Richard Cohen Nails That Lying George W. Bush
Washington Post columnist Richard Cohen uses WikiLeaks as a jumping off point to talk about George W. Bush's new book and the run-up to the Iraq War (11/30/10): As my colleague, the indefatigably...
View ArticleRichard Cohen's Teach for America Column Deserves a Failing Grade
Washington Post columnist Richard Cohen's Teach for America column today (2/15/11) demonstrates a real problem with logic. "Cut Teach for America Funding and We'll Be Closer to Flunking the Future,"...
View ArticleTeach for America Is Great Because It's Great
Richard Cohen recently (FAIR Blog, 2/15/11) took to the Washington Post to argue that Teach for America is wonderful because…. Well, it just is. He predicted that the "best teacher in America" is...
View ArticleIs There Really a Goldstone 'Retraction'?
The big Israel-Palestine news of the weekis Richard Goldstone's op-ed in the Washington Post on Sunday (4/3/11). The short version you pick up from the media is that Goldstone has "retracted"his...
View ArticleRichard Cohen, Oxymoron
Washington Post columnist Richard Cohen writes (6/7/11): I once worked for an editor who banned the word "oxymoron." I don't know why. It's a good word, meaning a contradiction in terms. The dictionary...
View ArticleWhere Does Press Set Bar for Bachmann?
Washington Post columnist Richard Cohen wrote a rather apoplectic column about presidential candidate Michele Bachmann this week, lamenting the fact that other GOP candidates aren't calling her out for...
View ArticleRichard Cohen: Even the Dow Jones Can't Make Obama Cry
There are plenty of thoughtful pieces–Drew Westen's in the New York Times over the weekend being the most recent one–that try to figure out what's going on with Barack Obama. Then there's Washington...
View ArticleRichard Cohen Is Sorry You and He Got It Wrong
Washington Post columnist Richard Cohen (9/5/11) takes the eve of the 10th anniversary of 9/11 to say that he's sorry: I went home on September 11 with my shoes dusted with the detritus of the World...
View ArticleRichard Cohen: OWS Isn't Anti-Semitic–Just Clueless, Repugnant
Washington Post columnist Richard Cohen (10/24/11), tipped off by at least one of his Post colleagues, decided to pay a visit to Liberty Plaza to see the festival of anti-Semitism firsthand. Lo and...
View ArticlePundits and the Romney Pass
In theory, presidential campaigns are a valuable opportunity for journalists to evaluate candidates' positions on important issues so citizens can make an informed choice. Actual media coverage is...
View ArticleRichard Cohen Wowed by Professor Gingrich
Washington Post columnist Richard Cohen wrote a baffling column today (1/24/12) praising part of Newt Gingrich's political persona–not the bad stuff, but man"of big ideas," as he put it (italics his)....
View ArticleRichard Cohen on Candidate Lying Is Half-Baked–and Half Cribbed
Richard Cohen says he envies people who are persuasive liars. He really ought to envy people who are persuasive writers. His column today (4/17/12) is ostensibly about how Mitt Romney is a big liar. It...
View ArticleNYT: Iranians and Their Lying Religion
There are different ways media talk about how you can't trust Iran. Washington Post columnist Richard Cohen, for one, went straight for bigotry: "These Persians lie like a rug," he wrote in 2009. The...
View ArticleMitt Romney Swift Boats Himself
The criticism of Mitt Romney's time at Bain Capital doesn't appear to be leaving the headlines. And thus some political reporters are, as Jamison Foser notes, drawing an unusual comparison: Romney is...
View ArticleCorporate Media Lose Their Favorite 'Warrior Scholar'
There's no doubt that the sex scandal that prompted CIA director David Petraeus's sudden resignation late last week is a big story. New details–verified or not–seem to arrive almost by the hour. But...
View ArticlePrecise Weapons Kill Civilians Too
As a general rule, it'd be better if media accounts of war did not stress the surgical precision of the weapons being used. It's a fixture of U.S. reporting on U.S. wars, but the same rhetoric is used...
View ArticleWhere Are They Now? The Reporters Who Got Iraq So Wrong
Ten years ago today, Colin Powell made the Bush administration's case for going to war against Iraq, and much of what he said was false. Most of the journalists who promoted his justifications for the...
View ArticleWhat's the Message of Clinton's Noncampaign for the Office She Might Run for...
Hillary Clinton hasn't announced that she's running for president in 2016, and launched a campaign yet. But the Washington Post is already complaining that her nonexistent campaign for an office she...
View ArticleDoes Being a Pundit Ever Mean Having to Say You're Sorry?
"The early denunciations of Snowden now seem both over the top and beside the point," the Washington Post's Richard Cohen writes. He should know--he wrote one of them. And now he says his initial...
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Columnist Often Called ‘Racist’ Doesn’t Think Police Activists Should Use...
Don’t laugh at William Bratton, warns Richard Cohen–that’s a sign of an “anti-cop mood.” (photo: James Keivom/Daily News) “Liberal New York is in a distinctly anti-cop mood,” says New York Daily News...
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