Howard Kurtz Calls BuzzFeed Story Clownish

In a column for The Daily Beast, media reporter Howard Kurtz included a BuzzFeed report in a wrap-up of what he says has become a “clown campaign.”

“It’s the last two weeks of a presidential campaign,” Kurtz writes, “a time for suspense, for intrigue, for plot twists and…well, a whole lot of silliness.” He goes on to chronicle a few weird developments in campaign coverage over the past several days, including… Conservative author Ann Coulter calling President Obama a “retard,” Donald Trump proposing a $5 million donation to charity if Obama releases his college transcripts and a conspiratorial report by Fox Nation that questioned whether the Obama campaign is coordinating with famed attorney Gloria Allred.

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