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Wash. Post's Cohen ignored Obama's criticism of Farrakhan and award by church magazine

February 05, 2008 1:53 pm ET

SUMMARY: Ignoring Sen. Barack Obama's statement "condemn[ing]" Louis Farrakhan's "anti-Semitic statements" and his church's decision to give Farrakhan an award, Washington Post columnist Richard Cohen wrote: "I know what Barack Obama was doing when he refused to confront his minister about the latter's embrace of Louis Farrakhan. He was ducking an issue with no upside for him."

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