What, you couldn’t find a picture of Cohen?
Good job, though, of photoshopping Alfred E. Newman’s picture.
You came pretty close to Cohen’s likeness.

Fred Hiatt paid for today’s column ny Cohen. Whadda maroon.

Thanks Attaturk.

Cohen’s imagined comedic skills remind me of Lt. Steven Hauk, played so ably by Bruno Kirby (RIP) in GOOD MORNING VIETNAM.

Fred Hiatt’s editorial page is calling for an investigation (not prosecution) into the torture accusations. Although the editorial is the usual flawed Hiatt editorial, at least it’s a start. That ICRC report really shook them up!

The Truth About Torture

An independent panel must ferret out the facts.

Tuesday, March 17, 2009; Page A14

Anne Applebaum, columnist at WaPo is also calling for investigation but only of CIA prisons. In addition, she is calling for leaders to be held accountable. Another flawed piece but better than nothing.

Cleanup Task for a Shining City

By Anne Applebaum

Tuesday, March 17, 2009; Page A15

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What we need now, therefore, is not an endless, politicized circus of a congressional investigation into every aspect of George W. Bush’s White House but a carefully targeted legal investigation of the CIA’s invisible prisons: who gave the orders to use torture, who carried out the orders, what exactly was done, who objected. The guilty, however senior, should be named, forced to testify and called to account — because the rule of law, and nothing else, is what makes us exceptional.

By the way –

Happy St. Patty’s Day!

Cohen and his unfunny, wrong-headed opinions are part of the reason I no longer subscribe to the online Post. However, given Anne Applebaum’s call for an investigation into CIA prisons has me rethinking my previous position. Her idea doesn’t go far enough, though: Congress should investigate ALL potentially illegal moves of the Bush admininstration, including the Cheney assassination team, Guantanamo, etc.
Happy St. Patrick’s Day to all.

Everytime I see Cohen’s picture, I think he is really a lightly disguised David Letterman. His columns are looking like mean sarcastic Letterman skits.

Maybe there was a mistake and it was published two weeks too early.

But, beside that fact that two of the major points of the article are totally wrong, I see no problems. Stewart did not single out Cramer, Stewart went after CNBC, and Cramer went out and yelled “Bring It On!” with disastrous results.

And half a dozen world famous economists have been warning about a financial crisis for several years. Krugman, Stiglitz, Shiller and Galbraith come immediately to mind. Then there is Dr Dooom Roubini.

As for Cohen trying to convince us that it is OK for a major business news organization to be completely incompetent because it was only just as much more clueless as would be expected than a very wise and immensely knowing man like himself was? Well, that is just Cohen displaying he reasoning powers of a daft pompous, but tragically retarded elderly toddler, or the dry double mind **** of a nasty Letterman skit.

Just by writing this, he made Jon’s points even stronger.

Cohen’s in some dark corner right now laughing because he thinks he “got” Jon.

He didn’t.

(By the way Richard Cohen…Had your chance. Muffed it.)

Jon 2. Media O.

Fuck-off to Richard Cohen and other rich celebrity media hacks, sycophants, and all around dipshits.

Per Annie Appelbaum:

What we need now, therefore, is not an endless, politicized circus of a congressional investigation into every aspect of George W. Bush’s White House but a carefully targeted legal investigation of the CIA’s invisible prisons: who gave the orders to use torture, who carried out the orders, what exactly was done, who objected. The guilty, however senior, should be named, forced to testify and called to account — because the rule of law, and nothing else, is what makes us exceptional.

An excellent description of the role of a special prosecutor.

And Jon Stewart is so much more articulate…

He launched an eloquent assault that struck at the very foundations of American financial press and television. “You knew what the banks were doing, yet were touting it for months and months – the entire network was,” he said. “For now to pretend that this was some sort of crazy, once-in-a-lifetime tsunami that nobody could have seen coming is disingenuous at best, and criminal at worst.”

Cohen = disingenuous. Criminal at worst.

Good morning and Happy St. Patrick’s Day, pups. It’s Bobo and Herbert this morning. Bobo gives us “The Commercial Republic,” and gurgles that the United States is addicted to the pace of commercial enterprise. After periodic pauses, the country inevitably returns to its elemental nature. Mr. Herbert, in “Stifling an Opportunity,” says Chicago’s politics and notorious “pay-to-play” tradition have stood in the way of a proposed airport, which has the potential to unleash thousands of jobs in the city’s South Side.

