Richard Cohen reacts to criticism of his Colbert piece

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aka, 'Why are you all so mean to me when I know I'm a funny guy?' (Not actually mentioned but if only.)

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 10 May 2006 13:16 (nineteen years ago)

I'm puzzled at how the piece manages to conclude with the point that hateful Democrats are hurting their party, when the first two thirds of the column are about how traumatized he is by potty-mouthed emails. Does not compute.

― elmo argonaut (allocryptic), Wednesday, 10 May 2006 13:30 (nineteen years ago)

Interesting. This gets at something that I tried starting a discussion about last week, namely the inability to simply disagree with people anymore on politics, in favor of labelling them as satanic or fascist, depending on your point of view. The hivemind does feel oppressive, sometimes.

― pleased to mitya (mitya), Wednesday, 10 May 2006 13:35 (nineteen years ago)

'anymore' - how old are you mitya?

― j blount (papa la bas), Wednesday, 10 May 2006 13:48 (nineteen years ago)

Yes, the hivemind is unwieldy and reactionary, but I think it's pretty facile to posit that an inbox full of anonymous profane email provides an accurate sample of political opinions.

― elmo argonaut (allocryptic), Wednesday, 10 May 2006 13:50 (nineteen years ago)

mitya remembers eden before all the hipsters moved in.

― Tracey Hand (tracerhand), Wednesday, 10 May 2006 14:04 (nineteen years ago)

yeah well, told you so.

― TOMBOT (TOMBOT), Wednesday, 10 May 2006 14:12 (nineteen years ago)

you don't have to "conclude" that hateful democrats are hurting their party. that's already been "concluded."

― TOMBOT (TOMBOT), Wednesday, 10 May 2006 14:12 (nineteen years ago)

~~"concluded."~~ fucking proven over and over at the polls for almost a decade

― TOMBOT (TOMBOT), Wednesday, 10 May 2006 14:14 (nineteen years ago)

Meaning?

― Fluffy Bear (Fluffy Bear Hearts Rainbows), Wednesday, 10 May 2006 14:19 (nineteen years ago)

Let's ask Ralph Nader what he thinks of Colbert, maybe this could turn around for us.

― TOMBOT (TOMBOT), Wednesday, 10 May 2006 14:25 (nineteen years ago)

I mean if the Green Party doesn't roffle big laffs from his routine either, we could be the closest to a unified core that we've been since 1992!

― TOMBOT (TOMBOT), Wednesday, 10 May 2006 14:26 (nineteen years ago)

DONKEYS LIKE SARCASM
THAT'S ALL YOU NEED TO KNOW IN '08

― TOMBOT (TOMBOT), Wednesday, 10 May 2006 14:26 (nineteen years ago)

Got ya. I just figured there were two ways to read that.

― Fluffy Bear (Fluffy Bear Hearts Rainbows), Wednesday, 10 May 2006 14:29 (nineteen years ago)

ah, I thought hateful Dems were the ones who nominated spineless cowards like Albert and Frankenkerry.

― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 10 May 2006 14:38 (nineteen years ago)

hateful dems are the ones who help those guys get nominated by not registering to vote because they'd rather spite the moderates than support anybody who voted for the war, ever

pathetic dems are the party slaves who act like nominating Hillary Clinton for anything, ever, is a remotely defensible idea

― TOMBOT (TOMBOT), Wednesday, 10 May 2006 14:43 (nineteen years ago)

Poor Hillary Clinton. The woman could probably cure AIDS and would still be persona non grata for like 75% of America, people just hate her.

― Allyzay Rofflesbot (allyzay), Wednesday, 10 May 2006 14:46 (nineteen years ago)

Tom OTM re: Hillary

The only way I could imagine a Hillary presidential candidacy working out favorably is if she gets ganged-up on in the primaries -- but then, of course, Democrats divided with no central message OH NOES blah blah

― elmo argonaut (allocryptic), Wednesday, 10 May 2006 14:53 (nineteen years ago)

Hillary Clinton can't cure AIDS!!! Only Jimmy Carter or her husband can ever cure AIDS. Al Gore already cured AIDS but nobody ever pays any attention to Al Gore.

