Howard Kurtz Hits CNN’s Dana Bash For ‘Cringe-Inducing’ Conway Interview: ‘Out of Bounds’

Were Dana Bash‘s questions to Kellyanne Conway about her husband on CNN Sunday acceptable? Or were they out of line?

CNN’s New Day has already weighed in, saying Bash’s query was valid, and Conway was out of line for making “weird threats” in response.

Now, for the dissenting view. Howard Kurtz of Fox News said Monday that he thought Bash was the one in the wrong for what he called a “cringe-inducing” interview. Conway, according to Kurtz, should not have been made to answer for her husband’s Tweets — many of which have been critical of President Donald Trump.

“The question from Dana Bash — who’s a respected reporter — was designed to embarrass Kellyanne Conway, and it was out of bounds,” Kurtz said. He added, “Why should a senior White House official have to answer for what her husband, who is a private lawyer and not really a public figure, is tweeting if he is being critical of the president? Whether Dana Bash would have asked that of a male official or not, aren’t spouses entitled to have their own political views?”

As to Conway’s suggestion that spouses of reporters were now “fair game,” Kurtz said this:

“There is a little bit of a double standard here. Journalists have the view that, ‘We should be able to ask anybody anything we want.’ But if somebody turns it back on us, ‘Well, that’s threatening, that’s inappropriate.’ And I don’t believe that.”

“If the standard now is that anybody in public life can be asked, ‘What about the fact that your husband, your wife, your family member disagrees with you on something?’ Then that does open up a difficult can of worms that could affect journalists as well.”

Watch above, via Fox News.

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