Comments on: Paging Howard Kurtz

By: Marc

Marc — Mon, 14 Jul 2008 21:25:11 +0000

The one thing that everybody has to remember about Howie Kurtz is that Howie is a dyed in the wool liberal. He is a CNN guy and he will never challenge the CNN liberal bias or proArab bias at that network. When Christine Amanpour devotes hours of CNN airtime to antiIsrael, proArab, proMuslim sycophancy, Howie Kurtz has nothing to say. Christine Amanpour and Jamie Rubin are Howie Kurtz’s buddies and he is not about to say anything critical of any of the leftists at CNN. Howie Kurtz will never criticize the Washington Post. The Washington Post has no separation of newsroom and editorial writers. None whatsoever and Howie Kurtz has nothing to say about it. So don’t expect him to suddenly start criticizing all the liberals at moveon.org and Huffington Post who have gone delirious at Tony Snow’s passing.

By: JT

JT — Mon, 14 Jul 2008 20:04:17 +0000

Kurtz just mentioned that he had not seen any of the hateful comments about Tony Snow. Translation: He was specifically looking for negative comments about Ted but not about Tony.

By: CO2 Producer

CO2 Producer — Mon, 14 Jul 2008 19:48:06 +0000

The two things I got out out of reading the questions Kurtz answered:

1. Why does anyone care about Tony Snow?

2. Why is everybody always pickin’ on Obama?

Dumb.

By: starlightwoman

starlightwoman — Mon, 14 Jul 2008 17:24:12 +0000

The world is round…….and what comes around…..goes around

By: Alphonse

Alphonse — Mon, 14 Jul 2008 15:46:39 +0000

Not to mention the ugly comments on the death of Jesse Helms.

I’d rather see honest nastiness than phony sentimentality myself. Seems to me much of the slobbering over Ted Kennedy was a self-aggrandizing show of “rising above party politics.”

By: MrOlympia

MrOlympia — Mon, 14 Jul 2008 14:33:56 +0000

Coward Kurtz! Coward Kurtz! Calling out Coward Kurtz! Coward can't measure up to Tony Snow or for that matter even Tim Russert.

By: DBNinKY

DBNinKY — Mon, 14 Jul 2008 14:28:58 +0000

I agree with Katieanne: don’t hold your breath waiting for a “fair and balanced” response from Kurtz. That side of the aisle is incapable of such things.

By: katieanne

katieanne — Mon, 14 Jul 2008 14:21:57 +0000

It will be a long wait for decency from that side of the aisle. Not going to happen.

By: swmbo

swmbo — Mon, 14 Jul 2008 13:29:32 +0000

Shame on the LA Times. It is one thing to attack a person’s beliefs, it is another to attack the person. I feel Tony Snow was one of the kindest, most principled men we ever had the pleasure to know. As far as Ted Kennedy, his politics were absolutely off base, but his illness is devastating to him and his loved ones.

Left and Right should be ashamed of themselves for unkind personal attacks.

By: BlameAmericaLast

BlameAmericaLast — Mon, 14 Jul 2008 13:29:01 +0000

It wasn’t just the LA Times…I saw nasty comments all over the place. Just go to http://www.abcnews.com and you’ll see them there too.

By: Uplander

Uplander — Mon, 14 Jul 2008 12:36:09 +0000

I didn’t revel in the ‘News’ that Teddy Kennedy had brain cancer. It has been obvious since the 60’s that he had a diseased brain.

By: Barry F.

Barry F. — Mon, 14 Jul 2008 12:35:11 +0000

Just for the sake of venting my frustrations, I submitted a question to Howard Kurtz...

Dear Mr. Kurtz, I read your article on 5/21/08, A Day of Sadness, about the news of Sen. Kennedy's cancer. I saw that you referenced some isolated comments on Michelle Malkin's blog about Sen. Kennedy's diagnosis. In all fairness, if you are interested, the outpouring of sympathy on that particular thread for the Kennedy Family was immense. You will see very few comments that spoke or wished ill toward Sen. Kennedy. While we may not agree with many of his liberal positions and, even, take serious issue with his "self-inflicted...horror...of Chappaquiddick", we offered our thoughts and prayers to someone who, in another time, would be our opponent. But, that was neither the time nor the place, at least for many of us. What few of the commentors felt the need to continue their negative remarks about Sen. Kennedy in Mrs. Malkin's thread were called to task by others on the thread. However, we have not seen such an outpouring of decency with the news of Tony Snow's passing from his three year battle with cancer. While the LA Times' Top of the Ticket blog had a wonderful post about the passing of this journalistic icon, the comments section contained some abhorrent posts. Even the Democratic Underground asked for a moratorium on negative posts about Mr. Snow. Did their readers/commentors oblige? "Fat chance", as one of their posters so eloquently put it. So, I suppose, Mr. Kurtz, my question to you is whether you will call all of the liberal posters to task, like you appear to have done the isolated conservative ones on Mrs. Malkin's blog.

Do I anticipate a response? As the DU poster I referenced said, "Fat chance."

By: Tennessee Dave

Tennessee Dave — Mon, 14 Jul 2008 12:34:36 +0000

If Obama wants to find something “tasteless and offensive” then he should look at those comments.

By: Uplander

Uplander — Mon, 14 Jul 2008 12:32:27 +0000

Dimmocrats – If it weren’t for ‘Low Class’ they’d have no class at all.

By: meatpieandtatters

meatpieandtatters — Mon, 14 Jul 2008 12:28:58 +0000

Some people…