On 6/20/14, 8:08 AM, Mr. Luddite wrote:
On 6/20/2014 6:35 AM, F*O*A*D wrote:
On 6/20/14, 12:07 AM, KC wrote:
From Rachael Madcow (MSNBC)

"The congressional authorization to go to war with AlQueda is still
good... but it doesn't apply to this group in Iraq because AlQueda
disowned them earlier this year"...

What a stupid bitch....


I didn't watch Rachel last night, but...

For a guy like you, an uneducated moron who was socially promoted out of
high school and who has never held a decent job, to call Ms. Maddow
"stupid" is just...a statement that qualifies as one of the dumbest
remarks ever.

Anytime Rachel belches, she is expelling more brain activity than you
have ever had. Among her many achievements, Rachel holds a Doctor of
Philosophy in politics from Oxford University. You wouldn't qualify to
swab out toilets at Oxford.



A PhD doesn't mean someone is "smart". It means he or she satisfied
the course requirements and impressed a mentor and board with a
dissertation.

Oh, please stop with these anti-higher-education tirades of yours. They
just make you look silly. I know a few people with doctorates and I know
what they went through to get them. To even get into a first-rate
doctoral program, you had to have high GRE scores, high grades, be
personally interviewed by several faculty members, and have significant
letters of recommendation. There were multi-day exams at the end of each
year, and I know of several students who were "dropped" halfway through,
there were proficiency requirements in math and science and foreign
languages, faculty committees to be satisfied, preparation of a
significant research project, having the proposed project evaluated by
internal and external faculty committees, spending about a year doing
the research, evaluating it, preparing a half dozen dissertation drafts,
teaching classes, more exams, a final exam on "knowledge" that lasted
two days, and a full-fledged defense of the dissertation before three
university faculty members and several faculty members from other
universities.

Anyone who has an earned doctorate through a rigorous on-campus program
is smart. To posit otherwise is just silliness. "Satisfying the course
requirements..." What a laugh.

And for a moron like Ingersoll to claim Rachel Maddow is "stupid" just
reveals how stupid he is.







--
If right-wing assholes could fly,
rec.boats would be an airport!

On 6/20/2014 8:25 AM, F*O*A*D wrote:
On 6/20/14, 8:08 AM, Mr. Luddite wrote:
On 6/20/2014 6:35 AM, F*O*A*D wrote:
On 6/20/14, 12:07 AM, KC wrote:
From Rachael Madcow (MSNBC)

"The congressional authorization to go to war with AlQueda is still
good... but it doesn't apply to this group in Iraq because AlQueda
disowned them earlier this year"...

What a stupid bitch....


I didn't watch Rachel last night, but...

For a guy like you, an uneducated moron who was socially promoted out of
high school and who has never held a decent job, to call Ms. Maddow
"stupid" is just...a statement that qualifies as one of the dumbest
remarks ever.

Anytime Rachel belches, she is expelling more brain activity than you
have ever had. Among her many achievements, Rachel holds a Doctor of
Philosophy in politics from Oxford University. You wouldn't qualify to
swab out toilets at Oxford.



A PhD doesn't mean someone is "smart". It means he or she satisfied
the course requirements and impressed a mentor and board with a
dissertation.

Oh, please stop with these anti-higher-education tirades of yours. They
just make you look silly. I know a few people with doctorates and I know
what they went through to get them. To even get into a first-rate
doctoral program, you had to have high GRE scores, high grades, be
personally interviewed by several faculty members, and have significant
letters of recommendation. There were multi-day exams at the end of each
year, and I know of several students who were "dropped" halfway through,
there were proficiency requirements in math and science and foreign
languages, faculty committees to be satisfied, preparation of a
significant research project, having the proposed project evaluated by
internal and external faculty committees, spending about a year doing
the research, evaluating it, preparing a half dozen dissertation drafts,
teaching classes, more exams, a final exam on "knowledge" that lasted
two days, and a full-fledged defense of the dissertation before three
university faculty members and several faculty members from other
universities.

Anyone who has an earned doctorate through a rigorous on-campus program
is smart. To posit otherwise is just silliness. "Satisfying the course
requirements..." What a laugh.

And for a moron like Ingersoll to claim Rachel Maddow is "stupid" just
reveals how stupid he is.



My anti-higher-education "tirades"? I feel nothing of the sort.

My objections are with people who feel they are somehow superior,
smarter or "better" simply because they have advanced or more than one
degree.

You often happen to be a perfect example.

