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Benjamin Wattenberg

Ben Wattenberg makes the PBS television show called Think Tank that issues many players of the new right wing movement, which is probably why the Bradley, Olin, and Smith Richardson foundations lavishly fund it. Ben Wattenberg on PBS Ben Wattenberg makes the PBS television show called Think Tank that issues many players of the new right wing movement, which is probably why the Bradley, Olin, and Smith Richardson foundations lavishly fund it.

Think Tank and many other right wing organizations share the same irony of espousing radical free-market ideas while gaining their largest audiences through the socially-subsidized mediums of public television and public radio (See Cursor's report on a Minnesota Public Television show called Face to Face, for example).

Don't miss MT's The PBS Home Team, an in-depth analysis of Wattenberg's Think Tank PBS show.

Grants

Grants where "Think Tank" is mentioned in the grant's purpose (includes some grants not to Wattenberg or his show). See grants to the American Enterprise Institute, where Wattenberg is a Senior Fellow.

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Here's a piece of his bio from the Think Tank web site PBS.ORG:

Ben J. Wattenberg is a Senior Fellow at the American Enterprise Institute in Washington, D.C and serves as Senior Editor of The American Enterprise magazine. He writes a weekly newspaper column syndicated by both the United issues and the Newspaper Enterprise Association (NEA), which appears in 200 newspapers nationwide. Wattenberg also moderates the popular national weekly public television program "Think Tank," which is devoted to ideas and public policy.

IRC RightWeb profile of Ben Wattenberg

GroupWatch
IRC
May 16, 2005

Coalition for a Democratic Majority

Read this truly fascinating story about an organization called the Coalition for a Democratic Majority, created in 1972 by Democrats who wanted to formalize a military containment policy against world "communism", and about how Ben Wattenberg and Irving Kristol were co-chairmen, and about all the current conservative movement types who were part of it:

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The Daily Howler
April 26, 1999

Creative science

Ben Wattenberg came up with a whole new approach in his recent critique of Gore’s Earth in the Balance. If a book is simply too long or too hard, write a review of a different book altogether! We often ask if college freshmen could get away with work like we find in the press. Trust us--the college student hasn’t been born who would try an approach quite like this.

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