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Katie Couric Has Been Co-Opted by the Right

November 17, 2010 at 8:17 PM Leave a comment

Eight minutes into “The CBS Evening News with Katie Couric” tonight I hear Couric espouse this Republican talking point:  Nancy Pelosi “beat back” her opponent and won the vote to become the House Minority Leader.

“Beat back?” How about:  Pelosi “easily” turned “aside a nominal challenge from Rep. Heath Shuler (D-N.C.) by a margin of 150 votes to 43 votes.”

I repeat, Pelosi won by roughly a 75% margin. 150 yes votes versus 43 no votes.  Is that what you’d call a “beat back?”

I call it a walk in the park er, a “nominal challenge.”

Katie, Katie, Katie.  Yes, the people who are talking to you in your ear want us to think they’ve won their $75 million campaign to destroy Pelosi, but they haven’t (see above).

Sorry.  No matter how you spin it, you and your corporate buds lost.

(Can’t believe the masses still think CBS is “liberal.”)

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