So Howie Kurtz, the WaPo's resident GOP trojan working an objective beat, is shocked the national press tried to ignore and cover-up Ann Coulter calling John Edwards a "faggot."
... what I find hard to fathom is how the media initially ignored her F-word crack. Here is the scorecard for the first 24 hours: No mention on the nightly newscasts. No mention in the New York Times. No mention on the AP. No mention in the Washington Post news story ...
What explains this? A collective shrug that, well, you know, ...
So, the right-wing neocon bias is dismissed as a "collective shrug"? I'll buy the "collective" part. But it's more like a "nod and a wink" than a "shrug."
I realize this is a short comment masquerading as a diary. But the issue of Kurtz is an important one, not merely in symbol but in substance.
If you'd like, you can use the comments here as as outrage compendium for those who missed a lot of the story over the weekend.
My outraqe is focused on Adam Nagourney of the New York Times, the "Judith Miller" of national political beat reporting. Nagourney wrote a feature on the conference wherein he made clear he listened to Coulter's remarks but then did not relate them in the story. Nagourney then had the gall to compare Coulter to Hillary Clinton in a follow-up he was forced to do when the comments made news.