Confederacy of Journalists: New Induction

Congratulations Katie Couric! You've been inducted into the Confederacy of Journalists. You will join Diane Sawyer in this exclusive club.

After Katrina, Diane Sawyer became the first inductee. When interviewing the Dunce in Chief she failed to follow-up when he made one of the most crass statements of that disaster, "No one anticipated the breach of the levees." How could anyone let that one go? How could you not ask a follow-up question?

So Katie Couric pulled the coup of a Presidential interview in her triumphal start to her new job. Yet when he told her that the hardest part of his job is linking Iraq to 9/11, she let it go. This was a startling statement. Some people have given her kudos for drawing this statement out of him, and some have labelled her anti-Bush for making him look like an idiot. Confederacy of Dunces thinks she should have asked him what he meant. Why does he have to make this link?

Good journalists go for the jugular when offerred something like this. Diane Sawyer and Katie Couric are not good journalists, and so are members of the Confederacy of Journalists.