About a month ago, I had a post highlighting the CDT's most teabagelicious commeter, psumba, who showed up in comments here to defend himself. He wrote, in part,
Let's see ... I'm charged with:To which one of my regular commenters, MoonDragon, wrote,
- anti-intellectualism - as a student, I was considered to be quite intellectual. In fact, I did earn two simultaneous undergraduate diplomas from Penn State in four years ... in two demanding fields from different Penn State colleges. What happened ...
I will take your word for it that you have the degrees you claim. Earning a college degree is an achievement in and of itself, however it isn't proof of intellect. Your statement may be evidence of being highly trained, but isn' t proof of either education or intellectual capacity. Pardon the anecdote, but I know more than a few Phds who are dumber than dirt.Today we no longer have to depend on MoonDragon's anecdotal evidence concerning dumber than dirt Phds. From Kevin Drum comes this Quote of the Day, from the man behind the Teabagging curtain,
Digby adds,...Dick Armey, PhD University of Oklahoma, former economics professor at the University of North Texas, and former Republican majority leader in the House of Representatives:
One of the things that we see as we look at Glenn Beck's work that's been fascinating to me, is we see a more true and accurate history of the United States, and we see it documented at levels of rigor that, in fact, one would expect out of Ph.D. dissertations — it is serious, scholarly work....[Liberal critics] don’t have to argue with Glenn Beck. They have to argue with his documentation and they can’t match that level of rigor.Somebody just shoot me now.
It has often been rumored that Dick Armey is a falling down drunk and his behavior on TV certainly suggests that he's on something. I'm guessing it's acid...What is it with Teabaggers and alcohol? Here's psumba
You should have taken me up on my offer last Fall to have a drink together the last time that I was in State College.
