Letters to the Editor
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My head is going to explode
The only good news is that Obama does seem to be riding through all these slurs.
I wasn't initially a supporter of Obama, but I'm becoming more and more impressed with his ability to have a little teflon and to fire right back when attacked and still seem to be above the fray.
Kurtz can swing his arms above his head screaming and call Obama an unpatriotic terrorist sympathizer and it will only appeal to the segment that already believes that that is true of all Democrats and the few "moderate" Republicans that still exist.
The press does seem to "like" Obama, the same way they seem to instinctively "like" McCain.
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You mean THAT Howie Kurtz?
The same one who finally received the criticism he deserved from the now-historic and legendary Media Whores Online?
C'mon, Glenn--are you the Horse?
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He's got a LOT of company
OT, but I have nowhere else to go with this.
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Kurtz is a media critic?
I don't know that I would put him in that category. Any time I see him on the Clinton News Network I hit the mute button. He is a sniveling whiner with an enormous ego. I really think he just likes the sound of his own voice and I know that he likes to be quoted as the person to stir up controversy. It's like giving him high octane fuel to keep running that motor mouth. I am an admitted political junkie, but my reliance on television personalities as any credible source of information went down the toilet during the 2000 campaign and I certainly would not take ten seconds out of my day to read his column in the Washington Post.
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Just say neigh
I have to agree that there is too much focus on reporting "the salacious and the rumors" in both the MSM and the right-wing blogs. But isn't it just a little bit ironic that Glenn's column repeats many of the same statements while rebutting them?
Ignoring them doesn't seem to work, but is there a way to rebut without repeating? I don't know (just asking).
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Please don't do this
Any time I see him on the Clinton News Network I hit the mute button.
"Clinton News Network" is right wing crazy-speak and I detest seeing progressives take on and absorb right wing nonsense just because it happens to support their ends.
Find some other way to object to what you see as CNN's bias against Obama. Invent a fresh acronym if you must.
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Glenn
Howard did cover McCain's endorsement of Hagee, On page 5 of his column today. It didn't get the same treatment, but it was there. The rest of the column is exactly what I expect from Kurtz: Repeat smears from the right, get them into the mainstream, question why they aren't covered, repeat.
It could be that Obama has been the most scrutinized candidate we have, it's just that everything thery throw at him turns out not to be true and the right can't stand that it doesn't stick.
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@Condatis
Ignoring them doesn't seem to work, but is there a way to rebut without repeating? I don't know (just asking).
I see what you're saying to Glenn, but the smears are being vocalized on CNN and written about in the Washington Post. It's not a whisper campaign.
I understood why Kerry didn't want to dignify the lies of the Swiftboat Veterans, but the approach failed to work. He might have been better off calling out each individual smear for the lie it was and counterattacked the liar...hard.
McCain should have brought up the whisper campaign for the horseshit it was in 2000 before the SC primaries, and he also didn't want to dignify the rumors and it cost him. he should have called out anyone who questioned his daughter's adoption to put up or shut up.
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The GOP's Unabating Fear & Cowardice
I truly hope Obama will go for the throats of these prissy beltway elites (and are there any more nancy-boyish weenies than Bill Kristol, Matt Drudge and Howie Kurtz?) if they persist in questioning Barack’s patriotism, in light of George W Bush & Dick Cheney’s visceral disdain and constant undermining of the Constitution, civil liberties, and the nation’s laws - the truest indicators of whether one loves this country or not!
For Kurtz to want to hang a “cokehead” label on Obama as the campaign heats up, when George W Bush was not only (and may still be) a cokehead, a pothead, and a binge drinking, DUI alcoholic, is just another reminder of how little was done about Bush (and Cheney’s) degenerate character in 2000.
As I’ve said before, whoever the Democratic candidate is, they should be relentless in pointing out, not only the GOP's fear-mongering, but that the Republican Party since 9/11 has been consumed with FEAR and COWARDICE. They’re admittedly TERRIFIED of the future, and Obama should repeat that over and over until it sticks! That in a world where terrorists are plotting attacks on the United States, we can’t afford any more panicy 'leadership' that is as scared and overwhelmed by fear as George W Bush has been his entire time in office. While McCain does not have the lifelong history of cowardice that George W Bush has, he certainly agrees with Bush in approaching the issue of terrorism from a fearful and terror-stricken mindset rather than facing the issue with self-assurance and fearlessness, and putting it into perspective as a threat - reminding voters that when America dealt with the cold war that we DIDN'T alter the Constitution and the nation’s identity. The United States, prior to the Bush administration, was always STRONGER than that!
Obama can’t accuse the GOP enough of being FEARFUL and COWARDLY. The record of fear and panic under George W Bush for the past 8 years speaks for itself.
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Not to worry
Hi Glenn,
Both in 2000 and 2004, voters didn't have nearly as much to worry about as they do now- that's real, that is. Hence the potential effectiveness of such idiocy that is spewed by Kurtz.
In 2008, people are really in a different place. Though most Americans still don't care so much about what's going on on the world stage, $3.50/gallon gas and rising food prices, as well as stagflation, hits people in the kidneys, and makes them pay attention to other things.
GWB inherited a veritable economic boom from Bubba, giving him a timeline of forgivability that none of the Rs now have. And his foolishness has disqualified a vast majority from caring about the tripe spewed out across the nation's airways. When you start having one coffin/small town across the nation because of a stupid war, along with the loss of prosperity that's solely starting to take hold, ordinary people don't listen to the flag-pinning freaks.
I have faith in the American people. They can be slow, but they do catch on. Sometimes it just takes a while.
Can you imagine what kind of country we'd have if we actually had an intelligent media?