Harvard Law: Limbaugh’s Lying about Obama

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Harvard Law: Limbaugh’s Lying about Obama
by JohnKWilson
Wed Feb 03, 2010 at 10:08:40 PM PST

Earlier today in an interview taped on Jan. 29, 2010 with Gretchen Carlson for Fox and Friends,
Rush Limbaugh made up another smear about Barack Obama:

I think this is the first time in his life that there's not a professor around to turn his C into an A, or to write the law review article for him he can't write. He is totally exposed. There is nobody to make it better. I think he's been covered for, all his life.

I asked some Harvard law professors about this charge. Laurence Tribe responded to me, "The allegation is absurd. Obama earned every one of his enormously high grades. ‘Affirmative action’ had nothing to do with his success there. He was the most impressive student and research assistant I have taught in my 40 years at Harvard."

Charles Fried, a Harvard Law Professor who served as Solicitor General during the Reagan Administration, wrote to me, "It’s paranoid nonsense. Grading is anonymous by a randomly generated exam number and it takes a vote of the faculty to change a grade."

This isn’t the first time Limbaugh has made the false allegation that Obama gained from favorable grading. In 2008, Limbaugh declared that Obama "probably didn’t get out of Harvard without affirmative action."

In reality, Obama graduated Magna Cum Laude from Harvard Law, which meant that there would have needed to be a vast conspiracy to raise the grades of this unknown student. Limbaugh’s attack on Obama is particularly ironic coming from a man who flunked out of college and had his two books (and an earlier newspaper column) ghostwritten for him...

http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2010/2/4/833693/-Harvard-Law:-Limbaughs-Lying-about-Obama

[Mayberry Machiavelli]

1. Limbaugh, Hannity, Beck - all did not graduate college. Fuck them.

[Jennicut]

9. LOL. None of them would have lasted a semester.

[jillan]

20. What I want to know - did any of them graduate from High School?

My best guess in NO, or if they did, they just squeaked by.

[SpiralHawk]

22. Not a one of them served America in the Armed Forces for even five minutes

They are all bona fide Republicon Chickenhawks...

Republicons luv them their chickenhawks...

[Aristus]

2. AND propped up that stupid sack of shit who got into Harvard on a legacy admission,

for eight solid years! Fuck, Limbaugh! Just exactly how fucking stupid ARE you???

[Sanity Claws]

3. Bush went to Yale as a legacy student

not Harvard.

[Aristus]

5. Oops! Thanks!

:blush::dunce:

[Mayberry Machiavelli]

6. But he did go to Harvard's Business School, likely just on connections/family.

Considering his undergrad grades were mediocre and he apparently couldn't be admitted to the Univ. of TX's Law School.

So you weren't entirely wrong.

[Dappleganger]

4. AA helps you get in the door...

but you have to do the work. Of course Limpy w/no college degree is too dumb to understand that.

[BlueIdaho]

7. Racism - pure and simple.

Typical hate filled bullshit from America's premier white power advocate.

[EFerrari]

8. Rush Limbaugh is a charicature of Envy.

[patrice]

19. Bingo~

[treestar]

31. And he goes on about "class envy"

[EFerrari]

32. Yep.. Envy is extremely projective. n/t

[Ohio Joe]

10. Is this not common knowledge?

Limbaugh makes his living by lying.

[otohara]

11. Jealous Dropout

he and fellow freaks Hannity and Beck lack college degrees.

No wonder they hate him so.

[Demeter]

12. In other news, dog bites man

C'mon, it's Limbaugh. No acquaintance with the truth or libel laws.

[ddeclue]

13. How's about a lawsuit.. he's slandered both Harvard the institution and Obama the President.

[cognoscere]

14. Oh yeah, like that walking shit stain Limba,

who dropped out of college, would know anything about grading, writing, or anything else related to higher (or lower) education.

[live love laugh]

15. Republicons have a projection disease...he is really talking about Boosh but

they will take the very character defects that they posess and paint them on somebody else.

Bizarroworld is a strange place I guess it's full of trick mirrors.

[Number23]

16. This is so offensive and so disgusting I can't even express it properly

[sakabatou]

17. But we know ol' Rushbo: facts don't matter to him.

That goes for pretty much every other right-wing schill out there.

[gratuitous]

18. Spot on, Rush

Just one president late.

[zbdent]

21. aw, who ya gonna believe? College dropout Rush Limbaugh, or

Harvard?

(check that ... of course teabirthers are going to believe Rush ... them thar Harverders are them "intelectu-ells")

[KharmaTrain]

23. Two Frames For The Price Of One...

The dittoheads and wingnuts have a disdain for education...especially levels they couldn't even dream of achieving. They've long had an agenda to discredit those who come out of Ivy league schools in specific (except for a certain cheerleader/legacy from Yale) to diminish the system as well as anyone who passes through it.

Then bring in affirmative action...a third rail with the wingnuts who feel white people...specifically white males, like Rushbo, are being discriminated against. Be it blacks, latinos, gays, "feminazis", in the rushbo world all men are superior and there's a concerted effort to "emasculate" them. Since many of his listeners are sad sacks of shit like he is, he gets a pass. A rebut from his target always gets framed as sour grapes or allows rushbo to claim proof of such "elitism".

[bridgit]

24. Well of course he is, they all are; he hasn't said one word that wasn't a lie...

a pernicious lie, or a deadly and destructive lie - even if on the odd they brush with the truth about Obama in passing: they skew it back-round to a deadly lie - not only is that what they do that's how they do it. I think Limbaugh is subconsciously mentally disturbed about dropping out of college. And if affirmative action is to be pooh-poohed as a stratagem to thwart the noble progress of white people...then what thee fuck happened to Glenn Beck?

I don't care how much money they're making as supremacist white trash Nazi punks on dope - crack & heroin dealers make lots of money too so do pimps & doctors that over-prescribe pain meds. We're witnessing the disintegration of republican minds, cause there's nothing 'affirmative' about any of their actions

[LWolf]

25. Limpbaugh lying about a Democrat?

Now THAT'S got to be a first.

:sarcasm:

[Ganja Ninja]

27. Shocking isn't it.

Who'd a thunk it.:think:

[Jim__]

26. Rush himself was way too smart for college.

That's why he dropped out. They couldn't teach him anything.

[treestar]

30. This is exactly what they all love to think

I run into that a lot. People who don't have an education can be very sensitive about it.

[hvn_nbr_2]

28. Water is wet. The sun rose in the morning. Limbaugh lied. nt

[treestar]

29. Interesting that Rush thinks he has to lie about something he

allegedly doesn't think counts, anyway. Bloviating on about the "elite" he could at least admit they are the intellectual "elite." This shows he knows they are really, and he can't resist the affirmative action slam he just made up off the top of his "head."

[Initech]

33. Limpballs lies about everything!

[D23MIURG23]

34. The irony is off the charts given that this guy used to back W up.

Where the hell was this comment when we had a president who couldn't put together a complete sentence? Is this asshole really going to argue that Obama is less intelligent than W the alkey lobotomite president, or st. Ronney the thespian with Alzheimer's?

Someone needs to take this man's hillbilly heroin away until he can reconnect with the reality the rest of us live in.

[GeorgeGist]

35. Why give credence to Limbaugh?

He's a comedian. Remember.