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I wasn't trying to jab at anybody's school, I was referencing an Ann Coulter article:

Olbermann relentlessly attacked low-level Bush administration employee Monica Goodling for not going to a name-dropping college, saying -- approximately 1 million times -- that she got her law degree "by sending 100 box tops to Religious Lunatic University."

I would venture to say that the students at Goodling's law school at Regent University are far more impressive than those at the Cornell agriculture school -- the land-grant, non-Ivy League school Keith attended.

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.

OLBERMANN'S PLASTIC IVY

Yes, not one of Ann Coulter's finer moments. It ranks up there with "Canadians were in the Vietnam War" and other errors.

I'm probably one of the earliest who can say that he was brought solidly into conservatism by Miss Coulter, and it was back when she was at Cornell (and not just because of her looks back then, I swear!). And as an alumna, she should be well aware that the ag school is very impressive--just like the other statutory colleges (that, or "contract college," is the proper term for colleges receiving public funding within the private land-grant university that is "Ivy League").

I'm guessing that Miss Coulter had little contact with those attending that fine college. I didn't hang out at the Ag Quad much, myself, but at least I interacted with its denizens. Frankly, if I'd been smarter than I was, I would have enrolled in the ag school and paid a lot less than going into high-tuition endowed college from day one.