Couric: Mosque Opposition ‘Islamophobia, Obamaphobia Or Both’

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  1. Ron Harders says:

    This women s as dumb as a lump on a log. Or she is a fiirst class liar. Probably both.

    Ron

  2. That's pretty funny. Katie says Obama is not a muslim . . . he's a Christian. It's just the way she says it, like that's supposed to settle things. Katie Couric says it's so and that's the end of the argument. A real joke. LOL

  3. Nice selective use of the quote for a headline, and typical of your previous efforts, Caleb. But what, if anything, do you disagree with in what she said?

    • Why does she say he's not muslim? She sounds like she knows more than anyone. I have never listened to her…just wanted to check out this site. Everyone knows CBS is in obamas back pocket. I think he is a muslim & a terroist. Just my personal opinion…Katie has hers & I have mine!

    • HOT COUGAR says:

      JAMES,
      SINCERELY I DO NOT CARE TO EMBARRESS YOU BUT AGAIN ON THIS SITE!
      MUST I HAVE TO EXPLAIN EVERYTHING TO YOU!
      CALEB DID NOTHING MORE THAN POST THIS VIDEO TO EXPOSE COURIC'S PRECONCEPTIONS & LIKE OF INTELLEGENCE BY HER INSINUATING THAT ALL OF THOSE WHO OPPOSE THE MOSQUE ARE EITHER ISLAMPHOBIC OR OBAMAPHOBIC.
      COURIC IS DESPERATE WITH HER RATINGS TANKING!

  4. OK. So who decided that you know what a Christian is? So when you say anyone is a Christian, I have no idea what definition you use. Sorry. No you have no credibility with me.

  5. She is such a sanctimonious snot. As if her words have any meaning at all. Arrogance of the MSM at
    it's best – the rest of us are all a bunch of morons according to Queen Katie

  6. We know who pays Katie to speak.

    And, what about you Mr. McPherson? I've read about you telling 'whom' about how many times you yourself have written here!

  7. michael8495 says:

    Yes Ms Couric, you are a very good reporter, but not everything is the way you see it. Yes you have read signs, I assume, and yes some probly did say idle words that would make one to believe that there is Islamophobia, but was there Islamophobia at the time of 9/11? No, I don't believe so. Now, we have an Imam that want's to build a mosque insight of where the WTC once stood before there were fanatics that decided to wage WAR on American soil that,( if you will only remember) took 3000 lives. Now, I could say that the Attack on America means nothing to you, but just as you see something that tells you Islamophobia is what this mosque is all about, I could say that You, Ms. Couric have no sensitivity to our American Brothers and Sisters families that lost loved onces that day, and I could be just as right as you think you are. Ms. Couric, all they ask is, do they believe that Hamas is a Terrorist group, and since they only have $8 to 16 thousand dollars that they can come up with, where will the Millions of dollars that it will take to build the mosque come from?

  8. Jamie Baker says:

    We would not have allowed a Shinto shrine to be erected above the Arizona. Nor will we allow a mosque on the site of an Islamic terror attack on the USA. I recall Osama bin Laden reciting a Moslem prayer for the USA to surrender to Islam before the planes flew into the twin towers. That was the beginning of our war with Islam. Yes ma'am, and now is the continuation of that war. You should be telling the rest of the country how Islam takes over a country. They will do it this time with pathetic sympathizers like you and the wombs of Moslem women who have no say in their life.

    • So how far away is far enough, keeping in mind that there are already more than 1,200 mosques in the U.S. and there have been U.S. mosques for more than 90 years?

      After all, the Islamic Center will be two blocks from the site and around a corner, not even visible from Ground Zero. And keep in mind, the site was overwhelmingly approved by government officials in the area.

      Ah, remember the good old days, when conservatives favored more local control?

      • Sir, you as are your leftist ilk are never capable of connecting the dots. I suggest that you, if you have the capability, read the Qur'an and research past comments of Imam Rauf before you continue to sound like a babbling idiot! I also suggest that you research "The Cordoba" name and historical significance to muslims that will be bestowed upon the mosque! If, indeed you do the homework as outlined above, then return and provide some intelligence to the post!

        • Cordoba is no longer part of the name, and was being used by right wingers to represent something different from what the mosque developers were referring to–but I'll let you do that homework on your own.

          Regardless, what does your response have to do with my comment that preceded it, other than representing a desire to change the subject?

          • HOT COUGAR says:

            GOSH JAMES!
            JACK WAS ONLY CONVEYING TO YOU HOW MISINFORMED YOU ARE IN ADDITION TO BEING SUCH A DIRT BAG!
            IN NO WAY WAS HE EVEN REFERRING TO YOUR PRIOR POST!
            THE DEVELOPERS DID IN FACT INITIALLY PLAN ON NAMING THE MOSQUE CORDOBA!
            YOU NEED TO DO YOUR HOMEWORK!

