I heard Katrina vanden Heuvel, editor of the Nation on a Freeper station

[Quixote1818]

the other day. I don't remember the name of the show she was on, it was some German sounding name like "Hans or Franz" on a station from Portland, OR. She absolutely dismantled him!!!

She was about the most articulate person I have ever heard, right up their with Bill Clinton and Randi Rhodes in the way she understood the issues and defended her point of view. She was also very diplomatic and not irritating in the way Randi Rhodes can be at times.

Anyone know much about her? Would she make a good Presidential Candidate?

[stanwyck]

1. I've seen her a couple of times on

CSPAN's Washington Journal and she's impressive. She's the anti-Coulter. Totally knowledgeable and classy. She doesn't resort to just bleating out insults. She's thoughtful and knows the issues.
Coulter covers her lack of knowledge with ugly comments. The last time I saw her, her contribution to a discussion about Catholicism's impact on a potential Supreme Court nominee was to repeatedly rant: "Ted Kennedy! Chappaquidick!" That's it. Her contribution.
I totally agree with your assessment of vanden Heuvel. I wish we saw more of her.

[slor]

2. During the period I call, The Dark Days"...after...

the first stolen election, my wife and I were on our honeymoon in Key West in spring 2001. I was flipping through the channels, when I saw Katrina on Washington Journal. I heard her tearing apart bush-bots, left and right, and she did it with such grace and beauty. I was hooked and began to realize that we (wife and I) were not alone in the world. I got a subscription to 'The Nation" upon our return, and never looked back!

[babylonsister]

3. She's been on HArdball a few times but

unfortunately, Tweety doesn't give her enough time IMO. She is also the editor of "The Nation" magazine, and one intelligent, deliberative woman who can state her case with facts and ease. I can't think of one repug that can hold a candle to her!

[NanceGreggs]

4. Not only is she ...

... well-informed, intelligent and articulate, she is ABSOLUTELY GORGEOUS! (That may not help, but it doesn't hurt).

Katrina guested on Larry King a few weeks ago, alongside Ann Coulter. The glaringly obvious difference between a shrieking hate-mongering idiot and a soft-spoken voice of reason was a delight to watch!

[PassingFair]

7. Sorry I missed that one. HATE Larry King...

but the contrast between the two must have been fantastic!

[mandyky]

5. I love Katrina!

She usually is soft spoken and articulate and makes a good case. What I hate is when she is on with some rude loudmouth RWer who talks over her and stuff like that.

[MissB]

6. She is very articulate

I didn't hear her yesterday- would that have been the Lars Larson show? He is a right-wing talk radio show host out of Portland.

[flyarm]

8. Katrina vanden Heuvel: bio quite impressive!!

Katrina vanden Heuvel:

Editor and co-owner of the leftwing magazine The Nation
Daughter of William J. vanden Heuvel, who worked for the founder of the CIA and for Robert F. Kennedy, and Jean Stein, whose father founded MCA-Universal
Married to New York University Russian scholar and Gorbachev enthusiast Stephen F. Cohen

She is also an owner of The Nation, being one of a handful of investors brought together in 1995 by then-Editor Victor Navasky in a for-profit partnership to buy the magazine - then losing $500,000 a year more - from investment banker Arthur Carter. This group of investors included, among others, former Corporation for Public Broadcasting Chairman Alan Sagner, novelist E.L. Doctorow, actor Paul Newman and Peter Norton computer software creator of Norton Utilities.

Born in 1960, vanden Heuvel studied politics and history at Princeton, writing her Senior thesis on McCarthyism. She has said that during these years she sometimes "felt like a Russian." She graduated Summa cum Laude from Princeton University in 1981. She worked as a production assistant at ABC Television. According to a Princeton alumni publication, during her Junior year she had already worked "as a Nation intern for nine months after faking the 'Politics and the Press' course taught by Blair Clark, the magazine's editor from 1976 to 1978" and "returned to The Nation in 1984 as assistant editor for foreign affairs."

Her father William J. vanden Heuvel served between 1953 and 1954 as executive assistant to founder of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) William "Wild Bill" Donovan during Donovan's tenure as U.S. Ambassador to Thailand. Vanden Heuvel later became a Board Member of the Farfield Foundation, widely branded by conspiracy enthusiasts of the Right and Left as a purported CIA front group. By the early 1960s van den Heuvel was a special assistant to New York Governor Averill Harriman and then to U.S. Attorney General Robert Kennedy. In 1976 Bill vanden Heuvel was chairman of Jimmy Carter's New York primary campaign committee. Following Carter's victory, vanden Heuvel served from 1979 until 1981 as Deputy Permanent Representative to the United Nations with the rank of Ambassador. Today he sits on the board of the United Nations Association-USA and several other organizations.

[Carolab]

9. She inherited the Nation from her father. n/t

[Cleita]

10. The first time I saw her on TV was during the Clinton /Lewinsky

affair. She regularly hands these RW pundits their asses to them. I once saw her on Chris Matthews. He made some rude stupid counter reply to something she had said. The camera was on her while Chris was speaking and I distinctly saw a silent "fuck you" formed in her mouth. It made my day. I have been a fan of hers ever since. She is an editor at "The Nation" magazine.

[bluedawg12]

11. I like her. She's tough and smart and went against the flow

after 9-11 when everyone was kissing the @ss of the chimperator.

Tweety has been rude to her, has cut her off, yelled at her, and she is not rattled by his bullying, but then again, tweety can't take tough women. He prefers to flirt with the Peggy Noonans of this world.

Katrina is fantastic and her politics come through as tough and honest. If she is well connected - so much the better!

[Carolab]

12. Don't mess with Dutch women--of which I am one! n/t