She has a PhD, they're college dropouts....

[Panich52]

Check out @adamcala's Tweet:

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[brewens]

1. They's smart, just ain't book smart! LOL I actually heard a guy say that about himself not

too many years ago. I'd have to let it slide with him. He can do a lot of things. He just probably hasn't read a book since he was forced to in school.

[Doreen]

2. WOW!! I always thought she was smart. Now I know for sure.

[ms liberty]

15. She was the first ever openly gay Rhodes Scholar.

She has serious chops.

[demmiblue]

3. Add Chuck Todd to the list of dropouts. n/t

[YOHABLO]

44. Oh but he does play the french horn !

[elfin]

52. And Weasel Walker EOM

[mythology]

4. I wouldn't say merely having a PhD means one is smart

I've met more than one PhD who was an idiot in their own field.

Granted this doesn't apply to Rachel Maddow, but I think it's simplistic and inaccurate to say that having one degree or another means being smarter than those who don't. After all Tom Price and Ben Carson are doctors too.

[Dave Starsky]

6. I know a PhD who's a huge RW Limbaugh fan.

She has her doctorate in statistics, of all things.

Having a PhD means you are very, very smart at a very specific thing. I suppose it also implies that you have above-average persistence and/or reading/math skills. But you can have years of advanced education under your belt and still be a bonehead. Remember that Ben Carson is a fucking neurosurgeon, for crying out loud.

[Bernardo de La Paz]

31. It's possible to smart/clever but not wise. For example tRump

David Frum tweet:  ? "Regular reminder that Donald Trump’s core competency is not dealmaking with powerful counter-parties. It is duping gullible victims."

[Ilsa]

32. I always figured the testing for grad school,

Like the GRE, etc, implied some higher abilities with regards to analytical skills, math, language, etc. And I think you are right, that persistence, diligence, maybe playing some academic politics, as well as knowledge of a particular subject, can lead one to earn a PhD. I think college helps a person learn to think critically. I like that a degree is something you earn that cannot ever be taken away.

Dr. Maddow is brilliant. Over and over, she shows such depth in her analysis and search for objective truth.

[TransitJohn]

36. RE: ...are very, very smart at a very specific thing

NOT NECESSARILY!!

Speaking from experience, it only means that you were willing to work hard and grind it out for a few years.

[Lucky Luciano]

38. Not sure about that. Maybe depends on the field.

Pretty hard to get a bullshit math phd.

[Lucky Luciano]

37. Not to mention Robert Mercer is a true genius too in his field.

He is a pioneer in speech recognition technology, artificial intelligence, and quant trading. Nobody outside of his fund has come close to replicating the returns that Renaissance does and thousands of math PhDs and scientists are definitely trying!

[hibbing]

13. I work with a PhD who thinks things are politically normal n/t

[Control-Z]

16. Another distinction that sets her apart,

Rachel is a Rhodes Scholar. There really is no question that she's smarter than most.

[Dustlawyer]

23. Many super-intelligent people have no common sense.

It is like their brains only had so much room and over compensated one area and shorted another.

[Blanks]

34. Everyone has their own definition of common sense...

Which is why I put absolutely no stock in any one person's claim that they have (and someone else lacks) common sense.

The perfect example is Trump's insistence before the final ruling on his first 'Muslim ban'. He said "anyone with common sense knows that it's ok" (obvious paraphrase, but he used the phrase common sense).

I know stupid educated people, and I know smart uneducated people, but I attribute it to their intellectual capabilities. Whether a person gets an education or not has more to do with the resources that are available to them than it has to do with common (or any other kind of) sense.

[Lucky Luciano]

41. Common sense is not so common. nt

[Tommy_Carcetti]

5. Devil's Advocate.

Mark Levin has a legal degree.

Michael Savage has a PhD.

That's not to disagree with the original premise--that Rachel Maddow is smart and Limbaugh, Hannity and Beck are less so--but let's not draw false conclusions here.

[mwooldri]

8. Though it'd be Dr. Wiener, not Savage n/t

[LanternWaste]

14. You've made a simple joke accurate. Now it's finally funny.

You've made a simple joke accurate. Now it's finally funny.

No... Devil's Advocates argue against the relevant and the established, Wet Rags merely make jokes accurate.

[DrDan]

19. Bill Kristol has his Ph.D. Alan Keyes has a Harvard doctorate. George Will has his Ph.D.

Ph.D.'s are found on both sides.

