Jan 8th, 2009 at 9:34 am
New Media Douchebags WTF
More coverage of how CAP is awesome:
The Center for American Progress, a D.C. think tank with close ties to President-elect Barack Obama, was the only American think tank to get a shout-out among the “best new think tanks [of the past five years].”
According to McGann, “Thanks to its all-star roster of exports and savvy use of new media, CAP has emerged as the intellectual center of Democratic D.C.”
Note that the “exports” typo is in the original — I’m not the only one who can’t spell.
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January 8th, 2009 at 9:42 am
I dunno. Maybe they really mean exports.
January 8th, 2009 at 9:44 am
BTW, you can generally spell just fine. But you mangle grammar and confuse homophones.
January 8th, 2009 at 9:47 am
Tag this under “Self Indulgence” please.
January 8th, 2009 at 9:47 am
Is this Matt or Jennifer Palmieri?
January 8th, 2009 at 9:56 am
Matt would have written expats and been right.
January 8th, 2009 at 9:58 am
Matt,
Speaking of spelling mistakes, don’t you mean “FTW”, not “WTF”?
January 8th, 2009 at 10:02 am
Re “CAP has emerged as the intellectual center of Democratic D.C.”
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Known as “Damming via faint praise”
January 8th, 2009 at 10:06 am
No, “exports” was intended. If you go to their web site they are marketing a fine line of shirts, belts and shoes especially targeted to the Asian nations of the Pacific rim.
January 8th, 2009 at 10:08 am
If CAP is so smart, why did you guys let Harry Reid step in deep dogshit in the last two weeks?
Here Obama is about to be sworn in as President and Rush Limbaugh is saying Reid’s opposition to Burris just continues the long Democratic tradition of segregation against blacks (Lester Maddox, George Wallace,etc.)
As the New York Times noted, you know you’re having a bad week when Rush Limbaugh is calling you a racist.
Ref: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/01/08/opinion/08collins.html
I and most other commenters here TOLD you Reid was making a big mistake, but did you listen? NOOooooo
January 8th, 2009 at 10:09 am
Doesn’t “exports” just refer to the regular shipments from CAP to the Obama Administration?
January 8th, 2009 at 10:15 am
I think MY can spell; he just refuses to.
January 8th, 2009 at 10:52 am
Re “CAP has emerged as the intellectual center of Democratic D.C.”
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Known as “Damming via faint praise”
That was my first thought.
McGann’s study also saluted the D.C.-based Cato Institute as the “top think tank for innovative ideas.”
….
No but seriously, Matt should print out the article and frame it and put it on the wall so when that fascist Jennifer Palmeri comes storming into the blog center with her jackboot thugs b/c Matt has deviated from the ideological line of the day, he can point to it and tell her to back off, man!
January 8th, 2009 at 11:13 am
Couldn’t “exports” refer to all the people leaving CAP and going to the White House etc?
January 8th, 2009 at 11:36 am
Jennifer! Stop putting press releases on Matt’s blog.
January 8th, 2009 at 12:00 pm
CAP tried to export you to Finland but Finland exported you back.
January 8th, 2009 at 12:28 pm
Don Williams – Please clarify for me…when exactly did we start giving a sh*t what Rush Limbaugh says?
January 8th, 2009 at 1:26 pm
Wow, the industry gave itself an award. Of course, it might be helpful to point out that Cato isn’t “anti-incumbent, anti-Washington”. It might also be helpful to point out where they get their money from.
Regarding CAP, I’ve been laughing at them for a few years, because they almost always get things wrong. Further, ThinkProgress is an extremly childish, low-wattage blog. The only thing different between them and MattY is that they’re sleazier. Both frequently engage in LogicalFallacies, omit key facts, construct strawmen, and so on.
January 8th, 2009 at 4:27 pm
““Cato’s libertarian stance, once viewed as fringe, is now considered respectable,” McGann wrote. “With its anti-incumbent, anti-Washington attitude, Cato has antagonized liberals with its push to privatize Social Security, as well as conservatives with its vigorous opposition to the Iraq war.””
Cato is respectable? I think they’d privatize the air if they could.
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