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July 28, 2005

From Givhan to Cohen -- chick chick chick chick-a-lot chick-a-little more

Oh.Good.Lord.

The WaPo editorial thrust of playing politics against Republicans/conservatives in every section of the paper, seen on the Fashion pages a week ago, oozes over to a Theater Review by Richard Cohen.

I need to be very careful here, to say precisely what I mean and leave nothing to chance. I have just seen the play "Primo," which is performed by a single actor, Antony Sher, with material taken from Primo Levi's incomparable "If This Is a Man," the book that made the obscure Italian chemist an international literary sensation. It is an account of his time spent in Auschwitz. I could not help but think of Abu Ghraib or Guantanamo.

I know, I know. One must never compare anything to the Holocaust. One must never invoke Nazism except in reference to the Nazis. One must isolate that era as a way of honoring the victims, keeping it pristine and removed from all other human experience because it was so uniquely awful.

Wow. I haven't seen such an effort at patently faux disclaimer since the our notorious neighborhood gossip attempted one of those "You know I would never say anything bad about the new people across the street, but I've found out ..."

And Cohen goes right on with the "review" doing exactly what he was trying to declaim so righteously at the beginning.

Cohen, Givhan ... I'm now visualizing them as the biddy ladies in The Music Man all bending towards each other and whispering behind their hands, scandalized.

Stick-up-their-netherlands, self-righteous, humorless harridans.

Yep. Cohen and Givhan have ME convinced.

hattip Captain's Quarters

Posted by Darleen at July 28, 2005 06:43 AM

Comments

Cohen obviously is ignorant of the Holocaust and his casual reference to Gitmo is an insult to the 6 million Jews who were deliberately rounded up and exterminated by an anti-Semitic nation.
Good catch. Good post. Now to calm my butt down.

Posted by: don surber at July 30, 2005 09:43 AM

- Cohen is a good jewish name.....but He may be more interested in the Denars than the hidden harm such gossipy pavaricating prose can cause. I'm becoming more and more convinced that the "liberal MSM" conspiracy is really more a case of grocery store rags sensationalism, and stirring maximum controversy to boost flagging sales....Lets see. If Chaney throws his hat in the ring and Helen keeps her promise, If the grand grey old lady in NY finally closes its doors, and if the Dem-brains finally run out of ways to obstruct and we get some good solid conservative judges on the SC, along with a real "bulldog" posted to the UN to out Annon before he has enough time to shred all the damning evidence, 2005 will be a very good year....

Posted by: Big Bang Hunter at July 30, 2005 11:35 PM