Isn't this ass supposedly "liberal"? Wash Post columnist Cohen...

[HardWorkingDem]

He writes an essay that the Plame leak case should go away.

Isn't this guy a "liberal" columnist? Or is that another Cohen?


http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/10/12/AR2005101202002.html

Here's the letter I sent to his email...

Mr. Cohen,

Put aside your biased journalistic ties in this matter and look at the other larger issue: political animals in our government did this to intimidate Joe Wilson and to stop the free flow of information to the American public.

You people in journalism and reporting failed the American people over the Iraq war and WMDs, and terribly so. And now you all want to try and protect your little world by screaming about the protection of "confidential sources" and other journalistic garbage.
Miller was used, and allowed herself to be used by the Bush Whitehouse. Her reporting was terrible as was most of the press on these important issues. So yes, this leak investigation is important. We have young Americans dying every day because of the actions of this Whitehouse and practices like intimidating people with contrary opinions to the Bush Whitehouse.
If you can't see this, then maybe it's time for you to retire.

[sinkingfeeling]

1. He is more in the middle of the road...in fact, he wrote a column on

that about election time last year.

[soleft]

2. Atrios and Kos are piling up on Cohen for this article

Kos called him a dumb fuck

[mattclearing]

5. What took them so long?

I haven't been able to stomach him in years. He's one of those '9/11 changed everything' fucktards. Worse than Friedman...at least Friedman can come up with intelligent back-up for his ignorant bullshit.

[blm]

3. Her reporting was NOT terrible, she transcribed Cheney's notes via Chalabi

accurately.

She DID fail to report that she is a propagandist for the fascist agenda and that she is only pretending to be a journalist.

If Cohen was a better INVESTIGATIVE journalist he would have reported that by now.

[progressivebydesign]

4. Good letter! The thing these "journalists" are missing is this...

Yes, there are some protections about revealing sources ABOUT crimes. However.. (and this is where they're clueless).. when the reveal is THE CRIME ITSELF, there can be no protections. DO they not get this? Outing a CIA operative to the media IS THE CRIME. Did these folks get their degrees from the Jeff Gannon School of Journalism, or what?

[Cassandra]

6. Americablog said RIP - Richard Cohen.

That was such a puke-inducing column I could hardly bear to read it.

[jbonkowski]

7. He is woefully uninformed

First, he's completely ignoring the fallout of the outing of the CIA front company that Plame worked for. The impact is bigger than just the loss of Plame's ability to work undercover. There was a real crime committed here. Is he arguing to lower the bar for protecting state secrets.

Second, just because Plame "got hit by a ricochet" it's not a big deal? What? If he were literally hit by a ricochet, and called the police, I guess they should tell him to get over it.

Third, if additional crimes are discovered during an investigation, they should be ignored? Lying to grand juries and FBI agents is okay?

What an ass.

[ChairmanAgnostic]

8. it also appeared in a local regional paper, my response to Cohen,

For years, I used to enjoy reading your pieces. In fact, I looked forward to them, either in the Wash Post Weekly or on line.

I cannot state enough how offensive, wrongheaded and just plain wrong your article struck me. Did some neocon ghost writer fill in for you? Were you toasting one too many Christian Brothers brandies with the president? Did Karl call you and insist on a puff piece to protect the administration? How much did they pay you? (since this White House is guilty of buying writers to create propaganda)

Where did you get the idea that the deliberate identification of a highly placed CIA operative was just politics as usual inside the bloatway? According to reliable Russian sources, her outing has caused them major headaches, because of the work she had done before (apparently, the efforts she started were successfully continuing and allowing US and Russian anti prolif. teams to work) Now, all that work is gone. Once her ability to maintain her cover was gone, the entire effort has been destroyed.

That constitutes TREASON, Mr. Cohen, not politics as usual. TREASON. And Karl Rove's treason is no better than AIPAC's repeated efforts to steal our secrets, and those US citizens willing to cooperate with them.

I cannot express my disgust at your gamesmanship, partisanship or just plain ignorance here. This article is wrong on so many points, that I won't even try to point out all of the errors.

I am left with a couple of difficult questions, difficult because posing them is no fun at all. What happened to you, Mr. Cohen? Did some Rovian operative get to you? Are you on their payroll? Have you taken temporary leave of your senses?

Please, explain it to us. Because this article is not just wrong, it harms our country by again bringing politics into law and justice. If that pleases you, just wait after Miers is sworn in. I guess you will be as happy as a pig in slop by then.

[KoKo]

9. Kind of makes one wonder if he's being run by same folks who run Judy...

:eyes: How many others out there are part of "PsyOps." Sure is getting easier to tell, these days.

[gratuitous]

10. Absolute codswallop

And Cohen knows it -- or at least, he used to know it once upon a time. But he's so "in" now in Washington, and his lust for David Broder's throne as King Shit on Turd Island has seared over his mind and he can no longer distinguish right from wrong. For Cohen everything now boils down to whether it advances or hinders the objectives of the power elite in Washington.

And you don't get invited to the swellest parties by hindering the power elite.

[SaveElmer]

11. He is one of those liberals like David Broder...

Who like to write columns critical of Democrats to show how "
impartial" they are....they usually spend more time bashing Democrats than Republicans...and often go out of their way to find something to praise the other side about.

Broder and Cohen are useless in my opinion.

[Cocoa]

12. Cohen's review of "Fahrenheit 9/11" was among the very worst

It was really amazingly bad.

[Halliburton]

13. what an asshole

what was he thinking when he wrote this?