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</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"></font></div><div><p style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style=""><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Documents examined by the Center for Media and Democracy (CMD) expose a national effort funded by the<b> $835 million Milwaukee-based Bradley Foundation to assess and expand right-wing “infrastructure” nationwide, including in the area of media.</b></span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> (For more on Bradley funding for Watchdog.org and the Franklin Center, </span><em style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: inherit;">see </em><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">details of CMD’s in-depth report </span><a href="http://www.exposedbycmd.org/2017/05/25/bradley-foundation-floated-wisconsin-watchdog-franklin-center-floundered/" style="background: 0px 0px; box-sizing: inherit; transition: all 500ms ease-in-out; text-decoration-line: none;">here</a><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">.)</span></font></p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Bradley has long bemoaned the “corrosive effects of leftist ideology and the popular culture to which it gave rise.” Bradley is critical of what it says is the left’s “domination” of the American educational system, Hollywood, and the mainstream media.</font></p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style=""><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">So for decades, Bradley has invested heavily in book and magazine publication, film production, and $250,000 awards to individuals in media to advance its right-wing agenda. In more recent year</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">s, it has worked to beef up the “communications infrastructure” of think tanks and other grantees, <b>including funding opposition research and attack-dog media operations.</b></span></font></p><h2 style="box-sizing: inherit; line-height: 1.2; margin: 0px 0px 10px; text-transform: uppercase; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">BRADLEY FUNDS PRINT MEDIA AND THE CULTURE WARS</font></h2><p style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">As early as the 1990s, the Bradley Foundation decided to engage deeply in the culture wars with heavy investments in print media. The Bradley files document $19.47 million in grants to the media firm called “Encounter for Culture and Education” between 1992-2015 (Encounter for Culture and Education, Grant History Document, 2015). The firm publishes and houses <span style="box-sizing: inherit; font-weight: 700;">Encounter Books</span>, which Bradley helped found in 1998.</font></p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">A report on Encounter Books in the Bradley documents from July 2015 by former Board Member and Bradley Prize recipient <b>George Will </b>details Bradley’s aim in investing millions in Encounter. The goal is “not only to provide an independent means to support books and authors whose work contributed to the educational mission of the Foundation,” but also “to foster an institution whose energies could help promote the values of democratic capitalism, ordered liberty, and individual responsibility” (Report on Encounter Books, July 2015).</font></p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>“Bradley has been the central force in enabling Encounter to become America’s premier publisher of serious conservative non-fiction,” wrote Roger Kimball, </b>current publisher of Encounter, in a letter to the Bradley Foundation in 2016.</font></p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style=""><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Kimball publishes a host of right-wing authors in politics, history, religion, biography, education, public policy, and current affairs. Recently</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">, Encounter published <em style="box-sizing: inherit;"><b>The War on Cops:</b> How the New Attack on Law and Order Makes Everyone Less Safe</em>, by the Manhattan Institute and<b> Bradley Prize winner Heather MacDonald.</b></span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> “</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">This book provides a vivid, meticulously researched account of how the <b>Black Lives Matter</b> movement has reignited racially-biased violence in cities across the country,” </span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Kimball notes.</span></font></p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Kimball “long wanted to publish” an American history text that can be used in high schools as an alternative to Howard Zinn’s <em style="box-sizing: inherit;">A People’s History of the United States</em>. The right wing has long hated Zinn’s monumental text for its honest and frank description of U.S. history starting with the genocide of indigenous peoples in 1492.</font></p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style=""><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">University of Oklahoma Professor Bill McClay, author of <em style="box-sizing: inherit;">Religion Returns to the Public Square: Faith and Policy in America</em>, has been contracted to write the counternarrative with support from the Charles<b> Koch</b> Foundation,</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> the letter reads. According to Kimball, he is “in discussion with Koch people about strategies to get the book adopted by school districts in Texas and Oklahoma.”</span></font></p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style=""><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Kimball is a strong partner in Bradley’s effort to advance a new, right-wing version of American history and culture. </span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Between 1986 and 2015, Bradley has also given over $5.1 million to the Foundation for Cultural Review specifically to suppor<b>t <em style="box-sizing: inherit;">The New Criterion </em></b>edited and published by Kimball (FCR, Grant Proposal Record, 7/20/16). <em style="box-sizing: inherit;">The New Criterion</em> touts itself as a monthly review of arts and intellectual life “on the front lines of the battle for culture.”</span></font></p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style=""><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Other spin published by</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"> Kimball includes: </span><em style="box-sizing: inherit;"><b style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">The Campus Rape Frenzy: </b><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">The Attack on Due Process at America’s Universities</span></em><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> (2017), </span><em style="box-sizing: inherit; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Campus Speech in Crisis:</em></font></p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style=""><em style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: inherit;">What the Yale Experience Can Teach America</em><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> (2016),</span><b style=""><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> </span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"><em style="box-sizing: inherit;">Climate Confusion: How Global Warming Hysteria Leads to Bad Science</em> (2008), </span></b><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">and <em style="box-sizing: inherit;">The Anti-Chomsky Reader</em> (2004)</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">.</span></font></p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Bradley documents quote <em style="box-sizing: inherit;">The Sunday Telegraph:</em> “If they issued medals for the ‘culture wars,’ Roger Kimball’s chest would be covered with ribbons.”</font></p><h2 style="box-sizing: inherit; line-height: 1.2; margin: 0px 0px 10px; text-transform: uppercase; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">BRADLEY FUNDS FILM AND VIDEO AGITPROP</font></h2><p style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>The foundation has also invested heavily in film.</b></font></p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">In the Bradley Foundation documents is a November 2015 document titled, “Overview: Selected Bradley Foundation film or film-related grantees or projects,” which indicates Bradley has invested some $37.5 million in film-related grants since as early as 1986.</font></p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style=""><b style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Since 2006, Bradley has given annually to the <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Moving_Picture_Institute" target="blank" style="box-sizing: inherit; background: 0px 0px; transition: all 500ms ease-in-out; text-decoration-line: none;">Moving Picture Institute</a> (MPI).</b><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"> In all, $550,000 was given to MPI because its films embrace themes “consonant with Bradley’s interests,” including “the failure of urban public school systems; public sector unions; eminent domain abuse; the heroism of American soldiers; the persecution of Christians abroad; and radical egalitarianism” </span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">(Moving Picture Institute, Grant Proposal Record, 11/10/15).</span></font></p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">MPI is an associate member of the <a href="http://www.exposedbycmd.org/spn/" target="blank" style="background-image: initial; background-position: 0px 0px; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; box-sizing: inherit; transition: all 500ms ease-in-out; text-decoration-line: none;">State Policy Network</a>, a key network of think tanks and non-profit institutions across the country, also bankrolled by the Koch network and major U.S. corporations.</font></p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">MPI produced <em style="box-sizing: inherit;">The Cartel</em>, which <a href="https://youtu.be/0pEmqutcbPc" target="blank" style="box-sizing: inherit; background: 0px 0px; transition: all 500ms ease-in-out; text-decoration-line: none;">portrays</a> the American public school system as a monopolistic failure that has been “pimping our children for a very long time,” in 2010. Public school bashing is a long-established Bradley theme, as the foundation has made school privatization and taxpayer vouchers for private and religious schools a priority.</font></p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Bradley has also bankrolled the filmmaker Michael Pack at <span style="box-sizing: inherit; font-weight: 700;">Manifold Productions</span>. Manifold films they have funded include <em style="box-sizing: inherit;">Capitalism and Its Enemies, Modern Warfare: Technology, Culture and Tactics</em>, and <em style="box-sizing: inherit;">Rediscovering Alexander Hamilton</em>. The Bradley Foundation has contributed <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Contributions_of_the_Bradley_Foundation" target="blank" style="box-sizing: inherit; background: 0px 0px; transition: all 500ms ease-in-out; text-decoration-line: none;">a total of $560,000</a> to Manifold since 2006.</font></p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">In addition to funding specific film projects, Bradley contributes to the training of future filmmakers. A 2015 $50,000 grant to Taliesin Nexus was designated to support the Odysseus Fellowship for young screenwriters, directors, and producers (Taliesin Nexus,, Grant Proposal Record, 8/18/15).</font></p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style=""><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">A background document shows that Taliesin Nexus “also partners with the Atlas Network to run the <span style="box-sizing: inherit; font-weight: 700;">Lights, Camera, Liberty! Program,</span> which has <b>introduced proven Hollywood techniques of persuasion to think tanks in 18 states</b>, three Canadian provinces and 10 other countries around the world</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">” (Taliesin Nexus, Grant Proposal Record, 8/18/15). The Atlas Network is a group of right-wing “think tanks” across the globe. It is comparable to the State Policy Network, of which it is also an associate member.</span></font></p><h2 style="box-sizing: inherit; line-height: 1.2; margin: 0px 0px 10px; text-transform: uppercase; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">BRADLEY BEEFS UP COMMUNICATIONS INFRASTRUCTURE FOR SPN “THINK TANKS”</font></h2><p style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Bradley has long been interested in dragging right-wing “think tanks” and other Bradley grantees into the modern communications era.</font></p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px;"><img class="alignright wp-image-3333 lazyloaded" src="http://www.exposedbycmd.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/NC-newspapers.jpg" data-lazy-src="http://www.exposedbycmd.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/NC-newspapers.jpg" alt="NC newspapers using JLF AP-style news service" width="300" height="533" data-lazy-srcset="http://www.exposedbycmd.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/NC-newspapers.jpg 450w, http://www.exposedbycmd.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/NC-newspapers-169x300.jpg 169w" data-lazy-sizes="(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px" srcset="http://www.exposedbycmd.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/NC-newspapers.jpg 450w, http://www.exposedbycmd.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/NC-newspapers-169x300.jpg 169w" sizes="(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: inherit; border: 0px; max-width: 100%; height: auto; float: right !important;" /><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style=""><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">For example, </span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Bradley provided $1.5 million over three years (2015-2017) to the Civitas Institute and the John Locke Foundation (JFL) in North Carolina</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">. Both are affiliated with the State Policy Network and both are almost entirely underwritten by <b>Art Pope</b>, Bradley’s new board chairman and a long-time Koch ally.</span></font></p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style=""><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Bradley wants the groups to “create a comprehensive communications infrastructure around four primary elements: radio, online content aggregation, mobile applications, and an <b>AP-style news service </b>for local newspapers”</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> (The Barder Fund, 8/18/15).</span></font></p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style=""><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Bradley also encourages its “think tanks” to engage in opposition research. It is funding a “Mapping the Left” website at Civitas to track the connections between progressive organizations in North Carolina. There is also a Mapping the Left <a href="http://www.mappingtheleft.com/" target="blank" style="background-image: initial; background-position: 0px 0px; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; box-sizing: inherit; transition: all 500ms ease-in-out; text-decoration-line: none;">app</a></span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">:</span></font></p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style=""><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"><b>“The Mapping the Left </b>(MTL)</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> project combines data, research and news articles to show the magnitude of the radical Left’s infrastructure in North Carolina. For decades, the liberal/progressive movement has mostly been invisible to the general public. Hiding from the ‘liberal’ label, the well-organized progressive movement has built a network of groups that work together to push an extreme, liberal/progressive agenda that the media has failed to report upon.”</span></font></p><h2 style="box-sizing: inherit; line-height: 1.2; margin: 0px 0px 10px; text-transform: uppercase; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">BRADLEY JOURNALISTS</font></h2><p style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Bradley has given support to major figures in the right-wing media through its $250,000 “Bradley Prizes” that it awards annually.</font></p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style=""><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">For instance, Bradley awarded <b>Roger Ailes </b>a prize for creating and founding the FOX News Network</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">. Ailes resigned as chairman and CEO of FOX in July 2016 following a sexual harassment suit brought by former news anchor Gretchen Carlson. By taking a stand, Carlson’s lawsuit helped unleashed a flood of new complaints against Ailes and Bill O’Reilly. Ailes died on May 18, 2017.</span></font></p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style=""><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Bradley also gave prizes to key players on the </span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"><em style="box-sizing: inherit;">Wall Street Journal</em>‘s editorial board–Paul Gigot and <b style="">Kim Strassel</b>–and the editorial board focused on “breaking” news on scandals related to Governor Scott Walker in Wisconsin</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">. Time after time, the editorial board </span><a href="https://www.wsj.com/articles/the-wisconsin-targets-tell-their-story-1437608811" target="blank" style="background: 0px 0px; box-sizing: inherit; transition: all 500ms ease-in-out; text-decoration-line: none;">wrote</a><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> long articles on the <b>Wisconsin “John Doe”</b> investigation into allegations that the Walker campaign illegally coordinated his recall activities with “independent” big money groups, parroting the spin of the individuals under investigation and accusing prosecutors of wrongdoing. The editorial page repeatedly blasted the investigation as a partisan witch hunt and an infringement of the “free speech” rights of secret dark money groups. Notably, the news side of the operation apparently did not think these stories were worth reporting on.</span></font></p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The Bradley Foundation has also given $250,000 between 2011 and 2015 “to support the <span style="box-sizing: inherit; font-weight: 700;">Thomas L. Rhodes Journalism Fellowship</span> at the National Review” (National Review Institute, Grant Proposal Record, 8/16/16). Thomas “Dusty” Rhodes was a previous chairman of the Board of Directors at the Bradley Foundation. William F. Buckley’s <em style="box-sizing: inherit;">National Review</em> has been a flagship publication for the right since its founding in 1955.</font></p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style=""><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">The first Bradley fellow was <a href="http://freebeacon.com/author/andrew-stiles/" target="blank" style="background-image: initial; background-position: 0px 0px; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; box-sizing: inherit; transition: all 500ms ease-in-out; text-decoration-line: none;">Andrew Stiles</a>, who works for the <em style="box-sizing: inherit;">Washington Free Beacon</em> after writing for the <em style="box-sizing: inherit;">National Review Online</em>.</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> The next fellow was Jill Melchior. After writing for the </span><em style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: inherit;">National Review</em><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">, she became a senior fellow at the </span><a href="http://www.exposedbycmd.org/independentwomensforum" target="blank" style="background-image: initial; background-position: 0px 0px; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; box-sizing: inherit; transition: all 500ms ease-in-out; text-decoration-line: none; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Independent Women’s Forum</a><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">, which pitches right-wing policies under the guise of moderate, pro-women reforms, and she is also the Tony Blankley Fellow for the </span><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Steamboat_Institute" target="blank" style="background: 0px 0px; box-sizing: inherit; transition: all 500ms ease-in-out; text-decoration-line: none;">Steamboat Institute</a><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">. The current fellow is </span><a href="http://nrinstitute.org/ian-tuttle" target="blank" style="background: 0px 0px; box-sizing: inherit; transition: all 500ms ease-in-out; text-decoration-line: none;">Ian Tuttle</a><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">. Tuttle writes for the </span><em style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: inherit;">National Review</em><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> and the </span><em style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: inherit;">National Review Online</em><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">.</span></font></p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"><b>The Independent Women’s Forum,</b> Steamboat Institute, and the National Review Institute (NRI) are all members of the State Policy Network.</font></p><h2 style="box-sizing: inherit; line-height: 1.2; margin: 0px 0px 10px; text-transform: uppercase; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">BRADLEY FUNDS DISINFORMATION, “CRISIS COMMUNICATIONS,” CANDIDATE TRACKERS</font></h2><p style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Bradley has given $8,968,000 to the <span style="box-sizing: inherit; font-weight: 700;">David Horowitz Freedom Center</span>, which counters “the corrosive effects of leftist ideology” from its offices near Hollywood, California (David Horowitz Freedom Center, Grant Proposal Record, 11/10/15).</font></p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Horowitz has been described as a “Trotskyist radical turned far-right entrepreneur.” He maintains a number of propagandistic websites including Jihadwatch.org, an anti-Muslim site. He touts himself as a mentor to many on the Trump team and hails Trump aide Steve Bannon, author of Trump’s failed Muslim ban, as a “civil rights hero.”</font></p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style=""><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Horowitz dedicates time and resources to tracking and tearing down prominent intellectuals, for instance publishing the book <em style="box-sizing: inherit;">The Professors: The 101 Most Dangerous Academics in America</em>.</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> “On campus, [the Freedom Center] helps student organize educational events to combat indoctrination, anti-Americanism and anti-Semitism,” writes Bradley.</span></font></p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Bradley lauds Horowitz for his TruthRevolt.org site, which “names untruths disseminated by the left” and “uniquely exposes the politics of personal destruction, the signature practice of the left.”</font></p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style=""><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Bradley has also been a major funder of public relations spin doctor<span style="box-sizing: inherit; font-weight: 700;"> <a href="http://www.exposedbycmd.org/2017/05/09/bradley-foundation-bankrolls-front-groups-richard-berman/" target="blank" style="box-sizing: inherit; background-image: initial; background-position: 0px 0px; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: all 500ms ease-in-out; text-decoration-line: none;">Richard Berman</a>.</span> Berman, dubbed “Dr. Evil” by 60 minutes,</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> has mastered the dark art of disseminating disinformation though front groups, websites, TV and print ads, and paid social media campaigns. While most of Berman’s front groups are no more than a website, a few of them have been incorporated as non-profit “charitable” organizations.</span></font></p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">As CMD has documented, Berman is notorious for his shady attacks on unions, environmental groups, and progressives. <a href="http://www.prwatch.org/news/2014/10/12646/rick-berman-exposed-new-audio-detailing-tactics-against-environment" target="blank" style="box-sizing: inherit; background: 0px 0px; transition: all 500ms ease-in-out; text-decoration-line: none;">Caught on tape</a>, his own words about his tactics are damning.</font></p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">According to the Bradley Files, Bradley has given the Berman groups at least $6.5 million, including grants for “crisis communication” and opposition research. This crisis communication work as described by Bradley relates directly to the successful, grassroots campaigning against ALEC that was sparked in 2011 after CMD published more than 800 ALEC “model bills” secretly voted on by corporate lobbyists and legislators when it launched <a href="http://alecexposed.org/" target="blank" style="box-sizing: inherit; background: 0px 0px; transition: all 500ms ease-in-out; text-decoration-line: none;">ALECexposed.org</a> in 2011.</font></p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Bradley also funds groups that perform functions most often performed by political parties.</font></p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Bradley has directed $1.8 million to a group called <span style="box-sizing: inherit; font-weight: 700;">American Majority</span> mostly for its “<span style="box-sizing: inherit; font-weight: 700;">Media Trackers</span>” project, which has now been spun off. As the 2014 election cycle approached, Bradley gave Media Trackers funds for Wisconsin “to hire two camera crews whose daily work will be to follow candidates in their travels around the state” (Greenhouse Solutions, Grant Proposal Record, 2/25/2014). The goal was to catch candidates in embarrassing moments that would, hopefully, go viral and impact the election. Predictably, Media Trackers produced a series of “<a href="http://www.exposedbycmd.org/2017/05/05/documents-detail-bradley-foundation-efforts-build-right-wing-infrastructure-nationwide/" target="blank" style="box-sizing: inherit; background: 0px 0px; transition: all 500ms ease-in-out; text-decoration-line: none;">hits</a>” exclusively on Democratic candidates.</font></p><h2 style="box-sizing: inherit; line-height: 1.2; margin: 0px 0px 10px; text-transform: uppercase; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">HARK! MILLENNIALS: BRADLEY BANKROLLS PODCASTS, SOCIAL MEDIA, AND MOBILE APPS</font></h2><p style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">In an attempt to attract younger people to its message, Bradley also invests in new media including podcasts, short videos, and mobile apps.</font></p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style=""><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Bradley is funding <span style="box-sizing: inherit; font-weight: 700;">Think Freely Media</span> at the Illinois Policy Institute “think tank,”</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> an affiliate member of the State Policy Network. Bradley recommended $250,000 in 2016 to support Hark! Podcasts (Think Freely Media GPR, August 16, 2016)</span><em style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: inherit;">. </em><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">The backgrounder states, “TFM is asking for support of its podcasting because its usage is increasing, especially among millennials.” With the Bradley funds, TFM wants to not only produce “much more cultural and issue-oriented ‘storytelling’ content,” but also “teach others how to do so, too” (Think Freely Media, Grant Proposal Record, 8/16/16).</span></font></p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The Bradley Foundation has turned to funding projects utilizing Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube.</font></p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style=""><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Bradley gave $100,000 to </span><span style="box-sizing: inherit; font-weight: 700;"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Prager </span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">University</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> [not] Foundation</span></span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> (PUF) to support the production of mini five minute videos to be shared on YouTube, and other social media. The file says, “PUF distills (conservative/Judeo-Christian) principles into content-rich, entertaining five-minute video ‘courses’ taught by public intellectuals, many of whom are Bradley Prize winners.” The document praises PUF for its reach, claiming that it reached 45 million viewers in 2015 and close to 80 million views in 2016. Bradley staff recommended an additional $175,000 to PUF in 2016.</span></font></p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Bradley explains its motivation for funding PUF again as an attempt to reach a millennial audience:</font></p><blockquote style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 40px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><p style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="">PUF is poised to penetrate new markets of younger conservatives and grassroots activists. These are audiences that comprise what is referred to as the conservative ‘base,’ yet they have not been effective in expressing compelling arguments on behalf of conservative ideas. Nor have they been effective in stemming the left’s domination of the American educational system, Hollywood and the media. This is particularly true of high school and college students who hold conservative values but are hard pressed to respond to the ideology of the left within which their schools are steeped. For them, PUF videos provide a source of intellectual support” (Prager University Foundation, Grant Proposal Record, 11/10/15).</font></p></blockquote><p style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">In another attempt at spreading their right-wing views to millennials, Bradley has funded a number of efforts to create new mobile applications. The Bradley Foundation gave $100,000 for a “mobile app project” at the <span style="box-sizing: inherit; font-weight: 700;">Mackinac Center for Public Policy</span> (MCPP).</font></p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">According to a MCPP backgrounder, the app <a href="http://votespotter.com/" target="blank" style="box-sizing: inherit; background: 0px 0px; transition: all 500ms ease-in-out; text-decoration-line: none;">VoteSpotter</a> “provides a concise, neutral, ‘plain-English’ descriptions [<em style="box-sizing: inherit;">sic</em>] of specific legislative actions, in real-time. The app allows a user to provide immediate feedback to these policymakers, holding them accountable to those interested citizens about whom they should care… Furthermore, it allows Mackinac itself to gather user data for use in further helpful and timely public education in the future” (Mackinaw Center for Public Policy, Grant Proposal Record, 2/24/15). Part of the money asked for in 2015 will be used to expand the use of the app in other states. As of February 2017, the app is available in Arizona, Colorado, Florida, Iowa, Michigan, Missouri, Nevada, New Hampshire, North Carolina, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Tennessee, Virginia, West Virginia, and Wisconsin.</font></p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">In another project in Wisconsin, Bradley gave $60,000 to <span style="box-sizing: inherit; font-weight: 700;">True the Vote</span> (TTV) in June 2015 and recommended $60,000 in 2016 to support the development of the mobile app <a href="http://www.votestand.com/" target="blank" style="box-sizing: inherit; background: 0px 0px; transition: all 500ms ease-in-out; text-decoration-line: none;">VoteStand</a> and in the training of “volunteers” to use it on election nights. A background report on True the Vote describes how it will be utilized: “volunteers will be equipped with TTV’s new online reporting app, VoteStand, accessible via smartphone. In conjunction with WILL (<span style="box-sizing: inherit; font-weight: 700;">Wisconsin Institute for Law and Liberty</span>), TTV will man an election night reporting center, able to address legal question as they arise – should they arise” (True the Vote, Grant Proposal Record, August 16, 2016).</font></p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The Bradley Foundation works to develop “friendly media” in the states as part of a larger project to develop right-wing “infrastructure” in the states. Read more about Bradley’s efforts to fund and build these institutions in CMD’s report <em style="box-sizing: inherit;"><a href="http://www.exposedbycmd.org/2017/05/05/documents-detail-bradley-foundation-efforts-build-right-wing-infrastructure-nationwide/" target="blank" style="box-sizing: inherit; background: 0px 0px; transition: all 500ms ease-in-out; text-decoration-line: none;">Weaponized Philanthropy: Document Trove Details Bradley Foundation’s Efforts to Build Right-Wing “Infrastructure” Nationwide</a></em>.</font></p><hr style="box-sizing: content-box; height: 0px; border-right: 0px; border-bottom: 0px; border-left: 0px; border-image: initial; border-collapse: collapse; border-top-style: solid; border-top-color: rgb(221, 221, 221); clear: both; margin: 1em 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" /><p style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><em style="box-sizing: inherit;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Mary Bottari, Evan James, Nick Surgey, and Lisa Graves contributed research to this series.</font></em></p></div><div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">=</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">rick perlstein kpfa 1/9/17 scary occupy video shown at GOP convention, quasi-fascist?</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">no pics, posters telling</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">no links</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><a href="http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2016/12/steve-bannon-films-movies-documentaries-trump-hollywood-214495">
