…Obama “will challenge this nation to basically hold their leaders accountable for putting the interests of the people — getting them back to work, getting this economy growing again — ahead of the partisan political interests that are dominating Washington.”…
~Anita Dunn, 12/12/2011
Special to WorldTribune.com
Based on an article by Cliff Kincaid
for Accuracy in Media
1/4/2012
When Anita Dunn hasn’t been on CNN or MSNBC bashing the Republican presidential candidates and/or praising President Obama, she has been successfully lobbying for a Washington Post subsidiary by the name of Kaplan University.
You may remember Dunn as the Obama aide who once said communist mass murderer Mao and Mother Teresa were “two of my favorite political philosophers.” The Soros-funded Media Matters said she was taken out of context.
Dunn is now claiming that she is not a lobbyist, even though she works for a firm that does lobbying. Progressive is as progressive does.
Kaplan, has been serving as the cash cow for the Post Company, whose newspaper has been losing money and readers. Steven Pearlstein of the Post wrote that Kaplan “has provided the handsome profits that have helped to cover this newspaper’s operating losses” and that “Although we in the Post newsroom have nothing to do with Kaplan, we’ve all benefited from its financial success.”
But that success came at the expense of students, including veterans, who got educated through Kaplan and found that some of their degrees were worthless.
After congressional investigations exposed abuses in the $30 billion for-profit education industry, Kaplan and other companies got very concerned that proposed regulations from the Obama administration would potentially “cut off the huge flow of federal aid” to private sector colleges declared unfit to receive the money, The New York Times reported.
In the end, “after a ferocious response that administration officials called one of the most intense they had seen, the Education Department produced a much-weakened final plan that almost certainly will have far less impact as it goes into effect” this year.
Former Obama official Dunn played a key role in making sure the for-profit education companies will continue largely with business as usual.
Military columnist Tom Philpott, a former Coast Guardsman, has led the criticism of what he calls the “predatory for-profit schools” that “rob veterans of their Post-9/11 GI Bill benefits.” He quotes Theodore (Ted) L. Daywalt, chief executive officer and president of VetJobs, an online job search firm for military veterans, as saying that he learned about the problem through working with disappointed vets who thought they had used their GI Bill to earn credible degrees only to learn they were “worthless.”…
The article continues at World News Tribune.
