Pop quiz: Let’s say you need to undergo a coronary bypass. And let’s say you learn, through a Google search from your hospital bed—thank goodness for your BlackBerry!—that the doctor the hospital has assigned to your surgery took six years, rather than the normal four, to complete med school. And that she obtained her M.D. only after attending five different medical programs at five different universities.
Would you:
(A) Request another doctor
(B) Decide to take your chances with Dr. McFlighty
I, for one, would choose (A). Wouldn’t you? Wouldn’t anyone?
Which is a long way of saying that Sarah Palin, given her educational history, probably shouldn’t be framing herself as some kind of expert on journalistic ethics.
OR, as an expert on anything! Will someone please interview Sarah on her "ENERGY" expertise. I guarantee you will discover there's nothing there either. Alaska is some place people go to to hide the facts of life. In her case, lack of intelligence.
Posted by jonjon1804 on Mon 13 Oct 2008 at 11:15 AM
LOL...
More CJR juvenile chicanery.
First of all, Palin started college in 1982 and graduated in 1987. (Ms. Garber apparently was not a math major)
This would make 5 years, not 6.
More importantly, if any middle-class Democrat from a small town in Alaska had scrapped to get an education like Palin did, the press would be going nuts over the success story.
Posted by padikiller on Mon 13 Oct 2008 at 12:14 PM
I did a little digging into Joe Biden's academic past, and I found some real interesting information.
Biden ranked 506th of 688 in his class at the University of Delaware (hardly an Ivy League institution) despite the fact that he went to prep school.
After college, Biden dodged the draft by enrolling in Syracuse Law School (hardly a top tier school) and then managed to get a "F" for plagiarizing articles for the Law Review graduating again near the bottom of his class.
Compared to this kind of academic "achievement". Palin's efforts are extraordinary.
Posted by padikiller on Mon 13 Oct 2008 at 03:30 PM