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Fight the smears.

Watching the watchdogs.

Triple-snort-worthy.

The techblogging elite, liberal femme bloggers, and their friends in the MSM are still yammering amongst themselves about the Kathy Sierra incident. Bloggers’ code of conduct. Civility badges. Blah blah blah.
Big props to Mary Katharine Ham for calling out the one-eyed, left-wing women bloggers (who still won’t admit their blind spot) and for demonstrating tough, [...]

Charles Johnson takes on Howard Kurtz:
There’s no comparison between the levels of profanity and hateful venom you’ll find at left-wing sites such as Huffington Post and the comments posted at Little Green Footballs. I guess I shouldn’t be surprised at Howard Kurtz’s lame attempt at moral equivalence though; it’s what mainstream media does, whether the [...]

Photoshop by David Lunde
On Fox and Friends this morning, Chris Wallace had some interesting comments about his interview with the Finger-Jabber:
His reaction to Clinton accusing him of having a “smirk:”
“What it was was sheer wonder at what I was witnessing.”
Heh. On what happened after the interview:
“There was no making up with him. He was angry. [...]

Howard Kurtz’s piece on the MSM’s differential treatment of Rep. Patrick Kennedy vs. Rush Limbaugh got a lot of buzz today, but Mark Levin nails it best:
Early on, prosecutors claimed they had evidence of over ten felonies. They demanded that Rush plead guilty to some felony—any felony. He refused, always insisting on his innocence. So, [...]

***Video of announcement over at Hot Air***…transcript…AP…USA Today round-up***
***update: Fox News confirms announcement coming Wednesday morning…more…Lucianne G.: “Tony’s courage in the face of the horror he has endured for the last couple of years sets an example for us all. Take heart from it. I will miss doing his show every Monday. I will love [...]

Good morning read: Howard Kurtz’s very fair, very thorough profile of Fox News Channel’s Brit Hume. Last line:
“Am I going to be able to get devoted readers of the New York Times to watch Fox News? Maybe, but it would be heavy lifting,” he says. “We are in some respects the antidote.”
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Speaking of the NYTimes, [...]

Howard Kurtz says something seems amiss.
This is a courageous young woman.
I must say, though, that I found her first interview yesterday rather odd. Carroll seemed bent on giving her captors a positive review, going on about how well they treated her, how they gave her food and let her go to the bathroom. And they [...]

***scroll for updates…statement from NRO…Domenech speaks to Human Events Online…Ben’s statement up at Red State (there is no explanation of the apparent cribbing in the NRO piece)***
I just got home from Pittsburgh and am late heading out the door for the Abdul Rahman event in D.C., but I can’t let this blog sit silent about [...]

Let’s take a closer look at a rose-colored Wall Street Journal editorial on the port deal that is garnering favorable reviews from some of my friends on the right.
Sayeth the WSJ:
Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist is the latest Republican to broadcast his “independence” from President Bush on homeland security, yesterday joining Senator Lindsey Graham, [...]

I’m home. And the me-me-media’s circus continues. Growing weary of hearing themselves bray about the Cheney accidental shooting incident and having exhausted their bag full of clown wardrobe tricks, the MSM is now turning on FOX News Channel and Brit Hume, who landed last night’s exclusive interview with the veep.
Oh.
See.
How.
They.
Whine.
Hugh Hewitt wonders: “How bitter at [...]

***updated***
The letter from the Joint Chiefs in response to Tom Toles’ cartoon, blogged here yesterday, appears in today’s Washington Post.
No response from Toles or the editors. Maybe the ombudsman will have something to say. Or more likely, given the rabid reaction she provokes on the Left, maybe not.
Update: Responses from Toles and his editor included [...]

So, President Bush is now begging newspaper editors to stop publishing classified information obtained via illegal leaks. Howard Kurtz reports:
President Bush has been summoning newspaper editors lately in an effort to prevent publication of stories he considers damaging to national security.
The efforts have failed, but the rare White House sessions with the executive editors of [...]

Two newspapers, the Modesto Bee and the Sacramento Bee, did the right thing this weekend and published lengthy explanations of how and why they came to publish the unverified claims of former Marine Staff Sgt. Jimmy Massey, the anti-war Left’s favorite slanderer of American troops.
David Holwerk, Sacramento Bee editorial pages editor, wrote:
We should have done [...]

