December 10, 2023

Howard Kurtz doesn't understand the role journalism is supposed to play in our democracy, but what else would you expect from someone who works for Fox?

At the end of a lengthy segment on this Sunday's Media Buzz with Fox regulars Clay Travis and Harold Ford Jr. discussing Trump's dictator threat, along with threats to journalists made by people like Steve Bannon and Kash Patel, Kurtz decided to end the segment by chastising journalists for rightfully reporting on the fact that Trump and his allies are fascists.

KURTZ: I just want to say to journalists who say “Well, he is a fascist,” if you think that, then you should quit your journalism job and go campaign against him, rather than using news organizations to allow this campaign, which I think is a lot louder than it's ever been.

It's telling that he believes simply reporting on what Trump and his flunkies say is somehow "campaigning" against him. Someone wake me up when Kurtz and the rest of his network stops "campaigning" against Biden and other Democrats with a daily barrage of lies.

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