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January 27, 2011

Carol Mosely Braun: Elect Me, I Have Advanced Degrees From Harvard
— Ace

It's an annoying credentialist argument in the first place.

But, in the second place, it's also completely untrue, as this Harvard Crimson article notes (but then spins that she has "some connection" to Harvard).

In fact Mosely Braun never attended Harvard as a student in any capacity and holds no degrees from there, advanced or basic. She was a "visiting fellow at HarvardÂ’s Institute of Politics in 2007." Which means, um, nothing.

This story came out last week; no one in the MFM noted it. Compare and contrast to Christine O'Donnell's erroneous LinkedIn page.

A page, it was noted at the time, that required users to select from only a small number of pull-down menu options and so could not differentiate between this sort of thing -- visiting as some kind of celebrity "fellow" -- and actual enrollment at the school.

Mosely Braun wasn't so hampered by limited technology when speaking. She claimed she had advanced degrees plural from a school she never attended. And then, later in a show, when a caller specifically praised her Harvard education, she just thanked the man for the compliment.

But no interest from the MFM. Gee, you'd almost think they were employing some kind of double-standard or something.

Thanks to Brother Bewapitis.

Posted by: Ace at 09:38 AM | Comments (77)
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1 I'm beginning to think that some newsmakers aren't being honest and fair in the way they apply their standards.

Posted by: fb at January 27, 2011 09:41 AM (G60Nl)

2 She's a Democrat so by definition she lies and the MSM covers up for Democrats, since it's in their job description.

Posted by: nevergiveup at January 27, 2011 09:43 AM (/Ibu8)

3 Lying is required of all Illinois politicians, especially from Chicago.

Posted by: zmdavid at January 27, 2011 09:43 AM (amvco)

4 Double standard? The deuce you say.

Seriously, if the elect this ignorant bint they deserve every negative thing that will surely follow.

Posted by: Captain Hate at January 27, 2011 09:44 AM (olKiY)

5 Harvard... Meh.

Posted by: Howard University at January 27, 2011 09:45 AM (EL+OC)

6 Whether she has the degree(s) from Harvard or not is beside the point. She knows damn well that had she applied to attend there, she would have slid through with ease to get those degrees with almost no effort, thanks to affirmative action guidelines.

The numbskull currently in the White House, Preznint Woof-Splutnik, makes my case.

Posted by: ya2daup at January 27, 2011 09:45 AM (FcKXR)

She misspoke.

(did I mention that I have a 12" whanger?)

Posted by: maddogg at January 27, 2011 09:45 AM (OlN4e)

8 Her Harvard Education and Degrees are every bit as good as my service in Vietnam

Posted by: Blumenthal the Marine Hero at January 27, 2011 09:45 AM (/Ibu8)

9 Can you prove that she DOESN'T have advanced degrees from Haravard? Huh? Can you???

Posted by: ed at January 27, 2011 09:46 AM (emG8W)

10 "... the de-lux apartment in the sky!"

Posted by: angler at January 27, 2011 09:46 AM (SwjAj)

11 Trying to hide her University of Chicago background, is she?

Posted by: Oregon Is Dumber Than Dirt at January 27, 2011 09:46 AM (QgAFR)

12 Part of me will really enjoy the total catastrophe that would be a Mosley Braun administration. Chicago has it coming, simply for being the uncomplaining host to Obama (pbuh) Reverend Wright, The Nation of Islam, etc.

But I have friends in Chicago, so part of me wants Rahm Emanuel to be able to run and win. His administration will be slightly less dysfunctional, and less amusing too.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo (NJConservative) at January 27, 2011 09:48 AM (LH6ir)

Number one on the list of things I defy anyone to do:

Differentiate a Harvard education from that from any of 100 or so other schools in the country.

Also, the thought of this woman being mayor of Chicago is just too funny to pass up.

