<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">Meanwhile, we've recently heard from good liberals how necessary it is to defend funding for NPR.<div><br></div><div>As necessary, apparently, as getting good liberals like Chuck Hagel and John Kerry into the cabinet.<br><div><br></div><div><div><div>On Sep 22, 2013, at 7:43 AM, "E. Wayne Johnson 朱稳森" <<a href="mailto:ewj@pigsqq.org">ewj@pigsqq.org</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite">
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AEI isn't just a think tank. It's a stink tank.<br>
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Wikipaedia sez:<br>
<font color="#000099">AEI is the most prominent think tank
associated with American <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neoconservatism" title="Neoconservatism">neoconservatism</a>, <br>
in both the domestic and international policy arenas.<sup id="cite_ref-Schifferes_9-0" class="reference"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Enterprise_Institute#cite_note-Schifferes-9"><span></span><span></span></a></sup><br>
<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irving_Kristol" title="Irving Kristol">Irving Kristol</a>, widely considered a father
of neoconservatism, <br>
was a senior fellow at AEI.<br>
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Prominent foreign-policy neoconservatives at AEI include <br>
<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Perle" title="Richard Perle">Richard Perle</a>, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gary_Schmitt" title="Gary Schmitt">Gary
Schmitt</a>, and <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Wolfowitz" title="Paul Wolfowitz">Paul Wolfowitz</a>. <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_R._Bolton" title="John R. Bolton">John Bolton</a>, <br>
often said to be a neoconservative,<sup id="cite_ref-66" class="reference"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Enterprise_Institute#cite_note-66"><span></span><span></span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-67" class="reference"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Enterprise_Institute#cite_note-67"><span></span><span></span></a></sup>
has said that he is not one, <br>
as his primary focus is on American interests, not democracy
promotion.</font><br>
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On 09/22/13 20:01, C. G. Estabrook wrote:
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[FAIR] - Last month NPR CEO Gary Knell left to take a job at National
Geographic, making him the latest in a string of CEOs who left after a
short stint running the public radio outlet. On September 13, NPR named
a new acting president and CEO: board member Paul G. Haaga. <br>
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The NPR press release states that Haaga's "accomplished career"
included a stint as "chairman of the Investment Company Institute"–the
powerful lobbying group of the mutual fund industry. As the Los Angeles
Times once reported, "Mutual funds have been mostly shielded from the
reforms forced on the financial world–thanks in large part to the
efforts of the Investment Company Institute." <br>
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NPR also adds that Haaga has ties to right-wing think tanks–he is "a
member of the National Council of the American Enterprise Institute"
and he sits on "the Board of Overseers of Hoover Institution at
Stanford University." <br>
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Haaga is also a fairly regular contributor to Republican politicians.
According to <a moz-do-not-send="true" href="http://opensecrets.org/">OpenSecrets.org</a>,
this year he made a $32,400 donation to the Republican National
Committee; in the previous two years, he made contributions of around
$30,000 to the National Republican Congressional Committee. He's also
given four-figure checks to a large number of mostly Republican
candidates, including Rep. Paul Ryan, George Allen and Mitch McConnell. <br>
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So the new boss–for now–at NPR is a former financial industry lobbyist
who is a regular donor to Republican politicians, with ties to two
prominent conservative think tanks. When NPR finds a new boss, he'll
continue to be a member of NPR's board. <br>
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According to right-wing mythology, NPR is a decidedly left-wing media
outlet, living off government subsidies and pushing a liberal agenda.
That's not at all true when it comes to what's on the air–or who's on
the board.<span><Mail Attachment.gif></span>
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<div>[See
<a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="http://fair.org/extra-online-articles/how-public-is-public-radio/"><http://fair.org/extra-online-articles/how-public-is-public-radio/></a>.]</div>
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