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		<title>Katie Couric, Follows Dan Rather, into Online Obscurity</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 27 Nov 2013 15:32:40 +0000</pubDate>
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<p>Katie Couric, CBS&#8217;s second-worst mistake after airing a report based on a Vietnam War era document types up on Microsoft Word, is following Dan Rather<a href="http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/tv/showtracker/la-et-st-yahoo-officially-welcomes-katie-couric-to-its-team-20131125,0,199270.story"> into obscurity as &#8220;news anchor&#8221; for Yahoo</a>.</p>
<p>Considering that Yahoo is on its last legs and Katie Couric has worn out her welcome everywhere else, this seems like a good fit. And if Yahoo folds, Couric can always join former CBS anchorman Dan Rather on ASX TV doing &#8220;news reports&#8221; alongside Drinking Made Easy and Bikini Barbershop. And if she gets really desperate, she can start doing Newsroom recaps just like Dan Rather.</p>
<blockquote><p>Yahoo officially announced Monday that Couric is joining its ranks as its “global anchor.”</p>
<p>After more than three decades on the air as a journalist and talk show hostess, the 56-year-old will now add Internet explorer to her resume, helping to develop global coverage for Yahoo. As part of her new position, which is still being defined, Couric will conduct monthly interview series and serve as the “face&#8221; of  Yahoo News.</p></blockquote>
<p>Does an internet news feed really need a face? Apparently it does.</p>
<p>No one watched Couric on CBS. Now no one can watch her on Yahoo. Which is easy because who really wants to tune in to watch Katie Couric&#8217;s interviews with Yahoo interns.</p>
<blockquote><p>&#8220;Katie&#8217;s depth of experience, her intellectual curiosity, and her charisma make her the perfect choice to anchor Yahoo News and the whole Yahoo Network. Her unmatched energy, savvy, and versatility enables her to connect with audiences across the globe,&#8221; said Marissa Mayer, CEO of Yahoo. &#8220;News is a definitive daily habit for our users &#8212; and Katie will work with our talented editorial team to pioneer a new chapter of digital journalism.&#8221;</p></blockquote>
<p>Given a choice between pouring gasoline the company and setting it on fire&#8230; appointing Marissa Mayer CEO, Yahoo should have exercised its gasoline option.</p>
<p>Anyone who still uses Yahoo Mail probably already knows why.</p>
<p>The only question is was Katie Couric stupid enough to accept stock or did Marissa Mayer just blow a crazy amount of money to get Katie Couric to appear in videos that no one will watch?</p>
<blockquote><p>“I am particularly excited about hopefully attracting other people to this platform and venture,” Couric said in an interview with The Associated Press. “We are in a major, transformative time in terms of media in this country.”</p></blockquote>
<p>Katie Couric is hoping to attract people to the internet?  In 2013. Oh boy.</p>
<blockquote><p>She hopes will help persuade other broadcast TV veterans make the transition into online programming.</p></blockquote>
<p>Dan Rather did it first. <a href="http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/tv/showtracker/la-et-st-dan-rather-cbs-benghazi-bush-20131114,0,3069301.story#axzz2l7YAnRp2">Speaking of Rathe</a>r&#8230;</p>
<blockquote><p>Notably, CBS did not include Rather in its own planned coverage of the 50th anniversary of the Kennedy assassination. Rather appears only in archival footage.</p>
<p>This wasn&#8217;t exactly unexpected, said Rather&#8211;it&#8217;s been happening since he lost his job in a somewhat mysterious sequence of events after he reported on &#8220;60 Minutes&#8221; that a series of memos questioning President George W. Bush&#8217;s Texas Air National Guard service record had been discovered.</p></blockquote>
<p>Mysterious? Was there a second Microsoft Word typist on the grassy knoll?</p>
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		<title>A Tale of Two Groups</title>
