Obama's Live Super Bowl Interview with Katie Couric

Update: Here's the video of the interview:
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Interview over. On healthcare, Obama says he's consulting with the democrats and next week republicans are coming to the White House to submit their ideas. Then the republicans and democrats will meet and that is how healthcare will proceed. He didn't call it starting at square one as Katie suggested. Obama says to fix the deficit, health reform must happen.

To get healthcare done, Obama is going to have to act like the supervisor and oversee the democrats and republicans because both are too immature to get anything done on their own.

Obama says the Colts have to be favored because of Peyton Manning, but he has a soft spot for New Orleans.

CBS WH reporter Mark Knoller tweets:

Obama's q&a session just now with Katie Couric was his 163rd interview since taking office. More than any other pres in first 13 months.

Katie Couric will interview Obama before the Super Bowl at 4:30 pm eastern. Watch it on your TVs or here. I'll post video when it comes available.

Obama is hosting a Super Bowl party today at the White House.

Tea Party Stance on Social Issues

Right now, fiscal responsibility is what bonds the tea party.

Katie Couric asks: We know what the tea party is against. What is the tea party for? Michael Johns shows how dull he is by saying the health care reform already helps the poor through Medicaid. There are so many things wrong with that statement. 1) it's not just the poor who need access to healthcare. It's people who lose their jobs, even middle class who can't afford it. That's the problem. There is a shrinking middle class. 2) Medicaid is set to go bankrupt. 3) People with pre-existing conditions can't get insurance. Couric didn't call him on it, but she asked the tea partier about the moral obligation of healthcare.
Full video of Kellen Guida, the tea party patriots rep and Michael Johns, chairman of the patriot caucus, who left their hats at home. I wonder if the tea partiers realize they have leaders. I think that would annoy them.

Full video

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Vicki Kennedy: Ted Kennedy Was Inspired by Obama

Katie Couric's Interview with Ray Odierno

Couric's interview with the Commanding General in Iraq, Ray Odierno:

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Hillary Speaks on Afghanistan With Katie Couric

Once the media latches on to something, it never lets go. Tiger. The 18 month transition of power to the Afghanistan government seems to be blowing the media's collective mind. It's not a hard concept to understand. "There is a sense of urgency," Hillary says.

Al Qaeda Whack a Mole

If Al Qaeda is like whack a mole--stop them here and they pop up there--what's the point? Katie Couric talks with Thomas Friedman:

Sarah Palin on Oprah Preview Video

Sarah Palin will appear on Oprah Monday, Nov. 16 to promote her book, in which she lashes out at the McCain-Palin campaign. I'm not expecting too much from the show. I'm sure Oprah won't ride her too hard given a conflict of interest--Oprah's a big supporter of Obama. Palin will likely do fine in this talk show format:

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Michelle Obama's Interview With Katie Couric For Glamour

This interview was for Glamour magazine's women of the year issue. Michelle says her priority as First Lady will be children's health:

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Al Gore Speaks to Katie Couric on Cap and Trade

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Katie Couric Challenges Ahmadinejad

Kudos to Katie for challenging Ahmadinejad. What she brought out is this: Iran's leader realizes the Holocaust was real. He has to know that. When Ahmadinejad denies the Holocaust, he's pushing buttons and his ideology.

Ahmadinejad on Iran's nuclear program

Glenn Beck: Theater, Madness, McCain and Clydie Clyde

Katie Couric is turning Barbara Walters with her new web show. In her first webisode below, Katie's first guest Glenn Beck is theater and madness. Salon's Alexander Zaitchik, who's working on a book about Beck, has been writing about how Beck came to be a spewer of hate.

It's about time that someone shone a light on this guy. Beck's mother drowned when he was 15. Beck called it a suicide and he has struggled with the same things his mother battled--drug addiction, manic fits of depression and thoughts of suicide. What's interesting to me is people take him seriously and they can't see they he's one foot inside of a mental breakdown.

