Better Know a RW Operative (In case you bump into him in ANY venue)

Ryan Sorba



From an Alternet article by Max Blumenthal (http://www.alternet.org/story/143262/how_my_dispute_with_joe_scarborough_sheds_light_on_the_civil_war_within_the_gop)

Media Transparency lists ISI as having received $13.3 million since 1985 with the dominant recent funders being the:

Sarah Scaife Foundation
Allegheny Foundation
Castle Rock Foundation
Earhart Foundation
Lynde and Harry Bradley Foundation
JM Foundation
John M. Olin Foundation
Claude R. Lambe Charitable Foundation
Philip M. McKenna Foundation


ISI claims that it has representatives "at over 900 colleges, and with more than 50,000 ISI student and faculty members on virtually every campus in the country."<1>


There's a network of connections involved, which means Sgt. Seth is likely in someone's pocket or on the take.

I discovered this kind of nationally-connected network exists in my own little town & I suspect in most.

http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Intercollegiate_Studies_Institute

are some up-and-coming interns that come here to practice--and somehow, I always guessed that the Scaife and Heritage Foundations were involved.

Call me decidedly unsurprised.

but some will be back around election time...I think most of those folks ply their trades on open comments for news stories, or neutral/non-political boards...

No surprise reading the names Scaiffe and DeVos...part of the usual suspects who have been funding these groups and surely are working overtime these days. Unfortunately still few realize what Hillary so properly labeled the VRWC...this is them at work.

While outing the operatives is important, more emphasis has to be put on those who write the checks...the puppetmasters. The right has long demonized George Soros who is a piker compared the the Scaiffe or Koch "legacies".

Mommy and Daddy must be so proud.

or in hiding.

I don't think it got much visibility there, so I'm running most of it through again here.


The ISI is a kind of a paleocon group with close ties to the Heritage Foundation. It's not generally very visible -- but I saw an article a couple of days ago about a couple of young tea party organizers with links to both ISI and the Leadership Institute. It loves to spread stories of alleged liberal bias on campus.


http://influx.uoregon.edu/1997/cons

Unlike liberals or progressives, conservatives on college campuses can draw on a national, well-funded network of right-wing organizations. Groups such as the Intercollegiate Studies Institute (ISI) with its Collegiate Network (CN) dispense millions of dollars in aid and guidance, raining down scholarships, fellowships, internships and other help on promising students who agree with their conservative, pro-business philosophy. These organizations bankroll conservative journals on college campuses and recruit promising young conservatives to positions of national prominence and influence.

Founded in 1953 as the Intercollegiate Society of Individualists, ISI is the oldest national college conservative organization in the country. The organization has an annual budget of $4.7 million and claims more than 55,000 student and faculty members on U.S. campuses. Its current president, T. Kenneth Cribb, served as chief of domestic affairs for President Reagan. In 1995, the organization assumed control of the Collegiate Network, which funds more than 50 conservative college publications, ranging from the Harvard Salient to the Dartmouth Review to the Oregon Commentator. . . .

With an annual budget of $300,000, CN gives money and training to student editors and writers at its 50-plus conservative publications. Assistance comes in the form of operating grants, scholarships to CN journalistic training conferences, story ideas and editorial resources, year-long internships at national publications and guidance from experienced professionals. Network magazines have a combined annual distribution of more than two million copies.


http://www.digitas.harvard.edu/~perspy/old/issues/1996/mar/madison.html

How Rich Foundations Fund Conservative College Newspapers

Curious readers of Harvard's student publications might wonder how the College's two conservative newspapers, The Salient and Peninsula, continue to operate with only one or two paid ads per issue. Many other publications, including Perspective, rely almost exclusively on advertising to cover their costs. In fact, although the former two papers often tout the unqualified virtue of free enterprise, both have managed to balance their books for years only with the aid of massive subsidies from conservative foundations. While Peninsula has stopped receiving funds this year, The Salient continues to enjoy the cash. Inquiry into the funding sources of these and other right-wing college papers reveals both a hidden hypocrisy and the inadequacy of corresponding liberal funding networks. ...

Both The Salient and Peninsula are members of the Collegiate Network, an association of over 70 right-wing college newspapers from Dartmouth to Stanford which provides its members with substantial subsidies, start-up grants, coordination, and training. The Network also provides editorial input, at least according to former editor-in-chief of The Stanford Review, Lisa Covan: "They help us form our opinions and plan conferences." The Network, administered until last year by the Madison Center for Educational Affairs (MCEA), recently merged into the larger Intercollegiate Studies Institute (ISI), a group known for its dedication to purging "the pervasive forces of multiculturalism."


http://www.ncrp.org/Releases/PR-03-03-2004.htm

The 10 largest recipients of conservative foundation grants between 1999 and 2001, in rank order, were the Heritage Foundation, the Intercollegiate Studies Institute, George Mason University (the Mercatus Center), the American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research, Hillsdale College, Citizens for a Sound Economy Foundation, Judicial Watch, the Free Congress Research and Education Foundation, the Hoover Institution on War, Revolution, and Peace, and the Manhattan Institute for Policy Research.


http://www.humaneventsonline.com/article.php?id=2159

ISI Celebrates 50th Anniversary

The Intercollegiate Studies Institute (ISI), the creation of which was inspired by an 1950 HUMAN EVENTS article by Frank Chodorov, will celebrate its 50th Anniversary at the National Building Museum in Washington, D.C., on Thursday, October 23, 2003.