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</div><div>He has the next president’s ear. Here’s what 13 hours and 11 minutes of fever-dream conservative viewing says about his dark worldview.</div><div>
</div><div>By ADAM WREN December 02, 2016</div><div>
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</div><div>Before he directed Breitbart News, before he directed Donald Trump’s insurgent campaign to a surprising victory in November, and before he directed the president-elect’s nascent administration as a senior adviser and consigliere, Steve Bannon directed a different kind of creative enterprise altogether. Documentary films.</div><div>
</div><div>Bannon—the bomb-throwing anti-establishment provocateur turned Trump whisperer—enjoyed a long and extensive dalliance with Hollywood, producing 18 films, from the 1992 Sean Penn drama “Indian Runner” to the 1999 Anthony Hopkins Shakespeare adaptation, “Titus.” He handled distribution for the independent film company Wellspring Media. Along the way, he also racked up nine directorial credits of his own, compiling a body of work replete with red-meat conservative documentaries. His oeuvre,<b> a set of 9 films released from 2006 to 2016, included projects capturing the rise of the Tea Party, such as 2010’s “Battle for America,” and 2012’s takedown of the Occupy movement, <span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">“Occupy Unmasked.”</span></b></div><div>
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</div><div><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">If you’ve never heard of these, you’re not alone: Only four appeared to have ever enjoyed even limited releases in theaters; most went straight to video, and circulated on Amazon and local libraries to a small and presumably deeply conservative audience. One, <b>2012’s “District of Corruption,” which is a 70-minute commercial for the work of Judicial Watch</b>, the conservative non-partisan watchdog group that hounded Hillary Clinton over her emails, “scored the second highest per-screen average at the box office on its opening weekend,” averaging $7,374 per theater, according to a press release from Judicial Watch. Perhaps Bannon’s best-known film, the 2011 “The Undefeated,” which follows the rise of Sarah Palin, had a budget of $1 million, according to IMDb.com, and played in at least 10 theaters</span>. Only one of his films—the Reagan love letter “In the Face of Evil,” Bannon’s 2004 directorial debut—has been rated by Rotten Tomatoes critics, who gave it a gut-punching 11 percent. This relative obscurity is, apparently, fine with the director, who clearly aimed them at a highly motivated audience. “I don’t do things for packs,” Bannon once said of his films. “I’m an independent filmmaker.”</div><div>
</div><div>Since Trump named Bannon his “chief strategist,” a job that gives him the president’s ear in what’s likely to be a smash mouth, mercurial White House, reporters have been riffling through his past to pin down his politics. Sure, in interviews, he’s laid out a worldview that touches on everything from “enlightened capitalism” to the decline of Christianity. And his welcoming of the white-nationalist “alt-right” on Breitbart has made him the target of protests, unusual for an adviser in an administration that hasn’t even taken office yet. But the documentaries offer a different, and rarely opened, window into how he sees the struggle America is facing<b>. From start to finish, Bannon productions are intense, often short (they average 82 minutes), and vehicles for an extremely Darwinian, highly alarmed view of just what threatens the nation—and who might save us.</b></div><div>
</div><div>Over several days in November, I set out to watch every Bannon-directed documentary, and two others he produced. They were not all easy to find: I scoured the Apple Store and Amazon, where I rented the docs on-demand or purchased new and used copies from people with usernames like “da_grandma” and “RetroResale.” The earliest documentary, a<b> 2004 collaboration with Clinton Cash author Peter Schweizer on the glory of the Reagan days,</b> was available at my local library. The experience was an agitprop fever dream, nine films spanning 13 hours and 11 minutes made with a <span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">“kinetic” editing style that aims to “almost overwhelm an audience,” as Bannon himself told Variety in a 2011 interview. If you imagined a Breitbart version of ESPN’s “30 for 30,” only far less subtly done, you’d be in the ballpark. They flicker with stock footage of a pride of lions noshing on a bloody zebra’s flesh, blooming flowers, rearing grizzly bears; there are towering mushroom clouds and seething Hitler speeches that flash on the screen while we hear a monologue from talking heads like Newt Gingrich and Phil Robertson of “Duck Dynasty” fame.</span></div><div>
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</div><div><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">If I learned one thing during this all-out assault on the senses, it was that the arc of the moral universe may be long, but it bends toward the guillotine. Western Civilization as we know it is under attack by forces that are demonic or foreign—the difference between those is blurry—and people in far-distant power centers are looking to screw you. What’s worse, Christianity and freedom are on the wane. In his documentaries, the president-elect’s man is a kind of political John the Baptist, explaining to you how bad and corrupt and Godless our country really is, and preparing the way for potential saviors to take the country back. The Big Banks, the Establishment, Hollywood, the Left, the Right—to all of them, Bannon insists, “the forgotten man” is a potential mark in a long con that threatens to topple the “Judeo-Christian West,” as he put it in a colloquy with the Vatican in 2014, according to a recording unearthed by Buzzfeed. Even Justin Beiber, Miley Cyrus and Kimye are in on the plot. More on that later.</span></div><div>
</div><div><b>In Bannon’s dark an apocalyptic world, where the heroes are few and the stakes are high, we’ve only a cadre of mavericks and truth tellers to protect us. They include Sarah Palin and Newt Gingrich and Lou Dobbs and Michele Bachmann.</b><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"> An important one is Robertson, the God-fearin,’ gun-totin’ patriarch of the clan; he’s the star of Bannon’s most recent film, “Torchbearer.” It saw a limited release at 31 theaters nationwide, mostly in flyover country, and was screened at this year’s Republican National Convention, as well as at Cannes, where Robertson himself appeared, surrounded by armed guards, to promote the film.</span></div><div>
</div><div><b>Throughout all of the films, a Trumpian through line emerges. As you watch them, the seemingly disconnected strands of Trumpism—anti-illegal immigration, economic angst, frustration with “the Party of Davos</b>”—form a cacophony that Bannon somehow marshals into a symphony. Start with a strong foundation of Reagan worship (Bannon’s first documentary, 2004’s “In The Face of Evil,” which seems to argue a great-man view of history, in Trump-like fashion, that Reagan alone could steer us through the Cold War). Sprinkle on a polemic about the woes of the “illegal immigration invasion” (2005’s “Cochise County, USA,” which frames illegal immigration as a “national tragedy,” and 2006’s “Border War,” which paints a bleak picture of the same topic in locales ranging from Nogales, Arizona, to Washington, D.C). Add a little economic anxiety and anti-elitism (2010’s “Generation Zero,” which tracks the origins of the 2008 financial crisis back to Woodstock and the “narcissism of the hippies”).<span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"> Mix it with a glowing appraisal of the Tea Party (2010’s “Battle for America,” which covers the rise of the Tea Party movement, 2010’s “Fire From the Heartland,” which follows the once-meteoric ascent of conservative women like Michele Bachmann and Congresswoman Cynthia Lummis, and “The Undefeated,” the 2011 work that examines Sarah Palin’s career</span>). Layer on a lament about <b>crony capitalism,</b> Clintonian scandals, professional protesters and Obama fatigue (2012’s trio of films “District of Corruption” and “Occupy Unmasked” and “The Hope & The Change”). Top it with<b> Clash of Civilization and culture wars (2016’s “Torchbearer,” which focuses on Robertson).</b><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"> And then you realize it: Long before Trump announced his 2016 campaign, Bannon was staking out the political terrain that would later become the familiar geography of his boss’s presidential bid.</span></div><div>
</div><div>In roughly reverse chronological order, starting with the Robertson doc, I went down the Bannon rabbit hole. Soon, I would realize that the average Bannon film had all the filmic subtlety of an R. Kelly slow jam (beneath a voiceover about Sarah Palin’s many political enemies, we see a man choking another man over a table); all the historicity of a Dan Brown novel (The bank bailouts happened because hippies gathered at Woodstock?) and, in some cases, the shelf life of arugula. The same day I started watching the Robertson film, released to select theaters on October 7—as scooped by Breitbart!—news broke that “Duck Dynasty” had been cancelled.</div><div>
</div><div>Not long after I polished off that first documentary—images of a camouflaged Robertson pointing a rifle at me, an actual scene in the film, still haunting me—the toll of the bruising task I was about to undertake dawned on me. Only 11 hours and 37 more minutes to go, I told myself.</div><div>
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</div><div><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">The first thing I learned is that in Bannon’s filmic world, there are no shades of gray, only black and white, sinners and saints, demons and angels. Here, an abridged list of “enemies” from the Phil Robertson flick: The atheist lawyer Clarence Darrow, he of Scopes’ trial fame; hippies, Hitler and Hollywood, apparently Bannon’s own Axis of Evil; the French; journalists who criticize Phil Robertson; the Nazi doctor Josef Mengele and Planned Parenthood.</span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">
</span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Amid that cavalry of offenders enters a lone cowboy, <b>Phil Robertson, </b>Duck Commander-in-Chief. Over the course of the documentary, Robertson worries aloud about the potential fall of our godless Republic, a fall he apparently thinks began with the Scopes Monkey Trial. As Robertson diagnoses it, society’s ills aren’t so much illegal immigration or nuclear war or genocide or even ISIS, but Godlessness. The tagline of the film may as well be Make America God-Fearing Again. “From the guillotine to the gas chamber to the gulag,” Robertson tells the camera, “the story is always the same. When you take God out of the story of your civilization, you open the door to tyranny.”</span></div><div>
</div><div><b>Much of our bleak current affairs stems from hippie culture, Robertson concludes, when we turned inward and became our own gods</b>. (This would become a motif of Bannon’s filmography, I would soon learn.) “What started out as free love and flowers in your hair ended up with the Manson Murders,” Robertson says. Wow, I thought, that escalated quickly. “Murder is mainstream, we slaughter our own children,” Robertson told Breitbart ahead of the film released earlier this year. “We priss around and parade our perversion; it’s being done in front of our very eyes. Depravity, literally. And I never thought I’d see it in my lifetime. But it has literally become mainstream.”</div><div>
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</div><div>So goes the camouflaged philosopher's lament about the fall of Western Civilization. Along the way, he highlights various crossings-of-the-cultural Rubicons that have lead us here: The teaching of evolution in classrooms, of course; the inventions of the guillotine (the French “totally despised Christianity”) and the <span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">atomic bomb; the rise of the “Cult of Reason” and “the <b>worship of science.</b>” We see b-roll of what we’re lead to believe are baby parts being harvested by Planned Parenthood victory.</span></div><div>
</div><div>Near the end of the film, we see images of Justin Bieber, Kanye West and Kim Kardashian-West and Miley Cyrus riding lustily on her wrecking ball, which the viewer is left to assume, isn’t headed toward her ex-boyfriend Liam Hemsworth, but everything that makes America great. “You are your own God,” Robertson says, the images passing in quick succession on the screen, summarizing the <span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">spirit of our current secular age. “We go about our lives accumulating as much as we can. Seeking whatever amusements we can to distract from our emptiness, hooking up with whomever we can. We are no longer image bearers. We are crutch-driven animals following our instincts.”</span></div><div>
</div><div><b>At times, it’s hard to tell where Robertson ends and Bannon begins. For starters, they share a disdain of youth culture.</b> As Bannon told his Vatican audience, “if you look at younger people, especially millennials under 30, the overwhelming drive of popular culture is to absolutely secularize this rising iteration.” But that’s merely a symptom of a larger problem that’s gripped the globe. “I believe the world, and particularly the Judeo-Christian west, is in a crisis,” Bannon told the Vatican conference in 2014 (later, he would add that “secularism has sapped the strength of the Judeo-Christian West to defend its ideals”). To return to Pax Americana, according to Bannon, we must repent of our Godless ways.</div><div>
</div><div>The film ends with Robertson conducting an impromptu baptism of seemingly random people—first there is “Becky,” followed by a “dude” with red hair whom Robertson simply calls “Red on the head,”— in what we assume is a Louisiana river, after he delivers a short homily on the “Gospel of God’s grace—what a message, what a hope.” A gospel song plays.</div><div>
</div><div>This baptism could be the beginning of a metaphorical national revival, if we wanted it to be, as Robertson and Bannon suggest we should. The invitation is there for the taking. It’s like Robertson says, in one of his many syrupy non-sequiturs, walking down the steps of the Jefferson Memorial, as the documentary rolls interminably on.</div><div>
</div><div>“If you have life and <b>liberty</b>, and you’re happy, happy, happy, what else is there?”</div><div>
</div><div>He lifts his hands up, forms a shruggie emoticon.</div><div>
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</div><div>I journeyed deeper still into Bannon’s filmography, and what was a whirlwind 2012 for Bannon. In March of that year, Andrew Breitbart died of heart failure, and Bannon took over Breitbart, while also releasing three documentaries (he would have another three-documentary year in 2010!) : <span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">“District of Corruption,” the infomercial for the work of Judicial Watch, the conservative watchdog organization that released the steady drip drip drip of Clinton emails during the campaign and “changed history” by getting their man elected, according to president Tom Fitton in a post-election Breitbart editorial;</span> <span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"><b>“Occupy Unmasked,”</b> an exposé on what Bannon sees as the professional protesters behind the Occupy movement; and “The Hope & The Change,” which follows 40 “hard-working Democrats and Independents who voted for President Barack Obama in 2008, and are now having second thoughts”—and which Fox News’ Sean <b>Hannity,</b> a regular Trump booster, gushed was “the most powerful documentary I’ve ever seen in my life.”</span></div><div>
</div><div>The first three films blur together in a haze of archival news clips. But beyond stock footage, they all blend a disdain for the establishment, which clings to power through “rigged” political and economic systems and is driven by “a form of capitalism that is taken away from the underlying spiritual and moral foundations of Christianity and, really, Judeo-Christian belief.”</div><div><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">
</span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">“District of Corruption,” the first documentary of this period written and directed by Bannon, is a companion film to the New York Times best-selling book, “The Corruption Chronicles, Obama’s Big Secrecy, Big Corruption, and Big Government.” </span>At its core, it’s an expose of D.C. over the last 20 years, and covers well-trodden conservative media territory. We learn about the “Chicago Gangster” Obama administration. About Bill Clinton’s Marc Rich pardon. We discover that Clinton “ran the office like a criminal mob operation.” The film frets over the influence of <span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">A.C.O.R.N and Saul Alinsky </span>on American politics. <span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Even George W. Bush is skewered by the film for his role in signing TARP. Wall Street’s “bailout central.”</span> Here, if you close your eyes, you can almost hear Trump doing the voiceover: A rigged system! I remembered a Bannon line from his 2014 Vatican Skype session. “For Christians, and particularly for those who believe in the underpinnings of the Judeo-Christian West, I don’t believe that we should have a [financial] bailout,” Bannon said.</div><div>
</div><div><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"><b>“Occupy Unmasked</b>,” also released in 2012, represented a new moment in Bannon’s career. By then, he had cemented his relationship with Andrew Breitbart (who also appeared in the 2011 Palin film, “The Undefeated</span>.”) Here, though, Breitbart appears as a prominent talking head explaining the chicanery and fraud of the Occupy movement. Occupy, the film argued, was really defined by “raping, pillaging, pooping.” The documentary—“really kind of an arthouse film,” the auteur, Bannon, once mused in a 2012 interview he did with the investigative journalist Lee Stranahan—predicted that “<b>Occupy will give way to race wars</b>.” It decried professional protestors who were allegedly paid $60 a day to join the movement. I thought of Trump’s post-election tweet: “Just had a very open and successful presidential election. Now <b>professional protesters,</b> incited by the media, are protesting. Very unfair!” Bannon clearly doesn’t like professional protestors. “Andrew, what are you talking about? It’s a bunch of dirty hippies,” Bannon told Breitbart, according to the Stranahan interview, when the late activist broached the idea of covering the movement. Still, he made the film.</div><div>
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</div><div>Hipsters and protesters aside, no one in this triad of films came off worse than Obama. “The Hope & The Change” opens on hopeful images of the early days of his presidency. We meet voters from across the country, assembled by the <b>Democratic pollster Pat Caddell,</b> who were optimistic about the Obama era, but soon, they grew disappointed. “There’s no way that anybody who watches this film can vote for Barack Obama,” mused Sean Hannity during his Aug. 24 show on Fox News. “It’s impossible. You bring us back and walk us through the whole election cycle.”</div><div>
</div><div>It’s in this film that we see the message of Bannon and Trump’s populism take shape.</div><div>
</div><div>“I feel like it’s a complete hustle, and we’re the but of a joke,” one disillusioned Obama voter said of the bailouts.</div><div>
</div><div>“The middle class has not gotten bailed out in this entire process,” says another.</div><div>
</div><div>“We’re not the big banks,” says another. “We’re not the car dealerships. We’re just small, average people, and in Obama’s eyes, we don’t count.” A rigged system, one might say.</div><div>
</div><div><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">For nearly six hours, I had subjected myself to suspenseful music played over non-suspenseful C-SPAN footage</span>. Harried, swooping panning shots of the Jefferson Memorial at night. Crash dummies rocked in a collision to demonstrate the moral hazard of the bailouts.<span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"> Conspiracy theories about Bill Clinton and Tyson’s chicken.</span> An indistinguishable parade of white talking heads against a white background. Hundred dollar bills spread out across the screen—a visual metaphor for political bribes, if you didn’t catch it. Generic act titles such as “Filegate” and “Coda: Children of the Revolution.”</div><div>
</div><div>“My films are very tightly structured into acts,” Bannon said in the 2012 interview with Stranahan. “The whole film is highly structured before I run the camera on what I call the subject matter experts.” But they drone on, often in sound bites that would otherwise strike you as terrible dialogue in a film: “The most transparent administration ever,” one of those subject matter experts says, “ended up being not very transparent at all.”<b> At least three of Bannon’s documentaries use virtually the same clip of CNBC’S Rick Santelli 2009 rant</b> from the floor of the Chicago Board of Trade, the one that gave rise to the Tea Party. “This is America! How many of you want to pay for your neighbor’s mortgage that has an extra bathroom and can’t pay their bills? Raise their hand?” The floor boos. “President Obama, are you listening?”</div><div>
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</div><div>Four documentaries into the experiment, I have to admit I wanted out. I brainstormed excuses to email my editor, begging off the assignment. But I was too far down the rabbit hole to stop.</div><div>
</div><div>Next on my list was “The Undefeated,” the 1-hour and 57-minute paean to Sarah Palin. Bannon’s longest work, surpassing even his debut Reagan documentary by seven minutes, it traces the rise of Palin from mayor of Wasilla, Alaska, to national political phenomenon.</div><div>
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</div><div><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Bannon’s films often began with a verse of scripture appearing as white text over a black screen. In “Generation Zero,” it’s a quote from Ecclesiastes; in “The Undefeated,” it’s a passage from the Gospel of Matthew: “Every good tree bringeth forth good fruit. But a corrupt tree bringeth forth evil fruit … by their fruits ye shall know them.” Palin, we’re left to posit, is a good tree. One-minute and 29 seconds into the documentary, we see images of cats licking themselves, apropos of nothing. Not 20 seconds later, a shadowy figure readies a handgun in front of a television screen blasting black and white static. A few cuts later a man handles a knife. Later, when we hear about how the left is attacking Palin, we see a door open in a bomber plane, and, is that a bevy of bombs falling out of the sky? Yes. Minutes later there is footage of a shark attack. It was, in a word, disorienting.</span></div><div>
</div><div><b>If there was a unifying theme, though, it was this: In Palin, Bannon found his first vessel: a politician who could bind together the diverse strands of his political philosophy—a missionary missile aimed straight at secularization and crony capitalism.</b> “Whether she becomes a candidate or not for the presidency, I think these big broad themes of her life and her political life are going to play out on the national level over the next couple of years,” Bannon said in a September 2011 interview with The Palin Update, an independent radio show hosted by the Palinista Kevin Scholla.</div><div>
</div><div>So enraptured by Palin was Bannon that he lingered on her early days as mayor and governor for more than 60 minutes before reaching the apogee of her political career, when she was selected as Senator John McCain’s running mate in 2008. You learn more about the inner workings of Alaska’s budget process than you ever wanted to know. This movie was one of the few to be reviewed in the mainstream press, and not too kindly: “Its tone is an excruciating combination of bombast and whining,” wrote Kyle Smith, the New York Post’s film critic, “it’s so outlandishly partisan that it makes Richard Nixon look like Abraham Lincoln and its febrile rush of images—not excluding earthquakes, car wrecks, volcanic eruption and attacking Rottweilers—reminded me of the brainwash movie Alex is forced to sit through in ‘A Clockwork Orange.’ Except no one came along to refresh my pupils with eyedrops.”</div><div>
</div><div><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">“The Undefeated,” however, does feel like Bannon’s most personal film. As the screen fades to black, we see a name flash on the screen: “Doris Herr Bannon: 1922-1992.”</span>The film ends with a quote from Thomas Paine’s The Crisis: “If there must be trouble, let it be in my day, that my child may have peace.” He had dedicated this film to his mother. Did The Mama-Grizzly Mater Familias remind him of her? Like 2010’s “Fire from the Heartland,” a meditation on the journeys of conservative Tea Party political women such as Michele Bachmann and Jenny Beth Martin, it seems to posit that it’s novel that women are getting involved in politics. Can you believe it? Here are all these women—and conservatives at that!—who have things to say about the direction of the U.S. government. There oughtta be a documentary made!</div><div>
</div><div>If Palin was Bannon’s preferred candidate to lead his anti-establishment revolution and return the U.S. to its Judeo-Christian roots, it was Reagan who provided the Platonic ideal of a revolutionary. Bannon’s seminal and most conventional documentary is his paean to the Gipper: “In the Face of Evil: Reagan’s War in Word and Deed.” It was everything you would expect a fawning Reagan documentary to be, rich in pro-Reagan interviews and archival historical footage, like the president’s “Tear Down this Wall” speech. This one also got reviewed.<span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"> “A brilliant effort … extremely well done,” trumpeted Rush Limbaugh</span>. In its review, The Washington Post’s Desson Thomson was more circumspect, calling it “the sort of film that will make its target audience, presumably religious, right-wing Christians, heartened and possibly misty-eyed. But it’s likely to provoke hooting and hollering in less reverent circles. Being single-minded in purpose, ‘In the Face of Evil’ takes a wide berth around issues and events inconvenient to its narrative propulsion.”</div><div>
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</div><div>Bannon Films, Citizens United Productions]</div><div>]</div><div>Reagan is the plainspoken archetypal “great man,” who saw the world as it really was—called a spade a spade, the Republican establishment be damned!—and put it across in a style that only a few leaders have effectively mimicked (Palin, and now Trump, chief among them— “an outsider, a radical, with extreme views” as text in the Reagan trailer blares.)</div><div>
</div><div><b>“Trump is Steve’s Reagan,</b>” Julia Jones, Bannon’s co-writer on the project, told The New York Times.</div><div>
</div><div><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">“In the Face of Evil” was also transformational for Bannon’s career arc, leading him to his first brush with Andrew Breitbart. “We screened the film at a festival in Beverly Hills,” Bannon recounted in an interview with Bloomberg, “and out of the crowd comes this, like, bear [Breitbart] who’s squeezing me like my head’s going to blow up and saying how we’ve <b>gotta take back the culture.”</b></span></div><div>
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</div><div>Bleary-eyed and now experiencing a low-level anxiety about nothing in particular and everything in general, I finished my trip through all things Bannon on a chilly Tuesday evening the week of Thanksgiving. Days before the rest of the nation prepared to watch television marathons of a more entertaining variety, sedated in a tryptophan-induced stupor, I found myself in a far less pleasant stupor of my own.</div><div>
</div><div>Was everything I thought I knew wrong? Maybe Sarah Palin’s political career wasn’t finished. Maybe the hippy culture did lead to the financial crash of 2008. Maybe Western civilization was on the verge of collapse. And here I am, wiling away the apocalypse watching indie political documentaries when I should be spending time with my loved ones.</div><div><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">
