Howard Kurtz is a nice, hard-working, fair-minded guy, but all too often I read his columns and lament that our most prominent media critic enables media bias more than he polices it. See this comment in his column today:

Some conservatives criticized Gibson for raising religion by asking Palin whether she considers the Iraq conflict a “holy war.” But how can it be unfair to ask about her own words, in a church, that “our national leaders are sending U.S. soldiers on a task that is from God”?

The actual conservative criticism is that Gibson’s quotation was so partial as to reverse Palin’s meaning (and that he pompously insisted on its accuracy). Kurtz doesn’t seem to get the problem, since he repeats the offense.