Washington Post's Richard Cohen: 'GOP Is Brain-Dead'
It's only January and the vitriol being spewed at Republicans by the Obama-loving media is starting to crest.
On Tuesday, Washington Post columnist Richard Cohen went after almost every high-profile right-leaning politician in the land in a piece that disgracefully ended "The GOP is brain-dead":
It’s hard to know who is the more ridiculous figure — the grandiloquent, bombastic and compulsively dishonest Gingrich, or the beguilingly ignorant Cain, a man who has never held elective office and who was reduced to speechlessness when asked a question about Libya. Nonetheless, Gingrich, his Alfred E. Neuman grin on his face, accepted the endorsement and then went on with his nihilistic campaign for the White House. This has been an exceedingly silly political season.
After predictably going after conservative views he doesn't agree with - pro-Life, opposition to anthropogenic global warming, no new taxes - Cohen called such thinking "anti-intellectualism" and then pounced on the usual suspects:
The world is a complex place, but to deal with it, the GOP presented a parade of hopefuls who proposed nostrums or, in the case of Michele Bachmann, peddled false rumors about vaccinations. When this started I cannot say — the late Richard Hofstadter won the Pulitzer Prize for his “Anti-intellectualism in American Life” in 1964 — but the embrace of Sarah Palin by the GOP establishment has got to be noted. The lady has the gift of demagoguery and the required anti-elitism, but she knows next to nothing about almost anything — and revels in her ignorance.
He concluded:
The Republican establishment that has now risen up to smite the bratty Gingrich has only itself to blame. For too long it has been mute in the face of a belligerent anti-intellectualism, pretending that knowledge and experience do not matter and that Washington is a condition and not a mere city. The endorsement of Gingrich by Cain was not a bulletin. It was a feeble blip on a scope. The GOP is brain-dead.
I guess Cohen, like so many of the liberals in the media, believes he is intellectual and everybody that doesn't agree with his views is an idiot.
Well, I've got a challenge for this Washington Post columnist: this "anti-intellectual" will debate anthropogrenic global warming or fiscal policy with him anywhere he wants. He should just name the time and place.
I'll be there with bells on.
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GOP Is Brain-Dead'
Submitted by creative_destruction on Tue, 01/31/2012 - 11:14am.
I have to agree with his assessment.
Steve
Me too, Steve-o.
Submitted by Newsbubba on Tue, 01/31/2012 - 11:24am.
The only saving grace I see is that the people who vote for the "superior intellects" in the Democrat Party are a pack of morons, most of whom don't work, don't read, don't think, or teach others not to bother with those same things.
Most conservatives I know do work, read, think, etc, but keep getting crap offered up by the RNC and the MSM for us to rubber stamp and vote for.
Someone said yesterday that the biggest "special interest" in the government IS the government. They want to get to Washington, get some power, get the maximum cash for themselves out of it, stay as long as possible, and retire rich!
I'm getting pretty sick of most all of them.
And meanwhile, the man whose
Submitted by motherbelt on Tue, 01/31/2012 - 11:15am.
And meanwhile, the man whose IQ is "off the charts" celebrates the 20th anniversary of Georgia's independence, and calls the country "Russia."
MB,
Submitted by Agnostic on Tue, 01/31/2012 - 11:25am.
of all his 'slips' - this may be the worse in context. Least we all forget that Georgia was Obama's first international showing as POTUS - other than campaigning.
If only we could all be enlightened socialist like Richard Cohen
Submitted by frank14 on Tue, 01/31/2012 - 11:17am.
After all, Greece is such a success story. We should all follow the Dumbocrats plans to turn us into another bankrupt Western European welfare state.
When You Can't Talk the Issues
Submitted by scottyusmc on Tue, 01/31/2012 - 11:24am.
Only thing left is to "name-call" those who disagree... Cohen is the poster child for belligerent anti-intellectualism.
Number one play in their
Submitted by ray johnson on Tue, 01/31/2012 - 11:36am.
Number one play in their playbook...belittle your opponent and call them stupid...that's it. What passes for an argument and reasoned thought? - namecalling.
knowledge and experience
Submitted by rusino on Tue, 01/31/2012 - 11:40am.
I believe the Democrates proved that "knowledge and experience" do not matter when they selected Obama as their Nominee in 2008!
Must be good to be the king
Submitted by bkeyser on Tue, 01/31/2012 - 12:04pm.
Why is it that liberals always look at anyone not invited to their cocktail party as less human than themselves? They do this with minorities, fetuses, the disabled, the religious, gun owners, SUV owners, republicans; to name a few. Sometimes I think a good ass-kicking would do wonders but I don't think I could stand the whining and begging long enough to go through with it.
