Somehow I managed to miss this until I heard about it from Bill Maher:
Take Monica Goodling, who, before she resigned last week, because she’s smack in the middle of the U.S. Attorneys scandal, was the third-ranking official in the Justice Department of the United States. She’s 33 years old. And though she never even worked as a prosecutor, she was tasked with overseeing the job performance of all 93 U.S. Attorneys.
How do you get to the top that fast? Harvard? Princeton? No, Goodling did her undergraduate work at Messiah College. You know, Messiah, home of the Fighting Christ-ies? And then went on to attend Pat Robertson’s law school. Yes, Pat Robertson, the man who said that the presence of gay people at Disney World would cause earthquakes, tornadoes and possibly a meteor, has a law school.
You didn’t even quote the best part:
U.S. News & World Report, which does the definitive ranking of colleges, lists Regent as a Tier Four school, which is the lowest score it gives.
Now, would you care to guess how many graduates of this televangelist’s diploma mill work in the Bush Administration? 150. And you wonder why things are so messed up.
I believe I read that there are going to be Congressional hearings on this topic shortly. If so, I’m looking forward to reading about them.
Maher likes to toe the line between comedian and newsman a lot, so sometimes he takes a funny headline and does a bit so many times that he convinces his audience (and himself) it’s actual news (cf. his pronouncement that Rudy Giuliani likes to wear dresses, or his statement that President Bush doesn’t read the newspaper). The real story almost always has a grain of truth in it, but isn’t as bad as the “comedy” bit makes it sound.
So like I said, I’m looking forward to hearing more…