Did you know that the Southern Poverty Law Center has almost declared the AEI to be a hate group?

The SPLC, an organization that tracks the Klan and other hate groups (And has recently declared many 'christian' Right organizations to be Homophobic Hate Groups, in particular American Vision and the Family Research Institute) had an article which stated that several organizations, while not openly calling them all hate groups, are known to push bigoted and discredited ideas.

One of these groups happens to be the American Enterprise Institute, a group which has come up with a lot of the Bush Administration's policies.

Here's what the SPLC had to say about the American Enterprise Institute:

"Founded in 1943, the Washington, D.C.-based American Enterprise Institute (AEI) is one of the most influential conservative think tanks in America. While its roots are in pro-business values, AEI in recent years has sponsored scholars whose views are seen by many as bigoted or even racist.

For example, Dinesh D'Souza, the author of The End of Racism, holds an Olin Foundation research fellowship at AEI. D'Souza has suggested that civil rights activists actually help perpetuate racial tensions and division in the United States, and has even called for the repeal of the 1964 Civil Rights Act. After his book was published, black conservatives Robert Woodson and Glenn Loury denounced it — Woodson released a statement saying it "fans the flames of racial animosity" — and broke their own ties with AEI.

Another AEI-sponsored scholar, Charles Murray, is more controversial. Murray, who has a Bradley Foundation research fellowship at AEI, is the co-author of The Bell Curve, a book that argues that blacks and Latinos are genetically inferior to whites and that most social welfare and affirmative action programs are doomed to failure as a result. The book, described as a reheated "stale stew of racial eugenics" by historian Godfrey Hodgson, cites the work of some 16 researchers financed by the racist Pioneer Fund* (asterisk means it is a listed hate group)."

http://www.splcenter.org/intel/intelreport/article.jsp?pid=106#2

anti-Constitutional, anti-American White House? Do tell.

Good for the SPLC.

AEI lists their scholars and fellows on their web site<18>. Some prominent current or former AEI scholars and fellows include the following:

John R. Bolton, former U.S. Permanent Representative to the United Nations.
Lynne Cheney, wife of U.S. Vice President Dick Cheney, AEI senior fellow.
David Frum, an author and former speechwriter for Bush, is a resident fellow.
Reuel Marc Gerecht is a resident fellow. He is the director of the Project for the New American Century's Middle East Initiative and a former Middle East specialist at the CIA.
Newt Gingrich, member of the Republican Party and Speaker of the United States House of Representatives between 1995 and 1999, is a senior fellow at AEI focusing on health care (he has founded the Center for Health Transformation), information technology, the military, and politics.
James K. Glassman, author of Dow 36,000, is a resident fellow.
Ayaan Hirsi Ali is a former Dutch politician, women's rights activist and critic of Islamism & Shar'ia Law.
Frederick Kagan is a military historian and signatory of Project for the New American Century manifesto titled Rebuilding America's Defenses (2000) along with his brother Robert (co-founder of the PNAC) and his father and fellow neo-conservative, Donald Kagan.
Alan Keyes, former Assistant Secretary of State for International Organization Affairs, was an AEI resident scholar.
Jeane Kirkpatrick was the former U.S. Permanent Representative to the United Nations and was an AEI senior fellow until she died in 2006.
Michael Ledeen was previously involved in the transfer of arms to Iran during the Iran-Contra affair — an adventure that he documented in his book, Perilous Statecraft: An Insider's Account of the Iran-Contra Affair.
Allan Meltzer is one of the foremost academics studying monetary policy and the Federal Reserve Bank. He, along with economist Milton Friedman, pioneered monetarism, the now widely accepted theory that inflation is entirely the result of the growth of the money supply. Meltzer is currently working on the second volume of his History of the Federal Reserve.
Joshua Muravchik is a resident scholar. He researches Middle East politics, democracy, neoconservatism and the history of socialism.
Charles Murray, an influential policy writer and a researcher, is the W.H. Brady Scholar in Culture and Freedom. He is best known as the co-author of the controversial 1994 book, The Bell Curve.
Michael Novak is the George Frederick Jewett Scholar in Religion, Philosophy and Public Policy and Director of Social and Political Studies at the institute. He has written extensively about the role of faith in government.
Norman Ornstein has been a Congressional analyst and political commentator for more than thirty five years.
Richard Perle served on the United States Defense Policy Board and is a former Assistant Secretary of Defense.
Danielle Pletka, Vice President, her research areas include the Middle East
Sally Satel is a psychiatrist and author of PC, M.D.: How Political Correctness is Corrupting Medicine.
Christina Hoff Sommers is a critic of the feminist movement. She is the author of Who Stole Feminism and The War Against Boys.
Fred Thompson, Television and film actor, currently appearing on the television show Law & Order, former U.S. Senator, is a visiting fellow.
Ben Wattenberg, a speechwriter for President Lyndon B. Johnson, is a senior fellow.
Paul Wolfowitz (Visiting Scholar), A "major architect of President Bush's Iraq policy and, within the Administration, its most passionate and compelling advocate."<19>
John Yoo, formerly of the Office of Legal Counsel, and a professor at Boalt Hall, is a visiting scholar.


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Enterprise_Institute

Or "evil personified"?

In the December debate with Cassel, Yoo was asked: "If the president deems that he's got to torture somebody, including by crushing the testicles of the person's child, there is no law that can stop him?"

Yoo: "No treaty."

Cassel: "Also no law by Congress? That is what you wrote in the August 2002 memo ."

Yoo: "I think it depends on why the president thinks he needs to do that."

http://www.villagevoice.com/news/0728,hentoff,77169,6.html

When will he get his Medal of Freedom? :puke:

Nothing should surprise us anymore, nothing is beyond them. It does though, I guess we liberals just don't think this way in the first place.

A lot more dangerous than Saddam Hussein ever was. Monsters, really.

Same group that says global warming is a hoax.

Most of the think-tanks are right wing and funded by Richard Scaifi -- though he's supposedly bowing out of his funding right-wing stuff --

presumably his pockets are about as full as they can get --
and it will take us 40 or 50 years to undue the damage they've done -- !!!

btw, we don't have that much time when you consider Global Warming --

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Broken Record
Lou Dobbs' daily 'Broken Borders' CNN segment has focused on immigration for years.

But there's one issue Dobbs just won't take on.

By Heidi Beirich and Mark Potok

.... For more than two years now, Dobbs has served up a populist approach to immigration on nightly segments of his newscast entitled "Broken Borders." He has relentlessly covered the issue, although hardly from a traditional news perspective -- Dobbs favors clamping down on illegal immigration, and his "reporting" never fails to make that clear. He has covered the same issues, and the same anti-immigration leaders, time after time after time. In recent months, Dobbs has run countless upbeat reports on the "citizen border patrols" that have sprung up around the country since last April's Minuteman Project, a paramilitary effort to seal the Arizona border.

But there's one thing Lou Dobbs won't do. No matter what others report about the movement, Dobbs has failed to present mounting and persistent evidence of anti-Hispanic racism in anti-immigration groups and citizen border patrols. ....

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