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Blue_Tires

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55. Yeah, the Nation has been a sick joke for awhile now...

Fri Aug 11, 2017, 06:03 PM

Aug 2017

Glad more people are noticing...

So we've lost The Nation, The Young Turks, who's the next liberal outlet to make a heel turn?

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Katrina vanden Heuvel is turning The Nation into a Trump/Putin-apologist, Seth Rich troofer rag [View all] Adenoid_Hynkel Aug 2017 OP

she has always been that way. there are a certain type that always pushes this shit and they always JI7 Aug 2017 #1

Sure sounds like a useful idiot dalton99a Aug 2017 #2

The Nation's illustrious national security writer, in action: Adenoid_Hynkel Aug 2017 #3

Back in the 90's, I couldn't get my next copy of "The Nation" fast enough. oasis Aug 2017 #4

Same here! WTH happened to her? JNelson6563 Aug 2017 #12

I don't know. Maybe the moth got too close to the flame. oasis Aug 2017 #29

Russian by injection, I guess liberalism takes a back seat to socialism/corruption in that family MiddleClass Aug 2017 #49

She worked and lived in Moscow at some point. For all we know they have something on her. N/T SleeplessinSoCal Aug 2017 #50

As a former longtime subscriber it is really disgusting what has happened to the Nation Bradshaw3 Aug 2017 #5

I think The Nation is pretty well cooked at this point. BannonsLiver Aug 2017 #6

Wow, what a hit piece. DFW Aug 2017 #7

Did she expalin why she publishes the work of Seth Rich troofers? Adenoid_Hynkel Aug 2017 #8

I didn't ask her DFW Aug 2017 #9

So you're unaware of the crackpot theory pushed by the right and Trump, that her author embraces? Adenoid_Hynkel Aug 2017 #11

I am indeed quite unaware of that DFW Aug 2017 #13

If your editorial call is "publish things by a nutcase," then magazine has destroyed its credibility Adenoid_Hynkel Aug 2017 #15

Exactly! +1000 Duppers Aug 2017 #21

Maybe you should read the OP, then, because its about the Seth Rich conspiracy theory muriel_volestrangler Aug 2017 #27

This nutcase is a long-time contributor geek tragedy Aug 2017 #32

Hit piece? Sounds like your judgment is as clouded by a personal relationship as hers is. Bradshaw3 Aug 2017 #14

Oh, so because I know her, it's not a hit piece? DFW Aug 2017 #17

The reasons why it is not a hit piece were spelled out Bradshaw3 Aug 2017 #18

I still have no idea who Seth Rich is, though a couple of you seem totally obsessed with this guy. LenaBaby61 Aug 2017 #22

I would really love to have a sit down with her at some point because what has happened to her stevenleser Aug 2017 #33

quite frankly, back in the 1990's we were making nice with Russia's government geek tragedy Aug 2017 #35

Time to educate you. Seth Rich was a DNC staffer who was murdered in a robbery gone wrong. emulatorloo Aug 2017 #36

I did see there were a few replies, but I don't have time to play at this all day (or night) DFW Aug 2017 #47

If you spent half the time answering the points made to you as you do Bradshaw3 Aug 2017 #53

So, write to her and don't mention me. I don't care. DFW Aug 2017 #54

The point of a post like this on a political forum is to talk about issues Bradshaw3 Aug 2017 #56

OK, so I looked this over DFW Aug 2017 #59

Thank you for the update and input n/t Bradshaw3 Aug 2017 #60

I let my subscription lapse. murielm99 Aug 2017 #10

This message was self-deleted by its author LenaBaby61 Aug 2017 #19

I let my subscription lapse. LenaBaby61 Aug 2017 #23

Watching these Putinite organs scramble to keep Left readership after being exposed is hilarious alcibiades_mystery Aug 2017 #31

pro-Putin organs on the right (Breitbart, Fox) and the left (the Nation) have really geek tragedy Aug 2017 #37

It's a travesty what she has done to that publication BainsBane Aug 2017 #16

I think the Nation's demise reflects the collapse of a left in American politics BainsBane Aug 2017 #20

Yes the water is all muddied now I agree lunasun Aug 2017 #34

I think they're Troll Leftists leftstreet Aug 2017 #45

K & R Duppers Aug 2017 #24

Stephen Cohen??? Doug the Dem Aug 2017 #25

I cannot fathom the buddylng-up to Putin by either left or right... VOX Aug 2017 #26

money talks. lots of Gazprom money floating around nt geek tragedy Aug 2017 #38

They have been funded by the Russians for generations AngryAmish Aug 2017 #28

The Nation is Breitbart-left when it comes to Russia. geek tragedy Aug 2017 #30

Let's just hate everyone... Trial_By_Fire Aug 2017 #39

So youre fine with them running a BS article by a Seth Rich truther? Adenoid_Hynkel Aug 2017 #40

Check out my post 9 on this thread for what seems to be "fine" to this poster. VermontKevin Aug 2017 #61

So we can't criticize the Nation or its staff? hrmjustin Aug 2017 #41

it is a shame what she did to the publication! hrmjustin Aug 2017 #42

It is possible to read publications without agreeing with every single thing they publish. alarimer Aug 2017 #43

there's a difference between reasoned arguments and geek tragedy Aug 2017 #44

Thanks .... ordered my subscription today Kathy M Aug 2017 #46

Yes, I don't "get" this thread. The Nation isn't absolutist and intolerant enough? Hortensis Aug 2017 #62

I've had a subscription for almost 15 years, and have cancelled it obamanut2012 Aug 2017 #48

The solidification of factions is real. David__77 Aug 2017 #51

About two months ago I took my email off their mailing list. Ilsa Aug 2017 #52

Yeah, the Nation has been a sick joke for awhile now... Blue_Tires Aug 2017 #55

My thinking. Cancel subscriptions. haveahart Aug 2017 #57

Shit. Didn't see that coming. NT librechik Aug 2017 #58