Posted on 02/22/2010 6:19:57 PM PST by marktwain
BOSTON -- Amy Bishop's intelligence was never debatable. Even as a child, she didn't hesitate to tell people when they were wrong. As she grew older, earned a Harvard Ph.D and claimed a genius IQ of 180, her brilliance could come with a bluntness, condescension and volatile self-righteousness.
It was all on display in 2002 when she yelled, "I am Dr. Amy Bishop!" as she belted a woman at a Massachusetts restaurant in a fight over a child's booster seat.
Eight years later, the neurobiologist was denied tenure at an Alabama university, a failure her husband and her attorney said played a role in a shooting rampage that left three of Bishop's colleagues dead and three others injured.
Bishop's lawyer, Roy W. Miller, said his client was part of the "intelligentsia," so smart she has trouble relating to the world.
"Her history speaks for itself," he said. "Something's wrong with this lady, OK?"
Bishop, 45, grew up in suburban Braintree, about eight miles south of Boston. Her mother, Judith, was active in local politics as one of 240 elected town meeting members. Her father, Samuel Bishop, was a Northeastern University art professor whose former students include David Bushell, a producer on films including the Academy Award-winning "Sling Blade."
The Bishops were friendly and academically minded parents, often urging their children, both gifted students and violinists, to get their work done, Dan Shaw said. He was frequently over at their house as a child visiting the Bishops' son, Seth.
Shaw didn't know Amy Bishop well but remembered her "exceptional intelligence" and that she wasn't shy about giving her opinion.
"If somebody was talking about something and she felt they were incorrect, she'd (say) to the person, this is this or that is that," he said.
(Excerpt) Read more at suntimes.com ...
We are all ignorant. Just about different things.
Liberals never do. Ever.
Is this the AP trying to make excuses for this lib b*tch? YEah she was brillant until she used a shotgun on her brother. She also went postal and attacked a woman between killing her brother and 3 peopl at the college. She should have been in jail or a mental hospital a long time ago.
So I guess this means that the “Twinkie defense” is off the table?
Oh, my mistake. Please take the booster seat.
Yup - this is an effing AP puff piece about her clevewr liberal family in Braintree. So clever their wonderful lib daughter blew her brother away after they had argued.
We FReepers are like that.
Sometimes.
...so brilliant she couldn’t get tenure at a backwater school in Alabama.
Ok, She was a crazy bitch.
Yet ‘smart’....
Precocious children are SOOOOOOOO damned annoying. Hollyweird is full of them. And we know how those ‘child actors’ usually turn out.
This article is another slam at “social misfits.” Those labeled shy, anti-social, loners, etc., are all taking the blame for the despondency liberal ideas breed in those with above-average IQ. In other words, if you’re not gregarious and know how to suck up and brown nose those in power or with the moneybags, you’re a “misfit.”
Sorry. Rant officially off.
She is a liberal.
That negates any so-called “smarts”.
Period.
I bet she screams “I am Dr Amy Bishop” as they slip the needle in her arm. Then its night night time for the loony bitch.
Say Hi to Dead Kennedy (D Hell) when you get there.
Alabama shooting suspect brilliant, but a leftist who was an unquestioning Obama supporter.( There, fixed it.)
( Wasn't too brilliant now was she? Drank the koolaid. Therefore not the sharpest knife in the drawer.)
Sounds like most of the current O administration...
I’m try to grasp what possible bearing on this story an inclusion about one her father’s former students could have.
Her father, Samuel Bishop, was a Northeastern University art professor whose - former students include David Bushell, a producer on films including the Academy Award-winning “Sling Blade.”
Is this supposed to lend some kind of credibility to a whacko family?
No, she will be saying “Do I still have my job?”
Hilarious but not surprising...
Im sure her attitude will serve her well in prison.
I went to grad school with plenty of people who were book smart, but couldn’t find their way to the bathroom without help.
My laptop can tell me the cube root of 987654321 faster than I can ask the question, but that doesn’t mean I would trust it to tell me if I should vote for a self-absorbed machine politician from Chicago with non-existent executive experience. Or just about any other question that requires normal human judgment, for that matter.
The woman may have had an incredible IQ, but she was clueless about what she should have known best: her own shortcomings.
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