Posted by: Circa (Insert Year Here) at January 27, 2011 09:48 AM (B+qrE)

14 Find the drawer Braun's advanced Harvard degree is in and you will also find Zero's American birth certificate.

Posted by: maddogg at January 27, 2011 09:48 AM (OlN4e)

15 Find the drawer Braun's advanced Harvard degree is in and you will also find Zero's American birth certificate. Posted by: maddogg at January 27, 2011 01:48 PM (OlN4e) And all Obama's Law Review Articles?

Posted by: nevergiveup at January 27, 2011 09:49 AM (/Ibu8)

16 Sometimes I wonder if having an Ivy League degree is really worth having. Some of the stupidest douchebags working in government, seem to have a diploma from these "good" schools.

Posted by: EC at January 27, 2011 09:50 AM (mAhn3)

17 Wouldn't it be awesome if the "truth in advertising" aw applied to politicians?

Perhaps we can get an article V amendment to force that.

Posted by: Vic at January 27, 2011 09:51 AM (M9Ie6)

18 While it goes against my constitutional grain, in this instance I would like to request that any voter pulling the lever for Carol be publicly identified for ridicule.

Posted by: Vashta Nerada at January 27, 2011 09:51 AM (cqv5O)

19 It's not a media double standard. They are duplicitous and malicious.

Posted by: The Mega Independent at January 27, 2011 09:52 AM (Eaa7T)

20 16 Sometimes I wonder if having an Ivy League degree is really worth having. Some of the stupidest douchebags working in government, seem to have a diploma from these "good" schools.

Posted by: EC at January 27, 2011 01:50 PM (mAhn3)

Philistine!

Posted by: Michael Medved's Small Circumcised Penis at January 27, 2011 09:53 AM (EL+OC)

21 I'd rather have a mayor with a certificate from the Nick Randazzo Diesel Maintenance Academy. Then at least you'd be assured he's competent at something.

Posted by: Empire of Jeff at January 27, 2011 09:53 AM (aFBR5)

22 That's okay. We'll handle this one.

Posted by: The Cables at January 27, 2011 09:53 AM (Eaa7T)

23 Is Harvard in Kansas?

Posted by: 141 Driver at January 27, 2011 09:54 AM (/E3ql)

24 16 Sometimes I wonder if having an Ivy League degree is really worth having. Some of the stupidest douchebags working in government, seem to have a diploma from these "good" schools.

Posted by: EC at January 27, 2011 01:50 PM (mAhn3)

The problem with this country is that the unwashed peasants without advanced degrees from an Ivy league school need to shut up and learn their places.

Posted by: Sir Charles of Krauthammer at January 27, 2011 09:54 AM (OlN4e)

25 Get real Chicago, this is the best you can hope for. Normally a girl like that wouldn't even be your facebook friend.

Posted by: Follower of Cthulhu at January 27, 2011 09:54 AM (F/4zf)

26 Maybe she went to the Harvard Agricultural College.

Posted by: Dr Spank at January 27, 2011 09:54 AM (1fB+3)

27 Posted by: Circa (Insert Year Here) at January 27, 2011 01:48 PM (B+qrE)

That's easy. The holder of a Harvard undergraduate degree is undoubtedly a narcissistic, pompous asshole with delusions of grandeur based solely on the fact that his mother and father spent lots of money on tutors and SAT coaches, while simultaneously padding his high school resume with bullshit positions in their friend's labs and non-profits.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo (NJConservative) at January 27, 2011 09:54 AM (LH6ir)

28 20 16 Sometimes I wonder if having an Ivy League degree is really worth having. Some of the stupidest douchebags working in government, seem to have a diploma from these "good" schools.

Posted by: EC at January 27, 2011 01:50 PM (mAhn3)

Philistine!

Posted by: Michael Medved's Small Circumcised Penis at January 27, 2011 01:53 PM (EL+OC)

Really. These people are supposed to so smart, so much better able to do the mental heavy lifting than the rest of us. And yet I see these credentialed people make some of the biggest, most tragic-comic mistakes in our lifetimes again and again.

Posted by: EC at January 27, 2011 09:56 AM (mAhn3)

If you like your faux Harvard credentials...

