Lori Ziganto: WaPo's Cohen Shows his Bias and Racism In Palin Hit Piece

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Lori Ziganto reads leftist stooges like Richard Cohen so you don't have to. At David Horowitz's NewsReal Blog, she slaps down Cohen for going all raaaacist on Gov. Palin:

The Washington Post’s Richard Cohen is the latest to exhibit just how unglued the Left and the media, being concentric circles on a Venn diagram, natch, have become. Newsbusters points out that in the article titled “Attack on Michelle Obama shows Palin’s ignorance of history,” Cohen comes to the inane, and typically leftist, conclusion that Sarah Palin “could not be the president of black America nor of Hispanic America.” Um. Sure, I’m no swanky-pants Washington Post columnist, nor do I even have the vast experience of a community organizer from which to draw, but I’m fairly certain that the presidency isn’t segregated.

Can’t let pesky facts stand in the way of a hit piece, though, can he? How does Cohen form his brilliant – and sure-fire entre into a good cocktail party this weekend – hypothesis? Because Sarah Palin dares to mention the following in her new book:

"In her new book, she reportedly takes Michelle Obama to task for her supposedly infamous remark from the 2008 campaign: 'For the first time in my adult life, I am proud of my country because it feels like hope is finally making a comeback.'"

Huh. Again, I’m no expert, but it seems to me that Michelle Obama actually did say that. So, by “taking her to task,” he of course means smearing with, you know, the truth. Oh, that wing-nutty Palin! Telling the truth and all. That’s so reactionary and old school! I suppose they don’t like that whole “Truth to Power” thing turned around on them. The book snippet to which he refers is as follows:

"Certainly his wife expressed this view when she said during the 2008 campaign that she had never felt proud of her country until her husband started winning elections. In retrospect, I guess this shouldn’t surprise us, since both of them spent almost two decades in the pews of the Reverend Jeremiah Wright’s church listening to his rants against America and white people."

Cohen isn’t alone in his delusions. The Huffington Post called that passage “racially charged.” Why? Because the Left, in their stompy foot temper tantrums, are letting their true colors show. And they are racist ones. It is the Left who only sees color. It is the Left who paints people into identity politics laden boxes only, in order to further their own end. They use people as a means to that end, with no regard to the harm it causes.

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Ms. Ziganto credits Cohen for getting one point right. Sarah Palin couldn’t be president of "Black America" because there is no such country. Cohen and the disgraced John "Two Americas" Edwards do not understand that the USA is one nation. We fought a bloody and costly Civil War to keep it that way. The very idea that we have multiple segregated countries within our country presidencies is, she quite correctly points out is "racist in and of itself." Anyone who preaches such a sick sermon displays a troubling ignorance of American history. But we are not surprised. The left is so busy trying to rewrite history that it has failed to learn it.

Update: Adrienne Ross is also on Cohen's case. Read her post here.

- JP

Richard Cohen has no decency

Moonbat Washington Post columnist Richard Cohen is equating Sarah Palin with Sen. Joe McCarthy:

Try this on for size: Palinism. What is it? It is an updated version of McCarthyism, which takes its name from the late Sen. Joseph McCarthy, the Wisconsin liar, demagogue and drunk, and means, according to Wikipedia, "reckless, unsubstantiated accusations, as well as demagogic attacks on the character or patriotism of political adversaries." As far as we know, Sarah Palin is not a drunk.

But she certainly shares McCarthy's other attributes -- and this one as well: the ability to drive the debate. In McCarthy's day, it was anti-communism coupled with national security, and it hardly mattered that he frequently did not have his facts straight. He got huge amounts of attention anyway.

With Palin, the subject is health care, which in many ways is the Red Menace of our day and lends itself to a kind of political pornography.

Since the Left has already lost the Death Panels battle, one wonders why they are still trying to fight it. Perhaps it has more to do with Palin herself than death care, according to Penraker:

The hatred of Sarah Palin seems to have escaped the tug of gravity and has now reached escape velocity. Liberals seem to need someone to hate, to demonize, to make into their secular devil. George Bush served admirably; but alas, he is gone. They need a new whipping boy…or girl.

In an astoundingly obvious display of hypocrisy, the Left’s all-out assault on Palin is itself the very definition of McCarthyism:

Where was Richard Cohen when his compadres were calling Bush Hitler? Where was he when the media falsified documents in order to "prove" that Bush did not complete his National Guard service? Is Dan Rather a McCarthyite? There are a million things Democrats did to the last administration that would fit Cohen’s definition of McCarthyism.

Here is where we are: If you oppose the Great Obama, you will be called a McCarthyite. If you dare to enter the debate, you will be called a McCarthyite. - by the Richard Cohen-style McCarthyites.

Penraker says this is a visible symptom that the Left is now completely panic-stricken:

They told themselves that the country had become wildly liberal. They told themselves that Obama was the new FDR, the new Lincoln. They told themselves that liberalism was once again popular.

They were wrong on all counts. Their great, big, brittle dream is suddenly crashing down around their ears. They built a fantasy-castle, and they have been living there happily for the last few months. They allowed themselves the luxury of imagining that all their political reveries will become substantial. But they are finding that the country is still a center-right country, that nothing has changed at all.

Just how much of a moonbat is Cohen? There's no better place to check than Moonbattery.com:

When it comes to moonbattery at its most treacherous, no one tops WaPo's Richard Cohen, who has openly sided with the Islamic terrorists laying siege to our democratic ally Israel.

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If you look at history in the funhouse mirror that serves Cohen as a mind, Muslim terrorism over the last 100 years is a result of the dumb idea of "creating a nation of European Jews in an area of Arab Muslims (and some Christians)." Inconceivably, Cohen seems not to be aware of the profound ties Jews have with their homeland, going back thousands of years.

Here's how Cohen feels about terrorists:

There is no point in condemning Hezbollah..... And there's not much point, either, in condemning Hamas.

Clearly Cohen is not the sharpest tool in the shed, but he could hardly be dumb enough to think that Muslims would ever "get distracted and move on" so long as Israel exists. To "hunker down," as he puts it, and wait until Muslims grow bored with rocket attacks, kidnapping and suicide bombing would mean acquiescing until the last Jew in the Jewish homeland had been murdered.

What this appalling little creature is calling for is willful submission to genocide.

As with all attacks on Palin, one should first consider the source.

Update: Daniel Oliver at The American Spectator has more to say on this.

h/t: FRee Republic

- JP