"This is too high a price to pay for someone who has given so much of himself over 20 years. And he's brought down over a single mistake because people beat up on him in the blogosphere? They went after him because he is a symbol of a network seen as too liberal by some. They saw blood in the water." -David Gergen
Now look at what Howie Kurtz has to say in the WaPo tonight:
Even as he said he had misspoken at an international conference in suggesting that coalition troops had "targeted" a dozen journalists and insisted he never believed that, Jordan was being pounded hourly by bloggers, liberal as well as conservatives, who provided the rocket fuel for a story that otherwise might have fizzled.
The head of one of the largest world known cable systems says that the "coalition" (if that is what he said, I thought he said U.S. military at first) is targeting journalist during a war and Howie thinks it would have just "fizzled" out?
Sorry, Gergen....it's not nearly enough; and there are legions like him that need to be dumped.
Not too long ago, it would have fizzled out. Howie and his pals would have made sure of it by clamping down hard on it, and smearing anyone who dared to leak any details that might make one of their own look bad. We don't allow them that luxury any more, and they are literally beside themselves about it.
I just love how Kurtz, after denouncing the bloggers for unfairly (in his mind) taking down Jordan, then tries to give some of the credit for it to his buddies at the liberal blogs. His statement that the leftist blogs were after Jordan as well is pure BS - just like their Dinosaur Media soulmates, the liberal blogs tried their best to spike the whole story.
As far as Gergen goes, every time I think I can't gin up any more loathing and contempt for him, he opens his mouth and makes it so easy.
Big old government hack, Gergen, and Howard Kurtz are pathetic. They remind me of that old liberal CBS/NBC weasel, Marvin Kalb, who was pulled out of his semi-consciousness to try to defend Danno Rather on MSNBC, CNN, ABC, and other venues during Rathergate. Kalb tried to explain Danno's actions as just a mistake, an oversight, he just had too much on his plate. Yeh, right! It was pathetic. Gergen and Kurtz are just as pathetic.
These guys are all so easy to disdain.
These ancient, angry, powerful, and influential relics are watching their world of cardboard prestige and unchallenged opinions melt away.......... and I love it.
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By the way, are Dan and CBS trying to find out from where the documents came? That charade should not be over, imo.
They hoped it would fizzle..
The MSM is still operating like they can hide unpleasant facts about their own from the public.
They still think if they make a huge factual mistake , it's NBD..it's an oops that can go under corrections on page 32d perhaps.
They still think they can spin a story and no one will notice.