Spreading Lies: How Think Tanks Ignore the Facts

散布谎言：智库如何无视事实

作者: Aaron Swartz | 来源: aaronsw.com | 时间: 2006-06-09

[This is part 4 of an article on the power of right-wing think tanks. See also part one, part two, and part three.]

（本文系探讨右翼智库影响力的系列文章第四部分。详见第一部分、第二部分和第三部分。）

But do the right-wing think tanks even care about the facts? In his autobiography, Blinded by the Right, David Brock describes his experience being recruited for one right out of college: “Though I had no advanced degrees, I assumed the grandiose title of John M. Olin Fellow in Congressional Studies, which, if nothing else, certainly impressed my parents. … My assignment was to write a monograph, which I hoped to publish as a book, challenging the conservative orthodoxy on the proper relationship between the executive and legislative branches of government.” This topic was chosen, Brock explains, because with “a squish like Bush in the White House … the political reality [was] that the conservative agenda could be best advanced by renegade conservatives on Capitol Hill.” (79f)

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