Showing posts with label roger cohen. Show all posts
Showing posts with label roger cohen. Show all posts

Wednesday, June 24, 2009

That's "Mr. Fudge" To You, Buddy

"All the fudge that allowed a modern society to coexist with a theocracy inspired by an imam occulted in the 9th century has been swept away, leaving two Irans at war."

-- Roger Cohen, finally talking like a grown-up (took him a while - anybody want to discuss when NewAge was "occulted" here?) as chronicled in Commentary Magazine.

Tuesday, June 23, 2009

Hold On Tight (And Don't Let Go)

"He made a name for himself internationally as one of the leading Western apologists,..arguing that,...engagement with these murderers was practically a moral necessity."

-- Jeffrey Goldberg, revealing Roger Cohen's naivety - while taking on (that weirdo) Andrew Sullivan - but also describing our big-eared, know-it-all, let's make friends president, in The Atlantic.

Sunday, June 21, 2009

Nobody's Monkeying Around Anymore

A multitude of Iranians took their fight through a holy breach on Saturday from which there appears to be scant turning back."

-- Roger Cohen - in a must-read piece - as he's, maybe, watching one of the world's largest religious cults fall*, for The New York Times.

*As well as watching, first-hand, George W. Bush's "stupid" political vision emerge.

Sunday, February 24, 2008

Oh, No, No, Mon Ami: This Is Not Done!

"As for John McCain's supposed extra-marital "romantic" relationship a decade ago with an attractive lobbyist more than 30 years his junior, who cares?

In other words, Americans care,...less about infidelity itself, especially at the level of innuendo or rumor."


- Roger Cohen (above) the New York Times' writer for the International Herald Tribune, suggesting that - since Americans didn't buy his paper's lie about a McCain affair - we've become like the French, who he (correctly) describes as "cynical, incorrigible, suave and hypocritical", all traits those at the Times can identify with.

Look, give me a break. This is even sillier than the Frank Rich column I just read that suggests Hillary's loss has parallels to the war in Iraq. (Rich, above, at least, correctly identified Bill Clinton as a major source of irritation, even if he failed to recognize Hillary Clinton as the main problem in her own right.) But what these three NYT columns show us - and it's the reason I love the smoke-clearing clarity of election years - is this:

The New York Times, our so-called "paper of record", plays favorites and, consequently, is completely out of touch with reality - and has been for quite a long time.

Like the San Francisco Chronicle, the NYT can blame their dwindling readership on online reading habits all they want, but, the truth is, both papers appear to be insane to anyone who really appreciates news and/or wants something worthwhile to chew over in the morning. Instead, they offer nonsensical Leftist talking points, which they try to sell as mainstream American views and values, and then blame the news-hungry public when we won't eat the rancid ideological meat they throw at us. It's really outrageous.

First of all, we are nothing like the French. I'm from South Central, Los Angeles. I have none of that (above) in me. I don't even feel comfortable speaking French because all that poo-poo, la-la, coo-coo, nonsense just sounds gay. If any Americans are really like the French, they look like this:

And if American sex lives were filled with adultery, and the other forms of selfish chaos the French excel at, they'd look like this:

And, seriously, that's no way to be at-all. Conclusion:

Fuck the New York Times. They're full of shit. If they think we're going to buy stupid crap like this, they really must be turning French themselves.