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<p>While it cannot be proven, there is little reason to doubt that many on  the Left are disappointed that the Times Square bomber didn&#8217;t turn out to be the  &#8220;white male&#8221; he was originally identified as.</p>
<p>This allegation may be wrong, but it is made on the basis of compelling  evidence.</p>
<p>There is a perfectly clear pattern on the Left &#8212; the normative Left, not  just the &#8220;far&#8221; Left &#8212; that denies the obvious when it comes to Islamic  terrorism. Take, for example, Maj. Nidal Hasan, who murdered 13 fellow soldiers  and tried to murder the 32 others whom he wounded at Fort Hood, Texas.</p>
<p>For days after the murders, liberal-Left commentators and mainstream  media reports attributed Hasan&#8217;s mass murders to everything but his Islamic  beliefs &#8212; even though it was known that he yelled out &#8220;Allahu Akbar&#8221; (&#8220;Allah is  the Greatest&#8221;) just as he began his shooting.</p>
<p>As &#8220;Hardball&#8217;s&#8221; Chris Matthews announced, &#8220;It&#8217;s unclear if religion was a  factor in this shooting,&#8221; and then added, &#8220;He makes a phone call or whatever,  according to Reuters right now. Apparently he tried to contact al-Qaida &#8230;  That&#8217;s not a crime, to call up al-Qaida, is it?&#8221;</p>
<p>The New York Times &#8220;Week in Review&#8221; article on the shootings was titled  &#8220;When Soldiers Snap.&#8221; As I wrote at the time, &#8220;The gist of the article was that  Maj. Hasan had snapped &#8212; even though he had never been in combat. He snapped in  advance. Just two sentences in the article were devoted to the possibility that  his motives were in any way relatable to his Muslim  faith.&#8221;</p>
<p>NPR&#8217;S Tom Gjelten offered the novel explanation that Hasan, who had never  been in combat, may have suffered from &#8220;pre-traumatic stress disorder.&#8221; Again,  psychology, not religion.</p>
<p>On Fox News, Geraldo Rivera said, &#8220;I don&#8217;t know what motivates him &#8230; He  could have had a toothache and gone off because of that.&#8221;</p>
<p>And this time, the same thing happened, with one exception: For two days,  it was assumed a &#8220;white male,&#8221; shorthand for non-Muslim, non-minority American,  tried to blow up passersby near Times Square in Manhattan.</p>
<p>New York city Mayor Michael Bloomberg said this to Katie Couric on CBS  News on May 3: &#8220;If I had to guess 25 cents, this would be exactly that, somebody  who&#8217;s homegrown, maybe a mentally deranged person or someone with a political  agenda that doesn&#8217;t like the health care bill or something, it could be  anything.&#8221;</p>
<p>It&#8217;s OK for liberals to speculate that a terrorist might be a Right-wing  white American opposed to ObamaCare (aka a tea partier). It is the rather more  likely scenario of an Islamic terrorist that liberals not consider, let alone  publicly express.</p>
<p>Moreover, only an individual whose politics forces him to deny the  obvious can deny that people like Bloomberg hoped that the culprit not be a  Muslim, but rather a conservative white American.</p>
<p>Even after the terrorist, Faisal Shahzad, was apprehended, and after he  confessed, the liberal-Left world almost never mentioned his religion, and many  tried to blame it on factors unrelated to his religious beliefs. As with Nidal  Hasan, the culprit in Shahzad&#8217;s case was the terrorist&#8217;s psychological state.  This time, it was the stress he experienced over his house going into  foreclosure.</p>
<p>Thus the Washington Post&#8217;s Ezra Klein wrote on May  4:</p>
<blockquote><p>&#8220;You of course don&#8217;t want to speculate on why someone &#8216;really&#8217; did  something. The hearts of men are opaque, and motives are complex. But it&#8217;s a  reminder that foreclosures generate an enormous amount of misery and anxiety and  depression that can tip people into all sorts of dangerous behaviors  &#8230;&#8221;</p></blockquote>
