DCist: Schools Roundup – Right Thinking, Wrong Reasons

registrationsucks

Tue, 03 Jun 2008 16:05:33 -0500

d@mn your bitter!

ortsed

Tue, 03 Jun 2008 15:07:58 -0500

Other AEI scholars: Newt Gingrich John R. Bolton Robert Bork David Frum Paul Wolfowitz Lynne Cheney Alan Keyes Irving Kristol Richard Perle Fred Thompson John Yoo Not the broadest range of opinion. And for the record you wouldn't say "Fuck American Enterprise Institute", you would say "Fuck the American Enterprise Institute"

Rorschach

Tue, 03 Jun 2008 14:59:37 -0500

Wow. That's a terribly dishonest line of critique. As a liberal who has worked very closely with AEI scholars, I can say that there's a fairly broad range of opinion among the people there. (I challenge you to next call Norm Ornstein a right-wing hack.) Think what you will of Murray and D'Souza (and, yes, even within AEI there are people who find the works mentioned above to be quite distasteful), Hess's work is completely unrelated. The appointments, and the recipients thereof, are probably better evaluated on their own merits.

Reid

Tue, 03 Jun 2008 14:59:25 -0500

There are definitely reasons to criticize AEI (by the way, most people don't refer to it as "the" AEI, the same way people call it "Brookings", not "the Brookings"). But that sourcewatch page reads like the work of a college sophomore late for an assignment for his Peace Studies course. AEI is biased certainly. But so is Brookings, and every other think tank in this town. I think a lot of their conclusions are wrong, but they're not the corporate shills that that sourcewatch page makes them out to be. Now when it comes to being an absolute shill for corporate interests, no one tops the Competitive Enterprise Institute (which as far as I know, has no relationship with AEI). CEI is shameless and has little intellectual honesty.

ortsed

Tue, 03 Jun 2008 14:14:33 -0500

Fuck the AEI: http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=American_Enterprise_Institute