PostPartisan Archive: Cohen
CBS shouldn't have withheld Lara Logan's story
Say what you will about New York's celebrated tabloids, they know news when they see it. This is why both the New York Daily News and the New York Post devoted their front pages to the sexual assault by...
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| February 16, 2011; 9:53 AM ET |
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Obama should just shut up on Egypt
When it comes to crises like the one in Egypt, the trouble with the White House is structural. It has a briefing room. (So does State.) When you have such a room, the pressure is to have a briefing....
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| February 3, 2011; 11:18 AM ET |
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Everyone knows Rahm Emanuel lives in Chicago
While Rahm Emanuel was a White House aide to Bill Clinton, he caught the eye of Goldman Sachs. To Jon Corzine, then Goldman's chairman, Emanuel was the perfect prospect. He could work hard and long. He was furiously industrious....
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| January 25, 2011; 9:40 AM ET |
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Myths -- ahem -- lies about health-care reform
The Post, enamored of euphemisms, calls lies myths. Thus the headline on a terrific article by Glenn Kessler entitled "Debunking common myths about health-care reform." The first myth is that "This is a 'government takeover' of the health-care system."...
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| January 19, 2011; 11:41 AM ET |
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Sarah Palin, Mikhail Rybachenko and the origins of 'blood libel'
Sarah Palin probably never heard of Mikhail Rybachenko, but that's more or less who she was referring to when she used the phrase "blood libel" to describe the easy slander of certain conservatives for the shootings in Tucson. Rybanchenko...
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| January 13, 2011; 9:01 AM ET |
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Obama gives in to Sarah Palin's dishonesty
All over Washington this week were the thrilling sounds of democracy at work -- the speeches of incoming and outgoing officials, the emotional swearing in ceremonies, the weeping of Boehner the Damp, the solid crack of the gavel being...
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| January 6, 2011; 10:20 AM ET |
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