― TOMBOT (TOMBOT), Wednesday, 10 May 2006 14:56 (nineteen years ago)

What is a "moderate"?

I don't know any Democrats who don't vote.

I think we can only go so far in blaming our problems on Naderites, regardless of how annoying he was during the last two elections.

I suspect we may be closer to developing a central message than at any time in the past. I probably shouldn't be too hopeful. Please, God, don't let 2006 be the year of "We're not Republicans".

It's true, the Democrats' main concern is all the crazies on the left who have been screwing up the party. And by the way, the crazies on the left are anybody who thinks that maybe "moderate centrist" is not actually an articulate position.

― Fluffy Bear (Fluffy Bear Hearts Rainbows), Wednesday, 10 May 2006 15:00 (nineteen years ago)

I meant recent past.

― Fluffy Bear (Fluffy Bear Hearts Rainbows), Wednesday, 10 May 2006 15:12 (nineteen years ago)

So essentially you've got a framework of people who want to just win one of these years, to hell with liberal principles and opposing the ruling majority, versus the vast majority of their prospective voters, who are thinking "if you would stop bitching about violence in Grand Theft Auto and call these LIARS, ALL OF YOU, LIARS AND MURDERERS AND WAR PROFITEERS, out on their fucking bullshit that's destroying this country, you could win, but don't blame me after you nominate another indefensible, waffling bore."

― TOMBOT (TOMBOT), Wednesday, 10 May 2006 15:22 (nineteen years ago)

but that's the macro level. at the micro level you just have people like me and elmo argonaut here yelling at each other because I think sending hateful e-mail to people like Richard Cohen is the most juvenile shit ever and just as fascistic as Shakey Mo wanting to ban nu-metal in military recruitment advetisements, while the rest of the nation sadly shakes its head.

― TOMBOT (TOMBOT), Wednesday, 10 May 2006 15:24 (nineteen years ago)

Do you think that a win for a super-"moderate" Democrat the same as a win for a Republican, Tombot?

― pleased to mitya (mitya), Wednesday, 10 May 2006 15:30 (nineteen years ago)

From here:
Truth to tell, I peeked into only a few of the e-mails.

to here:
All in all, I was -- I am, and I guess I remain -- the worthy object of ignorant, false and downright idiotic vituperation.

then here:
This spells trouble -- not for Bush or, in 2008, the next GOP presidential candidate, but for Democrats.

― erklie (erklie), Wednesday, 10 May 2006 15:30 (nineteen years ago)

thx for the slander. keep it comin!

― Shakey Mo Collier (Shakey Mo Collier), Wednesday, 10 May 2006 15:32 (nineteen years ago)

disapproving of something /= OMG LET'S PASS A LAW TO FOREVER STAMP THIS OUT ALL HAIL THE MIGHTY LIBERAL FASCIST STATE

― Shakey Mo Collier (Shakey Mo Collier), Wednesday, 10 May 2006 15:33 (nineteen years ago)

I'm not defending the hatemail Cohen got, but I think it's horribly boring and unimaginitive to use it as the substance of his column (especially because he plays victim, then tries to tease a politically salient point from his trauma, what pathos). But then, maybe I shouldn't expect so much.

And Tom, I was being a prick with all the antagonizing last week, I admit.

― elmo argonaut (allocryptic), Wednesday, 10 May 2006 15:37 (nineteen years ago)

Do you think that a win for a super-"moderate" Democrat the same as a win for a Republican, Tombot?

the differentiation is only clear on about one issue in this country anymore.

― TOMBOT (TOMBOT), Wednesday, 10 May 2006 15:37 (nineteen years ago)

Oh I was being a prick too, I'm being a prick to Shakey right now!

― TOMBOT (TOMBOT), Wednesday, 10 May 2006 15:38 (nineteen years ago)

Abortion?

― pleased to mitya (mitya), Wednesday, 10 May 2006 15:40 (nineteen years ago)

haven't you guys joined the new wave yet:

http://www.third-way.com/

radical new hairdos!

― scott seward (scott seward), Wednesday, 10 May 2006 15:46 (nineteen years ago)

Only Jimmy Carter or her husband can ever cure AIDS.

