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Detroit mayor hopeful Bing retracts his MBA claim
AP via Breitbart ^ | march 11, 2009 | COREY WILLIAMS

Posted on 03/11/2009 9:57:45 AM PDT by Jet Jaguar

Mayoral candidate and former NBA great Dave Bing said Wednesday it was "not correct" when he earlier claimed to have earned a master's degree in business administration. But the claim made on a tape touting education and staying in school was meant to be interpreted in a different manner, Bing told The Associated Press.

The founder and chairman of the Bing Group, a steel manufacturing operation and auto supplier, was responding to a Detroit Free Press story revealing he didn't earn an MBA from General Motors Institute, now called Kettering University in Flint, as he said on the tape.

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Politics/Elections; US: Michigan
KEYWORDS: bing; detroit; michigan; ratcorruption; ratliar
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1 posted on 03/11/2009 9:57:45 AM PDT by Jet Jaguar
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The newspaper also reported that Bing didn’t receive his bachelor’s degree in 1966 from Syracuse University in central New York, as the former college star also claimed. Syracuse spokesman Kevin Morrow said Bing got his degree in economics in 1995, after he completed additional coursework.


2 posted on 03/11/2009 10:00:33 AM PDT by Jet Jaguar (Atlas Shrugged Mode: ON)
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To: Jet Jaguar

And I was an admiral in the Turkish navy ... got the medal right here.


3 posted on 03/11/2009 10:00:40 AM PDT by mgc1122
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To: Jet Jaguar
"I felt I had an MBA for the work I had done in the industry I was in," Bing said. "When I made references to an MBA it wasn't that I went there and got it, but through what I had done.

Well, gollee, Dave, if you really, really, FELT THAT WAY, then I guess it's OK.

4 posted on 03/11/2009 10:00:46 AM PDT by Izzy Dunne (Hello, I'm a TAGLINE virus. Please help me spread by copying me into YOUR tag line.)
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To: Izzy Dunne
"I felt I had an MBA..."

Feelllings!!! Nothing more than feeelllingssss.

5 posted on 03/11/2009 10:02:34 AM PDT by Paine in the Neck (Nepolean fries the idea powder)
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To: Jet Jaguar

He meant to say he was going to watch the Masters golf tournament....


6 posted on 03/11/2009 10:03:36 AM PDT by Mac from Cleveland (How to make a small fortune in the Obama era--first, start off with a big fortune....)
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To: Jet Jaguar

It’s DETROIT, folks..
What the hell difference could it make who runs that black hole?
He’s black and played basketball — in Detroit that’s all he needs, in addition to YOUR TAX MONEY.


7 posted on 03/11/2009 10:05:06 AM PDT by river rat (Semper Fi - You may turn the other cheek, but I prefer to look into my enemy's vacant dead eyes.)
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To: Izzy Dunne

Cripes, with double talking BS like that, the guy should set his sights on a POTUS run in 2012.....


8 posted on 03/11/2009 10:05:32 AM PDT by Mac from Cleveland (How to make a small fortune in the Obama era--first, start off with a big fortune....)
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To: Jet Jaguar

Hmmmm, wonder if the Obamaloon has any degrees. His performance thus far makes W look like a Rhodes Scholar. (A real one, not one who never graduated from Oxford a la Clinton.)


9 posted on 03/11/2009 10:09:31 AM PDT by Da Coyote
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Nope over qualified. He actually ran a company successfully after being in the NBA.


10 posted on 03/11/2009 10:10:10 AM PDT by 70th Division (I love my country but fear my government!)
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To: Jet Jaguar

Wants to be Mayor of Detroit. That’s kind of like being the Mayor of Heroshima after we dropped the bomb.


11 posted on 03/11/2009 10:12:12 AM PDT by Old Retired Army Guy (tHE)
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To: Izzy Dunne

“When I made references to an MBA it wasn’t that I went there and got it, but through what I had done.”

Got a surgery coming up. Must remember to check some diplomas that were on the wall.


12 posted on 03/11/2009 10:12:38 AM PDT by Habibi ("We gladly feast on those who would subdue us". Not just pretty words........)
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To: Jet Jaguar

Dave Bing is a serious businessman. I would ease up on him. The average home sale in Detroit is $7000. Bing cannot do any worse


13 posted on 03/11/2009 10:13:42 AM PDT by dennisw (0bomo the subprime president)
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To: Jet Jaguar

Anyone who would willingly want to be mayor of Detroit has issues.


14 posted on 03/11/2009 10:16:25 AM PDT by Doohickey (The more cynical you become, the better off you'll be.)
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To: Jet Jaguar

What PARTY does the LIAR belong to?????


15 posted on 03/11/2009 10:16:46 AM PDT by Ann Archy (Abortion.....The Human Sacrifice to the god of Convenience)
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To: dennisw
While that is correct...and I admire anyone who starts and runs a business...

He deserves the heckling......

I don't mis-speak like that...And I'd gather, you don't either.

It's a serious gaff.......IMO.

16 posted on 03/11/2009 10:17:00 AM PDT by Osage Orange (Our constitution protects aliens, drunks and U.S. Senators. -Will Rogers)
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To: Jet Jaguar
I have an electrical engineering degree because my job description includes the word engineer.

..............Sorry I just cannot tell a lie because I am not a RAT. I'm sorry that I even thought of deceiving you.

17 posted on 03/11/2009 10:25:18 AM PDT by w1andsodidwe (Jimmy Carter(the Godfather of Terror) allowed radical Islam to get a foothold in Iran.)
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To: Osage Orange

“It’s a serious gaff.......IMO”

This was not a gaffe. It was an outright ,calculated, previously spewed lie.


18 posted on 03/11/2009 10:27:38 AM PDT by Cyman
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To: Cyman
I was attempting to be diplomatic.....

Only because I do not know Bing's history.....

Thanks-

19 posted on 03/11/2009 10:29:46 AM PDT by Osage Orange (Our constitution protects aliens, drunks and U.S. Senators. -Will Rogers)
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To: Jet Jaguar

That was a disapointment. I thought Bing was better than the rest of the candidates for hizzoner.


20 posted on 03/11/2009 10:30:37 AM PDT by Darren McCarty (Obama = Jimmy Carter II)
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