Hasn't the opposite been proven true by right-wing (not to be confused with conservative) think tanks, talk show host, and bloggers that eschew all things liberal?
First and foremost, the millions of people who voted for George W. Bush are to blame for his presidency (not to mention the conservative machinery behind his rise, e.g. think tanks, talk radio, and Fox News).
A 2015 report by the Center for American Progress called Fear, Inc. 2.0 identifies Franks as a member of the so-called Islamophobia Network, a multimillion-dollar, informal coalition of hate groups, think tanks, talking heads and politicians who regularly spew hate and misinformation about Islam. .
For starters, the author didn't just rely on the usual cast of Western-based think tank "talking heads," or local politicians and officials with their own axes to grind, but drew instead on interviews with "independent-minded" people who have formed their own opinion about what is wrong".
The cabinet report details, under the heading, "consultation and co-production" (from page 16) that in 2013 it engaged community researchers Social Life, created by the Young Foundation think tank, to talk to them about the different options.
"We wanted to distill the think tank research to talking points that were more understandable and then blogging.
Conservative think tanks have talked about them for decades.
They have funded a network of think tanks and talking heads to disseminate false information -- specifically about renewable energy.
BEIJING -- I just returned from a trip to the United States during which I met with some U.S. lawmakers and esteemed professors, touched base with seven think tanks and talked to a number of media professionals.
The problem is a political party, with the full backing of cultural apparatuses like Fox News, ultraconservative think tanks, and talk radio dominated by cranks, that spent decades espousing racism, misogyny, homophobia, transphobia, Islamophobia, ableism, xenophobia, and paranoid jingoism to appeal to the basest instincts of its voters.
At a staff meeting this morning at my think tank, New America Foundation, we had an interesting talk about health-care policy.
