CNN - Howard Kurtz rips Steven Colbert

[JRob]

OMG!!! If this isn't an indication of how complicit the MSM has become...

If you missed it, Kurtz starts out stating that "SC used to be a funny guy" and then rips him as taking himself too seriously, being pompous and even show a clip of how he transitions from his desk to the guest set as example.

My note to Howard:

"In a “WORD” Satire… regarding Steven Colbert and the Report, get a dictionary or better yet get someone to explain it to you, preferably in small words, exactly what it means. What I find ironic is your cavalier/catty rant on Steve Colbert when he and Jon Stewart highlight issues and ask questions that no one at CNN or elsewhere have the balls to cover or ask.

Here’s another word… goodbye. I’ve been tuning in to your show on Sundays morning but will now turn elsewhere to gage just how far up the corporate/Bush administrations ass the mainstream media can stuff it’s head."

[MichiganVote]

1. SC will love it!

[NanceGreggs]

4. You're SO RIGHT!!!!

[The Backlash Cometh]

26. I know just what pissed off Kurtz too.

It's when Colbert thanked all those Republicans for voting against their interests, which have resulted in more income for him through the tax cuts to the rich.

[Robeysays]

56. that was so funny but sad

[JRob]

11. I can't wait...

[MichiganVote]

14. Same here

;-)

[Nickster]

2. How devoid of humour are these people? Sheesh.

"takes himself to seriously"??? LMAO,hardly....

[spanone]

3. So Howie, a fake journalist, is reviewing a fake journalism show.

perfect.

[Nomen Tuum]

6. Howie is like everyone else at the Whoreshington Post. They all lie

All GOP Propaganda all the time, that's what is in the WHORESHINGTON POST and NEWSPEAK magazine!

[hwmnbn]

19. THAT, my friend, is irony............

:rofl:

How brain-dead is this guy Kurtz? I never watch him. This is a beautiful opening for SC and TDS. I hope they run with it.

[wryter2000]

49. LMAO

You nailed it. :rofl:

How dense can Kurtz be? I can't wait until Colbert hears about this. :rofl:

[robbedvoter]

news as entertainment - Kurtz can't see the difference anymore.

Of course, we know that SC makes fun of blowhards like him (mostly Dildo Reilly).
And deep down, Kurtz must know that too - but the infotainment tool that he is needs to hit "the enemy" no matter what.
And that's the power of satire!

[htuttle]

5. Uh, oh...Howie's going to find himself On Notice!

[w13rd0]

21. He'll go directly to...

...the "Dead to Me" board.

[KittyWampus]

42. he's just jealous cause Colbert is hosting the WH Correspondants Dinner

thingy.

[TheDebbieDee]

48. "Dead to me!" LOL!

[Botany]

7. And Kurtz would know funny how?

Does the phrase "Over the top," mean anything to Kurtz? There are no bears in Manhattan
so S.C. rant against them is called humor.

I had the same thing w/ Fargo ...... some people never got it that it was "humor," and people
do not put worms on people's desk tops in Minnesota all the time.

[ClassWarrior]

8. So a pompous media ass criticizes SC for playing a pompous media ass?

Let's go Alice, we're late for the friggin tea party!

NGU.

[Beelzebud]

9. They just love to come down hard on the powerless don't they?

As if The Colbert Report has any affect on geo-politics, or even national-politics.

Hey Kurtz: Go piss up a rope.

[annabanana]

10. obviously not an "it" getter...

(some just don't.. it might be genetic)

[Beelzebud]

ROFL!!!

[Cocoa]

12. next up, Kurtz takes on the Onion

Kurtz finds it to be poorly sourced.

[KeepItReal]

39. Yeah!! Ha ha ha!

:-)

[TahitiNut]

13. Howard Kurtz comtemplates the media navel ...

... from the inside like a myopic anal-ostrich.

