What media bias?
State-run media darling Katie Couric advised Republicans to stay away from fringe players like Former VP Candidate Sarah Palin and the nation’s top talk radio host Rush Limbaugh.
Of course, Katie has always had the the GOP’s best interest at heart:
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NewsBusters has the transcript, via FOX Nation:
KATIE COURIC: As Politico reported, there’s growing concern among some GOP leaders that controversial commentators and far-right conservatives have hijacked the message. People like Rush Limbaugh and Sarah Palin appeal to the base – and you certainly need that base to win elections. But in an age when 42 percent of Americans call themselves Independents – you can’t win with just the base, either… Before the 2010 midterm elections roll around, Republicans need to get the focus back onto the Big Tent where all are welcome and off the sideshows that are popping up along the party’s fringe.
Note: Fringe according to Couric means any wildly popular conservative who can stir the base to action.
More… Magnum added this:
Is she going to give the libtards the same warning, or are Obama’s lefty fringe acquaintances acceptable?
Last time I checked neither Rush nor Palin bombed a clinic, killed a cop, or swore allegiance to the communist party.
Exactly.
