Tuesday, December 07, 2010

Why Yes, The Whole Wikileaks Thing IS Like Marital Infidelity, Come To Think Of It

It's funny how often marital infidelity comes up in Richard Cohen's atrocious columns. Today, for instance, he has this to say about, like, Wikileaks 'n' stuff: "Governments, like married couples, are entitled to their secrets - from us, from the kids and from the neighbors. Total transparency produces total opaqueness. If everything's open, no one says anything." Really? That's not what I heard. Here is a reference, written years after the fact in 1998 in the NY Observer, to Cohen's own adulterous relationship with Kati Marton, married at the time to Peter Jennings: "Such energy, Ms. Marton's friends said, appears to be the consequence of her feeling that she could finally come into her own after many years in Mr. Jennings' shadow during their marriage, an increasingly unhappy relationship that engendered a flood of attention when Ms. Marton embarked on a drearily public affair with Washington Post columnist Richard Cohen–often chortled about on the air by Don Imus."

Ha ha ha @ drearily public. It's a cheap shot, I know, but I'm just trying to put Cohen's metaphors into context.

8 comments:

Anonymous said...

Wow. Reading that link to the Observer... it's a whole 'nuther world, isn't it? Pre-Bush v. Gore, pre-September 11, pre-Baldwin-Basinger divorce, pre-Condi, pre-Iraq, pre-Hillary, pre-Obama... and Richard Holbrooke STILL isn't Secretary of State! The mind reels.

Frank said...

The Marton/Jennings marriage must have been REALLY unhappy if she ran into the arms of Richard Cohen!

Heather said...

Oh really? Because governments and family is THE SAME THING!

sarcasm off)

My god, why people keep on using metaphors like this?

Mr. Cohen failed again.

Toriko said...

One would think the person you marry would be the only person in the world from whom you keep no secrets, but then again I might be in the minority in this opinion.

samael7 said...

I finished the Hack 30 profiles today, finally. OMG. Hilarious! Cohen will have to be himself as hard as he can to defend that title.

But, please tell me you've seen Callista Gingrich lately? I think she and Ol' Crazy Eyes should have a staring contest!

Peteykins said...

OMG, I saw Callista and she scarred my psyche. I've been trying to forget.

samael7 said...

Quick! Think of Ursula! Or Frederica's hats!

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