In a perfect world this would be the truest sentence ever spoken.

― Dan (Context Shmontext) Perry (Dan Perry), Wednesday, 10 May 2006 15:51 (nineteen years ago)

roffles.

― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn (Alfred Soto), Wednesday, 10 May 2006 15:59 (nineteen years ago)

Hilary CAN cure AIDS, now that she's open about spending Rupert Murdoch bread.

― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn (Alfred Soto), Wednesday, 10 May 2006 16:01 (nineteen years ago)

I agree with Tom, here (I think. I'm still learning to speak TOMBOT), when it comes to waffling bores, but I think we should withhold our judgement of Cohen's critics.

Upthread, erklie extrapolated what is probably the most pertainant quote from Cohen's article: "Truth to tell, I peeked into only a few of the e-mails."

The general consensus of most established media types is that the internet is a pandoras box of wild barbarians and dangerous lunatics. Cohen is going to believe this no matter how articulate and reasonable his critics are. All you need is a few foul-mouthed fire breathing e-mails and the concensus is maintained.

This is going to go on for years while we adjust to the fact that everybody can now be a writer, editor and publisher. It's really easy to go from that immediate reaction of "Fuck you!" to "You've got mail".

In the meantime, fools like Cohen get to dismiss their critics, smugly confident in their superiority.

― Fluffy Bear (Fluffy Bear Hearts Rainbows), Wednesday, 10 May 2006 16:25 (nineteen years ago)

Another laughable consensus opinion from Cohen's article:

The e-mails pulse in my queue, emanating raw hatred. This spells trouble -- not for Bush or, in 2008, the next GOP presidential candidate, but for Democrats. The anger festering on the Democratic left will be taken out on the Democratic middle.

Left? Middle? Whatever. But the real knee slapper is that somehow the leadership, the powerbrokers and the messengers are not responsible for wins and losses. It's the internet. It's the public. It's me and you. And we're CRAZY.

― Fluffy Bear (Fluffy Bear Hearts Rainbows), Wednesday, 10 May 2006 16:33 (nineteen years ago)

"It's people like YOU who make us lose every year."

― elmo argonaut (allocryptic), Wednesday, 10 May 2006 16:39 (nineteen years ago)

...or every election, whatever.

― elmo argonaut (allocryptic), Wednesday, 10 May 2006 16:40 (nineteen years ago)

that's gabbneb's line.

― Shakey Mo Collier (Shakey Mo Collier), Wednesday, 10 May 2006 16:53 (nineteen years ago)

I'm gonna repeat myself again here and just say that take the time to excoriate powerless morons like our man Cohen here is absolutely, positively, never worth it.

― TOMBOT (TOMBOT), Wednesday, 10 May 2006 16:54 (nineteen years ago)

the problem in a nutshell as I see it is that boring risk-averse fuckers like Cohen continue to run the show, playing nice, and putting really ineffectual and mealy-mouthed people in front. Then somebody says something that has balls and principle behind it, something truly oppositional and unapologetic in its traitorous terrorist-comforting troop-morale-destroying oh what the fuck ever you want to call it, LIARS, ALL OF YOU, LIARS, and the first ones to scurry to the other corner of the room and talk about something completely different are supposedly our Dem leadership.
So essentially you've got a framework of people who want to just win one of these years, to hell with liberal principles and opposing the ruling majority, versus the vast majority of their prospective voters, who are thinking "if you would stop bitching about violence in Grand Theft Auto and call these LIARS, ALL OF YOU, LIARS AND MURDERERS AND WAR PROFITEERS, out on their fucking bullshit that's destroying this country, you could win, but don't blame me after you nominate another indefensible, waffling bore."

fucking otmotherfucking$$$$$$$

they look real wounded when they come around soliciting campaign funds and you say "dude, you're running John Kerry - even the people who vote for him don't like him! of COURSE I'm not gonna give you any money, come back when you've located your testicles"

― Thomas Tallis (Tommy), Wednesday, 10 May 2006 16:55 (nineteen years ago)

I still don't understand why Colbert's speech has become a cause celebre, but I guess it's acting as a pretty good litmus test for moronic fuxx like Cohen, so I gotta get behind that. Tombot OTM all over this thread.

