Rove: Attending top schools doesn’t mean that Sotomayor is smart, but it proves that Bush is.

[kpete]

Rove: Attending top schools doesn’t mean that Sotomayor is smart, but it proves that Bush is.

Karl Rove and George W. Bush smiling together.During a debate at Radio City Music Hall last night, former Bush adviser Karl Rove claimed that Supreme Court nominee Judge Sonia Sotomayor was “not necessarily” “very smart.” When host Charlie Rose noted in response that she attended Princeton and Yale Law School, Rove replied that you don’t have to be smart to attend a top school:

Rove - “She is competent and will be confirmed….She has an interesting and compelling life story…”

Charlie - “She is very smart.”

Rove “Not necessarily.”

Charlie - “What do you mean? She went to Princeton where she graduating with honors and then went on to Yale Law School….”

Rove- “I know lots of stupid people who went to Ivy League schools.” The crowd applauds.

Rove’s dismissal of Ivy League attendance is ironic considering that in an interview previewing the debate, he cited George W. Bush’s experience at Harvard and Yale to mock claims that Bush is stupid. “The myth was that this guy, who was a Yale history grad and a Harvard MBA, was not smart,” Rove told the Chicago Tribune. In December 2008, Rove also touted Bush’s time at Harvard and Yale in a Wall Street Journal column, writing, “You don’t make it through either unless you are a reader.”

http://thinkprogress.org/2009/05/27/rove-ivy-league-smart/

[Nikki Stone1]

1. Bush was legacy. Legacy students don't need to have a brain cell, just family ties

Sotomayor went to Princeton and Harvard without any family ties. She EARNED her places.

[SammyWinstonJack]

2. And bu$h is one of them.

I know lots of stupid people who went to Ivy League schools.

[spanone]

3. he knows a former president who is 'stupid people'

it pisses me off that rove has a forum to spew such shit

[calico1]

4. It's possible to get into an Ivy League school

if you have the right connections, as our former Pres* proved.


However, I don't see how you can fake having high honors. Or fake a record like the one she has.

[opihimoimoi]

7. Bushies life history after college proves beyond a doubt he is not only stupid but

did not really deserve his diplomas...

HE HAS BECOME A PRIME EXAMPLE OF HOW TO FUCK UP A NATION

[TheCowsCameHome]

5. My neighbor went to Yale with Bush.

Bush was a drunken fuckup with a big family name.

[hedgehog]

6. I think offering scholarships or even admitting unconnected people such

as Sotomayor is how the racket of "the top schools" continues. People like Sotomayor and the Obamas go on to do great things, thereby bringing prestige to their alma maters. Meanwhile, the connected people justify their nepotism by pointing out that so and so is a Harvard Grad or a Yale grad or whatever.

[Vickers]

8. Who cares what that college dropout says?

:rofl:

[NOW tense]

9. Sotomayor and her fancy lern'in schools. n/t

[LeftinOH]

10. Radio City Music Hall? Did they have to have their 'debate' there?

Sacrilege.