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PlanetBev

(4,104 posts) Mon Sep 30, 2019, 10:02 PM Sep 2019

Just got back from seeing the documentary "Where's My Roy Cohn?"

My sister and I were so shocked we went for a drink afterward. I had to calm down. I thought I knew everything about this guy, but I was wrong. It’s way worse than I thought. Trump is Cohn 2.0.

A few weeks ago I heard someone on cable news saying Roy Cohn reached out of the grave and made Trump president. Now I know what they were talking about. 🥶

It’s an excellent film and explains very well why we ended up with this creature in The White House.

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Just got back from seeing the documentary "Where's My Roy Cohn?" (Original Post) PlanetBev Sep 2019 OP

Thanks for the report, scary stuff indeed. Trailer posted appalachiablue Sep 2019 #1

Another doc will be out later on Cohn lunasun Sep 2019 #2

Roy Cohn bdamomma Sep 2019 #4

Vile is a perfect description of Cohn. Talitha Oct 2019 #5

That is where the title of her documentary comes from . It was the panel piece on the AIDS quilt lunasun Oct 2019 #6

K&R UTUSN Sep 2019 #3

Tell us more. What was your opinion? smirkymonkey Oct 2019 #7

The best description was on the film poster PlanetBev Oct 2019 #8

Thanks! The only thing I really knew about Cohn before was what he said about Trump. smirkymonkey Oct 2019 #11

I couldn't believe Roy Cohn wasn't a major topic during 2016 Awsi Dooger Oct 2019 #9

Great seeing your post, PlanetBev. Without a doubt you've inspired more people to go see it, too! Judi Lynn Oct 2019 #10

appalachiablue

(41,144 posts)

1. Thanks for the report, scary stuff indeed. Trailer posted

Reply to PlanetBev (Original post)

Mon Sep 30, 2019, 10:12 PM

Sep 2019

in 'Video' last night.

lunasun

(21,646 posts)

2. Another doc will be out later on Cohn

Reply to PlanetBev (Original post)

Mon Sep 30, 2019, 10:40 PM

Sep 2019

Ivy Meeropol’s Bully. Coward. Victim. The Story of Roy Cohn
It has its world premiere at the New York Film Festival (it will air on HBO next year).
Meeropol’s grandparents were Julius and Ethel Rosenberg, whom a patriotically zealous young Cohn, right out of law school, helped send to the electric chair for spying for the Russians

https://www.vulture.com/2019/09/roy-cohn-documentaries.html

bdamomma

(63,868 posts)

4. Roy Cohn

Reply to lunasun (Reply #2)

Mon Sep 30, 2019, 10:54 PM

Sep 2019

If anyone remembers a HBO programme called Angels in America, Al Pacino played Roy Cohn who ended up contracting AIDS. Roy Cohn succumbed to AIDS. He was a vile man.

Talitha

(6,593 posts)

5. Vile is a perfect description of Cohn.

Reply to bdamomma (Reply #4)

Tue Oct 1, 2019, 12:34 AM

Oct 2019

TBH, I never heard of him before seeing the movie, and my memory was jogged in hearing that he was Shitler's mentor. Birds of a feather, as they say.

Makes me wonder how the human race can produce people like Hillary/Barack on the one hand, and trash like Cohn/Trump on the other hand.

lunasun

(21,646 posts)

6. That is where the title of her documentary comes from . It was the panel piece on the AIDS quilt

Reply to bdamomma (Reply #4)

Tue Oct 1, 2019, 12:56 AM

Oct 2019

for Roy Cohn (who died of AIDS although I believe he denied it to the end I could be wrong)
Here is the quilt panel
https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc953511

Two of the words used on the quilt panel and in the doc title - bully AND coward remind me
of someone ....
...Trump!

UTUSN

(70,706 posts)

3. K&R

Reply to PlanetBev (Original post)

Mon Sep 30, 2019, 10:47 PM

Sep 2019

smirkymonkey

(63,221 posts)

7. Tell us more. What was your opinion?

Reply to PlanetBev (Original post)

Tue Oct 1, 2019, 01:01 AM

Oct 2019

I am dying to hear about it!

PlanetBev

(4,104 posts)

8. The best description was on the film poster

Reply to smirkymonkey (Reply #7)

Tue Oct 1, 2019, 01:58 AM

Oct 2019

It said, “A delectable film on a despicable person” and “When you’re standing in front of Roy Cohn, you’re standing in front of evil”.

What creeped me out was that he reminded me so much of Stephen Miller. Everything, the hairline, the dead fish eyes, the reptilian demeanor. A human wrecking ball for everything good and decent.

smirkymonkey

(63,221 posts)

11. Thanks! The only thing I really knew about Cohn before was what he said about Trump.

Reply to PlanetBev (Reply #8)

Tue Oct 1, 2019, 08:41 AM

Oct 2019

"That he pisses ice water". Two evil, disgusting people.

Awsi Dooger

(14,565 posts)

9. I couldn't believe Roy Cohn wasn't a major topic during 2016

Reply to PlanetBev (Original post)

Tue Oct 1, 2019, 04:05 AM

Oct 2019

Monumental failure, by our party and the media.

I was mentioning Cohn on site after site while telling friends what he stood for. They were in disbelief and had to look it up to verify.

The only competent depiction I saw in 2016 was a PBS documentary that basically said Hillary was idolizing Martin Luther King at the same time Trump was idolizing Roy Cohn.

Judi Lynn

(160,542 posts)

10. Great seeing your post, PlanetBev. Without a doubt you've inspired more people to go see it, too!

Reply to PlanetBev (Original post)

Tue Oct 1, 2019, 04:13 AM

Oct 2019

It's really, REALLY good when the truth gets known, considering how much effort is made to suppress it.

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