Wow! WP's Richard Cohen Has Seen the Light!

[Beetwasher]

Blame, Blindness . . .

By Richard Cohen
Tuesday, February 3, 2004; Page A19

Now that President Bush, with all the enthusiasm of a dog going to the vet, has been yanked into naming a bipartisan commission to look into intelligence failures in Iraq, I'd like to see yet another commission established. This one would look into the real failure of intelligence -- not the CIA but America's political, social and intellectual leadership. No mere analyst at the CIA caused us to go to war for the wrong reasons.

--snip--

Why? No newspaper column could provide all the answers. But we were clearly unnerved by the events of Sept. 11, 2001, and the subsequent -- and now mostly overlooked -- anthrax attacks, which disproportionately affected the news media. Saddam Hussein provided us with a nifty and useful personification of evil -- not to mention spurious links to al Qaeda. He was something familiar, Hitler and Stalin all over again. There was an understandable urge to settle some scores. Finally, though, there was smugness -- the sort of American exceptionalism that so rankles non-Americans. No one better exemplified that than Bush himself. He proclaimed a divine right to unilateralism, oozed a smugness bred of incuriousness and an airy dismissal of dissent. He knew what he knew with such fiery certainty that even now he seems incapable of facing reality. He's like a kid who refuses to accept the fact that there is no Santa Claus.

--snip--

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A7219-2004Feb2.html

Ouch! That's gotta hurt...

[stopbush]

1. As nice as it is to see this in print and for Cohen to offer an

apology of sorts, it really makes you wonder.

For all of their insider knowledge and connections, they all got it wrong. Funny, but if the media and the rest of the country had spent, oh, say 37 seconds or so surfing the DU boards over the past two years, they would have had all the information they needed to see the bush/neo-con LIE for what it was.

Are we vindicated? HELL YES WE'RE VINDICATED!

Who's the patriot now, media whores? Go ahead, you can say it.

[dfitzsim]

2. Damn right!

:kick:

Our Washington Press Corp has rolled over for this administration for too damn long. If I performed my job as badly as these bozos, I'd have lost my job LONG ago.

[KoKo]

3. He really rips into Chimp! I just wish he had mentioned the "protestors"

here against the "Invasion" and Robert Byrd that they all ignored as an "aging pork stuff hack." When the press stops listening to any voices but their own then America ends up with just what it's gotten with the Evil Empire.

[JeebusH]

4. in 2000, Cohen felt that Gore clothing was an issue .....

things have changed since then huh Richard?

[mazzarro]

5. Wooooow! that is an incredible indictment of the nation's intelligentia!

eom.

[Mixxster]

6. Good article

Kick