Wednesday, January 25, 2012
Cohen Back on Track Quote-Wise: Politico Features him on SOTU
Posted by Jackson Baker on Wed, Jan 25, 2012 at 6:54 PM
9th District congressman Steve Cohen, who set unofficial records during his first two terms as someone considered quoteworthy in the political press, might have slowed down a bit since, but is back on the boards. The highly modish site Politico.com used his observation about President Obama's State of the Union address as a tease to its general coverage on Wednesday.
Here's the home-page tease:
And here's Cohen's full comment as quoted by Politico:
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Steve Cohen is a shameless self promoter. Nobody cares what he thinks. Only the phony liberals in Midtown thinks he is a political giant.
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I assume, Christofero, that your question is of stapletondia, not Yours Truly?
Yes JB, I am. I mean, no matter what one might think of the man personally the available data would suggest otherwise, wouldn't it? And I'm always curious as to how people test the authenticity of large groups of people they cannot possibly know. I guess I'm just dreaming of a better class of cranks.
I think the "phony liberals in Midtown" comment speaks to the methodology of stapletondia's poll, don't you? Margin of error +/- 100%.
How about sources, methodology for "set unofficial records during his first two terms as someone considered quoteworthy in the political press"? Just because you call it unofficial doesn't mean a journalist should just make things up. He didn't really slow down when he called Republicans Nazis, did he?
So, Obama's "for the 99%," eh? Yuh, right: http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/oba…
And, if he's really "for the 99%," why didn't he at least acknowledge the influence of the movement that's made that term a part of the public discourse?
Sorry, Steve, but Obama's just another plutocrat doing the oligarchs' bidding.
Oh, "memphis," you literal-minded rascal, you, the "sources and methodology" for saying Cohen set "unofficial records" for being quoteworthy in the political press are: a small indulgence for hyperbole and a modest sense of humor. (Anybody who presumes to call himself "memphis" online hopefully has bales of both.) Nobody keeps such records, but the fact is Cohen hit the public prints and airwaves big-time.
Cohen didn't "call... Republican Nazis," by the way. He compared GOP congressional rhetoric on specific subjects to the "Big Lie" propaganda technique of Joseph Goebbels. He caught hell for that -- with some justice (although the case could probably be made that Goebbels was the father of the modern "talking point" technique used by virtually everybody in politics).
" More and more, we have to do what the American people want." You Sir have and F grade on illegal immigration. So if you mean what you say, then this 9th District voter wants you to get on board with enforcing the Immigration Laws of this Country. You are steadfastly doing the opposite of what your constituents want done about illegal immigration in District 9. You represent legal American Citizens, not illegal immigrant lawbreakers....
Illegal immigration....the less illegal immigration we have (and it is way, way down) the more the neanderturds scream about it.
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