2016 Postmortem
Related: About this forumCokie Robers on Trump supporters: they're "morally tainted"
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/cokie-roberts-donald-trump_us_57b45b9fe4b0edfa80da567c?section=us_politics*I couldn't copy or paste any of the content, so the whole story is at the link.
RapSoDee
(421 posts)...is morally tainted.
So you might want to notice what happens when you - in particular - point Your Finger at your fellow traveling Republicans:
pnwmom
(108,978 posts)Her father is a former Democratic House majority leader and her mother was Lindy Boggs, Democratic Senator from Louisiana.
And I won't link to it, but this is typical of what right-wing sites say about her: "Longtime liberal hack Cokie Roberts made an appearance on Good Morning America Thursday morning, back to her usual shtick of defending Clinton and bashing those racist Republicans. During a segment on Chelsea Clinton, who will speak at tonights DNC event, Roberts argued that the public was wrong in its perception of Hillary Clinton as inauthentic before throwing in a punch at Republicans as the non- diverse party."
marybourg
(12,631 posts)scarletwoman
(31,893 posts)Are you sure you're not confusing her with the execrable Andrea Mitchell?
GoCubsGo
(32,084 posts)scarletwoman
(31,893 posts)She's no right-winger. See post #3.
Cokie is a wonderfully intelligent political commentator who calls bullshit when she sees it. Don't confuse her with Andrea Mitchell!
GoCubsGo
(32,084 posts)I am not confusing her with anyone. And, I didn't call her a "right-winger." She might be supporting Hillary now, but she sure as hell didn't support her or her husband, back when he was the president. And, I have regularly had to turn off the radio or TV , after getting tired of hearing her joining in the pile-ons against Democrats with her fellow commentators. She's an opportunist, who voices her opinions based on which direction the political winds are blowing.
tenderfoot
(8,436 posts)Last edited Thu Aug 18, 2016, 11:39 AM - Edit history (1)
Despite others protestations, Cokie Roberts is an insufferable hack:
Farewell, My Cokie
By Eric Alterman
Speaking on NPR recently, Cokie Roberts, the soon-to-retire co-host of ABCs This Week, falsely informed her listeners that the President was exonerated by the Securities and Exchange Commission. In fact, even though his daddy was the President of the United States during the incident in question, after a remarkably relaxed investigation the SEC informed Bushs lawyer that its decision must in no way be construed as indicating that [George W. Bush] has been exonerated.
Call me sentimental, but Im going to miss the old gal. With no discernible politics save an attachment to her class, no reporting and frequently no clue, she was the perfect source for a progressive media critic: a perpetual font of Beltway conventional wisdom uncomplicated by any collision with messy reality.
Lippmann/Dewey fans will remember that the very idea of a watchdog press breaks down when the watchdog starts acting likeand more important, sympathizing withthe folks upon whom he or she has been hired to keep an eye. With Cokie, this was never much of an issue. Her dad was a Congressman. Her mom was a Congresswoman. Her brother is one of the slickest and wealthiest lobbyists in the city. Her husband, Steve Roberts, holds the dubious honor of being perhaps the only person to give up a plum New York Times job because it interfered with his television career. And together they form a tag-team buck-raking/book-writing enterprise offering up corporate speeches and dime-store Dear Abby-style marriage advice to those unfortunates who do not enjoy his-and-her television contracts.
Cokie came to public attention at NPR, where she developed some street cred as a Capitol Hill gumshoe, but apparently grew tired of the hassle of actual reporting, which only helped her career. With no concern for the niceties of conflicts of interest, she and her husband accepted together as much as $45,000 in speaking fees from the very corporations that were affected by the legislation she was allegedly covering in Congress. Moreover, she claimed something akin to a royal prerogative in refusing to address the ethical quandary it obviously raised. (A spokesman responding to a journalists inquiry said that Queen Cokies corporate speaking fees were not something that in any way, shape or form should be discussed in public.)
Apparently, nobody ever told Cokie that the job of the insider pundit is to at least pretend to be conversant with the major political, economic and intellectual issues in question before putting these in the service of a consensually derived story line. The pedantic George Will and the peripatetic Sam Donaldson at least give the impression of having considered their remarks ahead of time, either by memorizing from Bartletts or pestering politicians. Not Cokie. Once, when a reporting gig interfered with one of her many social and/or speaking engagements, she donned a trench coat in front of a photo of the Capitol in the ABC studios in the hopes of fooling her viewers. She was not a real journalist; she just played one on TV.
Still, her commentary was invaluable, if inadvertently so. As a pundit, she was a windup Conventional Wisdom doll. The problem with Bill Clinton, for instance, was that he was the wrong sort for Cokie and her kind. This is a community in all kinds of ways, she told Sally Quinn during the impeachment crisis. When something happens everybody gathers around
. Its a community of good people involved in a worthwhile pursuit. Here was her analysis of the complicated constitutional questions impeachment raised: People who act immorally and lie get punished, she proclaimed, noting that she approach[ed] this as a mother. (Her own children are fully grown, but perhaps theyre real sensitive
) This ought to be something that outrages us, makes us ashamed of him. When the country refused to go along with the ironclad Broder/Cokester consensus, she supported impeachment anyway, because then people can lead public opinion rather than just follow it through the process. These same people, meaning Ken Starr, Newt Gingrich and Cokies friends, made a return appearance in Cokieworld when the Supreme Court handed Al Gores victory to George W. Bush following the Florida 2000 election crisis. People do think its political, but they think thats OK, she averred. They expect the court to be political, and they wanted the election to be over.
more: https://www.thenation.com/article/farewell-my-cokie/