Just a note about Sunday's “Reliable Sources,” and how Kurtz wondered again and again how somebody like Beck could go on Fox News and call the president a racist and not suffer any kind of negative consequences.

“So, my question is, how does he get away with this?” Kurtz asked his guests. “He doesn't seem to be paying any price.” He also noted incredulously that, “There doesn't seem to be any great uproar about it.”

Fact: In the pages of the Washington Post, media critic Kurtz himself spent the previous week remaining completely silent about Beck's “racist” attack. In fact, the entire WashPost staff played dumb--Beck's smear was never reported in the newspaper, let alone condemned.

But on Sunday, Kurtz went on CNN and acted confused about why Beck was able to call Obama a racist on national television and nobody (in the press) really did much of anything about it.