Who is this RW $uck on Tom Ashbrook's NPR show?

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Just said that Clinton's staff had OBL in the corsshairs and then let him go.

What as stinking shill for KKKkarl Rove, ABC and Disney. This guy is making me gag.


Ben J. Wattenberg "with the American Enterprise Institute."

Ben J. Wattenberg is a prominent neo-conservative commentator and writer. He was born in 1933 in the Bronx, New York, and graduated from Hobart College in 1955. He was an aide and speech writer to President Lyndon B. Johnson from 1966 to 1968, and served as an adviser to Hubert Humphrey's race for the Senate in 1970 and Senator Henry "Scoop" Jackson's contest for the Democratic presidential nomination in 1972 and Democratic Party (United States) presidential primaries, 1976 that of 1976, and served on the 1972 and 1976 Democratic National Convention platform committees.

The American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research is a conservative think tank founded in 1943 whose stated mission is to support the "foundations of freedom - limited government, private enterprise, vital cultural and political institutions, and a strong foreign policy and national defense." The Institute is an independent, nonprofit organization supported primarily by grants and contributions from foundations, corporations, and individuals.

Like most think tanks that maintain non-profit status under the federal tax code, AEI is officially nonpartisan and takes no institutional positions on pending legislation or other policy questions.

However, it has emerged as one of the leading architects of the Bush administration's public policy. More than two dozen AEI alumni have served either in a Bush administration policy post or on one of the government's many panels and commissions. AEI, along with the more conservative Heritage Foundation, is often cited as a center-right counterpart to the center-left Brookings Institution, although AEI and Heritage place much more emphasis on advocacy than does Brookings <1>. In 1998, AEI and Brookings established the AEI-Brookings Joint Center for Regulatory Studies.

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