      • HOT COUGAR says:

        JAMES,
        NICE TRY BUT IT WON'T FLY!
        JAMES BAKER IN NO WAY IMPLIED THAT MOSQUES SHOULD NOT BE ALLOWED IN THE U.S.A.!
        THE POINT HE IS MAKING IS THAT THE AMERICAN PEOPLE NO MORE SUPPORT A MOSQUE BEING BUILT NEAR GROUND ZERO THAN THEY WOULD A SHINTO SHRINE ERECTED ABOVE THE BATTLESHIP AIRIZONA AT PEARL HARBOR.
        SORRY JAMES! YOU CAN LOOK FORWARD TO THE GOOD OLD DAYS RETURNING! WITH MORE STATE & LOCAL CONTROL BEING RETURNED TO THE CITIZENS! BY THE AMERICAN PEOPLE! NOT JUST THE CONSERVATIVES!

  9. Beachlovernc says:

    Mainstream media is not to be believed. I laugh and move on when all these @$$holes aren't getting it..to me they aren't or represent true journalism…that went away years ago. That Obama's ratings are down to 39% of males that find he isn't doing jack crap says something…Wonder when they will realize (Couric and her ilk) and get on the band wagon and bash him like they did Bush? Thinking the narrow minded dim whits that they are his polls will have to go to 0…Here's hoping it does go to 0 by the time O is up for re-election!!!

  10. This women is just another piece of the government media complex. She is also not very smart.

  11. Hopefully we will not need to wait for 2012 to rid the USA of the imposter. I don't think I could stomach his lying words through another election process. Please just go away.

  12. Lets face facts: she was picked for her looks not her journalistic background since she was more of a a talk show host not a real news reporter. "Our American values" she says well what are those Katie? How about upholding the Constitution and reporting that the emperor has no clothes or rather Obama has no legal proof of ever being vetted as a natural born citizen or heck, any kind of a citizen.

    • "picked for her looks not her journalistic background"

      More for "likability," I think (but definitely not because she was the best journalist available) and to get her off of NBC's morning show, since the morning shows generate far more money for the networks than the nightly news.

      • HOT COUGAR says:

        JAMES,
        COURIC'S NIGHTLY NEWS SHOW ON NBC IS TANKING BADLY IN THE RATINGS. MOST LIKELY HER CONTRACT WILL NOT BE RENEWED BY NBC. COURIC LIKE YOURSELF IS MUCH TOO OPINIONATED TO BE A TRUE JOURNALIST.

  13. michael8495 says:

    Ms. Couric, since you are a very good reporter, how about you taking time out to investigate the suspect of the question that has been aroused? You can look around and ask questions in reference to, where will they get the money to build te mosque, and How did a man that was working in a restraunt as a waiter a few months ago, get the money to buy the building where they want to build the mosque? And, Was the money for that bldg. given to him from Hamas? Was he the front man to get this Mosque rolling? Why is so important to have to build a mosque in that bldg, knowing that it would create a Great Divide? Ms. Couric, instead of questioning those who are against the mosque being built there, question those who want to build the mosque built there. You seem to have forgotten that America lost 3000 productive citizens that day, and their loved ones should have the right to push that mosques out of he area that was attacked by the fanatics.

  14. We come on this site because we understand the freedom that we all hold so very precious is at stake. We also love our liberty's especially the freedom of speech. But we can ignore
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  15. Katie is so sweet for the administration, Im suprised she is not White House spokesperson! She is as clueless as Gates.

  16. "All the other attacks on the U.S. had been by muslim terrorists"

    Timothy McVeigh and Terry Nichols were Muslims?

    • Beachlovernc says:

      Sorry they are en exception to the rule(McVeigh and Nichols)…radial people that had their own agenda, don't clump them in with Islamic fanatics…Islam in this country and other countries isn't what they represent to us…they say they are "moderates" but deep down the ones pushing this are the radials for this mosque at GZ…Yes, am sure are ones that don't believe in the harshness of Islam but they are a minority I think, the other are the majority of them are the ones that have a Islamic agenda for jihad! I don't hate Muslims, I know a couple of women that are Egyptian that are modern women that have shown me the harshness of the Quran and what Mohamed was really about!!!!

    • HOT COUGAR says:

      JAMES,
      YOU ARE SO FULL OF B/S!
      STOP THE SPIN!
      YOU KNOW EXACTLY THAT DEE WAS REFERRING TO THE OTHER ATTACKS BY MUSLIM TERRORIST!
      YOU ARE TRULY A PATHETIC HUMAN BEING!

