One last story from the trove of Democratic insider emails released by WikiLeaks. This one comes courtesy of our friends at the Washington Free Beacon, whose headline we just ripped off: "Emails: Liberal Think Tank Freaked Out at SNL's Criticism of Donors."
One last story from the trove of Democratic insider emails released by WikiLeaks. This one comes courtesy of our friends at the Washington Free Beacon, whose headline we just ripped off: “Emails: Liberal Think Tank Freaked Out at SNL's Criticism of Donors."
The Center for American Progress (CAP), one of the largest and most influential liberal think tanks in Washington, recently extended an invitation to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. He spoke there yesterday, and the New York Times write-up notes that Netanyahu "project[ed] a benevolent…
Matthew Continetti, writing at the Washington Free Beacon, on the Center for American Progress:
Readers of the New York Times had a shock this morning: A full-page ad on page A9 from the Emergency Committee for Israel documenting the anti-Israel views of the Center for American Progress and Media Matters--and then asking why various Jewish communal philanthropies and business groups are…
With the Center for American Progress’s Think Progress blog under scrutiny for publishing what some would consider borderline anti-Semitic content, it would seem likely that bloggers over there might be careful about the content. (Even Think Progress’s editor Faiz Shakir admitted that some of the…
Alana Goodman, writing at the New York Post:
In Haaretz, James Kirchick writes about the mainstream left's disturbing rhetoric:
Ben Smith has an important piece in Politico today about the anti-Israel left:
Rick Perry: "My Tax and Spending Reform Plan"
The Los Angeles Times opened up a new front in the Solyndra scandal on Friday (and there are too many fronts to count at this point), reporting that Steve Spinner, another prominent Obama donor, served as a top official in the Energy Department program that made the half-billion dollar loan to the…
Here’s how bad it’s gotten for President Obama:
"Strauss-Kahn Case Seen as in Jeopardy"
Think Progress reporter Lee Fang has a long history of being spectacularly wrong. However, there's a seemingly unending thirst for his breathless demonization of the Koch brothers and other rants about corporate greed among the low IQ end of the liberal spectrum.
Yuval Levin highlighted this yesterday, and it's one of the most revealing things I've seen recently, not just about Obamacare, but how the left generally views the exercise of power.
The name Lee Fang is far from a household name. However, from his perch at the Soros-funded think tank Center for American Progress, Fang has the dubious distinction of promulgating questionable Koch Industries political conspiracies perhaps more than any other person.
In today's Examiner, Mark Tapscott discusses William F. Buckley's banishment of John Birchers to the fringe of the conservative movement decades ago and how it relates to today's conspiracy mongering on the left. In particular, the bleatings about the influence of Koch Industries have run…
Who’s pulling the strings on Wisconsin governor Scott Walker? Well it’s got to be someone – since obviously no Republican would act out of principle.
"Georgia faces a stark choice between two mutually exclusive futures." That's how the Center for American Progress (CAP) kicked off a 70-plus page report on the divided former Soviet Union. Suffice to say, that sophomoric assessment is just the opening salvo in a report overflowing with…
In Palm Springs, California, this past weekend, one set of rich folks was the target of another set of rich folks. It is, uniquely, an American story. Here’s how it played out: The Koch brothers, Charles and David, held a closed-door meeting with their political allies at a local hotel. Outside,…
Guess who’s holding a super secret, ill-intentioned meeting this weekend in Palm Springs, California? The nefarious Koch brothers – nefarious because they donate to conservative causes, of course.
In their aggressive push to ratify the new Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty, the Obama administration has been wholly unimpressive in the messaging department. Calling the small, bilateral treaty the most pressing "national security issue" of our time, for example, is cause for head scratching.…
No matter how much of a supposed "national security priority" ratifying the new Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty is, the Obama administration hasn't been very impressive in the messaging department. They claim START needs to be ratified immediately, but have fallen short in explaining why.
A legal assistant for the Center for American Progress Action Fund emails to clarify that blogger Matthew Yglesias, mentioned in this blog post last week, does not work for the Center for American Progress:
The Washington Examiner's Timothy Carney, author of The Big Ripoff: How Big Business and Big Government Steal Your Money, spoke at a conclave of right-wingers last year. Carney acknowledges that event, sponsored by the Koch brothers, was so secret that he publicly wrote about it at the time. Now, a…
As far as liberal financiers go, you don’t get much more powerful than S. Donald Sussman.
I don’t actually have proof that John Podesta’s Center for American Progress is funded by foreign interests and corporations, but does anyone have proof that it isn’t? This is the new standard set by the Obama administration for organizations engaged in political activity it dislikes – guilty until…
John Podesta is a distinguished Washington insider. He is currently the president of the liberal Center for American Progress, and previously served as co-chair of Barack Obama’s presidential transition team (2008-2009) and White House chief of staff for Bill Clinton. Podesta is also a visiting law…