Bill Maher looks at RW "think tanks."

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8. I taught with a guy who had worked for a right wing think tank

He had grown up in a republican family who was active in local party politics and had hooked up with the think tank while he was in college. He got scholarship money from them and an internship in DC when he graduated. And he worked there for 2 years.

He left after he got sick of being told what to think and criticized for doing his own research. He said he would be given a topic and told to look for support for one side but not even consider the other side.

He had lots of interesting stories about this think tank and believed they were ruining our political system.

Anyhow, after he quit he decided to become a teacher and felt he had a much more powerful impact in a classroom than he would ever have had in that think tank.