[Beelzebud]

15. Looks like Colbert will have to bump someone from the "dead to me" list.

So he can add Kurtz's name. :D

LOL

[rocktivity]

16. Well, um, maybe Kurtz was satirizing Colbert...

:eyes:
rocknation

[Pithy Cherub]

34. Kurtz is missing the irony gene.

Satire is a complex molecule that requires irony. Kurtz dreams of having Colbert's media savvy but without an irony gene, that door is closed to him. Pouty Kurtz just enviously watches others actually do satire. :evilgrin:

[Dudley_DUright]

63. The missing irony gene outs Kurtz as a right winger

They all are missing that particular gene.

[NYCGirl]

69. You are correct, rocknation. NT

[stevietheman]

84. Girl, I *love* that pic of Gore! Love it, love it, love it! thanks! n/t

n/t

[Loge23]

17. Hilarious! A parody of a parody!

Mr. Colbert and his writers will have a field day with this material!

[robbedvoter]

18. I just sent this thread to colbertnation

Some of the answers are show worthy.

[JRob]

24. Thanks! I wanted to copy SC but could not find an address...

[Writer]

20. Today's tip of the hat, wag of the finger.

Kurtz's vainglorious bloviating of Stephen shows his weakness. Apparently Stephen's balls irk him, making him sweat, causing him to lose his balance and fall onto a patty of cow feces in his pasture of wrongness.

Today's tip of the hat, wag of the finger goes to you, Howie. :P

[JRob]

29. "vainglorious bloviating" I love that!

[Theres-a]

109. Post of the day!

Tip of the hat to you,Writer!

[Writer]

111. Awww. Thank you, there-s a! n/t

[donsu]

22. Howard Kurtz is a drip

nt

[Rose Siding]

23. I can't stop laughing about this!

SC is SO gonna have fun.....'Takes himself too seriously'....OMG, that's FUNNY

[EFerrari]

25. What a MORAN!

:rofl:

Steven is going to eat him for breakfast.

[tridim]

27. Yet the real thing, O'Reilly is king of fake cable "news"

Ask "why?", Howie. It'll all become clear.

[Pirate Smile]

28. OMG! That is hilarious. What a friggin idiot. Howie, you're dead to SC

now.

:rofl:

I hope someone has the video clip. I'd love to see it.

[JRob]

31. In the end, Kurtz is GREEN with envy wishing his rating compared...

[BuyingThyme]

30. Congratulations Stephen!

You have another bitch.

[AX10]

32. So what? Howie Kurtz is another Bill O'Reilly. He just can't stand...

humor when it's pointed at their "king" (Bush).

[pk_du]

33. Transcript here...

http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0602/12/rs.01.html


<snip>
KURTZ: Time now for "The Kurtz Word," and that word is pomposity.

Now, I know what you're thinking. You're thinking this is a cheap rip-off of what Stephen Colbert does on his show. Like that guy he hasn'tripped off everyone else on cable. O'Reilly, Scarborough, he's copied them all.

But you know, there was a time when this Comedy Central clown wasn't a walking, talking embodiment of pomposity. That was when he was willing to come on this show.

(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP)

STEPHEN COLBERT, COMEDY CENTRAL: We have no desire to make anybody look like a blithering idiot. But we do love it when they do.

(END VIDEO CLIP)

KURTZ: But now that he's not just Jon Stewart's spear carrier, now that he sits behind a big, fat desk at "The Colbert Report," it has totally gone to this man's head.

Here, look what happens when he brings on a guest.

Pathetic. He invented one measly little word, "truthiness," and he got all huffy when the AP used it without crediting him, the great Stephen Colbert. And he got full of himself when, in a fit of temporary insanity, "Newsweek" put his mug on the cover.

(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP)

COLBERT: We have changed the media. You may recall that for years now "Newsweek" magazine has not had a picture of me on the cover. Well, now it does. Take a look.

(END VIDEO CLIP)

KURTZ: And then he was named to deliver the laughs at the upcoming White House Correspondents Dinner. And he refused to comment about this alleged honor. Got that? Mr. fake journalist couldn't be bothered to talk to real journalists who actually have to practice truthiness.

I guess America really loves pomposity. What's next, a phony journalist hosting the Oscars?