― J (Jay), Wednesday, 10 May 2006 16:57 (nineteen years ago)

"I'm gonna repeat myself again here and just say that take the time to excoriate powerless morons like our man Cohen here is absolutely, positively, never worth it."

this is pretty true, I think. talking about them only magnifies their perceived "power" or "relevance" (for ex. I had never even heard of Cohen prior to this)

― Shakey Mo Collier (Shakey Mo Collier), Wednesday, 10 May 2006 16:57 (nineteen years ago)

I think we should withhold our judgement of Cohen's critics.

me too, mostly because i'm not willing to take his word for it that he has 3,000 messages of hateful bile. my guess is that there are a lot of good, articulate well-thought-out comments in there, but he's not interested in those so he scans through until he finds someone using a dirty word or calling him a lapdog, and he says "SEE?"

otoh, of all the possible political gestures in the world, writing emails to richard cohen ranks somewhere well below dressing up as a banana and protesting chiquita's labor practices. at least the banana suit might get you in the local paper.

― gypsy mothra (gypsy mothra), Wednesday, 10 May 2006 16:58 (nineteen years ago)

the Colbert thing really isn't THAT big a deal. It was a funny and strange moment, perhaps helpful as an example of how much Dubya's stature has waned - but its practical political import is largely nil.

― Shakey Mo Collier (Shakey Mo Collier), Wednesday, 10 May 2006 16:59 (nineteen years ago)

well it was one of these things where the reaction to it was much more telling than the event itself. if it had just been given standard-issue next-day news coverage ("comedian rankles president," story on page A6) i think some of the sense of grievance would have been avoided. the reaction wasn't so much because people like richard cohen didn't find it "funny," it was because almost the entire washington press corps missed the only actually interesting news story that came out of their party -- and then instead of just acknowledging that they'd missed the story and maybe talking a little about why that might have happened, they spent a week saying "he wasn't funny!", as if that were the point.

― gypsy mothra (gypsy mothra), Wednesday, 10 May 2006 17:24 (nineteen years ago)

mothra brings my inchoate thoughts to life.

― pleased to mitya (mitya), Wednesday, 10 May 2006 17:32 (nineteen years ago)

John McCain is here. John McCain, John McCain, what a maverick! Somebody find out what fork he used on his salad, because I guarantee you it wasn't a salad fork. This guy could have used a spoon!

Just had to re-chuckle.

― Fluffy Bear (Fluffy Bear Hearts Rainbows), Wednesday, 10 May 2006 17:33 (nineteen years ago)

real-deal journalist dude gene lyons takes a swing at it.

― gypsy mothra (gypsy mothra), Wednesday, 10 May 2006 17:45 (nineteen years ago)

Skipping 44 messages at this point... Click here if you want to load them all.

That particular straight line COULD be a threadkiller.

― Colin Meeder (Mert), Friday, 12 May 2006 07:15 (nineteen years ago)

Hahahahahaha

― Dan (Awesome) Perry (Dan Perry), Friday, 12 May 2006 10:34 (nineteen years ago)

Astounding. ;-)

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 12 May 2006 13:27 (nineteen years ago)

made me realize that probably 75% of the country are just so fucking stupid.

No, just about 50.2%. The right is simply very vocal.
I'm very much appreciative of the fact that gas prices have made it cool again to talk openly in the office about what a stupid evil douchebag we have in the White House. Whatever it takes, people.

― TOMBOT (TOMBOT), Friday, 12 May 2006 13:32 (nineteen years ago)

I'd say 50.2% willfully ignorant, 30% stupid, 10-20% crazy.

Of course, Tom is right about gas prices, which are going up no matter what, which makes my eyeballs hemmorrage.

That's why I say 4 more years: I want people to understand, fully, that it's not about gas prices.

Related: standing out by smokers corner not too long ago, dude mentions New Orleans/Katrina, and this woman just rolled her eyes.

