WaPo Columnist on CNN: 'How Much Time Do We Have Left to Talk About How Stupid Sarah Palin Is?'
By Noel Sheppard | January 16, 2011 | 21:06
The Washington Post had better refrain from telling other media outlets to tone down their rhetoric, for on Sunday, one of the paper's longest running columnists asked on national television, "How much time do we have left to talk about how stupid Sarah Palin is?"
Such was said by Richard Cohen, a man that has been with the Post since 1968, towards the end of CNN's "Fareed Zakaria GPS" (video follows with transcript and commentary):
FAREED ZAKARIA, HOST: Richard Cohen, do you have answers?
RICHARD COHEN, WASHINGTON POST: I have nothing but answers. I don't think for a second that Sarah Palin knew the meaning of blood libel. I just don't. There's nothing in her background which suggests it. And if she did, I don't think she used it all that inappropriately. I mean, if it refers to a false accusation for which a community is blamed then she was right.
BERNARD-HENRI LEVY, FRENCH PHILOSOPHER/INTELLECTUAL: Hold on. You think Sarah Palin is stupid enough not to know what a blood libel is?
COHEN: How much time do we have left to talk about how stupid Sarah Palin is?
LEVY: No, no, no. Frankly, I don't believe --
(CROSSTALK)
Fortunately, James Taranto of the Wall Street Journal was there to offer some sanity:
JAMES TARANTO, WALL STREET JOURNAL: Look, the blood libel is a -- is a lie about the killing of children. Remember, there was a child who was killed in this attack. And the "New York Times" leading the way but others particularly in the media and a few politicians, but mostly this has been the media, went out and blamed conservatives, particularly conservative media figures, which is what Sarah Palin is, for the death, among others, of this child. So blood libel, yes, she's not using it in the literal sense. It is often used in metaphorical senses. I could give you a list of examples from the "New York Times," the "Washington Post," various liberal commentators, who've thrown around the term blood libel --
LEVY: I'm waiting for the list. Give me the list of the example of the metaphorical use of blood libel if it is -
TARANTO: Representative Deutsch -- Representative Peter Deutsch in 2000, a Democrat of Florida, said --
LEVY: If you use blood libel in this way, maybe you are right --
TARANTO: Nobody has said it was obscene until now.
LEVY: I say today it is obscene in whoever mouth it is.
ZAKARIA: And we are going to try to keep this at a -- at a civil level, which means of course we're going to leave and everyone can quarrel off camera.
Hmmm. So I guess calling Sarah Palin stupid is civil in Zakaria's view.
Color me very unsurprised.
Nice job of toning down the rhetoric, boys!
(H/T The Blaze)
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Hey Pepe LePew
Submitted by jdlybrand on Sun, 01/16/2011 - 9:18pm.
...If you vant to see zee list...use les google.
"What a revoltin' development this is!"
Chester Riley
and by the way, Frenchie
Submitted by jdlybrand on Sun, 01/16/2011 - 9:22pm.
You may want to fire your barber.
"What a revoltin' development this is!"
Chester Riley
jdlybrand
Submitted by miss911ninja on Sun, 01/16/2011 - 11:24pm.
I think he NEEDS a barber, but first he has to quit sleeping in rollers.
It appears to be head, not
Submitted by Barack_must_go..... on Sun, 01/16/2011 - 11:35pm.
It appears to be head, not hair.
The mystery of what happened to ET after he phoned home is solved.
Barack_Must_Go.....
Bouffant
Submitted by miss911ninja on Sun, 01/16/2011 - 11:45pm.
Are we talking about the French guy? I could have sworn his hair was all puffed out in the back, which under the circumstances I guess you would call "bouffant."
Actually, I think that might
Submitted by Chris Norman on Sun, 01/16/2011 - 11:58pm.
You know folks, I think that actually might be the beginnings of an auxillary head growing out of the back of his primary one.
When a guy is categorized as
Submitted by killa37 on Sun, 01/16/2011 - 11:56pm.