</span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">But one thing I was sure of was that the Bannon that emerges in his documentaries is occasionally a contradiction from the Bannon we’ve come to know in recent months. For as much gnashing of teeth as there’s been about Bannon’s white nationalist ties, his documentaries largely steer clear of racial themes, though most of his subjects and talking heads are white Christians.</span> There was<b> Shelby Steele, the Hoover Institution fellow </b>who calls himself a “black conservative.” In “Generation Zero,” Steele wonders how <span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">“white guilt” contributed to the financial crisis. “Since the 60s, white Americans have been in a place where they constantly have to prove that they are not racist,” he says. “It is that phenomenon of white guilt that presses people in the government to say things like ‘Everybody has a right to a house.’ Unfortunately, capitalism doesn’t work like that.”</span></div><div>
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</div><div>At the end of my experience, I couldn’t help but wonder: Does Bannon actually believe these things, or does he merely see a business market in untapped, conservative moviegoing audiences? <span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">For instance, both “The Hope and the Change” and “District of Corruption” <b>poke fun in mini-montages of Obama’s infrastructure spending</b>and “shovel ready” projects. And yet, in a recent interview with The Hollywood Reporter’s Michael Wolff, Bannon boasted, “I’m the guy pushing a trillion-dollar infrastructure plan. With negative interest rates throughout the world, it’s the greatest opportunity to rebuild everything. Shipyards, iron works, get them all jacked up. We’re just going to throw it up against the wall and see if it sticks. It will be as exciting as the 1930s, greater than the Reagan revolution—conservatives, plus populists, in an economic nationalist movement.</span>” Is the Bannon whose documentaries worry about the corruptive influence of Hollywood on Obama and American culture still the same one who receives Seinfeld royalties, to which he acquired partial rights from the sale of Castle Rock that he helped broker in 1993? “People have very strong political beliefs, but at the end of the day, I haven’t met a bigger set of capitalists than I have met in this town,” he told Variety, speaking of Hollywood, ahead of “The Undefeated” release. “It is one of the most Darwinian of environments that I have ever seen.”</div><div>
</div><div>With Bannon’s documentary career behind him, at least for now, it doesn’t matter as much whether he precisely believes the content of his documentaries. What matters is that he certainly knows how to package a story to a specific audience. It’s easy to see Bannon becoming the keeper of Trump’s message, the necromancer of his narrative. You can see him being tasked with making a running documentary of Trump’s first years in office that plays at the RNC in a 2020 re-election campaign. <span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">After all,<b> Andrew Breitbart once called Bannon the Tea Party’s Leni Riefenstahl, the Nazi propagandist</b></span>. “People have said I’m like Leni Riefenstahl,” Bannon once said. “I’ve studied documentarians extensively to come up with my own in-house style. I’m a student of<span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"> Michael Moore’s films, of Eisenstein,<b> Riefenstahl. </b></span>Leave the politics aside, you have to learn from those past masters on how they were trying to communicate their ideas.”</div><div>
</div><div>In Trump, Bannon has perhaps finally found the subject of his magnum opus, his greatest muse since Palin. Because Trump has given Bannon, now headquartered at 1600 Penn, his shot at a wider audience, “the packs” he once shrugged off: It’s all of us. This time, you won’t have to troll the dark corners of Amazon to find his work. And this show’s running time, already far longer than the paltry 13 hours it took me to churn through his filmography, could be measured not in hours and minutes, but years.</div></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"></font></div></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">=</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>BS</b></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" /><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>Weekly Standard</b></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></div><div>
</div><div>THE MAGAZINE: From the August 13 Issue</div><div>
</div><div>Lights, Camera, Reaction</div><div>
</div><div><b>Thor Halvorssen's</b> campaign to make Hollywood safe for non-leftists.</div><div>AUG 13, 2007 | By SONNY BUNCH</div><div> </div><div>During the fourth season of HBO's hit comedy series Curb Your Enthusiasm, one of the subplots centered on the bumbling attempts of the show's star, Larry David, to take advantage of a rather unusual anniversary gift given to him by his wife: He can have an affair with any woman he wants, as long as he does it by the day of their anniversary (which also happens to coincide with the opening of Larry's Broadway debut in The Producers). Needless to say, this leads to a number of awkward encounters until finally, as time is about to run out--on the night of the show itself, in fact--the very attractive female lead in the musical invites Larry into her dressing room for a quick fling. The liberal New Yorker is game, making out with the starlet until he notices something not quite right: a picture of George W. Bush beside her vanity mirror. Disgusted, he turns away, deciding he'd rather let his gift expire than have sex with a Republican.</div><div>
</div><div>To many conservatives, this vignette neatly sums up Hollywood's ideological monomania: Left-wing politics trumps even a good old fashioned roll in the hay. For every Ronald Reagan extolling the greatness that is America, supporting individual rights at home and abroad, and arguing for freedom, the entertainment industry spawns twenty Alec Baldwins fulminating against American foreign policy, decrying big business's abuse of the environment, and threatening to move to Canada if Bush wins reelection. The truth is more complex, but evidence in support of the stereotype is not hard to find. When it comes time to donate money to political candidates, Democrats routinely squeeze their celebrity friends in Los Angeles for cash; in March, for example, Steven Spielberg hosted a fundraiser for Hillary Clinton that netted more than $1 million for her presidential campaign. Republicans can't count on that kind of juice.</div><div>
</div><div>It's not all bad news.<span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"> A small segment of Hollywood was pushed rightward by 9/11, at least on national security issues; two years ago, the New York Times identified "former liberals and centrists like the actors David Zucker, Dennis Miller, James Woods and Ron Silver" as 9/12 Republicans. In the wake of Mel Gibson's The Passion of the Christ, a box office bonanza raking in $370 million, the town has seen an influx of <b>Christian filmmakers</b> (and Christian money: billionaire evangelical Philip Anschutz's Walden Media bankrolled The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe, C.S. Lewis's Christian allegory, to the tune of $150 million). And since the early '90s, David Horowitz has hosted the Wednesday Morning Club, a group of conservatives who meet roughly once a month to hear a prominent conservative speak on the issues of the day.</span></div><div>
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</div><div>But these efforts have done little to change the climate of political conformity, not to say paranoia, in Hollywood. In a recent trip to Los Angeles, I met with members of every industry sector, from actors to writers to agents to executives, all of whom described themselves as either conservative or libertarian or simply not left-liberal. All of them swore up and down that there is no such thing as a conservative blacklist, but few of them were willing to go on the record during our discussions. As one person put it over lunch, he had nothing to gain by outing himself as a libertarian. "It's a complication I don't need. . . . Why make my life more difficult?"</div><div>
</div><div><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"><b>Enter Thor Halvorssen, founder of the Moving Picture Institute (MPI)</b>, which is one part film production company, one part salon. Halvorssen has spent the last several years shuttling back and forth between New York and Los Angeles, building a community in Hollywood that does more than sit around and listen to conservative luminaries pontificate.</span> He is procuring funding for films--mostly documentaries--with an optimistic and freedom-loving outlook, while simultaneously creating a community of artists that will make more such pictures in the years to come. He's also hoping to introduce a little political diversity into a monocultural industry, so that those who toil in the lower echelons of Hollywood aren't afraid to show their true political stripes, be they liberal or libertarian, conservative or Communist.</div><div>
</div><div>If the name sounds familiar to WEEKLY STANDARD readers, it may be because the 31-year-old Halvorssen wears more than one hat. Through his Human Rights Foundation (HRF), he has been a prominent spokesman for the liberal opposition to Hugo Cha vez in Venezuela, where he was born (see his "Hurricane Hugo" in our August 8, 2005, issue). In an interview at the Moving Picture Institute's West Hollywood headquarters (located in an apartment once owned by Sheryl Crow, in a building once used by the Kennedy brothers to host their West Coast trysts), he talked about the circuitous path that has taken him from Venezuela to the film industry.</div><div>
</div><div>His grandfather was the Norwegian ambassador to Venezuela. His mother's family traces its roots to the founders of the South American nation. She is a distant relative of Simon Bolivar; Cristobal Mendoza, the first president of Venezuela and the author of the Venezuelan declaration of independence, was her great-great-grandfather (imagine an American tracing his roots back to both Martha Washington and Thomas Jefferson and you'd be close). "My family's always been doing stuff regarding human freedom" and individual rights, he told me. Halvorssen planned on continuing that tradition.</div><div>
</div><div>He enrolled at the<b> University of Pennsylvania.</b> After growing up on a steady diet of Latin, ancient history, and other memorization-intensive subjects at the European boarding schools he attended, he found the American university system to be less of a challenge than he had hoped for. In four years he finished an undergraduate degree (with two majors and a minor) and a master's while graduating Phi Beta Kappa. But it was his experiences outside the classroom that were most formative. He was the editor of the <span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Red and the Blue, an alternative conservative/libertarian weekly published by students and distributed on campus that had fallen out of favor with the college.</span> The administration took issue with an article about Haiti, and denounced the publication as "bigoted, racist, and hateful." In early 1995, hundreds of copies of the magazine were thrown in the trash, funding was cut off, and the group was evicted from its office space. "We then threatened to sue," Halvorssen said, "and they settled out of court. We said 'just let us publish.' I was elected editor then; we published, and it was great, it was awesome, it was impacting the culture." It was around this time that Halvorssen met Dave Kalstein, a fellow student at Penn similarly interested in "impacting the culture."</div><div>
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</div><div><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">"With Thor, it was more about bias within the history department," Kalstein told me in the house he rents, nestled under the famed Hollywood sign. "How come 99 percent of professors in the history department are registered <b>Democratic</b>?" One year was all it took for Halvorssen to realize that he would never fit into academia. "I found the environment to be so closed-minded and in some ways so not stimulating," he said. "This was not a community I wanted to be a part of." Upon graduation, he<b> received an award for "protecting student speech" from the president of the university--an impressive piece of irony since he had once threatened to sue her </b>for stifling his own.</span></div><div>
</div><div><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Halvorssen's tribulations with the Penn administration led him to create the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education (FIRE).</span> With cofounders Alan Charles Kors and Harvey Silverglate, Halvorssen ran the most visible (and successful) organization dedicated to defending free speech on campus the country has ever seen. He also came to <span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">understand the importance of media relations: "I did massive amounts of television, from the O'Reilly Factor to Hannity and Colmes to CNN to PBS to National Public Radio." So after leaving FIRE, he spent some time as an independent consultant, traveling the country to help nonprofit groups increase their effectiveness. </span>And his travels increasingly took him to Hollywood, where he began introducing himself around town in preparation for his next big project: the Moving Picture Institute.</div><div>
</div><div>"MPI was born out of the concept that maybe what we need is to create a community of people and encourage them," Halvorssen told me--a community that believes in "the concept that one should affirm life. By that I don't mean pro-life or pro-choice, I mean . . . that life is a good thing. That optimism is what makes it possible for us to, for instance, eliminate poverty." While building the organization, Halvorssen came across a kindred spirit intent on bringing the stories of campus bias he had dealt with on a regular basis at FIRE to the screen: Evan Coyne Maloney, a novice documentarian with little more than a camera, a website, and a gift for chronicling campus political correctness. "He makes his first film, which is not very fine tuned, Brainwashing 101, and then he makes Brainwashing 201 and I'm like 'Wow! Evan, I want to produce your film.'"</div><div>
</div><div>This wasn't the first time Halvorssen had gotten into the production game. A few years before, he and Kalstein had attempted to turn<b> Arnaud de Borchgrave's Cold War thriller The Spike into a feature film</b>, but nothing came of it. Maloney, though, had spent the previous three years as a full time employee of On the Fence Films (a group he cofounded with Stuart Browning, the head of a successful software company, and Blaine Greenberg, a California lawyer) gathering footage for a documentary about left-wing bias on college campuses called Indoctrinate U. After months in the editing room, <span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Maloney and Browning were getting frustrated with the final product but knew the footage was there for a great documentary. In stepped Halvorssen. He injected some cash into the project and, more important, brought on board Chandler Tuttle, a talented editor</span> who took the film apart and put it back together from the ground up.</div><div>
</div><div>"I looked at [Indoctrinate U], and I think that at the time there was a lot of frustration with where the project was," Tuttle told me. "We've got this great topic, and we've got Evan, who is very charismatic, but it just wasn't working. . . . Thor wanted me to look at it as a filmmaker and to get that perspective, because I think it had been mostly laypeople who had given their feedback." Tuttle had more experience in the world of film than everyone else involved with the production combined; he graduated from NYU's prestigious film school and worked for Focus Features, the boutique studio that distributed Brokeback Mountain, Lost in Translation, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, and other critically acclaimed films. Tuttle took a week off from work and put together a much-improved product. For his efforts in improving and distributing the film, Halvorssen received a producer credit on Indoctrinate U.</div><div>
</div><div>Halvorssen was very specific about his relationship with the Moving Picture Institute. Though he founded it, works relentlessly on its behalf, and steers a good deal of talent its way, he's not professionally involved with the organization. "I'm not a staff member of MPI. I'm not even [on the board of] directors. I have no fiduciary responsibility; I can't determine where the money goes, which allows me to be involved in a whole bunch of productions without having any conflict of interest." His full time job is president and CEO of the Human Rights Foundation. He may be the first person to enjoy California because it allows him to be a workaholic. "One of the wonders of working out in L.A.," he says, "is that you can have a wonderful work day in New York that ends at 2 or 3 P.M. West Coast time, which means you can then work from 3 P.M. to 10 P.M." on other projects. The focus of the foundation is fighting the influence of dictators like Hugo Ch vez and Fidel Castro. One of his most memorable pieces on the Venezuelan strongman was an August 2004 Wall Street Journal op-ed about a riot organized by Ch vez's thugs: "Hilda Mendoza Denham, a British subject visiting Caracas for her mother's 80th birthday, was shot at close range with hollow-point bullets from a high-caliber pistol. She now lies sedated in a hospital bed after a long and complicated operation. She is my mother."</div><div>
</div><div> </div><div>Regardless of his unofficial status at the Moving Picture Institute, Halvorssen is clearly the driving force behind the organization. "We are a production company, we are a film distribution company, we are a grant-giving education foundation, we are slowly going to become a historical archive, of sorts," he says smiling, by way of explaining the institute's mission. The MPI has picked up credits on a number of films, most of them documentaries. The Singing Revolution is a moving depiction of the nonviolent liberation of Estonia from the Soviet empire. Freedom's Fury examines the cultural significance of the December 1956 Olympic water polo match between the Soviet Union and Hungary, which took place shortly after the Soviets' bloody suppression of the Hungarian revolution. (Produced by Lucy Liu and Quentin Tarantino, Freedom's Fury grossed more than Spider-Man at the Hungarian box office.) Mine Your Own Business is a broadside against the hypocritical tendencies of the environmental movement. Hammer and Tickle is a funny little film that explores the impact of political humor in the Soviet Union.</div><div>
</div><div><b>Mine Your Own Business </b>is a good illustration of MPI's place in the Hollywood food chain. The institute had nothing to do with the initial funding, filming, or editing of the movie. But once the picture was finished, it had nowhere to go. "We saw a fine cut, and we thought it was awesome," Halvorssen says, but "the film was dead in the water with television broadcast, with any kind of DVD distribution deal." Halvorssen pointed the filmmakers to the MPI. "We have paid for essentially all promotion, all distribution efforts, <span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">we gave [filmmakers Phelim <b>McAleer </b>and Ann McElhinney] fellowships as well, which is cash. . . . The film is now being distributed in Ecuador, Argentina; it's a film that's really making an impact, really making a difference."</span></div><div>
</div><div>Halvorssen also sees the MPI as a talent incubator. Chandler Tuttle could be considered Exhibit A in this regard. After his work on Indoctrinate U, the Moving Picture Institute made Tuttle a fellow, allowing him the financial freedom to leave Focus. He's since become involved with almost every aspect of MPI's operation: He has designed posters for the documentaries MPI is distributing; he helped edit and create visual graphics for Stuart Browning's response to Michael Moore's Sicko (a series of shorts on the health care industry viewable on the Internet and entitled Free Market Cure); he is writing and directing an adaptation of the Kurt Vonnegut short story "Harrison Bergeron," an MPI production with a budget nearing $100,000.</div><div>
</div><div>No single ideological label unites those under the MPI umbrella, and Halvorssen will place MPI interns and fellows wherever they can gain the experience and the knowledge necessary to be successful. He has already hooked interns up with people and production companies across the ideological spectrum, from the aforementioned 9/12 Republican David Zucker to<b> Johnny Depp's outfit, Infinitum Nihil. </b>Halvorssen is slowly amassing and nurturing a cadre of writers, actors, and directors who, whatever their other political differences, are at least dedicated to individual liberty.</div><div>
</div><div>Take Halvorssen's friend from Penn, Dave Kalstein, who was editor in chief of the Red and the Blue after Halvorssen's graduation. Kalstein tackled different stories, such as the <b>administration's hostility towards fraternities. </b>"I was trying to find more issues where I could approach people and put it on the cover of a magazine and have them be like, 'oh wow, I'm interested in fraternities.' And after they're done reading the article have them say 'I totally agree with what they're saying,' not even knowing that they've adopted the point of view that I wanted them to adopt. It's just a more elegant way of doing it and Thor was instrumental in getting me to understand it."</div><div>
</div><div> </div><div>After graduating from Penn in 1999, Kalstein went to work for Elle, then GQ, and managed to sell a script to United Artists in 2005. At that point, Kalstein decided to stop "writing about fashion and blue jeans" and take the plunge--he headed out West to Hollywood. Kalstein and Halvorssen had the idea of turning The Spike into a feature, but since they didn't hold the rights, or the money to purchase the rights, Kalstein tackled the project "on spec." In other words, if de Borchgrave didn't like the final product, he could simply turn them down. Undaunted, Halvorssen provided the seed money. "He's like, 'Y'know, how about I loan you $10,000 to be able to live the life,' which at the time was, y'know, a lot of money," Kalstein recalls with a grin. "I refinanced my apartment in Philadelphia," Halvorssen explains, shaking his head. "Gave him a portion of the refi. Looking back on it, if I knew then what I know now about the film industry . . . it was absurd." But Halvorssen "gave Dave what essentially would have been the first MPI grant, except it came out of my refinance."</div><div>
</div><div>Though The Spike never materialized for Kalstein, he<b> made a short film called Recess, about a group of kids trying to escape a dystopian boarding school in the future.</b> Unable to figure out how to write it as a feature script, he turned it into a novel instead. Prodigy sold to Thomas Dunne Books, and Kalstein was then hired to adapt it for the screen (it's slated to shoot late this year or early next year in South Africa with a budget of $20 million). Kalstein has since been hired as a writer for the NBC update of The Bionic Woman and is developing a series for Showtime with his literary hero, Bret Easton Ellis. (Kalstein is also happy to report that, having hit the big time, he has repaid Halvorssen in full.)</div><div>
</div><div>Bringing the same ethic to his novel and scripts that he brought to the Red and the Blue, Kalstein isn't interested in making political polemics. Rather, he wants to make popular art that contains subtle political messages. Wrapped within the tautly paced boarding school thriller Prodigy, for example, one can find a number of different messages that resonate with folks outside the liberal-left cocoon of Hollywood. <span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Writing about the establishment of the ultra-successful Stansbury Academy, a prestigious school that (a few decades hence) has developed a cure for AIDS and cancer (as well as a flying car), Kalstein fires off an anti-teachers' union broadside:</span></div><div>
</div><div>These educators--mostly the top teachers from the country's best elementary, middle, and high schools, along with some administration types--were fed up with the control and power the nation's teachers' unions exerted over the world of schooling at the start of the twenty-first century. The state of public schooling had become increasingly dire. Reading and comprehension levels were at an all-time low, despite the fact that the flow of information and knowledge were more readily available than at any other time in history. The problem was not the students' access or social skills. It was the teachers. They were being paid more than ever before, . . . working without accountability for their students' performance. Due to union labor laws, it had become virtually impossible to fire the teachers. </div><div>
</div><div>Kalstein points admiringly to a film he did not write but enjoyed immensely: Knocked Up, the box office smash about the relationship that grows between a slacker and a career-driven entertainment reporter whom he has, well, knocked up. Though Kalstein is pro-choice and believes the writer/director of Knocked Up, Judd Apatow, is as well, he says, "You can look at Knocked Up and say it's the biggest pro-life movie ever. It is, it's a total pro-life movie. . . . He gave a nuanced look at why they kept the baby. Why didn't they just abort it? Both the characters, they both took it seriously. . . . I don't care how brilliant the conservative is, I don't care how much money he's got, no pro-lifer will be able to make a better pro-life movie than Knocked Up. . . . You have to tell a great story first, and your ideas will come through the story."</div><div>
</div><div> </div><div>"Art, if it's well done, can have far more of an impact," says Steve Schub, an actor and singer, in between bites of his chili dog outside of Carney's, a hot dog stand along the Sunset Strip. "If you can have one movie that speaks, like The Lives of Others--I mean, you can read as much as you want about what life in a Communist country would be like, but that movie is so incredible. . . . I wish that was an American film."<b> Schub </b>is another person who has been drawn into Halvorssen's web. "He's sort of [like] John Galt," Schub says of Halvorssen, referring to the Ayn Rand character from <b>Atlas Shrugged. </b>"I think he's doing a pretty good job of getting us to out ourselves [politically], to come out and work together." Schub is an example of the diversity of ideologies Halvorssen is hoping to reach. His Ayn Rand allusion is no coincidence: <span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">He described himself as a "radical Objectivist"</span> ("conservatives can be as much of a threat to free speech as liberals can") to go along with Dave Kalstein ("a neoconservative") and Chandler Tuttle ("a libertarian"). Halvorssen eschews labeling himself ideologically, insisting instead he is only "a civil liberties and civil rights advocate. . . . I'm focused on free speech, I'm focused on issues of individual rights, I'm focused on issues of poverty." When Schub learned of Halvorssen's efforts to promote individual rights, he took a chance and sent him an email. The two struck up a conversation, and the Human Rights Foundation will sponsor Schub's "Afro-Celtic Yiddish ska" band, the Fenwicks, on a mini-tour this fall.</div><div>
</div><div><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">In addition to being a radical Objectivist, the 24 vet (he played "Samir" in the latest season) </span>also happens to be the only actor who would speak to me on the record. He insists that there is no blacklist against those who don't conform to the left consensus, though he says that "it is just assumed that you are a liberal or that you are a leftist, or on the left on some level." It seems to annoy Schub that actors think anyone should care about their bringing "awareness" to an issue. "Why would I necessarily humor their idea on global warming, as opposed to [the ideas of] a plumber or a welder?" He thinks it can detract from the audience's appreciation of an actor's work if they know what he thinks about every little issue. "I think as an actor you want people . . . to know as little about you as possible. . . . With actors I love, I don't want to know what their agenda is in life because the whole idea is that you're supposed to seduce people into suspending their disbelief, just see the character." Schub is no slouch, technically; he's a member of the Actors Studio, the elite organization founded by Elia Kazan where professional actors go to work on their craft. And he's certainly committed to social change, though not in the same way that, say, George Clooney is. "I think that real change has to happen on a philosophical-cultural level, and that's where I think [the MPI's] focus is."</div><div>
</div><div>Since the Moving Picture Institute does not receive any sort of government funding, and isn't really in the business of turning out profitable films, it relies on private donations to keep the operation running. One of those donors is<b> David Thayer, a hedge fund manager </b>who was interested in "a counterpoint to the likes of Michael Moore and Oliver Stone." Considering "the way people's eyes kind of glaze over during public policy debates, this could be a much more effective way, and entertaining way . . . to get the point across," he says. In order to get that point across, however, people need to see the final product, always the most daunting obstacle for any documentary maker. In the case of Indoctrinate U, MPI has secured theatrical distribution for the film in select cities starting in October. Additionally, Halvorssen is working with a major entertainment company to create an MPI label to distribute Indoctrinate U and other films on DVD.</div><div>
</div><div>"I hope and I think they expect that ultimately it's going to be less of a struggle to get a movie like Indoctrinate U into mainstream distribution outlets," Thayer says. With any luck, Indoctrinate U will be the first, says Halvorssen. "There's a tactical aspect to Indoctrinate U," he told me. "There's never been a conservative documentary that's been put into theaters. . . . If Indoctrinate U succeeds . . . in theaters it's the first time it's been done. It'll open the floodgates."</div><div>
</div><div>That's what Halvorssen wants to do in the end: open the floodgates. Encourage talented people of like mind to come to Hollywood and make films that inspire the better angels of our nature. "Films show you how people can be heroic, how the everyday man can be heroic," he says, adding, "I have a mission, man. My mission is to make the world a little bit better." Whether it is through combating the injustices he sees taking place on a daily basis in Venezuela, or correcting the distortions of the American dream he sees in the popular culture, he seems to be doing just that.</div><div>