And by the way, I am not bitter that Colbert has not invited me on his show. No way. He would have to beg to get me on that thing, or at least be really nice to me, or at least place the call himself, or maybe shoot me an e-mail, or have his guy call my guy.

And that's "The Kurtz Word."

Well, that's it for this edition of RELIABLE SOURCES.

I'm Howard Kurtz.

Please join us again next Sunday morning, 10:00 a.m. Eastern, for another edition and another look at the media

[JRob]

36. ...even f'n funnier to read! What an idiot!

[Pirate Smile]

40. Reading it makes me think Howie does get it. It sounds like he

wants desperately to be on Colbert's show.

[Buck Rabbit]

113. Yep, Howie appears to get it.

Whoever Howie is, it appears he not only gets it, he is fishing to get in on it.

[Oilwellian]

67. This is rich

"Now, I know what you're thinking. You're thinking this is a cheap rip-off of what Stephen Colbert does on his show."

What's that old saying? "Imitation is the best form of flattery." :D

[Jim Sagle]

72. Ummm...I think this IS satire, folks.

[Eric J in MN]

104. The transcript shows that Howard Kurtz was just trying to be funny.

Thanks for posting it.

[Guaranteed]

115. It could be reverse satire. Hard to tell without watching

the video.

[Hell Hath No Fury]

110. Clearly Kurtz was trying to pull...

a "Colbert" -- promblem is, he's not talented enough to pull it off! :rofl:

[tishaLA]

35. I think Howie was trying to be funny

but he has terrible timing so the satire didn't work. In fact, he was begging M. Colbert to come on the show.

It was a poor homage...nothing more, nothing less.

[JRob]

37. are you saying Kurtz wasn't serious?!

[NanceGreggs]

44. Kurtz is so unfunny and untalented, you can't tell ...

But he did end off with this:

"And by the way, I am not bitter that Colbert has not invited me on his show. No way. He would have to beg to get me on that thing, or at least be really nice to me, or at least place the call himself, or maybe shoot me an e-mail, or have his guy call my guy."

The Colbert Report has had some pretty heavy-hitter guests of late, and it's probably the 'in' thing to get an invite to appear - it means you're a 'somebody' in the media.

Maybe this was Howie's ham-fisted way of wrangling an invitation ...

[tishaLA]

46. I watched it and that's what I thought

He even had the COlbert "Word" screen beside him (including the bar bisecting the O) commenting on what he was saying.

The problem is that Colbert always embraces buffoons to prove a point and Kurtz's attempt at humor failed because it appeared critical.

He's as bad at comedy as he is at media reportage. That's all.

[JRob]

55. I didn't see it that way, my take was that he was dead serious.

[Pirate Smile]

41. Reading the transcript, that is what it sounds like to me also (Kurtz was

trying to be funny and wants to be on Colbert's show) but I didn't see it on TV.

[Old and In the Way]

53. My read, too.

Kurtz reflecting Colbert, reflecting Kurtz. It gets kind of confusing ......

[Bunny]

73. That's how I read it too.

I think Howie was goofing - trying to get an invite onto the Report.

[progressoid]

79. Really? Because it reads as lame. Where's the funny part?

[NYCGirl]

86. This might tip you off:

I guess America really loves pomposity. What's next, a phony journalist hosting the Oscars?

And by the way, I am not bitter that Colbert has not invited me on his show. No way. He would have to beg to get me on that thing, or at least be really nice to me, or at least place the call himself, or maybe shoot me an e-mail, or have his guy call my guy.

[tsuki]

38. Ah, the green eyed monster, jealousy. Bet Colbert's ratings are better.

[NightOwwl]

43. Great response! How much you want to bet...

he has never even watched an entire show? I mean really, could anyone be that stupid? Oh wait a minute...it's Howie we are talking about...never mind. :eyes:

[Greyhound]

45. Just hilarious and 'they' apparently are so dense they don't see that

everything he does, every set, every report is a lampoon of their propaganda machine. :rofl: :rofl:

[notadmblnd]

47. he's just mad cause Steven hasn't had him on

c'mon Steve.. invite the poor negelcted bastid on.