When a guy is categorized as a 'French philosopher/intellectual'..........then you know that it's time to laugh.............or puke!!!
I think he may also be a
Submitted by Chris Norman on Mon, 01/17/2011 - 12:00am.
I think he may also be a mime.
Mimes
Submitted by miss911ninja on Mon, 01/17/2011 - 12:17am.
They're my favorite! Especially when they're riding a unicycle.
It's sad when you see old libs like Richard Cohen
Submitted by virginia republican on Sun, 01/16/2011 - 9:22pm.
or Roger Ebert become, because of the serious health problems they both have, very bitter individuals lashing out at those they disagree with. I don't think either one was that mean spirited when they were younger and healthier.
Disagree
Submitted by rammingspeed on Sun, 01/16/2011 - 11:56pm.
Disagree. Cohen especially has been an acid tongued critic of the right.
If this is going to continue
Submitted by ant on Sun, 01/16/2011 - 9:25pm.
If this is going to continue to be the level of political discussion among the lefty elites, it's gonna be real hard to tell whether you're watching a WaPo Columnist on CNN or Kathy Griffin on the E Network.
Griffin and Cohen do act and talk alike
Submitted by neutron on Sun, 01/16/2011 - 10:32pm.
but Griffin dies her hair to hide the gray. If it weren't for dye-jobs and her makeup artist, she would look like Cohen, who is a decade younger, I think.
Neither one of them has had an original idea in forever, as witnessed by "How much longer do we have to talk about Sarah Palin? Because after that, I ain't got nothin'. If we can't be... is it incivil or uncivil? I forget. Never mind. Can we just get back to bashing Palin, because I got material to discuss there."
Crazy
Submitted by AgentAmerican on Sun, 01/16/2011 - 9:40pm.
The left continues to drive themselves deeper into the abyss. Only a matter of time before they become completely irrelevant.
What else are we to expect
Submitted by djwolf12 on Sun, 01/16/2011 - 9:39pm.
from Fareed Zakaria, longtime water carrier for George Soros and his progressive causes.
Hybrid
Submitted by miss911ninja on Sun, 01/16/2011 - 11:30pm.
Watching that video, I realized that Zakaria looks like a cross between the actor Willem Defoe and a vampire bat.
The same vampire bat that
Submitted by killa37 on Mon, 01/17/2011 - 12:00am.
The same vampire bat that fathered Henry 'Nostrilitis' Waxman??? And.........if Sarah Palin is so damn stupid, why do they even bother wasting one minute talking about her - much less wondering how much time is left to talk about how stupid she is??? Hell, we relish and encourage people who say stupid things, because it shows where they're coming from. These libs keep wanting to shut Palin up - so obviously it isn't her 'stupidity' that bothers them.......
Same bat, but a minor correction:
Submitted by miss911ninja on Mon, 01/17/2011 - 12:22am.
Waxman's MOTHER was a vampire bat. He was fathered by Gollum.
Levin
Submitted by grammajane on Sun, 01/16/2011 - 9:42pm.
How much longer is this hate going to continue?? These elite arrogant bafoons sitting around judging others. Mark Levin........do you want a ride to the courthouse? It just keeps getting worse by the day. The shooter is a mad-man, had zero to do with politics, but continues to get attention from the media blaming others for his behavior and refusing to accept the fact that Conservatives had nothing to do with this tradegy. Sick sick sick and more then half the country are fed up with the crap coming from the left. Wonder what will stop the blabbing??
Screw the courthouse...
Submitted by AgentAmerican on Sun, 01/16/2011 - 10:22pm.
I have a feeling the battle will extend to the mall...the bars...the streets...the hills...the beaches...I will fight them all the way.j
See Churchil, Sir Winston Leonard Spencer
Personally, I don't have much
Submitted by killa37 on Mon, 01/17/2011 - 12:07am.
