These People Make My Head Hurt
Aug 25th, 2005 at 9:16 pm by Susie
Howard Kurtz interviews Arianna Huffington, and makes it obvious what he sees as the job of the media:
You said that some people on the right are sliming Cindy Sheehan, your word, and you say that Bill O’Reilly said that this kind of behavior borders on treasonous. But in that particular case what he said was, quote, “Other American families who have lost sons and daughters in Iraq feel that this kind of behavior borders on treasonous.” So do you owe O’Reilly an apology on that point?
HUFFINGTON: No, absolutely not.
Listen, words like treasonous being used by O’Reilly, words like crackpot being used by Fred Barnes, Michelle Malkin trying to tell us what she believes Casey Sheehan would have thought about his mother — you know, all that is completely inappropriate.
But more important than that, let me raise a point which has to do with the scrutinizing of her comments. I mean, if 10 percent of that kind of scrutiny was given to comments made by people who are actually making life and death decisions in this country, like Dick Cheney’s “last throes” statement about the insurgency, like Condoleezza Rice’s statement about the mushroom clouds, like “mission accomplished,” all the ludicrous statements made by…
KURTZ: Hold on, hold on.
“Hold on.” Read on, it gets worse.
Good for Arianna for standing up to the creep .
Er, where’s the interview? No link found.