"I'd rather entrust the government of the United States to the first 400 people in the Boston
telephone directory than to the faculty of Harvard University." - William F. Buckley, Jr.
"CBS Evening News" anchor Katie Couric may vividly recall her first library card, but the network says she claims to be unaware that her online video essay about the virtues of libraries was largely a work of plagiarism.
CBS News said this week the April 4 installment of "Katie Couric's Notebook" consisted mostly of passages lifted verbatim from a Wall Street Journal column by Jeffrey Zaslow that was published in March.
CBS claimed that a producer was responsible for Couric's piece and immediately fired the producer. Insiders say that Couric did eeny meeny miny mo to decide which producer would cover her lying butt.
Copywrite 2007 - Barry G.
Elizabeth Edwards wants to be clear: She made the choice to stick with her husband's campaign for president after learning her cancer had returned.
"I think that people who are critical like to think that John dragged me kicking and fighting the whole way, that I'm somehow disappointed in this. I'm not disappointed in this," she said Monday.
It was the couple's first campaign trip to New Hampshire, a key early-voting state, since announcing last month that Elizabeth Edwards' breast cancer, diagnosed at the end of the 2004 campaign, had returned in her bones. Democrat John Edwards stayed in the race, drawing both praise from fellow cancer survivors and questions about whether that was the right choice.
Speaking to reporters after her husband's town hall meeting, Elizabeth Edwards, 57, said at decision time, she went first.
"He let me make it first, I think, because he wanted to make certain it was mine and I wasn't just deferring to him," she said. "This is what I wanted to do."
"When I have my show, I will have Couric on as a guest and bitch slap the fraud", said a smiling Mrs. Edwards.
Copywrite 2007 - Barry G.
The only thing real last night was Katie's voice. Why the heck couldn't she just sit behind a real desk and be something resembling herself...barf barf
Couric will never be more than a Mary Hart Wannabe
