2 thoughts on “Heritage Foundation: A BSing Too Far?”

1. BS is putting it politely. The guy responsible for the bogus numbers and theories in this report is a notorious racist with close ties to the white supremacist blogosphere. Here's a little more:

   Richwine is a senior policy analyst at The Heritage Foundation, a Washington-based conservative think tank, which he joined in 2010 after earning a doctorat in public policy from Harvard in 2009. His doctoral dissertation, titled “IQ and Immigration Policy,” was recently unearthed by The Washington Post's Dylan Matthews, who reports that Richwine believes "there are deep-set differentials in intelligence between races."

   But

   On Wednesday, The Heritage Foundation released statements distancing itself from Richwine's dissertation.

   "This is not a work product of The Heritage Foundation. Its findings in no way reflect the positions of The Heritage Foundation," Heritage VP of Communications Mike Gonzalez told BuzzFeed. "Nor do the findings affect the conclusions of our study on the cost of amnesty to the U.S. taxpayer."

   Seriously? He's a senior policy analyst for Heritage and he provided and crunched the numbers in the report but the fact that his belief in the racial inferiority of Latino immigrants from south of the border gives him every incentive to produce negative findings doesn't affect the study's conclusions?  That and the fact that he included only hypothetical costs and not one penny of potential economic contribution to massage his numbers? We're supposed to buy  this crap?

   We always knew that Heritage was conservative biased and that's fine.  We have  progressive biased think tanks too. But with this report they have lost any semblance of credibility or even claim to basic decency.  Why do they have this guy working for them in the first place? Is it usual for non-racist organizations to  hire and promote known racists? To let them work up the numbers for their reports?

   Any use by the GOP of anything in this BS racist report must be seen as a total abandonment of any attempt to improve their percentage of the Latino vote. Please feel welcome in our big tent even though we stand by the work of analysts who believe that you're gentically inferior?  Really?  In the absence of ethnic cleansing, using this report for political purposes pretty much means game over for today's version of the GOP in terms of surviving into the future. And good riddance.

    

   http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/05/08/jason-richwine-heritage-foundation-iq-immigrants_n_3240596.html

    

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    Why do they have this guy working for them in the first place?

   If he ever loses his job, I'm sure the Mesa County Republicans can find him a position in Grand Junction.

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