Cohen (WP) and Colbert ...... "he was a bully"

[truthpusher]

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/robert-weissman/cohen-and-colbert_b_20372.html

"Colbert, says Cohen, was "not funny." He was, simply, "rude," engaged in "mockery that is insulting." Indeed, "Colbert was more than rude."

He was a bully.""

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from the Robert Weissman blog.....

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Cohen and Colbert

For some not entirely clear reason, Richard Cohen, one of the relatively few liberals among the Washington Post's pantheon of columnists, seems to think he has a duty to attack the liberal/left harshly.

In today's offering. Cohen goes after Stephen Colbert for his acerbic performance at the White House Correspondent's Dinner.

Colbert, says Cohen, was "not funny." He was, simply, "rude," engaged in "mockery that is insulting." Indeed, "Colbert was more than rude.

He was a bully."

I happened to think Colbert's routine was uproarious, but it's OK with me if Cohen thinks otherwise.

But he was "bullying" the president? Really? Watching a routine that highlights, among other issues, how the president deceived the American people to justify the invasion of Iraq (with, as a result, at least tens of thousands of Iraqis dead, along with 2,400 U.S. troops), the bullying that comes to mind is the fact that the president is not going to have an opportunity to respond at the dinner? Don't the president and the administration generally have a pretty decent platform to promote their views?

Why does Cohen think he should devote some of his valuable space on the Post op-ed page to going after Colbert? (His answer: "Because is representative of what too often passes for political courage, not to mention wit, in this country.")

This is not a one-time thing.

(snip)

link: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/robert-weissman/cohen-and-colbert_b_20372.html

[Dr Fate]

1. Yeah- so was Cindy Sheenan, Mark Twain and Upton Sinclair.

All "bullies" for being so mean to those poor, downtrodden people.

[JAbuchan08]

13. We can all be sharp wits, but we had better make sure that the tongues

we deliver that wit on be nice and dull. After all, we wouldn't want to hurt anyone, would we?

[SmokingJacket]

2. You can't bully the most powerful person in the room. nt

[Cooley Hurd]

3. Cohen is NOT a liberal - he only plays one in the funny papers...

Part of the Right Wing's plan to take over the media is to fill it with supposed liberal "ringers" that are never liberal. Richard Cohen is on the fast track to irrelevancy. See ya, ya fuckwit.:thumbsdown:

[glitch]

10. Fast track? He's already arrived.

And the stench of jealous irrelevancy permeates his every word.

[Gabi Hayes]

4. Cohen is INEFFABLY, nauseatingly hypocritical. this, from Ed./Pub

http://www.editorandpublisher.com/eandp/columns/pressingissues_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1002275180

While America Slept
Richard Cohen, the Washington Post columnist, declared on Thursday that President Bush "wanted war" in Iraq, and the White House case for it was mainly false. Yet, three years ago, Cohen wrote that "only a fool" could doubt the president and the need for war.



By Greg Mitchell

(March 30, 2006) -- Richard Cohen, the longtime Washington Post columnist sometimes accused of being a “liberal,” produced a strong column today, titled “Bush Wanted War.” In it he said he had long been skeptical of this idea, but now had come to accept it. That’s all well and good, but where was Cohen a little more than three years ago, when this fact was as plain as the smirk on the president’s face, and the columnist agitated for war anyway? If there was an “I’m sorry for being so stupid” embedded in Cohen’s column I didn’t spot it.


This is the man who, on Feb. 6, 2003, after Secretary of State Colin Powell’s deeply-flawed testimony in New York, wrote: “The evidence he presented to the United Nations -- some of it circumstantial, some of it absolutely bone-chilling in its detail -- had to prove to anyone that Iraq not only hasn't accounted for its weapons of mass destruction but without a doubt still retains them. Only a fool -- or possibly a Frenchman -- could conclude otherwise.” Yet Cohen has the nerve to write today: “Colin Powell, you may recall, soiled his stellar reputation with a United Nations speech that is now just plain sad to read. Almost none of it is true.” What about Cohen’s reputation?

Now Cohen observes that “Paul Wolfowitz was obsessed with Iraq, and that seems to have been true of the White House as well.” Of course, this was well-known in 2003, if you looked for it, but it didn’t stop Cohen from cheerleading for the war.

Today Cohen notes there is “plenty of evidence had Saddam on his mind and in his sights from the very moment he got the news of the terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon.” He concludes: “Whatever Bush's specific reason or reasons, the one thing that's so far missing from the record is proof of him looking for a genuine way out of war instead of looking for a way to get it started. Bush wanted war. He just didn't want the war he got.” Sadly, the same can be said of Cohen.

[Johonny]

5. well duh

You mean a comedian doing a routine that is basically a hyper Bill O'Liely comes off as a bully. That's the act they hired for the gig. Why people should be unhappy for getting exactly what they paid for is beyond me...

[daleo]

6. I prefer the term "meanie"

It carries the nuance of an aggrieved 10 year old better.

[glitch]

11. Lol! Steve Colbert's a meanie, nyah nyah. Poor sensibilities, how they do

suffer, having to endure "what stands for wit" in this age.

[Gabi Hayes]

7. more here

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=364x1101854

[w4rma]

8. Cohen has been an ineffectual wimp for a while now. He doesn't fight.

He considers himself above all that. And whats worse is that many times he tries to shoot down anyone who does try to fight especially when it seems that he should agree with their views. People are in the trenches fighting and he's safe in his ivory tower sniping at them.

[Kber]

9. Only if you think David was Bullying Goliath.

[Peace Patriot]

12. Really. Stephen Colbert being mean to poor widdle Bush.

You gotta laugh, that's all. And Richard Cohen is one of the most laughable of them all--just the type of Bush lapdog in pink collar who likely fantastizes writing that novel about the courageous reporter who stood up to a president.

Oh, Stephen!!!!

:rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl:

[driver8]

14. How could anyone be so mean to our loving and caring "president"?

He does everything that he can for the people of 'Merka and this is how he is rewarded?

Life just isn't fair sometimes, is it?

[NI4NI]

15. Well then

If Mr."Macho Man Mission Accomplished" Bush, the most powerful leader of the free world, can be bullied around by a 160lb. mountain of a man the size of Stephen Colbert, how the hell can he protect us? LOL!