Official website: The Leadership Institute (
http://www.leadershipinstitute.org)
According to their website, The Leadership Institute is the premier training ground for tomorrow's conservative leaders.
The Leadership Institute was founded iby Morton Blackwell. Blackwell has a history of setting up organizations to train young Republican activists, but far too often the emphasis has been on political dirty tricks. From 1965 to 1970, he was executive director of the College Republican National Committee, at a time when that group was turning out figures like Karl Rove, Lee Atwater, Terry Dolan, and Roger Stone. In the 1970's, Blackwell founded the Committee for Responsible Youth Politics, followed in 1979 by the Leadership Institute.
According to Dissident Voice (
http://www.dissidentvoice.org/Sept04/Berkowitz0904-2.htm):
"The Leadership Institute is no seat-of-its-pants operation: The staff of 54 operates the organization on a more than $8 million yearly budget, according to a People for the American Way report. The Institute’s F.M. Kirby National Training Center has 18 educational programs including: Campaign Leadership, Candidate Development, Capitol Hill staff, Capitol Hill writing, Grassroots organizing, Internet leadership, Public Relations, Public Speaking, Student Publications, Youth Leadership, and Broadcast Journalism."
According to the Maine College Republicans (
http://www.bates.edu/x48219.xml):
"Famous graduates of the Youth Leadership School include Karl Rove, senior strategist to President George W. Bush; James S. Gilmore, former Republican National Committee chair and Virginia governor; Sen. Mitch McConnell, Republican of Kentucky; and Americans for Tax Reform President Grover Norquist."
At present, the focus of the Leadership Institute appears to be on training right-wing journalists as much as political organizers. Mike Krempasky, who set up a "rathergate.com" website so soon after the CBS memos story broke that it suggested he might have had advance knowledge, was employed by the Leadership Institute from 1999 to 2002. Jeff Gannon, who as of January 2005 appears to be at the center of several kinds of Republican improprieties, owes his entire journalistic training to a $50 seminar at the Leadership Institute's Broadcast Journalism School (a name sometimes misquoted as the Leadership Institute Broadcast School of Journalism).
Gannon's Talon News and associated GOPUSA website devoted considerable attention to Krempesky's rathergate.com website in the fall of 2004, raising the possibility that the Leadership Institute may forms a connecting element among a range of current Republican dirty tricks.
This is the script outline (
http://www.leadershipinstitute.org/04RESOURCES/RootsLeft_000.htm) of a "documentary" video (
http://www.leadershipinstitute.org/04RESOURCES/RootsLeft.htm) they sell:
The Roots of the Ultra Left (
http://www.leadershipinstitute.org/04RESOURCES/RootsLeft.htm) is an in-depth look at 35 things the ultra left really thinks. From Socialism to Communism, from economic and religious oppression to the elimination individual freedoms -- they say it’s all for the common good, but the ultra left’s sordid history tells a different tale. It's the documentary the left doesn't want you to see. It’s the documenatry you can’t afford to miss.
Roots of the Ultra Left Script Browse the Script By Topic
Introduction
Section One: What Socialists Really Think About Economics
Profit Comes From Evil Greed
Socialists must get all your property
Tax all income at 100%
Support big government. No new tax cuts.
Only government creates wealth
Bureaucrats spend your money better than you do
To elect more socialists, destroy the economy
Government jobs good; private employers bad
"Something for nothing" fools almost everyone
Why work when you can loot those who do?
Socialism has never been tried
Section Two: What Socialists Really Think About Your Family And Our American Culture
Traditional morality is always bad
Do what feels good now. Make taxpayers pay the bill
Break all family ties
Make God illegal
Masculine is bad; feminine is also bad
Kill it. Why give your baby to a moral couple?
Section Three: What Socialists Really Think About Liberty
Solve all problems. Give the Left all power.
Stamp out liberty. It's unfair.
Everything not compulsory must be prohibited
Re-write history or stop teaching it
Keep campuses conservative-free zones
In the media, any conservatives are too many
No free speech for conservatives
Only groups have rights
Give up your guns. We want you defenseless.
Pay the union boss or we'll crack your skull
Save the environment. Kill off all the people.
Destroy all non-government education
Teachers unions -- more important than teaching kids
When judges give us what we want, forget the laws and the Constitution
Section Four: What Socialists Really Think About The Future Of America In The World.
America causes all world problems
Eliminate patriotism
Bring on world government
Next time, Marxist-Leninists will get it right
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