Richard Cohen

Mitt Romney's Most Enviable Trait

www.washingtonpost.com | Richard Cohen | Posted 04.17.2012

Read More: Super Pac, Washington Post, Mitt Romney Lies, Newt Gingrich, Richard Cohen, Mitt Romney, Mitt Romney 2012, Politics News

Among the attributes I most envy in a public man (or woman) is the ability to lie. If that ability is coupled with no sense of humor, you have the sor...

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GOP War on Sex: Is Erection Against Your Employer's "Moral Beliefs"?

Iris Erlingsdottir | Posted 05.21.2012

The Republicans have managed to alienate the majority of American women, but I can't imagine that the GOP's angry, white, male base is going to like this. The Republicans are in for a headache that no health professional can cure.

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Why Some Women Are Sexists

Soraya Chemaly | Posted 05.13.2012

Read More: Misogyny, Social Conservatives, Eve, Women's History Month, Pandora, Sexists, Miss Representation, Abortion Rights, Transvaginal-Sonogramviolence-Against-Women, Progressive Women, Gloria Steinem, Richard Cohen, Good Christian Bitches, Sarah Palin, Reproductive Rights, Human Rights, Pretty Little Liars Gossip Girls, Jezebel, Sexism, Abstinence-Only Education, Game Change, Women Sexists, Women Misogynists, Lovesocial, Video, Culture News

Every day people, like me, are banging their heads on their desks, asking "What is wrong with that woman?" "Why is she doing that?" "Doesn't she realize she's being used by a system that denigrates her?" Women in these positions clearly don't see it that way.

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'Game Change' Has Convinced Richard Cohen That Democrats Will Soon Succumb To Palinism

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 03.13.2012

Read More: Eat the Press, False Equivalence, Sarah Palin, Media Criticism, Richard Cohen, Game Change, Media News

Washington Post columnist Richard Cohen evidently felt compelled to write something about the movie "Game Change" because that was the big shiny thing...

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Meredith Vieira: 'I Didn't Ever Intend To Be A Journalist'

The Huffington Post | Mary Kate Sheridan | Posted 02.06.2012

Read More: 92y, Meredith Vieira Husband, Meredith Vieira Familyvideo, Gail Saltz, Meredith Vieira, 60 Minutes, Meredith Vieira 92Y, Meredith Vieira Career, Vieira, Today Show, The View, Today, Richard Cohen, Fifty News

"I didn't ever intend to be a journalist," Meredith Vieira told a New York City audience during a sit-down interview for 92Y's Ruth Stanton Illustriou...

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Here Are Some Thoughts I Had For America!: This Week In Pundit Pontifications

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 12.14.2011

Read More: Eat the Press, Thomas Friedman, Anwar Al-Awlaki, Occupy Wall Street, The New Republic, Media Criticism, Hillary Clinton, Richard Cohen, Joe Biden, Punditry, Media News

Whether we are heading for a Great Entropy or a Similarly Great Syntropy, I feel that it's important that we sail ahead with some sense of decorum. And so I feel compelled to come out against all of this Occupation of Wall Street that I am seeing throughout the nation. Yes, I do agree with everything they're saying. But I just cannot abide what I am seeing in the streets of America. All of this endless commingling of common people -- their thoughts sprawling hither and yon, their angst worn too evidently on their sleeve, their tonsorial habits too varied and non-traditional -- is just so déclassé.

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Warren Buffett Chief Of Staff's Business Card: 'You Don't Call Me. I Call You'

The Huffington Post | Harry Bradford | Posted 10.31.2011

Read More: New York Post, Oracle of Omaha, Too Big to Fail, New York Observer, Chief of Staff, Warren Buffett, Richard Cohen, Business Card, Alice Schroeder, Devon Spurgeon, Wall Street Journal, Business News

Yesterday was Berkshire Hathaway CEO Warren Buffett's birthday. And while the 81-year-old's public perception is that of an affable billionaire, his c...

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Meredith Vieira Reveals The Toll 'Today' Took On Her Personal Life

Posted 10.03.2011

Read More: Today Show, Meredith Vieira Today Show, Meredith Vieira Richard Cohen, Richard Cohen, Good Housekeeping, Meredith Vieira, Meredith Vieira Leaving Today Show, Magazines, Video, Media News

Meredith Vieira revealed to "Good Housekeeping" magazine that she left the "Today" show because it was putting a strain on her personal life. Vieir...

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Mubarak's Exit and America's Choice

Jalal Alamgir | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Islam, Mohamed ElBaradei, Muslim Brotherhood, President Zine El Abidine Ben Ali, Joseph McCarthy, John Bolton, Foreign Affairs, Hosni Mubarak, Richard Cohen, Dictatorship, Islamists, World News

In cases in which an Islamist party was elected fairly to power, democracy was indeed dismantled, but not by the Islamists. It was dismantled by the paranoid reaction of America and its allies.

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Richard Cohen Explains Why Egyptians Can't Have Nice Things

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Egypt Protests, Egyptian Protest, Richard Cohen, Egypt, Media Criticism, Hosni Mubarak, Eat the Press, Idiots, Media News

The images coming out of Egypt today are as powerful as any that we've seen during the past week. Few are unmoved by what's going on. But at least o...

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Richard Cohen Criticizes WikiLeaks, Lies About Michael Hastings

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Richard Cohen, War in Afghanistan, Michael Hastings, Media Criticism, Stanley McChrystal, Julian Assange, Eat the Press, Wikileaks, Idiots, Media News

The Washington Post's most inexplicable contributor, Richard Cohen, today attempts to grapple with the phenomenon that is WikiLeaks. It's a mess! He...

