MAINSTREAMING NILES

Recently, I've heard Heritage Foundation hack Niles Gardiner on several winger radio shows: War Whore Ingraham, Michael Savage and Slots Bennett. On WWI's show, he repeated the winger meme about Pres. Obama being weak and hurting America on the world stage and I decided to do a little Googling to see how long he's been around.

Back in 1993¹, he was a grad student at Yale and wrote an op-ed for the Washington Times bemoaning that Yale has become a friendly environment for homosexuals and sounded pretty much like a modern-day Fundie.

In 2002², he was a visiting fellow at Heritage and was described as a "European specialist" in September³ and by October, he was also an "Iraq specialist" at Heritage⁴.

In November of 2002, Niles had become a full-fledged war whore⁵:

To not attack Iraq is "appeasement" and "moral cowardice," charges Nile Gardiner of the Heritage Foundation.

By January 2003, he had morphed again into a "visiting fellow in Anglo-American security policy" at Heritage⁶.

¹The Washington Times
December 2, 1993, Thursday, Final Edition
Men, women and others at Yale
BYLINE: Nile Gardiner and Michael Scott Armel
SECTION: Part A; COMMENTARY; OP-ED; Pg. A17
LENGTH: 1243 words

²August 20, 2002, Tuesday, BC cycle
Think tank asks European Union to halt funding Palestinian Authority
BYLINE: By BARRY SCHWEID, AP Diplomatic Writer
SECTION: Washington Dateline
LENGTH: 457 words
DATELINE: WASHINGTON

The Heritage Foundation, a private research group, is urging European leaders to stop funding the Palestine Authority in light of its "overwhelming anti-Israel bias" and allegations the aid funds Palestinian terror.

In a report, the foundation asked the Bush administration, which circumvents the Palestinian Authority in its assistance program, to press for an independent investigation into whether European Union funds are misused.

Direct aid to the authority, which is headed by Yasser Arafat, should be halted until elections are held and the leadership is changed, said a Heritage report prepared by Nile Gardiner, a visiting fellow in security policy.

³Omaha World Herald (Nebraska)
September 1, 2002, Sunday SUNRISE EDITION
Support for U.S. may be fading Bush's tough talk on Iraq while troops remain in Afghanistan has experts wary.
BYLINE: By Matt Kelley
SOURCE: WORLD-HERALD BUREAU
SECTION: NEWS; Pg. 1A;
LENGTH: 1304 words
DATELINE: Washington

In Europe, public opinion polls are now running strongly against U.S. action in Iraq. Nile Gardiner, a European specialist at the Heritage Foundation, a conservative think tank, said the discontent stems from issues ranging from the Israeli-Palestinian conflict to trade fights to Bush's proclamation of an "axis of evil" formed by Iraq, Iran and North Korea.

⁴The Denver Post
October 11, 2002 Friday 1ST EDITION
Bush turns efforts to United Nations
BYLINE: Bruce Finley , Denver Post International Affairs Writer
SECTION: NEWS DESK; Pg. A-01
LENGTH: 880 words

Heritage Foundation Iraq specialist Nile Gardiner predicted 'Russia will be the first to crack.' A U.S. guarantee that Iraqi debts to Russia will be paid would help, Gardiner said, adding that Russian President Vladimir Putin 'wants to be seen as a big player in the war on terrorism both domestically and internationally.'

⁵Copley News Service
November 5, 2002 Tuesday
THE CAPITOL EYE
Making enemies or protecting Americans
BYLINE: Doug Bandow Copley News Service
SECTION: OPINION & ANALYSIS; CAPITAL EYE
LENGTH: 851 words
DATELINE: WASHINGTON

⁶The Washington Times
January 31, 2003, Friday, Final Edition
Why Britain will fight in Iraq
BYLINE: By Nile Gardiner and John Hulsman, SPECIAL TO THE WASHINGTON TIMES
SECTION: COMMENTARY; Pg. A21
LENGTH: 877 words

Nile Gardiner is visiting fellow in Anglo-American security policy, and John Hulsman is research fellow in European affairs at the Heritage Foundation.