article by joel kovel

[Marta Russell]

Speaking of the Nation, Marc Cooper, an occasional writer for the Nation
has a show called "Radio Nation."  Maybe some of you know of it.  A couple
of days back he had Arianna Huffington on the show.  Huffington is a
Republican pundit, her name has come up on this list a couple of times.
Knowing Huffington's politics, for instance she wanted to "scrap SSI' and
replace entitlements with "effective" compassion (charity), I was simply
stunned that Cooper seemed to be uncritical of her politics.

I have nothing against being polite to someone you interview but Cooper was
downright awed by her and never asked a hard question.  For example a
caller asked why was Huffington a Republican, and she answered because she
did not believe in government, that government programs don't work.  Cooper
not only let this go unchallenged he joked and laughed with her about it.
Is this what the Nation has come to???  Cooper DOES have this radio show
named "Radio Nation" and Huffington is not much different from Armey,
Gingrich and DeLay on entitlements and the evils of welfare/government.

Marta Russell

Michael Yates wrote:


> friends,
>
> There is an interesting article by Joel Kovel in this month's "Z"
> magazine. It is about his run for senate from New York as an independent
> "Green" candidate.  Especially interesting are his comments on liberals.
> The increasingly f*ed up people at the Nation gave him short shrift.
> Anyway, Kovel is always interesting and this piece is worth reading.
>
> michael yates