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- reyoo30309, on 07/24/2008, -27/+188Sigh...
She isn't an idiot. She kept on asking because he would not answer her the way she wanted. She was looking for some type of response that would indicate that he regretted his decision of being against the surge and she just was not getting that. - shutaro, on 07/24/2008, -15/+152I still think she's an idiot.
- inactive, on 07/25/2008, -11/+112She should go back to her morning gossip show for stay-at-home moms.
- infodoc1, on 07/24/2008, -10/+104Tough, no-holds-barred journalism. And if they don't like the responses, they'll just edit the footage so that the candidates answer how they're supposed to.
- aaronadms, on 07/24/2008, -9/+71I love when people try to act like their ignorance is the fault of the person who is trying to educate them.
- TruckStuff, on 07/25/2008, -4/+63And she has always done this. Its one the reasons that she has always irritated me to no end in interviews. She has a specific sound bite in mind that she wants from the interview, and she will ask the same question 5 different ways if she can't get it. I've seen her practically beg for it before.
She is awful. Perhaps second only to Ann Curie. - shadowfoxmi, on 07/25/2008, -10/+53http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2007/10/12/couric-co ...
I took a 5-Couric, this morning. - TheKitchenSinkX, on 07/24/2008, -43/+83The write-up was inaccurate.
- p1eiades, on 07/25/2008, -12/+49I noticed she didn't press McCain three times over about his gaffe, but then she probably knew they'd edit it out anyways.
- melkweg, on 07/25/2008, -14/+48Katie has three thumbs down on our Tivo.
- weech, on 07/25/2008, -5/+37actually she still is an idiot. this is the same person who recently made statements that ratings for her news broadcast are lower than others as a result of sexism in the nation..
uh, no. it's because you're a stupid ***** twit who needs to go back to some BS morning show and talk about boy bands and baking blueberry muffins. - Physicsmazz, on 07/25/2008, -2/+32I'm not sure why you're getting dugg down, because clearly the write-up doesn't match the video.
- inactive, on 07/24/2008, -10/+36I expect an edit of his responses to suit their political agenda.
- tyho, on 07/25/2008, -7/+30Crying foul on huffington, mediamatters, koz, or moveon is not allowed on Digg, sorry.
- xerexes1, on 07/25/2008, -2/+21I'm not an Obama fan, but he offered a well thought out / prepared statement in response to her question. To be fair, asking for a simple reply of "yes" or "no" to something as complex as the situation in Iraq, is frankly stupid.
The fact that she continued to press the question, well that just made her look ignorant. - jstohler, on 07/25/2008, -16/+34Thank you. CBS' treatment of Obama is to be scorned, but not for this part of it. It's a standard journalism practice to repeat your question when you feel the interviewee is dodging it.
And yes she's still an idiot. - smacksaw, on 07/25/2008, -8/+21Interesting the writer mentioned that Obama should have referenced the "Anbar Awakening" - I saw McCain today saying that IT was part of the surge, even though no troops were even a part of it! So If you go by McCain's logic, the surge that Couric speaks of has nothing to do with 30,000 troops. It's about overall strategy.
What exactly is the surge? To me, it's when we approved sending more troops. Because that's what McCain called it at the time.
This is revisionist history. And did these troops increase security? Yes. But are they responsible for the Anbar Awakening? No. And if you think about other nonmilitary side benefits, you have to wonder just exactly what the surge did. Besides cost us a hell of a lot of money.
The author is right in saying he should have responded better. I think he really could have nailed her to the wall with that line of questioning. Were it me, I would have said "If you're trying to figure my position out, ask me. Don't lecture me repeatedly about the effect of the troops. Your question is an observation, not my position. My position is that we should have and could have done other more effective things instead of the surge. That is my position. Why don't you ask me what I would have done instead of the surge and why I think it would be better to change strategy? That way you'll see that your question about 30,000 troops is not relevant, since it is not part of my position you claim to want to get to know better." - kinerry, on 07/25/2008, -8/+20I just shat 4 courics
- inactive, on 07/25/2008, -5/+17At least the question wasn't "Are you a secret Muslim?"
- rowlodge, on 07/25/2008, -2/+13if she had shown some leg, everything would of been A-okay.
- inactive, on 07/25/2008, -10/+21Maybe Barry shouldn't skirt the question, and give a direct answer.
