Categories: Authoritarianism

We’re Right Because We’re Paid, Therefore Those We Pay Must Also Be Right – AEI Tries to Justify Bribing Writers.

AEI’s “uber-hawk“, resident fellow and former speech writer for President G. W. Bush, David Frum, takes issue with Market Place’s review of AEI’s offering to pay $10,000 for writers to poke holes in global warming and it’s causes. Here is part of what he had to say on today’s Market Place about what AEI was doing:

Think tanks, like all nonprofit institutions, raise their money from foundations, corporations and individuals. The funding flows only if the work is rigorous, accurate, and useful.

Of course we have views. Strong ones. But it’s the evidence and integrity behind those views that gains audience.

What arrogance. If people pay us and we yell load enough, we must be right?

Would Stephen Colbert agree that “rigorous, accurate, and useful” and “evidence and integrity” could be classified as “truthiness?” Maybe all of AEI’s papers should be summarized on Wikiality.com? Or maybe they are just practicing what Leo Strauss preaches – Noble Lies.

Andy Hailey

Vietnam Vet, UT El Paso Grad, Retired Aerospace Engineer, former union rep, kid of a WWII WASP, Vet for Peace, universist, web admin, blogger - helping to expose America’s growing Authoritarianism. BlueSky: https://bsky.app/profile/the-wawg-blog.org

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