Howard Kurtz, WaPo lapdog: Punchline Politics (says there was NO coverup)

[highplainsdem]

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/blog/2006/05/02/BL2006050200424.html

Kurtz devotes more than half his column to the reaction to Colbert, and it starts out on a promising note:

Forget immigration, gas prices, Iraq or Iran. The blogosphere is aflame over one of the most shocking and jaw-dropping public appearances of the modern era.

We're talking about Stephen Colbert.

But after quoting both liberal and conservative blogs, he ends that section of the column on a dismissive note, quoting the New Republic's Noam Scheiber saying he's a big Colbert fan, but Colbert just wasn't entertaining. Kurtz concludes

Not as entertaining as the conspiracy theories, at least.

The "conspiracy theories" are what's being said online about the media coverup, and Kurtz's own comments are revealing, and pathetic:

What's more, you may be interested to know that there's a MEDIA COVERUP of the Colbert performance. The MSM don't want you to know about how the Comedy Central man made them look bad! (Never mind that the thing was carried on C-SPAN and the video is widely available online. I played two clips of Colbert on my CNN show, so apparently I didn't get the memo.)

What part of MSM and media coverup doesn't he understand? I suppose coverage on C-SPAN (which we all know EVERYONE watches) and having the video available online make up for the almost complete news blackout on Colbert's scathing irony (and *'s newsworthy reaction) by news programs and newspapers. And there's no coverup in all the fawning praise for *'s lame skit as the "reporters" try to fill in the gaping chasm left by the attempt to pretend that Colbert didn't say anything newsworthy. But since Kurtz played two clips of Colbert on his own CNN show, that proves there was no coverup. Never mind all the other CNN coverage of the dinner that ignored Colbert.

Good little lapdog, Howard! You can go back to sleep now...

[ShortnFiery]

1. He's as smarmy as Media Whores come ... always going out attacking

anyone who threatens his Dear Leader and Republican Congress. :puke:

[babylonsister]

2. So what portion of the article did Kurtz actually write? Another

example of media letting others do the thinking for them.

[highplainsdem]

3. kick

[myrna minx]

4. Another finger waging coming from an ivory tower scribe.

:puke: Yes, Howie darling, Colbert was looking YOU straight in the eye. I guess all you have left in your magic bag is mockery. We're onto you and your ilk, Kurtz. Just because you can pretend that the "phantom" blackout didn't proved Colbert point, doesn't mean that we have to have any respect for you at all. Your ilk is a joke.

[Vinnie From Indy]

5. Kurtz isn't a journalist

He is a highly paid stenographer.

[deutsey]

6. And a not very good stenographer at that.

[highplainsdem]

8. True.

[Media_Lies_Daily]

7. Kurtz's job is to protect the rightwing media. He's a jerk.

[spanone]

9. Krutz poses as a media watchdog. How ironic.

[highplainsdem]

10. He can't admit there's a media coverup when even MTV

has a news story on it:

http://www.mtv.com/news/articles/1529981/20060502/index.jhtml?headlines=true

Stephen Colbert's Attack On Bush Gets A Big 'No Comment' From U.S. Media

-- Gil Kaufman


Hey, did you hear about the White House Correspondents Association dinner last weekend?

Oh, yeah, that cute thing where President Bush parried with a look-alike and poked fun at himself? That was adorable.

No, not that. Did you hear the three or four dozen verbal napalm bombs that Comedy Central's Stephen Colbert laid out for the president at the annual dinner on Saturday night? No?

Well, maybe it's because much of the mainstream media — from CNN to Fox News, from the "Today" show to The New York Times — ignored or largely glossed over reporting on the stinging zingers Colbert lobbed Bush's way in favor of brief mentions of his more innocuous jokes.

-snip-

Imagine that -- MTV News noticing the coverup Kurtz can't see...

[Jack Rabbit]

11. Kurtz is just doing his job

Doing what the owners of the MSM tell him to do.

Just like Bush.