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Who’s Your Daddy

by John Cole|  July 19, 20131:57 pm| 31 Comments

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Have any of you been following this whole Steve Cohen paternity issue? The entire thing is just bizarre, and while I normally would think the worst, if you watch Cohen in the video at the link, I actually believe him.

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  1. 1.

    rdldot

    July 19, 2013 at 2:00 pm

    Ok. So Obama comes out to talk about the Martin case. ABC interrupts programming to broadcast it, but only a couple of minutes of what he says. Then they bring in the ‘legal scholars’. And I shut it off. I am so tired of having these idiots interpret for me what someone said. Let me listen and I’ll decide. A-holes.

  2. 2.

    Gex

    July 19, 2013 at 2:02 pm

    I haven’t, but I was amused to learn that one of his Twitter problems was him flirting with Cyndi Lauper.

    I gotta say, the maintaining a relationship with her thing is nice. It seems they developed a father-daughter relationship regardless of what the DNA says.

  3. 3.

    Violet

    July 19, 2013 at 2:02 pm

    From the article:

    “I didn’t have children, I was thrilled to have a daughter, and I didn’t want in any way at all for her to think that I was questioning the relationship or trying to avoid the relationship.”

    and

    “I care about Victoria greatly, I have her pictures in my office. She’s a very sweet young lady. For three-and-a-half years, I had a daughter, and it was nice to care about somebody and share,” he added.

    Sounds like he wishes he had kids and was just enjoying having a daughter and now is sad he doesn’t. That’s a kind of sad story.

  4. 4.

    Violet

    July 19, 2013 at 2:04 pm

    @rdldot:

    “I care about Victoria greatly, I have her pictures in my office. She’s a very sweet young lady. For three-and-a-half years, I had a daughter, and it was nice to care about somebody and share,” he added.

    Amen. I’m sick of the news people deciding what “the narrative” is. I’ll decide, thank you very much.

  5. 5.

    celticdragonchick

    July 19, 2013 at 2:06 pm

    I feel bad for him on this. Sad news after having those expectations.

  6. 6.

    Steve in the ATL

    July 19, 2013 at 2:08 pm

    Steve Cohen is a great guy

  7. 7.

    aimai

    July 19, 2013 at 2:16 pm

    I feel really bad for him. Too bad we don’t have adult adoptions like the Romans did.

  8. 8.

    Villago Delenda Est

    July 19, 2013 at 2:17 pm

    Look at this…he simply assumed he was a father based on the timing, he fessed up, takes the responsible position, fully accepts her as his daughter.

    He did the moral thing. And the assholes in DC assumed the worst.

    Nuke the Village from space. Only way to be sure.

  9. 9.

    Ben Cisco (onboard the Defiant)

    July 19, 2013 at 2:19 pm

    @rdldot: Especially since he’s more coherent than they are.

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    feebog

    July 19, 2013 at 2:21 pm

    There is no reason he can’t continue to have a relationship with this young woman if they both want to continue it. Non story in my view.

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    Just Some Fuckhead

    July 19, 2013 at 2:26 pm

    @aimai:

    Too bad we don’t have adult adoptions like the Romans did.

    We do but older homosexual couples don’t call it “adoption” any more.

  12. 12.

    Keith

    July 19, 2013 at 2:27 pm

    Haven’t been following it because I don’t know (and don’t care) who Steve Cohen is. I assume since the media is treating him as someone that everyone in the country should know, he’s a NY congressman?

  13. 13.

    Seanly

    July 19, 2013 at 2:28 pm

    Did the woman think she was his daughter? Coz if she wasn’t interested in pursuing a relationship with him then his behavior is strange & maybe a little creepy. If she was reciprocating the relationship then it’s just a little odd.

    OT – glad my compnay filter doesn’t through up the pr0n block when I click through to comment anymore.

  14. 14.

    gbear

    July 19, 2013 at 2:31 pm

    In othere ‘who’s your daddy’ news: Jerry Sandusky’s adopted (and abused) son is legally changing his last name. T&H reaction in 5..4..3..

    http://www.startribune.com/nation/215972301.html

  15. 15.

    eclare

    July 19, 2013 at 2:31 pm

    He’s my rep from Memphis TN. Always been glad to have him as a rep, as most Memphians are. We are deep, deep blue in a sea of red. Marsha Blackburn has the district next to his. Nuff said.

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    Senyordave

    July 19, 2013 at 2:34 pm

    @eclare: My condolences on having Blackburn as your rep.

  17. 17.

    eclare

    July 19, 2013 at 2:37 pm

    @Senyordave: No, Cohen is my rep, Blackburn has the district next to his.

  18. 18.

