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Katie Couric: Donald Trump Was ‘Just Acting Like A Jackass’ Attacking Obama

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Katie Couric is now free from her evening news anchor shackles and appeared with Jay Leno last night to reveal some of her real thoughts on the behavior of Donald Trump and Sarah Palin. Who would have guessed that with Couric, of all people, the NBC censors needed to be ready to bleep some of her language.

Couric commented that Palin is so polarizing and admitted that “she’s very interesting.” However, Couric thought the media needed to scale it back since “they cover her incessantly and maybe more than they actually should.” Leno disagreed and joked that the more Palin the better because it’s great for his business. Yet Couric really unloaded on Trump saying:

“He actually can be a very, very nice person with a good heart. But I think he was just acting like a jackass for a while, don’t you? . . . It’s as if he was abducted by aliens temporarily and he was just acting so strangely I thought.”

Is this a new personality from Couric that will be featured prominently in her new ABC show, or was Couric merely playing for laughs to the late night crowd?

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  • TeaPartyNation

    More “objective” reporting from lamestream socialist and The Mistress of Mindless Fluff.

  • jbeast

    Yeah, yeah, yeah, we know you’re a fan, Couric.

  • Dem4Ever

    Hmmm…so Katy thinks that anyone who criticizes Barrack their minds must be under the control of space aliens?

  • tatboy

    I will admit i Don’t like Trump. But it’s clear that Katie din’t like HER president thet SHE supports being attacked. If it was Bush it would have been all good. But this had left liberal activist got her panties in a wad and she’s pissed. Wonder why she didn’t just take a job at Daily Kos where her bias and hard left liberal hate could flow free.

  • TangledThorns

    Whatever network wastes money on this woman gets no mercy from me. The older she gets, the nastier.

  • writer

    She left out racist. Sure it was just an oversight.

  • Colorado_Conservative

    Sometimes the truth hurts Katie….Obama is a horrible President…Just as you were/are a horrible news anchor!
    Something tells me you didn’t have these same feelings when Bush was being attacked!

  • Liberal Tormentor

    Katie Couric is now free from her evening news anchor shackles

    Since when has that stopped her from flying her liberal freak flag, Matty?

    ps, Hey Katie, it takes one to know one.

  • Thelonious Funk

    The earth is round. Donal Trump is a jackass.

    That’s not bias. That’s accepted truth.

  • felixw

    Check out what was happening while the liberal media fixated on Donald Trump.

    http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/obama-loses-bin-laden-bounce-romney-on-the-move-among-gop-contenders/2011/06/06/AGT5wiKH_print.html

    Yes, Romney now is leading Obama in the polls. And in a Washington Post-ABC poll — so you know they did everything possible to tilt the deck in Obama’s favor.

    Liberals in the media shouldn’t be shocked. They may have refused to cover the economy, unemployment and all the other real issues. But the voters haven’t forgotten them. Nor has Mitt Romney. And if the liberal media continues to focus on gotcha and trivialities, it will only get worse for them.

  • Yoda002

    I still wonder what Trump’s investigators found in Hawaii? They couldn’t believe what they were finding. They were probably checking out women on the beach while drinking Pina Coladas.

  • cjd ohio 1

    katie a liberal, wow, who knew

  • tatboy

    Yoda002 said:
    I still wonder what Trump’s investigators found in Hawaii? They couldn’t believe what they were finding. They were probably checking out women on the beach while drinking Pina Coladas.

    Probably… so Katie is a good source of unbiased news to you. Or just another Dan Rather toolbox?

  • Bill Huggins

    TeaPartyNation said:
    More “objective” reporting from lamestream socialist and The Mistress of Mindless Fluff.

    Yeah,’asking mindless fluff questions like “what do you read” sure stumped Sarah Failin and scared her off of more “LAMEStREAM” interviews for,,,ever?

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Bruce-Kennedy/1439463341 Bruce Kennedy

    Dem4Ever said:
    Hmmm…so Katy thinks that anyone who criticizes Barrack their minds must be under the control of space aliens?

    Quite possibly.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Bruce-Kennedy/1439463341 Bruce Kennedy

    writer said:
    She left out racist. Sure it was just an oversight.

    Actually that goes without saying.

  • justanotherconservative

    TangledThorns said:
    the nastier

    and uglier.

  • Big Eddie

    Obama was just trying to Barack us .

    “With some of the economic indicators looking a bit dicey, President Obama traveled to Ohio last week to tout what the administration considers a good-news story: the rescue of the domestic automobile industry. In fact, he also made it the subject of his weekly radio address.

    We take no view on whether the administration’s efforts on behalf of the automobile industry were a good or bad thing; that’s a matter for the editorial pages and eventually the historians. But we are interested in the facts the president cited to make his case.

