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| Olbermann an Ivy Leaguer? Not so, notes Ann Coulter |
| 2009-03-05 |
| Oh my gawd....he's been deboned and filleted. What a lying douchebag. A taste I wouldn't mention it, except that Olbermann savages anyone who didn't go to an impressive college. As it happens, he didn't go to an impressive college, either. If you've ever watched any three nights of his show, you know that Olbermann went to Cornell. But he always forgets to mention that he went to the school that offers classes in milking and bovine management. Indeed, Keith is constantly lying about his nonexistent "Ivy League" education, boasting to Playboy magazine, for example: "My Ivy League education taught me how to cut corners, skim books and take an idea and write 15 pages on it, and also how to work all day at the Cornell radio station and never actually go to class." Except Keith didn't go to the Ivy League Cornell; he went to the Old MacDonald Cornell. The real Cornell, the School of Arts and Sciences (average SAT: 1,325; acceptance rate: 1 in 6 applicants), is the only Ivy League school at Cornell and the only one that grants a Bachelor of Arts degree. Keith went to an affiliated state college at Cornell, the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences (average SAT: about that of pulling guards at the University of South Carolina; acceptance rate: 1 of every 1.01 applicants). Olbermann's incessant lying about having an "Ivy League education" when he went to the non-Ivy League ag school at Cornell would be like a graduate of the Yale locksmithing school boasting about being a "Yale man." Among the graduates of the Ivy League Cornell are Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Thomas Pynchon, Paul Wolfowitz, E.B. White, Sanford I. Weill, Floyd Abrams, Kurt Vonnegut, Douglas Ginsburg, Janet Reno, Henry Heimlich and Harold Bloom. Graduates of the ag school include David LeNeveu of the Anaheim Ducks, Mitch Carefoot of the Phoenix RoadRunners, Darren Eliot, former professional hockey player, and Joe Nieuwendyk, multiple Stanley Cup winner. One begins to understand why Harvard students threw a chicken on the ice during Cornell's famous rout of Harvard at a 1973 hockey game. If you actually want to pursue a career related to agriculture, there is no better school than the Cornell ag school. I have nothing but admiration for the farmers and aspiring veterinarians at the ag school. They didn't go there just to have "Cornell" on their resumes. In addition to the farmers, there are some smart kids who go to the ag school -- as there are at all state universities. But most people who majored in "communications" at an ag school don't act like Marshall Scholars or go around mocking graduates of Regent University Law School. The sort of insecurity that would force you to always say "trebled" instead of "tripled" could only come from a communications major with massive status anxiety, like Keith. Without even looking it up, I am confident that Harvard, Yale and Princeton do not offer degrees in "communications." I know there is no "communications" major at the Ivy League Cornell. "Communications" is a major, along with "recreation science," most commonly associated with linemen at USC. But at least the linemen can throw a football, which Keith cannot because his mother decided he was not physically robust enough to play outdoors as a child. It may seem cruel to reveal the true college of someone who already wakes up in the middle of the night in a cold sweat worried that he's a fraud. But I believe that by pointing out that Olbermann actually is a fraud, I am liberating him. You may not realize it now, Keith, but you will look back on this day and say, "That was the best thing that ever happened to me!" Finally, you can stop pretending that you went to the hard-to-get-into Cornell. Now you won't have to quickly change the subject whenever people idly remark that they didn't know it was possible to major in "communications" at an Ivy League school. No longer will you have to aggressively bring up Cornell when it has nothing to do with the conversation. Relax, Keith. Now you can let people like you for you or not. I wouldn't want Coulter as an enemy. She's a tough one |
| Posted by:Frank G |
| #21 what Frank said. I fart in Overbite's general direction. |
| Posted by: Whineper Prince aka Broadhead6 2009-03-05 20:39 |
| #20 I didn't post this as a slam at Cornell Ag school, or any school. It's a slam on Edwin R. Olbermann's attempt to fluff his credentials for reasons of personal inferiority, desire for acceptance, and all-around tool-hood. He's a fake, a pretentious coward, a p*ssy, and to quote his eminence: "the worst person in the world" *spit* |
| Posted by: Frank G 2009-03-05 19:07 |
| #19 Coulter also fails to mention that our world class Hotel school Not worth the mention. Plus the whole area is basically a rain swamp filled with fat balding blond women. |
| Posted by: Icerigger 2009-03-05 18:16 |
| #18 Just for fun I looked it up. Harvard College does NOT offer a Communications major. Score one for Ann. http://webdocs.registrar.fas.harvard.edu/ugrad_handbook/current/chapter3/index.html |
| Posted by: Iblis 2009-03-05 16:45 |
| #17 Metrotechnicals rule! |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2009-03-05 16:36 |
| #16 I graduated from Technical school, tell me, can any of you build anything they want from scratch? I can, and have, and can do it whenever I like. Gun laws, I can make all i want or need, Car breakdown, I can build a workable vehicle from junk metal. You get the idea, It's a tremendous feeling of freedom. |
| Posted by: Redneck Jim 2009-03-05 16:20 |
