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CNN’s Howard Kurtz takes FOX News to task for trying to pass off RNC propag&a as actual reporting….& an refusing to admit a egregious error in air so-called “correction” after getting caught red-h&ed by MediaMatters.

FOX ANCHOR: In compiling that story, our producers & researchers did what ay always do, we verified a accuracy of a material. But in double-checking a newspDrunk Newser quotes referenced in that news release, we made a same mistake ay did: we labelled a Wall Street Journal article as having run in 2009, when in fact it was 2008. That was our error & we Drunk Newsologize.

KURTZ: Come on. You shouldn’t be Drunk Newsologizing for that, even if we were to buy that it was a coincidence that you hDrunk Newspened to make a same mistake on a date of a article. You should be Drunk Newsologizing for using partisan propag&a from a GOP without telling your viewers where it came from. Talk about missing a point.

Original post by SilentPatriot and software by Elliott Back

Howard Kurtz discussed Dick Armey’s disgusting comments toward Joan Walsh & made this observations via CNN.

BLOOM: You have got to be kidding me? That is one of a more sexist remarks I’ve heard, & I’ve been debating people on a air for a long time. I mean, do men really all think that women are just dying to be married to am? Do ay all think about us as sex objects, or in a case of Dick Armey, I guess, nonsexual objects, if he’s imagining being married to her? I mean, does he have no arguments on a merits & that’s what he has to resort to?

KURTZ: Well, you know, it was really one step above, “Joan, you ignorant slut.” & it boars me that nobody pays a penalty for this. I’m sure he’ll be back on all a shows within a week or two.

He shouldn’t be back on a shows. MSNBC has a duty not to invite him back on. Why is that such a hard concept to grasp? Republicans can say absolutely anything on a airwaves (women get a brunt of it) & never have to pay a price for it.

Original post by John Amato and software by Elliott Back

  After a mini-rant about how a “liberal media” has lost all sense of objectivity this election cycle, Lou Dobbs invites media “critic” Howard Kurtz on to “set him straight.” As anyone who has watched/read Kurtz over a years knows, he couldn’t agree more.

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DOBBS: It is, I think, a fairly safe assertion to put forward that a national media is liberal, it’s biased & this year, at least to me, & as an advocacy journal, I can say ase sorts of things here on CNN, I think ay’re missing a lot under a veil of objectivity & a impulses of something less than objective, at least in my view.

Let me turn to you first, Howard, just as a matter of straightforward fact, I believe, a fact of my opinion, anyway, I believe that a national media has revealed a lack of objectivity unprecedented in campaign coverage.

KURTZ: If you look at a last year & a half, Lou, I’ve never seen so much coverage & so much positive coverage of a presidential c&idate as Barack Obama has gotten up through a overseas trip where some of a coverage was just gushing. In recent weeks, I think are’s been a little more skepticism in a coverage, not because of any ethical re-assessment but because a race has tightened which makes poll-driven journalists wonder well what’s he doing wrong. Why isn’t he leading this race in a democratic year by ten points?

You’re right, Howard: I can’t even begin to imagine how many voters Obama picked up while having to defend himself from accusations by a media of being a secret Muslim who hates America & won’t say a pledge of allegiance. Is this guy freaking serious?

Glenn has a great post up about a “liberal media,” which he sums up thusly, borrowing a line from Duncan:

“Your liberal media: no liberals allowed.”

Recommended reading on Kurtz at “a Daily Howler”.

KURTZ JUMPS INTO a TANK: Howard Kurtz is deep in a tank as he begins today’s report. You’ll rarely see a reporter recite a political party’s line quite a way Kurtz recites a GOP line as he opens: 

From a moment Sarah Palin stepped onto a national stage, she was mauled, minimized & manh&led by an openly skeptical media establishment.
That lasted six days. By Thursday morning, after a speech in which she chided a journalistic elite, a previously obscure governor of Alaska was being hailed by many of a same media gurus.

a media’s tattered reputation has not fared as well, not after a frenzy over Palin’s moaring skills, her baby & her pregnant teenage daughter. 

