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</div><div style="">Terrence ScanlonRetired Chairman, U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commn.Retired Chairman and President, Capital Research Center,(22 years)The Honorable Bob McEwenU.S. House of RepresentativesFormer Member, OhioThe Honorable Stephen StockmanU.S. House of RepresentativesFormer Member, TexasRusty CannonPresident, Utah Taxpayer AssociationFloyd BrownFounder, The Western Journal<div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">=</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style=""><h2 style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); padding: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 0.1em; line-height: 1.2em;">misdirection Play: What the Journal Didn’t Tell You About the Capital Research Center</h2><h4 style="background-image: url("images/hr_title_sep.gif"); background-position: 0px 100%; background-size: initial; background-repeat: no-repeat; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; padding: 0px 0px 1em; margin: 0px 0px 1.25em; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-weight: normal; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;">April 24th, 2014 · <a href="https://civicpolicy.com/journalwatch/?p=6784#comments" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); padding: 0px; margin: 0px; text-decoration-line: none;">1 Comment</a> · <a href="https://civicpolicy.com/journalwatch/?cat=8" rel="category" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); padding: 0px; margin: 0px; text-decoration-line: none;">Fact Check</a>, <a href="https://civicpolicy.com/journalwatch/?cat=11" rel="category" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); padding: 0px; margin: 0px; text-decoration-line: none;">journalism</a>, <a href="https://civicpolicy.com/journalwatch/?cat=1311" rel="category" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); padding: 0px; margin: 0px; text-decoration-line: none;">labor</a></h4><div class="entry" style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px; line-height: 1.65em; overflow: hidden;">By Arthur AlpertAlbert Camus once pondered the idea, which I paraphrase, that in the last analysis, there are no villains, only victims. But only, he stressed, in that last analysis.I use the Camus insight for self- restraint. Instead of condemning a villain or cabal for outrageous behavior I try – not always successfully – to credit them with humanity and a rationale.Which came in handy when I happened upon an Op Ed the editors chose to publish in the Saturday, April 19 Albuquerque Journal.Here’s the headline: “<a href="http://www.abqjournal.com/386299/opinion/statelevel-think-tanks-are-taking-on-unions-effectively.html" target="blank" style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px;">State-level think tanks are taking on unions effectively</a>”.Terrence Scanlon wrote it and under his byline the editors wrote “McClatchy Tribune News Service”. It’s a small point, probably a careless error, but it suggests Scanlon works for McClatchy. He doesn’t. McClatchy, via MCT, distributes material from many sources.At the end of the essay, editors added, “Terrance Scanlon is president of the Capital Research Center in Washington and publisher of its monthly Labor Watch. Distributed by MCT Information Services.”That is accurate and a big deal, once you identify Capital Research Center’s mission and backers. Of course, the Journal did no such thing for its readers. I doubt it was careless this time.Scanlon, who came to CRS from the Heritage Foundation, heads an organization funded by far-right family foundations, including:• Lynde and Harry Bradley Foundation• Sarah Scaife Foundation• Carthage Foundation• Earhart Foundation• Claude R. Lambe Charitable Foundation• John M. Olin Foundation• Philip M. McKenna FoundationWhat, no Koch brothers?Fear not; the Koch family operates the Claude R. Lambe Charitable Foundation.In addition to foundation support, CRS [sic] has garnered grants from corporations including (but not limited to) Abbott Laboratories, Bristol-Myers Squibb, Exxon Mobil, McDonalds, Chevron, Eastman Kodak, 3M and DuPont.The CRC was created in 1984 to combat “progressive philanthropy,” as a founder put it; foundations, that is, which backed public interest outfits working on environment, health, consumerism and other “liberal” causes.CRC’s worldview comes clear in how it characterizes other organizations, according to <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Capital_Research_Center" target="blank" style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px;">SourceWatch.org</a>.In CRC’s assessment, the RAND Corporation was “center left.” (Naturally, given the presence of “leftists” Condi Rice, Henry Kissinger, Scooter Libby and Donald Rumsfeld.)CRC pronounced the American Enterprise Institute “centrist.” (AEI fellows include “centrists” John Bolton, Lynne Cheney, Newt Gingrich, Paul Wolfowitz and Richard Perle.)CRC awarded itself a “conservative” badge of honor and also the (now, Weidenbaum) Center for Study of American Business, Chamber Foundation, Heritage, Hudson and Hoover.CRC came under fire in the 1990s for studies highly critical of charities engaged in anti-tobacco lobbying, including the American Heart Association, American Lung and American Cancer Society.Turned out that tobacco giant Philip Morris (AltriaGroup) provided CRC $50,000 in funding.As for “Labor Watch”, the CRC publication appreciates unorganized labor.While CRS mostly advocates for its corporate funders, it has dabbled in identity politics, boycotting the 2010 Conservative Political Action Conference because CPAC allowed GOProud, a gay group, to attend.Enough? Good. I don’t want to write a book on the CRC, just make certain you know what Journal editors hide.But back to the column, to mull the headline, “State-level think tanks are taking on unions effectively”.Accurate? I don’t know or – for purposes of this post – care. Will “taking on unions” help or hurt our fellow Americans? Excellent question for another day.No, let’s confine ourselves to journalism, specifically language.“Think tanks” taking on unions? But surely think tanks exist to study, research and, er, think. This column contends they’re doing politics. In that case, says the journalist in me, they’re not “think tanks,” they are closer to Abrams tanks manned by political cadres whose task, arguably, is overrunning democracy.Ergo, journalists should call them something else, not think tanks.Speaking of their donors, though, please note Mr. Scanlon’s penultimate paragraph:“A national organization, the State Policy Network, strategically fosters the creation and growth of state think tanks by assembling customizable plans that can be adapted to a state’s political culture and issue environment.”That’s one way to put it.But there is evidence the State Policy Network franchises, finances and fosters “mini Heritage Foundations” at the state level, and ties them – via Koch brothers’ funding – into the American Legislative Exchange Council, Americans for Progress and other right-wing fronts nationally.And there’s evidence the mission is strengthening the oligarchy’s grip on the nation.None of this evidence has appeared in the Albuquerque Journal, of course; as if to remind us it’s not a newspaper as commonly defined, the Journal doesn’t find oligarchic politics newsworthy. Management prefers to promote them on the editorial and Op Ed pages.But please, don’t believe me.Check out stories on the Koch political donor network in major and minor news outlets over the past several years, including <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/the-players-in-the-koch-backed-400-million-political-donor-network/2014/01/05/714451a8-74b5-11e3-8b3f-b1666705ca3b_story.html" target="_blank" style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px;">Matea Gold’s exposé of the Koch political donor network</a> in the Washington Post January 6, 2014.Which exposé the Journal could have picked up from the Post and didn’t.Then browse the Web to look up the Kochs, ALEC, Heritage and CATO, the Rio Grande Foundation (locally), AFP and oh, yes, today’s poster boy, Capital Research Center, the latest oligarchic front to enjoy a Journal Op Ed platform anonymously, sans info on its goals and source of cash.Examine the Journal’s own web site, too, to see the paucity of reporting on rightwing activists nationally, in the Duke City and Land of Enchantment. While there, note the Journal’s near-total blackout of the (admittedly small) American Left.Now factor in the preponderance of conservative and far right opinion on the daily’s editorial and Op Ed pages.And do note the almost perfect absence of mainstream economics!If, at this point, realizing the dimensions of the Journal’s malfeasance, you feel your rage rising to engulf your whole being, stop and recall Camus’ wisdom:There are no oppressors, just victims. In the final analysis, that is.Hope it helps you.</div>Tags: <a href="https://civicpolicy.com/journalwatch/?tag=arthur-alpert" rel="tag" style="padding: 0.25em; margin: 0px; text-decoration-line: none;">Arthur Alpert</a>·<a href="https://civicpolicy.com/journalwatch/?tag=capital-research-center" rel="tag" style="padding: 0.25em; margin: 0px; text-decoration-line: none;">Capital Research Center</a></div></div>