- catcher6250, on 07/25/2008, -1/+11No, they weren't contradictory at all. Obama was saying that the war in Iraq still sucks ass and we have more important things to worry about than rebuilding a country for someone. he is saying the surge was all well and good, but , hey look, we are still in ***** Iraq aren't we? and he is also saying we should stop spending billions of dollars in iraq when there is so much other more important ***** we can be spending it on
- kingUssop, on 07/25/2008, -5/+15She was looking to force him to answer how she wanted. Considering the question was stupid, it's not bold journalism.
- tjdegroat, on 07/25/2008, -16/+25It's really simplistic to brand a journalist an idiot for continuing to ask a politician about a very widely talked-about issue when he/she doesn't think the poli is giving a complete response. If you think she's being unfair, that's one thing, or if you think he answered the question adequately, fine. But she's not an idiot. She's doing her job.
- Edogz, on 07/25/2008, -2/+11Maybe the write up is the longer interview version while the video is edited and varies from the original interview transcript..
- 2612, on 07/25/2008, -21/+30How dare she question the great and mighty Obama. Maybe she rephrased it because she never got a straight answer.
- catcher6250, on 07/25/2008, -2/+11no it went like this:
"Did the surge work?"
"The troops did an excellent job, but we are still there and still wasting money, so we fail"
"So you think the surge worked, then?"
"The troops did an excellent job, but we are still there and still wasting money that could be spent elsewhere so we fail"
"But I'm asking about the surge that you didn't support... It seems like things have stabilized since that"
"The troops did an excellent job, not like we left because of it though, right?" - chadisawesome, on 07/25/2008, -9/+18digg is an idiot. posts same obama articles from huffington posts 5 times.
- tallassrob, on 07/25/2008, -1/+9Of course the media had a lot of coverage on Obama's trip. He was touring the ***** World with all those huge speeches. Meanwhile McCain was going on golf outings with papa Bush, who do you think deserves more coverage?
- ileftfark, on 07/25/2008, -13/+21As much as I have a distaste for anything Couric (it is after all, a unit of measure for feces), Obama never gave a real answer. Not surprising for a politician.
Pretty much went like this:
"Did the surge work?"
"The troops did an excellent job"
"So you think the surge worked, then?"
"The troops did an excellent job"
"But I'm asking about the surge that you didn't support... It seems like things have stabilized since that"
"It's because the troops did an excellent job"
Continue ad infinitum. - inactive, on 07/25/2008, -2/+10How is he skirting the question? He says the surge contributed to increased security in Iraq, but thinks the contribution of the surge was matched by other changes on the ground and that we're still not getting $12bn/month worth of return for our investment and that we need to shift our focus to Afghanistan.
- Rev3rend, on 07/25/2008, -3/+11Amen, when will these sheeple wake up and realise that Obama is a total fraud. He cannot think for himself, cant speak well unless reading off a teleprompter, and its extremely arrogant. This man toured the world, basically on a victory lap. Obama, you are not the president, stop acting like you are because your pissing a lot of people off.
Sorry to dissappoint but you Obama sheeps have not won this one, and the more the media follows this guy, the more people start opening their eyes. there shoveling votes over to Mcain and they dont even know it.
I'm sorry, but if you vote for that fraud that you are just downright uneducated on that man, he associates with all the wrong people, has no experience, and just goes with whatever he is told. I guess thats what you socialists want right? a pushover?
/commense the flaming, I welcome you Liberal hate. For being the party of peace, you sure are the most hateful people I can think of. - evilbob333, on 07/25/2008, -2/+9I don't know what is worse for Obama. The idea that he was wrong in 2007 on the surge, or the idea that he can't admit it in 2008.
- inactive, on 07/25/2008, -2/+9He's pretty consistent in answering the quetion, actually:
- admits that there's less violence since the surge
- says that the reduction in violence has multiple causes
- says that just adding troops will always cause reductions in violence in the short term, but that long term success requires a more strategic vision
- says the war is costing too ***** much money - WHICH IT IS - ***** $10bn to $15bn a month
- says we should pursue means of achieving peace in Iraq that don't involve sending more soldiers and money and instead focus our military effort on finishing the job in Afghanistan.
The reason so many ***** republicans think he's not answering the questions is because they can't understand strategic analysis that can't be stated in four words or less. After being stripped of its IQ for the past 8 years, the Republican brain just isn't sophisticated enough to grasp what Obama is saying. Unless you say "durrr....THE SURGE WORKED!" or "durr....THE SURGE DIDN'T WORK," Republican voters think you're dodging the question. Sean Hannity and Michael Savage have convinced their listeners that this is the only thing to say about the surge.