Here they are.

The coffee, Irish Breakfast tea and hot chocolate are ready. I’m too decent a person to inflict green grits (a staple down here on this day) on the unsuspecting innocent so I’ve got corned beef hash. I like mine with a poached egg on top, so I’ve got poached eggs too. We had a lovely soaking rain last evening so the azaleas are happy. Have a great day.

they’ve gotten a little slow on their feet, they usually go to the “kill the messenger” strategy immediately, took them about a week this time

Ditto…………

I made a big pot of Irish Oatmeal.

Topped with brown sugar or natural maple syrup, pecans and your choice of dried or fresh fruit.

Cream on the side.

Slightly OT. Last night Barney Frank was on Rachael’s show. He didn’t say outright but strongly implied that AIG hasn’t gotten any money since O has been pres and the current problem is that BushCo didn’t attach any limits on bonuses with the TARP money that they gave them.
Is the part about no money from Obama to AIG true?

And look who they found. A writer of zero quality.

Cream on the side

Bailey’s?
Mora na maidine dhuit!

7:30-8:00 KATHLEEN NOVAK
Mayor of Northglenn, Colorado (R)
National League of Cities – President
nlc.org northglenn.org

Topic: The National League of Cities is holding their 2009 Annual Congressional City Conference this week in Washington, DC. The conference will feature the latest information from federal agency representatives and other technical experts who can help local officials learn how to bring these recovery dollars home and how to best leverage them with other resources to make a difference in recessionary economic times.

8:00-8:30 IAN SWANSON
The Hill
Associate Editor
thehill.com

Topic: The Obama Administration’s efforts to block bonuses given by the insurance company AIG to employees, and the Obama Administration’s efforts announced Monday to help small businesses.

8:30-9:00 Newspaper Articles/Phones

9:00 Radio Hit with NANCY CALO

9:00-9:20 PAMELA HESS
Associated Press
Intelligence Reporter
ap.org

Topic: A look at new information on CIA interrogation techniques.

9:20-10:00 MARK DANNER
Uplink New York Review of Books
Contributor
markdanner.com

Topic: Guest obtained a copy of a secret report conducted by the International Committee of the Red Cross, which concluded that the Bush administration’s treatment of al-Qaeda captives at CIA prisons “constituted torture.” Guest is also a professor at the University of California, Berkeley.

lol!

Oooo…Bailey’s…maybe later after the kids have their bowls of Irish Oatmeal.

Top O the morin’ to you!

9:20-10:00 MARK DANNER
Uplink New York Review of Books
Contributor
markdanner.com

Topic: Guest obtained a copy of a secret report conducted by the International Committee of the Red Cross, which concluded that the Bush administration’s treatment of al-Qaeda captives at CIA prisons “constituted torture.” Guest is also a professor at the University of California, Berkeley.

Mark Danner has an excellent article on the ICRC report in the latest NYRB.

oo thanks!
This AIG news is shoving that report back into the shadows.

so I’ve got corned beef hash. I like mine with a poached egg on top, so I’ve got poached eggs too.

BTW, my little klynn wants breakfast at your house!

It was just announced he’s, “Skippin’ the oatmeal stuff!

Shorter Cohen:

“It’s not the media’s fault. After all, what can we do?”

And remember: in the Village, Cohen is considered a liberal.

Watching MSNBC (no Joe this a.m.). Par Buchanon looks like he’s aged 20yrs in the last few months. He’s joked that he’s no longer rich, I think he’s taking a beating in the market. It’s been a good conversation. Maria B’s on and they’re talking AIG and the fact that much of the AIG money went straight to Goldman Sachs. It was implied that Paulsen was looking out for his cronies at G-S. No one’s happy with that.

By the Village idiots?

and here’s more on that story from Air America
Breaking Torture is a snap

I see swim’s up

Funny like a crutch Richie

Interesting. That same article was a recent oxdown diary: http://oxdown.firedoglake.com/diary/4256

It’s a good article, and the Danner article to which it refers is excellent.