― Fluffy Bear (Fluffy Bear Hearts Rainbows), Friday, 12 May 2006 15:03 (nineteen years ago)

The problem with four more years is we don't yet know who the appointed successor would be. It could always be someone just moderate / sensible enough to stabilize things on the populist side while still fucking everything else up (a not necessarily good example: somehow managing an orderly Iraq pullout while packing another two right-wing judges in the Supreme Court).

― pleased to mitya (mitya), Friday, 12 May 2006 15:09 (nineteen years ago)

we pay $3.50 for gas here on crazy island. our hummers barely feel it. swells that we are. (over 70% of whom voted for kerry)

― scott seward (scott seward), Friday, 12 May 2006 15:19 (nineteen years ago)

I'm not being even remotely realistic, here; I'm talking about 4 more years of Bush. I want to drive around with paintball guns, shooting Bush voters, I want this to be a nationally recognised sport, and I want the brandees to just shrug their shoulders, sigh, and say, "we derserve it."

And then I return to my mansion and Audrey Tautou and Franka Potente feed me strawberries.

Dan, I'd like to comission a poem.

― Fluffy Bear (Fluffy Bear Hearts Rainbows), Friday, 12 May 2006 15:22 (nineteen years ago)

IF you dip into NRO's The Corner, you'll read plenty of hand-wringing columns by members of the right (that is, if there's any space left after the 30,000 endorsemetns of Ramesh Ponnuru's The Party of Death, most written by thoughtful critics like Bill Bennett and MIchelle Malkin).

I think we need a moderate Republican as president more than a Democrat; I don't know what a Democrat is these days (it's partly why I left the party). Trouble is, there ain't many moderate Republicans around, not w/the likes of Sensenbrenner, George Allen, and Frist prowling the countrside.

In short, we need a Benjamin Harrison.

― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn (Alfred Soto), Friday, 12 May 2006 16:17 (nineteen years ago)

Related: standing out by smokers corner not too long ago, dude mentions New Orleans/Katrina, and this woman just rolled her eyes.
-- Fluffy Bear (el.jeffe.bonanz...) (webmail), Today 11:03 AM. (Fluffy Bear Hearts Rainbows) (later)

i was working at sears when katrina went down (my first american job - woo!) and those middle aged, mininum wage, bush loving bitches were whining and complaining (as loudly as possible - bye bye customers!) about how the victims have no right to whine and complain because THEY SHOULD HAVE KNOWN.

― sunny successor (katharine), Friday, 12 May 2006 16:33 (nineteen years ago)

I was really disturbed that that kind of post-Katrina commentary; I heard one person say that the people in NOLA should have "filled their bathtubs with water." (Yes, that always helps when your bathtub and house is underwater and you are stuck on the roof if you are alive anymore at all...).

I think there is a serious level of reality-denial in some people. Some of them just have no concept that Bad Things can happen to them, too. In my less-nice moments, I wish Bad Things on those people...

― Sara Robinson-Coolidge (Sara R-C), Friday, 12 May 2006 17:09 (nineteen years ago)

well i think both liberals and conservatives sometimes wish ill on people they disagree with. i'd like to think the difference is that when/if bad things actually HAPPEN, liberals have a little more sense of "we're all in this together, let's do what needs to be done," while conservatism defaults to "individual responsibility" ("they should have known").

― gypsy mothra (gypsy mothra), Friday, 12 May 2006 17:15 (nineteen years ago)

Oh I wish large amounts of people would just fucking die all the time.
Any of those Please Piss On Me Jesus people who are protesting the MOVIE of TDVC but forgot that before that it used to be a BOOK, for example. Oh and all those motherfuckers on kingfish's war against contraception thread, the motherfuckers who want to ban vaccines and condoms and all that.

― TOMBOT (TOMBOT), Friday, 12 May 2006 17:21 (nineteen years ago)

In short, we need a Benjamin Harrison.

-- Alfred, Lord Sotosyn (soto.alfre...), May 12th, 2006 12:17 PM. (Alfred Soto) (link)

Yes, we need an uninspiring Republican president who's (grand)father previously held the office, who will lose the popular vote but win in a narrow electoral college victory, and who will leave a once abundant treasury depleted after he leaves office.

Yes, where can we get one of those?

