Veteran journalist and political reporter Cokie Roberts has died.

[Nomad]

Just heard it on the local news.

75 years old.

Complications from breast cancer.

Wonder how much cheering we'll hear from the lowlife right.

[Jack]

"Cokie Roberts, New Orleans-born political journalist, dies at 75
Roberts was the daughter of Hale and Lindy Boggs, two members of Congress from Louisiana, and went on the chronicle the political world she grew up in."
https://www.wwltv.com/article/news/n...3-38394bedbe0b

She was popular down here.

[Centerleftfl]

"Cokie Roberts, New Orleans-born political journalist, dies at 75
Roberts was the daughter of Hale and Lindy Boggs, two members of Congress from Louisiana, and went on the chronicle the political world she grew up in."
https://www.wwltv.com/article/news/n...3-38394bedbe0b

She was popular down here.

Pioneer. "Old guard", stood up to good ol boys when she was OFTEN the only girl around the table and held her own! Too bad and way too soon! And though a gentle soul (with slightly sharp elbows), looks like she was ELBOWING SHARPER just this month.

Her quiet commentary and dignified style on 1980s-era television stands in contrast to the social media-fueled intensity of modern political debate. However, she waded into modern controversies with sharp criticism, penning a recent newspaper column with her husband that strongly criticized President Donald Trump. In the September 2019 column, they accused Trump of waging a “ferocious war on any facts or findings that contradict his warped view of the world.”


RIP Cokie.

[Centerleftfl]

"Cokie Roberts, New Orleans-born political journalist, dies at 75
Roberts was the daughter of Hale and Lindy Boggs, two members of Congress from Louisiana, and went on the chronicle the political world she grew up in."
https://www.wwltv.com/article/news/n...3-38394bedbe0b

She was popular down here.

She was popular everywhere.

[Flanders]

She was popular everywhere.

To Centerleftfl: Respected but hardly popular:

My sincere condolences to Cokie Roberts’ family, but her passing reminded me of why it has been a few years since I paid attention to anything she said.

Democrats long-defended perverts, criminals, and traitors. In 1996 they defend a nut bag who talked to dead people:

WASHINGTON (CNN) -- First lady Hillary Rodham Clinton held imaginary conversations with Eleanor Roosevelt and Mahatma Gandhi as a therapeutic release, according to a new book written by Bob Woodward, says a report in Sunday's edition of The Chicago Sun-Times.

The first lady declined a personal adviser's suggestion that she address Jesus Christ, however, because it would be "too personal," according to Woodward's book, "The Choice."

Book says Hillary talks to dead
Hillary Clinton
First lady acknowledged 'imaginary' chats.
June 22, 1996
Web posted at: 11:55 p.m. EDT

http://edition.cnn.com/US/9606/22/hi...ook/index.html

Even Sigmund Fraud would have balked at blaming insanity on sexism while Cokie Roberts had no trouble going where Ziggy feared to tread.

During ABC's 'This Week' roundtable, panelist Cokie Roberts quips that when Donald Trump says Hillary Clinton is 'unfit' to be president or 'unhinged,' he is really issuing a sexist dogwhistle which "is totally code for we shouldn't elect a woman. That is exactly what that is."

Cokie Roberts: Trump Calling Clinton "Unhinged" Is Code For "We Shouldn't Elect A Woman"
Posted By Tim Hains
On Date August 7, 2016

https://www.realclearpolitics.com/vi...t_a_woman.html

I stopped surfing into This Week after Christiane Amanpour’s first show in August 2010. I never returned to This Week after Amanpour left in January 2012. I did run into the following while searching for a Michele Bachmann interview:

One of the most frequently debated issues among the contenders for the GOP nomination has been tax policy and how the current tax code should be restructured.

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However, despite the sentiment that Will has detected,

Not one to let Mr. Will get away with anything, Cokie Roberts jumped in with the liberal mantra:

. . . there’s a reason why any radical overhaul of the current tax code won’t happen, says ABC News political commentator Cokie Roberts. According to Roberts, the tax code is used for “social good” and that prevents the country from lapsing into Western European-style socialism, where the government provides health care, arts and university funding and even housing.

“But having said all that – I don’t think this year is different,” Roberts said. “I think we will see the flat tax crash and burn once again. You know, look – the reason America has used the tax code for social good is because we like the private sector. And so Western Europe has basically embraced socialism to do all of these things. What we have embraced is have business do all our health care and our universities and our arts and all of that, and our housing, with garden apartments for middle class people and all of that. And you know, you might like or dislike that, but that’s a result of the tax code and that is something Americans tend to like a whole lot better than having government do it.”

October 31, 2011
Cokie Roberts: Current tax code discourages socialism in US
Jeff Poor
Published: 10/31/2011

https://dailycaller.com/2011/10/31/c...ialism-in-us/1

Cokie misspoke. The tax code benefits the parasite class. Cokie spoke as though all Americans share the liberal view.

In this excerpt Cokie was right for the wrong reason:

I think we will see the flat tax crash and burn once again.

A flat tax is DOA for four reasons:

1. Every American with an ounce of brains knows that no matter where a flat tax starts it will grow and grow like Topsy.

2. Flat tax proposals start with a floor, but never include an immovable ceiling.

3. A flat tax is nothing more than another layer of taxation without repealing the tax on income .

4. Proponents of a flat tax never, never, never first say repeal the XVI Amendment.

This excerpt was classic Socialism:

You know, look – the reason America has used the tax code for social good is because we like the private sector.

Who the hell is the “We” Cokie was talking about? Dare I suggest she was speaking for the parasite class. Not an unreasonable conclusion on my part since Cokie is a child of the parasite class; well-schooled in parasite ideology. Both of her parents, Lindsey and Hale Boggs, were long-serving Democrat members in the House of Representatives.

This excerpt is a mind-blower. There is that “We” again:

“What we have embraced is have business do all our health care and our universities and our arts and all of that, and our housing, with garden apartments for middle class people and all of that. And you know, you might like or dislike that, but that’s a result of the tax code and that is something Americans tend to like a whole lot better than having government do it.”

Cokie was confused. How can businesses do anything with tax dollars without concluding the government is doing it? Cokie admitted the tax code paid for everything, then she turned around and implied the government is not doing it.

The real joker was Cokie’s middle class. Like every other lib, and some Republicans, too, Cokie made no distinction between the rapidly-disappearing private sector middle class, and public sector middle class growing at the speed of light.

[Flanders]

My sincere condolences to Cokie Roberts’ family,

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I stopped surfing into This Week after Christiane Amanpour’s first show in August 2010. I never returned to This Week after Amanpour left in January 2012.

Leave it to a Democrat to get it wrong. I guess white women all look the same to da Reverend Al:

MSNBC PoliticsNation host Al Sharpton mourned the passing of journalist Cokie Roberts on Tuesday by sending out a tweet with pictures of the still-living journalist Christiane Amanpour.

Sharpton tweeted, "Saddened to hear of the passing of legendary journalist Cookie [sic] Roberts. Here is a Easter Sunday special we did in 2011. May she Rest In Peace," along with several pictures of Amanpour. Aside from the obvious misidentification of the deceased, Sharpton misspelled Roberts's name.

Critics were quick to point out Sharpton's errors, and he deleted the tweet.

Sharpton Eulogizes Cokie Roberts with Picture of Christiane Amanpour
Nic Rowan
September 17, 2019 5:00 PM

https://freebeacon.com/culture/sharp...wrong-picture/