Posted by: Barky at January 27, 2011 09:56 AM (pr+up)

Proud occupant of the Olberman chair at Haavaad's Ag school.

Posted by: mark c at January 27, 2011 09:56 AM (SBIko)

31 Hey, great to see you, Charles! Stand up and give everybody a wave!

Posted by: Empire of Jeff at January 27, 2011 09:57 AM (aFBR5)

Harvard?? Pfft.

Posted by: Bergan Community College home of the briny pickle at January 27, 2011 09:57 AM (pr+up)

33 She didn't go to Harvard, her opponent doesn't live in Chicago. So what? The real question is who will do the most to promote corruption in Lake Michigan's Armpit?

Posted by: nickless at January 27, 2011 09:57 AM (MMC8r)

34 Carol and I have something in common - Second Degree BURN.

Posted by: Juanita Broaderick's Labia at January 27, 2011 09:58 AM (OgmAH)

35 What, people have to attend to get their degrees?

Posted by: I'm here from Indonesia on scholarship at January 27, 2011 09:59 AM (FcR7P)

36 Aww...poor Braun.

Even the "village idiot" George W. Bush has an advanced degree from Harvard (MBA).

What does that make Carol Mosely Braun, if we're talking about pure credentials/

Posted by: Kratos (Ghost of Sparta) at January 27, 2011 09:59 AM (9hSKh)

Thurston Howell III is not impressed.

Posted by: Lovey's shriveled corpse at January 27, 2011 09:59 AM (pr+up)

38 We have her degrees stored somewhere in our vaults, I'm sure of it.

Posted by: Gov. Abercrombie at January 27, 2011 09:59 AM (FcR7P)

39 I'm gonna start claiming I went to school in Hawaii.

Posted by: mpur in Texas (kicking Mexico's ass since 1836) at January 27, 2011 10:02 AM (QV82F)

40 The old Democrat standby, works every time: BraunÂ’s campaign later issued a statement saying Braun "misspoke."

Posted by: t-bird at January 27, 2011 10:03 AM (FcR7P)

41 Good Old Carol Mosely Braun. Caught up in campaign money corruption she was shielded by the Clinton AG, the hardworking and honest Janet Reno. This after two requests for investigation by the IRS.

Why is it that Democrats can get away with this kind of blatant corruption?

Answer: The "free" press never lets the public know about this shit.

Posted by: Vic at January 27, 2011 10:06 AM (M9Ie6)

She was a visiting fellow traveler at HarvardÂ’s Institute of Politics in 2007.

FIFY

Posted by: mark c at January 27, 2011 10:06 AM (SBIko)

Anti-intellectual!!!

Posted by: $#!+ Liberals Say at January 27, 2011 10:06 AM (z6+6d)

44 At least if elected mayor of Chicago she can cheat the people from Chicago and do a lot less harm to the country as a whole like when she was a communist Senator.

Posted by: Vic at January 27, 2011 10:07 AM (M9Ie6)

45 A Bachelor's degree in math from Directional State University is worth more than a Ph.D. in any of the humanities and social sciences at Harvard.

If calculus is too hard for you, nothing else really matters.

Posted by: AmishDude at January 27, 2011 10:08 AM (T0NGe)

I pillaged and plundered Princeton as a young buck. Easy pickens, when your competition is pin headed lawyer wanna-be's and Lib arts majors. Chicks were relieved to see my merry band of misfits crash there little frat house parties.

So...yup! I went to Princeton...and Rutgers and Montclare State and Ryder and Ramapo and...yes Kane.

Posted by: dananjcon at January 27, 2011 10:10 AM (pr+up)

47

It's been said that a person has a better chance of getting into Harvard than the Ringling Brothers and Barnum & Bailey Clown College.

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at January 27, 2011 10:10 AM (TAjuH)

48 Ace, who they heck do you think you are, calling her out for merely telling lies? Racist!

Posted by: pst314 at January 27, 2011 10:11 AM (OA547)

49 It's been said that a person has a better chance of getting into Harvard than the Ringling Brothers and Barnum & Bailey Clown College. Posted by: IllTemperedCur at January 27, 2011 02:10 PM (TAjuH) I don't understand why you feel the need to repeat yourself?

