Cohen's Yglesias Award

A reader objects:

Richard Cohen deserves no Yglesias award. Richard Cohen is upset because Stephen Colbert violated the only commandment that both the Washington Post and Fox News currently obey (for different reasons, mind you): thou shalt always be sycophantic before the Executive Branch of the United States. If you think Richard Cohen was offending his base, you misunderstand his base - it is not those who oppose George Bush unreflexively, it is his editor at the Post, the rest of the MSM, and his other political cronies and sources that serve to buttress the career of (in my opinion) such a tawdry writer and thinker.

Update: another reader is kinder:

I disagree with your reader about Cohen being "tawdry". He is, in fact, one of my favorites. But your reader was correct in this important respect: Cohen was, this time, a mile wide of the mark.