Cohen gets Bitch* Slapped

Why the anger? It can be summed up in one run-on sentence: We have lost two towers in New York, a part of the Pentagon, an important American city called New Orleans, our economic solvency, our global reputation, our moral authority, our children's future, we have lost tens of thousands of American soldiers to death and grievous injury, we must endure the Abramoffs and the Cunninghams and the Libbys and the whores and the bribes and the utter corruption, we must contemplate the staggering depth of the hole we have been hurled down into, and we expect little to no help from the mainstream DC press, whose lazy go-along-to-get-along cocktail-circuit mentality allowed so much of this to happen because they failed comprehensively to do their job.

I think most of us would say a very loud AMEN to that sentiment. This was written by the brilliant William Rivers Pitt in response to the Washington Post "liberal" columnist Richard Cohen.

Cohen wrote a column last week where he pontificated about how Stephen Colbert just "wasn't funny" (Well first he informed his readers that he (Cohen) was in fact "a very funny person". Pathetic.) Editor and Publisher summarized Cohen's main points:

• --Colbert was "rude." He took advantage of President Bush's "sense of decorum" and "civility" that kept the president from "rising in a huff and leaving."
• --Actually, Colbert was "more than rude. He was a bully."
• --He showed no courage because in this country when you openly criticize the president you don't get tossed "into a dungeon" or lose your job.

Then he spends his next column whining about how hard his life is with all the hate mail he gets. In "Digital Lynch Mob" he writes:

But the message in this case truly is the medium. The e-mails pulse in my queue, emanating raw hatred. This spells trouble -- not for Bush or, in 2008, the next GOP presidential candidate, but for Democrats. The anger festering on the Democratic left will be taken out on the Democratic middle. (Watch out, Hillary!) I have seen this anger before -- back in the Vietnam War era. That's when the antiwar wing of the Democratic Party helped elect Richard Nixon. In this way, they managed to prolong the very war they so hated. (emphasis mine)

You can see why Rivers was pissed off.

*Sorry about the language. I never said I was running a blog for the whole family