CBS News Chief: "Gender Bias to Blame for Couric Failure"

'Gender' Blamed for Katie Couric's Low Ratings

http://newsmax.com/archives/ic/2007/1/30/102511.shtml?s=ic
Tuesday, Jan. 30, 2007 10:22 a.m. EST

CBS News and Sports President Sean McManus says that gender bias may play a role in the disappointing ratings Katie Couric has been getting on "CBS Evening News.”

"I think it is a fact there are probably people, both men and women, who are perhaps uncomfortable having a woman anchor the news,” McManus told the media industry publication Broadcasting & Cable. "The way she is scrutinized, I think sometimes unfairly, quite frankly, I think a lot of that has to do with gender.”

McManus maintained that as a woman, Couric has to be concerned about "a lot of things the male anchor doesn’t have to worry about, like how she looks or what she is wearing.”

Comment: Perhaps if Ms. Couric and her CBS handlers were more concerned about the integrity and quality of their news reporting than the Today's former co-host's wardrobe and hair style, her ratings wouldn't be so poor.

I wonder if Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton struggles with the same challenges. But when she loses, liberals will be able to blame "gender bias" rather than the former First Lady's anti-American, repulsive far-left views for her electoral failure.

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Hillary Does Not Want to Risk "Inheriting" Iraq

Clinton: U.S. out of Iraq by January '09 http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070128/ap_on_el_pr/clinton2008_13

By MIKE GLOVER, Associated Press Writer Sun Jan 28, 6:16 PM ET
DAVENPORT, Iowa -

Hillary Rodham Clinton said Sunday that President Bush should withdraw all U.S. troops from Iraq before he leaves office, asserting it would be "the height of irresponsibility" to pass the war along to the next commander in chief.

"This was his decision to go to war with an ill-conceived plan and an incompetently executed strategy," the Democratic senator from New York said her in initial presidential campaign swing through Iowa.

"We expect him to extricate our country from this before he leaves office" in January 2009, the former first lady said.

Hillary wants the presidency to be easy street: No challenges, just worship. We live in a dangerous world, however, not in her delusional self-serving fantasy.

9/11, Iraq, Afghanistan, Iran and North Korea are not the first challenges America has faced. And they won't be the last.

The United States deserves a President who will face the challenges that are sure to come in the near future. The last thing America needs is a President whom the country's enemies know is unwilling to make the tough decisions and face existing challenges with determination and strength.

POISONOUS!

"The president knows that because the troops are in harm's way, that we won't cut off the resources. That's why he's moving so quickly to put them in harm's way."

-- Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) on ABC's "Good Morning America," January 19, 2007

So much for bipartisanship. The media won't call Pelosi on her poisonous and preposterous political attack on the President of the United States. But that's their predictably hateful and often irrational approach to everything and everyone with whom they disagree.

No Big Deal

Über-liberal Congresswoman Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) was elected the first female House Speaker, which makes her third in line in succesion for the presidency of the United States of America. I am unimpressed.

Ms. Pelosi, who paints herself a wife, housewife, mother and grandmother is actually a millionaire several times over by "virtue" of marrying a millionaire. Her truculence, intransigence and rabid liberalism are renowned.

In a painfully orchestrated photo-op, several children surrounded her as she gaveled the new congressional session into order. She was doing it "for all American children," she said. Given the new democrat impetus to advance the abortion and embryonic and stem cell agendas, there won't be too many more of those children for Pelosi to parade in front of the TV cameras for her own self-aggrandizement.