Fox News hires CNN reject Howie Kurtz

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6/20/13, "Howard “Howie” Kurtz: Meet FOX News’ New Liberal, Islam-Lovin’ Unreliable Source," Debbie Schlussel, DebbieSchlussel.com

"For those who think that FOX News is “better” or “more accurate” than or “different” from CNN, you should ask yourself why FOX News keeps hiring the dregs of CNN rejects. The arrogant, smug, hypocritical Howard “Howie” Kurtz is Exhibit A, FOX News’ newest on-air hire. He’s not just liberal. He’s a stark example of how liberal mainstream media reporters lie and make things up. Now he’ll be doing it at FOX News, after years of such blather on CNN. Oh, and he’s also a fan of Muslim extremists.

For decades, Kurtz hosted the most boring show on television, “Unreliable Sources,” on CNN and wasn’t afraid to lie on the air . . . and share his left-wing points of view. He was recently canned by The Daily Beast and Newsweek after he showed his penchant for inaccurate “reporting” and inability to read. He criticized Jason Collins, the former NBA player who came out as gay, for not disclosing that he was previously engaged to a woman. But, in fact, Collins explicitly disclosed that in the Sports Illustrated article in which he announced he is gay. Great stuff for a guy who markets himself as a “reliable source” in journalism and calls his show, “Reliable Sources.” (Kurtz had no problem, though, with the fact that Collins didn’t bother to tell his fiancee that he’s gay . . . for eight years! And that’s Collins’ real transgression. That and expecting us to give him accolades for telling us he likes to sleep with men.)

Then, there was Kurtz’s “interview” with Jihad Darrell Issa in The Daily Beast. Kurtz did his typical softball interview with the Hezbollah-supporting/Arafat fan Republican Member of Congress . . . except the interview wasn’t with Issa at all, but his spokesman. Kurtz lied and reported that the interview was with Issa, anyway. And even after Issa’s spokesman told him to correct it, Kurtz kept the interview as it was for two months, because if Kurtz’s employers knew his “reporting” was that fictional, he might get fired. So he kept the interview he claimed was with Issa up for months (despite knowing it was not with Issa) until he got caught. Although this incident wasn’t enough to get him fired, the Collins incident was the last straw for The Daily Beast and Newsweek, and nearly the last straw for CNN.

So what does a refugee from CNN who is a hack do? He gets a job at FOX News, where he’ll be just as unfair and unbalanced as he was at CNN. Otherwise, he’ll be doing an insincere flip-flop, which is just as bad, if not worse. (Brit Hume is another famous uber-liberal who suddenly became a conservative when he was done at ABC News and needed a new perch.)"...


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