How Do You Spell Lazy? A-E-I
by Devilstower
from DailyKos
Sun Apr 05, 2009
The American Enterprise Institute is one of the best known of the numerous conservative "think tanks." On its rolls are 86 "scholars" and numerous "researchers" ready to tackle every subject imaginable -- economics, education, Iraq, health care -- you just name it. The kind of thinking that incubates there can been summed up in the names of the most prominent members: Gingrich, Wolfowitz, Bolton, Cheney. With that sort of "scholarship" at its heart, there's little surprise that AEI spends a lot of its time making studies that refute climate change, support massive military expenditures, cheer for preemptive conflict, and encourage deregulation of all sorts. In short, they're the purest distillation of the philosophy expressed in the Bush administration. The carriers of the neocon flame.
And if you think the utter refutation of all of these positions -- on every field from the laboratory to the marketplace -- would turn AEI into the kind of laughingstock that an organization proven wrong on every point deserves, you obviously haven't read a paper, turned on a radio, or glanced at a television.
You want someone to complain about feminists? You could bring in Christina Sommers, who has written numerous books about how feminists are just so damn feminist. Or maybe you'd prefer Harvey Mansfield come in to talk about the decline of "manliness" and how Ivy League colleges have been ruined by affirmative action. Or Desmond Lachman can drop by to tell you why the United States is becoming a third world nation. Alex Brill can explain how Democrats actually passed "the mother of all tax hikes" in 2007. You can even get insight into the polls from Karlyn Bowman, critical insight, such as how Katrina had no effect on Bush's popularity.
Just name the topic and the American Enterprise Institute has someone ready to go. The trouble is -- far, far too often, the media is ready to take them up on it.
(More here.)
from DailyKos
Sun Apr 05, 2009
The American Enterprise Institute is one of the best known of the numerous conservative "think tanks." On its rolls are 86 "scholars" and numerous "researchers" ready to tackle every subject imaginable -- economics, education, Iraq, health care -- you just name it. The kind of thinking that incubates there can been summed up in the names of the most prominent members: Gingrich, Wolfowitz, Bolton, Cheney. With that sort of "scholarship" at its heart, there's little surprise that AEI spends a lot of its time making studies that refute climate change, support massive military expenditures, cheer for preemptive conflict, and encourage deregulation of all sorts. In short, they're the purest distillation of the philosophy expressed in the Bush administration. The carriers of the neocon flame.
And if you think the utter refutation of all of these positions -- on every field from the laboratory to the marketplace -- would turn AEI into the kind of laughingstock that an organization proven wrong on every point deserves, you obviously haven't read a paper, turned on a radio, or glanced at a television.
You want someone to complain about feminists? You could bring in Christina Sommers, who has written numerous books about how feminists are just so damn feminist. Or maybe you'd prefer Harvey Mansfield come in to talk about the decline of "manliness" and how Ivy League colleges have been ruined by affirmative action. Or Desmond Lachman can drop by to tell you why the United States is becoming a third world nation. Alex Brill can explain how Democrats actually passed "the mother of all tax hikes" in 2007. You can even get insight into the polls from Karlyn Bowman, critical insight, such as how Katrina had no effect on Bush's popularity.
Just name the topic and the American Enterprise Institute has someone ready to go. The trouble is -- far, far too often, the media is ready to take them up on it.
(More here.)
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