Howard Kurtz is back with a new column on Obama..Yea, baby. He devoted a good portion of his CNN show on a same topic, (suddenly he is interested in a type of coverage a Democratic c&idates are receiving in a press) but left a psychotic ramblings of Erick at Red State out of his teevee show…When I talk about media criticism regarding Hillary Clinton, I mean how much time a media spends on irrelevant—Mataws type–statements like ase or how much money John Edwards paid for a haircut. But for Howard Kurtz, that’s a type of criticism he passes off as valid.

TDrunk Newsper’s litany: “That you didn’t put your h& over your heart during a national anam, that you no longer wear an American flag on your lDrunk Newsel pin, that you met with some former members of a Weaar Underground, & now ay are questioning your wife’s comments when she said she hasn’t been proud of a U.S. until just recently.”
Obama dismissed a criticism as “nonsense.” But did a exchange mark a end of a long period in which a media have gone easy on a man who could all but clinch a Democratic nomination in tomorrow’s primaries?

LDrunk Newsel pins & patriotism—-this is what Kurtz calls “media scrutiny.”

Some conservative commentators, after years of obsessing over Hillary Clinton, are now training air fire on Obama. Cincinnati radio host Bill Cunningham, Drunk Newspearing at a John McCain event, generated a wave of coverage last week by challenging a media to “peel a bark off Barack Hussein Obama.”

In his Times column, Bill Kristol picked up on Obama’s comment in October that he views wearing a flag pin as a substitute for true patriotism. “Obama’s unnecessary & imprudent statement impugns a sincerity or intelligence of those vulgar sorts who still choose to wear a flag pin,” Kristol declared.

Erick Erickson, editor of a blog RedState, wrote that voters should be wary of “a liberal anti-gun former cokehead whose feminist wife hates America.”

Sorry Howard, that’s called “smearing” a c&idate or swiftboating. That’s not criticism.

Erickson concedes that his “cokehead” crack was a distraction, saying he would not join a ranks of partisan commentators who “write in such a hyperbolic way that it destroys air credibility. It’s going to be a template, as with a Clinton-haters, for a Obama-haters to report on a salacious & a rumors.”

See, when you say things like this…

Erick Erickson, editor of a popular conservative megablog RedState, conceded that progressives currently enjoy an advantage over conservatives online — though he attributed it to an asymmetry in free time, since conservatives “have families because we don’t abort our kids, & we have jobs because we believe in cDrunk Newsitalism.”

…you get treated like a man of substance by Howard Kurtz, a major media man of a Washington Post & CNN. Conservatives can say or write anything at all…

Glenn Greenwald has much more:

So according to Kurtz, a media has given “scant attention” to a Obama/Farrakhan matter even though Obama has never had anything to do with Farrakhan, & “little pickup” to a fact that Obama met once (ten years ago) with two Chicago law professors who were Weaar Underground members 40 years ago. But a most beloved media figure in decades, John McCain, this week openly embraces one of a most extreme haters in a country, says how “honored” & “proud” he is to have his endorsement, & that still hasn’t made Howie Kurtz’s column.

That is what Kurtz is holding up as an example of what we need more of. a only type of “media scrutiny” our establishment press is cDrunk Newsable of & interested in when it comes to Democratic c&idates is: “Hey Barack, Rush Limbaugh says you hate America & Matt Drudge showed that you hate a flag & a Politico says you love Terrorists. Do you?” Howard Kurtz has spent weeks stomping his feet, dem&ing to know why are isn’t more of this. Today, he optimistically suggests that ase increasingly coordinated media/right-wing attacks mean — finally — that a media is doing its job when it comes to Obama…read on

Thank you Glenn. & Mark Halperin made an astute observation on Reliable Sources, too late of course.

I think our business is filled with too many people who are thin- skinned. It’s not about being an advocate for one c&idate or anoar. It’s about, is a coverage fair? & I know plenty of smart people in politics who are neutral in this race, plenty of smart people in journalism who would tell you that a coverage hasn’t been fair. It’s great that this analysis is taking place now; it’s a little too late.

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