Posts Tagged ‘Columbia University’

Andrew Marcus

Andrew Breitbart’s Address To CPAC 2010

by Andrew Marcus

Below is the full length speech Andrew Breitbart delivered to CPAC 2010. We have also taken the liberty of breaking out some of the best soundbites from the speech.

  1. Mr. Podesta, we are watching you!
  2. What I learned from Kurt Cobain
  3. E Pluribis Unum
  4. The Frankfort School roots of multiculturalism and political correctness
  5. Big Education
  6. MSM – You are not on the American team!
  7. CPAC cuts Breitbart short

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Posted Feb 22nd 2010 at 5:41 pm in Culture, Featured Story, History, Media Criticism, News, Politics, Tea Party | 104 Comments

Kyle Olson

Frances Fox Piven: Glenn Beck Seeks ‘Foreign, Dark-Skinned, Intellectual’ Scapegoats

by Kyle Olson

Throughout much of 2009, Glenn Beck extensively covered the “Cloward-Piven Strategy” that was first brought into the public domain in a May 1966 article in The Nation magazine.  In the article, Richard Cloward and Frances Fox Piven, two Columbia professors, developed a strategy by which the welfare system could be overwhelmed with demand, broken, and replaced with a “guaranteed annual income.”

Beck has successfully made the argument that the Cloward-Piven Strategy was a blueprint for success at overwhelming that system.  Don’t think it worked?  Ask the leaders of New York City.  The strategy worked so well, the mass rush for welfare benefits bankrupted the city in the 1970s.

So as Beck has brought new light to this strategy, no one has asked Frances Fox Piven’s opinion.  Until now.


Piven dismisses Beck’s opinion as “silly.”  But she also went a step farther.

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Posted Feb 8th 2010 at 6:58 am in ACORN, Culture, Featured Story, News, Politics | 210 Comments