It is sad when most people die unless they were war criminals (St. Reagan, Bush the Elder) or monsters (Charles Manson, Wayne Gacy) or absolute shitbags (David Koch, Richard Scaife-Mellon) but I also have little pity regarding the demise of this “reporter.” Cokie was a fixture on NPR who helped it evolve and find its voice when she wasn’t shilling on ABC.
However, there is a dark side to her which highlights the cancer eating away at America. Cokie represents what is wrong with this country and has been lately throughout the Baby Boomers’ Reign of Error. Despite being a “journalist,” a term for her I find comical, she was really a member of the political class which helped give rise to the Orange Foolius squatting in the White Horse
Cokie really didn’t get to where she was by talent alone, her father was Hale Boggs, Democratic Majority Leader of the House until his untimely plane crash in 1972. Given that our republic is supposed to hate aristocrats, Cokie’s mother inherited the seat for another 18 years. Plus she was raised in the posh schools of the elite and had a super-long WASP name (six compared to us peasants’ three) even though her family is Catholic. The nepotistic connections didn’t end with Cokie. Her sister was mayor of Princeton, NJ and her brother whores for K Street (lobbyist). Cokie’s media career via nepotism paved the way for other undeserving shitbags: Chelsea Clinton, Meghan McCain and Jenna Bush.
Her in-the-bubble upbringing added up to her “holier-than-thou” lecturing on NPR about how we peasants, rubes and unwashed ignoramuses in Flyover Country don’t know shit about governing. This smugness is how she rationalized being appointed to the Council on Service and Civic Participation by war criminal President Dubious or serving on the board of Kaiser Permanente’s PR distraction; KP has been investigated numerous times for fraud and patient dumping. Cozying up to the GOP and Wealthy assholes is what her kind call bipartisanship and purports the myth of everyone in DC getting along as people when they put aside their rabid positions. What her behavior revealed is that in the end, people with money, power and connections belong to a third party, the Plutocrats. They’ll band together to screw the rest of us over to protect their privileges.
So if there is a Hell, I do hope Cokie is there to cover it and share her worthless “expertise” on Satan’s political machinations to over Trumpkins, Ammosexuals and Randroids.