Here's how Howie starts the show:
Welcome to RELIABLE SOURCES, where we
turn a critical lens on
the media.
I'm Howard Kurtz, and later in the program,
are the media unfairly tying
President Bush to business disasters
from Enron to WorldCom?
Already, you can tell Howie is worried that his man is being
treated unfairly.
He's two sentences into the program and he's already jettisoned
his objectivity.
Here's a few snips of Howie whining and begging the media to back
off Bush.
Catching a crooked president in on-going felonies in office would
be a great story,
but they don't want a great story - they want their money traion
to keep chugging.
OK, Howie, give us that "critical lense" your promised.
KURTZ: President Bush talking about the
WorldCom debacle last week and
joining us now two White House correspondents, Dana Milbank of the
"Washington Post" and Martha Brant of "Newsweek".
Dana Milbank, you wrote the other day that these mounting corporate
scandals might scratch Bush's Teflon, but why report it before it happens?
Wishful thinking on your part?
Can you believe that?
Cable spent entire shows on crappola like: "What
if Monica had become pregnant?"
even tho every bit of testimony supports ther FACT that
he never had intercousre with her.
Did Howie whine about the media getting ahead of themselves then?
KURTZ: This was Paul Krugman in "The New
York Times", also "Salon" magazine
resurrecting a 1989 incident in which the SEC looked at George Bush's sale
of stock
in Harken Energy while he was a director of that company. He was ultimately
cleared
by the SEC. This was 13 years ago. Is it fair for the press to resurrect
that now?
Howie, if I was there, I'd slap you.
You guys went after Clinton for checks he wrote in the goddamn
seventies, and you're whining
that Bush is being questioned about crimes he committed in 1989?
What's wrong with you?
And the SEC that "cleared" Usurper was his Daddy's SEC!
Did you forget that, Howie?
KURTZ: But where is the evidence that George
Bush's history as an oilman or his contributions
from industry have anything whatsoever to do with the misaccounting (ph),
as he put it.
Other people would call it evidence of fraud at WorldCom, at Enron, at
Arthur Andersen,
Tyco, Xerox. I mean these things - this has been going on for years, why
blame the president?
Protect, Howie. Protect!
KURTZ: Any downturn in the economy will
hurt any president, just as presidents get blamed, get credit
when the economy is going well. But isn't there a media subtext here? The
narrative for Bush
has always been in the pocket of big business and so forth. Isn't the press
trying to rope him
into these corporate scandals?
No, the press has been protecting this Illegitimate Fraud
since he announced his candidacy.
Jesus, the press won't even ask Bush how many felonies he was
caught doing in his life.
Worse, they KNEW he was the stupidest man to ever run for president
and they invented
"Gore the serial liar" to have something to write about.
Tim Russert, Bob Schieffer and others keopt telling us what "fantastic
command" Bush had
on foriegn policy matters when the handjob can't find Europe
on a map!
Look at your words, Howie!
Look how you're doing everything you can to protect the
man who lost the election.
KURTZ: But another subtext is Bush has appointed,
as Democrats would put it, a bunch of regulatory
foxes to be in charge of the chicken coop and they're not cracking down.
But the problem with
that storyline is that a lot of this misaccounting, this hiding, inflating
of profits and hiding of costs
took place during the Clinton administration years, which they also
didn't crack down on this sort of ...
Perfect!
When you're losing the debate on the facts, drag Bill Clinton's
name into it.
Howie, could you possibly be more of a whore on the Bush
payroll?
KURTZ: Do you think it was fair for reporters
Wednesday to pepper Ari Fleischer with questions
about this 1989 SEC case involving George W. Bush?
Of course it's not fair, Howie!
But it was plenty fair to pepper Clinton's spokespeople about
Monica's tongue, right?
You guys played the whore for YEARS inside Clinton's zipper,
but when Resident Dim Son
screws a few thousand investors on an insider stock deal to line
his already-rich pockets,
it's none of our business, right Howie? What were those reporters
thinking?
KURTZ: Now conservative commentators, Martha
Brant, Rush Limbaugh and others, have tried to
blame some of the recent corporate scams and meltdowns on Bill Clinton.
They say he set
a bad example for the country. He showed he could lie and get away with
it, so is that a reverse
kind of "let's drag in the political figure we don't like and pin the
tail on him."
KURTZ: You're saying there's no parallel
...situation between Monica Lewinsky
and WorldCom's $4 billion of misstated profit?
Make him stop!
He's giving Monica to Rush so Rush will play that clip on his
hate show today.
Pigboy doesn't come on here until 1 PM and I GUARANTEE that clip
makes today's show.
Howie knew if he quoted Ego-Boy that he'd get a mention, so he
whores out again.
And Howie, when you said the underlined sentence, thanks for
being "fair."
To suggest Bush isn't the most braxen and bald-facved liar EVER
top sit in the Oval Office
is just another example of Howie earning his check from the B.F.E.E.
Then the subject changed, so Howie stopped lying.
Note: Full transcript at http://www.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0207/06/rs.00.html