So, it took Karl Rove’s on-air performance on Election Day to inspire Newsweek’s Howard Kurtz to ask if television news networks should “drop partisans” from their lineups? Not only does Kurtz write for Newsweek — the magazine this week featuring President Obama dressed as Napoleon on its cover — he also hosts CNN’s “Reliable Sources,” so we assume he owns a TV and gets CNN and some of those other networks.
Twitter tries to clue him in to what’s been going on in network newsrooms for the past, oh, 50 years.
@HowardKurtz You mean like @GStephanopoulos @JoeTrippi I mean, really. They're still entrenched Democrat operatives. Please.
— Melissa Mackenzie (@MelissaTweets) November 11, 2012
@HowardKurtz You mean like James Carville on CNN?
— Randy Johnson (@RandyJohnsonLA) November 11, 2012
@HowardKurtz how about George Stephaneous and Joe Trippi?
— lindapetrou (@lindapetrou) November 11, 2012
@HowardKurtz Yes, party operatives need to go. CNN should ditch Begala, Castellanos et.al. They're savvy, but they're shills.
— Edward St. Clair (@EdwardAloysius) November 11, 2012
@HowardKurtz WTF? Has Matthews or O'Donnell or Bashir or others at most biased network ever gone 2 far? You just hate that Fox rules.
— Depoguy (@depoguy) November 11, 2012
@HowardKurtz If all networks dropped partisans, MSNBC, CNN, ABC, CBS and NBC would all go out of business.
— Wes Stephens (@RockyTop_VA) November 11, 2012
@HowardKurtz STILL on that Howie? You really do get hung up on goofy things Rs do. Matthews and Bashir comments so much worse than Rove
— JUDY FORNEY (@judyastahl) November 12, 2012
Will Kurtz approach CNN management and demand to be let go?
https://twitter.com/lilium479/status/267758096363958274
https://twitter.com/chitown2424/status/267769649620463616
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