Cokie was a lifelong Democratic swamp creature. DC royalty: her mother was Rep. Lindy Boggs (an old fashioned democrat who was a practicing Catholic and did vote pro-life), who herself succeeded her late husband Hale Boggs, who was House Democratic leader when his plane disappeared in Alaska in 1972. Cokie adjusted her views regularly, in line with the leftward drift of her party, and was a reliable flack for the Establishment Left. RIP.
And ABC replaced her with none other than George Stephy, continuing the tradition of allowing Democrat insiders to "report" their news and commentary.
On Roberts specifically: she and her husband ‘wrote’ a syndicated column that was a clockwork warmed-over rehash of that week’s DC talking points, specifically what media types were saying to each other. In print and on TV Roberts bore false witness against any and all the majority of the time and usually delivered her falsehoods with a cloying ivory-tower smirk. She will have to answer for it now.
On Roberts’ generation: because they are on stage, in the klieg lights, on Twitter feeds, etc. the media and the public continue to whistle past the graveyard (literally in some cases) where the age and infirmity of their candidates and their ‘movement’ in general are concerned. Yes, Joe Biden is taking a deserved beating for being physically and mentally unfit for any office let alone the presidency but what about Sanders and the rest?
It was clear to any rational being that Hillary Clinton was also unfit to serve. Presidential campaigns are far too long but the reality is that hers lasted about 2 years and was attended by an army of so-called reporters and journalists. They dutifully downplayed, cropped or ignored the paltry turnouts at Hillary campaign stops - when she could manage to crawl out of bed to attend them. They had the brass neck to act surprised at her 9/11 memorial collapse despite knowing - how could they not? - that Hillary’s brown transport van was, in fact, an ambulance in disguise.
The point is that the postwar generation - who are STILL boring us with their stories of watching the Beatles on Ed Sullivan and of Woodstock and Vietnam - who claim(ed) an exclusive license on idealism actually cashed in that idealism when they discovered that living the high life on someone else’s dime was preferable to VW vans and tinned beans. Roberts is among the ‘early departures’ but she will soon have company and lots of it. The entrenched left are top-heavy with oldsters.