For Such Is My Life

Richard Cohen, are you actually trying to come across as an asshole? Does starting your article thusly seem like humor to you?:

Wherever I go -- from glittering dinner party to glittering dinner party -- the famous and powerful people I meet (for such is my life) tell me how lucky I am to be a journalist in this the greatest of all presidential contests

Maybe he's in a contest to out-Brooks David Brooks.

And, back to substance, if you say you "loathe what has happened to the press," does that mean you yearn for the days of, say, 2002-2003, when the press fucking rocked?

Here's a classic Cohen bit, from the time, apparently, before he loathed the press...

Richard Cohen, from 2/6/2003, on Colin Powell's speech to the UN:

This is where Colin Powell brought us all yesterday. The evidence he presented to the United Nations -- some of it circumstantial, some of it absolutely bone-chilling in its detail -- had to prove to anyone that Iraq not only hasn't accounted for its weapons of mass destruction but without a doubt still retains them. Only a fool -- or possibly a Frenchman -- could conclude otherwise.
(via Glenn)

Best of times, Dick.