HE TRAVELS IN THE BEST CIRCLES - AT 10:55 A.M. ET:  From NewsBusters:

Former CBS anchor Dan Rather will speak at a $200-a-person fundraising event for the hard-left Nation magazine in New York on September 23. The Nation’s website advertises: "Meet Dan Rather, Jane Mayer, Marcy Wheeler, and Katrina Vanden Heuvel and Help Save The Nation." The panel’s discussion topic? "What Will Become of the News?...A conversation on the future of news."

Let's guess the verdict will be it's too corporate and conservative.

COMMENT:  The Nation is often wrongly described as "liberal."  It's not.  It's hard left.  The New Republic is liberal.  After 9-11 The Nation went into action against the war on terror, with one of its star leftist writers, Katha Pollitt, writing how horrified she was that her own son wanted to display an American flag.

It was in The Nation that Marxist professor Eric Foner wondered which was worse, the attacks of 9-11 or the defiant rhetoric coming out of the White House.  Maybe someone should have explained it to him.

The other names mentioned, besides Rather, are dependable leftists.  It's sad to see Rather lend his name to this event.  But maybe we shouldn't be too surprised.

August 30, 2009