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Why Did Howard Kurtz Sit on an Embarrassing Correction for Six Weeks?
gawker.com ^ | 1/13/11 | hamiltion

Posted on 01/13/2011 6:14:36 PM PST by Nachum

Howard Kurtz has quite a correction today! It seems that Howie mistakenly believed he was interviewing a Congressman, when in fact he was speaking to the Congressman's spokesperson. Weirder: Kurtz waited more than a month to correct the story. [Updated]

In late November, Kurtz wrote a story in The Daily Beast about "tough-talking" Republican Rep. Darrell Issa. The story was based on what Kurtz thought was a phone interview with Issa. But it turns out that, no, Kurtz had actually been speaking to Issa's spokesman, Kurt Bardella, the entire time. Hate when that happens! Today, Kurtz writes:

On Nov. 29, after my story ran on The Daily Beast, I got a note from Bardella saying there had been "a little confusion" and "it wasn't the congressman you spoke with, it was me speaking in his capacity as his spokesman."

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TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: correction; embarrassing; kurtz

1 posted on 01/13/2011 6:14:37 PM PST by Nachum
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To: Nachum

Possibly because it was embarrassing.


2 posted on 01/13/2011 6:18:13 PM PST by Brilliant
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To: Brilliant

I wonder what else Howie hasn’t told us.


3 posted on 01/13/2011 6:21:52 PM PST by donna (Political Correctness is cultural Marxism - Marxism translated from economic into cultural terms.)
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To: donna

Howie is the kind of guy who knows lots of embarrassing stuff. But he won’t tell it unless he thinks it’s embarrassing to the GOP.


4 posted on 01/13/2011 6:50:14 PM PST by Brilliant
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To: AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Arthur Wildfire! March; Berosus; bigheadfred; ColdOne; ...

Incompetence — and, he’s a partisan media shill. Thanks Nachum.


5 posted on 01/13/2011 7:24:35 PM PST by SunkenCiv (The 2nd Amendment follows right behind the 1st because some people are hard of hearing.)
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To: Nachum

Because it makes him look really STUPID!!!!.....


6 posted on 01/13/2011 8:07:00 PM PST by Red Badger (Whenever these vermin call you an 'idiot', you can be sure that you are doing something right.)
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