  17. michael8495 says:

    Ms Couric, it appears that you have a problem with those who have questioned the religion of our President? That you felt you just had to come to his defense. Ms. Couric, our President is a grown man, and although he probably apprecieates what you did, don't you think that he is big enough to have handled the question of his religion by himself, or is it, you felt, that since he has created such a mess to our country to the point that he has to continually Blame Bush for America going down the Tank, That you felt that if you didn't help him, he would have messed that questioning as well? Ms. Couric, do you really care about what his religious choice is? The polls say's enough, and who really cares about that, beside you and them? It Really Don't Mean Nothin. He is No George Washington, or an Abe Linclon.

  18. Dee, do the research, there are no doubt moderate muslims, but make no mistake islam is intolerant of all religions and most muslims practice the intolerance! Read the Qur'an, read the comments of imam rauf and you will have a clearer understanding of Sharia objectives!

  19. Ah, the Ninny Squad leader has a thought, WOW..

    I thought that was wood burning somewhere, I was right, little squat KatiQ set that tinny little pea brain of hers on fire thinking again.
    She really has to stop doing things like that as she has so few brain cells to waste on on these things.
    Just read the script KatiQ, then hit the bars with the rest of the Ninny squad trolling for guys with a Load of cash in the bank.

  20. David Dixon says:

    What a bunch of BS. He has admited to being muslim…………..

  21. "Just because we don't want it build so close to ground zero doesn't make us against the islamic religion."

    So how far away is far enough? After all, the Islamic Center will be two blocks from the site and around a corner, not even visible from Ground Zero. And keep in mind, the site was overwhelmingly approved by government officials in the area.

    • HOT COUGAR says:

      James,
      You exceed the definition of stupidity!
      A minimum of 2 miles would be appropriate in my opinion for the Mosque. The 2 blocks you speak of is only the equivilent of 500 feet which equals 2 & 2/3 football fields. True it is around a corner and currently not visible to ground zero but it will be visible to ground zero once the Mosque is built. As for the city planning commission approving the site for construction why would they not!

  22. Can this be a Christian: Definately not:
    Subject: Washington Insider: Obama Member of Chicago Gay Mans Club: http://beforeitsnews.com/story/51/828/Washington_

    Benjamin Fulford a international known Japan based writer and journalist: http://www.godlikeproductions.com/forum1/message6

    Swamp report:
    Frank Marshall Davis http://swamphermit.wordpress.com/2008/08/24/obama

  23. Ms. Couric …Get it right…he is a muslim. Actions speak louder than words. As usual, the only thing you can do is "name-calling." We are not islamophobic or obamaphobic…We are just "TRUE AMERICAN PATRIOTS

  24. westjefferson says:

    Further proof that that there is no such thing as an intelligent liberal/socialist. May God save us from such blind stupidity!

  25. Question for you all: Whom do you respect more, Donna Marsh O'Connor or Michael Enright? Since most of you hide your identities I assume you won't be afraid to answer.

    Sorry, that's a fib. I still assume many of you will be afraid to tell the truth.

    • HOT COUGAR says:

      James,
      Alias Brass Cookie,Dan 92,Ellen,Liberal!
      Need i say more?
      You are such a Fake & Loser!

      • So you're afraid to answer the question, too, but still can't resist throwing out a few irrelevant insults? How typical.

        • (rolls eyes, and says to self; what a fuc8*n9 idiot!)

        • HOT COUGAR says:

          James! You are a Vile Dispicable Disgusting Excuse of a Human Being!
          How Dare You!
          The more i have thought about your using Donna Marsh O'Conner as a example in your initial question the Madder i became! This woman lost her child on 9/11! She is Distraught!
          How she has any Sanity at all is amazing! My being the mother of a 3 year old daughter i could not even imagine losing my child under any circumstance!
          I Pray that you lay awake at night until you realize just how much you have wronged this
          Mother!

  26. Katie Couric,
    It is not about fear or rage, you fool. Wait till you have someone in your family terrorized & the suspect moved next door, I am sure he is in his rights to do so. You says for the record, Obama is a Christian, how did you know? Should we take your liberal words for it? If Obama is a Christian, then you are a Muslim. I have never see him act or speak like a Christian, but indeed seen him praising & admitting he was brought up in the Muslim faith when visiting the Muslim countries. Another thing, Muslim never change their faith for another , hardly, & to be sure if he did, do you think the Islamic countries will support his 2008 Campaign if he is a Christian. They know he is not, & only fools like you , traitor to our country, talk without using your brain & living in denial. No wonder nobody watch your news, except the White House.

