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Center for American Progress
May 22, 2006

Exxon-Backed Pundit Compares Gore To Nazi Propagandist

Sterling Burnett is a senior fellow at the National Center for Policy Analysis, an organization that has received over $390,000 from ExxonMobil since 1998. This afternoon on Fox, Burnett compared watching Al Gore’s movie, An Inconvenient Truth, to watching a movie by Nazi propagandist Joseph Goebbels to learn about Nazi Germany.

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National Center for Policy Analysis

Dallas, TX 75243

[From The Strategic Philanthropy of Conservative Foundations, NCRP]

The National Center for Policy Analysis prides itself on aggressively marketing its products for maximum impact by "targeting key political leaders and special interest groups, establishing on-going ties with members of the print and electronic media, and testifying before Congress, federal agencies, state lawmakers, and national associations."

The following is from the Center for Science in the Public Interest's website:

NATIONAL CENTER FOR POLICY ANALYSIS

A nonprofit public-policy research institute. Receives 70% of its funding from foundations, 20% from corporations, and 10% from individuals.

Founding board members included:

• Wayne Calloway, President and CEO of Frito-Lay
• Jere Thompson, President and CEO of the Southland Corporation
• Robert Dedman, President and CEO of ClubCorp
• Russell Perry, President and CEO of Republic Financial Services
• Sir Antony Fisher, President and CEO of the Atlas Foundation

National Center for Policy Analysis Board of Directors

• Thomas W. Smith, Managing Partner of Prescott Investors, Inc.
• John C. Goodman, President, NCPA
• Pete du Pont, Richards, Layton and Finger
• James Cleo Thompson, Jr., Chairman of the Board, Thompson Petroleum Corp.
• Jere W. Thompson, President, The Williamsburg Corporation
• Dan W. Cook III, Senior Director of Goldman Sachs & Co.
• Robert H. Dedman, Chairman of the Board, ClubCorp International
• Virginia Manheimer, Trustee, The Hickory Foundation
• Henry J. "Bud" Smith, Chairman Emeritus, Clark/Bardes, Inc.

(all of the above is from ncpa.org; January 15, 2001)

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Elisabeth Bumiller
NY Times
February 12, 2006

An Outspoken Conservative Loses His Place at the Table

What happens if you're a Republican commentator and you write a book critical of President Bush that gets you fired from your job at a conservative think tank?

For starters, no other conservative institution rushes in with an offer for your analytical skills.

...[Bruce] Bartlett, 54...was dismissed in October as a senior fellow at the National Center for Policy Analysis...because his increasingly critical comments about Mr. Bush...had hampered the ability of the research institution to raise money among Republican donors.

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Richard W. Stevenson
New York Times
October 17, 2005

National Center for Policy Analysis fires Bruce Bartlett for taking on Bush

In Sign of Conservative Split, a Commentator Is Dismissed

In the latest sign of the deepening split among conservatives over how far to go in challenging President Bush, Bruce Bartlett, a Republican commentator who has been increasingly critical of the White House, was dismissed on Monday as a senior fellow at the National Center for Policy Analysis, a conservative research group based in Dallas.

In a statement, the organization said the decision was made after Mr. Bartlett supplied its president, John C. Goodman, with the manuscript of his forthcoming book, "The Impostor: How George W. Bush Bankrupted America and Betrayed the Reagan Legacy."

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