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Having lived in DC for two decades, I’ve had plenty of exposure to Kurtz over the years – it’s been trying, to say the least. I actually engaged him in a furious back-and-forth one time via e-mail after becoming exasperated by his inability to understand what his role is as media watcher and more specific the role of the press in being analytical. As the Kutz software program so aptly noted, he just kept telling me “he didn’t see it.” I came to the conclusion then that he just isn’t that bright, and it has grown even worse by his unsophisticated understanding of the Internet and blogs, and the underhanded things people can do to get stories out. I decided to kick Kutz to the curb after he got in bed with Malkin – that is beyond the pale, and for him to act as her PR agent in the latest story tells you all you need to know about his suspect skills. He is useless.
I’m at the point where I think everyone (the government, the press, etc.) is in on a elaborate mind-game to make us remaining sane people really start questioning our sanity … all the journalists and officials are spinning the most inane lies, and everyone is acting that it is the normal course, and here we are screaming as they fit us with white jackets. One big Truman Show, but with the future of our country and the lives of our military and citizens at stake.
One commenter said that we will all wake up one day with a huge hangover and sheepishly look back at this crazy period (as the Germans did after WWII), then shrug it off. Problem is those of us who actual have been awake and watching this horror in real time – those scars will be deep.
