Not to be outdone: HOWARD KURTZ NEEDS TO STFU!!!

[CatWoman]

King-Sized Mistake

By Howard Kurtz
Washington Post Staff Writer
Thursday, February 9, 2006; 11:09 AM

Much of the MSM missed the boat.

Too many wrote predictable leads about the Coretta Scott King funeral, all but ignoring, or at least burying, the Bush-bashing that was going on.

Captain Ed says any estrangement between the prez and African-American leaders isn't Bush's fault:

"In 2000, when Bush ran for president, he made a point to speak at an NAACP meeting in order to 'reach out' to the leadership. He was rewarded for his effort by an NAACP ad campaign that attempted to pin the James Byrd lynching on Bush, who had resisted hate-crime legislation in Texas. The despicable ads never mentioned that Texas had captured, tried, and convicted the men responsible and sentenced them to death -- underscoring Bush's point about the superfluousness of hate-crime laws. The NAACP just wanted to tar Bush with the lynching to smear him as a closet bigot.

"After that ad came out, Bush garnered 9% of the African-American vote, but won office anyway. The NAACP then spent the next five years whining about Bush refusing to visit them. Why should he? They proved to have no appreciation for his earlier appearance, his first attempt to 'reach out', and they effectively marginalized themselves with an insulting, degrading, and unfair smear campaign. Bush decided to 'reach out' in other directions, bypassing old-line organizations like the NAACP and leaders like Jesse Jackson and instead appeal directly to the communities themselves, through the churches and other organizations. . . .

"Bush went to King's funeral because of the stature of her life and the work she accomplished during it. Again, he 'reached out' -- and what happened? The political leaders on the left turned the funeral into an embarrassing recapitulation of the Wellstone funeral, using the corpse of King as a soapbox to harangue a President who had simply come to pay his respects. Instead of focusing on a moment of unity, when people from all walks of life and political persuasions could meet and agree that Coretta Scott King had made a positive difference for America, they turned it into a partisan sniping show, with the ever-bitter Jimmy Carter making himself the center of attention, as always."

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/blog/2006/02/09/BL2006020900778_2.html

[IrishBloodEngHeart]

1. The washington post is a conservative rag

and the sooner we all realize it and move on, the better off we'll be.

[AX10]

2. Kurtz can do the world a favor and drop dead!

GOP mediawhore extrodanaire.

[slor]

3. "Go fuck yourself" kurtz n/t

[billbuckhead]

4. Neal Booooooortz is the Homer Simpson of evil

Karl Rove's banal half brother.

[asjr]

5. That is so Rove-Speak I'll bet he was paid

big bucks for writing that article.

[Theduckno2]

6. No, Mr. Kurtz!

President Bush's two attempts to 'reach out' were only cynical opportunities to talk to those attending, not WITH those attending.

I know of no other President that was; so sheltered from their constituents(except the haves and the have mores), so inclined to cynically construct a facade of a Presidency and most importantly, avoid any responsibility for what he has done wrong.

That in of itself is sufficient justification for what was said at the funeral services.

[Marlie]

7. Does anyone have his email address?

God, this man needs to be hammered with responses to this totally off the wall
article. We can't let him get away with it. Coretta King deserves so much more
than this crap he wrote. Any way you look at it, he's demeaning her service, thus
Mrs. King. I'm sure her children approved of exactly what was said and it's a
slap in their faces. I'm so sick of the Howard Kurtzs of the world.

[CatWoman]

10. here it is

Howard Kurtz: [e-mail]

[Marlie]

13. Thanks Cat Woman

I'm so angry. Wellstone and now Mrs. King. God, only reverence for the
Reagan twelve day funeral though.

[Marlie]

14. Thanks Cat Woman

I'm so angry. Wellstone and now Mrs. King. God, only reverence for the
Reagan twelve day funeral though.

[KoKo]

8. Hey Howie...Who the hell is "Captain Ed" and why should I give a damn

what he says or thinks. :eyes: Howie whores for CNN (his Sunday job) and his wife Sherri's interest as partner in the Repug Public Relations Firm that worked to get "Ahhhhnold" elected in CA.

Howies new wife constantly puts the screws to him... So sad to be so hen pecked to "toe the line." But then, Howie probably would do it without his Repug Wifey's influence, anyway... :-(

[6000eliot]

9. "Won anyway" ought to tell you everything you need to know.

[FrenchieCat]

11. Such a

piece of doo-doo on my shoe.

[Leopolds Ghost]

12. "could meet and agree that CSK had made a positive difference for America"

How dismissive does that sound to you, hmm?

Yes, let's all meet and agree that she made a positive difference,
without discussing the particulars, without arguing over anything
divisive! Case closed! Commission a bust! Thank God she's no longer
around to complain, now we can all agree that she was a good person!

Oh, and anyone remember how Howard Kurtz led the campaign to discredit Dan Rather and remove him from his job? Hmmmmm? Possibly the most chilling act by a "media watchdog" or "ombudsman" in the past 20 years?