About the only time we watch HBO is for the fights, but much to our surprise we found out that the cable network has a series called “HBO History Makers.”
If this episode of the series – an interview with former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and perky, ratings-challenged news anchor Katie Couric – had been a fight, it would have been stopped in the first round.
Couric asked Rice about the war in Iraq. She led with her chin and a false premise when she said, “Documentaries have been made about how intelligence was incorrectly analyzed and cherry-picked to build an argument for war, and memos from that time do suggest that officials knew there was a small chance of actually finding weapons of mass destruction in Iraq.”
Rice proceeded to pummel Couric with a combination of lefts and rights and knock-out punches from every direction. Couric never knew what hit her.
Our favorite moment? When Rice started talking about Saddam Hussein’s use of poisonous gas and Couric jumped in to say, “Oh, yeah, he used those chemical weapons against the Kurds….”
Too little, too late, Katie. You’d already been counted out.
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Katie 'Perky' Couric is the worst political interviewer I have ever seen. She is always clueless on issues, never studied, openly biased, acts like she has a pole stuck up her behind blocking her speech, then walks back her comments when busted by her guest. That's why her show ratings are deplorable. Condi Score 1, Katie Score 0. This one's for you, Sarah, from Alaska.
Katie 'Perky' Couric is the worst political interviewer I have ever seen. She is always clueless on issues, never studied, openly biased, acts like she has a pole stuck up her behind blocking her speech, then walks back her comments when busted by her guest. That's why her show ratings are deplorable. Condi Score 1, Katie Score 0. This one's for you, Sarah.
Gee I wish we had Condi here in Oz. Our lot are pathetic incompetent and incapable, and the same political bent as the Democrats.
Your Kevin Rudd is a pathetic little weasel, isn't he?
Katie still has a job, too funny. I guess its fine to murder people in your own country Katie. The left is going down hard and fast. There 10 minutes of fame are almost up. Hopefully our country will get back on the right track despite the damage they have done.
I was afraid to click on the video because I knew Katie Couric would come to the fight intellectually unarmed, which naturally turned out to be the case. But, as usual, Condi handled the knockdown with grace and statesmanship. Katie, hang up your glove.
Leave it to a intellectual flop to bring a water pistol to a gunfight!
Aesop had a fable about Katie. It involved a jackass wearing a lion's skin. Ironic on so many levels.
I was going to say...there's a difference between a weapons PROGRAM and stockpiles from the legacy one used for the Iran/Iraq war.
Also, when Baathists started getting captured, they all thought there was a nuclear program too. They all wondered why Saddam hadn't nuked or gassed the infidels. That guy had everyone in his own country convinced he had them (probably to keep Iran out).
F-Off Katie.
YT, I'm with you here. I am a retired Army intelligence analyst and arabic linguist and I was on active duty at the time of the first gulf war. I trained a whole bunch of scared Kuwaitis to go fight for their country. We had a sh@t-load of intelligence about Sadam and his military capabilities and we were greatly concerned at the time. We didn't know how far along his nuclear program was at the time, but we knew that he was actively pursuing one, and we knew he had plenty of other stuff that would make your hair stand on end! Many of the captured diplomatic, military, and government documents we analysed at the end of this conflict reinforced our concerns. I remember saying at the time that if we don't finish him (Sadam) off in Kuwait, we'll have to come back and kill the bastard later. I was retired by the time 9-11 rolled around, but I'd have to say regretably, that I was right-- way back in 1991. Much of this information in available if you know were to dig for it; Couric is just a pathetic no-ratings loser.
Yes, its unfortunate "Bushitler" allowed the media to steer the conversation to a single issue: if there was an active nuke program or not.
All they would have needed to talk about was the history of Taji and the conversation should have been over.
YT, you seem to be upset about facts as they were at the time, Taji had little to do with our decision to act on behalf of the Kuwaitis. Bush one may have been a lot of things, but "a petty hitler" wasn't one of them. You sound like too much of a liberal progressive to be really rational to me. You have to step away from all of the alphabet soup news media, stop watching Al Jazeera, stop reading Pravda, start drinking decaf, and start getting out more.
Look, up in the sky. Its Captain Hindsight!
Skip to about 1:10
http://www.southparkstudios.com/clips/360430/captain-hindsight
Does The perky Couric have a blue parking pass for being so IQ Challenged? What an arrogant self-righteous idiot. I'll betcha when she builds her new house, she doesn't put a fan, nor vent in the restroom, 'cause she doesn't think her (you know what) doesn't stink. I sure hope when she was younger she was a good lay.
the ever brilliant couric was trying like hell to get Secretary Rice to say they would have gone in anyway-which was a trickbag only another retard "journalist" would even consider putting him/herself into.
the super-flyweight couric is about as sharp as a 15 lb bowling ball.
Game. Set. Match, for clear-headed Condoleeza Rice.
The only thing in the world as bad as double-standards is that smug, condescending tone a liberal speaks in when attempting to establish context for their point-of-view.