</div><div> </div><div>Sonny Bunch is assistant editor at THE WEEKLY STANDARD.</div></div><div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">"The Cartel”: The Moving Picture Institute and Who is Behind It</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">March 7th, 2010</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Filmmaker Bob Bowdon is a former Bloomberg anchor and reporter who now appears as a fictitious correspondent on the made-up Onion News Network: his resume describes his work as a “reporter of comedic, fake news” for Onion</span>. His past work has included producing and anchoring duties on Regional News Network and a local cable station, and a small production scouting job for a 1991 movie “Hangin’ with the Homeboys.”</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The Bowdon movie The Cartel is a project of <b>Moving Picture Institute, a nonprofit that the Reason Foundation describes as “the AV department for the vast libertarian conspiracy.”1 The group funds, produces or promotes independent films that are devoted to “protecting and sustaining a free society</b>.”2</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Links between The Cartel and Moving Picture Institute: On the contributions page for The Cartel web site, it says that contributions can be made to the Moving Picture Institute (MPI). MPI is a nonprofit founded by Thor Halvorssen,3 producer of Indoctrinate U, a documentary film that claimed it exposed how political correctness and left-wing politics dominate American college campuses. The film, according to one producer, shows the “discrimination that most of the time Christians and conservatives are victims of” on campuses.4</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Also, the announcement about The Cartel appearance at the Hoboken film festival lists<span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"> Sarah Parker as the press contact: she is a program assistant at MPI who formerly worked at the Human Rights Foundation, another group linked to Halvorssen.</span></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">About MPI: Moving Picture Institute (offices in New York and Los Angeles) has supported a variety of film projects in recent years; news accounts note that it has backed <span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">“pro-business, anti-Communist and even antienvironmentalist”</span> movies.5 The Weekly Standard says that founder<span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"> Thor Halvorssen is on a “campaign to make Hollywood safe for non-leftists.”6 MPI nurtures new or under-funded filmmakers and provides production, distribution and promotion guidance.</span></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The Institute relies on some of the Right’s biggest contributors, major givers to the national voucher movement, Far Right think tanks and anti-NEA organizations – and New Jersey’s <b>Excellent Education for Everyone.</b> MPI contributors include:</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b> Lynde and Harry<span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"> Bradley</span></b> Foundation, described by Media Transparency as “the country's largest and most influential ultra-Right foundation” and a leading force behind vouchers, anti-labor efforts and government privatization;</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"> <b>Randolph Foundation,</b> a pro-voucher and anti-tax foundation that was an early contributor to the Association of American Educators, the group created to counter the influence of NEA;</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">* Cortopassi Institute, foundation of Dino Cortopassi, a board member of the Alliance for School Choice national voucher group and a major contributor to the All Children Matter voucher PAC, the Association of American Educators and the anti-labor Center for Union Facts; and</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">*<b> Searle Freedom </b>Trust, an Illinois foundation formerly known as D&D Foundation that is a major contributor to the Cato Institute, State Policy Network, American Enterprise Institute and Manhattan Institute, among other groups.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The Cartel joins a lineup of MPI’s anti-progressive films. Halvorssen has been described as the Right’s answer to filmmaker Michael Moore for pursuing projects that take a libertarian slant. In fact, after Moore’s movie Sicko, MPI produced a series of short films at FreeMarketCure.com that show the shortcomings of the Canadian health-care system.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">MPI-supported projects include <b>Mine Your Own Business, which reports that pro-environmental activism is devastating Third World countries</b>. MPI provided promotion for this film, which was aired at the October 2007 meeting of the<b> State Policy Network.</b></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Moving Picture Institute is guided by a board of directors and “creative council,” the latter including film industry figures – including prominent Republican activist David Zucker -- and<span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"><b> Frayda Levy, co-founder of the New Jersey chapter of Americans for Prosperity.</b> Levy is also on the boards of the <b>Club for Growth, Americans for Limited Government and the Foundation for Economic Education. </b>One MPI board member is Elizabeth Koch, though it’s not immediately clear if she is related to the prominent Far-Right family with the same name.</span></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>About Thor Halvorssen:</b> Halvorssen was one of the founders of the campus group FIRE (the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education) in 1999 when he was at the University of Pennsylvania. FIRE says it supports free-speech rights on college campuses and defends Right-wing academicians who feel oppressed by liberal faculties at colleges and universities. Rob Pfaltzgraff, executive director of Moving Picture Institute, previously worked with Halvorssen at FIRE, according to his MPI bio.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">FIRE is funded by a string of right-wing contributors, including the Koch family’s Claude R. Lambe Charitable Trust, the Sarah Scaife Foundation, the Lynde and Harry Bradley Foundation, the Searle Freedom Trust, Castle Rock Foundation and the F.M. Kirby Foundation.7</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Halvorssen is no longer on the board, but current board members include<span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"> Jerry Hume, also a board member of the Heritage Foundation and Hoover Institution and a leading contributor to the national voucher movement. The FIRE board includes veterans of the Manhattan Institute think tank and a former editor of<b> Reason magazine, </b>the libertarian journal of the Reason Foundation.8</span></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Halvorssen is also president of the Human Rights Foundation, a group that promotes individual liberty in the Americas. Its largest funders are the right-wing Lynde and Harry Bradley Foundation, Sarah Scaife Foundation, John Templeton Foundation and anti-labor Shelby Cullom David Foundation.9 <b>Halvorssen’s bio says he is on the board of the Charter School Advocacy Program.</b></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">----------------------</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">1 “Filming for freedom,” Reason, Oct. 1, 2007</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">2 Moving Picture Institute, http://www.thempi.org/cgi-local/content.cgi?p=15</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">3 In the August 2007 Weekly Standard interview, Halvorsen says he founded MPI, works on its behalf and helps find</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">talent for the nonprofit, “he’s not professionally involved with the organization.” Yet the Form 990 for MPI shows that</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Halvorssen collected $120,000 from MPI in 2007 for a “fellowship.”</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">4 “ ‘Indoctrinate U,' ” Pittsburgh Times Review, Sept, 29, 2007</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">5 “A maverick mogul, proudly politically incorrect,” The New York Times, Aug. 19, 2007</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">6 “Lights, camera, reaction,” The Weekly Standard, Aug. 13, 2007</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">7 Foundation Center grants database</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">8 Form 990, Foundation for Individual Rights in Education, 2007</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">9 Form 990, Human Rights Foundation, 2007; Guidestar grants database; foundation research</font></div></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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David Thayer, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chairman" title="Chairman" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Chairman</a>
Kevin Harper
Marc Leader
Michael J. Friedman
Rob Pfaltzgraff, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Executive_Director" class="mw-redirect" title="Executive Director" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Executive Director</a>
Rebekah Mercer
</font></p><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><b>Creative Council:</b><sup id="cite_ref-3" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moving_Picture_Institute#cite_note-3" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">[3]</a></sup>
Georgia Hilton
<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harry_Kloor" title="Harry Kloor" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Harry Kloor</a>
Cecilia DeMille Presley
<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rob_Long" title="Rob Long" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Rob Long</a>
<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evan_Coyne_Maloney" title="Evan Coyne Maloney" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Evan Coyne Maloney</a>
Michael Mandaville
<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Papola" title="John Papola" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">John Papola</a>
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</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">A hard-hitting documentary by reporter and news anchor Bob Bowdon, The Cartel exposes the corruption, waste, and intimidation in our nation’s public schools. Arguing that our public school system wastes billions of dollars each year, while our children learn less and less, The Cartelmakes a compelling case for far-reaching and immediate reform centered on school choice. In this stunning exposé, Bowdon puts a human face on the educational cartel and the people it harms. The film tells the harrowing, infuriating, and outrageous stories of New Jersey parents, children, teachers, reformers, whistleblowers, and policymakers. Meticulously researched and strikingly presented, The Cartel is an eloquent, compelling argument for ending the wasteful system that for too long has robbed American children of their potential and their promise.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Official Film Website</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The Rubber Room exposes how New York City wastes tens of millions a year warehousing hundreds of teachers who have been removed from the classroom, all while denying their right to due process. Accused of misconduct and incompetence, these teachers are forced to report to the "rubber room," a name that captures teachers’ desolate feeling of entrapment. Teachers spend weeks, months, even years in the rubber room, where they are not allowed to work but still collect their full salaries. A deeply disturbing exposé of how unions and government are colluding to squander huge sums of taxpayer dollars, this film depicts how the New York City education system has failed its children while blatantly disregarding the First Amendment.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">wiki</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>The Rubber Room</b> is a 2010 documentary film about the reassignment centers run by the New York City Department of Education, which the filmmakers claim exist in various forms in school districts across the United States. Allegedly intended to serve as temporary holding facilities for teachers accused of various kinds of misconduct who are awaiting an official hearing, these reassignment centers have become known amongst the "exiled" teachers subculture as "rubber rooms", so named after the padded cells of psychiatric hospitals.[1]</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Contents [hide] </font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">1<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>Film content</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">2<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>Making of the film</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">3<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>Release and reception</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">4<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>References</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">5<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>External links</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Film content[edit]</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The film documents the daily routines of teachers accused of misconduct or incompetence. Several days, weeks, months, or even years are spent in these "Kafkaesque"[1] rubber rooms waiting for some kind of resolution; the filmmakers estimate that the average wait time is three years, but cited cases lasting as long as ten years. During this time in "exile", the teachers receive their full pay and benefit packages at the cost of up to 65 million dollars per year to the city,[2] spending each day reading, playing cards, balancing checkbooks, sleeping, or simply staring blankly at the walls. Interviewed teachers from the rubber room describe the high tensions that develop between teachers angry at their inexplicable situations that curiously lead to a "prison-like" environment in which teachers largely separate themselves into fiercely territorial cliques, sometimes even resulting in physical altercations.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The rubber room is shown as a way that administrators are able to be rid of teachers by circumventing the notoriously difficult process of removing a tenured teacher. Reasons that teachers are sent to the rubber room range from accusations as extreme as physical and sexual abuse of students to as minor as excessive tardiness[1] or even simple personality conflicts with administrators, and yet these groups of teachers are shown to be lumped together in the same situation with egregiously delayed hearings, often without evidence of any misconduct, sometimes even going without knowledge of what the alleged misconduct actually is, for up to three years.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Furthermore, the film shows some students boasting about having learned to take advantage of this system after realizing that they have the power to remove teachers almost at will. This upset in the balance of power, they show, can have drastic effects on the teachers' ability to do their jobs and effectively teach while maintaining order in the classrooms.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Making of the film</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">In an interview with MSNBC's Joe Scarborough and Mika Brzezinski, filmmaker and former New York City teacher Jeremy Garrett explained that they intended their film to be an exposé on not only the excessive waste that is associated with maintaining the rubber rooms, but also to highlight the "shifting landscape in education", modern students' lack of respect for teachers and how it affects their ability to teach, and mismanagement of the educational system in general.[3]</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">During production, Mr Garrett was arrested for trespassing while covertly filming the events of daily life inside the rubber room.[4] According to Garrett, the arrest came after the Department of Education learned of his intent to collect footage inside the rubber rooms for the exposé.[3]</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The film was profiled in a 2008 segment of This American Life with Ira Glass called "Human Resources", which related various human resources problems in the country.[5]</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">In 2010, another documentary about the failures of the American public education, Waiting for "Superman", licensed footage shot by Five Boroughs Productions for The Rubber Room to use in Waiting for "Superman's"' short segment on the reassignment centers.[6]</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Release and reception[edit]</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">On April 12, 2010, the New York Department of Education (DoE) announced that it would be closing down its reassignment centers, facing pressures from the public and the teachers' union.[7]</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Due in part to media attention on the subject including the release of Waiting for "Superman" earlier in the year, as well as the recent settlement between the United Federation of Teachers (UFT) and DoE, the film was released to three full audiences on April 16, 2010, with largely positive reactions from the audience and critics in attendance.[8]</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">References[edit]</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">^ Jump up to:a b c Pilkington, Ed (16 April 2010). "New York to erase 'rubber rooms' for suspended teachers". London: The Guardian. Retrieved 27 July 2012.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Jump up^ Sara Kugler (2010-04-15). "NYC to stop paying teachers to do nothing". London: Associated Press.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">^ Jump up to:a b Scarborough, Joe (14 April 2010). "What is 'the Rubber Room'?". MSNBC. Retrieved 27 July 2012.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Jump up^ Altman, Mara. "Lousy teachers or just political victims: there's got to be a better way to settle teacher disputes than New York's rubber rooms". Retrieved 19 August 2012.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Jump up^ Glass, Ira. "350: Human Resources". This American Life. WBEZ. Retrieved 27 July 2012.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Jump up^ "Principal Editing on The Rubber Room Complete". News and Updates. Retrieved 27 July 2012. Davis Guggenheim, the director of An Inconvenient Truth, in association with Electric Kinney films, has licensed footage from Five Boroughs Productions for his latest project, Waiting for Supaman, a documentary film that tackles the subject of public education and features a segment on the Rubber Room.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Jump up^ Christ, Lindsey. "DOE Puts End To "Rubber Room" Practice". NY1. Retrieved 27 July 2012.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Jump up^ Scott, Norm. "Rubber Room Movie a Hit With Audience". Ed Notes Online. Retrieved 27 July 2012. http://ednotesonline.blogspot.com/2010/04/rubber-room-movie-hit-with-audience.html BLOG</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">External links[edit]</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Official website</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Gawker review</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">This American Life interview</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">MSNBC interview</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Categories: 2010 filmsEnglish-language films2010s documentary filmsAmerican documentary filmsAmerican filmsDocumentary films about American politicsDocumentary films about education in the United StatesEducation in the United States</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">WRITER/NARRATOR</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Phelim McAleer</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">DIRECTORS/PRODUCERS</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Phelim McAleer</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">ANN MCELHINNEY</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">EXECUTIVE PRODUCER</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Ann McElhinney</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>Mine Your Own Business</b> is a brave and fair defense of capitalism, the private sector, and sustainable development. It takes a close look at impoverished villages in Romania, Madagascar, and Chile, examining the consequences for indigenous peoples when Western environmental groups decide to mount activist campaigns in developing nations. The film makes an important intervention on behalf of local peoples’ right to choose their own futures without interference from influential Western lobby groups. A powerful statement on behalf of dignity, human rights, and economic self-determination, the documentary gives a human face to those whose futures are threatened if the West continues to pursue environmental policies without considering their social and economic impact on the world’s most vulnerable populations.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">In an Oct. 24 interview of Ann Coulter, CNSNews' Randy Hall happily plays straight man:</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">"What was you reason for putting together a collection of what we would call your greatest hits?"</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">"In your new book, you thank one group of Americans as unyielding in their defense ofthe truth to every single attack on you. What is that group, and why do you think they support you so strongly?"</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">"Do you think all the food thrown at you by liberal college students should be collected and given to the poor?"</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">"Do they throw finer cuisine at conservatives who speak at Harvard University?"</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Meanwhile, in an Oct. 25 interview of Evan Coyne Maloney, director of the anti-liberal film "Indoctrinate U," NewsBusters' Matthew Sheffield makes sure to work in the corporate line -- "You think, speaking of the media, do you think that part of the reasons that there hasn't been a lot of coverage [of Maloney's film] is that the media are liberal?" -- and he also finds common ground with Maloney on the horrible burden of being a conservative:</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">"Yeah, I've noticed kind of a similar thing. We just launched a comedy show on our web site but some of the audience doesn't quite get it. It's hard for them to understand anyone can be funny, and on film, and be conservative."</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">"I think it goes back-way back to the idea of the popular front. We on the right had to build up an intellectual structure to carry out our views ... And then you're supposed to go on to the mainstream."</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">"Yeah, exactly. What we need is someone on the right to say, hey that was a good idea that they had on the left to create a popular front so let's do the same thing, spend the money to train people to reach out to the average person."</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Sheffield also lets slide Maloney's claim that "there's no right-wing George Soros handing out millions upon millions of dollars to groups like a conservative MoveOn.org ." Has no one ever heard of Richard Mellon Scaife?</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Academic Thuggery: "Indoctrinate U" examines higher learning's left wing bias</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">5/18/2007, 3:46:03 PM · by Caleb1411 · 7 replies · 550+ views</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Weekly Standard ^ | 05/18/2007 | Sonny Bunch</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">IRONICALLY ENOUGH, aspiring conservative documentarian Evan Coyne Maloney received his inspiration from Michael Moore, the left-wing firebrand responsible for the anti-gun polemic Bowling for Columbine and the anti-Bush screed Fahrenheit 9/11. This isn't to say that Moore inspired him figuratively: Maloney literally stopped Moore on the street, interviewed him, and left with some helpful knowledge. When Maloney confronted the Oscar winner about the liberal slant of most Hollywood-produced documentaries, Moore responded thusly: "I agree with you. I think this art form should be open to people of all political persuasions and not just be people who are liberal or left...</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">---</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1602397/posts</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">More Crushing of Dissent ( protecting Yale's Taliban )</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">3/24/2006, 8:16:28 AM · by george76 · 39 replies · 1,638+ views</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">instapundit. ^ | March 24, 2006 | Glenn Reynolds</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Evan Coyne Maloney was kicked off the Yale campus for asking Taliban-related questions. Lux et Veritas, indeed.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Yesterday, Director Evan Coyne Maloney was on the Yale campus hoping to interview administrators and allow them to give a fuller accounting of their decision to admit an ex-Taliban official with very little previous education to the hallowed halls of one of America's elite universities. </font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">While Michael Moore has become one of America's notable documentary filmmakers – both Bowling for Columbine and Fahrenheit 9/11 won awards, set box office records and had the nation buzzing – conservatives have been hunting for a right-wing counterpart. Last fall, the American Film Renaissance film festival – whose slogan was "Doing Film the Right Way" – provided a platform for a slew of young conservative filmmakers. The first film festival devoted to screening films with conservative perspectives featured two anti-Moore films – Michael Wilson's Michael Moore Hates America, and radio and television talk show host and WorldNetDaily columnist Larry Elder's Michael and Me and new work from other conservatives.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">While neither of the anti-Moore films has yet managed to land a major distribution deal, this year's hopes for a breakout conservative filmmaker and film appears to rest with Evan Coyne Maloney. Despite the fact that Maloney "hasn't completed a single film," he "may very well be America's most promising conservative documentary filmmaker," Jacob Gershman recently reported in theNew York Sun.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Maloney is the 32-year-old director of the 46-minute film, Brainwashing 101. He, along with his two partners – Stuart E. Browning, the executive producer and primary funder of the projected full-length version of the film, and Blaine Greenberg – are offering a modicum of fame and a few decent prizes to students who catch their liberal professors injecting their own political opinions into courses where those views are deemed superfluous: Students can take down a pompous professor, become an instant celebrity (of sorts), possibly appear in a full-length documentary and win one of three decent prizes – an Apple iBook G4 Computer (first prize), an Apple iPod (second prize), or an Apple iPod Mini (third prize) for their troubles. (The contest, which began on Sept. 13, 2004, will accept entries until May 1, 2005.)</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">To qualify for fame and swag, students have to provide documentary evidence that their liberal professors fouled their classrooms with left-wing demagoguery.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">1. "When a professor voices his or her political views in class – but only when it does not pertain to the subject matter at hand – keep track of how much class time is spent on the political discussion, and to the best of your ability, record the comments made by the professor.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">2. "Also, record the date of the discussion, the name of your professor, the name and course ID of the class, and the name and location (city and state) of your school.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">3. "Lastly, you must be able to provide the name of at least one other student who was present at the time and who is willing to corroborate your report."</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">On the filmmaker's web site, AcademicBias.com – decorated with headshots of Marx, Lenin, Che Guevara, Noam Chomsky and Michael Moore – Mahoney, Browning and Greenberg describe the short version of Brainwashing 101 as "a provocative short film showing how universities use tools such as 'speech codes' to force political views upon students." In what they call a cutting expose, the filmmakers "shine a light on political correctness, academic bias, student censorship – even administrative cover-ups of death threats – at three schools: Bucknell University, the University of Tennessee at Knoxville and California Polytechnic State University (Cal Poly)."</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Maloney describes himself as a "libertarian conservative" who "considers Ronald Reagan his political hero." He told the Sun's Gershman that he was also greatly influenced by Dinesh D'Souza's book, Illiberal Education. While at Bucknell University, he edited the conservative newspaper, the Sentinel. In a pre-Iraq War essay entitled "Give Peace a Chance to Do What, Exactly?" Maloney parroted the Bush/Cheney line, arguing in support of the invasion claiming that "Iraq and al Qaeda complement each other quite well," and that the United Nations needed to "hold Iraq accountable ... [or it] will be committing itself to permanent irrelevance."</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Maloney began his film career by "staking out" Michael Moore "for four days," hoping to confront him and "provok[e] a flustered reaction," which he would then post on his weblog Brain-terminal.com. Moore didn't flinch; instead he told Maloney that documentary filmmaking "should be open to all people of all political persuasions." "It should not just be people who are liberal, or left-of-center, or whatever," the Oscar-winner said. "Make your movies, and then the people will respond or not respond to them." [a free mtkeer!]</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Maloney posted the Moore footage on his web site, and after the war started, he set about shooting anti-war demonstrators, posting that video as well. Maloney's work was seen by Stuart Browning, a very wealthy 44-year-old from Miami Beach with "deeply conservative political views," and was also given the stamp of approval by Glenn Reynolds, the author of Instapundit.com, a well-known right-wing weblog.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">In the fall of 2003, Maloney and Browning founded On the Fence Films, and budgeted $250,000 for Brainwashing 101. According to Gershman, the expanded version of the film has the working title Ministry of Truth.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">In a recent posting on the filmmaker's web site, Mahoney reiterates his commitment to academic freedom, assuring participants that they are taking "precautions to ensure that the academic freedom of professors is not trampled upon." "But," Mahoney reminds us, "as Eleanor Roosevelt once said, 'With freedom comes responsibility.' To talk of academic freedom without recognizing the academic responsibility of professors is to focus on only half the equation. Professors have tremendous power within the classroom, and responsible professors exercise that power without injecting their political views in ways that are not germane to the course material. If political science professors dispassionately discuss their political views in class, we don't have a problem with that. Unfortunately, there are many cases where professors abuse their freedom to the detriment of their students, and that's what we'd like to address."