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June 7, 2011
And the Most Ridiculous Defense of Anthony Weiner So Far Is ...
Topics: Political News and commentaries
As Mark Hemmingway points out over at TWS, the sweepstakes to see who can offer up the most ridiculous defense of Anthony Weiner is still ongoing, but for now there's this very strong late breaking entry from the Washington Post's liberal loon Richard Cohen that gives us a clear leader:
Another Christian has been thrown to the lions. The "Christian" in this case is a Jew, and the lions are the news media but the general idea is the same. For the entertainment of the people, yet another man was subjected to near-death by mortification. Anthony Weiner, you have committed no crime -- none that has been alleged or proved, anyway -- that is a mere technicality. It is the spectacle that matters.As Hemmingway goes on to note, you just gotta love the part about how the "general idea is the same." In Cohen's sick little liberal mind Weiner's predicament is just like innocent Christians who preached love and redemption being ripped apart by feral animals for popular amusement.
However, Cohen's just getting warmed up:
We are doing a terrible thing here -- we hypocrites of the press, especially of the blogosphere. Every man lives a bit in a fantasy world, maybe women, too, but I know nothing of them. Every man is a boy, either in mind or in deed. Much of this is harmless. There are no bodies. There is no crime. This is the case with Weiner. No damsel was in distress, and no one was rescued.As Hemmingway goes on to note - no harm done? And what is Cohen basing his conclusion on when we've likely only begun to get the true story of what Weiner has done yet (such as today's revelation that Weiner coached porn star Ginger Lee on how to lie to the media)? The press may have much to atone for, but the real crime here, if there is one, is surely not media hypocrisy - it's the hypocrisy of the guy who betrayed his marriage vows and who worked in Congress to pass the Keeping the Internet Devoid of Sexual Predators Act. It's none other than a man named Anthony Wiener.
And as for Cohen's distorted logic, the convoluted, upside down, revisionist world view of the liberal mind never surprises me. You can count on it like clockwork. It's always in play and it never fails to raise its head just in time to both cause your jaw to drop and give you a good laugh at the same time.
Related: James Carville doesn't think Weiner can survive ... (and I don't either - the only thing going for him is that he's a very liberal Democrat in a very liberal district)
Posted by Richard at June 7, 2011 1:48 PM
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