Lee Bollinger is a “Big Dumb Jock,” “Doofus”

by Maureen O'Connor | August 12, 2007 at 1:59 pm

Or, so says indie cabaret star Nellie McKay.

The kind of twee singer/songwriter lass that male hipsters cream their tightest pants over, McKay is a Manhattan School of Music drop-out turned jazz-pop sensation based in Harlem.  And she hates Columbia's president!

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New York Magazine caught one of McKay's shows last week:

If McKay, a passionate animal-rights activist and anti-corporate leftist who has lived in Harlem for most of her life, gave the night a theme, it was her disgust with Columbia University, both for its research on lab animals and its aggressive plans for massive expansion in West Harlem. She urged the audience to go home and type "Columbia is an asshole" into their search engines to see how many hits it got. "Is Columbia racist?" she asked, then, answering herself, said, "Yes." But she saved most of her bile for the school's president, Lee Bollinger. "He just looks like a big, dumb jock - a doofus," she declared.

Oh, it's on.  Fight!  Fight!  Fight!  We fully expect Columbia PR to come out with a statement incorporating the phrase "big fat stupidhead" any day now.  As for McKay, well, we'd make fun of her, but she's sort of tiny and adorable (did we mention said Bollinger-attack took place during a set in which she played the ukulele?) so the whole situation is more like a little puppy that thinks it can kill you by nipping at your heels.  To which we respond, "awww cute, let me scratch behind your ears and give you some free publicity, pookie." --MAUREEN O'CONNOR

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