Katie Couric concluded Thursday's CBS Evening News on a triumphant note of 'women, hear us roar' as she insisted that “we can't let this historic day pass without mentioning Susan B. Anthony who fought so hard for the right of women to vote, but didn't live to see us get it.” That right “didn't happen until 1920, 14 years after she died,” Couric lamented before marveling: “Can you imagine there are still more than three million American women alive today who were born before women were allowed to vote?” Couric then touted how “now there are a record 90 women in this new Congress, including for the first time ever, the Speaker of the House.” The CBS anchor proposed: “Wouldn't Susan B. Anthony be proud? Or maybe she'd ask, 'what took so long?'”
Couric's final item on the January 4 CBS Evening News followed a glowing profile of Carol Shea-Porter, a Democrat who unexpectedly won a House seat from New Hampshire:
“And we can't let this historic day pass without mentioning Susan B. Anthony who fought so hard for the right of women to vote, but didn't live to see us get it. That didn't happen until 1920, 14 years after she died. Can you imagine there are still more than three million American women alive today who were born before women were allowed to vote? Now there are a record 90 women in this new Congress, including for the first time ever, the Speaker of the House. Wouldn't Susan B. Anthony be proud? Or maybe she'd ask, 'what took so long?' That's the CBS Evening News. I'm Katie Couric, thanks so much for watching. Good night.”
—Brent Baker is Vice President for Research and Publications at the Media Research Center
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If the nation's first woman n
January 5, 2007 - 02:55 ET by i was just thinkingIf the nation's first woman news anchor is any hint as to what we can expect, it will set the cause of women's rights back by decades.
Too bad someone didn't spike
January 5, 2007 - 11:01 ET by donsalesToo bad someone didn't spike Susan B's punch will some good old fashioned arsenic......lol
Nowhere to Run....Nowhere To Hide.....
OK, I'm going to get vulger t
January 5, 2007 - 03:02 ET by PeskyDaneOK, I'm going to get vulger to a point were I'm risking my NB license, here.
This carpet munching is getting to be just a little bit too much.
Is being a woman enough?
January 5, 2007 - 05:25 ET by nkviking75Is it inherently good that a woman is speaker, no matter what type of a person she is? I don't think so. We could have done much better than Nancy Pelosi.
Katie Couric and Susan B. Anthony
January 5, 2007 - 08:13 ET by Eric TurnerWould she have mentioned Susan B. Anthony if she knew that Susan B. Anthony was pro-life and considered abortion "child murder?"
"Guilty? Yes. No matter what the motive, love of ease, or a desire to save from suffering the unborn innocent, the woman is awfully guilty who commits the deed. It will burden her conscience in life, it will burden her soul in death" - Susan B. Anthony
I don't believe she would have. Oh my goodness! Oh no! Say it isn't so! Katie Couric is just a telepromter reader and doesn't really know any news?!? Oh my world is destroyed. I thought they actually knew what they were talking about!
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armyvet,I was thinking the sa
January 5, 2007 - 08:32 ET by msh1973armyvet,
I was thinking the same thing. Evidently poor little Katie didn't do her homework before she invoked Susan B. Anthony's name.
Time
January 5, 2007 - 08:58 ET by cvgbuckeyeThis joke's time has arrived:
One day, Adam was complaining to The Lord of his loneliness and asked The Lord if he could create a woman for him. The Lord inquired of Adam as to what kind of a woman he would want. Adam responded that he would like a woman that was intelligent but not mouthy or bossy. She would be a good cook and serve his every need. She would just be a great companion and help to him.
The Lord responded, " Adam, to make a woman like that would cost an arm and a leg". Adam thought for a minute and responded, "well, what could I get for just a rib" ?
Hello Pelosi and Rosie and Meredith and Kati and Hillary and Sheehan and on and on and on!
Humanity would have been well served to give the arm and the leg.
I seem to remember that eithe
January 5, 2007 - 12:25 ET by MikeBI seem to remember that either Montana or Wyoming allowed women to vote a long time before before 1919, when the 19th amendment was ratified. They managed to do it without Susan B. Anthony's influence.
Ms. Anthony was downright incensed that the 15th amendment allowed black men to vote, but did not extend the vote to women. She said that "educated white women would be better voters than 'ignorant' black men or immigrant men."
"A communist is someone who reads Marx. An anti-communist is someone who understands Marx." Ronald Reagan
Women
January 5, 2007 - 12:52 ET by iveseenitallThere have been so many wonderfully intelligent and logical female thinkers throughout history. Literature is replete with them.(Some are on this site). Problem is that many would not have agreed with the modern "feminists" on many issues, abortion being just one. In my opinion, a true feminist is a much different person than the one liberals have foisted on American womanhood.
NEVER,NEVER trust a liberal