Posted by: nevergiveup at January 27, 2011 10:11 AM (/Ibu8)

50 She was an incompetent senator, and now we are reminded that she's not even a competent liar.

Posted by: pst314 at January 27, 2011 10:12 AM (OA547)

51
She was a "visiting fellow at HarvardÂ’s Institute of Politics in 2007."

Misogynist!

Posted by: Zombie Andrea Dworkin at January 27, 2011 10:13 AM (TAjuH)

Hey AmishDude, are you a math teacher/professor? Do you know of any Nova style shows about the coolness of math? Kinda like Carl Sagan with Cosmos?

Serious question.

Posted by: ed at January 27, 2011 10:13 AM (emG8W)

She's the designated loser anyway.

The pathology on display is most interesting, don't get me wrong. Even though she won't ever be mayor, she'll still be a diseased pathological liar wherever she is, "serving the public" in some fashion.

Posted by: Wm T Sherman at January 27, 2011 10:13 AM (w41GQ)

54 If calculus is too hard for you, nothing else really matters.

Posted by: AmishDude at January 27, 2011 02:08 PM (T0NGe)

Show off.

Posted by: dananjcon at January 27, 2011 10:14 AM (pr+up)

55 43

Anti-intellectual!!!
---
Plato? Yet another Dead White Male, though the philosopher king idea was right on target.

Posted by: More Shit Liberals Say, Vol. 2 at January 27, 2011 10:15 AM (G60Nl)

What do you expect?

She is Carol Mostly Fraud,

Doin' what she does.

With the MFM

If not for double standards,

They'd have none at all...

Posted by: Haiku Guy at January 27, 2011 10:15 AM (Bhe/R)

57 Go read this woman's Wikipedia page. A thoroughly loathsome hack politician.

One plus: she was replaced by Peter Fitzgerald in the Senate, who was the best Senator Illinois has had in decades.

Posted by: Jeff B. at January 27, 2011 10:16 AM (NjYDy)

58 "It's an annoying credentialist argument in the first place."

---

Thank you for this. I have never before heard this objection to this type of appeal to authority argument put so eloquently. It neatly dismisses such self-serving appeals.

I am stealing it.

Posted by: Flounder at January 27, 2011 10:23 AM (Kkt/i)

59 Unlike a lot of conservatives, I didn't celebrate Rahm Emanuel being (temporarily) kicked off the ballot. I figured, Chicago politics being what it is, they'd end up with someone even worse. Nice to know I was right.

Posted by: Jeff in PA at January 27, 2011 10:34 AM (45WVs)

60 She's Jesse Jackson with tits, basically.

Posted by: Crusty at January 27, 2011 10:37 AM (GvSpB)

61 All the people
Come out of your closets
Help Carol Mostly Brown
To the City's deposits

You know that Carol is
Someone to trust
Her booty's too big
For the back of the bus

So if you won't support
Carol Mostly Brown
Carry yo' white booty
Off to Hymie-town.

_{Reverend Jackson is available for bidness conferences, sensitivity training seminars, and poetry recitals at a nominal fee.}

Posted by: Jesse Jackson at January 27, 2011 10:45 AM (VfmLu)

62 She never went to Harvard
She never went to Yale
But at least my home girl
Has stayed out of jail.

Posted by: Jesse Jackson at January 27, 2011 10:47 AM (VfmLu)

63 credential =//= presidential

or haven't y'all been paying attention lately?

Posted by: Preznint Woof-Splutnik at January 27, 2011 10:51 AM (FcKXR)

64 64
Chicago has only 2 redeeming qualities 1) the Cubs and ...
Posted by: Mallamutt at January 27, 2011 02:48 PM (OWjjx)

ME!! ME!! ME!! (C'mon, you know you meant to say it!!

Those Cubicles bring an awesome game to Cominsky Park, don't they?