=<ul style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; list-style-type: none; padding: 0px; background-color: rgb(253, 250, 243);"><article class="c-tease c-tease--media l-media c-tease--media-archive" style="box-sizing: border-box; display: flex; align-items: flex-start; flex-direction: row; margin-bottom: 40px;"><div class="l-mediabody" style="box-sizing: border-box; flex: 1 1 0%; margin-bottom: 0px;"><h3 class="c-teasetitle" style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.2; margin: 0px 0px 15px;"><a href="https://capitalresearch.org/article/scanlon-obamas-radical-energy-transformation-reversal/" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none; outline: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">SCANLON: Obama’s radical energy transformation reversal</a></h3><div class="c-teasecontent" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 15px;">CRC President Terrence Scanlon has an op-ed in today's Washington Times. Here it is: President Obama has his second term and will never face voters again. On one of…</div><div class="c-teasebyline" style="box-sizing: border-box; letter-spacing: 2px; text-transform: uppercase; margin-bottom: 0px;">by <a href="https://capitalresearch.org/person/crc-staff/" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none;">CRC STAFF</a> on DECEMBER 10, 2012</div></div></article><article class="c-tease c-tease--media l-media c-tease--media-archive" style="box-sizing: border-box; display: flex; align-items: flex-start; flex-direction: row; margin-bottom: 40px;"><div class="l-mediabody" style="box-sizing: border-box; flex: 1 1 0%; margin-bottom: 0px;"><div class="c-teaseoverline" style="box-sizing: border-box; letter-spacing: 2px; text-transform: uppercase; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-top: 0px;"><a href="https://capitalresearch.org/category/blog/" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">BLOG</a></div><h3 class="c-teasetitle" style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.2; margin: 0px 0px 15px;"><a href="https://capitalresearch.org/article/obamas-goldman-game/" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">Obama’s Goldman Game</a></h3><div class="c-teasecontent" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 15px;">The Washington Times published an op-ed by Capital Research Center president Terrence Scanlon titled “Obama’s Goldman Game.” Here’s the top of the article: The Securities and Exchange Commission’s recent civil…</div><div class="c-tease__byline" style="box-sizing: border-box; letter-spacing: 2px; text-transform: uppercase; margin-bottom: 0px;">by <a href="https://capitalresearch.org/person/matthew-vadum/" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none;">MATTHEW VADUM</a> on APRIL 27, 2010</div></div></article></ul>

