Letters to the Editor
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Was I shreiking with irony? (Thanks, Anonymust)
That's a lot more relevant to me about where Brookings is ideologically than what Richard Nixon thought about them 35 years ago.
-- GlennGreenwald
Or dripping with sarcasm? I can't tell anymore, but being compared to Lily Tomlin is high praise indeed.
Anonymust... L.W.M. does use more than one screen name, but they are hardly sock puppets, since they shriek with irony, and the whole intention of having a sock puppet is to fool everyone. L.W.M. doesn't even try to do that. He's like Lily Tomlin, only male; he has lots of voices.
You are absolutely correct, however and to me at least, it does illustrate how far to the right this country has slouched. Brookings is no longer considered a centrist think tank by Sourcewatch.
Initially centrist, the Institution took its first step rightwards during the depression, in response to the New Deal. In the 1960s, it was linked to the conservative wing of the Democratic party, backing Keynsian economics. From the mid-70s it cemented a close relationship with the Republican party. Since the 1990s it has taken steps further towards the right in parallel with the increasing influence of right-wing think tanks such as the Heritage Foundation.
http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Brookings_Institution
The image of the [Overton] Window throws people off, perhaps. It's not like the window is sliding left or right, The whole damn house is moving, and everything inside it. It is your perspective, what you are able to see from the house while looking out that window as the house slides hither and yon.