Hannity dropped of NYU after his freshman year (assuming he made it to the end of his first year). He blames it on the faculty not accepting his conservative views. It is actually pretty funny to hear him tell the story of his college "career". He's a wanker.

[pnwmom]

20. True. But none of them have the audiences that Limbaugh, Hannity, and Beck have -- or Rachel.

And there's a good reason.

[progressoid]

7. This only makes them more appealing to their followers.

She's a snooty, latte drinking, liberal elite.

They are regular folks.

[TexasBushwhacker]

10. Don't forget lesbian n/t

[progressoid]

28. +1

[vanlassie]

22. Martini drinker in her case

[progressoid]

30. That's even worse!

Martinis are for James Bond only. Not lesbian liberals!11!




P.S. I would love to have a martini with her.

[Mr.Bill]

42. James Bond doesn't drink Martinis.

Martinis are made with Gin, not Vodka and they are stirred, not shaken.

Or as Rachel would say, some people think Martinis can be made with Vodka, and those people are wrong.

[longship]

59. And never, ever shake a martini!!!!

A proper martini is always stirred in a pitcher over bounteous very cold ice. I prefer a 2:1 mix of gin:vermouth. I don't agree with the -- undoubtedly apocryphal -- Churchill story that one should open the vermouth bottle across the room and let it wink at the martini. First, Churchill drank champagne and brandy, not necessarily martinis. Like James Bond's, I suspect that Churchill's martini recipe is fiction.

Anyway, Ian Fleming was a spy by trade, certainly not a bartender. Fleming might have had Bond make martinis out of haggis and I suppose people would still be ordering haggis martinis. Doesn't make that any better than a real martini.

As to the wink across the room with the vermouth... No vermouth??? One might as well just drink the fucking gin right out of the bottle. Very dry is 3:1 or 4:1, but always add vermouth.

Most important, add a drop or two of bitters for each martini. It isn't a martini without that either.

Oh, and it should be served very very cold.

Garnish with an olive or two.

[Mr.Bill]

60. I like mine very dry.

I put some Vermouth in the glass, swirl it around and dump it out. I also rinse my olives to remove most of the olive oil from them. Lately I have been liking Bleu Cheese stuffed olives. That's my only break with tradition.

[longship]

61. That's called a "perfect martini"

But I just do not understand why anybody would want a martini without vermouth. That's just chilled gin.

Just my opinion.

Cheers, mate.

[luvMIdog]

9. Rush Limbaugh graduated from Bullshit U

[IronLionZion]

11. Education turns people into triggered snowflakes

which is why they are against education. What they prefer is the completely fake foreign mail order PhDs favored by Trump advisors like Sebastian v. Gorka.

I would not be surprised if DeVos orders schools to start burning books.

[guillaumeb]

27. Only the bad books.

DeVos will make that determination.

[MrScorpio]

12. I'm a college dropout who supports the Doctor

[rivegauche]

17. Oh but that makes her suspect.

Having an education is suspicious to the blinkered pig-ignorant scum on the right. "Elites", ya know - as if the bloated orange Cheeto wasn't a freaking elite with this solid gold crappers. Those 3 pigs lead the charge for the great idiot army of Chump voters. They are the champions of the low-education voters.

[George II]

18. Bill Gates dropped out of college after only two years.

[FairWinds]

21. Well I also have a Ph.D. in Poly Sigh . .

and I am brilliant as hell - so therefore Rachel must be brilliant too.

Now lets see, where did I put that book on logic?

[Akamai]

24. Rachel is a real gem! I remember her describing her first radio job, with her boss-to-be first

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seeing this skinny, lanky boy get out of a pickup truck, and it was Rachel.

She certainly is not at all concerned about style, fashion, but she is deadly serious about getting to the truth of the matter, especially in important issues.

One of my favorite quotes is that of G. K. Chesterton who said: "The reason angels can fly is that they take themselves so lightly!" Rachel is such an angel.

Yay Rachel!!!

[Johni Imtiaz]

62. Akamai

This is very nice and decent post you rocked posting it thanks a lot for posting it....!!

[Ernest Partridge]

25. Revolt of the masses.

"I know a Ph.D who is stupid." That's called "anecdotal evidence," dude. "Sad!"

But how about Ph.Ds in general?

Or MDs. Which is why, if I have a heart attack, I'd rather be treated by an MD than a faith healer. Better still, by an MD who is a cardiologist.

And I'd prefer political opinion from someone who has studied politics (say, from Oxford U.) than from a dropout.

