Gillespie, Fox’s Chris Wallace Spar Over Claim That Six Studies Validate Romney’s Tax

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Here's the full exchange, via Fox:

GILLESPIE: Six different studies have said --

WALLACE: Those are very questionable. Some of them are blogs. Some of them are from the AEI, which is hardly an independent group. Those are not --

GILLESPIE: These are very credible sources, and, you know --

WALLACE: One of them is from a guy who is -- a blog from a high who was a top advisor to George W. Bush. These are hardly nonpartisan studies.

GILLESPIE: Look, Chris, this -- I think if you look at Harvard and AEI and other studies, are very credible sources for economic analysis.

WALLACE: You wouldn't say that AEI is a conservative think tank.

GILLESPIE: I would say it is a right-leaning think tank. That doesn't make it not credible.

WALLACE: It doesn't make it nonpartisan.

GILLESPIE: It does make it nonpartisan. It's not a partisan organization. I can tell you, there have been many instances where there are things that AEI has come out with and said, I didn't find to be necessarily --

(CROSSTALK)

GILLESPIE: -- with the Republican Party.

WALLACE: Would you say the Brookings Institution is nonpartisan?

GILLESPIE: I would say the Brookings Institution is left leaning and that they are nonpartisan.