On 6/20/14, 8:50 AM, Mr. Luddite wrote:
On 6/20/2014 8:25 AM, F*O*A*D wrote:
On 6/20/14, 8:08 AM, Mr. Luddite wrote:
On 6/20/2014 6:35 AM, F*O*A*D wrote:
On 6/20/14, 12:07 AM, KC wrote:
From Rachael Madcow (MSNBC)

"The congressional authorization to go to war with AlQueda is still
good... but it doesn't apply to this group in Iraq because AlQueda
disowned them earlier this year"...

What a stupid bitch....


I didn't watch Rachel last night, but...

For a guy like you, an uneducated moron who was socially promoted
out of
high school and who has never held a decent job, to call Ms. Maddow
"stupid" is just...a statement that qualifies as one of the dumbest
remarks ever.

Anytime Rachel belches, she is expelling more brain activity than you
have ever had. Among her many achievements, Rachel holds a Doctor of
Philosophy in politics from Oxford University. You wouldn't qualify to
swab out toilets at Oxford.



A PhD doesn't mean someone is "smart". It means he or she satisfied
the course requirements and impressed a mentor and board with a
dissertation.

Oh, please stop with these anti-higher-education tirades of yours. They
just make you look silly. I know a few people with doctorates and I know
what they went through to get them. To even get into a first-rate
doctoral program, you had to have high GRE scores, high grades, be
personally interviewed by several faculty members, and have significant
letters of recommendation. There were multi-day exams at the end of each
year, and I know of several students who were "dropped" halfway through,
there were proficiency requirements in math and science and foreign
languages, faculty committees to be satisfied, preparation of a
significant research project, having the proposed project evaluated by
internal and external faculty committees, spending about a year doing
the research, evaluating it, preparing a half dozen dissertation drafts,
teaching classes, more exams, a final exam on "knowledge" that lasted
two days, and a full-fledged defense of the dissertation before three
university faculty members and several faculty members from other
universities.

Anyone who has an earned doctorate through a rigorous on-campus program
is smart. To posit otherwise is just silliness. "Satisfying the course
requirements..." What a laugh.

And for a moron like Ingersoll to claim Rachel Maddow is "stupid" just
reveals how stupid he is.



My anti-higher-education "tirades"? I feel nothing of the sort.

My objections are with people who feel they are somehow superior,
smarter or "better" simply because they have advanced or more than one
degree.

You often happen to be a perfect example.



The subject here was Rachel Maddow, who is as smart as a person gets,
and who also has advanced degrees. One of the resident morons here
claimed she was "stupid." That was stupid.


--
If right-wing assholes could fly,
rec.boats would be an airport!

On 6/20/2014 8:58 AM, F*O*A*D wrote:
On 6/20/14, 8:50 AM, Mr. Luddite wrote:
On 6/20/2014 8:25 AM, F*O*A*D wrote:
On 6/20/14, 8:08 AM, Mr. Luddite wrote:
On 6/20/2014 6:35 AM, F*O*A*D wrote:
On 6/20/14, 12:07 AM, KC wrote:
From Rachael Madcow (MSNBC)

"The congressional authorization to go to war with AlQueda is still
good... but it doesn't apply to this group in Iraq because AlQueda
disowned them earlier this year"...

What a stupid bitch....


I didn't watch Rachel last night, but...

For a guy like you, an uneducated moron who was socially promoted
out of
high school and who has never held a decent job, to call Ms. Maddow
"stupid" is just...a statement that qualifies as one of the dumbest
remarks ever.

Anytime Rachel belches, she is expelling more brain activity than you
have ever had. Among her many achievements, Rachel holds a Doctor of
Philosophy in politics from Oxford University. You wouldn't qualify to
swab out toilets at Oxford.



A PhD doesn't mean someone is "smart". It means he or she satisfied
the course requirements and impressed a mentor and board with a
dissertation.

Oh, please stop with these anti-higher-education tirades of yours. They
just make you look silly. I know a few people with doctorates and I know
what they went through to get them. To even get into a first-rate
doctoral program, you had to have high GRE scores, high grades, be
personally interviewed by several faculty members, and have significant
letters of recommendation. There were multi-day exams at the end of each
year, and I know of several students who were "dropped" halfway through,
there were proficiency requirements in math and science and foreign
languages, faculty committees to be satisfied, preparation of a
significant research project, having the proposed project evaluated by
internal and external faculty committees, spending about a year doing
the research, evaluating it, preparing a half dozen dissertation drafts,
teaching classes, more exams, a final exam on "knowledge" that lasted
two days, and a full-fledged defense of the dissertation before three
university faculty members and several faculty members from other
universities.

