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He falls into a common fallacy today: that because a statement is opinion, it is free of criticism. "Everyone has the right to their opinion." No, there are badly formed arguments, opinions that are not based in fact, and self-contradictory opinions. Those can be dismissed, and the speaker judged badly for holding them.
Yes, of course Kurtz has the legal right to say any nonsense he wants to. But that doesn't mean that it is sensible for him to be respected for holding them, it doesn't mean that it is sensible for an organization claiming to honestly portray the news and to logically analyze it to employ such a man, and it doesn't mean that it is sensible for the audience to listen to the opinions of such a man.
