The Great Ivy League Snob-Off, Part III:
Ann Coulter Will Talk To Liberals (If They Graduated from Arts & Sciences)
The recent Cornell major-legitimacy dustup between Ann Coulter and Keith Olbermann lit more than a few contempt-fueled fires. To recap, Coulter calls herself an Ivy Leaguer because she's a Cornell alum, but Olbermann is not because he's a Cornell alum. Olbermann responds on "Countdown" by stating that he is indeed an Ivy Leaguer because he's a Cornell alum and how dare you? So obviously, somebody's not getting invited to somebody's St. Patty's Day Party.
But what are Ms. Coulter's feelings about that other arch-liberal, smug Cornellian television host, Bill Maher? Well, Maher graduated from Arts & Sciences, so he's an Ivy Leaguer by her standards. The two of them yesterday concluded a three-day speaking/debate tour in three cities and The New York Times reported that they may even be "tight."
In a predebate telephone interview, Mr. Maher said that he and Ms. Coulter were good friends — “Not dating, as people try to say on the Internet, but friends” — and that he respected her resolve. “Unlike so many people in America, she was not afraid to get booed,” Mr. Maher said.
Ms. Coulter likewise said that she respected Mr. Maher’s bipartisan approach to “Politically Incorrect.” “Unlike most snoozefest political shows, Bill booked guests who didn’t all agree with one another[.]”
If nothing else comes out of this, the Maher-Coulter-Olbermann holds the slot the most polarizing, ear-splitting, and self-congratulatory Ivy love triangle so far this month. Now for the Brown alums to chance to take the spotlight. C'mon Jim Axelrod. You know you want to say something regretable.
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March 12th, 2009 at 3:31 pm
watching this debate is like listening to a tomato and a cucumber argue about which one is a better fruit.
March 12th, 2009 at 4:14 pm
Yale11, that was NOT funny.
March 12th, 2009 at 6:18 pm
Yale11,
If only you were an Ag student at Cornell, you would know that both tomatoes and cucumbers are botanically classified as fruits, thanks to their having enclosed seeds and developing from a flower. A more apt analogy would be that this debate is like a Princetonian and a Yalie arguing about whose school is less likely to win The Game.
March 12th, 2009 at 8:43 pm
“If only you were an Ag student at Cornell, you would know that both tomatoes and cucumbers are botanically classified as fruits, thanks to their having enclosed seeds and developing from a flower. A more apt analogy would be that this debate is like a Princetonian and a Yalie arguing about whose school is less likely to win The Game.”
I think Yale11 was aware of that fact. It’s an apt analogy – Both CAS and Ag are technically Ivy because they play in the league.
The Game analogy is flawed because Princeton will never lose or win The Game.
March 12th, 2009 at 8:52 pm
Olbermann is definitely no true bloo ivy league. He might as well have transfered in like the messiah Obama. Just doesn’t count as much. Worst is they tout their ivy purity by bragging in ways that when they are caught in their exaggered account they feel obviously embarrassed. I’m embarrassed by the chump.
March 17th, 2009 at 12:21 am
@Cornell ‘06, Harvard ‘08
that actually was a PERFECT analogy, which you completely missed. yale11 is clearly aware that both tomatoes and cucumbers are classified as fruits. the point is that, in popular understanding, they are often mixed up with vegetables. thus, cornell is only an ivy league school by some sort of technicality, which you have explained for us with your ag school background. idiot.
March 17th, 2009 at 10:04 pm
@ Senior Yalie
Touche. Perhaps if I were an Ag student I would have gotten the joke faster. Being an engineer I’m better at jokes like, “”There are 10 types of people in the world: those who understand binary, and those who don’t.”