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In reply to the discussion: DU EXCLUSIVE: EXPOSE OF HANNITY, BECK, AND LIMBAUGH FROM THEIR COLLEGE DAYS. [View all]grantcart
(53,061 posts)The context of the discussion is that Republicans have a strong anti-intellectual bias.
This whole discussion and my OP didn't start out because we are BRAGGING about academic success but because they produced a tape of the President at Harvard and are trying to make the point that there is something sinister about the President's time at Harvard as shown in that tape.
This is a recurrent theme and Santorum made it explicit again last week when he made his snob comment.
I didn't randomly make the point that a lot of their main commentators were college failures, I was responding to their constant anti-intellectual rant.
There are many reasons that a lot of them hate colleges, hate people who are successful in academia, hate people who have ideas based on research. One of the reasons is that you will find that many many many of them failed at college or like Palin struggled and just barely got through.
Your "I don't know why anyone would even listen to the opinions of people who haven't been to college . . .
There's lots of reasons why these guys are full of shit, and not going to college has nothing to do with it"
completely missed the point. There are indeed many reasons that they are full of shit. I wasn't commenting on why they were full of shit, I was commenting on why they are so consistently against anything that has to do with Higher Education in this country. The reason is that most of them did not succeed when they went to college, but failed miserably and it is a lingering source of rage and embarassment to them.