<p>Widely ridiculed &#8212; in the comments section of the Washington Post itself  &#8212; for what he wrote, the next day, Klein tried to do undo the damage to his  credibility: &#8220;In case there&#8217;s actual confusion &#8230; I do not believe that  foreclosure leads to terrorism.&#8221;</p>
<p>I think that most honest observers would argue that all the confusion was  on Klein&#8217;s part, not the readers&#8217;. But, in any event, even in his explanatory  column, he made no reference to Shahzad&#8217;s religious beliefs as the terrorist&#8217;s  motivation.</p>
<p>Instead, he re-emphasized that it was impossible to even speculate what  Shahzad&#8217;s motive might be: &#8220;Speculating about why a terrorist commits a  terrorist act is a mug&#8217;s game &#8230; People who desire the murder of innocents  qualify, I think, as pretty disturbed.&#8221;</p>
<p>Klein was not alone on the Left associating home foreclosure with  Shahzad&#8217;s attempted mass murder. Annie Lowrey, an editor of Foreign Policy,  wrote: &#8220;I think it&#8217;s a bit above my pay grade to speculate on the broader  sociological meaning of this. But for what it is worth, the arrested subject of  this past weekend&#8217;s Times Square bomb plot is a  homeowner in the midst of foreclosure.&#8221;</p>
<p>And a long background piece on Shahzad by the Associated Press &#8212; the  most widely reprinted news source in America &#8212; had the title, &#8220;Times Square bombing suspect&#8217;s life had unraveled.&#8221; Not  one of the article&#8217;s 1,076 words mentioned Shahzad&#8217;s Islamist beliefs as even a  contributory factor. It was all about his economic misfortune and his walking  around depressed.</p>
<p>This is but one more example of how Leftism permeates the upper echelons  of American (and Western) society and has people mouthing sentiments that those  not on the Left regard as morally absurd.</p>
<p>The best chance America has in retaining its  greatness, let alone its exceptionalism, is to understand the Left. And the  Left&#8217;s explanations for what makes a Faisal Shahzad or a Maj. Hasan seek to  slaughter Americans are key to understanding the Left.</p>
<p>A defining characteristic of the Left is its inability to identify &#8212; and  therefore confront &#8212; evil: from Jesse Jackson and Dennis Kucinich&#8217;s expressions  of support to Venezuela&#8217;s Hugo Chavez, to decades of Leftists around the world  praising Cuba&#8217;s Fidel Castro, to the mainstream media&#8217;s denial of moral  culpability to the arsonists, murderers and rioters in Los Angeles over the  Rodney King verdict (&#8220;Understanding the Rage&#8221; was the title of the daily Los  Angeles Times special section devoted to the riots), to the universal liberal  outrage at President Ronald Reagan&#8217;s characterization of the Soviet Union as an  &#8220;evil empire,&#8221; to the Left&#8217;s virtually unanimous hostility to  Israel.</p>
<p>The Left&#8217;s inability to identify the religious beliefs of Islamic  terrorists and instead ascribe their murders of Americans to the terrorists&#8217;  psychological tensions and economic problems &#8212; while at the same time utterly  certain that conservative white Americans have only the most vile motives &#8212; is  an expression of the Left&#8217;s failure to recognize and confront real  evil.</p>
<p>Just remember this: If Shahzad had not been identified as the would-be  bomber, the mainstream (i.e., liberal) news media and leading Democrats would  have told us repeatedly that a white male &#8212; surely a conservative white male &#8212;  was the Times Square terrorist, and that we should therefore be looking  suspiciously at our fellow Americans on the Right, especially those attending  tea parties. For while liberals claim not to know the motives of Muslim  terrorists, they are always certain of conservatives&#8217; motives: racism, sexism,  homophobia and xenophobia.</p>
