http://mediamatters.org/tools/syndication/tag_rss/richard_cohen This link is for use by RSS-enabled software to retrieve Media Matters items matching the term: Richard Cohen en-US Copyright 2008, Media Matters for America http://mediamatters.org/items/200804230005 <em>The Washington Post</em>'s Richard Cohen wrote of Sen. John McCain: "He's an honorable man who has fudged and ducked and swallowed the truth on occasion ... but always, I think, for understandable although not necessarily admirable reasons." By contrast, Cohen accused Sen. Hillary Clinton of "want[ing] to become president so badly that she has made the goal more important than how she gets there -- and now she has rendered herself incapable of doing an essential part of the job." http://mediamatters.org/items/200804230005 Wed, 23 Apr 2008 14:51:23 EST http://mediamatters.org/items/200802050005 Ignoring Sen. Barack Obama's statement "condemn[ing]" Louis Farrakhan's "anti-Semitic statements" and his church's decision to give Farrakhan an award, <em>Washington Post</em> 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." http://mediamatters.org/items/200802050005 Tue, 5 Feb 2008 13:53:42 EST http://mediamatters.org/items/200708070006 http://mediamatters.org/items/200708070006 Tue, 7 Aug 2007 14:14:37 EST http://mediamatters.org/items/200707240008 http://mediamatters.org/items/200707240008 Tue, 24 Jul 2007 19:56:36 EST http://mediamatters.org/items/200706210004 In a washingtonpost.com discussion, Richard Cohen asserted that Lewis "Scooter" Libby "didn't commit the original crime" in the CIA leak case because he wasn't Robert Novak's source for the column that disclosed Valerie Plame's identity. However, Libby did leak Plame's identity to other reporters. Cohen also falsely claimed that Plame was not "covert." An unclassified summary of Plame's CIA employment established that she was, in fact, a covert CIA employee. http://mediamatters.org/items/200706210004 Thu, 21 Jun 2007 13:18:43 EST http://mediamatters.org/items/200706190010 http://mediamatters.org/items/200706190010 Tue, 19 Jun 2007 18:31:24 EST http://mediamatters.org/items/200704100021 http://mediamatters.org/items/200704100021 Tue, 10 Apr 2007 18:10:51 EST http://mediamatters.org/items/200703060017 http://mediamatters.org/items/200703060017 Tue, 6 Mar 2007 18:18:30 EST http://mediamatters.org/items/200702270011 http://mediamatters.org/items/200702270011 Tue, 27 Feb 2007 17:52:40 EST http://mediamatters.org/items/200702060006 http://mediamatters.org/items/200702060006 Tue, 6 Feb 2007 13:11:00 EST http://mediamatters.org/items/200701310003 On Washington Post Radio, the <em>Post</em>'s<em> </em>Richard Cohen falsely claimed that Joseph Wilson, in his <em>New York Times</em> op-ed, wrote that Dick Cheney sent him to Niger. In fact, Wilson wrote that "agency officials" from the CIA "asked if I would travel to Niger" and "check out" a "particular intelligence report" that "Cheney's office had questions about," so that CIA officials "could provide a response to the vice president's office." http://mediamatters.org/items/200701310003 Wed, 31 Jan 2007 14:59:29 EST http://mediamatters.org/items/200612200013 In his <em>Washington Post</em> column, Richard Cohen asserted that Sen. John McCain has, for a "long time," displayed a "visceral hostility toward the ways of Washington's K Street lobbying crowd." In fact, McCain and his staff have longstanding ties to the lobbying industry, and he is reportedly strengthening those ties in anticipation of a 2008 presidential bid. http://mediamatters.org/items/200612200013 Wed, 20 Dec 2006 18:16:02 EST http://mediamatters.org/items/200609190005 <em>Washington Post</em> columnist Richard Cohen wrote that Sen. John McCain "embodies a quality for which the country yearns: integrity," suggesting that this quality gives McCain greater "stature" than the presumptive 2008 Democratic presidential candidates. But in lauding McCain's "integrity" and ability to restore public faith in government, Cohen apparently ignored the senator's flip-flops, backtracks, and inconsistencies on a variety of issues. http://mediamatters.org/items/200609190005 Tue, 19 Sep 2006 14:59:41 EST http://mediamatters.org/items/200605040007 In a column titled "So Not Funny," <em>Washington Post</em> columnist Richard Cohen declared that comedian Stephen Colbert's scathing routine at the White House Correspondents Association dinner was "rude" and "insulting," and added that Colbert was "a bully." However, Cohen offered no criticism of Bush when, in a pre-taped skit at the 60th annual dinner of the Radio and Television Correspondents Association (RTCA) in 2004, he made light of the failure to find weapons of mass destruction in Iraq. http://mediamatters.org/items/200605040007 Thu, 4 May 2006 15:07:16 EST http://mediamatters.org/items/200603300006 In a column that referred to the contents of a recently disclosed memorandum about a meeting between President Bush and British Prime Minister Tony Blair six weeks before the invasion of Iraq, Richard Cohen wrote that "nothing so far proved that Bush knew he was making a false case" on Iraq's purported weapons of mass destruction. But despite Cohen's description of Bush as "determined to make war almost no matter what," Cohen overlooked a different "false case" made by Bush: The memo indicates that all of Bush's statements suggesting that every effort was being made to avoid war with Iraq were apparently false. http://mediamatters.org/items/200603300006 Thu, 30 Mar 2006 14:47:47 EST