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BumRushDaShow

(129,979 posts)
Thu Feb 4, 2021, 03:15 PM Feb 2021

Pence to join Heritage Foundation, organization announces

Source: Washington Post

Former vice president Mike Pence will join the conservative Heritage Foundation as a “distinguished visiting fellow,” the organization announced Thursday.

Pence’s role will involve advising Heritage staff on policy issues, delivering a series of speeches on policy issues and contributing a monthly column for the Daily Signal, a Heritage Foundation publication.

“Over the course of the past four years, our team at Heritage has worked closely with members of the Trump administration on a host of policy accomplishments,” Heritage President Kay C. James said in a statement. “That’s why I am excited Vice President Mike Pence will join forces with Heritage to ensure we continue to advance conservative principles and policy solutions. His allegiance to the Constitution and commitment to advancing a conservative policy agenda make him an outstanding fit for The Heritage Foundation.”

Read more: https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2021/02/04/joe-biden-live-updates/#link-FYHPTSPA3JEGNDIXUDKF7C7TOM



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Pence to join Heritage Foundation, organization announces (Original Post) BumRushDaShow Feb 2021 OP
Big surprise. Bluethroughu Feb 2021 #1
Adios, fuckface. Paladin Feb 2021 #2
Keep him in the money loop- packman Feb 2021 #3
Exactly. Heritage is a holding tank for conservative cranks willing to work for cash. Midnight Writer Feb 2021 #11
Don't know what to say about Heritage Foundation but they don't get enough scrutiny and pushback bucolic_frolic Feb 2021 #4
I actually think this latest crowd of GOPers BumRushDaShow Feb 2021 #8
I sadly remember that show. Ray Bruns Feb 2021 #13
It was a silly movie BumRushDaShow Feb 2021 #14
Well my bus is earlier, red, and involves Nazis bucolic_frolic Feb 2021 #17
Probably not big enough BumRushDaShow Feb 2021 #19
Yes not fooled Feb 2021 #10
more like an "extinguished visiting fellow,"... dhill926 Feb 2021 #5
Ah yes, the high-paying think-tank gig. Aristus Feb 2021 #6
Heritage Foundation seems to be where right wing assholes are put out to pasture. SunSeeker Feb 2021 #7
aka political career dead. now one to screw people behind the scenes. nt Javaman Feb 2021 #9
He can hang around there for a few years. TeamPooka Feb 2021 #12
I'm sure mother approves. BlueIdaho Feb 2021 #15
"You guys got a couch I can crash on, right?" Grokenstein Feb 2021 #16
They probably can provide BumRushDaShow Feb 2021 #18
Ahh, yes, the most moral of organizations n/t hibbing Feb 2021 #20
Put the old horse out to pasture. bluedigger Feb 2021 #21
HAHAHAHAHAHA HUAJIAO Feb 2021 #22
The perfect place for Pence. Like wearing glasses to make yourself look intelligent. Nitram Feb 2021 #23
Heritage Foundation is Still Around ? JI7 Feb 2021 #24
I think the QOP is about to BumRushDaShow Feb 2021 #25
Fascist joins fascist group Yeehah Feb 2021 #26
"policy accomplishments" area51 Feb 2021 #27

Paladin

(28,285 posts)
2. Adios, fuckface.
Thu Feb 4, 2021, 03:25 PM
Feb 2021

Looking forward to your revisionist takes on that Capitol mob, and how they really didn't want to assassinate your sorry ass.

bucolic_frolic

(43,482 posts)
4. Don't know what to say about Heritage Foundation but they don't get enough scrutiny and pushback
Thu Feb 4, 2021, 03:45 PM
Feb 2021

and they have too much influence for the reactionary ideas they espouse.

BumRushDaShow

(129,979 posts)
8. I actually think this latest crowd of GOPers
Thu Feb 4, 2021, 04:08 PM
Feb 2021

would consider the Heritage Foundation nothing but a bunch of elitist RINOs!

Hell... Sucker Carlson already ranted against them and pretty much declared them as no longer "conservative", garnering record ratings!

Tucker Carlson's Rebuke of Conservative Think Tank Heritage Foundation Smashes Friday Ratings, Draws Over 3 Million Viewers

By Jeffery Martin On 12/23/19 at 7:24 PM EST


Tucker Carlson's rebuke of the conservative think tank The Heritage Foundation drew more than three million viewers to Fox News on Friday night, a figure that beat the network's own program, Hannity, and MSNBC' The Rachel Maddow Show. Fox News held an average of 2.5 million primetime viewers in 2019 giving the network its highest-rated year ever.

On Friday's Tucker Carlson Tonight, the host criticized The Heritage Foundation for its alleged views on protecting the rights of big technology companies, saying it "no longer represents the interests of conservatives." "And then there's The Heritage Foundation, maybe the biggest and best-funded think tank in Washington," Carlson said. "Half the conservatives in this city seem to have worked there at one time or another. To this day, there are a lot of nice and very well-meaning people at Heritage but as an organization, Heritage no longer represents the interests of conservatives, at least on the question of tech."

Carlson cited a paper by The Heritage Foundation called "Free Enterprise is the Best Remedy for Online Bias Concerns" as evidence that The Heritage Foundation "defends the special privileges that Congress has given to Silicon Valley left-wing monopolies." "And if conservatives don't like it, Heritage says, well, they can just go and make their own Google," Carlton said.

"They make deals with people who hate you," Carlson added. "They secretly sell out your interests, then they beg you to tithe like it's the medieval church. Like you owe them your money. That's the system that we've had for decades. Maybe that's why no matter how much money you send, nothing gets more conservative. Just the opposite. You wonder just how long this system can continue."

https://www.newsweek.com/tucker-carlsons-rebuke-conservative-think-tank-heritage-foundation-smashes-friday-ratings-draws-1478944


They are under the Big Bus!

Ray Bruns

(4,123 posts)
13. I sadly remember that show.
Thu Feb 4, 2021, 04:37 PM
Feb 2021

If I remember correctly, didn't last past the first season. What a piece of crap.

BumRushDaShow

(129,979 posts)
19. Probably not big enough
Thu Feb 4, 2021, 05:32 PM
Feb 2021

to fit all the (former) "conservatives" (now considered socialist radical left RINOs) under it!

not fooled

(5,805 posts)
10. Yes
Thu Feb 4, 2021, 04:12 PM
Feb 2021

shortly after red don got installed, my federal workplace got a copy of a Heriturd Fuckdation plan to re-shape our agency. They were literally trying to run the country. And succeeded, in many respects.



Aristus

(66,527 posts)
6. Ah yes, the high-paying think-tank gig.
Thu Feb 4, 2021, 04:07 PM
Feb 2021

Good for him. Now maybe he can afford rent and stop couch-surfing.

If he doesn't stay busy, he'll just sit in the corner attracting the flies...

BumRushDaShow

(129,979 posts)
18. They probably can provide
Thu Feb 4, 2021, 05:25 PM
Feb 2021

some nice multi-room hotel suites and book him so that he can pull in at least $100K per "speech" (in quotes).

HUAJIAO

(2,413 posts)
22. HAHAHAHAHAHA
Thu Feb 4, 2021, 06:43 PM
Feb 2021

Moving in to work right with the movers and shakers, I see.


I cannot imagine him giving a lecture on anything...

Nitram

(22,957 posts)
23. The perfect place for Pence. Like wearing glasses to make yourself look intelligent.
Thu Feb 4, 2021, 07:21 PM
Feb 2021

"Distinguished Visiting Fellow" Oh, my! I wonder what the salary with that "position" is.

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