Richard Cohen (WP): people with conventional views have gag reflex at Di Blasio's family.

[Mass]

Hard to interpret this comment in his column about the GOP otherwise than racist.

http://talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/wtf-richard-cohen

What the hell is wrong with Richard Cohen? In the course of sorta explaining the GOP's problem with race, Cohen notes that "people with conventional views must repress a gag reflex when considering the mayor-elect of New York — a white man married to a black woman and with two biracial children."

[VanillaRhapsody]

1. Actually it is just Richard Cohen that is repressing gag reflexes...

[n2doc]

2. 'conventional'???

Is that what they are calling racists nowadays…I guess he didn't watch any old 70's sitcoms….like the Jeffersons

[gordianot]

3. It depends on what convention you adhere.

Say 1800, 1850, 1880, 1900, 1920, 1950, 1960, 1980, 2000, 2013 America. Richard Cohen's convention is to make money from the segment that maintains bigotry that persist today. Journalism has definitely deteriorated.

[Kahuna]

4. Sounds pretty dumb considering Blasio won by such a huge margin. nt

[ZRT2209]

5. Is the same true for Clarence and Ginni Thomas?

[ljm2002]

9. An excellent question!

But sadly, no one in the media will think to ask it.

[shraby]

6. Time for richard cohen (he doesn't deserve capital letters either) to hit the road

and start panhandling for his living.

[booley]

7. this is till a thing?!

I live in Missouri, not exactly a Liberal mecca.... and there are scores of bi -racial couples with kids and no one bats an eye.

Seriously, how is this still a thing?

[Arugula Latte]

8. Someone show Dickie the biracial Cheerios commercial. His head will explode.

[Arugula Latte]

10. Link to R.C.'s Facebook page:

You might want to weigh in:

https://www.facebook.com/RichardCohenColumn

[Number23]

11. The commenters are eating him up

And this person's name sounds familiar:

markpkessinger wrote:

As a New Yorker who proudly cast his vote for Bill de Blasio, I find Cohen's gratuitous comments about our new mayor's family to be utterly vile and beyond the pale. Why does this man still have a job at the Washington Post? Oh, never mind, I think I know the answer to my question.

[markpkessinger]

14. !

[Number23]

15. Ha! That explains it!

[spanone]

12. the washington post is to blame for printing his racist screed...the m$m is FUCKED.

[markpkessinger]

13. Here's a comment I made on the article . . .

Here was my original comment:

As a New Yorker who proudly cast his vote for Bill de Blasio, I find Cohen's gratuitous comments about our new mayor's family to be utterly vile and beyond the pale. Why does this man still have a job at the Washington Post? Oh, never mind, I think I know the answer to my question.

To which a reader identified as Miasku responded:

Miasku
6:16 PM EST

If you subtract that paragraph the rest of the column makes sense. In my opinion it's just an edit-fail, nothing more sinister.

And to which I responded:

An "edit fail" is it? Gee, that sounds rather akin to the ever-popular "I misspoke," or the immortal, "mistakes were made."

[nyquil_man]

16. Um, why?

How about some definitional clarity here? Which "conventional views" are we talking about?

[markpkessinger]

17. My guess would be . . .

"conventionally racist."

[nyquil_man]

21. Sigh...

I tried to give the asshole the benefit of the doubt.

[Rex]

18. 'Conventional views' from people like this would be my guess.

[nyquil_man]

20. These people too?

Looks like a Tea Party rally with slightly modified signs.

[Rex]

22. Sigh, some things never change do they?

At one time, I really believed racism was dying out. Boy was I naive for believing such a thing.

[nyquil_man]

24. It's a virus.

Destroy it in one form and it evolves to another form.

[Scootaloo]

28. Odd picture

Aside from the grand wizard on the left, they all look like Clayton Bigsby.

[Enrique]

19. imagine someone being nauseated by this family

would that be conventional? No way.

More like bizarre, extreme, maybe even sick.

[bemildred]

23. So he thinks racism is conventional, huh? nt

[scarletwoman]

25. Whoa! Gag reflex?!?! Unbelievable!

Effing racist shithead.

[MADem]

26. WTF? I mean, really...WTF?

What an asshole--he's telling us about HIS hang-ups, not those of "people" he fails to identify.

[Scootaloo]

27. What, are people just now discovering that Richard Cohen is a foaming racist?

What, his suggestion that jewelry stores should be allowed to bar black men from their premises, and his crusading defense of George Zimmerman weren't enough?

[nyquil_man]

29. Actually, I'd never heard of him before.

I was happier for it.

[Scootaloo]

30. Big supporter of the Iraq war, too

Which is a neat reminder - Americnas get offended when you call out a mixed-race couple... and that's good, that's definitely good that an asshole doing that earns our ire.

But supporting the massacre a few hundred thousand Arabs and leaving their country a smoking ruin because the then-president's large intestine says so? Apparently that doesn't hamper your journalistic credibility at all.

[Mass]

34. well, his column saying he had just discovered slavery was not that great was a great give away as

well. Really, it took him 12 Years a slave to figure it out? http://www.motherjones.com/mojo/2013/11/richard-cohen-just-the-worst

Yes, plenty of evidence, but this one is very extreme, particularly because of the use of the world conventional.

[TheKentuckian]

31. This is what so many are eager to "meet in the middle" with.

I wish he could get a load of me and gag to death.

Seriously, the message to people like me is that my very existence is nauseating, fuck you with a rusty dumpster, Cohen.

[BuddhaGirl]

32. Sound off on his Facebook page!

https://www.facebook.com/RichardCohenColumn?fref=ts

Ugh...such a douchebag!!

[struggle4progress]

33. Whole village's goin downhill. People puttin lightenin rods on their houses: it ain't natural.

I'm almost scared to go shoppin there since they raised the speed limit from 7 mph to 12 mph, cuz all them young idjits drive all careless and scarin the horses. Crazy people's all runnin about talkin excited about flyin thru the air like birds. And some thinks wimmin oughta be able vote. Just cain't imagine what'll become of this country -- back in the old days, when we found a good empty piece of land, with nobody livin on it, we just chased the injuns off and started farmin. What's wrong with everbody now?