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Following President Barack Obama’s State of the Union address, on CBS Katie Couric revealed her reading interests as she endorsed the take on Obama from a liberal New York Times columnist: Well, as Tom Friedman said, ‘he’s bigger at making us smarter than making us angry.’ (Friedman’s actual assertion in his January 27 column: He is so much bigger at making us smarter than angrier.).

Couric’s he’s bigger at making us smarter than making us angry came after Jeff Greenfield proposed: I think he was aggravating to remind people of the Barack Obama they liked in 2008 and saying ‘this is who I am,’ because the idea of Barack Obama putting on battle gloves and turning into Harry Truman is just not going to fly..

This is a President, Katie, that you able-bodied know, who’s been accused of being too cerebral, too professorial, sort of above it all. From live CBS News coverage at about 10:23 PM EST on Wednesday night, a discussion about how able-bodied Obama was able to reconnect I was alerted to by the MRC’s Kyle Drennen:BOB SCHIEFFER: The President tonight was not just aggravating to reconnect, he was aggravating to let people know that, yes, I know you’re cynical, yes, I know you think Washington is broken, yes, I think you accept that the process isn’t working. In parts of his speech it was almost like he was running adjoin himself, but he was very assertive tonight. I’m with you. He was aggravating to connect with them.

While he was aggravating to use the word fight once or twice, this was very much like he was in the campaign. JEFF GREENFIELD: I was actually struck on the other side. He went five or ten account without a single applause line. He said let me tell you how we got into this mess, he reached out and said to people I’m not giving up my idea that we can change the accent of politics. So, yes, while he was aggravating to say he was connecting, I think he was aggravating to remind people of the Barack Obama they liked in 2008 and saying this is who I am, because the idea of Barack Obama putting on battle gloves and turning into Harry Truman is just not going to fly.

(Although one is much closer to the mark than the other. This from the Foxnews poll. I expect that both are heavily biased. Nudge, nudge, wink, wink.) Those that visit CBS for the purpose of informing themselves are screwed. They are fed White House or Dem talking points and regurgitate them. Naturally the polls taken there reflect them.

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