Palin’s debut as Fox News contributor: Steve Schmidt’s a liar
posted at 9:18 pm on January 12, 2010 by Allahpundit
Fifteen minutes with O’Reilly, the most interesting part of which is probably her admission that she and Steve Schmidt chatted at length (in 2008) about whether Saddam Hussein was connected to 9/11. O’Reilly asks her about the other accusations in “Game Change” — whether she really couldn’t explain the differences between the two Koreas or who the enemy was in Iraq, etc. — and accepts her denials without asking her to elaborate too much, which is too bad for Palin since I’m sure she was prepared to answer. Alas.
She’s on for the full hour tomorrow with Glenn Beck. Exit question: What are the odds that he’ll get her to be at least haltingly semi-ambivalent about a third-party run? (Exit answer: 75 percent!)
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Criticizing Obama’s choice of radical friends, his use of cocaine, and his refusal to release any transcripts are hardly “education choices.” And, contrary to your statements, Obama was never a constitutional law professor. He was an adjunct, which is something lots of working lawyers do while still practicing law, but which is miles away from being a law professor. And your point that Obama’s ‘brilliance’ is proven by the mere fact he was elected editor of law review just proves how little you know about Harvard and its law review.
LASue on January 13, 2010 at 4:31 PM
LASue on January 13, 2010 at 4:31 PM
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Here you go, clown:
http://www.law.uchicago.edu/media
“UC Law School statement: The Law School has received many media requests about Barack Obama, especially about his status as “Senior Lecturer.” From 1992 until his election to the U.S. Senate in 2004, Barack Obama served as a professor in the Law School. He was a Lecturer from 1992 to 1996. He was a Senior Lecturer from 1996 to 2004, during which time he taught three courses per year. Senior Lecturers are considered to be members of the Law School faculty and are regarded as professors, although not full-time or tenure-track. The title of Senior Lecturer is distinct from the title of Lecturer, which signifies adjunct status. Like Obama, each of the Law School’s Senior Lecturers have high-demand careers in politics or public service, which prevent full-time teaching. Several times during his 12 years as a professor in the Law School, Obama was invited to join the faculty in a full-time tenure-track position, but he declined.”
Bye bye now.
Dave Rywall on January 13, 2010 at 4:36 PM
I know the range for magna cum laude; just don’t know if Obama actually made the grade. Neither do you.
Of course he refused. He might actually have to do things like publish if he were tenure-track. Any scraps of Obama’s constitutional “scholarship” floating around? They seem to be as scarce as chicken lips.
ddrintn on January 13, 2010 at 4:49 PM
I know the range for magna cum laude; just don’t know if Obama actually made the grade. Neither do you.
ddrintn on January 13, 2010 at 4:49 PM
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This is as stupid as questioning whether or not Palin actually earned her degree either.
Dave Rywall on January 13, 2010 at 4:54 PM
Of course he refused. He might actually have to do things like publish if he were tenure-track. Any scraps of Obama’s constitutional “scholarship” floating around? They seem to be as scarce as chicken lips.
ddrintn on January 13, 2010 at 4:49 PM
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I see that you are not familiar with the things he was spending a lot of his time on during those years. That’s okay. You stick to your guns.
Dave Rywall on January 13, 2010 at 4:56 PM
Watch Richard Epstein laugh out loud about Obama’s academic credentials — from the point of view of a colleague:
http://tv.nationalreview.com/uncommonknowledge/post/?q=YWRiOTM2OGU1OGFjMzc4ZjMzYmM4MWE1MWQwNTAzYjY=
PaulMorphy on January 13, 2010 at 5:00 PM
Good point.
There are lots of people out there who are adjunct lecturers for colleges all across the nation.
I am an adjunct lecturer for a college bcs I teach a high school dual credit course.
It ain’t hard to be one.
Badger40 on January 13, 2010 at 5:06 PM
Yeah, but the guy has such a weird reputation for intellectual brilliance, it just seems handing out walking around money would be a waste of such brain power.
ddrintn on January 13, 2010 at 5:07 PM
Being an adjunct is a very easy way for colleges to free up their ’101′ classes of their tenured profs so that they can focus on teaching more meaty, higher level courses.
So all you have to do is let the college review your transcripts & they will decided what classes you can teach based on your assemblage of earned credits & wal lah!
You are an adjunct lecturer.
Badger40 on January 13, 2010 at 5:07 PM
Not quite. At least not every aspect of Palin’s past is shrouded in sealed documents.
ddrintn on January 13, 2010 at 5:08 PM
Degrees can be earned very easily, depending upon the subject matter & course rigor.
What you do with your knowledge is independent of that.
And you don’t need to go to college to be intelligent or brilliant in the 1st place.
My cowboy husband is extremely intelligent, but only went to a vet tech course past high school.
And he can think circles around most people, including BO.
Badger40 on January 13, 2010 at 5:10 PM
Janos Hunyadi on January 13, 2010 at 3:52 PM
Poor Janos. Resorts to name calling when she/he has no facts.
rjl1999 on January 13, 2010 at 5:28 PM
http://althouse.blogspot.com/2008/03/was-barack-obama-law-professor.html
“The University of Chicago Law School put up a statement detailing Obama’s relationship with the law school: He was a “lecturer” and a “senior lecturer” and never held the title “Professor of Law.”
