'Blind Side' Author Slams Heritage Foundation on Coronavirus: 'They're All Under a Rock.' FACT CHECK

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'Blind Side' Author Slams Heritage Foundation on Coronavirus: 'They're All Under a Rock.' FACT CHECK: False
BY TYLER O'NEIL, MAY 08, 2020 5:35 PM EST

Lewis, author of Moneyball, The Blind Side, and The Big Short, told CNN’s Anderson Cooper that the Heritage Foundation had not addressed the crisis.

“This isn’t gonna last two weeks. We’re going to be living with this for a long time … You’re not hearing a lot from libertarians. Where’s the Heritage Foundation, you know? They’re all under a rock right now,” he said at an Axios virtual event.
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Yet Lewis was extremely mistaken. While there is some overlap between the Heritage Foundation’s conservative advocacy and the libertarian approach to shrinking the size and scope of the federal government, Heritage is not a libertarian think tank but a conservative one.

More importantly, he could not be more wrong on Heritage being “under a rock.” Instead, the conservative think tank launched the 17-expert National Coronavirus Recovery Commission in April. The commission has released 179 recommendations for governments and business leaders to reopen America. The White House is considering the commission’s ideas.

Facts don't matter on CNN when the target of the falsehoods is conservative.