Just so you know, fake news isn’t limited to the news pages, news broadcasts and the Internet.
Washington Post columnist Richard Cohen uses his column to push his anti-Trump pap. (act.wearultraviolet.org)
The Washington Post’s leftist columnist Richard Cohen wrote about the son of an anonymous friend in concocting a recent anti-Trump column.
In his column, he makes reference to the upright citizen teenage son of a friend, who since Donald Trump was elected president, was having a problem speaking to his son about the new president’s habits. It was a scenario made for Cohen, who needed an excuse to write another Trump hit piece.
Leading with, “There are many reasons to loathe Trump,” he refers to his policies that to him are “mostly wrong.” Loathe? Really?
He even felt compelled to make points with environmentalists saying, “He (Trump) would let the Earth bake rather than implement the most rudimentary of steps to moderate global warming.”
Citing his friend’s dilemma, he writes, “What is so repellant about Trump … (is that) he is a winner who was supposed to lose.”
Outrageously referring to President Trump as “the most un-American of presidents,” he cites well-known traits of other presidents, leading to President Obama, “whose dignity in the face of Trump’s ‘birther’ taunts is now so sorely missed.” It was that “dignified” President Obama, who recently said he was “heartened” by anti-Trump protestors.
Cohen writes that “A father instructs … raises a child to be good … honest … to tell the truth … be humble and fair … not to be petty … to respect women,” as he concludes the plight of his “friend.”
“Lots of men have failed as presidents, as Trump surely will,“ says Cohen, “but few fail so dismally as role models.”
It’s unfortunate that Cohen cannot confine his columns to honest commentary, giving his side of the president’s decisions without casting aspersions on him.
Cohen could have written his column giving his thoughts on how difficult it might be to raise a son or daughter today without the use of an anonymous friend.
If I were the “friend,” I would keep Cohen at arm’s length from my son.
Among the most recent fake news stories, I recall the story of Hillary Clinton coming under gunfire on her arrival in Kosovo and NBC Anchor Brian Williams’ experience in an Army helicopter. The best known anonymous attribution stories came from former Sen. Harry Reid (D-NV), who was told by someone that Mitt Romney hadn’t paid any taxes, and once referred to an anonymous friend, Tommy, during a speech on the Senate floor. The New York Times, of course, has long quoted anonymous sources.
