What is going on? First Charlie Gibson, now media commentator Howard Kurtz. In his column on Gibson’s Palin interview, Kurtz makes three mistakes on the first page:
First:
Did she believe the Iraq war is a task from God? When Palin demurred, Gibson said those were her “exact words.” No fancy footwork, no long-winded setups, no gotchas. Just a solid, straight-ahead interview.
What? Sure, no fancy footwork; just an outright lie.
Second:
Even Palin’s critics should admit that, in terms of demeanor, she handled herself well for someone who three years ago was worried about the books in the Wasilla library. She projected confidence and was not openly rattled.
This is so debunked, it’s not even funny.
Third:
And she came pretty close to saying she’d declare war on Russia for invading future NATO member Georgia. Palin might want to spend more time with McCain’s foreign policy gurus.
She did not say anything of the sort. What she said is that if Georgia joined NATO, and if Russia invaded again, we might be required to defend them with military force. In this she was absolutely right. Have we forgotten what NATO is?! It’s a military alliance, and the security guarantee is its backbone. (Of course, the idea is the security guarantee deters Russia from invading in the first place, as it did throughout the Cold War.) Maybe Kurtz needs to spend some with foreign policy gurus himself.
How can a media critic not know this? I’ve liked Kurtz for a long time so I’m going to pull my punches here, but this is very disappointing, to say the least.
(Via Instapundit.)
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