGIME" - Slayer, "Fictional Reality", from Divine Intervention (1994)

Let us hope that she doesn't

trip over her own importance, she might break a nail - btw - if she and her co-horts are so concerned about "everything", then they should set-up a "Help Fellow Americans" Fund, and "donate" half of their weekly pay, and have it distributed to those who don't have 'health insurance'.

Proud member of the MOB - Move Over Barack, we want our country back! 

There is no sense in being stupid, if you can't prove it! - my dad V

Too funny

Maybe Couric is onto something here. Maybe I'll go summon the wisdom of Al Qaeda and see who they would vote for in the coming election.

Hmmmm

Wonder what she reads on a daily basis.

 

Got it!!

Reads from the O's teleprompter! (one of the jobs "saved" by the stimulus!!) 

 

Proud member of the MOB - Move Over Barack, we want our country back! 

There is no sense in being stupid, if you can't prove it! - my dad V

People like Rush Limbaugh

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.
 

This is rich coming from someone with absolutely dismal ratings.  You many not be able to win with "just the base", but Katie Couric doesn't even have a base.

"I spent a lot of money on booze, birds and fast cars. The rest I just squandered."  -George Best

I have some advice for

I have some advice for Katie:

Pull your bottom lip over your head....and swallow...

 

That'll boost ratings!!!

To paraphrase

"That's gonna be a lot to swallow"

 

Proud member of the MOB - Move Over Barack, we want our country back! 

There is no sense in being stupid, if you can't prove it! - my dad V

Tha's a rather large "fringe"

"They're nothing but "fringe" elements, "sideshows" that drive people out of the Republican Big Tent."

Which explains why they are so popular, I guess.  

Get this through your perky little head, Katie:  People aren't being "driven out" by Rush and Sarah, they're being driven out by the liberals in the Republican Party who masquerade as Conservatives. Rush and Sarah are just leading the exodus.

The Citizens of each State shall be entitled to all Privileges and Immunities of Citizens in the several States.
The US Constitution

Unless you're a fetus.
The US Supreme Court

Calling All Dumb Asses

Just returning your opening greeting with an equal comparison, Katie.

Er, uh...  You're confused, Katie.  The focus on the individuals you mention is from the left - not the right.

*chuckle*  You're cute.  *patting you on the head*

What was it you said to Sarah Palin in that smarmy, elitist tone you have?  Oh, yes!  You should keep your head down, work really hard and learn about journalism because you just.... don't.... get it.

Thanks!

We're not going down that road again

We allowed you liberal wack jobs to select a RINO to be our candidate for president in 2008, that crap is not doing happen again, WE are going to drain the swamp of RINO's and liberals and get CONSERVATIVES in office in every race around the country that we can.

We are done being nice, you liberals have awakened the Conservative genie, and he is pissed and you have NO CHANCE of getting the genie back in the bottle, he is here to stay and you liberals are about to pay a hefty price for your arrogance and your stupidity.

Race after race this year, next year and 2012, Conservatives, TRUE Conservatives are going to be kicking butt and taking names and because of your ineptness you are going to be out of power for many election cycles to come, get used to it, you brought this on yourselves.

AND WE SHOULD LISTEN TO THE COLON QUEEN......WHY?

Conservative political strategy and defensive fighter aircraft tactics are 2 topics I wont be waiting to hear from Katie about.

Hey kitty - if you happen to research here,

then how about asking the demolibs to get off the gravy train called Obama?? How come you cowardly "media" types are always making suggestions to the gop? Isn't there TWO parties?? Oh, I forgot, you're ALL in the tank for the dems - try thinking of something new, the old arguments are just that - old - try a new page from the overused old playbook, like, um, oh, thinking for yourself - do you know how??? (think, that is)

Oh, and as far as the "Big Tent" goes, how about the demolibs allowing dissention to their agenda, inside their tent?

 

Proud member of the MOB - Move Over Barack, we want our country back! 

There is no sense in being stupid, if you can't prove it! - my dad V

Ratings

Looking at the bubbly one's ratings, I would say that "fringe and sideshow" describe her reading of the "news"......