[9119495]

50. Wow...he hasn't even watched the show. Anyone, even Howard

would be able to pick up on satire. You're right...this shows how sorry is the state of things.

[Protagoras]

51. I have to clean coffee off my screen now.

The timing of this is too funny to be true too since last night a group of myself and six friend were discussing the office and the Colbert Report around drinks and EVERYONE was busting a gut talking about and imitating Colbert high-fiving the crowd etc as he goes over to meet his guest who's seated in the shadow. I love it every time I see it.

I love TDS, but I laugh my ass off at Colbert.

Golden Globe should be given to the "Word of the Day" for best supporting actor.

[nashville_brook]

52. this is gonna be gooooood! can't wait to watch!

[Initech]

54. Ha! Colbert's Word on Monday will be "Who the hell is Howie Kurtz?"

[JRob]

60. lol!

[Lucille]

57. It seems pretty clear from the transcript that Kurtz was attempting parody

Careful, Howie. Real comedy is dangerous and should be left to professionals.

[thinkingwoman]

59. You know I thought that at first

but now I'm not so sure.

[AndreaCG]

64. I agree

He's no Colbert however. Dennis Miller maybe...

[JRob]

65. Hopefully the clip will become available. I saw it and then read it...

If this was indeed an attempt at humor (by Kurtz, which I doubt) I'm sure that it will be clarified at some point in the near future.

[thinkingwoman]

58. Satire is an IQ test

Kurtz has failed.

[yowzayowzayowza]

61. In a word...

"GIFT" ... look fer SC to jump all over this.

[Maestro]

62. Psst!

Hey Kurtz, Colbert is a comedian. What are you worry about? That he might make you look bad. You are already do that yourself and this is a perfect example! :rofl:

[Kurovski]

66. HaHaHaHaHa! HEHEHEHE!

Kurtz just HAS to be a guest on TCR now! He MUST make an appearance!

[NYCGirl]

68. That's quite obviously a joke by Howard Kurtz, and a really good one

at that. Fooled lots of people.

[Kurovski]

88. I'll bet he's just DYING to appear with Colbert!

it's like he was begging on-air! :D

[NYCGirl]

89. Of course, that's why he did it! NT

[Kurovski]

90. In fact, here are Kurtz own words:

"And by the way, I am not bitter that Colbert has not invited me on his show. No way. He would have to beg to get me on that thing, or at least be really nice to me, or at least place the call himself, or maybe shoot me an e-mail, or have his guy call my guy."

Hehehehe!

[0007]

Guess who's pissing off the White House these days?

Guess who's whoring for the White House these days?

Who in their right fucking mind would even waste two minutes listening to Howard Kurtz?

Steven Colbert is an entertainer for christ fucking sake. And Kurtz is picking him out to condemn? Please! Perhaps Howard Kurtz should be looking at his beloved master, eh? This is too funny.

[BloodyWilliam]

70. Fillam H. Muffman is displeased.

Quick! To the zeppelin!

[stevietheman]

87. That "Filliam H. Muffman" stuff literally had me ROFLMAO.

And Colbert himself couldn't contain his giggling.

I'm still laughing at this days later. That was a comedy coup, that few minutes on his show.

[Lisa]

107. Colbert's so good at keeping a straight face ...

... that it's even more enjoyable when he cracks up. I also liked the time when the female poker champ razzed him about "Dungeons and Dragons" -- Colbert looked genuinely delighted that she had teased him about his geekiness.

(Completely as an aside here -- I think he looks really cute when he breaks character and laughs like that!)

[Marr]

71. Oh god- I just read it again.

He's trying to be *funny*. He's trying to spoof Colbert, probably to garner a little attention from him. How lame.

[Ethan M Gaits]

74. A compliment.

[AlGore-08.com]

75. America wants to know: is Howie Kurtz a bigger threat than bears?

[natrat]

76. i cant watch regular tv, it's just too sad nt

[philosophie_en_rose]

77. Bwahahaha!! Truthiness too much for Kurtz?

:rofl: Maybe Kurtz does get it, though. Colbert isn't laughing with the conservatives; he's laughing at them.

