The Worst Writer in the World® Writes Worst Column in the World

Posted by Tengrain Tuesday, April 2nd, 2013

For a moment, I thought Richard Cohen had given up, turned in his Smith-Corona, and hung up his Fedora, but then like Man’o'War he suddenly comes round the bend on the inside all hooves and dust and no one saw it coming!

“We have all become political hacks. We are all engaged in the back and forth of politics, the jot or tittle of the process, the meaningless cable chatter of it all, the sameness of it all, be it conservative or liberal, so we lose sight of principle and of right and wrong. This is how we hardly noticed that basically all of American politics acquiesced in the demonization of gays and lesbians.

“This occurred to me last week when the New York Times published …”

And that’s his lede.

I think maybe he shouldn’t try to keep up with Noonington at the Pundit Club’s Bar; she’s a trained professional.

(WaPo)

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WaPo to set up a paywall

Posted by Tengrain Tuesday, March 19th, 2013

On the one hand, less Jennifer Rubin is a good thing.

On the other hand, less Jason Wilson is a bad thing.

But the proverbial tree falling in the woods: will anyone notice the absence of The World’s Worst Writer® Richard Cohen?

(WaPo)

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World’s Worst Writer® Writes World’s Worst Column

Posted by Tengrain Tuesday, February 19th, 2013

Oh, sweet Jeebus!

As Heather Chandler once said, “Fuck me gently with a chainsaw.”

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Shorter Richard Cohen:

Posted by Tengrain Tuesday, February 12th, 2013

“How about 3 for 3?”

The Worst Writer In The World® wants the US to go into Syria.

(WaPo)

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World’s Worst Writer® Writes World’s Worst Column

Posted by Tengrain Wednesday, November 16th, 2011

Perpetually sensitive Alan Alda-wannabee, 70s throwback Richard Cohen (winner of the lifetime achievement award for writing bad columns) has done it again! Another World’s Worst Column®!

This one is so hard to figure out. Cohen tries to have sexual harassment both ways and ends up in a hot, tangled mess on the floor. Is he defending the Herman Cains of the world? Yes! Is he defending women against the likes of the Herman Cains of the world? Yes! Does Cohen mention that he was reprimanded by his employer for maybe harassing a female colleague? No!

(WaPo)

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World’s Worst Writer Writes World’s Worst Column

Posted by Tengrain Tuesday, May 3rd, 2011

Richard Cohen, The Worst Writer in the World ®, has written another stinker of a column. As usual his screed is all about subtext, and the subtext is when is the US going to take-out all the enemies of Israel? If you can get past this shit-pebble of a paragraph, the rest of the column would gag a maggot.

For too long now the Obama administration has shown a touching but sometimes counterproductive sensitivity for the sensitivities of the Muslim world. It has proceeded as if it was more important to be liked than feared and as if some differences were not fundamental but always a product of misunderstanding. This, though, is not the case. The United States can do little to mollify Islamists and others who seek the obliteration of Israel and the return of holy Jerusalem to the Muslim fold. It can do little with bigots who loathe America’s culture of tolerance — for all religions, for gays, for lesbians and, of course, for women.

(Does death of bin Laden signal a new Obama? by Richard Cohen)

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Worst Writer in the World Writes Worst Column

Posted by Tengrain Tuesday, January 18th, 2011

Richard Cohen is a force of nature. There is gravity, wind, fire–all the elements that the Greeks listed, really–and there is the vast suckage of Cohen.

I won’t bore you with the details, but let us just say that Cohen was disappointed that President Obama didn’t give as rousing a speech for the late Richard Holbrook as he did for the slaughtered in Tucson. Bear in mind that it was not a memorial service, and the audience was a handful of DC insiders, as opposed to an entire nation in shock and grief over our latest political assassination.

But here’s the telling bit, the words that brings the suckage home, and ensure’s Cohen’s immortality as The Worst Writer in the WorldTM:

Obama’s lack of artifice can be admirable, but it is almost never politic. For a while he even wouldn’t wear that kitschy American flag lapel pin, 95 cents worth of patriotism. But blarney is as essential to politics as the evanescent lie is to seduction.

Because no one knows seduction like Richard Cohen, The Worst Writer in the WorldTM.

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