There is much I would like to say about Howard Kurtz. I remember feeling nauseous when he joined Fox in 2013, and my Lefty Radar went off, alerting me that this guy was a strategic Liberal plant. I learned that ‘Howie’ was a former writer for the Washington Post, and came to Fox after years at CNN. He also had been the Washington bureau chief for the Daily Beast.

Something did NOT pass the smell test.

Howie wears a perpetual Cheshire cat grin on his Leftist mug. It just became too difficult for me to watch this guy. Howard Kurtz is a clone of Chris Wallace who left Fox after many years to join CNN. I said Good Riddance to Wallace.

I’m still fuming over the way he mishandled presidential debates. Wallace came to those debates armed with Leftist propaganda. He showed his TRUE colors, yet many Fox viewers continued in their Chris Wallace fan club. Talk about being duped!

And one more thing about Howard Kurtz: I believe that he was very jealous of Tucker, and maybe even has been hoping that Fox might give him a shot in Tucker’s spot.

Yeah, Howie……..good luck with that!!

From ijr.com

However it is that you may feel about former Fox News host Tucker Carlson, you can’t deny that the man wasn’t willing to go against the establishment grain.

There’s a reason even his most ardent critics have had to give him credit in the past.

That brash sense of saying what’s right, even if it may not perfectly align with your best corporate or political interests, is something that Carlson brought with him to television every night.

Of course, even Carlson would occasionally toe the company line here and there, but the man is still a far more independent voice than anything you’ll find throughout the rest of the establishment media landscape.

That unique ability to break from the establishment is something the airwaves and Fox News are both sorely missing, as evinced by the latter’s crashing ratings.

Yet, despite all of the tangible proof that Carlson’s departure has been bad for the network, Fox News reporter Howard Kurtz thinks that Carlson’s ouster will ultimately lead to a “worthwhile outcome.”

Kurtz, speaking on Sunday’s edition of “MediaBuzz,” explained that the industry-shaking departures of Carlson and longtime CNN host Don Lemon could mean sterner “limits” meant to “rein in” on-air pundits.

To view the video with Howard Kurtz click HERE

“Now, the big picture raised by the dismissals at Fox and CNN is whether we are entering a new era in which some limits are imposed on what even the most popular hosts can say,” Kurtz said.

Translation: Carlson got his just desserts! Silence the dissenters!

Kurtz continued: “Management at all the networks may be more likely to rein in their top talent and insist on fact checking, rather than risk embarrassing or lawsuits for the airing of false information. That, if it comes to pass, might just be a worthwhile outcome.”

Translation: Better to say nothing than risk saying anything!

Seriously, Kurtz’s shameless bootlicking is embarrassing here.

First, quickly, lumping Lemon and Carlson together is absurd, and Kurtz immediately loses some credibility points there. The circumstances of the firings may be similar, but the context of the firings (not to mention that Lemon seems like a jerk and Carlson does not) needs to be pointed out if you’re going to put those two together.

Second, what, exactly, is Kurtz advocating for here?

“This has been the evening news brought to you by the RNC and Big Pharma”?

The point of journalism is to be a thorn in the side of the governmental elites, to call out corruption and report on everything the feds don’t want you to know about.

That concept has obviously been lost in recent years, rather badly, but to hear an establishment media talking head now say the quiet part out loud is genuinely jarring and a bad sign of the future of broadcast journalism.

If Fox News is insistent on being lockstep with its establishment brethren, those cratering ratings may yet still find another depth to stoop to. Source

COME LORD JESUS!