Mr. Cohen, I Used to Live in the Past
Looking back on the good old days when we all supported torture, Richard Cohen writes today in the Washington Post (1/27/09): "The past is a foreign country; they do things differently there." So goes...
View ArticleRichard Cohen on Jon Stewart's 'Cheap Shot'
Many observers praised the Daily Show's Jon Stewart for his hard-hitting interview with CNBC's Jim Cramer. Columnist Richard Cohen (Washington Post, 3/17/09) begs to differ. Actually, Stewart was...
View ArticleFinancial Reporters''Very Complex' Basic Incompetence
Dean Baker (Beat the Press, 3/17/09) weighs in on Richard Cohen's defense of Jim Cramer, accusing the Washington Post columnist of "continuing the stream of excuses for the financial media's failure to...
View ArticleRichard Cohen's Torture Fantasyland
In his column today, Washington Post's Richard Cohentells us that he is against torture, which itself is not remarkable. His real point is this: Yet the debate over torture has been infected with silly...
View ArticleDoes Torture Work, or Might Therapy Be More Effective?
A couple of recent FAIR Blog posts have dealt with apologists for torture: Washington Post columnist Richard Cohen and former CIA interrogator John Kiriakou, who misled ABC News about the effectiveness...
View ArticleRichard Cohen on Racism: Not a Problem!
Washington Post columnist Richard Cohen uses theFrank Ricci Supreme Court case to attack affirmative action: The justification for affirmative action gets weaker and weaker. Maybe once it was possible...
View ArticleRichard Cohen's Insults
Washington Post columnist Richard Cohen writes today of Iran's nuclear program: They then turned themselves in to the International Atomic Energy Agency in Vienna and, as usual, said the site was...
View ArticleRichard 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...
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