Richard Cohen: A lesson from Helen Thomas

The Washington Post ^ | June 8, 2010 | Richard Cohen

[LibLieSlayer]

I just cannot stand this cohen guy... even when he is a little bit correct. I just can’t stand him.

LLS

[allmendream]

Unfortunately the attitude of many of our supposedly ‘enlightened’ European cousins towards the Jewish people has NOT improved over the last sixty years; or the past 600 years, for that matter!

[rstrahan]

I’ve seldom agreed with Cohen, but this time, he nailed it.

[TexasCajun]

And there is a "Helen Thomas" Liberal in the White House.

[muawiyah]

Richard raises an issue you don't see often ~ the post WWII ethnic violence that continued throughout Europe, usually in the East, but also in the West.

The news media were generally silent about it since the bigger picture involved moving several million Germans out of their ancestral areas to make way for several million Poles as Belarus was moved West as well to give Joseph Stalin a bigger chunk of territory.

With many in the press enthralled by the Communist USSR, and absolutely no one wanting to sound sympathetic to the Germans you only began to hear about any of this outside of university classroom sometime in the 1980s.

Helen's original political views were probably rather pro-German and pro-Falange (the Lebanese Christian fascist party of the time). Today she's just an old fascist apparatchik who makes her way among the glitteratti by pretending to be a Commie.

The antisemitism goes with the show however!

[Virginia Ridgerunner]

The liberal beltway media pundits eating their own...

[RC2]

I would hope that the lesson that is learned is that Americans are tired of the nuts in our media and government and are starting to speak up. Hopefully, enough speak up before it’s to late for the country.

[muawiyah]

I've never thought of Richard as being part of the Helen Thomas crowd. In fact he and I used to exchange correspondence years ago over a wide variety of current events.

I know he hates slavery and the modern systems that attempt to emulate slavery on the behalf of the owners. That's not something you can find very many Leftwingtards opposing ~ they favor slavery and fascist methods of governance for the most part, and Richard is outside that.

He even got charged by some ol'gal at the Boston Globe with "sexual harrassment"!

He can be worked on and eventually he'll come over to our version of "the dark side". At the moment he's finding out who some of his real enemies on the left really are.

Think of him more as the quite ordinary Jewish guy you know from work or the neighborhood who has Democrat party sympathies but cannot quite explain them outside of some sort of false allegiance to the memory of Franklin Roosevelt.

Time for them to give that nonsense up. The rest of the Democrat party has betrayed FDR and are busy worshipping a golden calf that vomits out of date penicillin pills and poops lines at the doctor's office.

[gaijin]

General Patton a huge bigot and coward. Suuuuuuure...!!!

[Lancey Howard]

And yet Cohen will do whatever he can to get Ubama and his party re-elected.
What a hypocrite. What a pantload.

[org.whodat]

And there is a "Helen Ahab The Arab Thomas" Liberal in the White House.

[MEG33]

I saw Richard Cohen and thought ..GAG..but I was a child in WW2...and know some history because I have been trying to get some glimmer of understanding of how on earth the horrific treatment of Jews happened...(Never will understand..never)
Helen Thomas’s comments were not only despicable but stupid.

[Carley]

Cohen speaks the truth in his article. That said, he failed deliberately to mention that the event was a celebration of JEWISH HERITAGE at the White House.

There are far too many who would deny the virulent anti semitism of the Polish people.

[Daveinyork]

Even a broken clock is right twice a day.

[Daveinyork]

“The liberal beltway media pundits eating their own...”

I really don’t want to even picture that.

[Parley Baer]

....as Richard Cohen continues to support Obama and the likes of Reverend Wright.

This is the first time anywhere I have seen what Cohen has written about General Patton. I have read where Patton’s troops sped to the concentration camps to free them. I have read a lot about General Patton both good and bad but nothing like what Cohen is alleging has ever surfaced in my readings.

[Spudx7]

how on earth the horrific treatment of Jews happened...(Never will understand..never)
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It's happened over and over again throughout history. Think of Pharaoh ordering the death of all newborn Jewish males by having them thrown into the Nile. That's just horrific. I used to be frustrated at trying to understand why it happens. I came to the conclusion that Jews are God's chosen, the apple of His eye. Therefore, Satan hates them and seeks their destruction by kindling the hatred of evil people towards the Jews.

[Virginia Ridgerunner]

It's true.

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[P-Marlowe]

The article is interesting. The comments by the libs over at WP are just amazing. I cannot believe the utter hatred of Jews that is spewed there in the name of liberalism or progressivism (or whatever they are calling it these days).