Katie Couric As Usual Confuses Politics With Reality

In her usual, and often wrong, perception of happenings in our world, cutie, perky, (jerky) Katie Couric blew it again. How is it that even a broken-down two-bit network the likes of CBS puts up with the likes of her? Desperation perhaps? Can't find any improvements?

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In my opinion, a blind man in the middle of the Sahara Desert could find a silver grain of sand easier than CBS could find someone worse than "cutie, perky" Katie. They just don't come with any less class as well as gray matter than Couric. Here is a quote from Ms. Katie's "Notebook" video posted on CBSNews.com, August 23, 2010, "It might be Islamophobia, Obamaphobia, or both, but when loud speakers are blaring 'Born in the USA' and signs say 'No Clubhouse for Terrorists,' it's clear we aren't just talking about a mosque anymore. There is a debate to be had about the sensitivity of building this center so close to Ground Zero. But we can not let fear and rage tear down the towers of our core American values." Our "fear and rage" are not what tore down the towers of our core American values Katie, it was two stolen aircraft flown by Muslims into the New York World Trade Center on September 11, 2001. Surely even someone as ill-informed as Couric would remember that event and the 3000 Americans that went down with those towers. "Core American values" Katie? How would you know anything about core American values when your mindset is the direct opposite? As a liberal you think that core American values are part of socialism; that our Founding Fathers decided that the best way to grow America was to instill the core American values of socialism; right Katie? I mean hard work and the resultant treasure of wealth which is then confiscated and redistributed to the lazy welfare class that hates the money that the rich have; they hate it so much that they want it so they can throw it away like Obama throws away our tax dollars on bailouts for unworthy businesses and corrupt labor unions. You talk about Islamophobia in connection with the Muslim mosque that is planned to be erected in the shadows of the greatest tragedy of its kind since America's inception in 1776 that was committed by Islam-Muslims and the sensitivity of building the Muslim center so close to Ground Zero. Islamophobia as you suggest would mean that Americans have a fear or hatred of Islam where intolerance and bigotry could breed. Perhaps "Perky Katie" hasn't heard that there are Muslims who share the feeling that the proximity to the Ground Zero site for a mosque that would be a symbol of a shameful and cowardly act perpetrated by other of their own faith. As Steve Emerson writes in Newsmax.com on August 26, 2010, Muslim Opposition to Ground Zero Mosque Grows. He writes, "Defenders of the proposed ground zero mosque are quick to write off opponents as bigots simply out to stir up hatred of Muslims. The blanket dismissal hides a more difficult challenge for mosque advocates: A growing number of Muslims openly oppose the project too." Continuing, Emerson states "The most recent, and perhaps most pointed, criticism comes from Mansoor Ijaz, who negotiated Sudan's offer of counterterrorism assistance to the FBI and CIA under the Clinton administration in 1996 and 1997. "In a Washington Post column on Aug. 25, Ijaz faulted both sides of the debate for its tenor. But he admonished Muslims to show their sensitivity toward the country's collective emotional wound from 9/11." Another learned Islamic, Hussein Rashid, an instructor at Hofstra University's Center for Spiritual Inquiry, faults organizers for failing to anticipate the controversy and getting caught flat-footed when it erupted. That, he argues, places Muslims in an awkward position of being "forced to defend a project about which [they are] otherwise ambivalent." To fight for the project, "we need to believe in it," and organizers' actions have built little confidence. He said, "This project needs a strong hand at the helm, a true visionary, but should never be dependent on that person (meaning Imam Feisal Abdul Rauf.) Newsmax's Steve Emerson cites other Muslim sources of opposition outside of this country who have their own concerns. Al-Arabiya television general manager Abdul Rahman Al-Rashid called the mosque "the wrong battle," saying Muslims don't want "a mosque next to the 11 September cemetery." He echoes the concern of many American opponents of the mosque, that it will be seen as a memorial to the 9/11 terrorists who acted in the name of Islam: "The fact is that building a mosque next to the site of the World Trade Center . . . is a strange story" Emerson said. So on this particular day when emotions against the Muslims will be accelerated when viewing scenes of the tragedy numerous times on our television sets, Couric and her insensitive reporting tactics should remain muted. Americans are vehemently opposed to the proposed location of the Mosque; for once, the Muslims should listen to their own people and stop insisting this memorial to the Islamic terrorists be built so near to Ground Zero. It will be many years before Americans can handle the actions of the Muslims on 9/11/2001 without venomous thoughts; leave the site while relative peace still exists.