OK, but other than the Sherman Anti-trust Act, what's he got going for him? He wasn't malignant?

― Fluffy Bear (Fluffy Bear Hearts Rainbows), Friday, 12 May 2006 17:33 (nineteen years ago)

Warren G. Harding in 2008

― elmo argonaut (allocryptic), Friday, 12 May 2006 17:40 (nineteen years ago)

we need an uninspiring Republican president whose father previously held the office, who will lose the popular vote but win in a narrow electoral college victory, and who will leave a once abundant treasury depleted after he leaves office

GEORGE W BUSH IN '08!

― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn (Alfred Soto), Friday, 12 May 2006 17:52 (nineteen years ago)

The crazies who don't want the HPV vaccine to become available (and all the other war against contraception stuff, as mentioned slightly upthread) are the ones that I find terrifying. (I think I read The Handmaid's Tale one too man times...)

Hmmm, couldn't we run Herbert Hoover? (Or hey, how about Calvin Coolidge. He was famously silent and maybe then people would learn to spell that part of my name correctly).

― Sara Robinson-Coolidge (Sara R-C), Friday, 12 May 2006 18:16 (nineteen years ago)

James Wood assesses the reactions to Colbert (including Cohen's) in TNR and comes down on the side of "the foul-mouthers, the underground men, the crazies, the semi-literates with their paranoid monikers."

Was Stephen Colbert funny?

― o. nate (onate), Friday, 12 May 2006 18:53 (nineteen years ago)

(I think I read The Handmaid's Tale one too man times...)

Best typo ever?

― Dan (Paging Dr Freud!) Perry (Dan Perry), Friday, 12 May 2006 18:55 (nineteen years ago)

Please add Handmaids Tale 2manX to Ways in which my country resembles a poorly written dystopian screenplay

― Fluffy Bear (Fluffy Bear Hearts Rainbows), Friday, 12 May 2006 19:23 (nineteen years ago)

one too man times...

LOL, I just had a funny flash of the era in college when my mother thought I was a lesbian. (Her timeless question, "do lesbians have periods?" dates from this era.)

― Sara Robinson-Coolidge (Sara R-C), Friday, 12 May 2006 19:23 (nineteen years ago)

WOW! That's possibly one of the weirdest questions I've ever heard of, that's awesome.

― Allyzay Rofflesbot (allyzay), Friday, 12 May 2006 19:28 (nineteen years ago)

I had completely forgotten about that question! My dad berating me for whining about not pursuing a singing career by telling me I'd never sing like Jessye Norman pales in comparison.

― Dan (Parents Say The Darnedest Things) Perry (Dan Perry), Friday, 12 May 2006 19:31 (nineteen years ago)

Can we srart a "Sara's Mom Says the Darndest Things" thread?

'Cuz most all y'all have no idea how much fun that would be.

― Fluffy Bear (Fluffy Bear Hearts Rainbows), Friday, 12 May 2006 19:35 (nineteen years ago)

Ooh, Dan, that's good, but how does it rate next to your dad's favorite thing to do in the world (which I will leave up to you te reveal).

― Fluffy Bear (Fluffy Bear Hearts Rainbows), Friday, 12 May 2006 19:38 (nineteen years ago)

My mother really is the gift that keeps on giving. (I actually have a poem made up of stuff she's said to me, but I'd have to go look for it.)

(Fluffy Bear, who else but me would post on that thread?!)

― Sara Robinson-Coolidge (Sara R-C), Friday, 12 May 2006 19:38 (nineteen years ago)

I love you all. (Seriously, it has been amusing seeing the context from which good Mr. Perry emerged into the wider world of Net snark.)

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 12 May 2006 19:39 (nineteen years ago)

Dan - I really don't get your Dad. At all. (But my confusion about parents is mostly confined to M@liss!'s Mom. Oy.)

― Sara Robinson-Coolidge (Sara R-C), Friday, 12 May 2006 19:39 (nineteen years ago)

Did you just say "Oy"?

― Fluffy Bear (KEKEKEKEKEKE) (Fluffy Bear Hearts Rainbows), Friday, 12 May 2006 19:56 (nineteen years ago)

Yep. (I'm sure she would approve. Otherwise no cheesecake brownies for her tomorrow!)

