Out of Curiosity Looked Up Bios Of KO and Maddow - Whoa! They're Smart

[Median Democrat]

KO graduated from an ivy league, Cornell, and Rachell Maddow graduated from Stanford and was a Rhodes scholar. Who knew? I had a stereotype of KO as smart, but he couldn't be all that academic, since he was a sportscaster, but you learn something new everyday.

[Lancer]

1. She also has a Ph.D in poli sci from Lincoln College at Oxford. Wow. n/t

[grannylib]

2. I knew Rachel was a Rhodes scholar, but not that KO was a Cornell

grad.
Damn elitist liberals. :sarcasm:

[tosh]

3. I love my damn elitist liberals!

[meowomon]

4. MMM, I find intelligence very sexy

Barack Obama is hot.

[TahitiNut]

5. Cornell used to be the most (internally) competitive school in the ivy league ...

... real dog-eat-dog vicious. It had a high suicide rate and lots of shrinks and meds. Then again, some just went to get 'high' above Cayuga's waters. Gorgeous campus setting. Great place for winos.

[virgdem]

6. That reminds me of the old Cornell song..

High above Cayuga's waters
There's an awful smell
People say it is the water
But it is Cornell

[Berry Cool]

7. I knew, actually.

Get tired of hearing people rag on KO as if he's an idiot just because he was (and recently, again is) a sportscaster. But it's not necessarily his Ivy League education that proves his intelligence--and even he will be the first to tell you he scraped through college because he spent more time at the campus radio station than attending class. He's just a smart guy. He also had excellent teachers at the prep school he attended before college. (I have a feeling his parents ponied up for private school because they knew they had an unusual kid on their hands.)