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September 9, 2005
Richard Cohen Finds John Roberts' Flaw
The left-wing punditocracy can rest now. Richard Cohen has finally found something wrong with John Roberts. As revealed in yesterday's Washington Post, the problem with Roberts is... he's too perfect.
"His record is appallingly free of failure," Cohen complains. "I wish that John Roberts had a touch of my incompetence."
I'm glad Cohen doesn't have a touch of Roberts' competence — he might stop writing such amusingly idiotic editorials.
Cohen admits that Roberts' record is flawless. But while admitting it, he amazingly tries to spin this as a bad thing.
There's no point in my proving that Cohen is a flake and a fool. Cohen has done the work for me:
Just before writing this column, I came across an obituary for Theodore Sarbin, a social psychologist who died Aug. 31 at the nice age of 94. Sarbin's claim to newspaper space was his 1988 report recommending that the military stop discriminating against gays and lesbians. This is the sentence that caught my attention: "As a young man, he rode the rails as a hobo, an experience he would later say helped him identify with people on the margins of society." The best Roberts could do in this respect was to work summers in a steel mill. He shared the work — but not the plight.
So according to Cohen, an ex-bum "social psychologist" whose only accomplishment is wishing the military were some kind of San Francisco bathhouse is more qualified than Roberts to be Chief Justice because Roberts has never been a derelict and the only hard labor he ever did is work in a steel mill.
Reading Cohen leaves me crushed by a sense of futility. If I write for a hundred years, I will never be able to capture the sheer asininity of moonbattery as well as Cohen can in just a few sentences.
Posted by Van Helsing at September 9, 2005 6:55 AM
Comments
Cheer up, Van Helsing, you're really much better than Cohen. You cover more material, and really, you're pithier. (And, I'm guessing that you're more widely read.)
Posted by: The MaryHunter at September 9, 2005 7:53 AM
Ladies and gentlemen...
Al Franken. Natural hair color.
Posted by: phil at September 9, 2005 8:55 AM
So, um... Did Cohen think Bush's experience with Arbusto was character-building and good experience, or did he, like most leftists, point to it as an example of Bush's 'Incompetence' that made him unfit to be president?
Then, again, Al Gore flunked out of college twice and is regarded as a genius by the left. So, it's not like it's totally consistent.
So, in summation, leftist reasoning is: Harvard MBA = smirking chimp. Failing out of law and divinity school = genius.
Posted by: V the K at September 9, 2005 9:31 AM
V the K: I think you've just nailed a superb doublespeak.
It's substantiated by the Left's praise of "Nuanced John" Kerry: hailed as a Mensa natural by the anointed leftist elite, while having been academically a tad behind "Village Idiot" Bush at Yale.
Posted by: The MaryHunter at September 9, 2005 10:53 AM
I'd love to see a formal chaired debate with the best pundits the Moonbats could come up with, and pit them against the likes of Steyn, Hanson, and even Anne Coulter (just to piss them off). I think it'd have to be rated R, just to make sure no kids watch the Moonbats get slaughtered. What's with the incredible lack of logic, and reason, in so much Moonbat punditry?
Posted by: Debris Trail at September 9, 2005 9:02 PM
I will say one thing in Cohen's defense. He readily admitted that Clinton raped Juanita Broaddrick and was clearly a sexual predator.
I've still got lefties visiting my blog that can't face that reality.
Posted by: Mike's America at September 10, 2005 1:25 AM