    What we found is one of the most misleading collections of assertions we have seen in a short presidential speech. Virtually every claim by the president regarding the auto industry needs an asterisk, just like the fine print in that too-good-to-be-true car loan.”

    http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/fact-checker/post/president-obamas-phony-accounting-on-the-auto-industry-bailout/2011/06/06/AG3nefKH_blog.html

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Ed-Durffee/1311278663 Ed Durffee

    And the most amazing thing to me is the fact she and those like her spew this Biased BS and have never figured out that those who read or hear it dont see the bias. They actually sit there nite after nite spewing the Anti America BS, Conservatives are dumb rednecks BS, Only Liberal thinking is worth while BS. Folks, Americans figured out the MSM bias years ago and have found there is a way to get to the truth. Your days are over.

  • Yukon Jack

    If Donald Trump is “acting like a jackass” let it not be forgotten that the perky one was never more than a jenny.

    In both sense of dictionary definition: a machine that spins or a female donkey.

  • THE REAL ROYAL KING

    Liberal Tormentor said:
    Katie Couric is now free from her evening news anchor shackles

    Since when has that stopped her from flying her liberal freak flag, Matty?

    ps, Hey Katie, it takes one to know one.

    I’m sure I don’t have to remind you of Ms. Couric’s vicious “gotcha” question for Palin, do I, Michelle-in-Utah. Something like, “What do you read?” Despicable. So, why should we put any credence in anything she has to say about your and Rush Limbaugh’s favorite, the Donald? Why wouldn’t she attack him? Watch out! There is a librul hiding behind that Boxelder!

  • Just4thefax

    Fact: The entire progressive socialist followers know time is running out for them again 2012. Elections will be here soon and they will be sidelined again for 30 years until the people forget how bad it was under them and they slime back to the top. Liberal democrats are the slime in the ice machine of today Couric no matter where you work.

  • tatboy

    THE REAL ROYAL KING said:
    I’m sure I don’t have to remind you of Ms. Couric’s vicious “gotcha” question for Palin, do I, Michelle-in-Utah. Something like, “What do you read?” Despicable. So, why should we put any credence in anything she has to say about your and Rush Limbaugh’s favorite, the Donald? Why wouldn’t she attack him? Watch out! There is a librul hiding behind that Boxelder!

    It was not a gotcha question. But it is a question she would NEVER have asked Joe Biden…. out of her deep and loving respect for him.

  • Just4thefax

    Ed Durffee said:
    And the most amazing thing to me is the fact she and those like her spew this Biased BS and have never figured out that those who read or hear it dont see the bias. They actually sit there nite after nite spewing the Anti America BS, Conservatives are dumb rednecks BS, Only Liberal thinking is worth while BS. Folks, Americans figured out the MSM bias years ago and have found there is a way to get to the truth. Your days are over.

    Fact: Good post!

  • Just4thefax

    Thelonious Funk said:
    The earth is round. Donal Trump is a jackass. That’s not bias. That’s accepted truth.

    Fact: He is the Donald to you sparky.

  • tatboy

    Just4thefax said:
    Fact: He is the Donald to you sparky.

    And Katie is a biased source of info. That’s accepted truth too…. but she did take over for Rather, so what do you expect. Propaganda thy name is CBS.

  • Old Duffer

    Katie Couric’s high school year book states she was a cheerleader. Is it true that after the games, she also gave great cheer to the football team. But Couric denies she had text with Weiner.

  • TfT

    Katie Couric, the energizer bunny for the DNC and over-protector of hehimself.

    Nothing but another liberal, if I may quote her “jackass” herself.

  • greg454

    Aw, Kommie Katie doesn’t like Trump attacking her lover-boy. Sad.
    http://libertarians4freedom.blogspot.com/

  • NORBIT

    Don’t worry Perky,

    You can shill for your guy on your new show TOO!

  • gajack

    Settle down,Katie! Go bake some cookies.

  • Nacho

    The meltdown by the right-wing-nuts in this comment section is hilarious.

    She is appearing on a talk show and exchanging playful banter.

    Donald Trump did act like a jackass, he beat a non-issue into the ground just to suck in all you birthers and pretended to be a rupub, and you fell for it.

  • Nacho

    tatboy said:
    It was not a gotcha question. But it is a question she would NEVER have asked Joe Biden…. out of her deep and loving respect for him.

    That’s what this hate is all about. Couric unintentionally made Palin look like a fool because she couldn’t answer what was on her desk or her coffee table or her night stand.

    Palin was a complete stranger to America. People were curious about who this new face VP candidate was, fvck, they still are, buying her books and watching her reality show.

    Biden had served 25+ years in the US Senate and just finished a campaign for President. People knew where he stood.

    It’s so pathetic how brainwashed some people are that the “Lame Stream Media” is out to get the Victims on the right.

  • hgarner2000

    I think the line “…acted like he was abducted by aliens” might not actually be that far from the actual truth depending on how metaphorically you take the word “aliens”.

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