That’s the great thing about being an Ivy League professor. You can say any old thing, and people will pay attention. Just use this template:
(Insert any noun here) are like (insert any description here).
For example:
A Yale professor said that cabbage farmers are like English poets.
See? Easy. And profound.
Let’s sue her for slander. I am thinking class action.
Damn I knew a poet that farmed....
She is not a professor any more than Obama was a professor.
She is an assistant clinical professor. Clinical professors are a dime a dozen. They are not academics. They are clinicians.
Last I knew, this person isn’t even licensed in Connecticut. Of course, Elizabeth Warren isn’t even member of the bar in Massachusetts but that doesn’t seem to stop the media from lying.