This is the Foundation Troll Jenifer used to quote on who controls poorest states. Even it's founder Mickey Edward says it's now alien."

Edwards finds it unrecognizable. “Going out there and trying to defeat people who don’t agree with us never occurred to us,” said Edwards. “It’s alien.”

about "the fall of the Heritage Foundation."

Mickey Edwards, one of three founding trustees of the Heritage Foundation when it began in 1973, was one of those disturbed by Heritage's turn, which, he told me, “makes it look like just another hack Tea Party kind of group.”
A former eight-term Republican congressman from Oklahoma, Edwards now serves as vice president of the Aspen Institute. “They’re destroying the reputation and credibility of the Heritage Foundation," he added. "I think the respect for their [policy] work has been greatly diminished as a result.”
Two months later, in Julia Ioffe's piece about the rise of Heritage Action, we turn a corner and find—Mickey Edwards.

“I don’t think any thoughtful person is going to take the Heritage Foundation very seriously, because they’ll say, How is this any different from the Tea Party?” says Mickey Edwards, a former Republican congressman and a founding trustee of the Heritage Foundation. Looking at the organization he helped to create, Edwards finds it unrecognizable. “Going out there and trying to defeat people who don’t agree with us never occurred to us,” said Edwards. “It’s alien.”



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Another fake Think tank, more Troll Based lies are farmed here.

I know the Orange Clown has told us not to believe what we see or here,
but somtimes I cant help myself


Historians Quit UVA Think Tank After School’s Hiring Of Ex-Trump Aide Marc Short
The two, who remain tenured professors, said Short “contributed to the erosion of civil discourse and democratic norms.”
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By Nina Golgowski
Two distinguished historians at the University of Virginia have resigned from its public policy center following the school’s recent hiring of a former aide to President Donald Trump, a decision that has also spurred protests among students and faculty.

William I. Hitchcock and Melvyn P. Leffler announced their departures from the Miller Center of Public Affairs on Monday to protest Marc Short, Trump’s former legislative affairs director, receiving a paid fellowship at the think tank that also studies the presidency. The professors blasted Short’s fellowship as running counter to the center’s values.

“By associating himself with an administration that shows no respect for truth, he has contributed to the erosion of civil discourse and democratic norms that are essential to democratic governance and that are central to the mission of the Miller Center,” read a letter shared by Hitchcock on Twitter.

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Both men will remain as tenured faculty within the Charlotteville school’s history department, according to Politico.

William Antholis, the center’s director and CEO, said in a statement he was saddened by their departure but that Short’s appointment would help promote the think tank’s goals.

“As much as I respect the depth of feelings on this issue, the Miller Center’s core focus on the presidency, our commitment to nonpartisanship, and our demonstrated ability to promote civil discourse must remain our principal responsibility, especially in trying times,” Antholis said.

Former White House Director of Legislative Affairs Marc Short, seen here in March, has been hired as a senior fello
JONATHAN ERNST / REUTERSFormer White House Director of Legislative Affairs Marc Short, seen here in March, has been hired as a senior fellow at the University of Virginia’s Miller Center of Public Affairs.
In a statement he issued last week, Antholis said Short would help others at the center “understand and explain this administration, including in its most difficult and divisive moments.”

Hitchcock, a Pulitzer Prize nominee and New York Times bestselling author, and Leffler, a recipient of the Bancroft Prize that honors books on the diplomacy or the history of the Americas, objected that the school did not discuss Short’s hiring or hold a faculty vote on the matter.

“Had we been consulted, we would have argued that the appointment of Mr. Short violates” the center’s values, their letter said.

It’s not clear whether such a discussion or vote is university policy. A spokesperson for the school did not immediately address that question when reached for comment by HuffPost on Monday.

The two professors cited other aspects of Short’s professional background as red flags of concern, noting he worked for the failed 1994 U.S. Senate campaign in Virginia by current National Rifle Association President Oliver North, as well as for the Koch Brothers Freedom Partners fund.

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Criticizing his association with a White House that routinely attacks the free press, the professors also took Short to task over Trump’s widely criticized muted response to last August’s violent neo-Nazi rally near the UVA campus. A woman died when a car, allegedly driven by a neo-Nazi sympathizer, crashed into counter-protesters, and the gathering indirectly led to the deaths of two state policemen.

