Howard Kurtz: Gutless
A network television President had no problem with people giving a voice to "The Birther Idiot Movement." Not Roger Ailes of Fox though....... the President of CNN, Jonathan Klein : Well, by the time Kurtz got around to addressing the issue on today's Reliable Sources, CNN President Jonathan Klein had weighed in, calling Dobbs' Birtherism "legitimate" and denouncing Dobbs' critics as "people with a partisan point of view from one extreme." (Klein had earlier indicated that the story was dead and the Birthers' claims baseless; his flip-flop raises the question of who is in charge -- Klein or Dobbs.) Yup, Kurtz, the media critic did this: Had Kurtz addressed the Dobbs issue last week, when he should have, he might have been able to get away with not coming back to it. But by waiting until today, he put himself in a position where he had to either address Klein's comments, or shy away from criticizing the boss. He chose to keep quiet ab...