The answer is duct tape!
Submitted by MightyMouth on Tue, 01/31/2012 - 12:15pm.
It can solve most problems including whining!
Who knew?
Submitted by Quasi-socialist on Tue, 01/31/2012 - 2:34pm.
"For too long it has been mute in the face of a belligerent anti-intellectualism, pretending that ... Washington is a condition and not a mere city. "
I thought metonymy was a rhetorical device! Now it's "anti-intellectual".
Nihilism, thy name is liberal. This is dissembling in fine form.
That's right. A "mere city". You know? Just like Detroit. Just like Philadelphia--except unlike other "mere cities" it is seat of power of the entire country and a good share of a continent. Did anybody see the strands of "mere" fly by?
There are apparently no summations to be made of this mere city, which makes you wonder for which ineffable quality the intellectual liberals want to concentrate all power here.
You can debate him on those things, Noel. I'd debate him on his own tin ear and pedantry by which he says this crap. "Experience matters"? What happened in 2008, when it was enough to "run a campaign"--that he must have feather-bedded with a campaign manager!!
The pseudo-intellectualism of the left never gets old.
EDIT: Interestingly enough, I took a look on Wikipedia for their understanding about metonymy and I found this as the chief example: "A country's capital city is frequently used as a metonym for the country's government."
I can't take anybody seriously who writes for a living, who is so deaf to the use of metaphor, that they disparage someone for using one, however shop-worn. It's ignorant opportunism, and not in the least intellectual. You try to use real arguments in an intellectual endeavor, not what "all your friends agree" on, or what strikes you as true.
I cannot speak for the GOP rank-and-filers...
Submitted by Dave. on Tue, 01/31/2012 - 12:30pm.
...but the GOP "leadership" has been suffering from oxygen-deprivation for decades.
Remember, it wasn't the GOP leadership that defeated the second-worst POTUS in history back in 1980.
It was the single-handed effort of Ronald Reagan.
Now we have the absolute worst POTUS possible, but those spineless wussies cannot bring themselves to go after him.
-Dave
Vote for the American in November
By 'anti-intellectual,' Cohen means 'anti-Left'
Submitted by Galvanic on Tue, 01/31/2012 - 12:40pm.
The assumption is that anyone who rejects the "logically derived" dogma/agenda of the Left is, by definition, anti-intellectual.
I was womdering last night,
Submitted by ricklail on Tue, 01/31/2012 - 1:03pm.
I was womdering last night, would the MSM today have covered Jimma Kotter's sorry butt like they do Obama's? We'd have never heard of the attack rabbit if today's MSM had covered Jimma like they do Obama.
Another Liberal...
Submitted by jawebster1 on Tue, 01/31/2012 - 1:07pm.
projecting again!
YES!!!! Projecting.....
Submitted by OldJarhead77 on Tue, 01/31/2012 - 2:43pm.
ARROGANCE and DISTAIN for the "little people that just don't get it...... but in November he will be writting about those self same "Little People" that are racist and ignorant when they throw out boy Blunder and his band of crooks, and Blame Bush for everything from the Black Plague to Bird Flu!!!!!
Excuse Me
Submitted by John21 on Tue, 01/31/2012 - 2:27pm.
I can not understand how anyone from the Obama Propaganda Media can call anyone braindead.
Every policy their master has instigated or supported has been a total failure, yet they continue to try and defend him for his great intelligence.
Our economy is in the toilet and they ignore it or put on their Rose Colored glasses and lie.
We have nothing remotely like a coherrent foreign policy and they praise it.
Unemployment is at the level of terrible and they blame it on Bush (clue for you people he has been out of office for over three years)
He spend money like it is water supporting his crony friends and unions and not a word is spoken about it
He breaks the law and the constitution and they provide support for his efforts.
They still believe that they have any credibility out side of the far left liberal DNC and they call other braindead.
While I am not happy with the GOP picks.....
Submitted by OldJarhead77 on Tue, 01/31/2012 - 2:38pm.
All of them to the man wouldn't be what I want... But compared to Boy Blunder and his band of Criminals they are all GENIUSES!
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Submitted by drsamherman on Tue, 01/31/2012 - 7:29pm.
Richard Cohen's last original idea left him the minute he completed potty training. From then on, he became the intellect-free liberal automaton repeating the same points his bosses feed into his ears every morning on the White House teleconference. The only passing thought he ever has is the one that floats by and drifts through his head without stopping.
His writing style would be the envy of a third-grade sentence diagramming exercise. You can tell when he has been reading old copies of the Reader's Digest "It Pays to Increase Your Word Power" features in the stacks left in his basement. You can practically tell which issue he just read because it seems he uses all of that feature's words at once and then forgets them.