CBS News Analyst Blasts ‘Smug’ Scalia as ‘Bully’ for Daring to Doubt Constitutionality of ObamaCare
Catching up with what The Weekly Standard dubbed “the prize for unhinged emotionalism” in reaction from within the liberal bubble to the Supreme Court’s oral arguments on ObamaCare, back on Friday, March 30, Andrew Cohen, the “chief analyst and legal editor for CBS Radio News,” wrote on The Atlantic’s Web site:
“The arguments in the Care Act cases may be funny to Justice Antonin Scalia, the bully that he is, but they aren’t funny to the single father who will avoid bankruptcy because of the law.”
Cohen’s cheap shot, highlighted in a “Scrapbook” item I caught in the April 7 Weekly Standard, came in #7 of “13 Final Thoughts About the Health Care Arguments.”
Cohen, who back in 2005-2007 appeared occasionally on CBS News television newscasts but is now, thankfully, confined to a few brief soundbites on the radio side, asserted in the blog post:
7. Smug justice. I admit I lost my temper on Wednesday. The arguments in the Care Act cases may be funny to Justice Antonin Scalia, the bully that he is, but they aren't funny to the single father who will avoid bankruptcy because of the law, or to the millions of others who will benefit from the Medicaid expansion or from the provision that allows young people to stay longer on their parents’ health care plans. Justice Scalia gets his health insurance from the government. To him, the care act is just another statute. Fine. Let him be so dispassionate when his conservative fellow travelers ask him to endorse an act of Congress.
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"Conservative fellow travelers" - ? ---
Submitted by matthewdean on Sat, 04/07/2012 - 10:51pm.
These insufferable liberal prigs are not only most tiresome; they can't even be original.
Maybe that's part of what makes them such nincompoops.
MD
Apparantly, a large majority
Submitted by killa37 on Sat, 04/07/2012 - 11:21pm.
Apparantly, a large majority of Americans are 'smug bullies', since they, too, doubt the legitimacy and Constitutionality of Obamacare - so this 'smug' CBS 'news analyst' has just insulted all of them at once. And, yeah, Boy Baraka didn't seem too 'smug' when he was flapping his stupid purple lips and trying to strongarm the Supreme Court last week, after so many reports that his signature government take-over was summarily trashed within the hallowed walls of the Supreme Court.
Who's the smug bully?
Submitted by motherbelt on Sun, 04/08/2012 - 7:30am.
Justice Scalia, who DARES to question the constitutionality of the act (after all, what the constitution enshrines for all Americans is protection from personal financial stress!)....
or the President and his "co-conspirators" in Congress who pushed the unpopular law through by sidestepping the usual procedures?
Can't find a bio of Cohen
Submitted by CO2Maker on Sun, 04/08/2012 - 8:38am.
I wanted to look up his educational background, but his bio on CBS site wasn't very informative. Mainly, it's touts his stories from Katrina to the Kobe Bryant trial to various SCOTUS nominations; list places where his opinions are "used" (it actually said that); and throws in some puffery about his winning the Edward R. Murrow award (previously given to such luminaries as Couric, Rather, Olbermann, Jennings, Brokejaw, Koppel, and Gumbel, among others).
He has a bio at the Atlantic Monthly site, and it includes this: "He is also a contributing editor at The Atlantic, where he focuses his writing upon the intersection of law and politics as well as upon topics like horse racing and hockey. He is also a single dad of a great kid, a racehorse owner and breeder, and the winner of several awards for writing about horses." Ah yes, intersecting planes of existence, like metaphysics, mathematics, and journalism all wrapped into one, plus unicorns.
But, alas, no credentials.
You know, credentials, like what the nine people he's complaining about have in spaced (well, like the one he's complaining about, plus the other eight, who are comparably qualified).
At least Greenhouse took the "Law for wannabes" extension course at Yale, and listed it.
When you can't find a bio, some possibilities:
Submitted by drsamherman on Sun, 04/08/2012 - 12:17pm.
a) his credentials are not "impressive" by liberal standards, e.g. he went to a public (the horrors!) law school; and/or
b) he went to a law school known for its conservative (double horrors!) philosophy; and/or
c) he might not be licensed to practice law.
Or none of the above
Submitted by CO2Maker on Sun, 04/08/2012 - 1:06pm.
How about (d)?
(d) He didn't go to law school. He earned a BA in English, journalism, or racehorse pedigree. He isn't a lawyer, but he plays one (sort of) on TV.
Found enough citations for him as an attorney,
Submitted by drsamherman on Sun, 04/08/2012 - 6:18pm.
but zero bio information on where and what kind of practice he maintains or where he is licensed. Wonder what the heck he is hiding. The last bio I found for him indicates he is a single father and thus his little tirade.
Would I be wrong in thinking he's referring to himself?
Submitted by UpNorth on Sun, 04/08/2012 - 9:50pm.
He's the "single father" being saved from bankruptcy? Must be See BS doesn't pay all that well, since they emptied the treasury for Katie.
Shallow Short-Sighted Thinking
Submitted by Pinger on Sun, 04/08/2012 - 9:25am.
This was really shallow short-sighted thinking by Andrew Cohen. He is exemplifying those people Ben Franklin had in ind when he said (and I paraphrase):
"Those who want security instead of freedom will soon end up with neither".
So!
Submitted by ChrisNH on Mon, 04/09/2012 - 5:44pm.
So! Two-Thousand-Seven-Hundred pages that all boil down to, "the provision that allows young people to stay longer on their parents’ health care plans."
Libs masturbate furiously over this one 'provision', which means that they'd much rather people not know about all the other stuff that's in the Bill.
Leftists are massively unhinged at the moment...some would say they're ready to 'Go Postal.'