Anderson Cooper’s Claim About Bernie Sanders’ Soviet Union Honeymoon Was Redbaiting and Deceptive
BY TIMOTHY LANGE
In his follow-up question to Bernie Sanders Tuesday night, after the candidate had explained what he views as “democratic socialism,” CNN's Anderson Cooper returned to the matter of electability and noted, “You honeymooned in the Soviet Union.”
This despicable red-baiting was a means of suggesting that Sanders is a commie without actually saying the word. Here's a guy, the implication runs, who's a secret Bolshevik—so in love with America's arch-enemy that he took his new bride to the USSR instead of Niagara Falls or the Bahamas for their honeymoon. It was a rancid attempt to gin up outrage and do Republicans' dirty work for them. It's also deceptive.
The honeymoon story began at Breitbart in late May, then moved on to other right-wing venues, finally getting play in George Will's August 7 column in the Washington Post. Most of his column was devoted to praise for ex-communist Robert Conquest, who had written about the prisons and other atrocities of the Stalin era and had just died at age 98. Will concluded:
Will, of course, is a decidedly unamusing eccentricity. His “surely as an ideological gesture” implied—given the context of the rest of the column—that Sanders is a sneaky supporter of gulags and politically motivated famines and other Stalinist depredations. But in fact, Sanders' trip to the Soviet Union was part of his official duties as mayor of Burlington, Vermont.
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it's a DINO thing.
Oh the labels, they are a-shifting ... 
. But in fact, Sanders' trip to the Soviet Union was part of his official duties as mayor of Burlington, Vermont.
In 1956, President Eisenhower launched the program that a decade later would be called Sister Cities International, a program still in existence today. The idea was to promote peace and understanding through connections between cities in the United States and, at first, Western Europe. The program soon spread. In 1973, Seattle became a sister city of Tashkent, the capital of Uzbekistan, then under Soviet rule. Other U.S.-Soviet sister cities soon followed despite the tensions of the Cold War.
In 1988, Burlington sistered with Yaroslavl, a city 160 miles north of Moscow. That was the same year Sanders married his second wife, Jane. In fact, the day after they married, they headed out to Yaroslavl. So, one could call it a honeymoon, and the pair have both done so, but jokingly or sarcastically. The reason for that is that they didn't go alone. There were 10 other people from Burlington who went with them. It was a trip dotted with diplomacy, official meetings and numerous interviews. Not most people's idea of a honeymoon getaway.
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the 1% which cooper was born into, will not let their power slip away without a fight