| #15 I used to think Ivy League degrees were impressive. Then I got to law school and met some of the people who have them. They're all smart, in the sense of being able to succeed in school. Most are quite good at what they do in life--one of the best professors I've ever had ("The Murph," who taught contracts and employment law) was a Harvard law grad. However, more than a few are fatally handicapped by arrogance and a sense of entitlement--they went to The Best Law School On Earth and they know it and expect that the rest of us are going to genuflect to them because of it. (Our dean was the worst offender.) They also have a tendency to embrace whacked-out ideologies (e.g., Marx) and stick rigidly to them despite empirical evidence to the contrary, and to travel in cultural and political herds, adopting whatever fads and fashions (NPR, Seinfeld, Obama, Whole Foods, the Toyota Prius, Keith Olbermann, particular vintages of chardonnay) the group around them do. I'm not the guy in my office who's charged with hiring, but if I were and a Harvard grad applied, I'd be spring-loaded not to hire him. I'd rather have a decent, smart kid from a "lesser" university than G. Percivals Fullovhimself IV from Harvard, because the kid from flyover country is probably more mature and more fun to hang out with. |
| Posted by: Mike 2009-03-05 15:53 |
| #14 The Ag school seems appropriate for Olby - he mastered Bull S***. |
| Posted by: Glenmore 2009-03-05 12:38 |
| #13 Lying about your credentials is a sure way to get fired from most jobs, and it's appropriate for Ann to bring it up. This is not going to change anyone's mind at the 'burg, but it's exactly the sort of factoid that sways emotional, irrational, largely uninformed swing voting types. |
| Posted by: Iblis 2009-03-05 12:15 |
| #12 Al, I think the last stop changes from year to year. Not sure if it's still Ag Comm. As you note, everything has the potential to trip you up somehow. |
| Posted by: JAB 2009-03-05 11:45 |
| #11 The dirty little secret about Kieth is that they keep him on the air only to cause controversy (i.e. be as obnoxious as possible). His education is irrelivent to his "job" (make an *ss of himself). As far as Cornell is concerned, I always considered Sociology to be the ultimate last step before flunk out. Ag had those Food Science classes that could trip you up. Al (Econ '73) |
| Posted by: Frozen Al 2009-03-05 11:39 |
| #10 If you want to learn about relevant agriculture try Kansas State, Colorado State, Iowa State, Oklahoma State, Texas A&M. |
| Posted by: bman 2009-03-05 11:38 |
| #9 If you actually want to pursue a career related to agriculture, there is no better school than the Cornell ag school. I have nothing but admiration for the farmers and aspiring veterinarians at the ag school. They didn't go there just to have "Cornell" on their resumes |
| Posted by: bman 2009-03-05 11:29 |
| #8 Barry gets a pass on acedemic achievements, records, classes, grades, citizenship, etc. Citizenship, did I mention US Citizenship? If Olbermann claims on his next broadcast to have personally discovered Pennicilin, at this point why should anyone give it a second thought? |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2009-03-05 11:01 |
| #7 Olbermann could have freaking gone to the Sorbonne and still be a blithering idiot. He is a complete waste of oxygen and electricity. And to think at least half the Democratic National Committee watches his show for updates on public opinion. That's like Joe Stalin reading Pravda for the world news. He's a moron. |
| Posted by: James Carville 2009-03-05 10:50 |
| #6 Wonder what his employment application to NBC has to say about his education? |
| Posted by: ed 2009-03-05 08:56 |
| #5 The point is not that an AG collage is any better or worse than a Ivy Education. The point is that Olberdouch is claiming that he went to an Ivy school when he didn't. That is called Fraud. Not only that but he sneers at anyone who didn't. Didn't he sneer at Sarah Palin's creds as well? Olbermann is a liar and a Fraud. But we already knew that. |
| Posted by: CrazyFool 2009-03-05 08:54 |
| #4 Maybe Olberman dreamed about taking a class titled The Growth Characteristics of Hedera and, instead of using feet and inches, decided to go nautical with his measurements? |
| Posted by: Uncle Phester 2009-03-05 08:39 |
| #3 I did graduate from an Ivy League school, but I think a Cornell Ag & Life Sciences education would have been more worthwhile. That would explain why Olby claims he attended the Ivy Cornell - he's wrong about everything. |
| Posted by: Glenmore 2009-03-05 07:45 |
| #2 Oi vey, Americans and their Alma Maters. |
| Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2009-03-05 02:39 |
| #1 As a grad of Olbermann and Coulter's alma mater (Engineering). I recommend the 'burg disregard this article. It is regrettable that Ms. Coulter took our petty internecine squabbles public in this way. For what it's worth, we had plenty of hockey players in my engineering classes. The Ag school is arguably the best in the world. Ezra Cornell specifically wanted his University to focus on the practical as well as Arts & Sciences and, as a sort of hybrid land grant college, it had military science, Ag and engineering from day 1. Coulter also fails to mention that our world class Hotel school, which is also an 'endowed' (vs. statutory) college, is not known for its SAT scores either. As for politics, the famously anti commie former Taiwan president (Lee Teng-hui) was an Ag grad. That said, Ag Comm was sort of a major of last resort before flunking out when I was there. |
| Posted by: JAB 2009-03-05 01:00 |