{"id":320,"date":"2003-11-18T07:54:03","date_gmt":"2003-11-18T07:54:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tommangan.net\/printsthechaff\/?p=320"},"modified":"2003-11-18T07:54:03","modified_gmt":"2003-11-18T07:54:03","slug":"dart-to-howie-kurtz","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tommangan.net\/printsthechaff\/2003\/11\/dart-to-howie-kurtz\/","title":{"rendered":"Dart to Howie Kurtz?"},"content":{"rendered":"

CJR thinks he deserves one<\/a> for appearing on HBO’s “K Street,” and promoing it on his CNN show.<\/p>\n

Howard Kurtz, who already wears a somewhat precariously balanced second hat as host of CNN’s Reliable Sources, recently added to his millinery wardrobe. In a September 15 online column on the bedazzling blend of political fact and fantasy in K Street, the HBO reality show starring the husband-and-wife lobbying team of James Carville and Mary Matalin, Kurtz disarmingly observed, “K Street is getting a huge amount of publicity from the Beltway buzz types. And I just fell into that trap, didn’t I?” Six days later, he made a cameo appearance on the show, playing himself as a journalist who rejects the importuning of an actor playing a lobbyist. (“I try to look at all sides of an issue,” the journalist tells the man he calls a shill. “I am not going to carry your water on this.”) On the day that episode aired, viewers of Kurtz’s Reliable Sources were given a “sneak peek at my very own acting debut thanks to a much-hyped new HBO series about the way Washington works.” Indeed.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I’m not sure what Howie’s crime is, beyond being annoying. Heck, if that were against the law the whole town’d have to shut down.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

CJR thinks he deserves one for appearing on HBO’s “K Street,” and promoing it on his CNN show. Howard Kurtz, who already wears a somewhat precariously balanced second hat as host of CNN’s Reliable Sources, recently added to his millinery…<\/p>\n

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