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Sunday, March 26, 2006

A bad day for Howie Kurtz
Posted by Jill | 6:23 PM

Wow. First Lara Logan, then Kos. Now, I'm not part of the Markos Moulitsas Admiration Society. I'm not up there with the alpha dogs of Left Blogistan, to be sure, nor do I ever expect to be. And while I admire what he's been able to accomplish, Kos seems a tad too puffed up with his own self-importance -- perhaps understandably so, but still....And his willingness to put women's issues on the back burner is completely at odds with what I regard as progressive.

But all that notwithstanding, he, like Lara Logan, did a heck of a job [Brownie] today on Reliable Sources demolishing Howie Kurtz' vain attempts to:

1) equate Air America's little 2000-watt stations with the Limbaugh/Hannity machine;

2) defend WaPo's hiring of Ben Domenech as "providing balance." Kos pointed out that Dan Froomkin is a long-time journalist at the Post, NOT a blogger; and

3) make Domenech's plagiarism look like just college oversight.

Kurtz doesn't even TRY to not look like a shamelss Bush Administration shill. But he got thoroughly raked over the coals today, both by the traditional media (Logan) and by Kos.

As always, video at Crooks and Liars. And DO toss them some cash, willya? Bandwidth costs money.
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