<p>When, one day, the Left exits from history&#8217;s stage, its epitaph will  read: &#8220;Those who do not understand evil will not understand  good.&#8221;</p>
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<p>Differences of opinion and ideology, passionately held, drive the opposition against ObamaCare.</p>
<p>Yet to shut down the effort to overturn ObamaCare&#8217;s unpopular assault on freedom and prosperity, the left resorts to a frequently employed tactic. They and their media co-conspirators find whack jobs holding stupid signs — or saying or doing stupid things — and say, &#8220;See! Right-wing intolerance, hatred and racism fuel this movement.&#8221;</p>
<p>Idiots, wing nuts and haters exist — on both sides of the political spectrum — in a country of 300 million people. Those who threaten and engage in violence should be arrested and prosecuted. Those who use incendiary language should be denounced.</p>
<p>But which &#8220;hater&#8221; said the following, and where was the condemnation?</p>
<p>&#8220;The (George W.) Bush administration and the Nazi and Communist regimes all engaged in the politics of fear. &#8230; Indeed, the Bush administration has been able to improve on the techniques used by the Nazi and Communist propaganda machines.&#8221; Was it a) Miss Piggy, b) Lady Gaga, c) the Dog Whisperer, or d) George Soros, billionaire Democratic supporter?</p>
<p>&#8220;(George W. Bush&#8217;s) executive branch has made it a practice to try and control and intimidate news organizations, from PBS to CBS to Newsweek. &#8230; And every day, they unleash squadrons of digital brownshirts to harass and hector any journalist who is critical of the President.&#8221; a) Dan Rather, b) Katie Couric, c) Helen Thomas, d) Al Gore, Nobel laureate.</p>
<p>&#8220;(Republicans are) coming for our children. They&#8217;re coming for the poor. They&#8217;re coming for the sick, the elderly and the disabled.&#8221; a) Mother Teresa, b) the Grim Reaper, c) Jack Bauer, d) Rep. John Lewis, D-Ga.</p>
<p>The contest between Democrats and Republicans is &#8220;a struggle of good and evil. And we&#8217;re the good.&#8221; a) Wolverine, b) Spider-Man, c) RoboCop, d) Howard Dean, then-Democratic national chairman.</p>
<p>When asked whether the number and prominence of blacks in the Bush administration suggested a lack of racism, he said, &#8220;Hitler had a lot of Jews high up in the hierarchy of the Third Reich.&#8221; a) Adolf Eichmann, b) Joseph Goebbels, c) Heinrich Himmler, d) Harry Belafonte, entertainer and liberal activist.</p>
<p>He called President Bush&#8217;s perceived lack of help for Katrina victims &#8220;ethnic cleansing by inaction&#8221; and called it a &#8220;calculated &#8230; policy.&#8221; He added, &#8220;So by simply not doing anything to alleviate this &#8230; crisis that was so greatly exaggerated by Katrina, they let the hurricane do the ethnic cleansing, and their hands are clean.&#8221; a) David Duke, b) Jack the Ripper, c) Jeffrey Dahmer, d) Rep. Barney Frank, D-Mass.</p>
<p>&#8220;When you look at the way the (then-Republican-controlled) House of Representatives has been run, it has been run like a plantation. And you know what I&#8217;m talking about.&#8221; a) Kunta Kinte, b) Harriet Tubman, c) Booker T. Washington, d) then-Sen. Hillary Clinton, former first lady and current secretary of State.</p>
<p>&#8220;George Bush let people die on rooftops in New Orleans because they were poor and because they were black.&#8221; a) Ming the Merciless, b) Ivan the Terrible, c) Vlad the Impaler, d) Sen. Claire McCaskill, D-Mo.</p>
<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s not &#8216;spic&#8217; or &#8216;nigger&#8217; anymore. (Instead, Republicans) say, &#8216;Let&#8217;s cut taxes.&#8217;&#8221; a) Bernie Madoff, b) Bonnie and Clyde, c) Bennie and the Jets, d) Rep. Charlie Rangel, D-N.Y.</p>
<p>&#8220;You&#8217;re damn right; Dick Cheney&#8217;s heart&#8217;s a political football. We ought to rip it out and kick it around and stuff it back in him.&#8221; a) Dr. Seuss, b) Dr. Oz, c) Dr. J, d) Ed Schultz, MSNBC and radio host.</p>
