In today’s Washington Post, Howard Kurtz nails down how many media outlets are going to offer publicity for trash-for-cash Kitty Kelley, starting with three days of interviews on Today starting Monday. Know that in April of 1991, the same program gave Kelley three days to trash the Reagans — interviewed softly by the delightfully objective Bryant Gumbel. Also note that “Today” has so far failed to interview any member of the Swift Boat Veterans for Truth, who somehow are placed lower on the reliability food chain than the woman who claimed Nancy Reagan and Frank Sinatra were having an affair in the White House.
Mark my words: the coming Kitty Kelley media boomlet is another indelible example of the liberal media’s lack of reverence for fact-checking and their enthusiasm for unproven smears when the target is Republican. This is where the liberal media earns the label.