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Sorry no.

The sane among us believe Hillary has to be convicted of something before she's even close to being in the running for "most corrupt."

 

Bill Clinton flew on a plane once. Never mind, voting for Trump!

 

Dang rape police, always swooping in and stopping rape.

 

Dumpf turns his foghorn to full throttle anti-Semitism.

Trump just gave an anti-Semitic speech ‘dripping with hatred’ — and the Internet is horrified

 

Shit, by that standard, what was Nixon convicted of?

 

I thought talk of the Clinton Foundation was banned here.

 

It was a yes or no question. But I take it you believe in the global Jewish conspiracy against Trump?

 

Trump calls Marlee Matlin "retarded."

Donald Trump Called Deaf ‘Apprentice’ Marlee Matlin ‘Retarded,’ Three Staffers Say

 

Good point. That's why Ford saw fit to pardon him.

 

Oh for heaven's sake ... yes, being a Rhodes scholar is a fabulous accomplishment. It's not the be-all/end-all ... it's not even close.

My former department chair's a schlub from east Texas who's terribly burdened with arthritis in his upper back/neck. His accent's actually thicker than mine (if that's possible). If you saw him on TV, you'd probably think, "What a moron." As a young man, before he even took his PhD (and having never been exposed to Bayesian statistics or logic) he discovered from first principles a new proof of Bayes' Theorem.

My current department chair's a mid-70s former sorority girl from Lubbock. If you saw her on TV, you'd think, "Wow, I thought Phyllis Schafly was dead." She's a number theorist who's published a number of important pieces on statistical inference as re: petitions and voter initiatives. She makes a great side living as an expert witness in gender/racial discrimination trials.

My own mite's modest, but it ain't nothing.

I won't belabor the point, but suffice it to say that I either work with or am friends with many, many people whose contributions to the world's stock of knowledge dwarf Maddow's. And it's not as if I am ensconced in the academic center of the universe.

I'm sure Maddow's very, very bright. I'm also sure, when I head into the office tomorrow, I'll run into half a dozen kowtowing doctoral students who're brighter.

 

Ironic that the next step in the descent involves someone who played a pollster on The West Wing.

 

Ah, the old "I know you are but what am I?" gambit by 5-Year-Old_Tony. It never gets old.