Richard Cohen

Richard Cohen on Sarah Palin

Photo Dude (Free subscription) | 09/04/2008

... news consumer is a feeling of consummate contempt for the intelligence of the American people.” Richard Cohen

The Iron Lady

The Daily Dish (Free subscription) | 09/02/2008

Richard Cohen unloads.

Richard Cohen: Palin pick is "McCain's attempt to make fools of his fellow Republicans"

Reformed Chicks Blabbing (Free subscription) | 09/02/2008

Even though this column comes after a successful roll out of the announcement of the Palin pick, Cohen sees it as McCain's attempt to make his party look foolish:John McCain's selection of Palin, which I first viewed with horror, could...

WaPo's Cohen: Palin Pick Like Caligula Naming His Horse a Priest

NewsBusters (Free subscription) | 09/02/2008

Imagine the outrage in feminist circles if a conservative columnist had mockingly analogized a sitting Dem governor to an animal. But Richard Cohen has said as much of Sarah Palin. And I predict you won't hear a peep from the Kim Gandys or Naomi Wolffs of the world—much less from their allies in the MSM. Cohen begins his WaPo column of today by dismissing Palin as "a sitcom of...

Cohen refuses the Kool-Aid

The RBC (Free subscription) | 09/02/2008

Richard Cohen makes up for some of the lies he has told about Barack Obama by telling some of the truth about Sarah Palin. He's halfway between spluttering with rage and helpless with laughter. Yes, he even mention's Caligula's horse. And I think it's fair to say that "Commander in Chief of the Alaska National Guard" was not a successful rhetorical figure. Some of the good bits: * Sarah...

Snarkaliciousness

WTF Is It Now?? (Free subscription) | 09/02/2008

Richard Cohen actually gets snarky: Gingrich's point about Palin being commander in chief of the Alaska National Guard has been echoed throughout the GOP. In fact, even Cindy McCain pointed out -- rightly enough -- that Alaska is across the Bering Strait from Russia and so Palin, by deduction, has been on the front lines of the Cold War . . . had it not ended in 1989. Still, you have...

Snarkaliciousness

Undeniable Liberalism (Free subscription) | 09/02/2008

Richard Cohen actually gets snarky: Gingrich's point about Palin being commander in chief of the Alaska National Guard has been echoed throughout the GOP. In fact, even Cindy McCain pointed out -- rightly enough -- that Alaska is across the Bering Strait from Russia and so Palin, by deduction, has been on the front lines of the Cold War . . . had it not ended in 1989. Still, you have...

FBI's civil rights initiative: no trials yet

kansascity.com (Free subscription) | 09/06/2008

... February 2007 news conference - John Jackson of the NAACP, who now works for a private firm, and Richard Cohen, director of the Southern Poverty Law Center - have come to question the government's motives.

"I've been disappointed that more cases have not been brought," Cohen said. "I worried that too many people would get their hopes up. I don't want to be part of a show."

Some...

FBI's civil rights initiative: no trials yet

Arizona Republic (Free subscription) | 09/06/2008

... February 2007 news conference - John Jackson of the NAACP, who now works for a private firm, and Richard Cohen, director of the Southern Poverty Law Center - have come to question the government's motives."I've been disappointed that more cases have not been brought," Cohen said. "I worried that too many people would get their hopes up. I don't want to be part of a show."Some...

Despite fanfare, FBI initiative brings no prosecutions in unsolved civil rights era killings

Star Tribune (Free subscription) | 09/06/2008

... February 2007 news conference — John Jackson of the NAACP, who now works for a private firm, and Richard Cohen, director of the Southern Poverty Law Center — have come to question the government's motives."I've been disappointed that more cases have not been brought," Cohen said. "I worried that too many people would get their hopes up. I don't want to be part of a show."Some...

FBI's civil rights initiative: no trials yet

Seattle Post-Intelligencer (Free subscription) | 09/06/2008

... February 2007 news conference - John Jackson of the NAACP, who now works for a private firm, and Richard Cohen, director of the Southern Poverty Law Center - have come to question the government's motives."I've been disappointed that more cases have not been brought," Cohen said. "I worried that too many people would get their hopes up. I don't want to be part of a show."Some...

FBI's civil rights initiative: no trials yet

Seattle Times (Free subscription) | 09/06/2008

... February 2007 news conference - John Jackson of the NAACP, who now works for a private firm, and Richard Cohen, director of the Southern Poverty Law Center - have come to question the government's motives."I've been disappointed that more cases have not been brought," Cohen said. "I worried that too many people would get their hopes up. I don't want to be part of a show."Some...

Liberals Keeping It Classy

Adam's Blog (Free subscription) | 09/03/2008

Palin Derangement Syndrome is going into override. Richard Cohen in the Washington Post (Hat Tip: Campaign Spot.): One of the great sights of American political life — a YouTube moment if ever there was one — was to see the doughboy face of Newt Gingrich as he extolled the virtues of Sarah Palin, a sitcom of a [...]

Lay off Palin, but…

tygerland.net (Free subscription) | 09/02/2008

Richard Cohen over at the WashPo’s PostPartisan blog :: But none of that changes the fact that if the Palins and others in the Republican Party had their way, the decision to abort an unwanted teenage pregnancy even at the earliest stage and for almost any reason — immaturity, mental health, whatever — would be firmly [...] ShareThis

Lunchtime update: No clue on Palin

The Tiger in Somerville (Free subscription) | 09/02/2008

The nomination of Sarah Palin for Veep has thrown me for a loop. I honestly have no idea how this is going to break. Initially, this seems to have helped Obama — she isn’t a traditional VP pick, and there’s a certain laugh-at-it quality to it all. Richard Cohen has compared it to Caligula hiring his [...]