CBS Obama Cheerleader Katie Couric Wins MRC’s “Let Us Fluff Your Pillow Award for Obsequious Obama Interviews” (video)
Posted By Vicki McClure Davidson on December 27, 2009
Remember this pitiful Katie Couric headline from this past summer?
Headline from June 2009... a few months later, ratings-loser CBS anchor Katie Couric got a mainstream media award
And, of course, because the fringe media is hell-bent on proving it is still relevant with the majority of Americans, they gave the undeserving Couric a bogus prestigious news award despite her in-the-commode ratings. Her drooling over Obama like an insipid, pimply-faced teenager has been nauseating this year.
So, this piece is all the sweeter…
From NewsBusters: Fox Newswatch Highlights Couric & Klein in MRC’s Awards for Worst Reporting:
Saturday’s Fox Newswatch on FNC highlighted two “winners” in the MRC’s “Best Notable Quotables of 2009: The 22nd Annual Awards for the Year’s Worst Reporting.” (Posting on NewsBusters) Viewers were treated to Katie Couric pining to Barack Obama: “You’re so confident, Mr. President, and so focused. Is your confidence ever shaken? Do you ever wake up and say, damn, this is hard?” FNC host Jon Scott announced “her performance there garnered the Media Research Center’s ‘Let Us Fluff Your Pillow Award for Obsequious Obama Interviews.’” Scott also pointed out how Time magazine’s Joe Klein won the “Master of His Domain Award for Obama Puffery” for his cover story on Barack Obama’s first 100 days.
Panelist Rich Lowry of National Review, picking up on Ellis Henican’s description of both quotes as “icky,” soon observed they were hardly an aberration: “If you go to the Media Research Center Web site and look at every single video clip from the inauguration” you’ll see “every single one of them is icky from every single major media outlet. They were in love with this guy and they still are — most of them.”
Hilarious stuff… be sure to read the whole piece.
Surprised that Evan Thomas from liberal rag Newsweek didn’t make the cut… here’s the video encore of one of my favorite drooling-over-Obama media bias reports (up there with Chris Matthews’ “leg tingly” embarrassment):
Newsweek’s Evan Thomas: Obama Is Above Us All, “Sort of” God | June 2009
Additional reading on classless liberals and media bias:
Frugal Café Blog Zone: On the Cover of the Rolling Stone: Godlike Obama! (video) and Keepin’ It Classy… Left-Wing Loon Throws Tomato at Sarah Palin in Mall of America, Hits Cop and Philosophical Divide & Moral Relativism: Sarah Palin vs. Katie Couric & David Letterman and Terrified Left-wing ‘Kamikaze Media’: Why ACORN Child Prostitution Scandal, Radical Czar Van Jones Scandal Have Been Ignored (video) and The DNC New Math: When 1 Equals 3… Must Be Taking Math Pointers from Math-Deficient Katie Couric and CBS News Anchor Flunked Math? Katie Couric & Her Idiotic ‘Jelly Bean Economy’ Analogy
Gateway Pundit: Huffington Post Writer Hid Bill Clinton’s 2008 Affair to Protect Hillary and This Year’s Worst Reporting: A Look Back at State-Run Media’s Most Embarrassing Moments (Video) and Laura Ingraham Takes On ABC Obama Cheerleaders on Afghanistan (Video) and Sarah Palin Bashes McCain Staffers– Blames Campaign For Couric Debacle and Mao-Praising White House Official Dunn to Glenn Beck: “I Praised Mother Teresa, Too”
Nick Gillespie, Big Government: Reason.tv: Worst. Decade. Ever.
The Daley Gator: Bob Belvedere: Beware the Marxist Moron of the Day Nostrilsaurus Rex! and CNN! Watched by more left-handed Lesbian squirrels than any other news network! and Perky, annoying anchor recites ObamaCare poem on nightly news
What Bubba Knows: Couric Thinks Your Anger is Disrespectful
GayPatriot: Would Obamacare Numbers Be Worse if MSM Were Even-handed? and The Kevin Jennings’ Kerfuffle & the Silence of the MSM, Continued and Attacks FoxNews, Admires Mass Murderer and White House Attack on FoxNews: Part of Obama’s “Need” to Have an Enemy to Vilify?
Ben Smith, Politico: Bush closes the gap
Blogger News Network: Rolling Stone Magazine Chucks ‘Journalism’ To Shill for Obama
National Post, Sheldon Alberts: Obama’s Nixonian attitude to enemies
Start Thinking Right: Lying, Demagogic White House Finally Gets Its Media Smackdown
The Powers That Be: NPR Analyst Issues Full and Complete Obamapology For Nixon Comparison
Le·gal In·sur·rec·tion: A Clintonian Defense of Our Nixonian President
Roman Around: HE HADN’T EVEN HEARD THE STORY – MEDIA BIAS ALERT and AND IF THIS WERE A REPUBLICAN HIT-AND-RUN …
The Other McCain: Even at the one year mark, he nailed the decade and WH Communication Director Anita Dunn admires history’s greatest mass murderer
Chris Berg, Big Government: Obama Presidency: Bullying from the Pulpit
Socialism Is Not the Answer: Obama Still Blames Others
Michelle Malkin: Video: Laura Ingraham calls out Charlie Gibson’s ACORN ignorance and What Palin should have said to Couric about the Supreme Court and Not joining the Katie-bashing just yet…plus, a shout-out to the citizen embeds who don’t make the nightly news and Sisterhood of the Protected Female Liberal Journalists
Washington Post: Obama’s dumb war with Fox News
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