Cloying Couric

Katie Colic burnishes her reputation as a knob polisher with this bit of rectally-extracted misinformation:

Media Matters - Couric falsely claimed Democrats "really applauded" only the failure of Bush's Social Security proposal at SOTU

Summary: NBC's Katie Couric falsely claimed that during most of the State of the Union address, "Democrats sat on their hands" and "really applauded" only when President Bush mentioned the failure of his Social Security plan.

[snip]

LAUER: -- because we stayed up for the speech and the analysis afterwards. The president faced a divided Congress during his State of the Union Address last night, and he took on a lot of issues that clearly had people butting heads.

COURIC: Well, you could see it, if you just watched the scene, Matt. I mean, the chamber erupted in applause 60 times, but during most of those times, Democrats sat on their hands. The only moment the Democrats really applauded was when the president talked about his failed plan to reform Social Security. We'll have a complete wrap-up of the speech, and as we mentioned, we'll talk with Senator John Kerry [D-MA], as well as NBC's Tom Brokaw and Tim Russert.

Right. They sat on their hands when Bush lauded Coretta Scott King and when he called for bi-partisan cooperation.

If the news don't fit, just make shit up.

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