To hell with Richard Cohen (re: Plame outing)

[drbtg1]

from today's Rush and Molloy column (NY Daily News)

"The F-word jarred the prestigious panel assembled at Michael's yesterday to discuss New York Times reporter Judith Miller.

(snip)

Reuters global editor Paul Holmes, and Court TV's Henry Schleiff and anchor Catherine Crier got singed when sparks flew between Vanity Fair writer Michael Wolff and the Washington Post's Richard Cohen (whose column also appears in the Daily News).

"I think this certainly is one of the biggest stories of our age," said Wolff. "If the guy closest to the President has potentially committed a felony ... The President said, 'If anyone is involved in this in my administration, they're going to get fired.' ... If Karl Rove were out of business, that's a f-ing big story."

"You guess, and then you write!" Cohen blasted later at Wolff. "This is a crappy little crime, and it may not be a crime at all."

A crappy little crime, he says. If this columnist can't bother with research, he should be fired.


http://www.nydailynews.com/front/story/338034p-288642c.html

[mattclearing]

1. Richard Cohen is a joke. Stop reading the Wa. Post.

He gets it wrong time after time, and yet somehow thinks he has credibility as a liberal.

Way to suck up to the Administration, Dick.

[Burried News]

2. I respect Richard Cohen. He supported the war initially but when

he realized that Cheney had lied about WMD's he went after the administration in article after article. I think he may see Judy as a victim of disinformation just as he was.

I think he's wrong. I think Judy WhatsaMataHari is a fifth columnist.
I definitely don't think Richard Cohen is.

Some were called. Some are chosen, Richard got the shaft.

[drbtg1]

3. My impression from reading the article was that...

...Cohen wasn't suggesting the crime for which Judy Miller is in jail for was the "crappy little crime" but rather the Plame outing was. It is for that reason that Cohen is a tool.

[Burried News]

5. Oh - I haven't been reading the WaPo for about 3 weeks. Let me

see what he has written lately. I still think he is influenced by his 'I was duped' situation.
If you are correct I would have trouble, alot of trouble with what he is saying. Thanks for giving me another slant. I appreciate it.

[drbtg1]

6. No prob

Seeing how Rush and Molloy wrote it, I can understand a different interpretation. But seeing what immediately preceeded Cohen's comment, namely the view of Wolff commenting on the potential fallout of the Plame outing, it would appear Cohen doesn't think "the most insidious of traitors" is worthy of consideration.

[chaumont58]

4. If you have read Cohen over the years, you can easily....

come to the realization that he is one of the penultimate beltway whores. He shares a lot with Cokie Roberts and Sam Donaldson. Bush remained a 'popular wartime president' in writing long after he was with most of the US citizenry because Bush was popular with Cohen's crowd.