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Ground Zero For The Democrats' Shame (And Ron Paul's Courage)

MJ Rosenberg | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Jews, Islam, Muslim, Shelley Berkley, Israel, Richard Cohen, Mosque, park51, Ground Zero, Ron Paul, Politics News

According to Talking Points Memo, the following Democrats have come out publicly in favor of building the Islamic center in Lower Manhattan: Senat...

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Richard Cohen Repeats Himself Yet Again: Who Is The Real Obama?

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Barack Obama, Richard Cohen, Media Criticism, Washington Post Richard Cohen, Eat the Press, Media News

Steve Kornacki has a post up at War Room about a Richard Cohen op-ed that I missed out on reading, except that I didn't actually miss out on reading. ...

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Can Bennet Survive the Washington Post's Damning Praise?

Sean Paige | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: The Washington Post, Michael Bennet, Senator Michael Bennet, Andrew Romanoff, Richard Cohen, Dana Milbank, Denver News

If Michael Bennet really is friendly with folks at The Washington Post, he ought to call them up and tell them to knock it off.

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Is Michael Bennet's 'Washington' Ad Emblematic Of The Nation's Anti-Intellectualism? (VOTE)

Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Washington D.C., Colorado, Richard Cohen, Michael Bennet, Poll, Video, Denver News

In a column Tuesday, Washington Post columnist Richard Cohen singles out one of Colorado Senator Michael Bennet's TV commercials as an example of ever...

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CNN: America's Most Trusted News Source for Discredited Talking Heads?

Jarrett Barrios | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Glbt, Ex-Gay, Lgbt, Richard Cohen, Cnn, Gay, Media, Glaad, Media News

Inexplicably, CNN felt the need to "balance" a non-controversial issue by inviting a so-called "ex-gay" activist, Richard Cohen, onto its Newsroom program.

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CNN: 'Homosexuality, Is It A Problem In Need Of A Cure?' (VIDEO)

Huffington Post | Nicholas Graham | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Cnn, CNN Gay Segment, CNN Homosexuality Problem, CNN Ex-Gay, Video, Richard Cohen, Homosexuality, Sexual Orientation, Media News

In the context of a California Assemblywoman trying to repeal a 1950s law that obligated doctors to examine "the causes and cures of homosexuality," C...

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Richard Cohen: Gay-To-Straight 'Therapist' Spars With Rachel Maddow (VIDEO)

Huffington Post | Adam J. Rose | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Gay Cure, Homosexual, Lesbian, Straight, Richard Cohen, Heterosexuality, Gay, Heterosexual, Lgbt, Homosexuality, Video, Gay Rights, Rachel Maddow, Uganda, Media News

Richard Cohen claims he has helped thousands of people come out of ... homosexuality. His work has drawn the ire of the LGBT community, and has als...

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WaPo's Cohen Suggests That Nidal Hasan Investigation Needs More McCarthyism

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Richard Cohen, Media Criticism, Fort Hood, Nidal Hasan, Washington Post, Fort Hood Shootings, Eat the Press, Media News

As facts continue to emerge about alleged Fort Hood gunman Nidal Hasan, reasonable people should be able to agree that serious questions need to be as...

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Did the Washington Post's Richard Cohen Scare the "#!#!" Out of You?

David Danzig | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: CIA Interrogations, Dia, How-to-Break-a-Terrorist, Eric Maddox, Matthew Alexander, CIA Torture, Enhanced Interrogation Techniques, Richard Cohen, Iraq, Stuart Herrington, Torture, Politics News

Why would U.S. interrogators choose to use torture when other techniques have proven to be so much more effective?

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The Torture Apologist's Fallacy

Larisa Alexandrovna | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Human Rights, Geneva Conventions, Torture-Apologist, Cia, John Yoo, George W. Bush, Richard Cohen, Dod, War Crimes, Dick Cheney, Politics News

If a person in US custody is presumed innocent until proven guilty, then it does not matter whether or not torture works, does it? We don't torture innocent people, right?

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Richard Cohen Can't Be Bothered To Understand This "Health Care Reform" Thing

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Health Care Reform, Richard Cohen, Idiots, Eat the Press, Media News

You know, too often people speak about The Washington Post's Richard Cohen, bandying about phrases like "worst columnist in human history" or "the re...

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Scritti Politti: March 31, 2009

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Esquire, Auto Bailout, Video, Ikea, Richard Cohen, Friday Night Lights, Norm Coleman, 30 Rock, Glenn Beck, Salon, Auto Industry, Poetry, Eat the Press, Politics News

The Poetry of Glenn Beck: Somebody said let's make Swedish meatballs at the furniture store And somebody else said, that's a stupid idea; nobody's go...

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Richard Cohen: Who Lost The Debate? The Media

Washington Post | Richard Cohen | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Vice Presidential Debate, Richard Cohen, Bill Kristol, Dan Quayle, Joe Biden, Sarah Palin, Politics News

Reading William Kristol's column in yesterday's New York Times, I discover that Sarah Palin and I have something in common. Kristol, who was once Dan ...

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Richard Cohen Displays Delicate, Wafer-Thin Skin

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Richard Cohen, Barack Obama, Politics News

Via Yglesias, it seems that Washington Post columnist Richard Cohen has soured on the whole notion that he should be subject to criticism, and has dec...

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