<p>&#8220;We are in danger. The extreme right wing has seized the government. Tonight (John) Ashcroft and the CIA and the FBI and Homeland Security and the IRS can work together. So look out, because without a definition of who is a terrorist, anyone can be. &#8230; Martin Luther King could have been. &#8230; The right-wing media, the FBI — they are targeting our leadership.&#8221; a) Mr. T, b) Flavor Flav, c) Gary Coleman, d) the Rev. Jesse Jackson.</p>
<p>&#8220;And what we are dealing with right now in this country is whether we are having a kind of bloodless, silent coup or not. &#8230; (George W. Bush) is trying to bring to himself all the power to become an emperor — to create Empire America,&#8221; a) Darth Vader, b) Satan, c) the Rev. Pat Robertson, d) Rep. Jim McDermott, D-Wash.</p>
<p>Lanny Davis, former special counsel to President Bill Clinton, campaigned for Sen. Joe Lieberman of Connecticut. Lieberman, despite his reliably left-wing voting record, infuriated the left for supporting the Iraq War. Davis found himself on the receiving end of &#8220;hate and vitriol of bloggers on the liberal side of the aisle&#8221; and &#8220;their extremism, bigotry and intolerance.&#8221; A friend and fellow Lieberman supporter, said Davis, became &#8220;fearful for his physical safety.&#8221;</p>
<p>&#8220;I held on to the view,&#8221; Davis admitted, &#8220;that the left was inherently more tolerant and less hateful than the right. &#8230; I have reluctantly concluded that I was wrong. The far right does not have a monopoly on bigotry and hatred and sanctimony.&#8221;</p>
<p>The majority of Americans oppose ObamaCare. Their opposition is not racist, fascist or intolerant. Let us work to prevail.</p>
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		<title>Cuba’s Healthcare Horror</title>
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<p><em>“My nation is hardly perfect in human rights. A very large number of our citizens are incarcerated in prison, and there is little doubt that the death penalty is imposed most harshly on those who are poor, black, or mentally ill. For more than a quarter century, we have struggled unsuccessfully to guarantee the basic right of universal health care for our people. …but Cuba<em> </em>has superb systems of health care and universal education.”</em></p>
<p>Thus did Jimmy Carter, in a May 2002 speech at the University of Havana that was broadcast throughout Cuba, prostrate himself before a regime that has jailed and tortured political prisoners at a higher rate than Stalin and murdered (in absolute numbers) more political prisoners in its first three years in power (out of a population of 6.4 million) than Hitler murdered in its first six years (out of a population of 70 million.) Not to mention that President Carter’s host, Fidel Castro, insulted his nation as “a vulture preying on humanity” and came within a hair of nuking it.</p>
<p>Carter is not the only one to trumpet the supposed glories of Cuban health care. Let’s consider the following quotes:</p>
<p>“Health care (in Cuba) was once for the privileged few. Today it is available to every Cuban and it is free&#8230;.Health and education are the revolution’s great success stories.” &#8212; Peter Jennings, World News Tonight, April 3, 1989</p>
<p>“Castro has brought great health care to his country” &#8212; ABC’s Barbara Walters, Oct. 11, 2002</p>
<p>“Even today, Cuba has one of the lowest infant mortality rates in the world.” &#8212; Katie Couric reporting on NBC’s <em>Today</em>, February 13, 1992</p>
<p>“Frankly, to be a poor child in Cuba may in many instances be better than being a poor child in Miami, and I’m not going to condemn their lifestyle so gratuitously.”&#8211; <em>Newsweek</em>’s Eleanor Clift on <em>The McLaughlin Group</em>, April 8, 2000</p>
<p>Contrary to the above “news analysts” and Human Rights spokespersons, Cubans have a drastically different story to tell. And even more unluckily for Castro and his MSM auxiliaries, the internet has pulled a stunning and (to them) infuriating end run around his traditional MSM defenses. Word is getting out about the disastrous state of Cuban health care.</p>