WaPo’s Howard Kurtz reports that liberal radio network Air America says its audience is “running ahead of projections.” Kurtz neglects to mention that the network’s pathetic ratings tell a different story.
Update, 8:51 pm: Although Kurtz does not challenge the ridiculous “running ahead of projections” assertion, in fairness I should note his comment that Air [...]

Washington Post media critic Howard Kurtz seems to tell Glenn Reynolds that the MSM is paying too little attention to newly disclosed FBI documents that contained the latest Koran-in-the-toilet allegation:
I don’t contend that these FBI papers, unearthed in an ACLU lawsuit, get Newsweek off the hook. But you’d think they would be getting more attention.
Of [...]

They just won’t give up. When Bush-bashers have no substantive criticisms to make, they resort to Michael Moore’s “My Pet Goat” strategy.
“My Pet Goat,” you’ll recall, was the book the president read to Florida schoolchildren for several minutes after he was informed of the terrorist attacks on the morning of Sept. 11, 2001. (Correction: Children [...]

You may be getting sick of the Schiavo memo, but Washington Post media critic Howard Kurtz is still spinning the story.
In today’s column, Kurtz cites the memo controversy after pointing out that a growing number of bloggers are engaging in unfair “personal attacks” on MSM reporters and commentators. Like Slate’s Jack Shafer, washingtonpost.com’s [...]

Washington Post ombudsman Michael Getler’s column about the Post’s coverage of the Schiavo memo is surprisingly good.
Before I get to the meat of the column, here are two tidbits that I haven’t seen elsewhere:
- The March 19 Post article by Mike Allen and Manuel Roig-Franzia that claimed the memo was circulated by Republican party leaders [...]

You’re gonna love this.
Washington Post media critic Howard Kurtz writes about the Schiavo memo once again, finally acknowledging that the Post did indeed report that the talking points were “distributed to Republican senators by party leaders.”
The flap about a Washington Post report on an unsigned strategy memo in the Terri Schiavo case, which the [...]

It’s the weekend, which means we have another opportunity to submit questions to Washington Post media critic Howard Kurtz for his weekly online Q&A.
Here’s mine:
In your March 30 column, you and Mike Allen said the Post never claimed Republicans were responsible for circulating the Schiavo talking points memo. However, an article co-authored by Allen that [...]

First, a new tidbit to report on the Schiavo talking points memo mess.
I spoke with the Seattle Times’ chief copy editor (4/3 1153 correction) National/Foreign Editor, Jim Mallery, yesterday. He confirmed that this article was excerpted directly from a Washington Post article distributed by the Los Angeles Times/Washington Post News Service. The statement that [...]

Regarding the fishy Schiavo talking points memo, Washington Post reporter Mike Allen told Howard Kurtz that “we simply reported that the sheet of paper was distributed to Republican senators.”
If you look at the version of the article by Allen and Manuel Roig-Franzia that appeared in the Post on March 20, that is true. However, if [...]

At long last Washington Post media critic Howard Kurtz has written a full column about the so-called “GOP Talking Points” memo supposedly circulated by Republicans nearly two weeks ago. (Kurtz briefly mentioned the issue last week.)
As I alluded to here, ABC News is defending itself on the ground that Linda Douglass reported that the [...]

Lame.
Meanwhile, John Hinderaker keeps the heat on.
Earlier: “Ask Kurtz“

Washington Post media critic Howard Kurtz will be participating in an online chat on Monday at noon EST. Submit your questions here.
Here are three questions I’m sending him:
1.Why did you describe the unsigned Schiavo talking points as a “Republican strategy memo”–a term that implies Republicans were responsible for creating and/or circulating it?
2. Have you [...]

It has now been nearly a week since Power Line first raised troubling questions about the “GOP Talking Points” memo distributed to Republicans in the Senate. It has been three days since Power Line and In the Agora quoted an ABC News official who appeared to be backing away from the assertion that the memo [...]

At the bottom of a column published at 7:31 am this morning, Washington Post media critic Howard Kurtz downplays the Schiavo memo controversy:
Powerline[,] which played a role in exposing CBS’s National Guard memos, is wondering about the Republican strategy memo that, oddly enough, fails to list an author:
“Confirming what we reported, ABC News has [...]