{"id":41,"date":"2005-05-05T20:35:30","date_gmt":"2005-05-06T03:35:30","guid":{"rendered":"\/?p=41"},"modified":"2005-07-17T12:39:08","modified_gmt":"2005-07-17T19:39:08","slug":"howard-kurtz-cites-me-in-the-washington-post","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=41","title":{"rendered":"Howard Kurtz Cites Me In The Washington Post"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’m officially a whore<\/s> pundit.<\/p>\n

In today’s Media Notes<\/a> column by Howard Kurtz for the Washington Post, he tackled the now-notorius stand-up act by Laura Bush before the White House Correspondents Dinner. The column, titled Funny Girl<\/em> made the quite sensible point that much of the Washington press corps are sluts (although he is less crass in his description).<\/p>\n


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What I wasn’t prepared for was the explosion of coverage casting her as, if not the next Jon Stewart, at least the administration’s newest rock star.<\/p>\n

\nLaura has long been more popular than her husband, which is why she spoke at the convention and played a key campaign role and sometimes shows up on Leno. And journalists, it turns out, are easy to seduce if you throw away the talking points<\/strong> and show you have a sense of humor.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/td>\n<\/table>\n

More importantly, through some act of psychotic intervention, he cites ME<\/strong> to support his premise. <\/p>\n\n
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The colorfully named NewsCorpse says the media should take a deep breath:<\/p>\n

“The humor-challenged media is tripping all over itself to to praise the First Lady’s appearance before the White House Correspondents’ Association. Apparently their funny bone twitches uncontrollably at the sight of Laura being able to read from a sheet of prepared jokes. The talk in the television press has ranged from, ‘ Get this woman her own show .’ to, ‘ Maybe she should run against Hillary .’. . . .<\/p>\n

\n“I suppose it’s too much to ask that the people who brought us Monica Lewinsky, Chandra Levy, Michael Jackson, Terri Schiavo, the Old Pope, the New Pope, and Jennifer ‘Runaway Bride’ Wilbanks, would suddenly chose to avoid blowing things up beyond all sense of proportion.”<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/td>\n<\/table>\n

The colorfully named NewsCorpse also says that the media is dead. Howie didn’t challenge me on that, which must mean that either he’s intimidated by my intellectual prowess and afraid to take me on, or he’s a vampire. I’m just dying to know how he stumbled onto the side of the webtracks I live on.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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