<p>During that cold snap in mid-January, Cuban dissidents snuck out, via internet, a report claiming that over forty patients had somehow frozen to death in Cuba’s Mazorra mental hospital  &#8212; not far from the one featured in Michael Moore&#8217;s paean to Cuban health care, <em>Sicko</em>.  Cuba’s Stalinist regime, along with the media courtesans to whom it grants press bureaus and &#8220;journalist visas,&#8221; were utterly mum on the matter, however. It took three days &#8212; as the word spread through the <a href="http://www.penultimosdias.com/2010/03/02/los-muertos-de-mazorra/">mostly Spanish-language web</a> &#8211;but finally the Stalinist regime issued a terse and exculpatory press-release on the matter.</p>
<p>But the story did not go away. Just last week, pictures of some of the dead were snuck out of Cuba. They proved that hypothermia alone was not the cause of death, any more than it was the cause of the death for the prisoners at Dachau or Buchenwald. Horrific malnutrition and savage beatings were plain to see for anyone genuinely interested in the causes.</p>
<p>Needless to add, such interested parties <em>do not</em> include Castro&#8217;s favored members of the press. True to form, they dutifully connived with the regime, as they have for half a century, to hide the catalog of Castroite horrors.</p>
<p>But don’t take my word for it. Apparently tormented by their consciences, two Spanish journalists have just released mea-culpa- books (sadly available only in Spanish) about this collusion. “Self-censorship is a very common practice,” one writes. “No journalist on the island can write the truth of what happens there.”  Whatever their faults, at least these Spanish journalists finally <a href="http://www.miamiherald.com/2010/02/28/1503249/coverage-comes-with-price-of-self.html">came clean</a>. When will Barbara Walters, Dan Rather, Andrea Mitchell, Ted Turner, Herbert Matthews and the rest of the bunch come clean? Don’t hold your breath.</p>
<p>The Cuban health stories ignored or buried by the MSM would require an entire 24-hour network broadcasting for five decades to disclose. Senor Marzo Fernandez, an economist who, until defecting in 1996, served as Secretary General of Castro’s Ministry of Nutrition gets us started. “The average height of Cubans has decreased by 8 centimeters in the past 25 years,&#8221; he reported on Miami television. “For the first time in Cuban history, thousands of Macrocepahlic children (abnormally large heads in proportion to their bodies) due to protein (primarily milk) deficiencies have been found in the eastern provinces.” This in a country that prior to the glorious revolution enjoyed a lower infant-mortality rate and more doctors and dentists <a href="http://docs.google.com/viewer?a=v&amp;q=cache:1pM8J7MNY5YJ:lanic.utexas.edu/la/ca/cuba/asce/cuba8/30smith.pdf+doctors+dentists+http://lanic.utexas.edu/la/ca/cuba/asce/cuba8/30smith.pdf.&amp;hl=en&amp;gl=us&amp;pid=bl&amp;srcid=ADGEESj16u_s8pxou_8ZCmc0GbMi5F1LU6BAdhzPnusDQCfKm">per-capita than half of European countries</a>, plus a larger middle class than Switzerland.</p>
<p>Not everyone welcomes the exposure of Cuba&#8217;s human rights record. Not so long ago, Alan Colmes on Fox berated me saying: “Oh! Ok, so now 40 years after his death <em>all of a sudden</em> YOU discover all this horrible stuff about Cuba Che Guevara!”</p>
<p>“No, no, no,” <a href="http://www.hfontova.com/images/hc.gif">I patiently explained to Mr. Colmes</a>, “many have been documenting and broadcasting accounts of Castro and Che Guevara’s butcheries, imbecilities and cowardice for decades&#8211;but the mainstream media was too busy eating out of Castro’s hand to pay attention. So these horrors could never make it past the mainstream media filter. Well Alan, I hate to break the news to you, but your side’s media monopoly is over.&#8221;</p>
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