Senior Lecturers are considered to be members of the Law School faculty and are regarded as professors, although not full-time or tenure-track. The title of Senior Lecturer is distinct from the title of Lecturer, which signifies adjunct status. Like Obama, each of the Law School’s Senior Lecturers have high-demand careers in politics or public service, which prevent full-time teaching. Several times during his 12 years as a professor in the Law School, Obama was invited to join the faculty in a full-time tenure-track position, but he declined.
Some law schools use the term “Adjunct Professor” instead of lecturer. Here’s a list of adjunct professors at NYU School of Law (where I got my law degree). Here’s a list of adjunct professors at the University of Wisconsin Law School, my home school. The term is also used at Brooklyn Law School, where I’m visiting this year. It’s a very common term used to dignify the role of the outside lecturer. Outside lecturers contribute a lot to the law school and do it for comparatively very low pay, so the honor is important. To withhold the title “adjunct professor” and use only the title “lecturer” is, I think, show-offy of the school: Association with us is such an honor that we don’t need to puff it up the way they do at those lesser schools.”
joejm65 on January 13, 2010 at 5:32 PM
I’ve met a few Harvard educated individuals and I was not impressed.
It’s a college like many others.
There are many other colleges out there that are just as good, as well as rivaling, Harvard.
This comment, wherever it came from, epitomizes the academic elite in all their stinking arrogance.
Badger40 on January 13, 2010 at 5:35 PM
rjl1999 on January 13, 2010 at 3:07 PM
You need to let go of your ‘link’ fetish–and let go of yourself as you type with one hand. Remember what Emerson said about the ‘hobgoblin of little minds’: You, sadly, are a Little Mind.
Sarah doesn’t base her life or politics on what she did or didn’t learn in college. She made the best of a fairly common ‘blue collar’ situation and took advantage of the opportunities that came up. Her politics are an extension of her entire life, particularly as a mother and a citizen of a small town where common sense and resourcefulness are basic requirements for survival
Janos Hunyadi on January 13, 2010 at 3:52 PM
I was asking proof to 2 specific statements made by other posters. But, you’re right. Who needs facts to back up statements. Maybe you should go back and read the comments.
rjl1999 on January 13, 2010 at 5:57 PM
You arrogant, blind Pharisee bleating aloud to God and man your superiority and thus her inferiority by perpetuating the meme that Palin is somehow less intelligent because she attended 5 different colleges. So what? Everyone doesn’t have their college education handed to them. She went where and when she herself could pay for it. That she was DETERMINED and able to complete her degree without Mommy and Daddy (or the government) providing it for her says a lot about her. Do you know how many students start college but don’t finish for lack of motivation or ability? Can you imagine how many more wouldn’t even begin if they thought they had to work and pay their way through it? No name colleges? Who do you think you are? You just denigrated the education of anyone who attended/graduated those so-called “no-name colleges”. Get over yourself. BTW, from what Ivy League school have you obtained what surely must be a Ph.D. based on your sense of superiority and who paid for it? Inquiring minds would like to know.
redslippers on January 13, 2010 at 6:11 PM
You betcha. I am a big fan of anyone who espouses my conservative principles.
Tennman on January 13, 2010 at 6:31 PM
Uh, no.
How about 5 no name colleges.
University of Hawaii – a couple of weeks
Hawaii Pacific University – 1 semester
North Idaho College – 2 semesters
University of Idaho – 2 semesters
Matanuska-Susitna College
University of Idaho – 3 more semesters
Yep.
Dave Rywall on January 13, 2010 at 12:15 PM
She could have attended Boondocks U. and I would have more respect for her than Obama.
historian on January 13, 2010 at 6:38 PM
Yo Drywall, how many colleges did Lincoln attend?
The Ivy League record in the Oval Office isn’t anything to be proud of.
JEM on January 13, 2010 at 8:15 PM
Somebody should tell Steve Schmidt to cut out his attacks on Palin, that Schmidt is just making himself to be radioactive in the future and that attacks on Palin won’t help him.
There were plenty of factors independent of the campaign that made 2008 a bad year for Republicans overall–the financial crisis and resulting economic uncertainties favoring Democrats, Bush unpopularity, Obama money paying for campaign ads that falsely painted Obama as a centrist, unwise weariness or lack of concern with the war on terror, outrageous media bias that operated as a day-in and day-out propaganda machine for Obama. Schmidt can cite those problems fairly and should. Knocking Palin is classless and is counter-productive.
Phil Byler on January 13, 2010 at 8:59 PM
Schmidt has always been a PDS sufferer. He can’t help it. His “consulting” future looks pretty bleak anyway.
ddrintn on January 13, 2010 at 9:17 PM
Harry Truman never went to college. He was probably the last decent Donk President.
atheling on January 14, 2010 at 12:29 AM
Allahpundit puts up Beck/Palin bashing post reviewing how they talked about God on Beck’s show in 5..4..3..2..
Can’t resist that combo can you Allah? All your hated objects rolled into one?
Haunches on January 14, 2010 at 8:11 AM
It’s official – BOR just told Glenn that he thought she tried to boot the question about who is her favorite framer….
BOR didn’t like her answer….
AprilOrit on January 15, 2010 at 8:49 PM
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