Why does she care....

Holeinthehull

It must be tough on Katie to present the news everynight in a echo chamber. No one listening, no one watching, she could broadcast in the nude and there would still be an echo.

When anyone on the Right

When anyone on the Right starts listening to Couric in earnest that is the time they should give up politics and sign up to be a Hussein Volunteer.

 

JMHO, you understand.

If Saul Alinsky owned a news channel it would be MSNBC.  ----  Me

Advice to Couric: stop

Advice to Couric: stop painting on those ugly faces and start reading the news.  

Hey Katie?  Yeah your

Hey Katie?  Yeah your sanity called, said they lost you about 20 years ago.  Might want to drop them a line.

 

 

Good one Katie!!!!

Good write..add lil Sean and that weeping Beck and you got a home run!

 

  Palin joked about her son Trig's Down Syndrome, calling him her "retarded baby" , "well she's right you know."  ~  Rush Limbaugh

Peter Principle

Katie Kupkake is a great example of the Peter Principle, she has reached the level of her incompetence. 

Let's look into her future, shall we?

"CBS announced today that Katie Kupkake, CBS Evening News anchor, will be moving on to new challenges, joining the 60 minutes team.  Katie will be replaced by a lifesize inflatible doll of Dan Rather in a wig (assuming that we can sneak it out of Les Moonves' office)"

Six Months later...

"CBS would like to apologize for a few minor errors in a recent, little viewed, 60 Minutes broadcast segment. So, in the order in which they were reported by Miss Kupkake:  1) Barack Obama is not, in reality, the "second coming of the Lord;"  2) we do not have "undeniable proof" of a "Bush Conspiracy" to over throw the Obama administration and replace the President with Jeb Bush;  3) we do not have written proof that George H.W. Bush signed documents ordering the assassination of JFK;  4) the 1960-dated documents used to make the JFK accusation, printed in Comic Sans MS Bold, may have been forged, though no final authority outside of the blogoshere, has yet confirmed that;  5) while we cannot prove that George W. Bush did not order the attacks on 9/11, we apologize for stating, and we quote, "insiders close to the Lord Obama have confirmed the existance of documents that blame Bush for the 9/11 attacks," even though that's what they told us.  In other news, Katie Kupkake has decided to take a news desk position with MSNBC.  We wish her well.

Isn't it interesting how we

Isn't it interesting how we never hear folks like kookie Katie complain about the left's fringe elements, or warn that their sideshow antics will drive folks out of their big tent? Even more interesting is how the Katie types don't require the left to have a so-called big tent anyway. No, it's only the right that is supposed to sell out its principles in order to attract more people. You'll never hear folks like Katie "I have no ratings" Couric say the left needs to stop supporting planned parenthood, and stop following Al Gore in order to attract more members.

Katie, keep your lame advice to yourself and stick to doing what you do best: repell viewers.

Well, you gotta consider...

Katie is part of the left fringe, so everything there looks "mainstream" and anything right of her looks like the right fringe.

Like the Rush thing... he's not fringe, he's mainstream conservative.  Our fringe would be the fed conspirists, the separationists, etc.  Good patriots, but not mainstream conservatives (yet).

Katie, on the other hand, would like to crush businesses (fringe, socialists), destroy manufacturing in the USA (fringe, massive cap-and-trade laws with no proof of human cause), take over all health care (fringe, gov take over vs. the necessary private sector fixes), take away all guns (fringe, thoughtless emotional reaction, with total disregard to actual statistics showing guns reduce violent crime overall)

anytime Couric spouts off

anytime Couric spouts off with an opinion she reminds me of a 4 year old little girl with a lollipop..

Hit The Road Chump!!!

There isn't a better way to increase the size of the republican tent than to allow democrats the reigns of power. Isn't this change of power thing cyclical, one party or the other screws things-up and the other comes in to clean up the resulting mess, albeit the republicans seem to have the upper hand on the proper way to do it...Obama is going to hasten the change-over, he will be a one termer resulting in a collective sigh of relief when he's gone.

