For Democrats, How Long a Honeymoon? (From the Media!!!) -Kurtz WaPo

[Demeter]

WARNING! PUT DOWN ALL LIQUIDS, SHARP INSTRUMENTS AND OTHER HAZARDS BEFORE READING THIS SMIRKY, SELF-IMPORTANT, TAIL WAGGING THE DOG BRAGGART! AND ENJOY FOR THE LAUGH!



http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/11/12/AR2006111201036.html

By Howard Kurtz
Washington Post Staff Writer
Monday, November 13, 2006; C01



The media kept saying the war was going badly. The Bush administration said progress in Iraq was being obscured by relentlessly negative coverage.

The media kept saying the federal government's response to Hurricane Katrina was badly botched. President Bush initially said his administration was doing a heckuva job.

The media kept saying the Democrats were heading for a big win on Election Day. Karl Rove, when told by National Public Radio's Robert Siegel that he was reading the same campaign polls as the White House strategist, declared: "No, you're not. No, you're not. No, you're not. I'm looking at 68 polls a week . . . and I add up to a Republican Senate and Republican House."

The GOP lost control of Capitol Hill last week for a number of reasons, particularly the war (the televised pictures of growing casualties were hard to shake off) and the scandals involving Jack Abramoff, Tom DeLay, Duke Cunningham and Mark Foley (all of which were broken by news organizations). At times it seemed journalists and administration officials were offering two different versions of reality. But in the end the polls accurately forecast the thumping to come.

Now the question is whether a press corps that has been openly at odds with the president will hold the newly empowered Democrats to the same tough standards.

[Wickerman]

1. Might let 'em take office before they tear 'em up

Oooops! Too late. :eyes:

[SutaUvaca]

2. WTF!!

"a press corp that was openly at odds with the pResidunk"??
that would hold the Dems to the same tough standards"???

Thanks for the hot liquids warning Demeter. Saved me a clean shirt and possibly a laptop.

[trotsky]

3. Kurtz is the original Media Whore.

100 soldiers killed in a month THREE YEARS AFTER we're told "Mission Accomplished" means things are going well, Howie? If that damn media just didn't report about our brave troops dying?

Man, he's pathetic.

[Captain Hilts]

4. Kurtz's wife is/was a fund-raiser for the RNC. nt

[grasswire]

5. "openly at odds with the president"

So now mild criticisms of the war policy is "openly at odds"?

Or is it the reporting of the trouncing that is "openly at odds"?

Howard is making things up again.

[zbdent]

6. .000000000023 of a second ...

the media is already allowing Repukes to paint this as a "Republican loss" instead of a "Democratic party win" ...

[Uncle Joe]

7. We only received the frickin engagement ring ten days ago,

no flowers, no caterer, no wedding ring, no dress or tuxedo, no photographer, no preacher or justice of the peace, no invitations to the wedding and the mass corporate media is already bitching about the honeymoon!?

These same appeasers who enabled the corrupt incompetent Bush and his neocon party to power only to rape the nation and the planet now speak of journalistic integrity and tough standards!?

Please excuse me while I hurl vast chunks of undigested material in the general direction of Kurtz and co.

:puke:

[whirlygigspin]

8. the only thing the media didn't do for Bush was wipe his ass for him

--although i'm not sure about Candy Creepy Crawly