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NEWS ABOUT: Richard Cohen

Richard Cohen stories: 7 news summaries
Richard Cohen

We Need an Institute to Study Sarah Palin

And George W. Bush should be the
one to build it

Nov 17, 09 12:30 PM CST
(Newser) - Dear George W. Bush: Instead of setting up some boring policy institute—there are already about 3,000 of them—why not spend your money on something important, like studying Sarah Palin. Set up the Institute for the Study of Sarah Palin, and “my check is in the mail,... More »

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John McCain • Richard Cohen • George W. Bush • Sarah Palin

OPINION

Campaign Film Shows 'Too-Perfect' Obama

Lack of passion in behind-the-scenes doc highlights problems with Obama's presidency

Oct 20, 09 8:10 AM CDT
(Newser) - President Obama comes across as too perfect for his own good in upcoming HBO documentary By the People: The Election of Barack Obama, writes Richard Cohen. The behind-the-scenes look at the campaign shows Obama as cool and collected as ever, Cohen writes in the Washington Post, with no sign of... More »

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Barack Obama • documentary • Richard Cohen • Election 2008 • President Obama

OPINION

Erratic Obama Cheapens the Presidency

Time for leader of free world to stop acting like a candidate: Cohen

Sep 29, 09 6:03 AM CDT
(Newser) - Barack Obama has been in office for nearly a year, but for Richard Cohen, he's still "the candidate-in-full," unaware that he is already president. Watching Obama alongside Gordon Brown and Nicolas Sarkozy last week, the Washington Post columnist perceived "a faux Cuban missile crisis"—and a... More »

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Iran • Barack Obama • nuclear weapons • president • nuclear program • Richard Cohen

OPINION

Stewart Took a Cheap Shot at Cramer, CNBC

Even CEOs couldn't predict crisis, let alone analysts covering them

Mar 17, 09 7:43 AM CDT
(Newser) - Jon Stewart’s pantsing of Jim Cramer was nothing but a “cheap shot,” writes Richard Cohen in the Washington Post. CNBC’s crew wasn’t covering up the impending crisis, and neither were the CEOs they interviewed. Many, including head honchos at AIG, Lehman Brothers, and... More »

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CNBC • Jon Stewart • Jim Cramer • Richard Cohen

OPINION

 The Case for 
 and Against 
 Rick Warren 

WaPost does the dueling op-ed thing

Dec 23, 08 1:31 PM CST
(Newser) - Liberals should be neither shocked nor appalled by Barack Obama’s inaugural invitation to anti-gay pastor Rick Warren, EJ Dionne writes in the Washington Post. His colleague Richard Cohen begs to differ, however, so the two duke it out in their columns today. Cohen says Obama has decided to... More »

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Barack Obama • gay rights • religion • Christian right • evangelicals • inauguration • Richard Cohen • Rick Warren • President Obama

OPINION

 McCain Sheds Honor 
 in Heat of Campaign 

Columnist, a longtime fan of the straight-shooting senator, sorely disappointed

Sep 16, 08 2:45 PM CDT
(Newser) - John McCain's dishonesty in this race has turned him into the kind of politician the candidate once professed to hate, writes Richard Cohen—a one-time fan of the Arizona senator—in the Washington Post. McCain’s lies—most blatantly expressed on The View in response to a question about misleading... More »

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Barack Obama • John McCain • The View • Joy Behar • negative campaigning • Richard Cohen • campaign advertising • Sarah Palin

OPINION

Obama Pastor
Faulted for
Farrakhan Rave

Incensed scribe cries racism; candidate deplores same

Jan 15, 08 4:38 PM CST
(Newser) - Barack Obama’s controversial pastor is back in the press—and the blogosphere—this time for praising Louis Farrakhan in an issue of the church's magazine, calling him "an unforgettable force, a catalyst for change and a religious leader who is sincere about his faith and his purpose."... More »

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Barack Obama • racism • civil rights • Nation of Islam • Jeremiah Wright • Louis Farrakhan • Richard Cohen • Jewish • anti-Semitism • Election 2008

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