CNN’s Howard Kurtz is always reliable as a smarmy, dishonest shill for the Right. Case in point:
Just this morning on his show, Reliable Sources, he discussed how Falafel O’ Bill was being called out for his role in the assassination of Dr. Tiller. For three years, O’Reilly has been calling Tiller a murderer who has the blood of tens of thousands of babies on his hands. O’Reilly also sent his creepy, semen-crusted little stalkers to harass Tiller, as well as posting Tiller’s photo on TV so any would-be assassin would know exactly whom he was supposed to kill.
CNN’s Howard Kurtz is always reliable as a smarmy, dishonest shill for the Right. Case in point:
Just this morning on his show, Reliable Sources, he discussed how Falafel O’ Bill was being called out for his role in the assassination of Dr. Tiller. For three years, O’Reilly has been calling Tiller a murderer who has the blood of tens of thousands of babies on his hands. O’Reilly also sent his creepy, semen-crusted little stalkers to harass Tiller, as well as posting Tiller’s photo on TV so any would-be assassin would know exactly whom he was supposed to kill.
Since Kurtz is a fluffer for the right wing, and O’Reilly’s incitement to murder were on video, Kurtz had to resort to his usual shtick of slipping in a baldfaced lie and switching to a new subject before anyone catches him in the lie. In this case it was the claim that when Bill O’Reilly repeatedly referred to Tiller as "Tiller the Killer" and "Dr. Killer", he was just using the epithets the "pro-life" [sic] crowd used -a false claim made by O’Reilly himself, even though he (O’Reilly) had reverted to calling the doctor "Dr. Killer" after claiming that he wasn’t the one calling Tiller a murderer:
So Kurtz was using O’Reilly’s "it’s not me, it’s the neighbors" excuse when Falafel Boy himself was still calling Dr. Tiller "Dr. Killer".
That was just the beginning. Kurtz invited fetus-worshiping hack columnist Kathleen Parker on his show to say that Bill O’Reilly bears no responsibility for the murder that he had spent three years trying to incite. The choice of Parker shows just was a shameless, mendacious character Howard Kurtz really is. Parker has her own history of using her media outlet (a syndicated column) to call for the murder of public figures.
Back in 2003, Kathleen Parker was attacking Democrats for not being complete war whores. In her column, she claims to have had a discussion with a "former Delta Force member" in which he says that a General (Wesley Clark), a Senator (John Kerry), two Congressmen (Gephardt and Kucinich) and a Governor "should all be lined up and shot." Now this Delta Force commando has about as much basis in reality was Janet Cook’s crack baby or any of Jayson Blair’s fantasies and fabrications. The proof is in the fact that Parker went back and changed the quote to "lined up and slapped". So either this Delta Force trooper is a made up character, or Parker was lying about what he said. Either way, it’s clear that Kathleen Parker thinks it’s acceptable to use her column to gin up death threats against others.
Here we have a right-wing fluffer using a deranged hack with a record of calling for the murder of public figures (five so far!) vouching for the character of another deranged hack who has called for the murder of public figures.
Nice going, Mr. Kurtz.