Short, seen here with reporters in May, didn't speak out about the White House's much-criticized response to the deadly neo-N
THE WASHINGTON POST VIA GETTY IMAGESShort, seen here with reporters in May, didn’t speak out about the White House’s much-criticized response to the deadly neo-Nazi rally last August that took place near the University of Virginia’s campus in Charlottesville.
“It seems especially egregious to appoint Mr. Short as we approach the one-year anniversary of the neo-Nazi riots,” Hitchcock and Leffler wrote. “In the wake of those tragic events, President Trump failed to repudiate the alt-right and its street thugs. Until his appointment to a fellowship at UVA, Mr. Short did not distance himself from President Trump’s remarks.

“By not speaking out at the time, by not emphasizing the threats to human decency posed by the public display of Nazi symbols and racist diatribes in our own neighborhood, Mr. Short was complicit in the erosion of our civic discourse and showed an appalling indifference to the civility of our own city and university.”

Short, in a recent statement quoted in The Washington Post last week, said “there is no doubt” the White House could have better handled its response to the rally and the violence it sparked. “We must all be outspoken and unambiguous in our denunciation of white supremacy and racism,” he said.

Hitchcock and Leffler’s letter added that they welcome people with diverse political views to appear before the center, but not as a “paid distinguished fellow.”

An online petition against Short’s hiring on Change.org had gotten more than 2,400 signatures as of Monday afternoon. The petition also takes exception to the hiring of Short without “consultation with the many stakeholders affected by that decision.”

Here is one more example of corrupt think tanks where trolls pick farmed propaganda crops.



Historians Quit UVA Think Tank After School’s Hiring Of Ex-Trump Aide Marc Short
The two, who remain tenured professors, said Short “contributed to the erosion of civil discourse and democratic norms.”
headshot
By Nina Golgowski
Two distinguished historians at the University of Virginia have resigned from its public policy center following the school’s recent hiring of a former aide to President Donald Trump, a decision that has also spurred protests among students and faculty.

William I. Hitchcock and Melvyn P. Leffler announced their departures from the Miller Center of Public Affairs on Monday to protest Marc Short, Trump’s former legislative affairs director, receiving a paid fellowship at the think tank that also studies the presidency. The professors blasted Short’s fellowship as running counter to the center’s values.

“By associating himself with an administration that shows no respect for truth, he has contributed to the erosion of civil discourse and democratic norms that are essential to democratic governance and that are central to the mission of the Miller Center,” read a letter shared by Hitchcock on Twitter.

William Hitchcock
@WillHitchUVA
I resigned from a think tank at UVa today because I felt it betrayed its principles in giving a senior fellowship to Trump advisor Marc Short. It is a sad day for me but I’ll continue to work at UVa with brilliant colleagues in the cause of civil discourse.

Both men will remain as tenured faculty within the Charlotteville school’s history department, according to Politico.

William Antholis, the center’s director and CEO, said in a statement he was saddened by their departure but that Short’s appointment would help promote the think tank’s goals.

“As much as I respect the depth of feelings on this issue, the Miller Center’s core focus on the presidency, our commitment to nonpartisanship, and our demonstrated ability to promote civil discourse must remain our principal responsibility, especially in trying times,” Antholis said.

Former White House Director of Legislative Affairs Marc Short, seen here in March, has been hired as a senior fello
JONATHAN ERNST / REUTERSFormer White House Director of Legislative Affairs Marc Short, seen here in March, has been hired as a senior fellow at the University of Virginia’s Miller Center of Public Affairs.
In a statement he issued last week, Antholis said Short would help others at the center “understand and explain this administration, including in its most difficult and divisive moments.”

Hitchcock, a Pulitzer Prize nominee and New York Times bestselling author, and Leffler, a recipient of the Bancroft Prize that honors books on the diplomacy or the history of the Americas, objected that the school did not discuss Short’s hiring or hold a faculty vote on the matter.

“Had we been consulted, we would have argued that the appointment of Mr. Short violates” the center’s values, their letter said.

It’s not clear whether such a discussion or vote is university policy. A spokesperson for the school did not immediately address that question when reached for comment by HuffPost on Monday.

The two professors cited other aspects of Short’s professional background as red flags of concern, noting he worked for the failed 1994 U.S. Senate campaign in Virginia by current National Rifle Association President Oliver North, as well as for the Koch Brothers Freedom Partners fund.



Criticizing his association with a White House that routinely attacks the free press, the professors also took Short to task over Trump’s widely criticized muted response to last August’s violent neo-Nazi rally near the UVA campus. A woman died when a car, allegedly driven by a neo-Nazi sympathizer, crashed into counter-protesters, and the gathering indirectly led to the deaths of two state policemen.