  27. couric why don,t you let the muslim build the mosque on your property, you dumb stump b…..
    couric take your comments and shove them up where the sun don,t shine
    maybe corriv converted to muslim she has nothing better to do, one stupid b…….h

    • Several reasons I'm against the mosque, but the main one is now they are calling it the victory mosque.THE VICTORY MOSQUE????? Now tell me this victory is for us. No, I don't want to buy a bridge, but apparently we could sell a lot of them out there. This is not a 9-11 Mosque and it is not a victory mosque. This is a blow it up your A#$%@ Mosque, we have won so say the Muslims. So you who do not know there are already 144 mosques in NYC. And they say they need another one right there? HA, they lie too, just like BO.

      • "the main one is now they are calling it the victory mosque"

        Uh, Beverly, the only "they" calling it that are right-wingers who oppose it, not the people who support it..

        • HOT COUGAR says:

          James,
          Mentally disturbed individual!
          Beverly is correct!
          No matter what name or spin they may put on it the Mosque will still be viewed as a victory Mosque by Radical Musslims as well as many Main Stream Muslims.

  28. Ron Carlson says:

    There is a reason we no longer watch CBS news. Obviously Kitty Couric has not a clue what a Christian is. Why she is making the pronouncements on what Barrack Hussein Obama's religion is can only be viewed as nothing but more than leftest blather from the state run media. All of the available evidence supports a conclusion that Obama is much closely aligned to to those who bombed the Twin Towers than those who have placed their faith in Jesus, pledge allegiance to "old glory", and believe that the U.S. Constitution is the supreme law of the land.

    • AMEN to the above, Ron you are a winner. You hit the nail right on the head and now come to think of it – you did so well with the nail I can mention several other things you could hit on the head.

  29. John Henry says:

    BHO the POTUS was fathered by a muslim who had lost his faith. His mother was a believer in Marxist doctrine–not in God. He has surrounded himself with various secularist, Marxist, Maoist advisors. Before Jeremiah Wright became a liability, BHO attended, was baptized, married and counciled and had his daughters baptized in his church of liberation theology. Nowhere do I find that he has made a statement that reflects Romans 10:9 That if thou shalt confess with thy mouth the Lord Jesus, and shalt believe in thine heart that God hath raised him from the dead, thou shalt be saved.
    Perhaps he is a materialist with cultural upringing reflecting a Muslim background and adapted to the political expediency of attending a Chicago church reflecting liberation theology with a thin Christian veneer. Perhaps he is a New Ager holding the Theosophical teachings of Alice Bailey. That combines evolutionary spiritualism with Fabian Socialism. JHB

  30. Ms. Couric, I am appalled that you would accuse patriotic and informed Americans of expressing "fear and rage" to "tear down the towers…"
    You equate legitimate protest against building a symbol of Muslim victory near the site of a mass murder committed in the name of Islam. Please take a sabbatical and study the history of Islam's progress over the last fourteen centuries. And read something besides revisionist historians.

  31. "…don't let fear and hate tear down the towers…" How crass. Let us shun Ms. Couric and the network for whom she insults America.
    JHB

  32. MAKAHAYAN says:

    KATIE COURIC AND EVERYONE ELSE IN THE BUSINESS OF " TRUTH IN REPORTING " SHOULD WAKE UP AND OBSERVE THE SIGNS . THERE ARE VIDEOS OF OBUMMER SAYING THAT HE IS
    MUSLIM , HE HAS TOLD THE FOREIGN MINISTER OF EGYPT HE IS MUSLIM , HE SAID THAT HE
    LOVES THE MORNING CALL TO PRAYER FOR MUSLIMS , HE SOMETIMES SPEAKS ARABIC , AND
    HE SUPPORTS ISLAMIC EFFORTS AT EVERY OPPOTUNITY . THE PERCENTAGE OF AMERICANS
    WHO NOW BELIEVE HE IS A MUSLIM IS NOW AT 34 % . HE ALSO BOWED TO THE KING OF
    SAUDI ARABIA . " IF IT TALKS LIKE A MUSLIM , WALKS LIKE A MUSLIM , ACTS LIKE A MUSLIM —
    IT MIGHT BE A MUSLIM " . HE IS CERTAINLY NOT A CHRISTIAN . A TRUE CHRISTIAN WOULD NOT
    APPROVE LATE ABORTION , SUPPORT HOMOSEXUAL LIFESTYLE & SAME SEX WEDDINGS , AND
    WOULD NOT WASTE OR SQUANDER BILLIONS OF DOLLARS . HE IS A 1 / 2 ASSED " ZERO ".