[stillcool]

78. Somebody....give Howie...

some more rope...God, I love it when they hang themselves :rofl:

[gristy]

80. Joke!

Kurtz is trying to be funny. Pretty clear to me from the transcript, anyways.

[berni_mccoy]

81. When supposedly "real" journalists start criticizing political comedians

You know something is really wrong with journalism.

It'd be like the NYT's criticising the political cartoonists for breaking a news story... UNREAL.

[pa28]

82. Colbert is going to rip Kurtz a new truth-hole!

Some people's brains just don't have the wiring to understand satire. In the process they become perfect fodder.

Have fun Howie. You are about to like Colbert even less.

[AlCzervik]

83. Kurtz is not an "It getter" at all, does he not understand the premise of

the show or is he himself trying to be funny? I love when he runs out with his hands up, it's hilarious and i don't understand how any doesn't "get" that.

[NYCGirl]

85. Kurtz "gets it". Kurtz was joking. Lots of people here didn't "get it." NT

[Kurovski]

92. To be fair, the OP leads the way on that.

Printing the transcript or a clip would have helped.

We have to be more careful of jumping to conclusions without seeing something for ourselves.

[checks-n-balances]

93. I saw it & thought it was a great promo for the Colbert Report myself

Don't flame me, but I thought the "Kurtz word" idea was pretty clever (I took it as a spin on "curse word"). The whole bit was a takeoff on S.C.'s "The Word" segment, with written comments depicting things like "I'm not jealous of Stephen Colbert" etc. referring to Howie.

I'm not a H. K. fan, but I thought it was better than most stuff he has on his show. He's no Stephen Colbert, but I enjoyed the bit and it was CLEARLY a paen to "The Report", unless I missed something. Y'all need to lighten up a bit!

[terrya]

91. Memo to Kurtz..SC is on the COMEDY CHANNEL, nitwit

:eyes:

[applegrove]

94. This is so - post realist. The "real" journalists fight the "phony"

journalist.

Hillarious!

[deutsey]

95. Mistah Kurtz...he stupid.

[NYCGirl]

96. It was a brilliant bit. NT

[deutsey]

97. Kurtz is still a bit thick, IMO, but score one for him if he's joking.

He's not as dense as I thought he was.

[NYCGirl]

98. Here's the transcript as posted in another thread:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=364&topic_id=394005&mesg_id=394229

He's clearly joking. And his stock has gone up a couple of points for me.

[Radical Activist]

99. What a moran

I hope Colbert says something about it on his show.

[rocktivity]

100. You heard Kurtz's words, JRob--I've only read them.

How would you describe Kurtz's tone and manner--Sarcastic? Jealous? Indignant? Outraged? Bemused? If he was trying to be satrical, he broke satire's golden rule: You CAN'T satire satire!

:shrug:
rocknation

[LibertyorDeath]

101. Howard Kurtz catapults the retardation

[FreedomAngel82]

102. Oh good grief

I guess they don't know satire eh?

[NYCGirl]

103. Read the transcript here, FreedomAngel82. Kurtz was joking.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=364&topic_id=394005&mesg_id=394229

It was a JOKE.

[Lisa]

105. I hope Colbert awards him a giant bottle of "Scorn"!

I'm really looking forward to SC's reaction on Monday. (I'm still enjoying his music video from last week. That kind of thing can only be done by someone who takes his work very seriously, but is not overly-sensitive about his own ego!)

[NNguyenMD]

106. who's howard kurtz?

[against all enemies]

108. THREAT DOWN. Howard Kurtz, you are dead to me.

Kurtz is brillant, I think. It's got to be a put on.

[Kurovski]

114. It is.

[Faygo Kid]

112. Of course he knows, This Means War. Kurtz: Heart of Darkness.

Or, a great opportunity for SC. And he will use it. The Horror! The Horror!