Howie Kurtz perfectly represents the disastrous irresponsibility of political journalism:
[J]ournalists are examining her personality quirks precisely because she is doing so well, and because it's more fun than analyzing her health plan. [emphasis added]As if the world exists for his amusement, he goes on to fill pages and pages with slams directed at Hillary Clinton's laugh, with a brief slap at Barack Obama's ears. (Somehow, Fred Thompson's wattles missed the cut, as did the actually relevant scariness of Rudy Giuliani's eyes, because, y'know, it's o.k. to look funny if you're a Republican.)
Kurtz has the obscene unmitigated gall to call his column "Chucklegate", probably congratulating himself on the subtle irony of further debasing the already hackneyed -gate suffix. What a hack!
And to justify his focus on the inconsequential, he hides behind Jon Stewart, who is doing comedy! I would fire the whole useless lot of mainstream pundits. They are too lazy, stupid, and vapid to be paid a single shrinking dollar for reinforcing each other's witless 7th grade (slow track) narratives.
Kurtz follows Stewart "because he's got a small army of kids poring over the TiVo for ridicule-worthy sound bites." Ridicule! That's what he thinks his job is. Why does he still have it?
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