Dick Armey sneers at ‘a woman named Maddox’ who ‘has a Ph.D, (Rachel Maddow)

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Dick Armey sneers at ‘a woman named Maddox’ who ‘has a Ph.D. in something that doesn’t matter.’

During today’s AFP-sponsored “Code Red” anti-health reform rally on Capitol Hill, one of the speakers — former House Majority Leader and current corporate defender Dick Armey — derided MSNBC host Rachel Maddow. Armey was prepared to introduce Sen. Tom Coburn (whom he bizarrely referred to as “Doc Colbin” a couple of times), but Coburn wasn’t there yet. So instead, he told a story that was a shot at Maddow:

ARMEY: The last time and I were together, I had the amazing opportunity to watch him receive a lecture on health care from a woman named, uh, uh, uh, “Maddox.” A television personality. Who I’m told has a Ph.D. in something that doesn’t matter. Who knew she was qualified to lecture the good physician on health care in America because she had actually gone to a doctor once.

Watch it:
http://thinkprogress.org/2009/12/15/armey-maddox-sneering/


For the record, Maddow is a Rhodes scholar and an Oxford Ph.D. in political science. Her doctoral thesis was titled, “HIV/AIDS and Health Care Reform in British and American Prisons.” (Armey has a Ph.D. in economics from the University of Oklahoma.) Armey is apparently referring to a Meet the Press roundtable that he sat on with Maddow and Coburn this past August. During that segment, Maddow took Coburn and Armey to task for condoning the “threats of violence” in the course of the heated health care debate.

[SallyMander]

1. The right's derision of intelligence

really speaks volumes about them...

[Orrex]

2. Dr. "Maddox" should respond with a bunch of "Dick" jokes.

[Guy Whitey Corngood]

3. Yeah, changing his name from Penis Navy has not done him any good. nt

[Arkana]

11. Better than his wife's name: Vagina Coast Guard.

Or his sons: Testicles Air Force and Grundle Marines.

[Guy Whitey Corngood]

14. Vagina Coast Guard???!!! I 'd hate to ask what her friends call her. nt

[wtbymark]

4. Penis Airforce? lol

ahhhhh ya beat me to it

[Guy Whitey Corngood]

8. I changed it to Navy. Sounds more like a "real" last name. nt

[Turbineguy]

5. The right worships

republican Ph.D.'s

[Fleshdancer]

6. He hates women who are smarter than he is. Just ask Joan Walsh.

I had the "pleasure" of seeing his disgusting hissy fit on MSNBC:

http://thinkprogress.org/2009/01/28/walsh-armey/

ARMEY: I’m so damn glad that you can never be my wife because I surely wouldn’t have to listen to that prattle from you every day.

WALSH: Boy, that makes two of us sir. That was really an outstanding comment.

ARMEY: That’s what I’m talking about — she’s making a political malarkey here.

[tularetom]

7. He knows goddamn good and well what her name is - she pwn3d him on MTP

He probably still has nightmares about appearing anywhere with her.

[babylonsister]

9. Bet you anything he's refused to go on her show; she'd run circles

around this doofus.

[Arkana]

10. Rachel "Maddox" will have fun with this one, I'm sure.

[nosmokes]

12. "Maddow took Coburn and Armey to task..." Whaat?? She mopped

the sodding floor with them!

[Kahuna]

13. Apparently old dick is still hitting the sauce. nt