I'm waiting for Rush Limbaugh to publish his next book, entitled "The Surge Worked!" It will be one page long, and written on that one page will be one sentence in big bold letters: "The surge worked" The cover will feature a big photo of Rush smoking a cigar.His fans will hail it as a brilliant and insightful contribution to our understanding of the Iraq War. - jeltringham, on 07/25/2008, -10/+173 words end this line of questioning:
"The surge worked."
Unfortunately, that's not an Obama campaign talking point. - amoro99, on 07/25/2008, -2/+9I don't think this betrays her idiocy. She is trying to sum up for Joe Average what the Senator thinks. To most people it either the surge worked or it didn't. The fact is that the troop increase plus other perhaps unrelated circumstances has led to a measurable decrease in violence in Iraq. So the only appropriate answer to give without lying is to say that there was this "surge", and then things got better. To make the leap from coincidence to causation is untrue. But Katie wants to fit this type of complexity into a boolean. I'm glad Sen. Obama didn't bite.
- inkswamp, on 07/25/2008, -0/+7What's wrong with it? He answered her question, but because it went beyond the 8th-grade education level she was apparently shooting for, she either didn't get it or kept pushing him for a more simplistic, politician-style answer. Gee, Katie, ask a complex question, you get a complex answer.
- lynx44, on 07/25/2008, -0/+6Wow you have got to be kidding. Just because she asked questions about a position he opposed in the past, CBS is now a tool of the republicans?
- tcpip4lyfe, on 07/25/2008, -1/+7Huffington Post = bury
- elshizzo, on 07/25/2008, -11/+17This is the state of journalism in our country. It is dead. Katie Couric has NO journalism background, she was just another host of Wake Up and Smile. Entertainers have replaced journalists in this country.
- engrishGamer, on 07/25/2008, -1/+7Well that's because it was a much bigger trip in terms of impact and meaning than McCain going to a German restaurant. It's not a matter of Obama getting more media coverage simply because of who he is, it's because it's simply more news worthy showing a presidential candidate speaking overseas than it is showing him speaking in a small place in Ohio
- inkswamp, on 07/25/2008, -1/+7Here's the dumbed-down version for those of you who keep insisting that he wasn't answering her question.
He said the surge worked in some respects, but that we're dumping resources and wasting our troops' time and lives in a place where we have no real need to be. So yeah, the surge is working in some ways but it doesn't matter and it's wasting our money and resources.
That's what he's saying and Katie Couric is either too stupid to get that or she was fishing around for another answer. I suspect she wanted a simple yes or no, either of which would be misleading and over-simplified. He's avoiding giving a simplistic answer to something that isn't simple.
Why is that so hard to understand? - defektiv, on 07/25/2008, -1/+7"She kept on asking because he would not answer her the way she wanted."
so an interviewee is supposed to answer questions the way the interviewer wants and not how they feel they should answer? so interviews should just be entirely scripted and both interviewer and interviewee should just read from a teleprompter?
whisky. tango. foxtrot. over. - inactive, on 07/25/2008, -2/+8People complain about politicians giving political answers, but when they don't and instead say something like they only wear flag pins when they feel like it, it becomes the main news story about them for months ignoring actual issues.
However I don't think that is the case here. He said pretty clearly he doesn't support the surge because he doesn't think focusing that much on Iraq is a good idea when there are other, better, uses of our money and manpower. She just wanted another answer so she tried to dig for it. - djholybolt, on 07/25/2008, -0/+6hahaha I'm glad I wasn't the only person who saw that episode reading this..
- Akbad, on 07/25/2008, -3/+8I believe that you are smoking DOPE.
If a person asks me a question and I give my honest answer, but it's not the answer YOU want, you don't need to ask me the same question over and over again. If you want a DIFFERENT ANSWER ask a DIFFERENT QUESTION. - inkswamp, on 07/25/2008, -4/+9He gave a very nuanced answer in response to a complicated situation, not something you typically get from politicians in the day and age of infotainment and sound bites. She didn't know how to handle that or explore what he said like a real journalist would.
- forevernomad, on 07/25/2008, -1/+6Digg me down if you like, but as far I heard it, he answered the ***** question the first time she asked it, 90%+ of these comments are like yea but he didn't answer, are you so pathetically stupid that you can't understand a basic strategic point of view.
The thing that gets me the most, is if this was aired as it is shown in the link, why did she then go and tell McCain that he said something completely different to what he actually said.
I'm sorry but you guys over the water need to stop watching this crap media you're being force fed, it's only blinding you to what is really going on.
/rant - inactive, on 07/25/2008, -2/+7YEAH,YEAH, YEAH, YEAH!
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