  33. MAKAHAYAN says:

    " AND THE ANSWER IS : BOTH . It is fear and hatred of Islam , since all the death and destruction
    of innocent victims in AMERICA and the world have been caused by muslims . It is HATRED for
    obummer because he has defrauded AMERICANS , usurped the office , destroyed the economy
    and the AMERICAN way of life , and brought on the socialist agenda , which all AMERICANS hate .
    " YES — I HATE MUSLIMS because they are vile , vicious , treacherous , sneaky & murderous . "
    " I HATE THEM because they destroyed the World Trade Center , and killed soldiers , even on
    a U . S . military base , and sailors on the U . S . COLE , etc . etc . ad infinitum .
    " I HATE obummer because he has screwed up my country and given us " change we can
    believe in " — from a Republic to a socialist nation . He makes it very easy for us to hate him
    since he has done nothing right , but has done everything wrong .

  34. Randy Ahrens says:

    As a child Obama attended Muslim schools. His father and step father were Muslim. That makes him a Muslim according to Islam. Also according to Islam, once a Muslim, always a Muslim. I don't care what he calls himself, HE'S A MUSLIM!!! As a supposed educated person, Katie Couric should know that! Look it up Katie! Ask a Muslim Imam!

  35. fergiedurgish says:

    Katie has no right to scold the American public and imply that because Americans are against the location of this mosque they are anti-American and do not hold dear the core values of the Constitution.

    Where does Katie get off saying that the American people are against the "core values of the Constitution?" Lets see, the main stream media fought like . . . well . . . muslim extremists to get Fox News down graded to a talk show cable network, but they were not against any "core value of the Constitution," NOT even the freedom of speech! They just wanted to limit Fox News' freedom of speech, not EVERYONE'S freedom of speech. But that was alright because Fox News should not get away with telling the truth. They should be forced to become part of the Obama Propaganda Organization, just like all of the rest of the cable and local stations.

  36. HOT COUGAR says:

    James!
    Please appy your journalistic talent coupled with your media law expearience in the future so to be more creative with your post!
    I do like to feel at least challenged!
    At present you simply are no challenge to me at all!

  37. HOT COUGAR says:

    James!
    you are busted!
    You stepped into this all by yourself!
    Did you seriously think you could get by with this?
    Good try at trying to spin it!
    Just so everyone knows just how ridiculous of a question this is us take under consideration a few facts!
    1. Michael Enright was a intoxicated far left liberal who stabbed Ahmed Sharif a cabbie in the neck!
    2. Ahmed Sharif was a muslim who was not in favor of the Masque being built at Ground
    Zero.
    You are such a poor excuse for a presumed ex- journalist & media law teacher.

  38. Does anyone remember Obama ever telling the truth? Then why now is it that even Glenn Beck says Obama is a christian? No Christian in this country would do so much to destroy us than he has. In his own book that he wrote it says; in case something should go wrong politically, I will stand with the Muslims. Everything he stands for says he is not a Christian, but a Muslim. Remember how he said no more prayer day for the American Christians, but then invited all the Muslims to gather on the White house lawn for their prayers. The word Jesus was taken out of the Easter speech (by his orders) and now he says he is a Christian. I'd have a better chance of believing him if he said he was Satin.

    • "Then why now is it that even Glenn Beck says Obama is a christian?"

      Maybe the Mormons (like Beck) are now in league with the Muslims.

      • HOT COUGAR says:

        JAMES,
        POOR ATTEMPT AT COMEDY!
        BECK IS A MORMON & HE SAID THAT HE WAS TAKING OBAMA AT HIS WORD THAT HE IS A CHRISTIAN. HE ALSO ADDED THAT OBAMA IF NOT A CHRISTIAN SHOULD SAY SO. PERSONNALLY BECK DOES NOT SPEAK FOR MANY OF US. BECK DOES THINK THAT OBAMA SHOULD MAKE ALL RECORDS PERTAINING TO BIRTH, COLLEGE ETC. SHOULD BE MADE PUBLIC SO TO BRING TO AN END THE BIRTHER ISSUE.

  39. When Obama goes to speak at a University and he has them cover up all the Christian symbols of faith – he sure as hell is not a Christian! And the ground zero mosque is the muslims trying to build a momument to themselves for 9/11 – and that is all it is. If it was to prayer – as they claim – then just move the thing somewhere else and build it and no one would say a word about it. But they won't do that. Iman Rauff was on Larry King saying that unless this mosque was built there that the national security of america would be on the line. Katie needs to wake up, grow up, and realize that the world could care less about her uninformed opinion.

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