Howard Kurtz Slurps A Conservative Again

1:07 am EST March 17th, 2008 | Media | 6 Comments

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As you may know, the Washington Post’s Howard Kurtz makes it a point of his high profile column to write loving profiles of conservatives in the media. As previously noted, the reach-around now forever known as “The Kurtz” has been given to such journalistic luminaries as Fox News’ Brit Hume (who once claimed Democrats are “rooting” for a loss in Iraq) and Michelle Malkin (who accused John Kerry of self-inflicting a wound to get a purple heart). Today’s conservative serviced with a Kurtz is Fox News’ Karl Rove, former White House political thug and the architect of the Republican loss of the House and Senate. In Kurtz’s hard hitting profile he says:

No one would accuse the newly minted pundit of being balanced, but to the surprise of some critics, he has been generally fair-minded in his commentary. The man long derided by the left as “Bush’s brain” is trying to move beyond his attack-dog reputation.

In this case “fair-minded” can be translated as making stuff up about Barack Obama, while also doing favors for the McCain campaign without noting his affiliation on-air.

Or, as Howard Kurtz would put it: slurp, slurp.

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6 Responses to “Howard Kurtz Slurps A Conservative Again”

  1. Nemo says:
    March 17, 2008 at 6:23 am

    You are being kind. That’s not a slurp.

    This joker has been playing this game for years. His show passes for serious discussion. I stopped watching years ago.

  2. SaveFarris says:
    March 17, 2008 at 7:52 am

    I stopped watching years ago.

    Then you missed his “interview” a couple of months ago when he fawned over Keith Olbermann.

  3. jr says:
    March 17, 2008 at 10:07 am

    The McCainstream media have these sessions to “prove they’re not a liberal” even though Dwight Eisenhower would be “far left” to the privatizer class like Rove

  4. Quaker in a Basement says:
    March 17, 2008 at 1:10 pm

    “…the reach-around now forever known as “The Kurtz”…”

    Colorful, but inaccurate. A “reach-around” is a favor offered by a dominant participant. Howe’s a catcher.

  5. Think Progress » Blog Archive » Fox News VP: ‘Of Course’ We Hired Karl Rove To Give ‘Republican Spin’ says:
    March 17, 2008 at 1:23 pm

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  6. Nemo says:
    March 17, 2008 at 7:14 pm

    Then you missed his “interview” a couple of months ago when he fawned over Keith Olbermann.

    Yes I did. So what? I guess Kurtz he’s a professional fawner (slurp, slurp, it’s only a wide stance) who thinks he can fool people into thinking he’s really a liberal at heart by fawning over Olbermann.