Anyone who has an earned doctorate through a rigorous on-campus program
is smart. To posit otherwise is just silliness. "Satisfying the course
requirements..." What a laugh.

And for a moron like Ingersoll to claim Rachel Maddow is "stupid" just
reveals how stupid he is.



My anti-higher-education "tirades"? I feel nothing of the sort.

My objections are with people who feel they are somehow superior,
smarter or "better" simply because they have advanced or more than one
degree.

You often happen to be a perfect example.



The subject here was Rachel Maddow, who is as smart as a person gets,
and who also has advanced degrees. One of the resident morons here
claimed she was "stupid." That was stupid.



Whatever. She's not stupid IMO. She's making a decent paycheck
cackling away on MSNBC. I used to listen to her but found I can't
handle her constant whining and complaining of anything not progressive
or liberal.

On 6/20/14, 9:17 AM, Mr. Luddite wrote:
On 6/20/2014 8:58 AM, F*O*A*D wrote:

My anti-higher-education "tirades"? I feel nothing of the sort.

My objections are with people who feel they are somehow superior,
smarter or "better" simply because they have advanced or more than one
degree.

You often happen to be a perfect example.



The subject here was Rachel Maddow, who is as smart as a person gets,
and who also has advanced degrees. One of the resident morons here
claimed she was "stupid." That was stupid.



Whatever. She's not stupid IMO. She's making a decent paycheck
cackling away on MSNBC. I used to listen to her but found I can't
handle her constant whining and complaining of anything not progressive
or liberal.


I'm sure Rachel will be pleased that you don't believe she is stupid.


--
If right-wing assholes could fly,
rec.boats would be an airport!

On Fri, 20 Jun 2014 09:22:11 -0400, F*O*A*D wrote:

On 6/20/14, 9:17 AM, Mr. Luddite wrote:
On 6/20/2014 8:58 AM, F*O*A*D wrote:

My anti-higher-education "tirades"? I feel nothing of the sort.

My objections are with people who feel they are somehow superior,
smarter or "better" simply because they have advanced or more than one
degree.

You often happen to be a perfect example.



The subject here was Rachel Maddow, who is as smart as a person gets,
and who also has advanced degrees. One of the resident morons here
claimed she was "stupid." That was stupid.



Whatever. She's not stupid IMO. She's making a decent paycheck
cackling away on MSNBC. I used to listen to her but found I can't
handle her constant whining and complaining of anything not progressive
or liberal.


I'm sure Rachel will be pleased that you don't believe she is stupid.

Some folks with advanced degrees still lack common sense but they have
certainly gone through the mill and had the opportunity to develop
critical thinking skills.

Ms Maddow doesn't demonstrate a lack of common sense nor does she lack
analytical skill but she is sometimes exhaustive in her analysis.

I will fast forward both her and Lawrence O'Donnell when they get
pedantic, which they often do. Not that I don't appreciate the work,
I just don't need to hear it from several different angles to get it.

I expect some of that is to fill time, like an attorney billing by the
hour.

On 6/21/2014 2:33 PM, jps wrote:
On Fri, 20 Jun 2014 09:22:11 -0400, F*O*A*D wrote:

On 6/20/14, 9:17 AM, Mr. Luddite wrote:
On 6/20/2014 8:58 AM, F*O*A*D wrote:

My anti-higher-education "tirades"? I feel nothing of the sort.

My objections are with people who feel they are somehow superior,
smarter or "better" simply because they have advanced or more than one
degree.

You often happen to be a perfect example.



The subject here was Rachel Maddow, who is as smart as a person gets,
and who also has advanced degrees. One of the resident morons here
claimed she was "stupid." That was stupid.



Whatever. She's not stupid IMO. She's making a decent paycheck
cackling away on MSNBC. I used to listen to her but found I can't
handle her constant whining and complaining of anything not progressive
or liberal.


I'm sure Rachel will be pleased that you don't believe she is stupid.

Some folks with advanced degrees still lack common sense but they have
certainly gone through the mill and had the opportunity to develop
critical thinking skills.

Ms Maddow doesn't demonstrate a lack of common sense nor does she lack
analytical skill but she is sometimes exhaustive in her analysis.

I will fast forward both her and Lawrence O'Donnell when they get
pedantic, which they often do. Not that I don't appreciate the work,
I just don't need to hear it from several different angles to get it.

I expect some of that is to fill time, like an attorney billing by the
hour.



