tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6926413038778731189.post1073662077422480455..comments2023-10-16T07:13:12.123-05:00Comments on A plain blog about politics: Is Howard Kurtz Always This Awful?Jonathan Bernsteinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15931039630306253241noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6926413038778731189.post-77378747269113479712010-10-21T17:44:59.361-05:002010-10-21T17:44:59.361-05:00Kurtz is not just terrible, he is also corrupt. H...Kurtz is not just terrible, he is also corrupt. He takes a paycheck from CNN while writing media criticism for the <i>Washington Post</i>, and his wife is a highly paid Republican political consultant.Matthew Saroffhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09182726521277446600noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6926413038778731189.post-25204329092385302172010-10-21T15:57:37.770-05:002010-10-21T15:57:37.770-05:00Re: Kid glove treatment: perhaps W?Re: Kid glove treatment: perhaps W?MaysonicWriteshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15191812487437295702noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6926413038778731189.post-7030663014516522452010-10-20T11:42:47.175-05:002010-10-20T11:42:47.175-05:00He's out and out terrible. I had to give up re...He's out and out terrible. I had to give up reading him some time ago.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6926413038778731189.post-83062925582771827152010-10-20T06:36:51.843-05:002010-10-20T06:36:51.843-05:00In a word, yes. In fact, Howie is often even worse...In a word, yes. In fact, Howie is often even worse than this.<br /><br />And as to that preposterous question he poses "Who, after all, has absorbed more abuse from the “lamestream media” than Sarah Palin, who can hit back with a Facebook post that bypasses the old gatekeepers?"<br /><br />Give. Me. A Break. Let's see, Hillary Clinton? Has the "lamestream media" dissected her ankles, her hair, her weight, shrieked about her "cleavage" on the Senate floor, investigated every facet of her sex life with her husband (numerous times), has she been accused of fraud, murder, a lesbian-frenzied affair with her husband's (male) chief of staff, has tapes of her private conversations been surreptitiously edited to falsely accuse her of lying, has she been accused of being a ballbreaker, a bitch, a testicle-stealer, all by <i>supposedly reputable reporters</i> employed by mainstream, national media organizations?<br /><br />No candidate in American history, save perhaps John McCain himself, has been treated more gently, more gingerly, with softer kid gloves, than Sarah Palin.Jamesnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6926413038778731189.post-57189472796770264082010-10-19T14:15:50.552-05:002010-10-19T14:15:50.552-05:00I don't think so.
I've actually liked a fe...I don't think so.<br />I've actually liked a few of his columns over the last few years at WaPo.<br /><br />I think that Kurtz is conflating media attention with media respect for and/or close polls. The media are swarming around O'Donnell and Angle because a) they like feeling better about themselves, b) the stories write themselves, and c) the clicking public has indicated which stories they want to read, and they want to read about the train wrecks. I know I click on the stories about all these losers, either for schaudenfreude or just to be entertained.Matt Jarvisnoreply@blogger.com