I'd like to point out something extremely disturbing from Kos' appearance Sunday on CNN's "Reliable Sources."
For any of you who are skeptical of accusations of bald lying by someone with an agreeable on-stage demeanor like Howard Kurtz, working for a newspaper with the reputation of the Washington Post, I'd like to point you to the brilliant evisceration of Kurtz and the WaPo by Media Matters for America's Jamison Froser.
Let me add that I fully understand the episode of "Reliable Sources" which just aired this Sunday, March 26 may have been taped as early as Saturday, March 25.
From the CNN transcript :
KURTZ: And also, to go back to somebody's college newspaper writings to find out they did plagiarize is not usually part of a typical background check when somebody is hired. Let me move...
MOULITSAS: Well, it wasn't just -- well...
KURTZ: Go ahead.
MOULITSAS: ... it wasn't just a college paper. It was actually "The National Review." He plagiarized work that he did in "The National Review."
KURTZ: Right. He has denied plagiarizing, but there are certainly a lot of instances that you and others have dug up.
For the record, on Friday, March 24, Ben Domenech confessed to every charge of plagiarism made.
Howard Kurtz simply must have known this.
Kurtz, a master Republican hack, tried every bob-and-weave he could with Markos. Failing that, he resorted to the last option available to him:
He deliberately lied. He tried to make it "he said, she said" when "she" wasn't saying.
CNN must fire Howard Kurtz. He's crossed the line.