</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Glenn Reynolds called Maloney's web video journalism "the wave of the future," and it appears to be a seamless extension of the on-campus shenanigans of David Horowitz and his Los Angeles-based Center for the Study for Popular Culture, the Independent Women's Forum (IWF), and Lynne Cheney (the wife of vice president Dick Cheney).</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">In the autumn 2001 issue of City Journal – a quarterly publication of the conservative think tank, The Manhattan Institute – Roger Kimball waxed effusively about the intrepid efforts by David Horowitz and the Independent Women's Forum to "liberat[e] tolerance" on the nation's college campuses. According to Kimball, a longtime conservative critic, Horowitz and the IWF's weapon of choice were advertisements placed in college newspapers promoting their political agendas – the former opposing reparations for African Americans and the latter attacking a series of feminist "myths" including incidents of date rape.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">In the aftermath of 9/11, with questions surfacing about the nature of the terrorist attacks, Horowitz launched a preemptive strike against dissent on college campuses. New advertisements warned students to "think again" before they joined an "'anti-war' effort against America's coming battle with international terrorism." As is his wont, Horowitz's pre-emptive strike was aimed at setting the guidelines for the debate over President Bush's coming permanent war against terrorism.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">"There is a difference between honest dissent and malevolent hate, between criticism of national policy and sabotage of the nation's defenses," Horowitz pointed out. He also confessed to having been part of a movement of "thousands of other New Leftists," in the sixties that opposed the war in Vietnam and had "crossed the line between dissent and actual treason."</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Cheney's contribution to academic freedom came in the form of a scandalous report issued by the American Council of Trustees and Alumni (ACTA), a Washington D.C.-based group she co-founded in 1995 – with Connecticut Sen. Joseph Lieberman – as the National Alumni Forum. The publication slammed faculty on college campuses for being "the weak link in America's response to the attack" of Sept. 11.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Will Maloney succeed where other conservative filmmakers have failed? According to Gershman, the 46-minute version was well-received at the Liberty Festival in Los Angeles last October and Brainwashing 101 was seen as the "most anticipated" documentary in 2005 by the organizers of American Film Renaissance.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">http://www.nysun.com/new-york/conservative-answer-to-michael-moore/8027/</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Evan Coyne Maloney, 32, who dresses and looks like a college student, may very well be America's most promising conservative documentary filmmaker. Yet the Upper East Side resident hasn't completed a single film.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The hype unaccompanied by output says a lot about the room for growth in the conservative documentary community. But a number of those on the right expect Mr. Maloney's unfinished debut film, "Brainwashing 101,"to emerge as a breakout theatrical hit - or at least to make it to theaters, a feat few films of its political ilk have managed to achieve.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">A sardonic attack on political correctness in higher education, Mr. Maloney's film was hailed as the "most anticipated" documentary in 2005 by the American Film Renaissance, an upstart film institute based in Dallas. People attending October's Liberty Festival in Los Angeles apparently gave a preview version of it a standing ovation - though not of the duration of Michael Moore's 20 minutes at Cannes. A critic writing for the insider Hollywood Web site Ain't It Cool News called the first cut of the film one of the most "horrifying and hysterical documentaries I have ever seen."</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">As the title suggests, the 46-minute film, which Mr. Maloney is racing to expand into a full-length documentary by fall, is his attempt to confirm the worst assumptions that conservatives have about what goes on at universities. His film is about the spread of noxious speech codes, abuses of power by vindictive administrators, and the arbitrary restrictions on academic freedom imposed on conservative students - cases of which, the film argues, are increasingly cropping up in universities. The film begins with images of Columbia University, a university embroiled in a controversy concerning students who say professors violated their academic freedom.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">On the road with Mr. Maloney across the country, the viewer watches an economics professor from Mr. Maloney's alma mater, Bucknell University in Pennsylvania, explain to the filmmaker that most white students at the school are "unconsciously racist" and that much of the "cutting-edge" work in his field is "being done in feminist economics."</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Mr. Maloney then turns his camera to the case of Steve Hinkle. A student at California Polytechnic State University, he was disciplined by school officials after posting a flyer promoting an upcoming speech by a black conservative who equated welfare and slavery. The school dropped charges against Mr. Hinkle only after a civil-liberties organization sued, saying the university was violating freedom of speech.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">To top it off, Mr. Maloney interviews Sukhmani Singh Khalsa of the University of Tennessee, a Sikh convert who received a death threat by e-mail from another student angry over his conservative opinion pieces in the student newspaper. The university refused to punish the author of the e-mail, who called Mr. Khalsa a "towel head" and reportedly urged students to shoot the student in the "face."</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">"The problem on campus becomes who defines harassment," Mr. Maloney said in a recent interview with The New York Sun. "Who on campus is going to stand up to a multicultural office or a diversity office?"</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">One of the more amusing scenes in the film comes when Mr. Maloney stops by the office of Cal Poly's president, Warren Baker - in a "Roger and Me" moment - for an impromptu interview, only to be herded away by a grouchy assistant. Not a single university administrator has agreed to appear in the New Yorker's film.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The story of how Mr. Maloney, who had little previous filmmaking experience, has become the right's best answer to Mr. Moore starts a little more than a year ago in front of the home of the older documentarian.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">After staking out the director for four days with a fancy new Panasonic digital video recorder, Mr. Maloney confronted Mr. Moore on a sidewalk on the Upper West Side, with the intention of provoking a flustered reaction from him. Mr. Maloney wanted to needle him with pointed questions about liberal bias in Hollywood and then post the footage on his Web log, Brain-terminal.com.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Mr. Moore, as it turned out, was game for the interview. He calmly told Mr. Maloney that documentary filmmaking "should be open to all people of all political persuasions."</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">"It should not just be people who are liberal, or left-of-center, or whatever," the Oscar-winner said. "Make your movies, and then the people will respond or not respond to them."</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Soon after the video of Mr. Moore went up on his Web site, Mr. Maloney received an e-mail message from Stuart Browning, 44, a goateed man from Miami Beach who has deeply conservative political views - and who boasts of having more money than the 2004 Democratic vice presidential nominee, John Edwards.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">At the time, Mr. Maloney had already gained some notice from the press with his 6- or 7-minute documentary shorts on left-wing protesters.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">He videotaped antiwar demonstrators in New York in 2003 providing silly answers to questions about how America ought to deal with Iraq. He recorded a rowdy pro-Palestinian protest at Rutgers University, where one speaker screamed, "Long live the intifada," and another protester whispered to Mr. Maloney on camera: "Are you nervous?"</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The shorts, posted on Mr. Maloney's Web site, were enough to impress Glenn Reynolds of Instapundit.com, who called Mr. Maloney's Web video journalism "the wave of the future."</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">In the fall of 2003, Mr. Browning and Mr. Maloney founded a production company, On the Fence Films, whose first film would be "Brainwashing 101." The expanded version has the working title "Ministry of Truth." Mr. Browning set the budget of "Brainwashing" at $250,000, a little more than 4% of Miramax's reported investment in "Fahrenheit 9/11."</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Mr. Browning and Mr. Maloney said they have no idea whether the expanded film will ever find its way into your local Cineplex.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The most support they've gotten so far is from the organizers of the two conservative film festivals held last year.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">"Evan has a lot of charisma," the president of the American Film Renaissance, James Hubbard, said. "He balances that out with a sharp intellect, and he's funny. When you want to tell a story, those are three great things to have.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The final version of the film will also answer the question about whether the technology used in making documentary films has become so inexpensive and accessible that anybody who can tell an interesting story has a chance of making it big.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Mr. Maloney works out of Starbucks or his tidy one-bedroom apartment. He has 100 hours of footage stored in what is called a Redundant Array of Inexpensive Disks - a data-protection device that costs more than some cars. He edits raw footage with Apple Final Cut Pro software, using an Apple Power Mac Dual G5.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">When he's interviewing on campuses, he wears a black T-shirt, loose-fitting Gap jeans, Rockport shoes, and, sometimes, a Yankees baseball cap that makes him look like an Irish version of the pitcher Mike Mussina. When he interviews would-be hostile subjects, Mr. Maloney puts on a blank face and speaks with a deadpan, dry delivery.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">"The most effective way is to ask very simple, basic questions, so they don't think I dislike them," he said, "because I don't dislike them as people. I may not agree with their viewpoints."</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">It's an interview tactic he used effectively on a Bucknell professor, Geoffrey Schneider, the faculty member who spoke about his students' unconscious racism.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">In an interview with the Sun, Mr. Schneider said he was "basically manipulated into appearing" in Mr. Maloney's film. "I was told originally I was going to be interviewed for a film about professors' academic freedom and attempts to censor professors," he said.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Mr. Schneider, a specialist in what is called institutionalist economics, said the film was edited in a "ridiculous" way that made it seem as though Bucknell students learn only about Marx and feminist political economy. "I also teach Austrian economics," he remarked, saying he was sympathetic to all the ideas taught in the economics courses.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">"It's silly to say our curriculum is politically correct and biased in favor of liberal ideas, and then to use as an example what is taught in one day, in one course," Mr. Schneider said.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">He stands by his comments on student racism: "Everybody comes from a specific background, and Bucknell students tend to be white upper-income. If they are white upper-income, they come with certain baggage" - such as negative stereotypes about black Americans.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">"One of the things we try to do, which so angers conservative students, is to unpack these biases that we all have, to try to analyze them for what they are," he told the Sun.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">For Mr. Maloney, the professor's comments are the type of thinking that provoked him into making the film in the first place. "He doesn't see political correctness as a problem," Mr. Maloney said.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">His views on higher education were strongly influenced by Dinesh D'Souza's "Illiberal Education," the 1991 polemic against political correctness, and by the famous case involving a University of Pennsylvania student, Eden Jacobowitz, who was charged with racial harassment after shouting, "Shut up, you water buffalos," at a group of black students.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">"To me, it kind of illustrated what political correctness is all about," Mr. Maloney said. "It was a form of hypocrisy. It was shoehorning every incident into the box of race, class, and gender."</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">He describes himself as a "libertarian conservative" and considers Ronald Reagan his political hero. He cannot explain why he steered toward the right while growing up in a liberal city, other than to recall the time he delivered a speech in front of his class at JHS 167 Wagner about the danger of nuclear weapons. "I realized I didn't believe a word I was saying," Mr. Maloney said.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">A B student at Bucknell, Mr. Maloney edited a conservative newspaper, the Sentinel, which he recalls was occasionally stolen from circulation centers and trashed. After graduating in 1994, he hopped around between his two passions, politics and technology, designing software for various failed tech companies and assisting the failed campaigns of various New York City Republican politicians.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">One of the developing trends among conservative documentary filmmakers is their background in the technology industry. Mr. Browning, who paid for "Brainwashing 101," became rich as one of the four co-founders of Embarcadero Technologies.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Two years after launching Brain-terminal.com, Mr. Maloney was inspired to make a movie by watching news reports of the antiwar protests that preceded America's invasion of Iraq.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">"They kept showing signs of Bush with a swastika on his head. You can't think that mainstream America thinks Bush and Hitler can be equated," he said. "I remember thinking, if there is a protest in New York, I'm going to film it."</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Stuart Browning is a political commentator, writer, film director, film producer and entrepreneur.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Browning produced The Free Market Cure series, a collection of short films arguing against collectivized medicine and for the benefits of free markets in health care.[1] He is a fellow of the Moving Picture Institute, and a producer of Indoctrinate U,[2] and its predecessor Brainwashing 101.[3] Browning was President and co-founder of Embarcadero Technologies from 1995[4] until February 2000,[5] a leading database software vendor in San Francisco.[6]</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Contents [hide] </font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">1<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>Film shorts</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">1.1<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>The Free Market Cure Video Series</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">2<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>Writings</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">3<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>References</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">4<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>External links</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Film shorts[edit]</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">El Uno De Mayo</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The Free Market Cure Video Series[edit]</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Uninsured in America (2007) is part of The Free Market Cure series created by filmmaker Stuart Browning about what he calls "the dangers of collectivized medicine and the benefits of free markets in health care." In the film, Browning argues that the number of uninsured Americans is closer to eight million than the forty-five million estimate provided by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention[7] and from the United States Census[8] and that uninsured Americans have adequate access to health care.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Dead Meat</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The Lemon</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Two Women</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Short Course in Brain Surgery</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Writings[edit]</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The Health Care Lies of Paul Krugman[9]</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Leftist Ideologues Advocate a Perverse Health Care System[10]</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Health Care, Lies and Video Tape[11]</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Socialized Medicine is Sicko[12]</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">References[edit]</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Jump up</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">wiki</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Evan Coyne Maloney (born October 27, 1972), is an American documentary filmmaker, the editor of the website Brain Terminal and a video blogger. A New York Sun profile in 2005 said that Maloney “may very well be America’s most promising conservative documentary filmmaker.”[1] He has been described as the conservative answer to Michael Moore.[1][2][3]</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Contents [hide] </font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">1<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>Early life and education</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">2<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>Career</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">3<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>Filmmaking</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">4<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>Brainwashing 101</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">5<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>Indoctrinate U</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">6<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>Hating Breitbart</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">7<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>The Machine</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">8<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>Political views</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">9<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>Honors and awards</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">10<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>References</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">11<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>External links</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Early life and education[edit]</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">“Shortly after his tenth birthday,” according to Maloney's biography on his own website, Brain Terminal, he “was introduced to his two main passions: politics and technology.” Politics was the subject of family dinner-table discussions, and his parents were liberal, so he handed out flyers in Manhattan for Walter Mondale's presidential campaign. Talk radio, however, introduced him to conservative ideas, and when Maloney, as a student at JHS 167, had to give a classroom presentation on nuclear weapons, he rejected “the propaganda propagated in schools... that President Reagan was going to drive us headlong into nuclear war,” knowing “viscerally that our weapons protected our country and helped keep the peace.”[4] In an interview with the New York Sun, Maloney described that incident in this way: when delivering a classroom presentation “about the danger of nuclear weapons,” he “realized I didn’t believe a word I was saying.”[1] In 1989 he volunteered on Rudolph Giuliani's mayoral campaign.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Maloney learned at an early age about computer programming, and at age twelve wrote an Apple II program called Foscil DOS, “a disk operating system that was marketed through magazines and stores.”[4]</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">He attended Bucknell University, where he published a conservative newspaper, The Sentinel.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">He later said that he and other students at Bucknell “were being preached to about sensitivity and tolerance, but when no tolerance was shown to people sharing my opinion, it seemed that the university didn’t care.”[1][2]</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">He graduated from Bucknell University in 1994 with a Bachelor of Science in Business Administration.[5][6]</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Career[edit]</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">In the mid-1990s, Maloney served as chief of staff for a New York State Assembly campaign and as campaign manager for two candidates in Civil Court Judge races.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">From 1994 to early 2002, Maloney worked principally as a software developer for Internet start-ups. From 1995 thru 1998, Maloney was the lead developer of UNET's KeepTalking web chat server.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">In 1996, Maloney co-developed DarkHorse: The Virtual Campaign Game for MSNBC and Byron Preiss Multimedia.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">In February 2003, Maloney posted the video Protesting the Protesters to his website. The video featured street interviews at an anti-war protest in New York City. Although his site was fairly obscure at the time, several media outlets took notice, and within a day of his posting the video it was featured on Special Report with Brit Hume. A day later, audio clips from the interviews were featured on Rush Limbaugh's radio show.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Since then, Maloney's website has become popular, receiving more than 5 million hits by the end of 2003 and logging over 6 million hits in 2004.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">He then took a position as communications director for a New York State Senate campaign.oddly no name?</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Since then he has been working as a freelance writer, business consultant, software developer, and filmmaker.[4]</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Filmmaking[edit]</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">According to one account, a PBS report's suggestion that anti-Iraq War protesters waving pictures of George W. Bush with a Hitler mustache represented mainstream American opinion inspired Maloney “to take to the streets, infiltrate anti-war marches and rallies, film what went on and post the results online.” The resulting video, “Protesting the Protesters”, was posted on his website in February 2003.[2] Although his site was fairly obscure at the time, several media outlets took notice, and within a day of his posting the video it was featured on Special Report with Brit Hume. A day later, audio clips from the interviews were featured on Rush Limbaugh's radio show.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">After that episode, Maloney's website became popular, receiving more than 5 million hits by the end of 2003 and logging over 6 million hits in 2004.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">According to one account, Maloney's career as a documentary filmmaker began when he “confronted Moore outside his Manhattan apartment in autumn 2003 with charges that he had shamelessly used his public platform to promote liberal causes.” Moore “was charm itself” and pleaded guilty, adding “that if Maloney felt so strongly, he should have a crack at his own film project. So Maloney used his online video of the exchange to put out an appeal for funding.” He received support from entrepreneur Stuart Browning.[2]</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">In late 2003, Maloney co-founded On The Fence Films, a film production company with entrepreneur Stuart Browning and entertainment attorney Blaine Greenberg. Their first release, Brainwashing 101 is a short documentary analyzing the political environments on three college campuses: Bucknell University, the University of Tennessee and California Polytechnic. The film was named one of the "10 Best Documentary Films of 2004"[citation needed] by the Liberty Film Festival, and John Fund ofThe Wall Street Journal reported that it was "the clear favorite of festival attendees" at the American Film Renaissance.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Browning, founder of Embarcadero Technologies, “suggested that he make a full-length feature about the tyranny of political correctness and affirmative action on campuses.” Browning gave him $250,000 to make the film that became “Brainwashing 101”, which examines the political environments on three college campuses: Bucknell University, the University of Tennessee, and California Polytechnic.[3]</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">In the fall of 2005, On The Fence Films released Maloney's follow-up film Brainwashing 201: The Second Semester, another short film focusing on higher education.Brainwashing 201 has only been screened once, at the Liberty Film Festival, where it won the award for "Best Short Film of 2005."</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">On The Fence Films released Indoctrinate U, the feature-length follow-up to Brainwashing 101 and Brainwashing 201: The Second Semester, in April 2007. An article[7]in The New York Times mentioning Indoctrinate U attracted strong criticism from Maloney[8] and Greg Lukianoff of the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education.[9]</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Brainwashing 101[edit]</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Maloney wrote, directed, and edited the short documentary "Brainwashing 101” (2004).[10] It examines left-wing intolerance at three colleges, Bucknell, Cal Poly, and the University of Tennessee.[2] The New York Sun called it an “attempt to confirm the worst assumptions that conservatives have about what goes on at universities,” and described its subjects as “the spread of noxious speech codes, abuses of power by vindictive administrators, and the arbitrary restrictions on academic freedom imposed on conservative students—cases of which, the film argues, are increasingly cropping up in universities.”[1]</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">According to the Sun, “Brainwashing 101” “was hailed as the 'most anticipated' documentary in 2005 by the American Film Renaissance, an upstart film institute based in Dallas.” An audience at the Liberty Festival in Los Angeles reportedly gave a preview version of the film a standing ovation. And a critic for the Hollywood Web site Ain’t It Cool News said that the film, in its first cut, was one of the most “horrifying and hysterical documentaries I have ever seen.”[1]</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">One reviewer commented: “Maloney tells the truth when he says the academic world is run by intolerant leftist ideologues, who try to stamp out dissent while proclaiming themselves the apostles of 'diversity.' The film is fast-paced, easy to watch, and done in a light enough style to keep it from sounding doom-and-gloom.”[11]</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Indoctrinate U[edit]</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Main article: Indoctrinate U</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Maloney wrote and directed the full-length documentary Indoctrinate U (2007).[10] In Indoctrinate U, reported the Times Higher Education Supplement, Maloney “levels his video camera at campuses that, he says, have become hotbeds of America-bashing radicalism and zealous political correctness and that tolerate no dissenting (read conservative) opinions.”[2] “Judging by the rough cut” of Indoctrinate U, wrote Damian Thompson in The Daily Telegraph before the film's release, “the movie will be as slick and incisive as anything by Michael Moore.” Describing Maloney as “the Anti-Michael Moore,” Thompson wrote that the filmmaker “is on a mission to expose through his film what he sees as the astonishingly vicious persecution of conservative students by university professors and administrators.”[3] Stanley Kurtz wrote atNational Review that the film was “a fun and powerful piece of work that deserves a wide audience,” and that its “real force...flows from Maloney’s recounting of a series of incidents of campus political correctness. I had never heard of any of these cases. Yet each of them is remarkable.”[12]</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Hating Breitbart[edit]</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Main article: Hating Breitbart</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Maloney produced the 2012 documentary Hating Breitbart,[10] directed by Andrew Marcus. “The movie follows Breitbart for two years, chronicling his fight against the mainstream media and his battles with the institutional left,” according to an account at National Review.[13] Andrew Leigh, also writing in National Review, notes that the filmmakers appeared “to have followed Breitbart everywhere: to tea-party rallies, inside media interviews, through dense convention crowds, in the car, into hotel rooms, even standing watch as he ironed his pants and brushed his teeth. But we don’t mind, because the movie delivers generous doses of Breitbart’s offbeat charm, and for that alone we ought to be grateful to director Andrew Marcus and producers Maura Flynn and Evan Coyne Maloney.”