OMG The Nation magazine is now running pro-Trump headlines

[uhnope]

Unbelievable how far down the regressive rabbit hole of Putinphilia that magazine has gone:

 Trump Wants to Stop the New Cold War, but Most of the American Media Just Doesn’t Understand
We should listen to what Trump says about Russia policy instead of Putin-baiting him.
By Stephen F. Cohen AUGUST 2, 2016

Nation contributing editor Stephen F. Cohen tells CNN that Donald Trump is being wrongly linked to Putin and criticized because he’s trying to end the new Cold War.

I'm not going to link to that tripe.

And to think the usual suspects are still trying to wield The Nation like it's a progressive voice.

[Justice]

1. Cohen is married to Katrina vanden Heuvel -- Editor and Publisher of The Nation

Cohen is a longtime pro-Russian advocate.

[Demit]

2. Is that an article in The Nation or just an interview with CNN?

I went to The Nation website and it appears to not be either a print or online article. The website only shows a Youtube video.

[frazzled]

3. The Nation goes off the rails every few years

I used to subscribe to The Nation back in the late eighties through the mid-nineties, and then cancelled, because they'd gone whackadoodle. The only one I ever read by the end was Arthur Danto on art, and I didn't even agree with him at times. I then resubscribed in the early Bush years, until they went plain old hateful and batshit crazy. I don't pay much attention to them anymore.

I see them as desperately clinging to the past--stuck in the 60s and 70s, still hoping that the old USSR might work for the people, and still fighting in Nicaragua.

[NightWatcher]

4. Trump is incapable of advanced thought like that.

[KG]

5. I lulz'd.

[cali]

6. It is and always has been, not just a progressive voice, but the most distinguished and oldest

progressive magazine in the country. It publishes plenty of pro-democratic articles- including a current one by Joan Walsh who is a very big Hillary supporter.

It doesn't appear as if you actually read The Nation. Your op is cherry picking and nothing but.

[uhnope]

7. Santa and the Easter Bunny too

been there done that

[cali]

8. I did not put words in your mouth. I said it appears as if you don't read the magazine

and that you cherry picked.

The Nation's history of publishing thoughtful articles is still ongoing today. One needn't agree with every voice there to recognize that.

[Mc Mike]

9. Agreed. Our side is capable of ceasing to toss people and sources out of the sleigh.

The Nation has been sending consistently good stories via e-mails, all the time. Covering all kinds of pro-Democracy, pro-Democrat, and anti-republican issues.

[cali]

11. It's just nuts to consider The Nation pro-Trump and anti-democratic and anti-HRC

[uhnope]

12. "just nuts"

The Nation’s Stephen F. Cohen Denies Existence of Ukraine
http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2014/08/stephen-f-cohen-denies-existence-of-ukraine.html

Putin’s Pal
Stephen Cohen was once considered a top Russia historian. Now he publishes odd defenses of Vladimir Putin. The Nation just published his most outrageous one yet.
http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/foreigners/2014/07/stephen_cohen_vladimir_putin_s_apologist_the_nation_just_published_the_most.html

'Obama has a bee in the bonnet about Putin' – Stephen Cohen - RT.com
President Obama has a bee in his bonnet about Putin and he keeps denying the reality, Professor Stephen F. Cohen, who wrote The Nation article ‘The Obama administration recklessly escalates confrontation with Russia’, told RT’s Ed Schultz

“Only Donald Trump (among the Presidential candidates) has said anything meaningful and critical of US foreign policy.“ (And that includes Bernie Sanders.) No, that is not Reince Priebus, chair of the RNC, speaking. It is Stephen F. Cohen, Emeritus Professor of Russian History at Princeton and NYU, a contributing editor for The Nation,

This is the guy literally in bed with The Nation magazine, totally praising Trump--and slamming Obama in interviews with Russia's state propaganda TV station.

I'll let readers decide what's "just nuts"

[Mc Mike]

14. Some political and media people want to engage in little distractional feuds,

when the massive and massively wrong weak bad enemy should be the target. Ridiculous to engage in little line in the sand burn down the house toss the baby out with the bathwater orthodoxy sniffing witchhunts. There's no way in the world that the Nation is 'pro-dRumpf'.

Tammy Duckworth should have had party support the first time she ran. She didn't, but didn't burn down her relationship with the IL dems. She ran again, and won, and is running for Senate. Her actions were the opposite of declaring eternal enmity, the opposite of doing something like eternally condemning the Nation.

Tip O'Neill's Massachusetts insurgency bucked the machine, got ripped off, but got the attention of John McCormack, and instead of making a grudge bearing forever feud became a great Speaker of the House. He could discern who his political opponents were and the massive difference in type and degree of different political 'opponents'.

It's possible to be true to Bernie ideals and back Hillary, still like the Nation, and Maddow. And I still don't hate Debbie Wasserman Schultz or the Green Party. Saying any one of them are permanently persona non grata is not going to advance the anti-dRumpf-repug cause one tiny bit.

[wishstar]

10. Very naive of author to credit Trump with idealistic motives rather than massive GREED

plus Trump's aides who have been on Kremlin payroll have been pulling strings, encouraging the Russian allegiance.

Trumps' Putin/Russia coziness involves his desperation to get financial backing for his projects, not because Trump is some kind of wise diplomatic foreign policy expert looking out for the good of America- he is only after his own business interests.

[geek tragedy]

13. Cohen is perhaps the most prominent Poot-licker other than Trump

That said, he is only one columnist there.