Perspective: The Michael Cohen hearing wasn’t a hearing at all. It was cheap theatrics.
Rep. Mark Meadows during Wednesday’s questioning of Michael Cohen, President Trump’s former personal lawyer. By Peter Marks Peter Marks Theater critic Email Bio Follow Theater critic February 27 at 5:17 PM Sometimes, cheap theatrics are redeemed by a memorable line. In the desultorily expanded version of “Twelve Angry Men” that played out Wednesday on Capitol Hill with Michael Cohen in the hot seat, Rep. Jamie Raskin came up, gratifyingly, with a gem.
In hours of repetitious questioning by the House Committee on Oversight and Reform, you were grateful for any sliver of insight. For although there were grumbles from some on the committee that the hearing was political theater, the hallmarks of good agitprop were few and far between. Some of the theatrics were so transparent and tasteless as to be appalling, and indicative, too, of how gullible some in Washington imagine the rest of us to be.
“Ask Miss Patton!” Meadows demanded, before she mercifully was allowed to escape the cameras. What, a viewer wondered, was this sorry spectacle supposed to prove? It was left to an African American committee member, Rep. Brenda Lawrence , to let us know that some politicians understand the need for catharsis, and during her allotted five minutes, she set Meadows straight. “To prop up one member of our entire race and saying that that nullifies [racism] — that is totally insulting,” she said.
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