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Rough time to be a conservative intellectual. Marc Ambinder publishes an e-mail from a source at a "prominent conservative think tank":
We ... are on strict 'no comment' lockdown. We've even pulled some analysts of scheduled TV spots and have been declining any new appearances on the issue.The analysts I work with are supportive of the AIG deal. But there is significant push back from higher ups on the board that don't like it.Hence our silence.In other words, the experts who know this stuff support the bailout. The ideologues who fund this stuff don't. And the mission, at the end of the day, is not simply to enlarge the sum total of human knowledge.