Kurtz to Ignore Downing Street Memo for Third Straight Week?

BurtWorm

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Mon May-16-05 10:22 AM
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Kurtz to Ignore Downing Street Memo for Third Straight Week?

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/discussion/2005/05/12/DI2005051200985.html

My question to Howard:

Michael Getler came down pretty hard on the Post yesterday for its late arrival to the story of the Downing Street Memo, which seems to prove the Bush administration was enlisting the Blair government to "fix the intelligence and the facts" to justify a war that was understood by both the US and UK governments to be inevitable by July 2002--eight months before the war.

Do you have any thoughts on why it took an e-mail campaign to get the Post and other American newspapers to pay attention to the implications of the memo?

You can submit a question for him here:

http://discuss.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/zforum/content/submit_kurtz.htm

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realFedUp

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Mon May-16-05 10:25 AM
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1. keeping a job more important than doing the job

too bad the truth isn't the highest
standard anymore. Just one more dope on a rope.

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Bozita

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Mon May-16-05 10:27 AM
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2. Isn't Howie's wife a paid Republican operative?

IIRC, her name is Sherri Annis (sp?)

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BurtWorm

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Mon May-16-05 10:33 AM
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3. Yes, she is.

So far, Howie has devoted himself to spanking Newsweek for getting the Guantanamo story "wrong."

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Botany

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Mon May-16-05 10:34 AM
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4. Really?

Your kidding because he really got after the Gay Prostitute in the White
House pretending to be a reporter story.

:sarcasm:

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BurtWorm

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Mon May-16-05 10:37 AM
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5. The more who ask about the memo, or about Getler's letter yesterday

the more sure we will be that Howie is actively ignoring the story.

Let us know in this thread if you asked Kurtz a question about the memo in today's forum.

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oasis

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Mon May-16-05 10:45 AM
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6. Howie did his best to throw cold water on the Gannon/Guckert story

when it first surfaced.

Kurtz is a Karl Rove puppet. "Mediawhoresonline" had been on to Howie's whoring for the longest time.

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BurtWorm

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Mon May-16-05 10:46 AM
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7. He answered the question!

Howard Kurtz: None of the explanations are satisfactory. The Post should have done a substantial story much sooner, especially after other American media outlets picked up on the memo

:wow:

(Of course right away he's rushed back to Newsweek land. :eyes: )

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