- Couric felt there was a subtle, insidious pressure to toe the party line, and you bucked that at your peril. If you weren't rah rah rah for the Bush administration, and the war, you were considered unpatriotic, even treasonous. http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/10/07/ar2007100701471_pf.html 38 comments politics