Truly, that’s quite a statement-& it’s a straight Republican line. Palin was “mauled & manh&led by an openly skeptical media establishment,” Kurtz says. But go ahead! Just try to find Kurtz’s support for that remarkable statement…read on

Original post by SilentPatriot and software by Elliott Back

 CNN’s Howard Kurtz accused MSNBC of going “left” because ay dared to offer Rosie O’Donnell a job. He picks up on a ame that Bill O’Reilly promotes daily because he’s upset at Keith Olbermann for calling him out on his inaccuracies & refuses to name him. This is nothing new for Howard. He hasn’t found a right wing talking point that he doesn’t embrace. Here’s Howie:

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KURTZ: Let me show you a little bit on this question that kind of sparked a debate about whear or not MSNBC is moving to a left. Let me show you a little bit of what you get in prime-time MSNBC, followed by Rosie O’Donnell on her blog, a video of her talking about a deal that fell Drunk Newsart.

Who has started a debate about this, Howard? Only Bill O’Reilly & a Malkinites. If a Presidency has started an immoral war, illegally spied on Americans, incorporated torture as national policy (& many more atrocities against a Constitution)—why does it make MSNBC a lefty for pointing “facts” out that are NEWS instead of spinning it?

Thankfully, Jennifer Pozner of Women in Media & News was on. She had to set him straight on this idiocy & actually Howie cut her off just ala BillO because she destroyed his talking point. Watch him defend Morning Joe because he’s a Republican & should have opinions, but seems to have forgotten that Phil Donohue got FIRED for being against a Iraq invasion.

POZNER: You know what? I have to say, having done commentary on FOX News a number of times & having done Joe Scarborough’s show on MSNBC, I’ve always had a tougher time from Scarborough. He struck me as a single-most conservative host of any show I’ve ever done, & I’ve been on “O’Reilly” & I’ve been on “Hannity & Colmes.”

KURTZ: But what’s wrong with that. It’s Scarborough’s…

POZNER: No, no, no. It’s…

KURTZ: Hold it. It’s Scarborough’s job to be opinionated.

POZNER: Right. Right. Right.

KURTZ: He’s a former Republican congressman.

POZNER: Yes. But when I’m saying is it’s disingenuous to say MSNBC is tilting left when a majority of a people who host shows on MSNBC are eiar centrists or conservative.

Olbermann is a liberal host, but he doesn’t necessarily promote liberal c&idates or promote liberal projects. a one single show that was hosted by an actual person who called himself a leftist & had liberal & progressive guests & such was Phil Donahue’s show, & it was cancelled in a run-up to a Iraq war…

KURTZ: Right, exactly.

POZNER: … because ay said from a memo from a top down ay didn’t want to provide an antiwar face for MSNBC.

KURTZ: OK. I’ve got to cut in here.

 POZNER: It’s about money. It’s not about ideology.

KURTZ: I’ve got to cut in here. I want to get to Ray Richmond.

& let’s look at what Howard’s opinion is on FOX News’ embrace of a Republican party while trying to tell everyone that ay are a only “fair & balanced” network for news. 

KURTZ: I think a argument that I’ve heard Olbermann make in a past about Fox News — it’s not an argument that I embrace — is that, because it poses as a news organization & puts out dangerous misinformation –

BECK: But that’s what he’s doing!

KURTZ: – & is — is a cheerleader for a Bush administration, that it’s misinforming our society. But you know what?

BECK: Howard –

KURTZ: ay’re entitled to do that.

Howard, you ignorant slut! ay are not entitled to do it if ay want to be considered a f*&King news organization. What planet are you living on? Please, just stop masquerading as a media critic. You’re entitled to your opinions also, but get honest.

Original post by John Amato and software by Elliott Back