Washington Post Columnist Declares Ferguson Is The 'Liberal Benghazi'

[DonViejo]

Liberals have found an ideological bugaboo on par with Benghazi in the Michael Brown shooting, according to Washington Post columnist Richard Cohen.

"Ferguson has become the liberal Benghazi," Cohen wrote in a column published Monday night. "It is more of a cause than a place, more of an ideological statement than an incident. Ferguson was not the racist murder it was thought to be, and Benghazi was not an incident in which the Obama administration’s incompetence or timidity allowed four Americans to die. The facts argue otherwise."

Cohen wrote that the unarmed black teenager didn't deserve to die. But he suggested that a Justice Department report clearing white police Officer Darren Wilson of civil rights violations in the shooting indicated Wilson could be considered a victim in the shooting, too.

"If Brown was not criminally shot because he was black, then possibly the cop was accused because he was white," Cohen wrote. "Who was the stereotyped individual here?"

The columnist then invoked the heated debate about campus rape to argue that liberals fudge statistics, including statistics on the number of black men killed by police, to agree with their ideology.

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[NoJusticeNoPeace]

1. Wilson is accused because he is a racist piece of shit who slaughtered that young man in the

street for the crime of talking back to a white police officer, which is apparently punishable by death in the US if you are AfAm

[Wella]

5. That's not what Eric Holder and the DOJ found--or they would have filed charges

.

[NoJusticeNoPeace]

6. NO, all they found was they could NOT prove Wilson was NOT in fear for his life, period

of course he was, he had violated the civil rights of an entire town, on a daily basis

attacked and harassed these people, all of the cops did, etc

you will never get it...someday white america will be woken in a rude but necessary way, the Latinos and African Americans and so on will only tolerate so much...

[daleanime]

2. The problem with current political debate it that....

we have to pretend to take scum seriously.

[Guy Whitey Corngood]

3. Meh..... "Richard Cohen’s Extensive History Of Racism, Sexism And Homophobia"

http://thinkprogress.org/media/2013/11/12/2927381/richard-cohen-worst/

But lest you think Richard Cohen is blind to racism, never fear. He’s all over racism against white people — or, as it’s more commonly known, affirmative action. Because “for most Americans, race has become supremely irrelevant” (tell that to defender of profiling Richard Cohen), “it was not racists who were punished [by affirmative action] but all whites.”

Cohen’s writing on gender in general is similarly horrifying. He bemoaned the rise of the use of smartphones for news consumption because print newspapers allowed “the first lady [to] adhere to gender orthodoxy and read the softer sections” while “just as in the old movies, papa could explain things, like what’s the purpose of NATO anymore.” He squealed over Daniel Craig’s “rippling muscle,” complaining that the expectation that the modern male beauty ideal exemplified by Our Bond made experience unsexy, especially to 23 year old girls. Totally coincidentally, Cohen had been accused of telling a 23 year old Post staffer to “stand up and turn around.”

Cohen grumbled that “every 20 years or so, some woman surfaces to accuse [Clarence Thomas] of being a male chauvinist pig — to resurrect an old term from the tie-dyed era — but falls frustratingly short of making a case for true sexual harassment.” Like, say, “stand up and turn around?” Cohen finds “the level of sexism applied” to Monica Lewinsky appalling, but wonders “where is the man for her?” He has worried about too many female acquaintances trying to kiss him. Richard Cohen does not like that.

Sexual orientation is a less-common subject of Cohen’s, but his writing on it isn’t much better. In 2005, his column blamed the spread of AIDS on “not only reckless but just plain disgusting” behavior by gay men. “It is the determination of some gays,” Richard Cohen determined, “to disregard all the rules for safe sex because being gay, they think, means you don’t have to follow any rules at all.”

[Orsino]

4. "Ferguson was not the racist murder it was thought to be..."

That's the sound of a columnist willfully ignoring the sad state of affairs in Ferguson by trying to shrink it to fit Darren Wilson.

[One of the 99]

7. At least his is admitting that Benghazi was BS

The rest is just racism.