Jeremy Scahill calls out Ayaan Hirsi Ali and the American Enterprise Institute

This is from a few years back, but it shows just how much independent journalist Jeremy Scahill is spot on and never misses a beat. In this clip from Overtime from Real Time with Bill Maher, from April 18 2008, (if the above embedded video is too slow, try this link), Maher and Cornel West heap praise upon secular feminist Ayaan Hirsi Ali. Before Maher's and West's praise, Ali pays tribute to the neo-conservative American Enterprise Institute. However Scahill provides some reality on the AEI for its championing and lobbying of the illegal invasion of Iraq in 2003. Ali then pathetically attempts defending the AEI, professing that it stands up for and champions noble causes. Sorry Ali, but the American Enterprise Institute not only championed the Iraq War, but also attempted to bribe climate scientists in 2007, and has received millions from Exxon-Mobil. Ali of course was previously elected to the Dutch House of Representatives as a member of the centre-right People's Party for Freedom and Democracy, which embraces conservative policies on economic, criminal, foreign affairs and immigration, ie poo-pooing the welfare state, deregulation, you know, those policies which have been so successful in America, except for that little inconvenience known as the great finanical collapse of 2008. Anyways, it was disappointing that Maher didn't call her out, as he usually does his homework, however Scahill picks up where Maher should have been leading the panel.