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More Blog Trouble from Katie Couric

April 14, 2007 at 16:43 | Print This Post Print This Post

Rachel Sklar’s eagle eye picks up a bizarre repetition on Katie Couric’s blog of the debunked Obama madrassa smear, and more generally, a troubling detachment from both objectivity and reality in its description of Obama’s religious background. Go Rachel Go. (And yes, Rachel is coming to mesh.)


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2 Responses to “More Blog Trouble from Katie Couric”


  1. Neil Sanderson (2 comments.)
    April 14th, 2007 at 17:39

    Recycling discredited information is bad enough, but I’m also troubled by the way Couric seeks to exploit fear.

    She begins: “Is America ready to elect a president who grew up praying in a mosque?”

    According to CNN which cites his two books, Obama says that while he lived in Indonesia as a child he attended a Muslim school for two years and a Catholic school for two years.

    So an alternative to Couric’s intro could have been:

    “Is America ready to elect a president who grew up with experience of two of the world’s largest religions?”

    But people might actually answer “yes”.


  2. Rob Hyndman (317 comments.)
    April 14th, 2007 at 17:43

    My reaction exactly. Hard to understand how the blog commentary was a reasonable perspective. And not clueless, but spun quite deliberately.