Howard Kurtz: Media Critic or Media Hack?

[antiimperialist]

by BarbinMD
Daily Kos
Mon Dec 03, 2007

To save you all some time, the answer is, media hack. Today Howard takes on Rudy "Sex On The City" Giuliani paying for sex with Judi Nathan with the taxpayer's money. And how does he approach this well-documented, multifaceted scandal?

Rudy Giuliani, who made his name prosecuting bad guys, has always taken a two-fisted approach toward what he brands "the liberal media."

That pugilistic style was on display last week when the Politico got under Hizzoner's skin.
Don't let the quotation marks around, "the liberal media," fool you. This column is an ode to the manly manliness that is Rudy Giuliani.

Kurtz begins by telling us what time the Politico story was posted, because after all, Giuliani did say it was timed as a pre-debate hit piece. He then says that, "

...the newspaper said the former New York City mayor had billed tens of thousands of dollars in security expenses to obscure city agencies for repeated visits to the Hamptons...
Actually, Howie, the newspaper didn't just say he did it, they offered irrefutable, documented proof that security expenses were billed to obscure (obscure being aid to the disabled and the poor) city agencies. But sure, let's pretend it was just a claim. And let's not bother to address the other aspects of this story that have come out in the past few days: that Mistress Nathan was being ferried around by New York's finest even when she wasn't with Giuliani, that the police were a taxi service for her and her family, that Giuliani refused to address this issue when it was first raised in 2002, and that no documentation has been produced to show that those city agencies were ever reimbursed.

http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2007/12/3/9649/77621

[Jim__]

1. I agree: media hack - n/t

[TwilightGardener]

2. Hack.