The Morning Read: Tuesday, February 13, 2007

Doubts are raised about the story of the Ground Zero police officer who died on the day his son attended the State of the Union speech with Hillary Clinton.

Richard Cohen said Hillary should have questioned the administration better before her vote to authorize the use of force in Iraq.

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Will the AJC Distance Itself From (Radioactive) Report?

The AJC’s report on “Only Self-Hating Jews Don’t Like Israel”—it’s actually called “‘Progressive’ Jewish Thought and the New Anti-Semitism”—is officially an embarrassment. I say officially because the report’s theme that it is “illegitimate” for Jews to question the nature of the founding of Israel, that such inquiries represent a “betrayal” of Israel, based on “tangled Read More

They Just Keep Falling for It

So pundits can’t seem to take their eyes off of Ed Klein’s Hillary book, even as they dismiss it as a work of trashy fiction.
The Washington Post’s Richard Cohen tries a sarcastic take on Klein’s real motivations for writing the book.
“Klein set out to expose the right wing for Read More

The Washington Post March: Step Lively, See No Evil

Richard Cohen, a Washington Post columnist stationed in New York, has been booted upstairs from the paper’s 12th-floor offices to a kind of Coventry 10 floors above in the same building. This was done after The Post ‘s management had determined that Mr. Cohen, a 57-year-old, tepidly conventional liberal, had committed “inappropriate behavior” on, to, Read More

Washington Post Scolds Richard Cohen for Crude Talk With Female Aide

In its editorials on the Monica Lewinsky matter, The Washington Post has repeatedly urged President Bill Clinton to explain his relationship with the young White House intern, calling his silence “harmful, not just shifty

In its editorials on the Monica Lewinsky matter, The Washington Post has repeatedly urged President Bill Clinton to explain his relationship Read More

Lucian Freud Bio Killed Amid Much Heavy Breathing

The personal life of Lucian Freud has fascinated journalists and biographers for a long time. An earthy realist painter who is widely thought to be Britain’s greatest living artist, he’s also the grandson of Sigmund Freud and the so-called black sheep of the London-based Freud clan at that. His fleshy paintings of friends and family Read More