You have hit exactly my feelings about Maddow and O'Donnell. I have
watched and listened to both over the years, interested in their take on
current events and I don't always disagree with them. It's the daily,
weekly and sometimes longer repetitious discussion about a singular
issue that gets to me after a while. Of the two, I'd rather watch
Rachael however. O'Donnell is worse and his style of delivery is like
that of a grandfatherly figure slowly enunciating every word as if to
let them "sink in" in his commentary. Five minutes of that is about all
I can handle anymore.

MSNBC was somewhat refreshing to me during his absence and convalescence
following his car accident. I'll have to keep the remote within arm's
reach again now.

On 6/20/2014 9:17 AM, Mr. Luddite wrote:
On 6/20/2014 8:58 AM, F*O*A*D wrote:
On 6/20/14, 8:50 AM, Mr. Luddite wrote:
On 6/20/2014 8:25 AM, F*O*A*D wrote:
On 6/20/14, 8:08 AM, Mr. Luddite wrote:
On 6/20/2014 6:35 AM, F*O*A*D wrote:
On 6/20/14, 12:07 AM, KC wrote:
From Rachael Madcow (MSNBC)

"The congressional authorization to go to war with AlQueda is still
good... but it doesn't apply to this group in Iraq because AlQueda
disowned them earlier this year"...

What a stupid bitch....


I didn't watch Rachel last night, but...

For a guy like you, an uneducated moron who was socially promoted
out of
high school and who has never held a decent job, to call Ms. Maddow
"stupid" is just...a statement that qualifies as one of the dumbest
remarks ever.

Anytime Rachel belches, she is expelling more brain activity than you
have ever had. Among her many achievements, Rachel holds a Doctor of
Philosophy in politics from Oxford University. You wouldn't
qualify to
swab out toilets at Oxford.



A PhD doesn't mean someone is "smart". It means he or she satisfied
the course requirements and impressed a mentor and board with a
dissertation.

Oh, please stop with these anti-higher-education tirades of yours. They
just make you look silly. I know a few people with doctorates and I
know
what they went through to get them. To even get into a first-rate
doctoral program, you had to have high GRE scores, high grades, be
personally interviewed by several faculty members, and have significant
letters of recommendation. There were multi-day exams at the end of
each
year, and I know of several students who were "dropped" halfway
through,
there were proficiency requirements in math and science and foreign
languages, faculty committees to be satisfied, preparation of a
significant research project, having the proposed project evaluated by
internal and external faculty committees, spending about a year doing
the research, evaluating it, preparing a half dozen dissertation
drafts,
teaching classes, more exams, a final exam on "knowledge" that lasted
two days, and a full-fledged defense of the dissertation before three
university faculty members and several faculty members from other
universities.

Anyone who has an earned doctorate through a rigorous on-campus program
is smart. To posit otherwise is just silliness. "Satisfying the course
requirements..." What a laugh.

And for a moron like Ingersoll to claim Rachel Maddow is "stupid" just
reveals how stupid he is.



My anti-higher-education "tirades"? I feel nothing of the sort.

My objections are with people who feel they are somehow superior,
smarter or "better" simply because they have advanced or more than one
degree.

You often happen to be a perfect example.



The subject here was Rachel Maddow, who is as smart as a person gets,
and who also has advanced degrees. One of the resident morons here
claimed she was "stupid." That was stupid.



Whatever. She's not stupid IMO. She's making a decent paycheck
cackling away on MSNBC. I used to listen to her but found I can't
handle her constant whining and complaining of anything not progressive
or liberal.





Guess it's a matter or perception.. I think anybody who can sit there
and make **** up all day long and lie for a paycheck, is stupid.. In her
case thinking anybody takes her seriously also makes her stupid... let's
not even discuss harry... or the real topic of the thread for that
matter, the statement itself...

On 6/20/14, 9:53 AM, KC wrote:


Guess it's a matter or perception.. I think anybody who can sit there
and make **** up all day long and lie for a paycheck, is stupid.. In her
case thinking anybody takes her seriously also makes her stupid... let's
not even discuss harry... or the real topic of the thread for that
matter, the statement itself...


Well, what Rachel does is better than what you do, since you sit around,
make **** up all day long, and don't get a paycheck.

--
If right-wing assholes could fly,
rec.boats would be an airport!

On Fri, 20 Jun 2014 08:58:28 -0400, F*O*A*D wrote:

The subject here was Rachel Maddow, who is as smart as a person gets

===

That statement by itself is something less than smart although it is
perfectly clear that she has achieved a lot more than you have, but so
has Rush Limbaugh. Being a good entertainer requires a certain
amount of intelligence but communications skills are far more
important.