related to michael of abramoff fame?

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Terrence Scanlon has been the President of the <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Capital_Research_Center" title="Capital Research Center">Capital Research Center</a> (CRC) and chairman of its board of trustees since 1994.

According to his biographical note he was

"His public career includes an appointment by President <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Ronald_Reagan" title="Ronald Reagan">Ronald Reagan</a> to the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission where he served seven years, including service as chairman during President Reagan's second term. He holds a B.S. in economics from Villanova University in Pennsylvania", his biographical note states. <a href="http://www.capitalresearch.org/about/bios.asp" class="external autonumber" title="http://www.capitalresearch.org/about/bios.asp" rel="nofollow">[1]</a>

He also "serves on several non-profit boards and is a frequent contributor for various newspapers, cable news networks and radio stations."

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So where does the Mad Midget fit into all of this? Welp, his think-tank, Capital Research Center, fits in real nice-like. See, Capital Research Center is funded by the same cast of billionaire freaks like Scaife, Coors, Olin and the rest, along with corporations like Exxon and Philip Morris, that all the other rightwing lairs are funded by–like the Heritage Foundation . Capital Research Center has had an incestuous relationship with the Heritage Foundation going back to its inception in the early-mid 1980s. Capital Research Center’s president, Terrence Scanlon, was the vice president of Heritage Foundation before landing his current gig in 1994, while the founder of CRC also served as a VP at Heritage.

But Vadum’s boss, Terrence Scanlon, has an even more illustrious background. Before he settled in for the easy retirement of life in the rightwing think-tank nomenklatura, Scanlon was a government employee. In the mid-1980s, Ronald Reagan named Scanlon to head the Consumer Protection Safety Commission. Scanlon’s brief reign was described by a Harvard lecturer/researcher <a href="http://understandinggov.org/reports/felcher.html">this way</a>:

As CPSC chairman, Scanlon did more to undermine consumer product safety than any chairman in the agency’s history, a dubious achievement that holds true to this day.”