Personally, I don't have much faith in 'the courthouse'...........since it seems like the huge majority of the law and judicial system is infested with liberal vermin. We've just got to be hardnosed and strong willed, and not take any sh*t from these creeps. More and more people are figuring out what disingenuous dweebs these morons are................as long as they are important to each other, I think that is all they care about.
I was in Singapore recently - over 4 million people on a small island. Very clean. Very safe. Very organized. And NOT a 'police state', as some libs would have you believe. The amount of pages in the phone book for lawyers was unbelievably small!!! Apparantly they have their laws, and they enforce them, and if you break them...........you pay the price!!!! I was impressed..............
I am sooo Ready for Regime Change
Submitted by Dotcoman on Sun, 01/16/2011 - 9:42pm.
And I am so ready for Mrs. Palin to be my President, just to watch these Liberal Socialist Elitist snobs have to eat their own livers.
That or a Mrs. Bachmann / Mrs. Palin ticket. Either or, at this point, that'd just absolutely rock.
Trump
Submitted by miss911ninja on Sun, 01/16/2011 - 11:32pm.
Right now, I think the only potential candidate who could definitely beat Obama is Donald Trump.
I've heard Trump talk on a
Submitted by killa37 on Mon, 01/17/2011 - 12:10am.
I've heard Trump talk on a variety of issues, and I like a lot of what he thinks and has to say. However, if he DOES run and starts to make some kind of inroads into possible success, you KNOW that the MSM will be tearing him every which way from Sunday, and pulling out EVERY stop possible, every background glitch, every EVERYTHING!!! U NO DAT!!!! I mean, these guys are still mopping up over the Obamagasm that they had at last weeks pep-rally, where Boy Blunder should have had some Roman columns behind his arrogantly tilted head..............
People that call other people
Submitted by kg on Sun, 01/16/2011 - 9:46pm.
People that call other people stupid turn out to be the most ignorant asses on the planet. It is one of the few ways that they can feel good about themselves. It's their way to divert attention away from how stupid they really are.
"DumbAssity of Dope"
These degenerates don't
Submitted by Thoreau on Sun, 01/16/2011 - 9:59pm.
These degenerates don't understand blowback. But they will.
I've got no opinion on Sarah Palin one way or the other. She didn't destroy the Country and plunge us into bankruptcy. Their commi pals did.
What has Sarah Palin done to me? Now what has Obama and his dbag ilk done to me? If you want to compare and contrast stupid, let's start with that. They don't understand this yet, but they are doing more to get her elected than anyone else.
*sarcasm alert*
Submitted by metaphorsbwithu on Sun, 01/16/2011 - 10:05pm.
As of today, I am officially offended by the use of the phrase "cross to bear"!
As in, "'He has' - 'she has' - 'we all have' our cross to bear."
I say today it is obscene in whoever mouth it is.
So stop it!
You are so correct. I'm
Submitted by Rousse on Mon, 01/17/2011 - 12:46am.
You are so correct. I'm offended too.
Oh yeah. CNN is right down
Submitted by Barack_must_go..... on Sun, 01/16/2011 - 10:10pm.
Oh yeah. CNN is right down the middle....if by the middle you're referring to the crack of a dirty, smelly ass.
Barack_Must_Go.....
Thye liberals talk tough, but
Submitted by jkwtrading on Sun, 01/16/2011 - 10:16pm.
The liberals talk tough, but will they talk tough and fight is the question... they want a fight..
slimey little cockroaches is how I view them...
We all know that if you take
Submitted by Hunter12 on Sun, 01/16/2011 - 10:25pm.
We all know that if you take away his teleprompter and don't feed him the questions in advance. the One can sound like Miss Teen South Carolina. Too many examples to cite here, but what the hell, here's a good one. Mrs. Palin gets critized for giving a forty-five minute speech off of a few lines she's written on her hand and this clown is calling her stupid.
"An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile, hoping it will eat him last." - Sir Winston Churchill
Miss Teen Carolina is
Submitted by jkwtrading on Sun, 01/16/2011 - 10:40pm.
