Lapfull of Dick

by digby

Richard Cohen got 2,000 mean e-mails and this signals the end of the Democratic party. I’ll leave you to figure out why that should follow. In case Cohen hasn’t noticed nobody on the fucking planet likes squishy faux liberal courtiers. There’s no political downside to hating Richard Cohen.

I do have to highlight one particular passage of this waste of valuable Wapo real estate:

I said the man wasn’t funny and not funny has a bullying quality to it; others (including some of my friends) said he was funny. But because I held such a view, my attentive critics were convinced I had a political agenda. I was — as was most of the press, I found out — George W. Bush’s lap dog. If this is the case, Bush had better check his lap.

Where on earth would anyone get the idea that Cohen might be one of Bush’s lapdogs?

Given the present bitterness, given the angry irresponsible charges being hurled by both camps, the nation will be in dire need of a conciliator, a likable guy who will make things better and not worse. That man is not Al Gore. That man is George W. Bush.”

Richard Cohen has been upset by the angry mob for some time. And when that happens he inevitably turns to the Republicans to set things right. They are, after all, the “conciliators.” But far be it for me to say he has a political agenda. I frankly don’t think he does. He is just easily upset by human beings who object to being treated like imbeciles by sniffing sycophants like Richard Cohen and don’t feel like taking his condescending shit anymore.

I’m not quite as old as Cohen but I lived through the same era. How pathetic now to see liberals of my generation get so exercised over a few hostile emails. It’s obviously been a while since they felt anything more strongly than irritation at too much foam on their cappucino. They sound exactly like the older generation sounded when we were young — afraid of change and seeing political passion as being “hateful” and dangerous. Baby boomer elites are now that creepy old guy muttering at the kids to stop walking on his lawn or he’ll call the cops.

And by the way, all that “hate ” in 1968 may have upset the Democratic party, but that misbegotten piece of shit war would still be going on if it hadn’t been for those “haters” who were willing to take on their own party when it behaved in an immoral fashion. Cohen’s hero George W. Bush and his followers are too busy playing one-handed “Kill the Islamofascist” XBox in their basements to fix the damned mess their brand name in a suit has made. We of the perpetually angry left will have to step up and do the dirty work one more time.

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