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Howard Kurtz reminds us that the Village Opining Society is a restricted club:
Elizabeth Smart first came into our consciousness nearly a decade ago as a 14-year-old girl kidnapped from her Salt Lake City bedroom. She was found alive nine months later, some 18 miles from her home, and the man and woman who seized her were ultimately convicted.
Now The Daily Beast has learned that Smart is about to start a new job at … ABC News.
Does that strike anyone as odd?
Other than fame—as the victim of a horrifying crime—what exactly are her qualifications?
Elizabeth Smart was hired to appear “when there are missing children or missing-person cases in the news.” but, hmmph, it’s not like she’s the daughter of former president who spent a couple of years student teaching and then became the go-to correspondent for all things educational. And Jeebus knows Smart didn’t rise up from her blue collar/St. Albans roots to become a congressional correspondent because she grew up knowing in which pocket Bob Dole used to keep his butterscotch candy.
No. Elizabeth Smart is just a composed (some might say ‘freakishly composed’ considering whet she went through) young lady with more than a little insight on childhood abductions. Unfortunately for her, her parents aren’t media personalities, politicians, or paid flacks, therefore, she is unclean.
Maybe Howard Kurtz should invite Meghan McCain to be on Reliable Sources to explain this better than I can….
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Howie, this is exactly the same argument you used to complain about that McCain tart, that Palin tart and that Bush tart!
Get a new… oh, sorry; you didn’t complain those times, did you?
Howard learned to curtzy long ago, but only to the right people.
A major network hired Elizabeth Smart.
Pumkinhead Russert Jr. is stuck on cable.
Life is so unfair.
Howie Kurtz. Whadda twat.
Who is Howard Kurtz? And why hasn’t he gone Galt already?
Shorter Howard Kurtz: ABC should have hired Bristle, she dances on teebee real good.
Oh, come on. What could an obviously bright young woman who managed as a child to keep herself alive and together despite being under the sick control of a psychopath and his helper know about missing children?
Certainly, she’s got parents who did all the right stuff in helping her to overcome the trauma she’d experienced and move out into the world with something to offer. But did they pay the right dues to pave her way, like all the aforementioned worthless spawn of celebrities?
Apparently not, according to Howie.
You gotta be a multi-billionaire in order to have an opinion.
Howie does the jilted-creep.
I’m more than a little afraid that ABC hired for the creepy factor viewers will get every time they see her….But if she turns out to have some chops, I hope they/we will get over that quickly.
TBogg said it better, but heck yeah, with Luke Russert all over my teevee on serious political issues and being treated with gravity by his supposed professional peers, even if she doesn’t have chops, I can’t be too bothered about it.
She sure knows more about the subject than Nancy Grace.
*(well, I exaggerate maybe about Nancy Grace – I’ve been unable to elude her ads, but have never once watched her show)
That’s a lot more outrage than I heard him express over Jeff Gannon. (And most of that had to do with Gannon’s being a male sex whore and not his being a right-wing male press whore.)