Ann Coulter: OLBERMANN'S PLASTIC IVY (PWNED!)

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[Syncro]

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OLBERMANN'S PLASTIC IVY

by Ann Coulter

March 4, 2009

Fortunately, we have Keith Olbermann to point out that Rush Limbaugh did not accurately quote the preamble to the Constitution in his CPAC speech last weekend. I'm not sure what scam Olbermann imagined Rush was trying to put over on the American people by saying conservatives believed in the "preamble to the Constitution" and then quoting words from the Declaration of Independence -- but Olbermann put an end to that cruel deception! 

These small-time opportunities to show off by correcting someone else's teeny-tiny mistakes are the lifeblood of Olbermann's MSNBC show, "Countdown." Olbermann is no more capable of not correcting Rep. Charlie Rangel when he said "inferred," but meant "implied," than an obsessive compulsive could pass a sink without washing his hands. 

There is utterly no purpose to these lame "gotchas," except that Olbermann is so desperately insecure that he is willing to waste valuable airtime in order to convince other status-conscious idiots that he is, like, scary-smart. 

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. 

The real Cornell, the School of Arts and Sciences (average SAT: 1,325; acceptance rate: 1 in 6 applicants), is the only Ivy League school at Cornell and the only one that grants a Bachelor of Arts degree. 

Keith went to an affiliated state college at Cornell, the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences (average SAT: about that of pulling guards at the University of South Carolina; acceptance rate: 1 of every 1.01 applicants). 

Olbermann's incessant lying about having an "Ivy League education" when he went to the non-Ivy League ag school at Cornell would be like a graduate of the Yale locksmithing school boasting about being a "Yale man." 

Among the graduates of the Ivy League Cornell are Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Thomas Pynchon, Paul Wolfowitz, E.B. White, Sanford I. Weill, Floyd Abrams, Kurt Vonnegut, Douglas Ginsburg, Janet Reno, Henry Heimlich and Harold Bloom. 

Graduates of the ag school include David LeNeveu of the Anaheim Ducks, Mitch Carefoot of the Phoenix RoadRunners, Darren Eliot, former professional hockey player, and Joe Nieuwendyk, multiple Stanley Cup winner. 

One begins to understand why Harvard students threw a chicken on the ice during Cornell's famous rout of Harvard at a 1973 hockey game. 

If you actually want to pursue a career related to agriculture, there is no better school than the Cornell ag school. I have nothing but admiration for the farmers and aspiring veterinarians at the ag school. They didn't go there just to have "Cornell" on their resumes. 

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[Gondring]

Do you think he has the guts to make her tonight’s Worst Person in the World recipient?

He could do so, and shred her with the facts...like the fact that the Agricultural Business program has an acceptance rate of only 1 in 18 and is ranked #4 in BusinessWeek for undergraduate business programs.

Anyone who knows Cornell as a university and wasn't just caught up in a preppy clique would know that the Ag School isn't easy. I'm now ashamed to admit that Miss Coulter is who got me into conservative activism and journalism at Cornell if she's going to make such poorly researched columns as this one.

[728b]

"E I E I Pwned"

LOL, that is almost as funny as the article itself.

[syriacus]

Agricultural Business program has an acceptance rate of only 1 in 18

Was Olbermann in the Ag Business Program?

Olbermann acts and sounds like a pig but he isn't fit to be a feeder pig in a 4-H swine project.

[Def Conservative]

Was it 1 in 18 when HE was accepted into the program?

You do know acceptance rates change?

[Def Conservative]

And for the record, your link has a statement that says the Business Program has a one in 18 acceptance rate....

[Syncro]

I think it is a great idea!

[Syncro]

You are a student at Cornell?

[Gondring]

I don’t know under what program he was initially admitted, but his degree was in communication arts and the college admissions are not easy. It’s not at all the way she tries to portray.

[Gondring]

You are a student at Cornell?

Not now. Back in 80s.

[Gondring]

That’s what I said. The link was from the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences.

Many majors can be obtained through different colleges. For example, a geology degree could be earned via the Engineering college or the Arts and Sciences college. The Engineering path is ranked higher than the college Ann Coulter is calling the “real Cornell,” which is Arts & Sciences (and crunchy-granola hippies).

I’m not sure if it can be done now, but one of the smartest deals at Cornell was the Agricultural Engineering degree, because you pay state tuition through the Ag school for 3 years, then endowed tuition for the senior year and get your engineering degree from Cornell a lot cheaper than paying $35,000/year tuition all four years.

[Gondring]

Sorry Ann et al., all of Cornell’s numerous colleges are Ivy League (to the extent that it matters). It is a lower campus conceit to say otherwise. I believe the College of Agriculture & Life Sciences motto is “We grow the Ivy”.

Exactly right.

Lots of the research from Cornell comes from that college. Lots of the BS from Cornell comes from A&S.

[Gondring]

Too bad it is based on a false premise.

[Gondring]

Miss Coulter is flat-out wrong. Cornell is an Ivy League university, containing endowed and statutory colleges. The College of Agriculture and Life Sciences started out as a department and became a full college more than 100 years ago.

[AppyPappy]

She went to Cornell

[freeplancer]

Do you miss your hall monitor days?

[freeplancer]

Man, you are aggressive about this. Could it be that Coulter is good looking and you are not?

[Syncro]

To: Gondring

Do you miss your hall monitor days?

115 posted on Thursday, March 05, 2009 11:48:47 AM by freeplancer

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To: Gondring

Man, you are aggressive about this. Could it be that Coulter is good looking and you are not?

116 posted on Thursday, March 05, 2009 11:51:18 AM by freeplancer

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LOL!

[freeplancer]

Do you miss your hall monitor days?

[freeplancer]

Man, you are aggressive about this. Could it be that Coulter is good looking and you are not?

[ponygirl]

I heard this in the car on the way to work this morning. Mike Gallagher read the whole column on the air. I was laughing out loud imagining Olberdork’s head just ‘sploding. He really thinks he is SO important.

[Syncro]

Awesome!

Keep your eyes on the road...

[Gondring]

She went to Cornell

I am quite aware of that from firsthand knowledge. :-)