More Quote of the Day Honorable Mention, Part 88

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Special Katie Couric "You can't make this stuff up" Edition...

Beth Shaw at Blue Star Chronicles:

"‘You can’t make this stuff up’, Couric jokes. No, you can’t. That’s because its about the real America that Couric and others like her are so far removed from they don’t understand it at all. It is a joke to them as they look down their long noses at us all... By the way Katie, you are making fun of the names of Sarah Palin’s kids. Have you noticed the names of the children of your Hollywood friends? When you make fun of ‘Apple’ or ‘Moon Unit’, then you can make fun of ‘Track’ and ‘Trig’."

Keystrok at USA in Danger!:

"This is nice. Katie Couric, sitting in her ivory tower, making fun of Sarah Palin. Hey Katie, try sticking to the news will ya? Oh, I forgot, you can't."

Jim Treacher at The Daily Caller:

"Pretty mild, compared to some of the stuff that’s been said about Sarah Palin and her kids. But, as with JournoList, it’s nice to have solid confirmation of what we’ve long suspected. These gatekeepers, these guardians of the truth, consider most of us unworthy of anything but casual contempt. And their ratings plummet, and their companies are sold off for pocket change, and they learn nothing from it."

Gary P Jackson at A Time For Choosing:

"This does prove what Sarah has maintained all along, Couric was incredibly biased. "

Stephan Tawney at The American Pundit:

"CBS doesn’t seem to be denying the authenticity of the tape, only that the tape is relevant. Well, okay, but that’s an odd line to take after your top anchor’s bias has been exposed to the world. Although maybe CBS is used to having its anchors exposed as journalistic frauds. After all, this is the network that employed Dan Rather."

MaroonedinMarin:

"Don't tell me Katie wasn't out to do a hatchet job during that interview."

Jennifer at Cubachi:

"Sarah Palin is a happy woman, with five children, self-made, and chosen to be the vice-president. This video was just a sign of things to come, especially on the CBS Evening News interview where Couric asked Palin what kind of books she reads. Couric then projects anything negative on Palin, to boost her own image and Obama’s. What kind of self-loathing must you have to mock someone’s children and town? You have to wonder. It reminds me what Rush Limbaugh said, ‘Liberals are never happy.’ What is it about many liberals that look down upon people like Sarah Palin and Ronald Reagan? Two words: Happy Warriors."

Lightly Buzzed:

"Everyone already knows Katie and the rest of the media are nothing but a bunch of elitist snobs."

Conservatives4 Palin:

"Sarah Palin was a sitting governor... she had the highest approval ratings of any governor in the country. She was also responsible for getting the largest energy project in North American history underway after several decades of interminable delays in Alaska. She was a courageous corruption-busting whistleblower who turned in the leader of her own party in Alaska for his corrupt practices. She was a fiscal conservative who made the largest veto cuts in Alaska history, reined in the reckless waste, cut her own expenses, sold the governor’s private jet, let the personal chef go, and put away billions of dollars in savings for Alaska for a rainy day. She was a tough CEO who went toe to toe with the Big Oil companies and fought to get the best deal for Alaskans, the resource owners she represented. And she did all of this as a woman from a modest background who was entirely self-made – without the benefit of a rich or influential father or husband. But what in this impressive biography did CBS News and Couric choose to focus on? Moose burgers and beauty pageants. By their choice of the framing of the story, it’s evident Couric and CBS had an agenda here..."

Don Surber at the Charleston Daily Mail:

"And they wonder why Fox News now gets more than half the viewers of cable news now."

Shane Vander Hart at Caffeinated Thoughts:

"Seriously, this sheds some light into the interview that she had with Sarah Palin. This woman should have never been allowed to come near the Governor, let alone have the access that she had... Just add this to the growing mountain of evidence that mainstream media is dead."

Adrienne Ross at Motivation Truth:

"Now I realize that all Katie was doing during her interview was continuing what she began in this video."

Nice Deb:

"There’s nothing surprising, here…this clip simply confirms what we already knew. Everything we love about Palin, her Christian faith, large family, athleticism, and love of the outdoors, was/is held in disdain by elite libs like Couric... The double standard has always been there for conservatives….but it was particularly egregious for the attractive, and outdoorsy Palin. I suppose the fact that, two years later, Ariana Huffington is advising the media to ‘take Palin seriously’ is progress."

Morgan at My Two Cents Worth:

"As with the revelation of the JournoList members, the Couric video serves as proof of the bias by the mainstream media, and anyone who says otherwise is either ignorant or a liar."

Mockarena at Chicks on the Right:

"I don’t know that this video proves much of anything except that Katie Couric is a total b*tch, which I think was a universally accepted fact anyway. But what I find most hilarious about it is that she makes fun of Sarah’s kids’ names – specifically Trig and Track. Katie’s own daughter’s middle name is Tully, which seems to fit right into the Palin naming convention."

- JP