The gala tribute to America’s premiere organization dedicated to instilling in successive generations of college youth an appreciation of the values and institutions that sustain a free society will feature an all-star conservative roster of dignitaries, including Amway co-founder Richard M. DeVos and National Review founder William F. Buckley Jr., who are co-chairing this event.

The celebration includes: A reception featuring Alfred Regnery and the Madison Chamber Players; Dinner (VMI Glee Club Performance); the Premiere of ISI Anniversary Film; comments from Edwin J. Feulner, Jr., William F. Buckley Jr., T. Kenneth Cribb, Jr., Lt. General Josiah Bunting III, and others; anniversary project announced by Richard M. DeVos; post-dinner musical entertainment "Beats Working," featuring FOX News Anchor Tony Snow (invited).


http://llamabutchers.mu.nu/archives/066998.php

Ken Cribb, president of the Intercollegiate Studies Institute, once told me this story: A South Carolinian of many generations, he had just decided to attend Washington & Lee, and his grandmother remonstrated, "Why would you want to go to a Yankee school?" "But Grandma," Ken pleaded, "Virginia seceded!" His grandmother stared at him for a moment and then replied, "Mighty damn late."


http://www.freep.com/voices/columnists/qetrev8.htm

The intellectual brain trust of the Federalist Society includes the likes of Robert Bork, whom the U.S. Senate refused to elevate to the U.S. Supreme Court in 1987. Others include Edwin Meese, who was President Ronald Reagan's attorney general and so anti-civil rights that, according to the Washington Post, Reagan aides James Baker and Michael Deaver called him "Big Bigot" and his top assistant, T. Kenneth Cribb, "Baby Bigot."

http://www.newsmax.com/archives/articles/2003/10/24/145151.shtml

Oct. 24, 2003

WASHINGTON - U.S. Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia says though "it would be foolish" to say that the "one-sided nature of institutions of learning" is the product of "some left-wing academic conspiracy," "it would also be unrealistic to think {such a conspiracy} does not exist."

Speaking Thursday to about 800 guests at the 50th anniversary dinner of the Intercollegiate Studies Institute (ISI), the respected jurist faulted many academic "experts" on constitutional law for ignorance and for attitudes he considers uninformed and arrogant. What’s more, he despairs that many in academia and the judiciary, including some of his colleagues on the high court, are following such wrongheaded legal interpretations. . . .

Scalia, who as a college student once received a fellowship from ISI, said the organization’s educational approach had been marked “by a special concern for an historical understanding of our constitutional traditions, conveying to students the contemporary elements of what Russell Kirk called ‘the roots of American order.’"

http://www.usatoday.com/news/opinion/editorials/2004-02-08-vanderkam-usat_x.htm

Right-leaning folks wanted to grow young reporters, academics, artists and public servants who would change the culture, not just the campus. Instead, they've grown activists who enjoy campus politics, but flee to the business world or conservative institutions after graduation. Until someone convinces young conservatives to battle up the low-paid ladder of newspapers and other mainstream institutions, conservatives will see livelier campus debates and bake sales for their money -- but not much cultural change. . . .

Despite this pampering, though, only a handful of CN alumni work for mainstream media such as USA TODAY or NBC Nightly News. The highest-profile alumni (including pundit Ann Coulter and National Review Editor Richard Lowry) write, almost solely, for conservative audiences. I call it "syndicated-columnist syndrome." Turns out, once you experience the royal treatment as a reward for writing polemics in one-sided campus papers, you lose your taste for the tough investigative reporting that convinces unsympathetic editors and readers. You lose your taste for staking out school board meetings, covering police beats and taking other steps on the ladder mainstream reporters must master. . . .

They've discovered it's more pleasant to achieve stardom for snappy commentaries than labor in obscurity as a city desk editor, or to garner praise and press at conservative think tanks than fight unfair tenure decisions at State U. Activists prefer to complain about liberal foundations than battle up their hierarchies, and they'd rather earn big bucks as corporate lawyers than become low-paid local judges who truly influence law.

Someday all this nefarious scheming is going to come crashing in on their heads and the honest
people will have to rebuild the world.

Damn them to hell.

:rofl:

These people should be executed for their anti-American and treasonous acts. They are fucking nazis.

Does anyone have any methods I can use to get him to out himself? This guy spews his right-wing nonsense over the least little thing, and has recently posted a picture of himself smiling happily with his arm around the girl who posed as the hooker in the ACORN sting operation. By the way, he's the same jerkoff who called me a "blasphemer" and a "loon" for posting the "Maury Christmas" picture that someone posted on this website yesterday.

After reading this post, I'm pretty sure he's one of these "paid agitators," but I'm looking for a way to drive the cockroach out into the light. Here's his picture, if it helps. The ACORN hooker (her name is Hannah Giles) is the one in the purple dress on his right, your left, by the way.