Kurtz yesterday in a WaPo chat:
Brooklyn, N.Y.: I don’t see how the no-tipping story is a negative for Hillary. Next time the Republicans call her a Spendocrat, she can point to this as an example of her fiscal restraint.
Howard Kurtz: LOL
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I really, really, really don’t like the media reporter for the Washington Post Howard Kurtz. Its nice to read others agree, here’s Scott Horton:
And finally we come to the man who surely claims the prize as WaPo’s most pathetic shill, Howard Kurtz. He masquerades as a media critic; in fact, he’s a media buffoon. But beyond that, Kurtz is one of the dumbest figures in print or on the airwaves. That all came home brilliantly last night as Kurtz made his appearance on Jon Stewart’s Daily Show. I was amazed both with Stewart and Kurtz. Together with his staff, Stewart delivered a satirically brilliant introduction, with videos, which effectively eviscerated Kurtz’s core message about the war and its packaging. Stewart also delivered a series of precise, well thought-through questions to which Kurtz gave a series of non-responses. And on point after point, Stewart challenged Kurtz’s facile and false conclusions. Kurtz was hung up to dry, and he didn’t even understand what was happening. In my mind it comes down to Broder, Ignatius, and Kurtz–and I’m giving top honors to Howard: the man who’s done the most to destroy WaPo’s reputation in the arena of opinion.
Part of a larger discussion on how much the Washington Post’s editorial staff sucks, which they do. Worth a read.
Perhaps the worst part of this whole Senator Craig scandal is that it inspires awful newspaper stories like this.
As I rarely drive, I hardly ever listen to the radio. Frankly normal radio sucks anyway so I wouldn’t listen much even if I was driving. I say this to introduce the news that Washington Post Radio is shutting down at the end of September. I can’t say I’ve ever really listened to it, so I won’t judge its quality but I do remember the hype when it launched 17 months ago.
Really the only thing I care about is the status of Tony Kornheiser Show. I’ve listened off and on (off since he’s been gone) through the internet broadcast and more recently through the podcasts. He’s all about Monday Night Football now and that won’t end for several months. Maybe he’ll go back to Sportstalk 980, though that seems unlikely. Probably won’t be any news on that front till after the season ends anyway.
In a chat yesterday on Washingtonpost.com political reporter John Solomon tried to make the case that the media’s fixation on Mr. Edwards’ haircuts was justifiably. Here’s the question and Solomon’s answer:
Floris, Va.: As someone who frequently writes about John Edwards’ sartorial expenditures and his finances in general, what is your opinion of his YouTube commercial that was broadcast during the Monday night debates?
washingtonpost.com: John Edwards - Hair (YouTube, July 23)
John Solomon: It clearly has been effective because more than 128,600 people have clicked on it since it debuted. And most Americans would agree with its message that issues like Iraq, the economy, health care and fighting terrorism are far more important that personal grooming habits or hairstyle. That said, the fact is the haircut story got new life because Edwards did not give a full and complete account when the questions first arose. He acted like he didn’t know the hairstylist, that the $400 haircuts were an abberation and that he didn’t know such clippings cost so much. His response only prompted his hairstylist to correct the record, divulging Edwards had been getting such haircuts since 2003 at costs as much as $1,250 a piece. Hairstyles may not be important to presidential voters but credibility and candor usually are. And that is the issue that extended the haircut story.
For those who haven’t seen this video, click here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y1qG6m9SnWI
Italics mine. Please Solomon. This was all about…telling the truth? What a dumb excuse, though admittedly coming from a reporter known to pretty much suck. Look, its fairly obvious why the media has fallen over themselves to repeat the haircut story at any and every opportunity: its because John Edwards has made economic inequality a centerpiece of his campaign. Solomon and his friends want to howl about expensive haircuts because they think it makes Edwards look like a hypocrite. Also why they mention his house, etc. Essentially the rule seems to be, according to our elite media, that if you are rich then you can’t talk about the poor or the Washington Establishment will try to tear you down. Mr. Solomon, if you arent too busy recycling press releases, might I direct you to a video the Edwards campaign came up with? I think they meant it for you.
My good friend The Cooler gchatted me this article earlier today and I still can’t really wrap my head around it. This is from today’s Post:
A grand feast of marinated steaks and jumbo shrimp was winding down, and a group of friends was sitting on the back patio of a Capitol Hill home, sipping red wine. Suddenly, a hooded man slid in through an open gate and put the barrel of a handgun to the head of a 14-year-old guest.
“Give me your money, or I’ll start shooting,” he demanded, according to D.C. police and witness accounts.
The five other guests, including the girls’ parents, froze — and then one spoke.
“We were just finishing dinner,” Cristina “Cha Cha” Rowan, 43, blurted out. “Why don’t you have a glass of wine with us?”
The intruder took a sip of their Chateau Malescot St-Exupéry and said, “Damn, that’s good wine.”
snip
The would-be robber, his hood now down, took another sip and had a bite of Camembert cheese that was on the table.
Then he tucked the gun into the pocket of his nylon sweatpants.
“I think I may have come to the wrong house,” he said, looking around the patio of the home in the 1300 block of Constitution Avenue NE.
“I’m sorry,” he told the group. “Can I get a hug?”
Rowan, who lives in Falls Church and works part time at her children’s school, stood up and wrapped her arms around him. Then it was Rabdau’s turn. Then his wife’s. The other two guests complied.
“That’s really good wine,” the man said, taking another sip. He had a final request: “Can we have a group hug?”
The five adults surrounded him, arms out.
I can not imagine being in said situation. I do like the idea of group hug’s though. People should do them more but without the threat of bodily harm.
“100 Blogs We Love” from the Washington Post and the Editors of PC World. Citizen Jake must have been #101. (via Cute Overload)
You really should be reading the Washington Post’s series on Vice President Cheney, if you haven’t been already. From what I’ve read there’s nothing shockingly new revealed but seeing it all laid out there
in one package is nice. In summery, the Vice President is quite powerful and quite awful which is not really a good thing at all. Sigh.
Anyway via Tim at Balloon Juice we get this old article from the Onion which also deals with the Vice President, though in a much more uplifting fashion. A snipit, if you would:
Telephone logs recorded by the National Security Agency and obtained by Congress as part of an ongoing investigation suggest that the vice president may have used the Oval Office intercom system to address President Bush at crucial moments, giving categorical directives in a voice the president believed to be that of God.
While journalists and presidential historians had long noted Bush’s deep faith and Cheney’s powerful influence in the White House, few had drawn a direct correlation between the two until Tuesday, when transcripts of meetings that took place in March and April of 2002 became available.
In a transcript of an intercom exchange recorded in March 2002, a voice positively identified as the vice president’s identifies himself as “the Lord thy God” and promotes the invasion of Iraq, as well as the use of torture in prisoner interrogations.
Laugh to keep from crying people. Laugh to keep from crying.
Just got this gchatted to me from my buddy The Cooler. Not good news, hope he’s alright:
LaVar Arrington, a former member of the Washington Redskins and New York Giants, has been seriously hurt in a motorcycle crash Monday afternoon.
Prince George’s County Fire tells WTOP that Arrington is in serious condition after the crash near Route 50 and the Capital Beltway.
Channel 9 reports Arrington was taken to Prince George’s Hospital Center.
Arrington was drafted by the Redskins out of Penn State in 2000. He was cut by the New York Giants this year after suffering a season-ending foot injury.