Is the Brookings Institution generally liberal or conservative? or

[truthseeker1]

or is it fair and balanced?

[toddzilla]

1. depends on where you are coming from.

I find it pretty centrist, with a slight rightward bias. Ask a republican, and they say it's left-wing.

[truthseeker1]

3. ok, how about relative to the Heritage Foundation

or CATO or AEI?

[spooky3]

10. to the left of Heritage and AEI; Cato is libertarian.

[arewethereyet]

2. I understand its neither

and not exactly fair and balanced either. They area about ideas, period.

Which kind of made Kennedy's remarks the other day sound like a rap singer at the opera.

[AlCzervik]

4. Richard Nixon

hated the Brookings inst. he makes mention of them several times in the Nixon tapes, the WH plumbers had planned a break in there.

[truthseeker1]

5. There was a guy on Dobbs today from Brookings

He seemed to be a little left leaning - well, maybe not exactly left leaning but he wasn't afraid to criticize the administration - which probably makes him more of a centrist. But still....so many of these think tanks are clearly in the neocon pocket that it just made me wonder.

Speaking of Dobbs, man, that guy is kicking ASS lately! I wonder how long before CNN gives him the boot

[diamond14]

6. definitely reTHUGlican...but not as wing-nut as 'heritage foundation'

or the 'hudson institute', which are more radically religiouly insane...

the brookings institute knows that their bread-and-butter comes from more moderate reTHUGlican fanatics...the typical cheap-labor-conservatives...

[AlCzervik]

7. some info on stinktanks

Here is a site that has some history on brookings and other stinktanks
http://world-information.org/wio/infostructure/10043761...

[toddzilla]

8. AEI, repub, Heritage, Repub,

there are tons of em, and sadly, the vast majority are republican.

[spooky3]

12. interesting; thanks!

[Waverley_Hills_Hiker]

9. Brookings and RAND are the two most reputable.

These two, which started on the "right" (RAND) and "left" (Brookings), are not considered probably the most objective and non-ideological policy analyses shops. There is still a slight right/left bias in these two thinktanks, but they are both well-regarded.

[AlCzervik]

11. Darth Rumsfeld

was invovled with rand, i dont know if he still is.

[WillyBrandt]

13. Fairly good--centrist and academic

It doesn't come with an ideological axe like Heritage. It's not necessarily always right, but it's fairly dry and academic, but puts out some good stuff.

[SeveneightyWhoa]

14. What? Academic?

In that case, its CERTAINLY LIBERAL!!!

Goddamn liburals and their academics!