Miss Teen Carolina is prettier....
My grandson can speak more
Submitted by killa37 on Mon, 01/17/2011 - 12:28am.
My grandson can speak more coherently, with less stammering and stuttering and ooooohing and ahhhhing, than Boy Blunder - when speaking 'extemporaneously'!!! And he usually makes more sense too!!!
duhOne should be so lucky
Submitted by neutron on Mon, 01/17/2011 - 1:38am.
to have Miss Teen South Carolina be his public speaking coach!
Cohen
Submitted by forest on Sun, 01/16/2011 - 10:43pm.
This guy's career peaked before disco. 'Member that big Spiro Agnew scoop? Totally super. He's so smart and so bold, he's been with the same paper since '68! A real mover and shaker, man.
If you want to know what's going on in the world for real - go straight to Richard Cohen.
consider.....
Submitted by MidAmerica on Sun, 01/16/2011 - 10:48pm.
We must never forget....Palin is just their scapegoat. It is their way of lashing out at ALL OF US without being obvious. Their opinion of us is no higher than they express towards Sarah.
Palin's knowledge
Submitted by RefudiateObama2012 on Sun, 01/16/2011 - 11:06pm.
I think Palin has a lot more knowledge of Judaism than most of the commentariat understands. From the website jewsforsarah.com:
And in a September, 2008 interview with the Jewish Voice and Opinion out of Englewood, New Jersey, VP nominee Palin, when asked specifically about Jewish “settlements”, displayed a deep knowledge of the issues:
[I]n a telephone interview with The Jewish Voice, she was asked how she felt about the land in the “West Bank” that Israel was being asked to relinquish.
“Oh, you mean Yehuda v’Shomron,” she said, using the Hebrew words for Judea and Samaria, the Biblical names for the disputed territory.
She said she had “strong feelings” about those sites, based not so much on Biblical promises, which she termed her “personal belief,” but, rather, she said, “on access.”
“My understanding is that there are holy sites throughout the lands that Israel is being asked to withdraw from, places that are holy to Christians and Jews. And Muslims, too. Before Israel had sovereignty over those areas, Jewish and Christian access to those sites was severely limited. Ever since Israel gained control over those lands, access has been open to everyone. I don’t think we should take that issue of access lightly,” she said.
Asked if she had any specific sites in mind, she mentioned “Hebron and Shechem.”
I think odds are that she knew the historical meaning of “the blood libel”, just as she knew the term is now used in a broader sense.
Yiddish
Submitted by miss911ninja on Sun, 01/16/2011 - 11:47pm.
I bet Sarah speaks a little Yiddish, too. As in, for example, "Cohen is a putz."
you're eloquent and sharp as
Submitted by killa37 on Mon, 01/17/2011 - 12:29am.
you're eloquent and sharp as ever, Miss ninjie-poo!! Is 'schmuck' a Yiddish word too???
Schmuck
Submitted by miss911ninja on Mon, 01/17/2011 - 1:40am.
Yes, and look THAT one up in your Yiddish dictionary!
You ask how much time you got, Dickie?
Submitted by Clutch1956 on Sun, 01/16/2011 - 11:09pm.
None, the clock has run out, game over, hit the showers and turn in your locker key on the way out. Keep the jersey, no-one wants it and it is too small anyways. Enjoy irrevalancy and oblivion, Dickie, it s all that you are entitled to.
When are we going. . .
Submitted by rick.bren on Sun, 01/16/2011 - 11:13pm.
to start talking about how stupid Barry is???
Yeah, a big dummy
Submitted by forest on Sun, 01/16/2011 - 11:20pm.
For starters, he doesn't know the difference between liability and collision auto insurance. Kinda embarrassing for a 50 year old man to not know a basic thing that all truly adult people need to understand.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vmo1rATDE00
Classic!
Submitted by miss911ninja on Mon, 01/17/2011 - 12:26am.
