{"id":263520,"date":"2010-02-02T04:30:41","date_gmt":"2010-02-02T09:30:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/firedoglake.com\/?p=64791"},"modified":"2010-02-02T04:30:41","modified_gmt":"2010-02-02T09:30:41","slug":"america%e2%80%99s-concern-troll","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/263520","title":{"rendered":"America\u2019s Concern Troll"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/firedoglake.com\/2010\/02\/02\/americas-concern-troll-5\/concern-troll-thumbnail-4\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-64793\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/static1.firedoglake.com\/1\/files\/2010\/02\/concern-troll.thumbnail-101x150.png\" alt=\"concern-troll.thumbnail\" title=\"concern-troll.thumbnail\" width=\"101\" height=\"150\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-64793\" \/><\/a>One thing that can be said of the nation&#8217;s most consistently underwhelming editorial columnist, Richard Cohen, it is that he goes about reaffirming his moniker <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/article\/2010\/02\/01\/AR2010020102854.html?hpid=opinionsbox1\">without delay<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<div class='wbq'>\n<p>There is almost nothing the Obama administration does regarding terrorism that makes me feel safer.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Of course there isn&#8217;t, that&#8217;s why you&#8217;re <em>America&#8217;s Concern Troll!<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Obama hasn&#8217;t invaded <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/ac2\/wp-dyn\/A32571-2003Feb5?language=printer\">any new countries<\/a>.  New invasions always make Dicky Cohen <a href=\"http:\/\/www.slate.com\/id\/2186766\/\">feel better<\/a>.  He aspires to <a href=\"http:\/\/thinkprogress.org\/2010\/02\/01\/obama-gitmo-rank-politics\/\">close down Guantanamo<\/a> and ignore crimes instead of using it to <a href=\"http:\/\/harpers.org\/archive\/2010\/01\/hbc-90006368\">facilitate new ones<\/a>.  Obama is merely inconsistent in applying the Constitution, as opposed to completely pretending it doesn&#8217;t exist.  Thank goodness, the Administration decided to let <a href=\"http:\/\/thinkprogress.org\/2010\/01\/30\/yoo-bybee-clear\/\">Bybee and Yoo off the hook<\/a> &#8212; I don&#8217;t think Cohen&#8217;s bladder could have handled a different result, Cohen&#8217;s kidneys almost shut down over <a href=\"http:\/\/mediamatters.org\/research\/200706210004?f=h_latest\">Scooter Libby<\/a>.  <\/p>\n<p>Your &#8216;Liberal&#8217; Washington Post editorial page ladies and gentlemen, as defined by  <a href=\"http:\/\/mediamatters.org\/blog\/201001250017\">Howard Kurtz<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Boy I hope Cohen doesn&#8217;t see his shadow today.<\/p>\n<p class=\"akst_link\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/firedoglake.com\/wp-content\/plugins\/share-this\/share-icon-16x16.gif\" alt=\"Share This icon\" \/><a href=\"http:\/\/firedoglake.com\/?p=64791&amp;akst_action=share-this\"  title=\"Email, post to del.icio.us, etc.\" id=\"akst_link_64791\" class=\"akst_share_link\" rel=\"noindex nofollow\">&nbsp;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One thing that can be said of the nation&#8217;s most consistently underwhelming editorial columnist, Richard Cohen, it is that he goes about reaffirming his moniker without delay: There is almost nothing the Obama administration does regarding terrorism that makes me feel safer. Of course there isn&#8217;t, that&#8217;s why you&#8217;re America&#8217;s Concern Troll! Obama hasn&#8217;t invaded [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-263520","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/263520","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=263520"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/263520\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=263520"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=263520"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=263520"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}