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Scanlon ran into hot water not only because he promoted a policy of “voluntary safety standards” for businesses, but also because he allowed so many hapless ATV enthusiasts to die or suffer injury on his watch, and did all he could to keep the slaughter-for-profit going as long as possible:

Scanlon’s loyalty to industry and his disdain for government intervention in commerce, regardless of the body count, played out in his battle with Commissioner Stuart Statler over the regulation of All-Terrain Vehicles (ATVs).

ATV-related accidents skyrocketed from 29 deaths and 10,000 injuries in 1982 to 156 deaths and 78,000 injuries in 1984. Of greatest concern was that children under 16 years old made up half of those injuries and deaths.

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Not a problem for Scanlon–the only lives he wanted to save were little fetus-lives, not the lives of the hicks who rode ATVs, because they were more useful as profit-cows for his sleazy corporate sponsors.

And guess who was aligned with Scanlon and the ATV industry against the last pre-Reagan holdout in the Consumer Protection commission? Larry Craig. The Republican from Idaho. Yup, the guy who liked tapping Morse Code love sonnets in men’s restroom stalls. Here’s the connection between Larry Craig and the Mad Midget’s boss, Terrence Scanlon:

While the GAO was investigating Scanlon, Representative Larry Craig (R-ID), ranking minority member of the House commerce subcommittee and an ATV industry-supporter, sought ways to protect the industry. In November 1985, Craig called for the Justice Department to investigate [Stuart Statler, the lone holdout on the commission] had breached federal law by issuing a CPSC Fact Sheet on ATV-related injuries and deaths culled from the CPSC’s database….[Statler said,] “What really needs to be investigated is why this congressman is so hell-bent to deprive the American public of critical information about one of the most dramatic surges of injuries ever to be associated with a product under CPSC’s authority.” Congressman Craig (R-ID) failed to muster support for his investigation and the Justice Department turned him down.

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<li><a name="External_links" id="External_links">Capital Research Center, "</a><a href="http://www.capitalresearch.org/about/bios.asp" class="external text" title="http://www.capitalresearch.org/about/bios.asp" rel="nofollow">Meet the Experts</a>", undated, accessed May 2004.</li>

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The director of the Congressional Accountability Project, Gary Ruskin, told the St. Louis Post-Dispatch that the analysis was more than 'defunding the left' "it's defunding the center, too".

In mid-February 2001, CRC President Terrence Scanlon addressed the 28th annual Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) stating "for the first time we have an opportunity to go after these [liberal nonprofit] groups and take away their federal money."

Conservative News Service (CNS) reported that Scanlon named several organizations that are receiving federal funding including the American Association of Retired Persons (AARP). He told the gathering that the "AARP received $73 million in federal grants in 1999, 73 million of your tax dollars went to the AARP. Most of this money came from the Labor Department for job training programs for seniors." [6]

Scanlon had the National Council of Senior Citizens (NCSC) in his sights. NCSC, he said, "were well known four years ago during the Hillary Clinton health care debate when they were lobbying for national health care. Their budget is 96 percent federally funded. If it were not for federal dollars there would be no National Council for Senior Citizens." [7]

In February 2002, CRC's President, Terrence Scanlon signed onto a letter initiated by Edward Feulner from the Heritage Foundation arguing that a "stimulus package that reduces tax rates on workers, investors, and business will mean more jobs, higher incomes, and a stronger America". (The letter carried the curious disclaimer 'organizational affiliations are included for identification purposes only'). [8]

Scanlon has also signed on for other lobbying letters too. In August 2002, Scanlon was a co-signatory to a letter from the Center for Freedom and Prosperity which complained that "we are particularly concerned that the tax code is making it very difficult for U.S based companies to compete in global markets. The corporate tax rate in the United States is much too high and we compound the damage by taxing income U.S. taxpayers earn in other countries". [9]

CRC has also lobbied members of Congress against supporting measures to limit greenhouse gas emissions. In May 2003, on behalf of CRC, Scanlon joined 32 other conservative groups warning against "alarmist statements about climate change and science contained in the Senate Foreign Relations Committee's State Department authorization bill". It warned House Committee members against accepting the Senate version of the bill. "The Senate committee findings include exaggerations, misleading statements, out-of-context citations, and reliance on discredited sources," they wrote. [10]

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The CRC's 2002 IRS return filed in May 2003 listed the office bearers as:

* Terrence Scanlon, President/Chairman

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