Doesn't it make you wonder if he made the whole story up? How can you buy auto insurance WITHOUT knowing the difference!
Miss911ninja
Submitted by ant on Mon, 01/17/2011 - 1:13am.
Could be made up, kinda like wassermann-shultz's "Mommy, are you gonna get shot?". But I tend to think he really didn't know the difference. Remember this is the same man that thinks businesses take their profit right off the top (NO, that would be the mob,genius). The same man who holds an economic summit without business leaders and once accused businesses of just being greedy and stubborn as the reason that they weren't hiring. Because every economically -savvy Constitutional scholar knows that business thrives on stagnation and inter-governmental spending! Sorry, that sarcasm bug slipped out again. Our pres is a disaster.
Hi ant
Submitted by miss911ninja on Mon, 01/17/2011 - 1:37am.
It could be that he didn't know the difference AND made up the story. Since he was really young when he supposedly had this "old beat up car" (did he say he was still in college?), I was thinking that maybe his typical white grandmother chose the insurance coverage and paid for it, so he didn't have to worry his pretty little head about it. And would she really let him drive a beater?
But everything you said about him being so economically savvy is true! The man GETS it, he really does!
(Sarcasm bug bit me, too.)
Yes,miss
Submitted by ant on Mon, 01/17/2011 - 1:51am.
I see what you're saying. I find it hard to believe either Barack or Michelle ever drove around in beaters saving up pizza delivery tips, too. They're sense of entitlement seems way too large.
BTW, on that topic ,have you ever checked out;
http://www.michellesmirror.com/
She does a wonderfully sarcastic, snarky(?) job on all the First Lady's many outings.
Such Cattiness!
Submitted by miss911ninja on Mon, 01/17/2011 - 2:47am.
In girl-speak, ant, we call it "catty." And yes, she does a wonderfully catty job. She's even right up-to-date, too! I scrolled way down to see if Moochelle's "memorial" outfit was included, and there it was, in all its short little white cardigan glory! UGH! She's so unfashionable and fugly!
Well, g'night. Time for my cat nap.
AND apparently too stupid to
Submitted by motherbelt on Mon, 01/17/2011 - 7:19am.
AND apparently too stupid to know that if he got rear-ended, the other guy's insurance would have to pay for the repairs to Obama's car. When someone gets rear-ended, it's ALWAYS the other guy's fault (following too closely).
He really does pull stuff right out of his....ear....when he's blathering. (Oh wait, that's the definition of blathering!)
You're talking about the
Submitted by killa37 on Mon, 01/17/2011 - 1:42am.
You're talking about the genius who said we need to free up money so that businesses could borrow money to make payroll!!!
At some point,
Submitted by Ashrak on Mon, 01/17/2011 - 12:18am.
the question becomes -
Are they trying to convince others, or are they trying to convince themselves?
Just when did liberals begin
Submitted by Chris Norman on Mon, 01/17/2011 - 12:27am.
Just when did liberals begin adopting this "conservatives are all stupid" mantra? What is their evidence? That only liberals go to college? It's a phony, obnoxious, childish, and boorish affection. These idiots don't get that the only people who buy their bucket of "liberals are intelligent because all intelligent people are liberals" slop are the other liberal intellectual posers. The rest of us are repulsed by their pretentious attempts to sound superior.
I do find it amusing
Submitted by panzerakc on Mon, 01/17/2011 - 12:34am.
that the same people who are always telling us how stupid Sarah Palin is are also always telling us how smart Obama is.
I give no credence to either of those statements.
Typical lefty crap
Submitted by Denny Crane on Mon, 01/17/2011 - 2:50am.
Ask for proof of something and when it is given, interupt and change the diolog.