― Sara Robinson-Coolidge (Sara R-C), Friday, 12 May 2006 19:59 (nineteen years ago)

I like how 2 different Colbert-themed threads have degenerated into the Hastings ile Cafe.

― Fluffy Bear (Fluffy Bear Hearts Rainbows), Friday, 12 May 2006 20:03 (nineteen years ago)

Hahaha yeah! We need our own board.

― Dan (I Love Hastings(?)) Perry (Dan Perry), Friday, 12 May 2006 20:05 (nineteen years ago)

Just start a Hastings thread, try to compete with DC and Chicago and really fuck off the sensitive ppls

― Allyzay Rofflesbot (allyzay), Friday, 12 May 2006 20:06 (nineteen years ago)

NOOOOO I would cry and weep. (I lie.)

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 12 May 2006 20:08 (nineteen years ago)

DC, Chicago and... Hastings? (One of these things is not like the other, one of these things just doesn't belong...)

― Sara Robinson-Coolidge (Sara R-C), Friday, 12 May 2006 20:09 (nineteen years ago)

Eh, so?

― Allyzay Rofflesbot (allyzay), Friday, 12 May 2006 20:11 (nineteen years ago)

I think it was the combination that made me laugh. (The trauma of not having a movie theater or bookstore in what was actually not that small of a town is still haunting me...)

― Sara Robinson-Coolidge (Sara R-C), Friday, 12 May 2006 20:15 (nineteen years ago)

Haha ok see I didn't know it was that kind of stupid, I thought it was a funny way to insult DC and Chicago but no bookstore??? That's kind of insane.

― Allyzay Rofflesbot (allyzay), Friday, 12 May 2006 20:16 (nineteen years ago)

Oh, if only we could teleport you back in time for a week... not to worry, a lot of us found other stuff to keep occupied. Some of it was even legal.

― Sara Robinson-Coolidge (Sara R-C), Friday, 12 May 2006 20:20 (nineteen years ago)

AX + B(AX) / Colbert = HASTINGS,MN CAFE

― Fluffy Bear (Fluffy Bear Hearts Rainbows), Friday, 12 May 2006 20:22 (nineteen years ago)

five years pass...

Sullivan wonders a bit about Mr. Cohen.

― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 16 February 2012 16:47 (fourteen years ago)

That was a stupid Cohen column

― curmudgeon, Thursday, 16 February 2012 17:12 (fourteen years ago)

three years pass...

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https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/in-defense-of-tipping/2015/10/19/16f1cd36-768c-11e5-a958-d889faf561dc_story.html

― mookieproof, Tuesday, 20 October 2015 14:37 (ten years ago)

So many bad Cohen columns. I blame the Washington Post's editorial page editor who loves neo-con knuckleheads like Cohen writing for him.

― curmudgeon, Tuesday, 20 October 2015 17:53 (ten years ago)

the op-ed page is a rogues gallery of thugs and war profiteers

This guy also a regular contributor:

http://ooyala.fairfax.tv.edgesuite.net/M0dWN4NTqF6V6hXrJb_UCYvxp_ZPU_ow/dC9YmUV2gYCgMiZn5hMDoxOjBzMTu354

― The burrito of ennui (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 20 October 2015 18:06 (ten years ago)

two years pass...

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― mookieproof, Tuesday, 17 April 2018 20:21 (seven years ago)

They hired a qualified woman for a job, even though he wanted it. So unfair.

― A is for (Aimless), Tuesday, 17 April 2018 20:37 (seven years ago)

"It took everything I had, but I remained cordial toward her for the length of our shared tenure at the company."

― thots and players (rip van wanko), Tuesday, 17 April 2018 20:53 (seven years ago)

one year passes...

cohen out

https://www.washingtonian.com/2019/09/23/richard-cohen-leaves-the-washington-post

― mookieproof, Monday, 23 September 2019 20:36 (six years ago)

inability to simply disagree with people anymore on politics

which future alt-right guy used to post as "mitya"

― mh, Monday, 23 September 2019 21:17 (six years ago)

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