What's the point? That education is irrelevant to competence? That "gut feeling" is just as good as evidence and logic.?
That's Trump talk.

Ernest Partridge, Ph.D

[Gothmog]

26. I love the Rachel Maddow show

[mikeysnot]

29. beat him to it!

I created this in response to inSanity's Ad Homonym attacks on her regarding one of her segments. I was like Fuck You asshole...



He even used the same image I did.

[pinboy3niner]

33. Well done!

[mikeysnot]

35. Thanks!

Didn't get much traction then.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/10028796916

[Panich52]

47. Bravo

[iluvtennis]

40. Rachel is so down to earth, would never know she has PhD and Oxford on top of that...wow!

[Mr.Bill]

43. Rachel is also

a better bartender than all of them.

[dhol82]

48. +1

[LakeArenal]

45. Ben Carson is a doctor.

Just sayin'.

[paleotn]

65. An MD

is a masters degree, with a lot of on the job training. It's not comparable with a PhD.

[tallahasseedem]

46. I have been listening to Dr. Maddow since 2004...

when she was on Air America. I truly LOVE her and her amazing way of explaining things. She does get concern trollish sometimes, but I keep going back no matter what...

[dhol82]

49. LOVED Air America!

I would listen to Rachel on my way into work - really did not think she needed Liz Winstead and Lionel on the show with her. There were more of a distraction.
Listened to Randi Rhodes on my way home.
This was my introduction to liberal politics.
Hard to believe I was so complacent politically prior to their launch.

[tallahasseedem]

54. Same here!

That was when Al Franken had his own show as well. Those were the days. But then, of course, W was re-elected. Ugh.

[dhol82]

58. I still remember Randi going apeshit about that elelction

What I learned from her that time was that if you could get out enough votes, you could overcome the dirty tricks of the opposition. We did not get out enough votes.
That was an excellent lesson.

[cstanleytech]

50. Not to mention Limbaugh the big anti drug talker turned out to also be a drug addict himself.

[dchill]

51. Regardless of degree...

She's real smart, they're not real smart.

[trueblue2007]

53. found the url for the rachel ph.d meme

i'm gonna post it to facebook

[Comatose Sphagetti]

55. I believe many conservatives

are flat out resentful/jealous of those of us with degrees.

A degree does not make us better than anyone else. It simply makes us more knowledgeable/trained in a certain field.

Personally, I'll take wisdom over education any day. And wisdom/education are two entirely separate things... Wisdom is the intersection of compassion and knowledge.

[VOX]

64. The earning of a degree also imparts some wisdom.

A college education is more than the degree itself; it's also more than a formal acknowledgment of mastery in a specific field, etc.

The very earning of that degree is a wisdom-gaining experience. Think of it-- for the first time in their adolescent lives, college students must start to make decisions for themselves, away from parents (obviously, there are exceptions). There must be some self-set goals, adherence to specific methods, hard study and execution under pressure.

One's social wisdom begins forming in college as well. There are some hard lessons to be learned about navigating bureaucracies and difficult people, and you must learn the "system." Then there are relationships, and how one integrates them into one's life while balancing studies and perhaps keeping up the responsibilities of gainful part-time work as well.

College students are exposed to numerous cultures and religions. This is crucial to developing fully-- to comprehend, even in small bits, that the world's people are just that: people. Higher education is a testing ground where insights into wisdom are passed on by particularly dedicated professors and staff. Many lifetime attachments and friendships are formed in these transformative years.

At its best, college functions as a learning academy and testing ground for young folks to begin figuring out how the world really works.

Is it any wonder that Republicans don't care much for the college experience? It's a potent catalyst for social development (¡wisdom!) and, ideally, leads one to begin thinking for oneself.

[Comatose Sphagetti]

68. I agree

I think college = free and critical thinking; the antithesis of conservative ideologies.

[keithbvadu2]

56. Several years back Trump said he could lead the republicans because they are stupid.

Don't know the full quote.

[Maraya1969]

57. brb gotta go retweet somethin

[aikoaiko]

63. Like Rachel. Hate Hannity, Beck, and Limbaugh. Hate this meme.

It reeks of elitism that I find deplorable.

She is smart and compassionate. They are hateful and unwilling to use their skills for the good of humanity.

College education is irrelevant.

[TacoD]

66. +1M (nt)

[radical noodle]

67. But...but... intelligence... education

not cool. They want the uneducated.

I love Rachel. She does such an awesome job of giving us the whole picture as it comes out. She can add 2 plus 2 and get 4 when everyone else is saying it's only three.