Conservatives rally behind MSM’s Howard Kurtz

Fri, 03 May 2013 17:10:00 +0000

You would expect Howard Kurtz' departure from the Daily Beast to be fodder for conservative critics of the liberal mainstream media, but probably not in this way.

The problem they seem to have with the incident is not that Kurtz falsely accused openly gay NBA player Jason Collins of concealing his engagement to a woman, or that he spread himself too thin and let the quality of his work suffer, but that the Daily Beast fired Kurtz for it. Here's popular conservative blogger Ace of Spades, spelling out what many saw as a double standard:

Clearly Kurtz erred, and rather dumbly. But he does this a lot, and no one's had a problem with it in the past. Why now? I think it's pretty obvious -- Jason Collins is now the Gay Black Sandra Fluke, and therefore now An Hero, and the Left protects its heroes.

And John Nolte of Breitbart News:

Kurtz's sin was making this error with a sacred cow. Had he made EXACT same error with a Palin or Bachmann, media & Beast woulda shrugged.

— John Nolte(@NolteNC) May 2, 2013

Conservative mag axes pro-gay writer

Tue, 13 Nov 2012 16:12:00 +0000

The flagship neoconservative magazine Commentary is coming under fire after the letting go of a writer who expressed support for gay marriage. The writer, D.G. Myers, was let go last Thursday after writing a post called “The Conservative Case for Gay Marriage,” though his editor says it had nothing to do with the content of the post. The editor maintains that Myers was not authorized to publish on politics without the permission of the magazine’s management, since he was explicitly a literary blogger.

The debacle started after Mitt Romney’s election loss. Myers, a blogger on books for Commentary, published two pieces exploring whether the Republican Party should quit opposing gay marriage. It was the second post, “The Conservative Case for Gay Marriage,” that allegedly led to his firing.

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Conservatives rally behind MSM’s Howard Kurtz

Conservative mag axes pro-gay writer