Richard Cohen (WP) calls Colbert "rude," "not funny," "lame," "insulting,"

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Richard Cohen (WP) calls Colbert "rude," "not funny," "lame," "insulting," "bully."



We have already established that Washington Post columnist Richard Cohen is a WANKER. He is not just a wanker, but one of a major order. Cohen is the self-described "liberal" columnist at the notoriously neocon-friendly WaPo. Funny thing, is that this self-described "liberal" always finds ways to agree with the Bush administration, always supports the decisions of the Bush administration, and has never wasted time attacking and chiding his "fellow liberals" for one reason or another.
In essence, Richard Cohen is what Eric Alterman calls a "New Republic Democrat," or a liberal in name only that can only be equated to the likes of Joe Lieberman in his predictable brown-nosing of the Bush administration.

In today's column, Cohen spews venom against Stephen Colbert. It surprised me how nasty and personal Cohen gets in his column. Still, what surprised me the most is how Cohen called Colbert a "bully":

But in this country, anyone can insult the president of the United States. Colbert just did it, and he will not suffer any consequence at all. He knew that going in. He also knew that Bush would have to sit there and pretend to laugh at Colbert's lame and insulting jokes. Bush himself plays off his reputation as a dunce and his penchant for mangling English. Self-mockery can be funny. Mockery that is insulting is not. The sort of stuff that would get you punched in a bar can be said on a dais with impunity. This is why Colbert was more than rude. He was a bully.

See how it works? According to Cohen, a comedian with a biting sense of sarcasm is a “bully,” but not Bush. Not siree! Bush is not a bully that deserves at least some comical criticism to his face, for once. Colbert is the bully in Cohen’s servile mind. Bush apparently is not, the same guy who started a preemptive war based on lies, that attacked and persecuted critics by using dirty tricks (Plame), that used the power of the presidency to leak the identity of a CIA agent for personal revenge reasons (Plame again), who has silenced critics, who has cowed media and opposition into subservient devotion “or else,” the same guy who has decided he’s above the law and violated 750 laws just because, who has authorized human rights abuses at Guantanamo and Abu Grahib, well, that guy is not a “bully.” That guy is just a poor victim of that horrible, not-funny, rude, lame, insulting comedian Stephen Colbert.

Somehow I am not surprised this tool has come out so quickly to attack Colbert. Richard Cohen was there when it was time to rush the country into invading Iraq. Cohen devotedly chided and criticized antiwar protestors. Cohen bashed Michael Moore when the right went on a crusade against Fahrenheit 9/11. Cohen is as predictable in his lapdog devotion to Bush and his cronies as Ol’ Faithful.

Cohen gets even better in this paragraph:

I am not a member of the White House Correspondents' Association, and I have not attended its dinner in years (I watched this year's on C-SPAN). The gala is an essentially harmless event that requires the presence of one man, the president. If presidents started not to show up, the organization would have to transform itself into a burial association. But presidents come and suffer through a ritual that most of them find mildly painful, not to mention boring. Whatever the case, they are guests. They don't have to be there -- and if I were Bush, next year I would not. Spring is a marvelous time to be at Camp David.

Oh the horror! Oh the horror and the ignominy that Dear Leader had to endure a bit of sarcastic jokes and criticism! What are we gonna tell the children? How did that “unfunny” Colbert guy dare pierce that bubble of isolation that surrounds Bush at all times? How dare he???

If Richard Cohen has demonstrated anything over the years is that he is a Washington courtier, a servile tool of the DC Republican establishment, always ready to join the latest Republican cause célèbre and side with his outrage in the conservative melee.

If anything is “not funny,” it is Richard Cohen still pretending to represent “the left” in the Washington Post. Now that’s an insulting joke.

PS: he posts his email in the article
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