Former CBS and NBC anchor Katie Couric unsuccessfully tried not once, not twice, but three times to get Pennsylvania Democratic Sen. John Fetterman to label President Trump as anti-democratic on Thursday’s episode of her Next Question podcast. It was just another example of former broadcast anchors and reporters confirming that they were not the down-the-middle reporters they claimed to be.
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Later in the show, Fetterman was discussing the need to turn down the rhetoric in the context of Charlie Kirk’s assassination, but Couric wondered if that concern about rhetoric could also be applied to Kirk himself, “I think some people might say Charlie Kirk's rhetoric was extreme. You know, I think that's the conversation that happened. People condemned political violence, but they also felt a great deal of discomfort with his language, suggesting that these kinds of words lead to violence. I don't know, I'm just kind of sharing my observations as I saw the conversations unfold.”
Like a broken record, Fetterman insisted he is still a man of the left, but that doesn’t mean that rhetoric should lead to violence, “Yeah, I agree. I mean, I think we agree that we probably didn't agree with much of what he said, but, and I think we, I'm sure we both agree that you shouldn't shoot people, you know, and you shouldn't execute them in public. And that's, I think that's two things must be true. That free speech—I'm an absolute free speech guy, and you have the right to say these things, and you definitely also have the right not to get shot by sharing your views.”
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. steve malzberg
. steve malzberg
