Talk:Richard Cohen (columnist)

message: "Richard Cohen (Washington Post)" doesn't follow the usual conventions, while "Richard Cohen (journalist)" would. Are there any objections to moving the article to that title? -Willmcw 08:54, 18 November 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: The problem is that there is another journalist by the same name.  Perhaps (columnist) for this one and (correspondent) for the other?  The Post's Richard Cohen is an opinion journalist, whereas National Journal's, I believe, is a news reporter. LeoO3 18:55, 8 May 2006 (UTC)
replies: text:  I recommend moving it to Richard Cohen (columnist). Madcoverboy (talk) 18:17, 1 July 2010 (UTC)
thread_title: Name

message: After reading Cohen's piece in The Post today, July 25th 2006, I beg to differ that Cohen should be regarded as left-wing or even center: "The last thing it needs is a war of attrition. It is not good enough to take out this or that missile battery. It is necessary to reestablish deterrence: You slap me, I will punch out your lights." His conservative perspective also shines through later: "I fear for its future and note the ominous spread of European-style anti-Semitism throughout the Muslim world -- and its boomerang return to Europe as a mindless form of anti-Zionism." European-style anti-Semitism? Is there a special European way of being an anti-Semit, or does he perhaps refer to the more general sentiment of most Europeans of being critical of Israel's actions in the Middle-East? It is exactly this kind of American conservative thinking that is preventing progress. --- July 25th, 2006.
While Cohen may have attracted occasional criticism from a left-of-center media watchdog, and while he may have agreed with elements of views held by conservatives from time to time, these facts go against the grain of the larger body of his work and ideas; they are "man bites dog" stories and emphasizing them distorts the larger reality that he is in fact a liberal, not a conservative (if not consistently enough for the tastes of some).  
Also, while this is unlikely to persuade the type of person who made the edit in question, support for Israel is mainstream in American opinion journalism and assumed to exist without needing to specify it.  If the objective is to claim that Cohen's level or consistency of support are greater than the norm, the qualifiers used to do so have a distinctly negative connotation and are thus pejorative and POV.
I plan to make edits based on these comments soon. LeoO3 19:05, 8 May 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: "Conservative" label and Israel support description

message: According to  the Israel Wiki its only 10%. Can anyone cite the 60% number with credibility? Dothivalla 13:27, 22 July 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: 60% of Israelis are from the Middle East

message: The article is listed in the category, Gay writers. Is that correct? According to this link and this one, there's a "Richard Cohen" who's a leader with PFOX. However, there's no indication that it's the same Richard Cohen. There's this other dude who seems to be the one.
Since there's nothing in the article that identifies him as gay. Indeed, this opinion piece self-IDs him as hetero. I'm removing the cat.
Should the LBGT Studies link be removed, as well, from this Talk Page?--HughGRex 01:30, 16 January 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Gay writers??

message: This article was automatically assessed because at least one WikiProject had rated the article as stub, and the rating on other projects was brought up to Stub class. BetacommandBot 16:04, 9 November 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: WikiProject class rating

message: Do these two sentences make sense, meaning they are consistent: "Some of Cohen's social views are ones attributed to American liberalism, but his political views are often conservative. For example, he is pro-choice and pro-gay rights, and agrees with former Vice President Al Gore on global warming.[3] However, he was originally a supporter of the Iraq War,[4] and publicly supported the Bush administration in several other high profile instances"? If one wants to say that he holds some liberal positions and some conservatives ones that's fine. But stating that "his political views are often conservative" and then citing his liberal positions on abortion and gay-rights is both bad logic and bad writing. This may apply for anyone who has ever taken a political stand on something, but does the fact that he supported the Iraq War at first make him "conservative"? How many "conservative" positions does one have to hold to be conservative, and how many liberal positions does one have to hold to make one liberal? Does holding some liberal and some conservative positions make one a moderate? I just question pinning the appropriate political labels on people.Bronxpolwatcher (talk) 00:13, 21 August 2010 (UTC)
thread_title: The Conservative Liberal?

message: I tried to fix a bit here, but it's still an ugly mess of a stub.  If he were not so notable, I'd send it to WP:AfD.  Please help fix this article as tagged. Bearian (talk) 14:08, 19 October 2010 (UTC)
thread_title: Mess

message: That's what I see in a TV interview caption. Perhaps the article needs updating in this respect? Tony (talk)  05:51, 31 May 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  NYT?