MSNBC To GOP Congressman: "Do You Have A Degree In Economics?" (Video)

Real Clear Politics ^ | 7/20/11 | Staff

[Evil Slayer]

MSNBC's Contessa Brewer, you may remember just yesterday said the attack on Rupert Murdoch at a hearing encapsulated what the British were feeling.

Today, Contessa "educated" a conservative Representative that if Congress does not raise the debt raising, the country would be "reverting into a depression." Rep. Mo Brooks (R-AL) said he disagreed which prompted the MSNBC host to ask him if he had a degree in economics.

"Yes ma'am, I do. Highest honors," Rep. Brooks responded.

According to his Congressional page: "Mo graduated from Duke University in three years with a double major in political science and economics, with highest honors in economics. In 1978, he graduated from the University of Alabama Law School."

[Pining_4_TX]

There are other posts on this, but, hey, this is a great story.

Another Contessa Brewer moment..

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pHwRN0agLhI

[golfisnr1]

Up yours Tess.

[Paladin2]

She has two BIG brains, just below her shoulders:

[golfisnr1]

Up yours Tess.

[donhunt]

LOL

[Cheetahcat]

Contessa,Why don’t you educate some of the Democrat Caucuses they are chuck full of Morons,and that economic Idiot Kenyan-Commie?

[screaminsunshine]

If they do. Run them off.

[surely_you_jest]

Not surprisingly, the reporterette’s degree is in Broadcast Journalism. Stupid cow . . . .

[CWW]

Open mouth, insert foot, leg, hip .....

[screaminsunshine]

We need people who can add and subtract without a calculator.

[subterfuge]

“Oh, you DO have an economics degree? Well, those things are SOO overrated.”

Dumb broad has degree in Dumb Ass.

[Da Coyote]

Krugman has one of those.

Appears to require as much intelligence as one in “eddication”.

MSNBC can shove it up their smelly Obama.

[GlockThe Vote]

Do you disagree with Bernake?

I almost puked when she said that!

[dandiegirl]

She’s a female Ed Shultz. Thinks she’s smarter than everyone else.

[NTegraT]

This is so funny I had to come over here and see what was being said. Talk about a smooth transition to the put-down. “Okay. Blah, blah, blah.” Pretty high and mighty thought she had him and could disarm him. NOT.

[muir_redwoods]

Right now there are twelve interns at MSNBS desperately trying to find out if he was on the Duke lacrosse team

[Evil Slayer]

You do have to give Contessa a bit of credit for not missing a beat when the question back-fired so completely. I do wish the congressman had responded a bit differently, though. I think, "Yes, I do, with highest honors. Do you have one?" would have been better. But hey, his response was still spot on, as far as deflating the implied ad hominem Countlessa was trying for. She deserved the "slap."

[TexasNative2000]

She’s a female Ed Shultz liberal. Thinks she’s smarter than everyone else.

Fixed.

[submarinerswife]

Idiot.