 

America doesn't need a "Black Liberation Theology" adherent setting the agenda.

Katie read that just as

Katie read that just as it was written in the West Wing.  No mistakes at all Katie!

Si Vis Pacem, Para Bellum

CBS = Couric the Bull Sh***er

Those that can, do.  Those that can't, preach.

Already a failure as a network news anchor, Couric offers political advice to a political party she really doesn't care about.

Whatever Couric recommends, do the opposite.

Hey, Katie, how's the ACORN story coming?  Ready yet?

CBS = Couric the Bull Sh***er

Those that can, do.  Those that can't, preach.

Already a failure as a network news anchor, Couric offers political advice to a political party she really doesn't care about.

Whatever Couric recommends, do the opposite.

Hey, Katie, how's the ACORN story coming?  Ready yet?

Perk Perk the couger

When I see Perk Perk’s name pop up in the news I often think of Lauren Hutton in the movie Once Bitten, a 400 year old vampire Countess looking for young male virgins.

Time for Katie to wake up and smell the coffee

Katie and the rest of the media are about to have harder time than usual with the facts for the next 3 years. Just wait for the elections next week. There is a movement in this country of folks that don't care about party but instead care about candidates that say what they mean and mean what they say.Candidates that will do what the will of the people and get done what the people want done. As the grandson of a Missouri farmer who was raised with the idea that you elect people to work for you this would be refreshing.Elected representatives doing the will of the people is where the Constitutional rubber meets the road.Its been along time since that really happened.

Underestimating Sarah Palin's connection to the common folk is the media's first mistake.Mistaking anger at tea parties as AstroTurf engineered by Fox News is their second mistake Taking their Messiah's liberal political power for granted will be their undoing. In 2010 and 2012,I cant wait to see their shock and dismay when this liberal love fest ends and the thrill up Chris's leg is gone. Poor Katie will be in tears!!!

"A government big enough to give you everything you want, is strong enough to take everything you have".


Thomas Jefferson

Thank you, Mark

Thank you, Mark, for monitoring this historic personality.  For the time being I guess somebody has to do it.  However, at some point I worry that you personally are going make up a significant portion of her audience; and even before that happens there comes a point when it becomes counterproductive to call attention to the silly things Katie says.

- Relying upon the State Run Media for your information is like relying upon an embezzler for your portfolio management.

- I didn't leave the Republican Party; the Republican Party left me.

Let's see her show succeed FIRST...

Let's see Mrs. 'My show's ratings equate to solid waste floating in the sewers' demostrate she can make HER show popular - then maybe she can lecture the GOP about popularity.

Isn't it nice of Obama's media whores to give the GOP such tender-hearted advice?  Isn't is wonderful how they feel so concerned about the GOP's well being?  /sarcasm.

Gag me.  Like the GOP will take advice from a woman who probably sleeps with a picture of Barney Frank under her pillow?

Katie, you're the one focusing on Rush and Sarah

Liberal playbook...Keep doing it and then blame it on the other side.

Katie, it is you and your ilk that is obsessed with Rush, Sarah and the like.

We know your game and always have known it. Now the rest of America is finally waking up to the liberal, MSM game playing tactics. Your games won't work anymore.

Couric needs to police her own network before criticizing GOP.

Katie Couric needs to police her own network, before criticizing the GOP.

Levi on Sarah: 'If She's Going to Go out There and Say Things...About Me, I'm Going to Leak Some Things on Her'
http://www.mediabistro.com/tvnewser/cbs/levi_on_sarah_if_shes_going_to_go_out_there_and_say_thingsabout_me_im_going_to_leak_some_things_on_her__141419.asp

Katie is going to become

Katie is going to become increasingly unhinged as Sarah Palin becomes more popular, even as Katie's ratings continue to plumit. 

 

"President Obama is learning on the job and it shows."  --Boris Epshteyn

First thing

First thing that went through my mind when I scrolled down here is "Who is that little boy?"

Oh, KATIE

She's an airhead - we should NOT waste our time.

         The last

         The last thing we need to do is listen to Couric. She knows nothing about reporting the news.