Short, seen here with reporters in May, didn't speak out about the White House's much-criticized response to the deadly neo-N
THE WASHINGTON POST VIA GETTY IMAGESShort, seen here with reporters in May, didn’t speak out about the White House’s much-criticized response to the deadly neo-Nazi rally last August that took place near the University of Virginia’s campus in Charlottesville.
“It seems especially egregious to appoint Mr. Short as we approach the one-year anniversary of the neo-Nazi riots,” Hitchcock and Leffler wrote. “In the wake of those tragic events, President Trump failed to repudiate the alt-right and its street thugs. Until his appointment to a fellowship at UVA, Mr. Short did not distance himself from President Trump’s remarks.

“By not speaking out at the time, by not emphasizing the threats to human decency posed by the public display of Nazi symbols and racist diatribes in our own neighborhood, Mr. Short was complicit in the erosion of our civic discourse and showed an appalling indifference to the civility of our own city and university.”

Short, in a recent statement quoted in The Washington Post last week, said “there is no doubt” the White House could have better handled its response to the rally and the violence it sparked. “We must all be outspoken and unambiguous in our denunciation of white supremacy and racism,” he said.

Hitchcock and Leffler’s letter added that they welcome people with diverse political views to appear before the center, but not as a “paid distinguished fellow.”

An online petition against Short’s hiring on Change.org had gotten more than 2,400 signatures as of Monday afternoon. The petition also takes exception to the hiring of Short without “consultation with the many stakeholders affected by that decision.”

Yes Jenifer Heritage Foundation you quote has a Big political Agenda!

Can you provide a link that has just a tab more credibility to show Republicans do not rule 10 poorest states out side of this spin tank?

The Heritage Foundation - Wikipedia
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The Heritage Foundation (abbreviated to Heritage) [1] [2] is an American conservative public policy think tank based in Washington, D.C. The foundation ... has a political agenda, its work should be viewed with caution."

Heritage foundation, what a joke to quote from this source.
Yes its a propaganda machine used by trolls.


The Washington Post
Democracy Dies in Darkness

MY FRIENDS AT HERITAGE
By Michael Kinsley
Like many Washington journalists, I get two or three broadsides a day from the Heritage Foundation, Washington's leading conservative think tank. They come in a profusion of categories, with somewhat less variety in themes: Heritage Foundation News ("ECONOMIST CALLS CLINTON ECONOMIC PLAN DISHONEST, DECEPTIVE"; Heritage Foundation Backgrounder ("ADVANTAGE INCUMBENTS: CLINTON'S CAMPAIGN FINANCE PROPOSAL"; Issue Bulletin ("SIX REASONS WHY BILL CLINTON'S NATIONAL SERVICE PROGRAM IS A BAD IDEA"; Executive Memorandum ("RUSH! HUMAN RIGHTS TREATY POSES DANGERS FOR AMERICA"; Backgrounder Update ("MESSAGE TO CONGRESS: STOP SUBSIDIZING SANDINISTA TERRORISM"; State Backgrounder; SDI Report; Policy Review; Heritage Lectures; etc. etc. etc.

Yes, get on the Heritage Foundation mailing list, and you'll never be lonely, although the conversation may get a little monotonous. But there is one puzzling thing. Almost every mailing from the Heritage Foundation says at the bottom of thefirst page, "Note: Nothing written here is to be construed ... as an attempt to aid or hinder the passage of any bill before Congress."

There is actually no mystery. The Heritage Foundation is a tax-exempt institution, and contributions to it are also tax-exempt. The law warns that "carrying on propaganda, or otherwise attempting to influence legislation" is verboten for tax-exempt institutions.


So it's good to know that the Heritage Foundation is spending $20 million a year not attempting to influence legislation. That raises the question: What is it attempting to do? The law limits tax-exempt institutions to certain high-minded purposes. Is the Heritage Foundation attempting "to foster national or international amateur sports competition" or "the prevention of cruelty to children or animals"? I think not.

Perhaps its purpose is "literary": to make surrealistic comment on the absurdity of modern life. A piece of paper that says at the top, "THE NATIONAL COMPETITIVENESS ACT (S.4): A HIGH-TECH BOONDOGGLE," and says at the bottom that it is not intended to aid or hinder legislation before Congress is rather like Magritte's famous painting of a pipe, labeled: "Ceci n'est pas une pipe."

Heritage is probably within the law as interpreted by IRS regulations. The rule seems to be that tax-exempts can say anything they wish about a piece of legislation as long as they don't specifically urge a vote for or against it. But the question remains why anyone should believe anything else in a Heritage handout when there's an obvious whopper on the bottom of the first page.


Other Washington think tanks, which are also tax-exempt, don't print any such this-is-not-propaganda disclaimer on their propaganda. But then no other Washington think tank goes as far as Heritage in blurring the distinction between a genuine educational institution and an out-and-out propaganda machine.