[12]</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The Machine[edit]</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Maloney's 2012 film The Machine is about “how public sector unions corrupt politicians, pick taxpayers’ pockets, and make it nearly impossible to hold teachers and other government employees accountable....American taxpayers, by subsidizing public sector unions and the politicians who support them, are being compelled to fund 'the machine'—which, in turn, leads to the perpetual growth of unions and big government.”[14]</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Political views[edit]</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">"Despite ticking so many Democrat boxes - Irish name, New Yorker, software designer, gay-friendly, non-churchgoer - Evan Maloney is a Republican," wrote a Daily Telegraph reporter in 2005. The reporter noted that Maloney, whom he met in a Union Square coffeeshop, said with anger, "Right here, two days after 9/11, there was a demonstration of people saying we got what we deserved. I was sickened - it was like saying a rape victim had it coming because she dressed provocatively. That's when my passion for politics reignited."[3]</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Describing him as "the right’s best answer to [Michael] Moore," The New York Sun reported in 2005 that "Maloney describes himself as a 'libertarian conservative' and considers Ronald Reagan his political hero."[1]</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Honors and awards[edit]</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Indoctrinate U won the “Special Jury Prize for Libertarian Ideals” at the 2011 Anthem Awards.[15] sound like affirmative action to me ;)</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">References[edit]</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">^ Jump up to:a b c d e f g Gershman, Michael (Jan 21, 2005). "A Conservative Answer to Michael Moore". The New York Sun.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">^ Jump up to:a b c d e f "Michael Moores Opposite Number". The Times Higher Education. Sep 16, 2005.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">^ Jump up to:a b c d Thompson, Damian (Aug 21, 2005). "Setting Americas Liberals Right". Independent.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">^ Jump up to:a b c "About Site". BrainTerminal.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Jump up^ Brain Terminal — Frequently Asked Questions by Evan Coyne Maloney</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Jump up^ Film Police: Universities vs. Guerrilla Moviemaker", interview by Kyle Smith, New York Post, June 20, 2007</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Jump up^ "Film Portrays Stifling of Speech, but One College’s Struggle Reflects a Nuanced Reality", Joseph Berger, The New York Times, June 27, 2007</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Jump up^ "New York Times Covers Indoctrinate U", Evan Coyne Maloney, Brain Terminal, June 27, 2007</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Jump up^ "‘New York Times’ Disappoints", Greg Lukianoff, FIRE website, June 27, 2007</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">^ Jump up to:a b c "Evan Coyne Maloney". IMDB.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Jump up^ Doigon, Lee. "A Review of Brainwashing 101: A film by Evan Coyne Maloney". Chalcedon.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">^ Jump up to:a b Kurtz, Stanley (Apr 30, 2007). "Indoctrinate U". National Review.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Jump up^ "'Hating Breitbart' Screens in Washington DC". Breitbart. Oct 9, 2012.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Jump up^ "The Machine". Moving Picture Institute.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Jump up^ "Awards". Anthem Film Festival.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">External links[edit]</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Evan Coyne Maloney at the Internet Movie Database</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Brain Terminal</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Indoctrinate-U website</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">On The Fence Films</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Authority control<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">WorldCat IdentitiesVIAF: 44107358</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Categories: 1972 birthsBucknell University alumniLiving peopleAmerican documentary filmmakersConservatism in the United StatesAmerican libertarians</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Moving Picture Institute</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">375 Greenwich St.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">New York, NY 10013</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Check to : Moving Picture Institute</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Support for the Moving Picture Institute's mission to identify and nurture</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">promising filmmakers who are committed to protecting and sustaining a</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">free society.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Total $10,000</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">=</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">=</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">INDOC U</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">see acta, 4 sis , old incubator</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WHyvRHrYYBA</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">...</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">not mkt but monopoly</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">1960's right to dissent, VN free sp killed by regulatiojn</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">race class gender all out pol war</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">connerly shouted down at MI</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">carol swain vanderbilt oreo did not get grants b/c ~ AAction</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">john mcwhorter ucb ex prof</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">AA --> taint</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">~ AA = hate speech AA bake sale UCI (threat w. arrest) columbia --> protest angry, structural change</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">cntral conn slave reparations 7 spkr Jay Berman said not diverse intell thuggery </font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">noel ignatev whiteness not a culture, oppressive social category; b ID in resistance</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">john w: X teaches how to be a victim</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">racism can be unconscious</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">re-segregation</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">brodeur tells us what mlk means</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">steve hinkel cal poly mason weaver "it's ok to leave plantation" free mkt offesnive, hate sp; hung in multi-cult ctr emotional disorder</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">7 hr hearing ; charged with disruption; found guilty (on transcripts); prof said ltr of apolgy would haunt him; "objective met": so dropped case but not? 40K legal fees, expunged; </font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">asked to stop filming, did not; no appt; </font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">cops tossed</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">----</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">u tenn</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">dressed as jackson 5, blackface, suspended frat (party off campus on street)</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">st gov brings only left spkrs to campus "issues comm"</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">sikh wrote ltr objecting (raghead threat?) sukmani</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">speech codes FIRE looked at 300 schools; </font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">david french ending harassmant (feelings hurt, offended)</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">brown u: angry, impotent or disenfanchised</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">loss of self esteem...</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">aa action, free tibet ok</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">passion of the christ r rated</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">presidnt fire sez he's liberal</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">yale free press (stolen) admin won't act</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">cal patriot ucb ca racist sign, only good gop is dead; spit; </font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">freberg husb of prof; laura we wd not have hired you cal poly [san l obispo, psych head dept lost; lawyered up; </font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">dan klein scu 7 to 1 , 30-1 survey</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">stan rothman 72% left of ctr vs 15%</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">munge duke</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">pipes, ME forum</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">kc johnson dead whit male (bowtie)</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">lazy gestural</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">stanford enforce diversity</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">why not more inrel diversity HOOVER?!</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">am cncl trustees and alumni anne neal did study; what is effect in classroom; </font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">http://www.goacta.org/</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">munger profs pathetic need of validation</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">bucknell PA women's ctr trips to pol events</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">title 9 bucknell ended make wr team;</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">men 44% coll st.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">post 911 brought on ourself</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">us use of force said to be illegit; israel wrong</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">captialism is bad; western civ depradation</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">foothill, kuwaiti; pro am essay upholding Const; elitist; get psych help; pull visa; approved flyer st ac office; don't show us flyer, just terms cited; compared to hitler and suicide bomber; [ A Kuwaiti student,Ahmad Al-Qloushi, who wrote a pro-American essay was called into his professor's office, berated for defending America, and told to go seek psychological counseling.]</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">de paul ward chuchill; stopped flyers (just quoted him) us shd be wiped off map; </font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">mil rotc; don't ask don't tell is stated; capiralist (malc X bloodsucker); imperuialist</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">NC state; </font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">tires slasshed ucsc; sfstate: army corps shut down job fair; you're racists; emploers paid good $</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">ucsc drove recruit away after ct ruled funding could be pulled;</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">yale hashemi; cozy up to terror; columbua Kadafi spk on democ; $ arab govt' armaco; sultan pgm ucb; </font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">acvad mised problems then --> 911 Pipes</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">sympathy for enemy</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">flag on bus could be intim to non-US</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">todd beamer</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">no flags on 911 anniv?</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">flush the johns</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">pol bully profs</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">no justice, no peace</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">no admin harmed</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">shut up and teach it;s stupid, bias; work at mcD take my order right bros; </font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">brendan steinhauser; rawa.org</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">glenn reynolds</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">anon in chic? steve baier, balch; sarah longwell; frak lutz; pfal; howie rich; right bros</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Shortly after the 9/11 attacks, Cheney received media attention when an organization she jointly founded with Sen. Joe Lieberman (I-CT) in the mid-1990s, theAmerican Council of Trustees and Alumni (ACTA), published a report called "Defending Civilization: How Our Universities Are Failing America.” Many observersharshly criticized the ACTA report for seeking to "blacklist" professors who had made statements such as "It is from the desperate, angry, and bereaved that these suicide pilots came," which ACTA characterized as "anti-American."[7]</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The criticism spurred ACTA to issue a "revised and expanded" edition of its report in February 2002, which included "a sampler of the many responses" to the original report. The revised edition, authored by ACTA staff, claims in its "Acknowledgements" that "no public official—including Lynne Cheney and Sen. Joe Lieberman—has endorsed or been asked to endorse this report." The new report was in essence a compendium of some 100 statements recorded by ACTA that revealed what it called "moral equivocation" and outright hostility toward the United States among academic elites. Such statements included: "Just because a grotesque act was committed against this country, does not mean any response is justified; it does not grant this country special license to use the sword"; "[Americans should] bring ourselves and our country to justice, not just the perpetrators"; and "War created people like Osama bin Laden, and more war will create more people like him."[8]</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Cheney has also criticized universities for offering more courses on global culture and history. Reported one journalist: "The American experience, she argues, was the high point of world history: 'I find it hard to imagine that there's a story more wonderful than being driven by the desire to worship freely, to set off across that ocean, to make a home out of this wild, inhospitable land.'"[9]</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Pre-9/11, Cheney's hard-line views focused mainly on countries like China. According to TheAtlantic's James Fallows, while Cheney served on the Hart-Rudman Commission on National Security in the 21st Century, she repeatedly insisted that a military showdown with the Chinese was unavoidable.[10]</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Cheney is a former director of the Independent Women's Forum (IWF), a right-wing group opposed to "radical feminism," government-sponsored childcare, and equal pay for equal work standards for women in government service. IWF was one of the contractors selected by the State Department to implement the “Iraqi Women's Democracy Initiative" to train Iraqi women for political participation.[11]</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Are liberals stifling conservative views on campus?</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">By Marcia Clemmitt</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Overview</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">When 17-year-old Kuwaiti immigrant Ahmad Al-Qloushi handed in the final paper for his American government course at California's Foothill College last November, he never expected what happened next. The professor “verbally attacked me and my essay,” the freshman — an Arab Muslim — wrote in the online FrontPage Magazine, published by the conservative Center for the Study of Popular Culture. 1</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Al-Qloushi's assignment had been to demonstrate that the U.S. Constitution represented elite interests, excluding most people who lived in America at the time it was written. But Al-Qloushi refused to accept that interpretation, which had been put forward by authors the class had studied. During his high school days in Kuwait, he recalled, “Many of my teachers were Palestinian; they hated America, they hated my world-view, and they did their best to brainwash me.” Al-Qloushi decided that he had not left his home country to come to the United States “to receive further brainwashing.” 2</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">So he wrote the paper on his own topic — a defense of “the U.S. Constitution as a pioneering document, which has contributed to extraordinary freedoms” both in the United States and elsewhere. 3</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">But according to Professor Joseph Woolcock, the essay didn't meet his course standards. “When I read the paper, it became clear to me that it did not respond to the question,” Woolcock wrote. 4</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Remarks about women's science aptitude by Harvard President Lawrence Summers last January ignited protests from students and faculty as well as charges from conservatives that some liberals were trying to chill free speech on campus. (Getty Images/Jodi Hilton) </font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Remarks about women's science aptitude by Harvard President Lawrence Summers last January ignited protests from students and faculty as well as charges from conservatives that some liberals were trying to chill free speech on campus. (Getty Images/Jodi Hilton)</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Faced with a failing grade and what he saw as Woolcock's attempt to intimidate him by demanding that he see a therapist, Al-Qloushi went public. (Woolcock says he only recommended counseling because of fears and agitation the student expressed during their meeting.) The Foothill College Republican Club, of which Al-Qloushi was president, told reporters Al-Qloushi had been harassed by a left-wing professor because he wrote a pro-American essay.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The story quickly became a hot topic on political blogs (Web journals) as David Horowitz and other conservative commentators leaped to Al-Qloushi's defense. But other analysts — including self-described centrist and conservative political science professors — argued that the freshman deserved his failing mark on purely academic grounds.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Steven Taylor, an associate professor of political science at Alabama's Troy University, wrote that he would have given the essay “a low score, maybe even a failing score” because Al-Qloushi “did not answer the question” and the essay was “fluffy and subjective.” According to Taylor, rather than constituting America-bashing, Woolcock's essay question “notes, correctly, that the Constitution . . . was written by the elites of the day and . . . limited democratic participation. Regardless of one's political point of view, there is no denying . . . these facts.” 5</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The dust-up is part of a new wave of campus wars between professors claiming academic freedom — the right to make educational and research decisions based on their professional expertise — and critics who argue that unchecked left-wing political bias at liberal arts colleges creates a threatening environment for conservative students and discourages them from expressing their views. The controversies usually surround such polarizing issues as the war on terror, the Iraq war, the increasing popularity of fundamentalist Christian views, the growing clout of feminists and gays and the Middle East conflict.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">“The fact that this student was failed . . . is an indication of how disingenuous Ahmad's professor is,” wrote Horowitz, president of the Center for the Study of Popular Culture, which has been leading the charge against liberalism among academics. He cites Al-Qloushi's article in FrontPage as evidence of the student's writing ability. 6</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Horowitz, a 1960s left-winger-turned-conservative, founded Students for Academic Freedom (SAF), which — along with similar conservative groups — publicizes such incidents to reveal what they claim is a nationwide campus climate that stifles conservative ideas. For instance, the American Council of Trustees and Alumni (ACTA) — founded in 1995 by former National Endowment for the Humanities chairwoman Lynne Cheney, wife of Vice President Dick Cheney — publicized studies showing that a large majority of liberal arts professors have left-leaning views.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">According to ACTA and other groups, the silencing of conservatives is particularly dangerous in a post-Sept. 11 era and during wartime, because authority figures should foster patriotism during such times of crisis. A month after the 9/11 terrorist attacks, for instance, ACTA published “Defending Civilization: How Our Universities Are Failing America and What Can Be Done About It” — detailing more than 100 examples of allegedly dangerous, left-wing preference for criticism over patriotism on campus.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">“While America's elected officials from both parties and media commentators . . . condemned the attacks and followed the president in calling evil by its rightful name, many faculty demurred. Some refused to make judgments,” ACTA charged. “Many invoked tolerance and diversity as antidotes to evil. Some even pointed accusatory fingers, not at the terrorists but at America itself.” This response reveals an academia overrun by the left and “increasingly unfriendly to the free exchange of ideas.” 7</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">But many free-speech advocates argue that it's precisely in times of crisis — or when Americans are being sent off to war — that hearing all sides of the argument matters most. “A university in which students and faculty have any fear of reprisal for discussing controversial topics is one that is rendered impotent to address society's most crucial issues,” wrote Greg Lukianoff, legal and public-advocacy director of the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education (FIRE), in a letter protesting the University of New Mexico's investigation and discipline of a history professor who made a strong, unpopular comment about the Sept. 11 attack on the Pentagon. 8</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Republican lawmakers around the country, however, are heeding the warnings about a dearth of conservative voices on campus. In the past two years Congress and at least 18 states have considered legislation to combat what is seen as one-sided campus debate and to strengthen the hand of political and religious conservatives by introducing bills based on an Academic Bill of Rights (ABOR) developed by SAF.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">For instance, a House education panel — but not its Senate counterpart — has approved a “sense of Congress” provision urging colleges to ensure that students are not intimidated or disadvantaged because of their political or religious views. The House also approved establishing a national oversight board to ensure that diverse views are represented in </font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">...</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">...llege faculties are about three-quarters liberal, with liberals concentrating in the fuzzy-wuzzy humanities while growing scarcer in the engineering departments. One professor opined that what faculty members really want is for students to validate their pathetic life experience.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">College professors and administrators are shown to be comically anti-American. One student comments that there are plenty of why-America-is-bad courses but no why-America-is-good courses. After the Sep 11 attacks, some colleges banned the display of the US flag on their campuses lest it offend foreign students. A Kuwaiti student,Ahmad Al-Qloushi, 404 who wrote a pro-American essay was called into his professor's office, berated for defending America, and told to go seek psychological counseling.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Liberal faculty can be ruthless in dealing with conservative faculty. When a professor at Cal Poly was found to be conservative, she was harassed and eventually forced out as head of the psychology department. Some professors relate being told they would have never been hired had it been known they weren't liberal. The liberal professoriate prefers ideological conformity, which is antithetical to the idea of a university. Through this process universities are converted from centers of learning to centers of indoctrination....</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Indoctrinate U is a 2007 American feature-length documentary film written by, directed by and starring Evan Coyne Maloney, that examines controversial topics like equality and fairness, diversity, ideological conformism and political correctness in American institutions of higher education.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Contents [hide] </font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">1<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>Film content</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">2<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>Production</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">2.1<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>Filming</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">2.2<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>Lawsuit and website closure</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">3<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>Reviews</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">4<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>References</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">5<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>External links</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Film content[edit]</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Maloney argues that while students involved with the "campus free speech movement" of the 1960s nobly and successfully defended the rights of students to think and express and freely share ideas, their message subsequently having been devolved into one that allows only their viewpoints to be heard.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The film portrays incidents where minority critics of controversial policies such as affirmative action, like political activist and former University of California Regent Ward Connerly, are shouted off stage or otherwise have their views marginalized, seemingly without real consideration - often simply by likening them to Nazis or Klansmen to delegitimize them entirely; or how students at Cal State San Bernardino and at other schools across the nation trying to illustrate the inherent racism of affirmative action by holding "affirmative action bake sales" are ironically[citation needed] reprimanded for expressing "hate speech".</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Clips of anti-military protests at UC Santa Cruz and San Francisco State University at one point show how protestors demanded that recruiters from the Army Corps of Engineers leave the school's career fair, with such fervor that it led the cancellation of the entire event. Also shown is the treatment of conservative students at the University of Tennessee and Cal Poly.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Also included are the racial and ethnic politics at the University of Michigan and Yale, teaching at Duke and Columbia; interviews with David French and Greg Lukianoff, (then respectively president and director of legal and public advocacy at the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education), Glenn Reynolds, Daniel Pipes, Carol Miller Swain, and others.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Production[edit]</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Filming[edit]</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Maloney spent two and a half years making the documentary by conducting interviews on various college campuses and with various thinkers. The film was preceded by two shorter versions, Brainwashing 101 and Brainwashing 201: The Second Semester. The two shorts led the 2004 American Film Renaissance festival to selectIndoctrinate U as its "most anticipated documentary."</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Indoctrinate U was produced by On the Fence Films with the support of the Moving Picture Institute, and Stuart Browning, Blaine Greenberg, and Thor Halvorssen. The film's executive producers are Stuart Browning and Blaine Greenberg. Its associate producer is Frayda Levy. It was edited by Chandler Tuttle.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">In March 2007, Maloney appeared on Hannity's America to discuss the film. On April 19 of the same year, he appeared on C-SPAN's Washington Journal where they showed clips from the film and took calls.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Lawsuit and website closure[edit]</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">yellow logo with green lettering, </font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Original Indoctrinate Uposter </font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Red-colored letter </font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Partial logo of Indiana U. </font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">On November 13, 2007, the official website was taken down and replaced with a notice that read: "Due to threatened legal action from a major taxpayer-funded university, we've temporarily taken down the Indoctrinate U homepage while we assess our options." The website was back up by December 4.[1]Maloney explained in a statement that Indiana University claimed there was a similarity between the university's logo and that of the film's. The Indoctrinate U logo was changed and the website resumed operation.[2][3] In a note to the Wall Street Journal, Maloney emphasized his ready compliance with IU's demands, saying that while he was confident that the film's logo was not an infringement of IU's rights to their own logo, as the differences of the two are "readily apparent", as well as the fact that "there is also no likelihood of consumer confusion because our product is a film whereas theirs is four years in Bloomington." It was decided that it was simpler to comply with the demands than to fight them, particularly because the logo had little bearing on the film itself. Maloney says that he became more confused when, after the dispute was settled, Indiana University (which doesn't appear in the film) demanded a sum of money from the production company - which Maloney and others viewed as an attempt to bankrupt the company and silence him.