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Smarmie Doofus

(14,498 posts)
Sun Nov 18, 2012, 11:16 AM Nov 2012

Bill 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".

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Bill Maher looks at RW "think tanks." (Original Post) Smarmie Doofus Nov 2012 OP
I'd forgotten Kristol = "Quayle's Brain" struggle4progress Nov 2012 #1
Choice. New to me too. Thanks for posting. Scuba Nov 2012 #2
Think tanks are like septic tanks--You get out what you put in them. bulloney Nov 2012 #3
Then, you must mean "stink tanks" longship Nov 2012 #5
RW think tanks are what the term "mutual masturbation society" was invented for. baldguy Nov 2012 #4
Killer riff by Maher oswaldactedalone Nov 2012 #6
I remember that one. It's classic. HopeHoops Nov 2012 #7
I taught with a guy who had worked for a right wing think tank proud2BlibKansan Nov 2012 #8
A bitter irony there, seems to me. Smarmie Doofus Nov 2012 #10
Including the Third Way? nt woo me with science Nov 2012 #9

proud2BlibKansan

(96,793 posts)
8. I taught with a guy who had worked for a right wing think tank
Sun Nov 18, 2012, 02:06 PM
Nov 2012

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)
10. A bitter irony there, seems to me.
Sun Nov 18, 2012, 09:16 PM
Nov 2012

>>>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.


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