Riddle me this -- why is AEI on my NPR show....

[phantom power]

and being treated as if they have some kind of credibility, with respect to the banking meltdown? They probably drafted the fucking deregulations that allowed all this to happen.

[Warpy]

1. NPR made a turn to the right some years ago

after Stupid weighed their board down with religious and economic loonies.

I haven't had them on my clock radio since 2005, when I was rudely awakened by a series of right wing yappers talking up Stupid's theft of Social Security, ending up with the smarmy Ken Mehlman and providing no counter opinion or even questioning of the questionable by the host. It was an ugly way to wake up and I haven't repeated it.

I now have my radio tuned to a Mariachi station.

[whistle]

2. AEI, uhmm, I guess because NPR has been taken hostage by BushCo and neocons

<snip>

The American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research (AEI) is a conservative think tank, founded in 1943. According to the institute its mission is "to defend the principles and improve the institutions of American freedom and democratic capitalism — limited government, private enterprise, individual liberty and responsibility, vigilant and effective defense and foreign policies, political accountability, and open debate."<1> AEI is an independent, non-profit organization. It is supported primarily by grants and contributions from foundations, corporations, and individuals. It is located in Washington, D.C.

AEI has emerged as one of the leading architects of the second Bush administration's public policy.<2> More than twenty AEI alumni and current visiting scholars and fellows have served either in a Bush administration policy post or on one of the government's many panels and commissions.<3> Former United States Deputy Secretary of Defense Paul Wolfowitz is a visiting scholar, and Lynne Cheney, wife of Vice President Dick Cheney and former chairman of the National Endowment for the Humanities, is a senior fellow.<4>
<MORE>

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

<also check out>

http://glenngreenwald.blogspot.com/2006/09/aei-iran-and-free-press.html

http://rightweb.irc-online.org/profile/1431.html

[sinkingfeeling]

3. I have proof they opposed reforming GSE regulations for Fannie and Freddie back in 2005!