{"id":9,"date":"2007-07-23T19:36:37","date_gmt":"2007-07-24T02:36:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stiftungleostrauss.com\/bunker\/?p=9"},"modified":"2012-07-08T08:22:54","modified_gmt":"2012-07-08T15:22:54","slug":"smoke-on-the-wapo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.stiftungleostrauss.com\/bunker\/smoke-on-the-wapo\/","title":{"rendered":"Smoke On The WaPo (w\/ a slight update)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>H<\/b>owie Kurtz, one hopes, has a good tailor.  Repairing frayed knees in slacks takes talent.  <\/p>\n<p>While ostensibly &#8216;reporting&#8217; on controversy over Iraq, Kurtz twice in the last week has written airball fluff pieces on Young Bill Kristol.  Today it is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/article\/2007\/07\/22\/AR2007072201282.html\">&#8220;Bill Kristol, Highly Recommended.&#8221;<\/a>  Just two days ago, he wrote glowingly of Kristol and the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/article\/2007\/07\/20\/AR2007072002180.html\">gang at Weekly Standard, Michelle Malkin and a lawyer on &#8216;Powerline&#8217; <\/a> (as if being a lawyer means anything &#8212; someone smack Howie and remind him that the Justice Department is being run by people who got their law degrees from a Pat Robertson TV studio). <\/p>\n<p>At issue in the second item is whether The New Republic once again is guilty of printing exaggerations or outright fiction by one of its anonymous war bloggers.  Frankly, the Stiftung long ago stopped caring what TNR said one way or another.  But it is hilarious to see Howie quote Michelle Malkin and some chickenhawk lawyer as experts on things military.  Deviationism still invites flying courts martial in the waning days of the regime. <\/p>\n<p>In honor of Howie&#8217;s two-fer:  a karaoke tribute to his hackery, dishonesty, mendacious misrepresentations and sanctimonious subversion of journalism.  Ladies and Gentlemen, we give you . . . <\/p>\n<p><center><\/p>\n<ul><b>&#8220;Smoke On The WaPo&#8221;<\/ul>\n<p><\/b><br \/>\n(to be played at maximum volume)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.stiftungleostrauss.com\/bunker\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/07\/smoke-on-the-wapo2.mp3\"> <-- use play)<\/a><br \/>\n<\/center><\/p>\n<p><b>Update 24-7-07<\/b>: the original vocal mix came live off the soundboard at Wurmserfest 2007. Today is a remix from Sterling Sound in NYC &#8212; you might want to check it out.<\/b>  [\/end update] <\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>W<\/strong>e all came to Bethesda<br \/>\nOn the DC borderline<br \/>\nTo make the AgitProp on a laptop<br \/>\nWe didn&#8217;t have much time<\/p>\n<p>William Kristol and the Neocons<br \/>\nWere at the best place around<br \/>\nBut Howie Kurtz with a fluff piece<br \/>\nBurned the place to the ground<\/p>\n<p>Smoke on the WaPo, fire in the sty<\/p>\n<p>They burned down the Editorial Offices<br \/>\nIt died with a Likudist sound<br \/>\nFunky Hiatt was running in and out<br \/>\nPulling talking points out the ground<\/p>\n<p>When it all was all over<br \/>\nWe moved to the Examiner<br \/>\nBut Bush time was running down<br \/>\nIt seemed peace would still break out<\/p>\n<p>Smoke on the WaPo (a fire in the sty)<br \/>\nSmoke on the WaPo<\/p>\n<p>(guitar break)<\/p>\n<p><strong>W<\/strong>e ended up at the Fox Offices<br \/>\nPuffy lips cold and bare<br \/>\nBut with the fax\/blog\/email thing just outside (pause)<br \/>\nMaking bullshit there<\/p>\n<p>With a few Red friends and a few old threads<br \/>\nWe make a place to connive<br \/>\nNo matter what we get out of this<\/p>\n<p>I know  I know I will never forget<br \/>\nSmoke on the WaPo, a fire in the sty<br \/>\nSmoke on the WaPo, keep em down<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Windows IE 7.0 and other versions may not show the play button at the top; here is a sledgehammer way to surmount Redmond&#8217;s coding mediocrity\/discrepancies. N.B.: there is a slight load delay.<\/p>\n<p><center><object classid=\"clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000\" codebase=\"http:\/\/fpdownload.macromedia.com\/pub\/shockwave\/cabs\/flash\/swflash.cab#version=8,0,0,0\" width=\"295\" height=\"245\" id=\"PutzMP3\" align=\"middle\"><param name=\"allowScriptAccess\" value=\"sameDomain\" \/><param name=\"movie\" value=\"PutzMP3.swf\" \/><param name=\"quality\" value=\"high\" \/><param name=\"bgcolor\" value=\"#ffffff\" \/><embed src=\"PutzMP3.swf\" &#038;autostart=\"false\" quality=\"high\" bgcolor=\"#ffffff\" width=\"295\" height=\"245\" name=\"PutzMP3\" align=\"middle\" allowScriptAccess=\"sameDomain\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" pluginspage=\"http:\/\/www.macromedia.com\/go\/getflashplayer\" \/><\/object><\/center><\/p>\n<p><b>H<\/b>owie has a personal stake in all this silliness. Like most &#8216;reporters&#8217; he knows his top-down hierarchical media\/model industry is a decomposing corpse.  The Politico.com renegades tore the facade off the zombies. <\/p>\n<p>So Howie writes about these juvenile  blog spats and Michelle Malkin to be current and relevant to his future potential employers (the blogosphere) and &#8216;hip&#8217; to the tired old has beens still churning out dead trees with ink on them. <\/p>\n<p>One can imagine Howie telling some young blogger with more impact and sway now than Howie has with a combined dead tree and CNN gig, ala Moe Green:  &#8220;Do you know who I am?  I am Howie Kurtz !!  I made my bones when you were still going out with cheerleaders!&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Howie Kurtz, one hopes, has a good tailor. Repairing frayed knees in slacks takes talent. While ostensibly &#8216;reporting&#8217; on controversy over Iraq, Kurtz twice in the last week has written airball fluff pieces on Young Bill Kristol. 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