The Backside Of The Bell Curve: How Stupid Is Katie Couric?

Bad week, Katie?

First, her producer plagiarizes a story from The Wall Street Journal, and Katie reads it on the air (as a first-person, autobiographical piece).

Now, she's tossing out a thoroughly debunked (by CNN) rightwing swiftboat-ish hit/ smear against Barack Obama:

Katie Couric's Notebook: Obama's Background
Posted by Katie Couric

Is America ready for a President who grew up praying in a mosque?

Barack Obama has arguably the most diverse religious background of any candidate, ever. But will that help him or hurt him?

The clue phone for you, Katie.

CNN debunks false report about Obama
POSTED: 2:01 a.m. EST, January 23, 2007

JAKARTA, Indonesia (CNN) -- Allegations that Sen. Barack Obama was educated in a radical Muslim school known as a "madrassa" are not accurate, according to CNN reporting.

Insight Magazine, which is owned by the same company as The Washington Times, reported on its Web site last week that associates of Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton, D-New York, had unearthed information the Illinois Democrat and likely presidential candidate attended a Muslim religious school known for teaching the most fundamentalist form of Islam.

Obama lived in Indonesia as a child, from 1967 to 1971, with his mother and stepfather and has acknowledged attending a Muslim school, but an aide said it was not a madrassa.

Hey, Katie!

You're this week's Backside of the Bell Curve winner!

Congrats!



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