    Chris

    July 19, 2013 at 2:40 pm

    @rdldot:

    I am so tired of having these idiots interpret for me what someone said.

    I like the word “whitesplaining.” Unless there’s a better one for “putting everything in a context that we here find comfortable and agreeable to our worldview.”

  19. 19.

    NickT

    July 19, 2013 at 2:42 pm

    @gbear:

    I imagine T & H is too busy smuggling in a file to Sandusky’s prison in* the world’s ugliest cake.

    *Obvs, the file is in the cake, not Sandusky’s prison.

  20. 20.

    Southern Beale

    July 19, 2013 at 2:45 pm

    Yes, Steve Cohen is from Tennessee, and as a Tennessean let me tell you, he’s our sole progressive voice in Washington and the Teanuts here HATE HATE HATE him for that. So they’re always trying to find a scandal on him that will stick. The more they try, the less successful they get.

    This only became a “thing” because they tried to make an Anthony Weiner scandal out of his Tweet during the SOTU this winter, claiming he was “creep-Tweeting with a young model.” That blew up big time when it was revealed she was his daughter. The RWers then hilariously tried to claim Cohen was a “deadbeat dad” for his daughter’s childhood.

    Then they tried to make a deal out of him supposedly “creep-Tweeting” with Cyndi Lauper in April. Cohen just won’t give them the scandal they want and boy are they pissed!

    Yes, I believe him on the daughter thing. He only found out about her three years ago.

  21. 21.

    Alex Milstein

    July 19, 2013 at 2:45 pm

    Keith, you spent more time composing your snarky post that assumes Rep Cohen is a New Yorker than it would have taken for you to actually read the very first words of the article, which are:

    “Rep. Steve Cohen (Dem., Tenn.)”

  22. 22.

    wasabi gasp

    July 19, 2013 at 2:50 pm

    About as weird as pestering Nigerian princes for investment opportunities.

  23. 23.

    NickT

    July 19, 2013 at 2:51 pm

    @gbear:

    I imagine T & H is too busy smuggling in a file to Sandusky’s prison in* the world’s ugliest cake.

    *Obvs, the file is in the cake, not Sandusky’s prison.

  24. 24.

    Villago Delenda Est

    July 19, 2013 at 2:57 pm

    @Southern Beale:

    I really wish Obama would get off his fat black ass and start shipping teatard scum to the FEMA camps that are supposedly sitting there idle waiting to process these maggots.

  25. 25.

    David Miller

    July 19, 2013 at 3:02 pm

    I’ve never heard of Steve Cohen before, but after watching the video – the dude totally pings.

  26. 26.

    Gex

    July 19, 2013 at 3:17 pm

    @Chris: They throw in plenty of straightsplaining and mansplaining too when the issue calls for it.

  27. 27.

    Big R

    July 19, 2013 at 3:30 pm

    @eclare: So, what you’re saying is that you and I can have a Memphis meetup?

  28. 28.

    Keith

    July 19, 2013 at 3:30 pm

    @Alex Milstein: You didn’t quite get the part where I said I really don’t care who Steve Cohen is. If the summary was on this page, I would have read it, but I’m clicking over to CBS to read more about something that I don’t give a shit about. Eat it.

  29. 29.

    eclare

    July 19, 2013 at 5:30 pm

    @Big R: Sure, any other Memphians out there?

  30. 30.

    Another Halocene Human

    July 19, 2013 at 7:40 pm

    @Villago Delenda Est: Whoa whoa whoa, that’s a skinny black ass to you.

  31. 31.

    ellennelle

    July 19, 2013 at 10:31 pm

    fwiw, spent many years in memphis (just saw big star documentary and drowned in nostalgia!), and as it happens, steve is an old friend of mine, not close but we have loads of close mutual friends (and he’s in that documentary, by the by, paying tribute on the house floor to alex chilton).

    and yes, steve is a genuinely very very nice and very very genuine guy. have not asked him about his daughter, tho did contact him with congrats when he announced it; he seemed so thrilled. now this, not even sure how to approach him on this, but will likely say nothing at all. seems like time for a kind of grieving to me.

    but, anyone who’s interested should google him for the several youtubes of cool things he’s said on the floor, not least of which was his comparison of the GOP ACA trash fest with nazi propaganda. he got hammered, and – much to my dismay and fury – by jon stewart, of all people. i’m still waiting for stewart to revisit that incident, now that we have even more abundant evidence of just how true steve’s statement was. and is.

    many more speeches like that one; he’s just a great guy. hope this whole story gets dropped soon. (tho, did everyone else notice how charlie rose salivated at the prospect of “more to the story”? disgusting.)

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