This nugget of precious material comes via Olbermann’s Plastic Ivy:
The sort of insecurity that would force you to always say “trebled” instead of “tripled” could only come from a communications major with massive status anxiety, like Keith. Without even looking it up, I am confident that Harvard, Yale and Princeton do not offer degrees in “communications.” I know there is no “communications” major at the Ivy League Cornell.
“Communications” is a major, along with “recreation science,” most commonly associated with linemen at USC. But at least the linemen can throw a football, which Keith cannot because his mother decided he was not physically robust enough to play outdoors as a child.
It may seem cruel to reveal the true college of someone who already wakes up in the middle of the night in a cold sweat worried that he’s a fraud. But I believe that by pointing out that Olbermann actually is a fraud, I am liberating him.
You may not realize it now, Keith, but you will look back on this day and say, “That was the best thing that ever happened to me”
Finally, you can stop pretending that you went to the hard-to-get-into Cornell.






















17 responses so far ↓
Mick // March 5, 2009 at 14:55
So Coulter creates an artificial distinction between the Cornell colleges that she deems “Ivy League” and those that she does not? Well done! I am going to start telling people that George Bush didn’t go to the “real Harvard.”
jcrue // March 5, 2009 at 15:01
so are you saying the entry requirements for the two schools are the same?
and what does this have to do with Bush?
oh, sorry, you needed a strawman, got it.
bthejester // March 5, 2009 at 15:55
Douch, Bush had better grades at Harvard then Kerry. Get a clue
jcrue // March 5, 2009 at 16:01
um, Kerry went to Yale. Bush went to Yale. Bush attended Harvard’s Business School.
Bush’s grades were better than Kerry’s at Yale.
Neither of whom are referenced in Ann’s article about idiot-boy. So, I’m confused what this has to do with anything….
unbelievable // March 5, 2009 at 18:06
Ann Coulter is still on tv why?
Think her 15 minutes passed her by oh…
8 years ago.
Budly // March 5, 2009 at 19:12
un,
I would argue that we can say the same thing about Mr Olbermann. He should’ve stayed with ESPN, he was at least a decent sports anchor.
jcrue // March 5, 2009 at 19:59
un,
She’s on TV because she’s hot.
She sells a lot of books because she’s smarter than the average hippie.
And she gets people to read her columns because she makes valid points and entertains at the same time.
Is that ok with you?
Jeff Burns // March 5, 2009 at 21:20
Ann hot? That’s funny. Crooked eyes, a complete inability to put on make-up. She’s on TV cause she likes to make a scene and be a freak show.
I hear she never even graduated from Cornell; dropped out as a junior and went to some community college.
Rob // March 5, 2009 at 21:40
I agree with Mick.
Cornell itself lists the School of Agriculture and Life Science as part of the “greater” Cornell Coulter is from: http://www.cornell.edu/academics/colleges.cfm
Although gaining entry may have been easier for Olbermann, he still went to Cornell and there is no reason for Coulter to say he didn’t.
Alan Baren // March 6, 2009 at 5:25
My wife and I are both ‘84 Cornell grads. My wife is currently a diabetes educator and social worker for pediatrics and I work in technology for a bank in New York City. We take tremendous pride in our alma mater. Just last weekend, we traveled up to New Haven to support the hockey team against Yale.
I understand Ann is just a shock-jock seeking public attention, but her bashing on the Ag School versus Arts & Science truly mars the imagine of Cornell and the unity of its students to the public. We of course bashed other schools in jest during our hockey cheers as students (“Screw BU, Harvard too!”) and maybe had a little internal fun in jest with hotellees, but it was always meant in fun – not sincere or mean heartedly. We certainly would never bash ourselves (which is what Ann Coulter has done) in a larger public forum reaching millions nationally. It is a shame she does not have more respect for the University she attended. She is truly an embarrassment to the university.
I am really disgusted in Coulter’s public behavior and the lack of pride her has in her University as well as her school.
jcrue // March 6, 2009 at 8:30
Jeff,
crooked eyes? inabiliy to apply make-up? what you work for Covergirl or something? you wouldn’t throw her out of your bed for eatin’ crackers I assure you.
Additionally, graduating Cum Laude from Cornell is not going to community college.
Rob,
Texas A&M and the University of Texas both have satellite campuses that 1) are easier to get into, 2) easier to graduate from, 3) still state the name of the parent university, and 4) have their own sports and extracurricular activities BUT do not carry the same weight or prestige of the parent university.
You can’t go to University of Texas, Podunkville and claim the same prestige as someone who holds a degree from UT Austin. No way no how. And that is what idiot boy Olbermann does, he name drops a school with the expectation you assign him some value because Cornell is part of his school’s name.
It’s like saying you joined the Marines but never made it through Boot Camp. You’re asking someone to assign you a value based on a false impression.
Alan,
Harvard won that hockey game didn’t they?
Brett // March 7, 2009 at 4:54
Keith’s graduation day!
http://www.patriotart.com/notposted/CornellKeith.jpg
Scott Holter // March 7, 2009 at 7:01
I graduated from Cornell’s College of Engineering in 1987. Throughout the university’s history, there has been a friendly rivalry among the different colleges (7-8 of them for undergrads, I believe). It’s outrageous for Ann to say that the College of Arts & Sciences is the only “true” Ivy League college within Cornell University. If she was accurate, then those athletes attending one of the State affiliated colleges wouldn’t be able to participate in Ivy League athletics.
As an aside Ann, when College of Engineering students needed an easy “gut” course to round out out our schedule, we took them in the College of Arts and Sciences.
sam meln // March 8, 2009 at 6:28
The smooth mis statement of your educational background is all too common today, People claiming graduate degrees from universities they never attended {as in San Jose ca for a educational state appointment},prehaps all Cornell Schools are equal but the truth is he did try to mis- inform in , perhaps in a manner that does or does not mean anything but he missed the mark when it comes to full disclosure and all the shouting in the world does not change that fact.
dennisshiraev // March 9, 2009 at 13:31
If you are interested in reading the Cornell Review’s response to Coulter’s comments, please visit http://www.cornellreview.wordpress.com. Coulter helped start the Review, the campus conservative newspaper, when she was a student here.
Frank Monaldo // March 29, 2009 at 11:33
I suggest that we all read the column again. Ann Coulter was not making chiding Olbermann without context. Olbermann has made a habit of snobbishly deriding the academic credentials of others. She was just applying Olbernann’s tactics against him to show how mean-spirited those tactics are.
educlaytion // March 31, 2009 at 15:34
Say what you want about Ann Coulter. Then go read TREASON and find a crack in her research or logic. She scares liberals to death, Keith Olbermann included
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