[4]</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Reviews[edit]</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">A review in The Weekly Standard said, "The documentary combines relatively shocking footage (one professor excitedly tells the camera "whiteness is a form of racial oppression . . . treason to whiteness is loyalty to humanity") with snappy editing to create a documentary that bounces quickly from subject to subject."[5]</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Examples of "intellectual thuggery" in the film are nothing more than "the tip of a disgusting iceberg", laments Walter E. Williams, noting that "Several university officials refused to be interviewed for the documentary. They wanted to keep their campus policies under wraps, not only from reporters but parents as well."[6][7]</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">References[edit]</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Jump up^ Taranto, James (December 6, 2007). "Best of the Web Today". OpinionJournal.com (Dow Jones & Company, Inc.). Retrieved 2007-12-06.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Jump up^ Maloney, Evan Coyne (December 6, 2007). "No Logo". OpinionJournal.com (Dow Jones & Company, Inc.). Retrieved 2007-12-06.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Jump up^ Taranto, James (December 11, 2007). "Best of the Web Today". OpinionJournal.com (Dow Jones & Company, Inc.). Retrieved 2007-12-11.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Jump up^ Taranto, James (December 6, 2007). "'Indoctrinate U': What Really Happened". Wall Street Journal. Retrieved 28 December 2011.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Jump up^ Sonny Bunch. "Academic Thuggery". Weekly Standard. Retrieved 2007-05-19.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Jump up^ Academic Cesspools by Walter E. Williams, October 17, 2007</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Jump up^ Academic Cesspools II by Walter E. Williams, November 7, 2007</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">External links[edit]</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>Wikiquote has quotations related to: Indoctrinate U</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Indoctrinate U official website</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Indoctrinate U at the Internet Movie Database</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">On the Fence Films</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Moving Picture Institute</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">"Yet Once More: Political Correctness on Campus" by Stanley Fish blogging at The New York Times website, October 14, 2007; Maloney's response</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Categories: 2007 filmsEnglish-language filmsFilms about freedom of expressionDocumentary films about education in the United StatesDocumentary films about American politicsDocumentary films about words and languageCriticism of political correctness2000s documentary filmsAmerican documentary filmsAmerican films</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">EVAN COYNE MALONEY</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Evan Coyne Maloney is an award-winning documentary filmmaker based in New York City. An early pioneer of video blogging, he got his start in filmmaking by posting short videos to his website, Brain-Terminal.com, which have since had tens of millions of views. He has produced nearly two dozen titles, including an interview with Michael Moore and the feature-length MPI documentary Indoctrinate U, which takes a humorous look at the state of free speech and diversity of thought on American campuses. In 2007, Indoctrinate U premiered at the Kennedy Center, where a sold-out crowd gave the film a standing ovation. The film spent years among the top ten best-selling titles in the Documentary Channel's online store and it has screened in theaters, on television, and at hundreds of college </font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Moving Picture Institute</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">April 2006 – Present (10 years 3 months)</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">• Participating on the Board of Directors as Secretary and Treasurer while concurrently serving as the President of Moving Picture Institute (MPI), a nonprofit organization entirely supported by charitable contributions from individual and private foundations.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">• Recruiting, mentoring, and providing grants to 65+ fellows in the MPI Rising Filmmakers Program. MPI films and filmmakers have been shortlisted for an Academy Award, nominated and won Emmys and accepted into numerous film festivals where they have won many awards.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">• Recruiting, mentoring, and providing stipend grants to young filmmakers in MPI’s Hollywood Career Launch Program</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">• Spearheading fundraising strategies, raising millions of dollars in grant funding from individuals and foundations.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">• Developing and maintaining key relationships with sister organizations, executives, donors, media contacts, film industry professionals, and internship production partnership companies.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">• Managing all accounting, including grant disbursements and the general ledger; overseeing production of annual financial statements and meeting IRS reporting requirements with external auditors.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">• Overseeing the creation of programs to enhance the skills of filmmakers, including a summer seminar series to teach skills such as crowd funding and a screenwriting workshop to hone writing skills.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">• Executive producer to film projects screening in 20 countries, including Do As I Say, The Libel Tourist, The Cartel, and Virginia (forthcoming).</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">• Creating and managing successful distribution and marketing plans for film projects, ranging from online viral releases to theatrical distribution and digital releases.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">• Managing human resources by hiring employees and contractors while maintaining and distributing payroll and benefits.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Vice President</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Foundation for Individual Rights in Education (FIRE)</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">August 2002 – April 2006 (3 years 9 months)</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">• Integral in the development of a fundraising department for the Foundation of Individual Rights in Education (FIRE), the nation’s premier higher education civil liberties organization.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">• Successfully helped the organization increase revenue by $1 million+ during 2002-2005 through decisive leadership, discipline, business judgment, vision, and energy.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">• Created the plan that raised the number of individual donors from 700 in 2002 to 4,500 people in 2006.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">• Managed human resource functions within the organization by recruiting new staff and administering payroll and benefits while supervising 12 direct reports. </font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">• Responsible for donor relations through the composition of grant proposals and reports.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">• Ensured donor intent was fulfilled by managing the interactions between the fundraising and program departments.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Director of Donor Relations 2004-2005</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">• Managed the fundraising department, creating marketing materials such as quarterly newsletter to keep donors informed about the organization’s work, regular solicitation mailings to donors, grant proposals to foundation donors, and direct mail program to recruit new donors.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Development Officer 2002-2004</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">• Researched for new donors, provided support for the development of programs, implemented organization systems such as fundraising database, protocols for managing record-keeping systems for the department, created marketing materials, and maintained a mailing schedule.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">ROB PFALTZGRAFF</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">In addition to serving as MPI's president, Rob Pfaltzgraff is the secretary and treasurer of MPI's board. (Pfaltzgraff's biography is listed above.)</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Rob Pfaltzgraff, MPI's president, works closely with film directors, producers, financiers, and the media to ensure that MPI's films are well produced, generously funded, and skillfully promoted. Since MPI was founded, he has overseen millions of dollars in grant awards to film projects. He is responsible for day-to-day operations including financial management, programs, and fundraising. He serves as executive producer for a variety of MPI's productions. Pfaltzgraff graduated from Tufts University and prior to joining MPI in 2006, he was the vice president of marketing, development, and management at the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education (FIRE).</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">DAVID THAYER</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">David Thayer, chairman of MPI's board of directors, is a founding partner at the Harvest Funds, an investment partnership based in Wayne, PA, which invests in tax-advantaged energy infrastructure. For twenty years, he served in the U.S. Army National Guard and Reserves. Deployed as an armored cavalry platoon leader following the events of September 11th, he later held senior positions in the U.S. Army's Officer Candidate School before completing his career as commanding officer of the First Troop Philadelphia City Cavalry. Thayer also serves on the board of the John Boyer Memorial Scholarship Trust. He received a BS from the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania, an MA from the London School of Economics, and an MBA with Honors from the University of Chicago.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">MICHAEL J. FRIEDMAN</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Michael J. Friedman is general counsel at Trillium Trading, LLC, a premier proprietary trading firm that focuses on short-term equity trading. He serves as compliance chief of the company's trading unit and as a corporate adviser to its technology and business development teams. Previously, he was a partner at Winston & Strawn LLP, an international law firm with 15 offices worldwide. His practice focused on issues of corporate governance and director and officer liability. He received an AB in History, cum laude, from Princeton University and a JD from Northwestern University School of Law. At Northwestern, he was note and comment editor of the Journal of Criminal Law & Criminology and was awarded the Lowden-Wigmore Prize for best student-written journal article. In 2009, he received the Burton Award for his achievement in legal writing. He serves on the board of the National Board of Review of Motion Pictures.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">KEVIN HARPER</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Kevin Harper is the founder and chief investment officer of Junto Financial. Prior to that, he was a managing director of investment research at Endowment Capital Group LLC, where he was instrumental in launching the fund and raising approximately $500 million from endowment and foundation clients. A Pennsylvania Army National Guard veteran, Harper served with the 28th Division in Operation Joint Forge in Bosnia and was awarded the 104th Squadron's "Enlisted Soldier of the Deployment." He is also founder and chairman of the ValorTrust Foundation, a non-profit dedicated to helping disabled veterans. Harper holds a BS from the Wharton School, a BA in Chemistry from the University of Pennsylvania, and an MBA from the Wharton School.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">MARC LEADER</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Marc Leader is a financial executive at SunGard Availability Services, which provides IT operations support for disaster recovery, managed services, IT consulting, and business continuity management. He is responsible for the company's annual and long-range financial plans, as well as the evaluation of strategic initiatives. He has served on the boards of several non-profit organizations, including the University of Pennsylvania Alumni Association and PSI Upsilon of Philadelphia. He holds a BA from the University of Pennsylvania and an MBA from New York University's Leonard Stern School of Business.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">REBEKAH MERCER</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Rebekah Mercer grew up in Westchester County, New York, the second of three girls. She attended Stanford University, where she received a dual BS in Biology and Mathematics and an MS in Operations Research and Engineering Economic Systems. She worked as a trader for a New York financial firm before retiring to raise her four children. She serves on the boards of several nonprofit organizations. With her sisters, she also owns and runs Ruby et Violette, a gourmet ice cream and chocolate chunk cookie company.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Thor Leonardo Halvorssen Mendoza (born March 9, 1976[1][2])—commonly known as Thor Halvorssen[a]—is aVenezuelan human rights advocate and film producer with contributions in the field of public policy, public interest advocacy, individual rights and civil liberties, and pro-democracy advocacy. Halvorssen is founder of the Oslo Freedom Forum, an annual gathering described by The Economist as a "spectacular human-rights festival ... on its way to becoming a human-rights equivalent of the Davos economic forum".[3] Halvorssen is president of the Human Rights Foundation, an organization devoted to global human rights and freedom. He is the Patron of the Czech-based Children's Peace Movement, On Own Feet,[4] and founder of the Moving Picture Institute.[5] Halvorssen bought the traditionally leftist Norwegian news magazine Ny Tid in May 2010.[6]</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">He is currently producing the film adaptation of Robert Heinlein's The Moon is a Harsh Mistress with Bryan Singer.[7]</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Halvorssen's opinions have appeared in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post, National Public Radio, Time magazine, The Nation andNational Journal, and he has appeared on television outlets such as al-Jazeera, BBC News,[8] Fox News Channel’s The O'Reilly Factor and Hannity & Colmes,MSNBC’s Hardball with Chris Matthews, CNN, and HBO. Thor Halvorssen was a speaker at TEDx at the University of Pennsylvania in October 2010.[9]</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Halvorssen's work has been praised by many, including the The New York Times[1]</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Contents [hide] </font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">1<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>Background</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">1.1<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>Father's imprisonment</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">1.2<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>Mother's shooting</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">2<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>Democracy, civil liberties, and human rights advocacy</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">2.1<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>Lucent Technologies</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">2.2<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>Foundation for Individual Rights in Education</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">2.3<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>Human Rights Foundation</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">2.4<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>Oslo Freedom Forum</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">2.5<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>Children's Peace Movement</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">3<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>Film</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">4<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>Awards and recognition</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">5<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>Publications</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">6<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>Notes</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">7<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>References</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">8<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>External links</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Background[edit]</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Halvorssen was born in Venezuela to Hilda Mendoza, a descendant and a relative, respectively, of Venezuela's first two presidents Cristóbal Mendoza and Simón Bolívar. His father is Thor Halvorssen Hellum, who served as a Venezuelan Ambassador for anti-Narcotic Affairs in the administration of Carlos Andrés Pérez and as special overseas investigator of a Venezuelan Senate Commission. His family was prosperous and on his father's side he is the grandson of Øystein Halvorssen, the Norwegian king’s consul who "built a family dynasty as the Venezuelan representative for corporations including Dunlop, Alfa Laval and Ericsson."[1] His cousin isLeopoldo Lopez.[10]</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Halvorssen attended the University of Pennsylvania and graduated Phi Beta Kappa and magna cum laude, with concurrent undergraduate and graduate degrees in Political Science and History.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Father's imprisonment[edit]</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">When Halvorssen was a freshman at the University of Pennsylvania[5] in 1993, his father was arrested while investigating the Medellín cartel for possible money laundering and bank fraud. His father was tortured, beaten, and in danger of being murdered[11] during his 74-day incarceration in a Caracas jail on "trumped-up" charges of terrorism.[12][13][14] Halvorssen led the campaign for his father’s release, garnering help from Amnesty International[5] which issued protests along with other International organizations. Halvorssen was eventually found innocent of all charges. After his release the United Nations-affiliated International Society for Human Rights appointed him director of their Pan-American Committee.[11][15][16]</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Mother's shooting[edit]</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">While attending a peaceful protest of the Venezuelan recall referendum of 2004, Halvorssen's mother, Hilda Mendoza Denham, a British subject, was shot and wounded.[17] Images of government supporters firing upon the demonstrators were captured by a live television broadcast.[18][19] The Wall Street Journal published an article about the shooting of Halvorssen's mother written by himself. According to Halvorssen, his mother was gunned down and wounded by members of the Venezuelan government security apparatus while attending a peaceful public gathering. The gunmen’s actions were broadcast on live television as they shot into the crowd, leaving twelve wounded and one (woman) dead.[20] Gunmen were later apprehended, tried, had their sentences revoked, tried again, found guilty, and received 3-year sentences for murder and for bodily harm.[21][22] They were released after serving six months in prison.[23]</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Democracy, civil liberties, and human rights advocacy[edit]</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Halvorssen has a specialty on matters regarding dictatorships, human trafficking, slavery, and threats to democracy. He has lectured widely on the subject of human rights including at Harvard Law School, the New York City Junto, the United Nations Association in New York, and the American Enterprise Institute.[24] Halvorssen has also spoken at the British parliament.[25]</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Lucent Technologies[edit]</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">In 1999, Halvorssen spearheaded a campaign on the floor of the Lucent Technologies annual shareholder meeting appealing for the creation of an anti-slave labor policy whereby Lucent would require China to certify that Lucent's products were not fabricated using slave labor. China's Laogai camps allegedly imprison eight million men, women, and children in 1100 factories, farms, and other facilities producing a wide range of consumer products.[26]</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Foundation for Individual Rights in Education[edit]</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">In 1999, Halvorssen became the first executive director and chief executive officer of the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education (FIRE), a U.S. civil liberties organization. As head of FIRE, Halvorssen formed coalitions that brought together the conservative and libertarian advocacy organizations such as the Heritage Foundation, Feminists for Free Expression, the Eagle Forum, with more traditional free speech defenders such as the ACLU. Halvorssen has a track record of defending individuals both on the right[27] and on the left of the political spectrum.[28]</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">In 2001, Halvorssen stated that, "Liberty of opinion, speech, and expression is indispensable to a free and, in the deepest sense, progressive society. Deny it to one, and you deny it effectively to all. These truths long have been ignored and betrayed on our campuses, to the peril of a free society."[29] In a 2003 moderated chat, he said, "History has taught us that a society that does not respect individual rights, freedom of conscience, and freedom of speech will not long survive as a free society in any form."[30]</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Human Rights Foundation[edit]</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Halvorssen stepped down as head of FIRE in March 2004 to join its Board of Advisors and announced the creation of an international group that would "champion the definition of human rights that originally animated the human rights movement, centered on the twin concepts of freedom of self-determination and freedom from tyranny."[31] HRF was incorporated in 2005, opening its headquarters in New York City in August 2006. Its International Council includes several well-known prisoners of conscience such as Elie Wiesel, Harry Wu, and Vladimir Bukovsky. It also includes democracy activists such as Mart Laar, and Garry Kasparov. Its chairman until his death in December 2011, was Václav Havel.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">At the helm of HRF Halvorssen has repeatedly lobbied and advocated for the release of Chinese political prisoner Liu Xiaobo.[32][33] In 2010 Halvorssen was special guest of Liu Xiaobo at the Nobel Prize ceremony awarding the prize to Liu Xiaobo in absentia.[34][35][36] Halvorssen is identified as a supporter of Chinese Uyghur leaderRebiya Kadeer and has sharply criticized the Tawainese Kuomintang government for its banning visits by Kadeer.[37] Halvorssen has supported UN-level action to address the violations of Uyghur rights in China.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Halvorssen appears as a frequent critic of Uganda’s president Yoweri Museveni and, in particular, the legislative efforts in Uganda to punish homosexuality with the death penalty.[38] Halvorssen is a critic of Hugo Chávez,[39] and has written on Venezuela’s anti-Semitism and the assault on democracy and individual rights in Latin America.[40] Halvorssen's criticisms have also been directed at U.S. Republicans such as Jack Kemp[41] as well as Democrats including John Conyers and Jose Serrano.[42] In a symposium published by the American conservative magazine National Review, he condemned Augusto Pinochet for his human rights abuses.[43][44]Halvorssen led a campaign to expose Chechen president Ramzan Kadyrov’s human rights violations and ultimately created a firestorm for Hollywood actress Hilary Swank after she accepted a cash payment to celebrate Kadyrov’s birthday. [45][46] In the same manner Halvorssen has exposed payments from dictators to Jennifer Lopez, Erykah Baduh, Mariah Carey, Nelly Furtado, and 50 Cent. [47][48][49]</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Other advocacy campaigns include Panama’s president Ricardo Martinelli on freedom of speech violations; political prisoner cases in Venezuela, Vietnam, Cuba, andBolivia; as well as the rights of human rights defenders in Colombia.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Oslo Freedom Forum[edit]</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Main article: Oslo Freedom Forum</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">In 2009, Halvorssen founded a global gathering of human rights advocates called the Oslo Freedom Forum. It has taken place in Oslo annually since then. According toWired Magazine, "if the global human-rights movement were to create its own unified representative body, it would look something like this."[50]</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Norwegian newspaper Verdens Gang called it a "Gathering of Heroes".[51] The Economist calls it the "Davos of Human Rights." Participants include Pussy Riot'sNadezhda Tolokonnikova and Maria Aliokhina, Sudan's Lubna al-Hussein, Burma's Aung San Suu Kyi, China's Ai Weiwei, Tahrir Square protest organizer Wael Ghonim, Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales, Holocaust survivor Elie Wiesel, Iran's Marina Nemat, Peter Thiel, Julian Assange, Václav Havel, Garry Kasparov, Leopoldo Lopez, Nobel laureate Lech Walesa, and Russian political prisoner Mikhail Khodorkovskii.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Children's Peace Movement[edit]</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Since 2009, Halvorssen is listed as "Patron" of the Children's Peace Movement, On Own Feet. Known as the "Centipede Movement" it is a Czech-based group that facilitates bilateral relations between children and adolescents in Poland, the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Canada, and Norway with children in war-torn countries such asAfghanistan and Iraq.[52] The previous Patron was former Czech president Václav Havel.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Film[edit]</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">According to the Hollywood Reporter, Halvorssen is currently producing the film adaptation of Robert A. Heinlein's science fiction novel The Moon is a Harsh Mistress. Bryan Singer is attached to direct the film.[53]</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Halvorssen co-produced the film Freedom's Fury which was executive produced by Lucy Liu, Quentin Tarantino, and Andrew Vajna. It premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival.[54][55] The film relates the story of the popular uprising against dictatorship that occurred in Hungary in 1956.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Halvorssen executive produced Hammer & Tickle, a film about the power of humor, ridicule, and satire as the language of truth under Soviet tyranny—jokes as a code to navigate the disconnect between propaganda and reality and as a means of resisting the system despite the absence of free speech. This film premiered at Tribeca in 2006 and featured Lech Walesa, Ronald Reagan, Mikhail Gorbachev and Roy Medvedev.[54] The film won Best New Documentary Film at the Zurich Film Festival.[56]</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Halvorssen is listed as producer of the documentary Indoctrinate U, "a documentary about left-wing bias on college campuses"[57] which targets "the anti-intellectual, intolerant culture of [the USA's] campuses".[58] American literary theorist Stanley Fish wrote in the New York Times "the academy invites the criticism it receives in this documentary"[59] and the film received positive reviews from the Wall Street Journal, London Telegraph, New York Post, and CNN.[58]</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Halvorssen is producer of the film The Singing Revolution, a film about Estonia's peaceful struggle for political independence from Soviet occupation.[60] The film premiered at the Black Nights Film Festival in December 2006 where it received a 15-minute standing ovation.[61] Since then, it has become the most successful documentary film in Estonian box-office history.[62]</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Halvorssen produced The Sugar Babies,[60] a film about human trafficking in the Dominican Republic and the plight of its migrant farm workers. The targets of the documentary are wealthy and politically connected sugar barons who live in West Palm Beach: The Fanjul Family.[63] The film previewed at Florida International University where a heated exchange with the Dominican diplomatic envoy resulted in police presence. It received numerous negative reviews claiming the film's portrayal of big business and its relationship with the Dominican government was part of a campaign against the country's reputation. Death threats against the film's director and a bribery scandal involving the Dominican embassy have made the film a subject of intense media interest.[64][65][66]</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">He is listed as sole producer of 2081, the film adaptation of author Kurt Vonnegut's short story "Harrison Bergeron", a dystopian film about a future in which a tyrannical government arrests, imprisons without trial, and tortures those who disagree with the government policy of enforced sterilization and enforced handicapping. It premiered at the Seattle Film Festival and stars Academy Award nominee Patricia Clarkson, Julie Hagerty, James Cosmo, and Armie Hammer. The film's music was composed by Lee Brooks and recorded by Kronos Quartet.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Awards and recognition[edit]</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">University of Pennsylvania president Judith Rodin [MANN?] honored Halvorssen's achievements by awarding him the Sol Feinstone Award for protecting student speech.[67]</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">In 2010 Romanian leader Emil Constantinescu presented Halvorssen with a presidential silver medal to commemorate the tenth anniversary of the Romanian Revolution of 1989. "On behalf of those who fought and died for freedom, I present this medal to the Oslo Freedom Forum founder, and remind those here that even if Romanians live in democracy now, we cannot feel entirely free as long as other people – who live under dictatorial and repressive regimes anywhere in the world – are not also be free."