LEVY: I'm waiting for the list. Give me the list of the example of the metaphorical use of blood libel if it is -
TARANTO: Representative Deutsch -- Representative Peter Deutsch in 2000, a Democrat of Florida, said --
LEVY: If you use blood libel in this way, maybe you are right --
Wassa madda Levy? Didn't think James could back up his statements? Who's the idjit now?We Are The 53%
Stoopid
Submitted by sheik yermami on Mon, 01/17/2011 - 3:53am.
How much time have we got to discuss how stoopid Richard Cohen is?
Just how stoopid ican a Jew be to whore himself out as a cheerleader for the cunning Muslim Fareed Zakaria?
Nobody looks good with brown lipstick, Richard.
Are you related to sheik
Submitted by killa37 on Mon, 01/17/2011 - 2:22pm.
Are you related to sheik yerbuti???
Palin Vitriol
Submitted by TerryWest on Mon, 01/17/2011 - 5:13am.
Just say it Mr Cohen, how much time do we have to talk about how stupid American's that don't agree with us are?
because that's what I and I'm sure many hear when we hear such bigoted elitist self rightouse remarks.
While not a Palin for Pres person here I do respect her and believe she is a great motivator and has a place in our Gov, but it's very clear she's as much of a threat to you as American's standing up to voice their views, opposition and opinons are, so much so you humilate yourself with such snobbery & vitriol.
INTELLECTUAL, Compared to what?
Submitted by Injest on Mon, 01/17/2011 - 7:24am.
BERNARD-HENRILEVY FRENCH PHILOSOPHER/INTELLECTUAL:: I'm waiting for the list. Give me the list of the example of the metaphorical use of blood libel if it is -
I guess INTELLECTUAL is relative?
Bernard-Henri Lévy a laughing stock for quoting fictional philosopher When France’s most dashing philosopher took aim at Immanuel Kant in his latest book, calling him “raving mad” and a “fake”, his observations were greeted with the usual adulation.
To support his attack, Bernard-Henri Lévy — a showman-penseur known simply by his initials, BHL — cited the little-known 20th-century thinker Jean-Baptiste Botul.
There was one problem: Botul was invented by a journalist in 1999 as an elaborate joke, and BHL has become the laughing stock of the Left Bank.
Ms Lancelin told The Times she was surprised that none of the journalists who had been giving Mr Lévy the celebrity treatment had noted that he spent two pages using a non-existent philosopher to prove his argument. “I came across the quotes from Botul and burst out laughing,” she said.
FRENCH PHILOSOPHER/INTELLECTUAL
Submitted by tdrapp on Mon, 01/17/2011 - 11:51am.
Can we start by asking what kind of person would allow themselves to be referred to as "an intellectual"? Monsieur Levy is so proud to be arrogant. Not only is he a deep thinker, he's a very smart, deep thinker. Way more smarter than us'ens, ya think? Problem is, he can only talk. He can't hear.
We ought NOT talk about his hair, however. It's natural for something close to THAT end of the horse to stick out. Dare we say it's the tail of the horse before Descartes? Would that make him a horse's _ _ _?
The Audacity of Leftist Arrogance
Submitted by MLGoodell on Mon, 01/17/2011 - 12:54pm.
In my essay, "The Audacity of the Hopelessly Partisan, I wrote, "It is hard to achieve a state of comity when one party’s comments are perceived as the direct cause of such violence, while the other party’s slurs are forgiven because, well, as every really smart person knows, they’re true. "
Cohen demonstrates the truth of this assertion. You will note that he was actually defending Palin's use of the term blood libel (albeit incorrectly) when the cochon Francais interrrupted with his gratuitous slur. Cohen, reminded of the impropriety of speaking politely of the opposition, especially in the Era of Good Feelings ushered in by the Great Healer himself in Tucson, then tried to one up Bernard-Levy in his offensiveness.
A word of advice for Richard Cohen, it is very difficult to exceed a Frenchman in his repulsiveness. You might start by not showering for a month, just to level the playing field.
BTW, am I the only person in American who was revulsed by Obama's announcement the "Giffords opened her eyes for the first time after I visited her." Holy Christ what a narcissist!