Before I disassemble Howard Kurt'z hacktacular
"Media Notes" column yesterday, I should promise this is my last Kurtz diary. I'm not irrational, and I can no longer deny Kurtz is distracting me from more constructive and positive aspects of life.
Howard Kurtz is a Neocon hack beyond redemption, and his employers the WaPo and CNN are Neocon hacks beyond redemptiion. I must no longer delude myself otherwise.
To understand the level of hackdom Kurz has descended to, we can hypothesize a complete "wish-list" of GOP talking points Kurtz might have been faxed yesterday. Put the kitchen sink in. A modest Karl Rove might hope to get a hit on one, or maybe two. But the entire list?
Below would have been my wish-list for Kurtz' column, were I a minion of Karl Rove:
1) The media is ganging up on President Bush.
2) The Bush Administration did not lie about no White House "shakeups" forthcoming
3) Ben Domenech was persecuted.
I know what you're thinking- such a column would be ridiculous, even for a Republican blog. But Kurtz now deals in the ridiculous, and beyond.
From Kurtz column:
The Card resignation is a gift-wrapped package to bored journalists for several reasons: ... They can opine about why President Bush didn't bring in a true outsider ( the Fourth Estate's preferred option )
Yes, you read that right. Kurtz alleges the media are trying to be players themselves and make policy, rather than simply report on it. A lie on many levels, and grating.
Here's how useless administration spin can be, in this March 16 online piece from CNN : ... "Card 'doesn't want [to move to the Treasury Department], wouldn't take it and isn't planning on going anywhere,' the White House official told CNN. Senior officials and friends of Card said Bush is reluctant to let him leave, saying he is concerned major changes would lead to a transition time they can't afford."
Kurtz noted these false WH comments were made "weeks" after Card's resignation had been submitted, yet Kurtz describes bald lies as "spin."
"Spin"?
And, thirdly:
postscript: Former Washingtonpost.com blogger Ben Domenech has now lost his Regnery Publishing job too, and tells Wonkette ... "and I certainly wouldn't want to force them to explain to the next author any mistakes I made when I was a teenager."
Yes, you read that right- Kurtz continues to give Domenech column space to repeat the lie he made mistakes only as a teenager, and yet Kurtz has not once conceded in print that Ben Domenech has now confessed to numerous instances of plagirism during the past few years..