Read part one here and part three is here.
Here's some interesting excerpts from part 2 of 3-- Beck's imaginary friend:

Like dozens of stations launching generic zoos around the country, Beck's first morning show was titled simply "The Morning Zoo." It wasn't a playbook zoo, as it lacked an ensemble, but it had a zoo spirit. It was fast-paced and featured skits and fake characters voiced by Beck. Beck's main cartoon character was named Clydie Clyde, a Muppet-voiced alter ego who sounds like the love child of Yoda and Kermit the Frog. Today the descendants of Clyde live on without names. Beck lapses into voices to imitate anyone he doesn't like, while going boggly-eyed and waving his hands around like he's slipping on a banana peel. (Clyde was based on the most widely imitated such character at the time, "Mr. Leonard" from Shannon's New York Zoo team.)

"Beck's Corpus show was just him, Clydie Clyde and the news reader," says Tod Tucker, who hosted the slot following Beck's at KZFM. "He was extremely talented and he knew it. At first we didn't get along because he was so arrogant, but we became friends. He always talked about going to New York City and making it big. That was his dream."

Beck hated black people long before Obama:

With Dries across the console, Beck directed a rotating ensemble cast and wrote or co-wrote daily gags and skits. Among the show's regular characters was Beck's zoo alter ego, Clydie Clyde. But Clyde was just one of Beck's unseen radio ventriloquist dolls. "He was amazing to watch when he was doing his cast of voices," remembers Kathi Lincoln, Beck's former newsreader. "Sometimes he'd prerecord different voices and talk back to the tape, or turn his head side to side while speaking them live on the air. He used to do a funny 'black guy' character, really over-the-top."

"Black guy" impersonations were just one sign of the young Beck's racial hang-ups. Among the few recordings of "Captain Beck and the A-Team" archived online is a show from February 1986 in which Beck discusses that night's prime-time television schedule. When the subject turns to Peter Strauss, an actor known for starring in television's first miniseries, Beck wryly observes, "They say without [Strauss' early work] the miniseries 'Roots' would never have happened." Clydie Clyde then chimes in with an exaggerated and ironic, "Oh, darn." The throwaway dig at "Roots," which chronicled the life of a slave family, wins knowing chuckles from Beck's co-hosts.

He has always been childish:

It was no secret in Louisville that Curtis, whom Beck had never met and with whom he did not compete for ratings, was overweight. And Beck never let anyone forget it. For two years, he used "the big blonde" as fodder for drive-time fat jokes, often employing Godzilla sound effects to simulate Curtis walking across the city or crushing a rocking chair. Days before Curtis' marriage, Beck penned a skit featuring a stolen menu card for the wedding reception. "The caterer says that instead of throwing rice after the ceremony, they are going to throw hot, buttered popcorn," explains Beck's fictional spy.

Beck turns Super Patriot:

The birth of Glenn Beck as Radio Super Patriot can be traced to the morning of April 15, 1986. This was the morning after Ronald Reagan ordered U.S. warplanes to bomb Moammar Gadhafi's Tripoli palace in response to the bombing of a Berlin nightclub frequented by U.S. servicemen. Beck sounded stoned during the show -- and given his later claim to have smoked pot every day for 15 years, might have been -- but even then his politics were anything but tie-dyed. After opening the show with a prayer and Lee Greenwood's "God Bless the USA," Beck played patriotic music through the morning. The only track receiving multiple plays was a New Wave-ish spoof titled "Qaddafi Sucks." The song was a huge hit with listeners, dozens of whom called Beck to tell him how inspired they were by his patriotism. Caller after caller applauded him for "standing up for America." When someone argued that Reagan should have dropped more bombs, Beck agreed. "I personally don't think we did enough," he says. "We should've went over there [sic] and bombed the hell out of 'em."

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Conservative Joe Scarborough, one of the few conservatives who is an adult, says Beck is bad for conservatism.

