Saturday, August 22, 2009

Overheard at the Water Cooler

From the train-wreck of an interview Betsy McCaughey did with Jon Stewart Thursday night, we find this gem:

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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3 comments:

  1. AndrewMc8/22/2009 7:46 AM

    She won it in 19767, according to Columbia as well. Her name is misspelled.

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  2. Unknown8/22/2009 1:39 PM

    Man, how old will she be in 19767? I don't even want to think about that.

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  3. AndrewMc8/22/2009 3:31 PM

    Ha. 1976.

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