You’re just spouting the Mitch McConnell smearing talking-points just like the rest of the clapping-seals media and Ruling Class hacks that support the GOP no matter what they do.
Bevin NEVER claimed he was a graduate of MIT. Bevin clearly stated he completed an EO/MIT Entrepreneurial Master Program which was part of the MIT Enterprise Forum…. errr - you know what - ONE MAJOR REASON Bevin never got traction was because from the moment he announced his intentions to run for the seat, he had been continuously defending himself from bogus attacks.
Bevin was outspent 5 to 1 and STILL McConnell only got 60% of the GOP vote.
McConnell loses to Grimes, and deservedly so. I will be happy as a clam to see him retired.
At least I will know who and where the enemy is, rather than having to look behind me all the time wondering when I’m going to be shot from the back on orders from General Mitch to his Praetorian Establishment goons.
Bevin lied on his LinkedIn entry about his education, falsely implying that he was an MIT graduate. Here’s the screenshot of Bevin’s LinkedIn profile, before he got caught and changed it: http://thehill.com/images/stories/news/2013/08_august/21/bevin.jpg
His “education” line next to his picture lists only “Massachusetts Institute of Technology,” and when one scrolls down to see the details of his education it says that he studied “Entrepreneurship” at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology from 2006-2008, and that he graduated from the Entrepreneurial Master’s Program at the MIT Endicott Campus. In fact, the “entrepreneurship program” in which Bevin was enrolled and from which he graduated has absolutely nothing to do with the Massachusetts Institute of Technology or any of its graduate schools.
Bevin falsely used the MIT name because the *conference center where he took his courses* happens to be owned by MIT and is used by its grad schools for some courses, but the conference center is also rented out to other folks. (I guess it’s a good thing that Bevin didn’t also take yoga classes held at the basement of the Harvard Law School building, or else he’d claim he attended Harvard as well.)
So because the program was “sponsored” by the MIT Enterprise Forum (among others) it means that he can claim to have studied at MIT? The David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies is affiliated with Harvard University, but if it is one of several “sponsors” of adult-education courses in Boston it doesn’t mean that people who take the courses studied at Harvard.
Bevin claimed to have studied entrepreneurship at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology—that’s the name of a university, not a neighborhood in Cambridge. He added that the courses were “at the MIT Endicott Campus,” which is a business center that is rented out by MIT. He easily could have described his certification in a way that did not imply that he’s an MIT graduate, and used the same second and third paragraphs to describe the program (there’s some puffery in the second paragraph, but no dishonesty), and no one could have called him a liar. But he decided that being honest about the program he attended wouldn’t cut it, and he had to lie about it.
The Entrepreneurial Masters Program (apparently Bevin even misspelled the name) consists of shelling out $4,000 to attend four days of lectures, and then doing it again for two more years, and after having paid $12,000 to attend 12 total days of lectures over 3 years, they give you a nice diploma that you can show pictures of when asking for political donations. See http://events.eonetwork.org/emp/ The “course description” sounds like the “courses” they offer on cruise ships. I doubt very much that this program consisted of a few months of studying on your own time and then four days of lectures; it’s a four-day-long series of conferences, which, quite cunningly, they’ve packaged together with two additional four-day-long series of conferences that the person has to pay for in order to earn the “certificate.” It’s like the Yale Travel Society, but without the Yale professors, and no one could claim that they “studied at Yale” because they heard some lectures while on a cruise of the Danube.
I’m sure that many people consider those $12,000 money well spent, and maybe participants leave there as the greatest entrepreneurs in the world, but I have to tell you that, having three first-cousins who graduated with a BS from MIT during the past 20 years, I know for a fact that one cannot get an MIT diploma by attending 12 days of lectures.
Who would pretend that participating in such program was the equivalent of studying at MIT for three years? Not an honest person, I would say. And if Bevin felt the need to pad his résumé in such an outrageous manner, I don’t think he’s very proud of his real accomplishments.
Oh, but feel free to continue to blame Mitch McConnell for Bevin’s character flaws.