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Katie Couric Interviews Timothy Geithner

Couric: Fear and Ignorance Driving Town Halls

This is good commentary by Katie Couric, who jabs at Mr. Freedom-is-a-warm-gun-strapped-to-your-leg-at-an-Obama-town-hall (disrespectful creep) and Ms. Katy I-can-see-America-turning-into-Russia-from-my-house, who seems genuine enough but not exactly up on the topic. She's another Joe the Plumber in the making.
For many people healthcare is a serious matter and we've had way too many ignorant people getting their voices heard:

Obama's Interview with Katie Couric July 21

Obama's putting the pressure on the blue dogs. This is a good interview:

Letterman Asks Couric What's Up With Rush's Gangster Flesh

Couric Talks Palin on Letterman Video

McCain's Dirty Secret: Joe the Plumber Bashes Obama

McCain has been keeping a secret -- Joe the plumber. Joe is now dogging Obama on Katie's webcast. What a sneaky ploy. 

McCain must've known who Joe the Plumber was voting for (after all, the video of Joe and Obama hashing it out is on youtube) and built his talking points around Joe. 
After the debate, Joe the Plumber said Obama taps dances almost as good as Sammy Davis Jr. 

Expect to see Morning Joe -- he says he has three news trucks outside his house. 

Tim Pawlenty said on Katie's webcast that Joe the Plumber means people prefer John McCain. Everyone will be talking about Joe and Joe will be saying Obama is a smooth talker. 

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Conclusion from MSNBC that Joe didn't matter much and post debate analysis

Palin's Supporters Shout Racial Epithets

Sarah Palin shows her true colors, and now that she's virtually condoned, wink wink, racism, her supporters show their true colors. The McCain Palin ticket is a disgrace to America.

WaPo: Sen. Lindsey Graham, a McCain confidant, told The Post's David Broder that the campaign would "go down in history as stupid if they don't unleash" Palin. Well, the self-identified pit bull has been unleashed -- if not unhinged.

Barack Obama, she told 8,000 fans at a rally here Monday afternoon, "launched his political career in the living room of a domestic terrorist!" This followed her earlier accusation that the Democrat pals around with terrorists. "This is not a man who sees America the way you and I see America," she told the Clearwater crowd. "I'm afraid this is someone who sees America as imperfect enough to work with a former domestic terrorist who had targeted his own country." The crowd replied with boos.

McCain had said that racially explosive attacks related to Obama's former pastor, the Rev. Jeremiah Wright, are off limits. But Palin told New York Times columnist Bill Kristol in an interview published Monday: "I don't know why that association isn't discussed more."

Worse, Palin's routine attacks on the media have begun to spill into ugliness. In Clearwater, arriving reporters were greeted with shouts and taunts by the crowd of about 3,000. Palin then went on to blame Katie Couric's questions for her "less-than-successful interview with kinda mainstream media." At that, Palin supporters turned on reporters in the press area, waving thunder sticks and shouting abuse. Others hurled obscenities at a camera crew. One Palin supporter shouted a racial epithet at an African American sound man for a network and told him, "Sit down, boy."

Palin is seriously out of control and needs to be stopped:

The reception had been better in Clearwater, where Palin, speaking to a sea of "Palin Power" and "Sarahcuda" T-shirts, tried to link Obama to the 1960s Weather Underground. "One of his earliest supporters is a man named Bill Ayers," she said. ("Boooo!" said the crowd.) "And, according to the New York Times, he was a domestic terrorist and part of a group that, quote, 'launched a campaign of bombings that would target the Pentagon and our U.S. Capitol,' " she continued. ("Boooo!" the crowd repeated.)

"Kill him!" proposed one man in the audience.

Palin also told those gathered that Obama doesn't like American soldiers. "He said that our troops in Afghanistan are just, quote, 'air-raiding villages and killing civilians,' " she said, drawing boos from a crowd that had not been told Obama was actually appealing for more troops in Afghanistan.

"See, John McCain is a different kind of man: He believes in our troops," she said.