“Some doing a good job, some grandstanding in my view,” Kurtz added. “I was surprised to CNN’s Jake Tapper say the police shouldn’t be out there in riot gear because there was no threat.”

On Monday night, Tapper said, “Absolutely there have been looters, absolutely over the last nine days there’s been violence, but there is nothing going on on this street right now that merits this scene out of Bagram.”

Kurtz continued, calling MSNBC the “Michael Brown defense network” led by Al Sharpton as well as criticizing unnamed conservative commentators for defending the police.