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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsBill Maher looks at RW "think tanks."
A better analysis cannot be found.
It's old..... but I never saw it.
If the date bothers you, substitute "education reform" .... or whatever your current issue is w. RW think tanks... for "Iraq".
struggle4progress
(118,308 posts)Scuba
(53,475 posts)bulloney
(4,113 posts)longship
(40,416 posts)Call it what it is.
baldguy
(36,649 posts)oswaldactedalone
(3,491 posts)Totally awesome and disturbing at the same time.
HopeHoops
(47,675 posts)proud2BlibKansan
(96,793 posts)He had grown up in a republican family who was active in local party politics and had hooked up with the think tank while he was in college. He got scholarship money from them and an internship in DC when he graduated. And he worked there for 2 years.
He left after he got sick of being told what to think and criticized for doing his own research. He said he would be given a topic and told to look for support for one side but not even consider the other side.
He had lots of interesting stories about this think tank and believed they were ruining our political system.
Anyhow, after he quit he decided to become a teacher and felt he had a much more powerful impact in a classroom than he would ever have had in that think tank.
Smarmie Doofus
(14,498 posts)>>>Anyhow, after he quit he decided to become a teacher and felt he had a much more powerful impact in a classroom than he would ever have had in that think tank.>>>>
If he wanted to impact education, he should have stayed at the stink tank.
They're calling the shots these days. Not teachers. As you well know.