[68]</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Publications[edit]</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Halvorssen, Thor L (1996). Simón Bolívar and the Enlightenment, University of Pennsylvania.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Then Thor Halvorssen drops a bomb on Fox News. “I actually made the largest contribution allowable to the campaign of Bernie Sanders,” he said. Halvorssen then cited the millions of dollars in donations Hillary Clinton received from countries who notoriously violate human rights, such as Saudi Arabia, Oman, Algeria, Bahrain, and Qatar. Before getting cut off by Ragan, Halvorssen slammed Trump for his embrace of Russia’s dictator-like President, Vladimir Putin.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Dog Days is a feature-length documentary about a novice entrepreneur and an immigrant hotdog vendor’s pursuit of the American Dream.></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Using comedy to explore economic themes in popular movies, EconPop is the world’s first (and best) econ-themed pop-culture review show.></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Hammer & Tickle shows how, in the former Soviet bloc, jokes offered people a means of dissenting from state authority when such dissent was strictly forbidden.></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Honor Flight is a heartwarming documentary about four living World War II veterans and a Midwest community coming together to give them the trip of a lifetime.></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Based on a true story, In Berlin, By the Wall is a humorous and surprising narrative feature about the bizarre final hours leading up to the fall of the Berlin Wall.></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">From filmmaker Regan Hines, Incarcerating US will explore the criminal justice and prison system in the U.S., emphasizing the urgent need for prison reform and the disastrous "War on Drugs."></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">A revolutionary film about the repressive climate at our nation’s colleges and universities, Indoctrinate U reveals a campus culture in which speech codes rule the day; in which free inquiry has been replaced with prescribed, politically correct values; and in which students are taught not how to think, but what to think. ></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Juche Strong, a short-form documentary by MPI fellow Rob Montz, aims to explain how one of the world’s most closed and totalitarian societies continues to exist, despite decades of economic mismanagement and authoritarian repression.></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">A political thriller with a sci-fi twist, L1TTL3 BR0TH3R is a short film about a fictional Nobel laureate's fight against tyranny.></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">A short film written, directed, and produced by MPI fellow Toby Fell-Holden, Little Shadow tells the story of a boy’s resistance to his tyrannical father.></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Two mothers use the power of entrepreneurship to overcome extreme poverty in post-genocide Rwanda.></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Uncovering the hidden culture of Cairo's garbage collectors, Marina of the Zabbaleen focuses on a marginalized Egyptian people's struggle to support and sustain a culture of family and belief. ></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Mine Your Own Business examines the consequences for indigenous peoples when Western environmental groups decide to mount activist campaigns in developing nations.></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Pups of Liberty tells the story of the Boston Tea Party using animated cats and dogs, bringing the history of early America to life.></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Rebel Evolution is a feature-length documentary about Brandon Michael Darby, a former former left-wing activist turned FBI informant whose political journey has much to tell us about the nature of patriotism, activism, and freedom in contemporary America.></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">At once a documentary and a compelling action thriller, State of Control follows two American filmmakers to Tibet, where they discover young activists using new media to defy a powerful Chinese propaganda machine. The film illustrates the emerging global fight against censorship and surveillance.></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">A feature-length documentary film about our urgent national need for school choice, The Cartel shows us our failing educational system like we’ve never seen it before.></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Two eccentric scientists struggle to create eternal youth in a world they call “blind to the tragedy of old age." Their scientific journeys ultimately become personal as they battle their own aging and suffer the losses of loved ones.></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Unflinching, irreverent, and at times hilarious, The Most Dangerous Woman in America brings to life Ayn Rand’s message of reason and liberty.></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The Project tells the breathtaking and action-packed story of a private militia formed to fight Somali pirates who prey on some of the world's busiest shipping lanes.></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The Rubber Room exposes a wasteful system in which hundreds of teachers are banned from classrooms, but still collect their full salaries.></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">A moving, intensely human testament to the sustaining power of hope and the motivating strength of song, The Singing Revolution documents how, between 1987 and 1992, the Estonian people peacefully attained political independence after decades of Soviet occupation.></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">With shocking footage and exclusive interviews, filmmaker Ami Horowitz shows how the United Nations has abdicated its responsibility to international peace, becoming instead the pacifier of dictators, thugs, and tyrants.></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">We The Internet is a weirdly informative comedy channel on YouTube. Don't say we didn't (trigger) warn you! </font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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The screening is free and open to the public.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Jun 8, 2012<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>Indoctrinate U screens in Sydney, Australia, at the Royal Automobile Club of Australia, as part of the Sydney Traditionalist Forum. The screening begins at 7:00 p.m.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Apr 13, 2012<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>Indoctrinate U screens at Princeton University, hosted by the Princeton Libertarians. The screening coincides with Free Speech week events. Click here for more information on Free Speech Week.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Apr 12, 2012<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>Indoctrinate U screens at the College of Wooster, in Wooster, OH, hosted by the Wooster Libertarians. The event begins at 7:30 pm in the CoRE center in the Andrews library. The screening coincides with Free Speech week events. Click here for more information on Free Speech Week.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Feb 22, 2012<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>Indoctrinate U screens in Pennsylvania at West Chester University at the Gates Family Recital Hall in the Swope Music Building, at 6:30pm. Hosted by the Students for Liberty campus group, the screening is free and open to the public.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Nov 21, 2011<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>Indoctrinate U screens at the Queen Mary, University of London, hosted by the European Students for Liberty. For more information on this group, visit their Facebook page here.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Sep 17, 2011<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>Indoctrinate U screens at Southwestern University in Georgetown, Texas, hosted by SU Libertarians in celebration of Constitution Day. For more information on this group, visit their Facebook page here.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Sep 15, 2011<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>Indoctrinate U screens at the Docutah, the Southern Utah International Documentary Film Festival. The festival is held at Dixie State College, and the screening is at 4:00pm in the DSC Eccles Main Stage. For more information, click here.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Sep 14, 2011<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>Indoctrinate U screens at the Docutah, the Southern Utah International Documentary Film Festival. The festival is held at Dixie State College, and the screening is at 1:00pm in Red Cliffs Cinema Theater 2. For more information, click here.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Aug 23, 2011<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>Indoctrinate U screens at the East Valley Tea Party meeting in Mesa, Arizona. For more information on this group, click here.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Jul 14, 2011<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>Indoctrinate U screens at the Anthem Libertarian Film Festival in Las Vegas, as part of FreedomFest. This event is tentatively scheduled for 10:00am. For more information, click here.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">May 5, 2011<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>Indoctrinate U screens at West Illinois University, hosted by WIU's Young Americans for Liberty. For more information on this group, visit their Facebook page here.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Apr 13, 2011<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>Indoctrinate U screens at UC Berkeley, hosted by the UC Berkeley Students for Liberty. This event is open to all students on campus.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Mar 7, 2011<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>Indoctrinate U screens at Arizona State University, 5:00-8:00pm, at MU 228 (the Cochise room). More information is availablehere.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Dec 1, 2010<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>Indoctrinate U screened at Utah State University, hosted by the USU College Republicans. The Utah Statesman covered the screening event; read more here.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Nov 12, 2010<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>Indoctrinate U screened at Pitt College, hosted by America's Future Foundation of Pittsburgh and the Pitt College Republicans.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Oct 6, 2010<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>Indoctrinate U screens as part of Student Freedom Week, celebrated across Canada. SFW is the official launch pad for the dozens of liberty societies that are starting this year! This screening was held on the Dalhousie campus.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Aug 22, 2010<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>Indoctrinate U screens at 8:00 p.m. at the University of Illinois' Urbana-Champaign campus, on the main quad.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">May 27, 2010<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>Indoctrinate U screens at 11:30 a.m. at Southern Oregon University, in the Stevenson Union, Room 319. More information can be found here.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">May 13, 2010<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>Indoctrinate U screens at 1:30 p.m. at the College of Staten Island, in the Performing Arts Center (1P-223). The screening is free and open to the campus community.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Mar 8, 2010<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>Indoctrinate U screens at 7:00 p.m. at Northern Arizona University, in the Gardner Auditorium. The screening is free and open to the public.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Feb 19, 2010<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>Indoctrinate U screens at the Southern California Business Film Festival at the USC campus, at 12:00 noon in the Seeley G. Mudd Buiding (SGM), Room 123. Q&A to follow. The screenings are free and open to the public. Visit www.scbff.org for more details.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Dec 18, 2009<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>Indoctrinate U airs on the Documentary Channel at 5:00 p.m. EST.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Dec 10, 2009<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>Indoctrinate U airs on the Documentary Channel at 2:50 p.m. EST.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Dec 2, 2009<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>Indoctrinate U screens at 4:30 p.m. and 7:00 p.m. at CSU Sacramento, in the Hinde Auditorium in the University Union. The screenings are free and open to the public.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Nov 18, 2009<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>Indoctrinate U screens at 5:00 p.m. at the University of Alberta, at the Students' Union Building Stage (Main Floor). The screening is free and open to the public.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Oct 13, 2009<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>Indoctrinate U screens at 8:00 p.m. at Seton Hall University, in the Nursing Amphitheater. The screening is free and open to the public.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Oct 13, 2009<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>Indoctrinate U screens at 7:00 p.m. at Northwestern University, in Kresge Hall, 4345. The screening is free and open to the public.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Oct 2, 2009<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>Indoctrinate U airs on the Documentary Channel at 8:00 p.m. EST and again at 11:00 p.m.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Oct 1, 2009<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>Indoctrinate U screens at 7:00 p.m. at Drexel University in the Hill Conference Room, Lebow Engineering Center, at 31st and Market Streets in Philadelphia, PA, as part of Students Rights Week. The screening is free and open to the public.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Sep 30, 2009<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>Indoctrinate U airs on the Documentary Channel at 3:30 a.m. EST.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Sep 28, 2009<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>Indoctrinate U airs on the Documentary Channel at 11:30 p.m. EST.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Sep 25, 2009<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>Indoctrinate U screens at 6:00 p.m. in the Student Union, Room 3413, at the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill, NC, as part of Students Rights Week. The screening is free and open to the public.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Sep 16, 2009<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>Indoctrinate U screens at 7:00 p.m. in Metcalf Hall, at Boston University as part of Students Rights Week. The screening is free and open to the public.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Sep 15, 2009<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>Indoctrinate U airs on the Documentary Channel at 2:30 p.m. EST.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Sep 4, 2009<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>Indoctrinate U screens at Wisconsin University Madison at 7:00 p.m. at Memorial Union on campus, held by Students for Liberty as part of Students Rights Week. The screening is free and open to the public.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Sep 1, 2009<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>Indoctrinate U airs on the Documentary Channel at 5:00 p.m. EST.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Aug 27, 2009<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>Indoctrinate U screens at 8:00 p.m. in the MGC Building, Room 203/205, at American University in Washington, D.C. The screening is free and open to the public.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Aug 6, 2009<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>Indoctrinate U screens on Thursday, Aug. 6, at 7:00pm at New Mexico State University, Carlsbad, in Room 153, the main lecture hall of the Instructional Center. The screening is free and open to the public.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">May 4, 2009<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>Indoctrinate U screens at 9:00 p.m. in the Niemann Media Theatre in the Hedberg Library at Carthage College, Kenosha, WI. The screening is only open to the Carthage campus, and is free.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Apr 21, 2009<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>Indoctrinate U screens at 7:00 p.m. in the Matthews Daniel Building, Room 205, at Tennessee Technological University in Cookeville, TN. The screening is free and open to the public.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Apr 16, 2009<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>Indoctrinate U screens at 7:00 p.m. in the Dolores Huerta-Philip Vera Cruz Room in the Student Services Center of University of California-San Diego. The screening is free and open to the public.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Apr 16, 2009<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>Indoctrinate U screens at 6:30 p.m. in the Philip’s Autograph Library at West Chester University, in West Chester, PA. The screening is free and open to the public.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Mar 30, 2009<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>Indoctrinate U airs on the Documentary Channel at 2:00 a.m. EST.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Mar 25, 2009<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>Indoctrinate U airs on the Documentary Channel at 5:00 p.m. EST.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Mar 24, 2009<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>Indoctrinate U screens at the New York International Film and Video Festival at 6:00 p.m. at the Village East Cinema, New York, NY.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Mar 23, 2009<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>Indoctrinate U screens at 6:00 p.m. in Eddie Miller Room in the Pope Student Center at Dalton State College, Dalton, GA. The screening is free and open to the public.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Mar 19, 2009<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>Indoctrinate U screens at 8:00 p.m. in the Intercultural Center, Room 106, at Georgetown University, Washington, D.C. The screening is only open to the Georgetown campus, and is free.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Mar 18, 2009<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>Indoctrinate U airs on the Documentary Channel at midnight, EST.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Mar 17, 2009<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>Indoctrinate U airs on the Documentary Channel at 9:00 p.m. EST.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Mar 5, 2009<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>Indoctrinate U screens at 8:00 pm in Mitchell Auditorium at Drexel University, Philadelphia, PA. The screening, hosted by the Student Liberty Front, is free and open to the public.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Feb 26, 2009<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>Indoctrinate U screens as part of Liberty on Film, the Independence Institute's monthly film series, at Jackson's Hole Sports Grill Downtown, 1520 20th Street, Denver, CO.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Feb 23, 2009<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>Indoctrinate U airs on the Documentary Channel at 5:00 p.m. EST.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Feb 21, 2009<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>Indoctrinate U airs on the Documentary Channel at 3:00 p.m. EST.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Feb 12, 2009<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>Indoctrinate U screens at 7 p.m. at the Walter Cronkite School of Journalism at Arizona State University's downtown Phoenix campus, Phoenix, AZ. The screening is open to the public.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Dec 3, 2008<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>Indoctrinate U screens at 7 p.m. in the Forum Theater at St. Joseph's University, Philadelphia, PA. The screening is open to the public.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Nov 2, 2008<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>Indoctrinate U airs on the Documentary Channel at 2:00 a.m.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Nov 1, 2008<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>Indoctrinate U airs on the Documentary Channel at 5:00 p.m.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Oct 27, 2008<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>Indoctrinate U airs on the Documentary Channel at 9:00 p.m.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Oct 20, 2008<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>Indoctrinate U screens at 7:00 p.m. at Lehigh University, Bethlehem, PA</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Oct 8, 2008<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>Indoctrinate U screens at 7:00 p.m. at the University of California at Santa Barbara. Location: Embarcadero Hall. The screening is open to the public</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Sep 23, 2008<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>Indoctrinate U screens at 7:30 p.m. at Binghamton University. The event is sponsored by the Binghamton Review. Location: Lecture Hall 7. The screening is open to the public</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Sep 9, 2008<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>Indoctrinate U screens at 3:20 p.m. at the Copenhagen Business School, Copenhagen, Denmark, as part of the school's campus-wide Diversity Day. Location: SPS03 at Solbjerg Plads. The screening is open to the public.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Jul 22, 2008<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>Indoctrinate U screens at the Los Angeles Lincoln Club, Los Angeles, CA</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Jun 15, 2008<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>Los Angeles premiere of Indoctrinate U at the University of Southern California's Bovard Auditorium. The screening is part of USC's "How Free Is the University?" international conference</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">May 21, 2008<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>Indoctrinate U screens at the University of California at Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, CA</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">May 1, 2008<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>Indoctrinate U screens at Maryville College, Maryville, TN</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Apr 30, 2008<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>Indoctrinate U screens at Towson University, Towson, MD</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Apr 24, 2008<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>Indoctrinate U screens at Allegheny College, Meadville, PA</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Apr 23, 2008<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>Indoctrinate U screens at Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Apr 22, 2008<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>Indoctrinate U screens at the University of California at Irvine, Irvine, CA</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Apr 21, 2008<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>Indoctrinate U screens at Ohio University, Athens, OH</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Apr 16, 2008<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>Indoctrinate U screens at Central Michigan University, Mount Pleasant, MI</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Apr 16, 2008<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>Indoctrinate U screens at the University of Wisconsin–River Falls College, River Falls, WI</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Apr 15, 2008<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>Indoctrinate U screens at Ohio State University, Columbus, OH</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Apr 15, 2008<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>Indoctrinate U screens at the University of Wisconsin–River Falls College, River Falls, WI</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Apr 14, 2008<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>Indoctrinate U screens at the Directors Guild of America Theater, New York, NY. The event is co-hosted by MPI and the Manhattan Institute</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Apr 10, 2008<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>Indoctrinate U screens at Oberlin College, Oberlin, OH</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Apr 3, 2008<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>Indoctrinate U screens at Bucknell University, Lewisburg, PA. Director and Bucknell alum Evan Coyne Maloney will attend</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Apr 3, 2008<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>Indoctrinate U screens at Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Apr 2, 2008<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>Indoctrinate U screens at East Tennessee State University, Johnson City, TN</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Apr 1, 2008<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>Indoctrinate U screens at 6 p.m. at Emerson College, Boston, MA</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Mar 31, 2008<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>Indoctrinate U screens at Seton Hall University, South Orange, NJ. Associate producer and MPI board president Frayda Levy will attend</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Mar 28, 2008<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>Indoctrinate U screens at Cornell University, Ithaca, NY. Producer Thor Halvorssen will attend</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Mar 25, 2008<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>Indoctrinate U screens at Wabash College, Crawfordsville, IN</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Mar 18, 2008<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>Indoctrinate U screens at Denison University, Granville, OH</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Mar 3, 2008<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>Indoctrinate U screens at the College of St. Benedict and St. John’s University, Collegeville, MN</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Mar 3, 2008<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>Indoctrinate U screens at the George Washington University, Washington, D.C.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Feb 28, 2008<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>Indoctrinate U screens at Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Feb 25, 2008<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>Indoctrinate U screens at the Indiana University School of Law, Bloomington, IN. Director Evan Coyne Maloney will attend</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Feb 25, 2008<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>Indoctrinate U screens at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Feb 18, 2008<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>Indoctrinate U screens at the Free Thinking Film Society, Ottawa, Canada</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Feb 13, 2008<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>Indoctrinate U screens at San Diego State University, San Diego, CA</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Jan 29, 2008<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>Indoctrinate U screens at Duke University, Durham, NC</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Jan 29, 2008<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>Indoctrinate U screens at Louisiana State University, Shreveport, LA</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Nov 18, 2007<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>Indoctrinate U screens at the Cleveland Institute of Art's Cinamatheque, Cleveland, OH</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Oct 26, 2007<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>Indoctrinate U screens at St. Cloud State University's Oak Street Cinema, St. Cloud, MN</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Sep 26, 2007<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>Indoctrinate U screens at American Film Renaissance Film Festival, Washington, D.C.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Jul 10, 2007<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>Screening of Indoctrinate U at the Reagan Library, Simi Valley, CA</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">May 10, 2007<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>Invitation-only screening of Indoctrinate U at the National Press Club, Washington, D.C.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Apr 23, 2007<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>Invitation-only screenings of Indoctrinate U at the Tribeca Film Center, New York, NY</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Mar 29, 2007<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>Evan Coyne Maloney features on Issues Today with Bob Gourley</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Mar 26, 2007<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>Evan Coyne Maloney features on Georgia's Martha Zoller Show</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Mar 22, 2007<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>Indoctrinate U director Evan Coyne Maloney features on The Young Turks, nationally syndicated by Air America and XM satellite radio</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Mar 21, 2007<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>Indoctrinate U director Evan Coyne Maloney appears on California's Wake Up, Monterey</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Mar 20, 2007<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>Indoctrinate U director Evan Coyne Maloney features on The Right Balance with Greg Allen</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Mar 20, 2007<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>Indoctrinate U director Evan Coyne Maloney features on California's KSRO 1350 AM</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Mar 18, 2007<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>Indoctrinate U features on the Fox News Channel's Hannity's America</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Mar 2, 2007<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>Screening of Indoctrinate U's trailer and selected clips at the Omni Shoreham Hotel, Washington, D.C.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"></font></div></div></div></div>