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]

Never was into nanny-state stuff like that. You must have me mistaken for a neocon.

How’s the fictional writing career?

[Gondring]

You sure are strong in your defense against veracity. Are you sure you’re not a lib?

[Gondring]

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

It doesn't matter to the argument, logically...she was using current figures and I was just pointing out the fallacy of her claim that A&S was the "exclusive" school and Ag was practically open enrollment--which it's not.

Mr. Olbermann was in the communications program, which is probably easier, but I don't know the figures. Miss Coulter should have stuck to the real facts of the argument, not try to play the puerile internecine rivalry game, which just cheapens her argument.

[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”.

Please don't try to bring facts in here...they aren't welcome in the New FR^TM.

[Palladin]

Olbermann is always overcompensating for his less than prestigious education and his less han impressive sexual prowess.

He is a sad, sad creature.

[AppyPappy]

That’s why she busts ugly on the “other” school. The rest of us would have no clue.

[freeplancer]

Yeah, accuse someone of being a lib. That will win an arguement every single time. It seems like you are the only one calling Ann Coulter a liar and advertising for a liberal university. Mmm

[NC28203]

Just anf FYI:

Undergraduate Acceptance Rates Per College, Fall 2008
Agriculture & Life Sciences 21.9%
Architecture, Art & Planning 15.5%
Arts & Sciences 18.4%
Engineering 29.1%
Hotel Administration 22.4%
Human Ecology 32.1%
Industrial & Labor Relations 25.2%

Undergraduate Acceptance Rates Per College, Fall 1980
College of Agiculture and Life Sciences 32.2%
College of Arts and Sciences 32.1%

[peeps36]

I'm glad it was Ann who exposed Olberman as the fraudulent douchebag he is. He's a coward who resorts to taking cheap shots at people who aren't there to defend themselves. He is just like his butt buddy Bill Maher. Neither of them have the courage to face the people they ridicule.

[Gondring]

If you knew anything of Cornell, you’d realize that the Ag school is FAR more conservative than Arts & Scisnces.

[freeplancer]

I don’t care. Let it go.

[Dixiekraut]

Facts matter...unless ad hominem attacks are all you care about....

I’m no fan of Olberman..but I made it a point to watch “Countdown” tonight..to see if he “had the guts” and would address this..and he did..in The Worst Person in the World segment( which I think is pretty smart- alecky & childish..like most of his stuff ).

He had Ann at third from the Worst..and in so doing showed his Cornell University diploma on air..which looks the same as hers..only he attained it in 7 semesters..paying a fraction of what she did..and all the while attending classes in the Arts & Sciences College she touts so highly....

Ann Coulter...OWNED.

[RonDog]

I did not go to Cornell, but THIS ARTICLE seems to support ANN's position, from nymag.com:

Fellow Cornellians Ann Coulter and Keith Olbermann Get in Awesome College Catfight
3/5/09 at 4:20 PM

Comment 25Comment 25Comments

Such a pity, they'd make such a lovely couple.
Photo: Getty Images

The thing about Ann Coulter is, she'll make you laugh even as what she's saying appalls you. Her column yesterday was an excellent example. She attacked liberal MSNBC anchor Keith Olbermann over his habit of playing "gotcha!" clips when politicians (usually Republicans) misspeak, arguing that the point is only to make Olbermann himself look smart. Then she goes into uncharted territory: Coulter, a graduate of Cornell, attacks Olbermann, a fellow graduate, for bragging about his education.

See, Ann went to the College of Arts and Sciences, the part of the university that is part of the Ivy League. Keith went to the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences, which is technically a state school.

It's a dichotomy that Cornellians the world around are keenly aware of, but rarely use against one another.

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."

For some reason this feels like it crosses a line. Not like calling John Edwards a "faggot" or accusing the September 11 widows of "enjoying their husbands' deaths," but a line nonetheless. (She did make us laugh with her lines: "Most people who majored in 'communications' at an ag school don't act like Marshall Scholars" and "'Communications' is a major, along with 'recreation science,' most commonly associated with linemen at USC. But at least the linemen can throw a football, which Keith cannot because his mother decided he was not physically robust enough to play outdoors as a child.") Olbermann, of course, was quick to respond. He told TVNewser:

Poor Annie has completely lost it. Cornell diplomas don't make any reference to individual college or major. They're Cornell diplomas. Mine looks exactly like hers, only if she was an out-of-stater she probably paid 8-10 times what I did for mine. And the premise of the University is that anybody can take almost any course. Nearly half of mine were in "her" Arts College. And this is the first time since I went there in 1975 that I've ever seen a Cornellian rag on all the other colleges. It's a long way to go just to rationalize Limbaugh not knowing the Constitution from the Declaration of Independence.

Hmmm. We have to say, this one victory goes to Ann.

Keith's response definitely wasn't as funny, and he kind of lost us at "poor Annie."

OLBERMANN'S PLASTIC IVY [AnnCoulter.com]
Olbermann/Coulter Take Cornell Debate To Andy Bernard-Like Level [TVNewser/Mediabistro]

[Dixiekraut]

No question that Ann has a sterling resume’....I do think she goes a bit over the top sometimes and I think this was one of those times...

P.S. I see you have a photo of yourself and her in your profile...lucky dog you. :-)

[ozzymandus]

I watched Olbie’s attempted comeback tonight. I missed a lot of it because I was laughing so hard I couldn’t hear him. Olbie went to an ag college! He also brags about graduating at the age of twenty, so apparently it was a 2-yr juco. You are so busted, Qweefie!

[Syncro]

He is just like his butt buddy Bill Maher. Neither of them have the courage to face the people they ridicule.

Yes, they both are smarmy sick petty liberal demagogues.

Now I doubt that Bill Maher has ever ridiculed Ann Coulter (he is smarter than that, and I believe they are friends) but check out the following:

QUOTATIONS FROM CHAIRMAN ANN

March 8, 2009, 12:10 AM

ANN COULTER-BILL MAHER DEBATE COMING TO A CITY NEAR YOU! -

MARCH 9 - NEW YORK

MARCH 10 - BOSTON

MARCH 11 - CHICAGO

From AnnCoulter.Com

[ozzymandus]

What is “over the top” about revealing the truth about Olbermann? This gasbag went to an ag college! Ann’s line about Olbis being the same as the locksmith claiming to be a Yale man was priceless!

[Syncro]

paying a fraction of what she did..

Yea, New Yorkers paid for his education because he went to New York State University, subsidized by taxpayers.

...all the while attending classes in the Arts & Sciences College

And in College towns high school students take classes at the College. And most of them around here say they are going to SSU.

Kieth Olbermann...PWNED

I'll say one thing for Olbermann though, he's a pretty macho guy.

Did you see the pictures of him earlier in the thread at his classes out in the field?

He was the only one in his class who refused to wear gloves.

[ozzymandus]

I feel sorry for you. It must be tough to be an Olbermann fan after finding this out.

[ozzymandus]

Sorry, your pal Olbie has been busted as a liar. Live with it. It’s not like it’s the first time.