Posted by: Preznint Woof-Splutnik at January 27, 2011 10:54 AM (FcKXR)

65 Double Standard you say? where? Huh?

Posted by: MFM at January 27, 2011 10:55 AM (ndlFj)

66
The Iranian government nuclear official touting his nonexistent Oxford degree, fraud exposed in 2008.

Joe Biden essentially stealing Margaret Thatcher's British counterpart's personal identity, plagiarizing the man's bio along with his public speech.

BHO, no transcripts, no review editorials, no thesis or dissertation to produce, not to mention his undocumented long-form birth certificate, yet handlers/media convince the "reasonable" American to forget about it.

The Maryland fake army intelligence colonel paid by the FBI et al. as an expert foreign intelligence consultant -- at least he's been exposed. But will he actually be successfully prosecuted, or charges dismissed as with those skallywags flaunting Stolen Valor at political banquets? After all, how reliable are the FBI when they fail to research their own consultants prior to hiring? To be swept under the rug asap.

Given "social justice" Carol Mosely Braun would be awarded for her fraud because she's entitled to be dishonest. Does anyone else anticipate honorary degrees coming her way from Hahvahrd?

Posted by: by any other name at January 27, 2011 10:57 AM (H+LJc)

67 Harvard graduate, White House intern and now ... "American Idol" contestant. ... stated that she loves Obama. "Not in a Monica Lewinski/Clinton sort of way, but in a platonic way". Oh boy Wait till Moo schell gets wind of that.

Posted by: Buffalobob at January 27, 2011 11:13 AM (GwH6h)

It's a conspiracy to keep a sister from being Mayor.

Posted by: Carol Mosely Braun at January 27, 2011 11:33 AM (GgXZc)

69 Whenever I see her name, I think of this. [Probably because the "Braun" also gets me thinking of Eva, too, and not just the same surname.]

Posted by: andycanuck at January 27, 2011 11:50 AM (2rOwc)

Unfortunately, Illinois does not have a ballot slot for "None of the above" so one of these clowns will be the next mayor.

Rahm will be the most ruthlessly efficient at getting his way. Whether what he wants will be good for the city, its citizens, or the state is irrelevant. He clearly has not lived in the city for over two years, the municipal code states that a candidate for mayor must reside in the city, and he pushes on with his candidacy.

If he stays on the ballot and wins, it will be interesting to see if city works (cops, firemen, teachers, streets & san guys, etc.) will start challenging their requirement to reside in the city. Why can't 10 or 15 cops rent an apt together and split the rent? Each of them needs to keep some "treasured belonging" in the apt, boxed up in the crawlspace. Voila! They live in the city but are free to have another residence someplace else, someplace with good schools and a safe, middle class lifestyle for their kids.

Posted by: Boots at January 27, 2011 12:20 PM (neKzn)

71 People forget that good ole CMB was caught in a welfare fraud investigation while she was running for the Senate the first time. There were allegations that she and her mother were scamming welfare and then using the money to take a trip to Africa. She fought a delaying action until the press got tired of it and the charges quietly faded away about the time she was elected.

Posted by: Steve L. at January 27, 2011 12:22 PM (Gkhxf)

Posted by: Boots at January 27, 2011 04:20 PM (neKzn)

They do this already.

Posted by: Oldcat at January 27, 2011 01:25 PM (z1N6a)

73 She could run for President and not show her non existent diplomas. I'd vote for her. She has all the credentials I need, that being the color of her skin.

Posted by: kansas at January 27, 2011 02:03 PM (4FGpb)

Chicago has only 2 redeeming qualities 1) the Cubs

Maybe the best comment ever.

Posted by: Zimriel at January 27, 2011 04:23 PM (DxXGC)

75 The MFM are corrupt liars, and the evidence is overwhelming. We just need to get people over their addiction to that crap.

Posted by: Merovign, Bond Villain at January 27, 2011 05:14 PM (bxiXv)

76 And to think that the MFM call Sarah Palin stupid.

Posted by: 57 States at January 28, 2011 11:20 AM (X1kjT)

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Posted by: yoga at February 03, 2011 12:06 PM (eEeVN)

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