by Unknown | 8/22/2009 07:00:00 AM
From the train-wreck of an interview Betsy McCaughey did with Jon Stewart Thursday night, we find this gem:
Right. And by that logic, I'm an expert on early Gnostic texts because I wrote a paper on Billy Sunday.
N.B. McCaughey apparently was a pretty impressive historian. Her dissertation at Columbia on William Samuel Johnson won the Bancroft Dissertation Prize there (according to Wikipedia. I don't really know what that says about the sanity of historians.
MCCAUGHEY: All I can say is, I've been reading legislation for thirty years -- I have a Ph.D. in this field, constitutional history -- and I've read this bill very carefully ... so I'm not an inexperienced student of this topic.
Right. And by that logic, I'm an expert on early Gnostic texts because I wrote a paper on Billy Sunday.
N.B. McCaughey apparently was a pretty impressive historian. Her dissertation at Columbia on William Samuel Johnson won the Bancroft Dissertation Prize there (according to Wikipedia. I don't really know what that says about the sanity of historians.
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She won it in 19767, according to Columbia as well. Her name is misspelled.