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• Howie Kurtz Jabs Mitt Romney

  Published: July 30, 2007, 2:32 pm

  Tags: Debates, Mitt Romney, Reliable Sources Howard Kurtz

  Arlen) On Sunday’s Reliable Sources, Kurtz good-naturedly knocks Mitt Romney’s excuse for not joining the CNN/YouTube GOP debate: KURTZ: Mitt Romney said that, he was expressing his reservations about joining the next YouTube debate, “I don’t think candidates should have to answer questions from a snowman.” Well

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• Howie Kurtz: FOX is entitled to cheerlead for Bush, misinform.

  Published: September 15, 2007, 12:14 pm

  Tags: Glenn Beck, Reliable Sources Howard Kurtz

  what he’s doing! KURTZ: – and is — is a cheerleader for the Bush administration, that it’s misinforming our society. But you know what? BECK: Howard – KURTZ: They’re entitled to do that. BECK: Let me ask you this question. Who makes you weep more for journalism: Keith Olbermann or me? That’s quite a

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• Cafferty admits to drinking the Kool Aid in the run-up to the Iraq Invasion

  Published: September 17, 2007, 8:20 pm

  Tags: Reliable Sources Howard Kurtz, Jack Cafferty

  On Sunday’s Reliable Sources, Jack Cafferty did something that most of the punditry class needs to do in this country and that is to take responsibility for his words. He admitted that he was caught up in the national hysteria that followed 9/11—-manipulated by the White House propaganda and pushed for war with Iraq. As usual, Howard

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• Blaming the messengers once removed: Smearing the NYT for the MoveOn Ad

  Published: September 18, 2007, 5:21 pm

  Tags: Smears, Ny Times, Reliable Sources Howard Kurtz

  Download (0)   Play (3)  Download (0)   Play (0) The level of spin and finger-pointing necessary to deflect from the reality of continuing to back a failed strategy and the cost of the bloodshed for our occupation of Iraq has truly reached ridiculous proportions. Not content to smear solely MoveOn for their

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• Bill O'Reilly and Howie Kurtz on the Liberal Media

  Published: October 12, 2007, 9:33 am

  Tags: Bill O Reilly, Journalism, Reliable Sources Howard Kurtz

  (70) (h/t Bill W) Howie Kurtz crosses into rival territory to pimp his book, Reality Show, with Bill O’Reilly to discuss the state of network news…but really, it was just an opportunity for Bill O’Reilly to declare that 1) Network news is liberal and soon to be obsolete; 2) Dan Rather is crazy for his law suit and his

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• Howard Kurtz channels Bill O'Reilly: Accuses MSNBC of moving Left

  Published: November 12, 2007, 5:45 pm

  Tags: Media Bias, Media Criticism, Reliable Sources Howard Kurtz, Howard Kurtz

  But that's what he's doing! KURTZ: and is is a cheerleader for the Bush administration, that it's misinforming our society. But you know what? BECK: Howard KURTZ: They're entitled to do that. Howard, you ignorant slut! They are not entitled to do it if they want to be considered a f*&King news organization. What planet are you

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• Is Howard Kurtz actually a media Critic?

  Published: November 19, 2007, 7:00 pm

  Tags: Reliable Sources Howard Kurtz, Unions

  segments of his telecast of Reliable Sources. Kurtz covered the WGA strike and wondered if Jon Stewart and Jay Leno should just get off their asses and write some of their own material. And Stewart should maybe do more interviews. I’m not kidding, this is the Washington Post and CNN media critic and he has no clue how difficult it is to

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• Military General Propaganda story: Col. Allard admits: Conflicts of interest'

  Published: May 1, 2008, 12:00 pm

  Tags: Media Criticism, Reliable Sources Howard Kurtz, Propaganda

  Howard Kurtz covered the Military General propaganda story that the NY Times story uncovered last Sunday morning and did a very good job with it. (I’m usually fairly critical of him) Colonel Ken Allard, a former military analyst for NBC, said that there certainly were conflicts of interest that these former Generals held when

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• Martha Raddatz on McClellan: He seemed like a robot with a new software program on this one.'

  Published: June 1, 2008, 7:35 pm

  Tags: Media Bias, Media Criticism, Reliable Sources Howard Kurtz, Reliable Sources, Scott Mcclellan

  that. (END VIDEO CLIP) KURTZ: Joe Lockhart, if Scott McClellan had written a book and said on balance President Bush did a pretty good job. I don’t think he’d be getting 45 minutes on Keith Olbermann. LOCKHART: He wouldn’t be and I wouldn’t be here this morning. KURTZ: So that would suggest that media loves

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• Matthew Felling Talks About Talking Head Accountability: (I)f somebody gets it wrong, they are grounded'

  Published: August 4, 2008, 7:00 pm

  Tags: Media Criticism, Reliable Sources Howard Kurtz, Reliable Sources

  Sources asked a question about the talking heads on TV that have been chattering about the VP picks. Matthew T. Felling, makes a great point about holding them accountable for a change and that’s something I’ve talked about also: Felling: I wish that we would see some accountability, where if somebody gets it right, you know,

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