Congratulations for Howard Kurtz for reporting on the Klein blackout. Whether you find the book’s reporting to be rock-solid or the writing to be overly personal, the debate over whether to have him on is a good subject. The liberal double standard with Kitty Kelley (whose NBC screen caption could have read “Hates the Bushes enough to be Dan Rather’s unimpeachable document source”) is transparent. I would have liked Kurtz to press Joe Scarborough on whether the heavy hand of Clinton golfing buddy Rick Kaplan wasn’t all over Klein not making his show. (Then again, Joe had on the other anti-Clinton author, Candice Jackson, debating with a Clintonista.) Fox’s cancellations are more interesting, although they gave Klein a very high-profile “Hannity” airing. Does Fox ever cancel guests to preserve access to leading Democrats? Does canceling one interview and keeping one really help?

As for Klein potentially appearing on “Good Morning America,” that actually raises another standards issue. If it’s unfair for enemies of the Clintons to come on air and spout unsubstantiated stories about their personal lives, let’s turn it around. Are fans of the Clintons allowed to come on “Good Morning America” and spout questionable claptrap about how the Clintons are bonded with “a sort of spiritual intensity” and have “sexual chemistry”? If you won’t do the damaging negative claims, can you air the damage-control positive claims? (ABC did with Tina Brown and Lucinda Franks in 1999, when it sounded especially ridiculous.)

PS: Kurtz’s Monday online chat was overrun by Plamegate obsessives, and only one Klein-booking-ethics question.