Stupid Tweet Of The Day

There are stupid tweets and then there is this which is extra stupid.

Yes, Keith Olbermann is a leftist shill but even so I would expect better from someone with his supposed education.

According to his bio, Olbermann is a graduate of the Hackley School and of Cornell University. The former is a highly regarded prep school that sends a number of its graduates to the most highly selective universities. The latter, Cornell, is one of the Ivy League universities which US News ranks at the 11th best in the United States.

Now I didn’t have a prep school and Ivy League education. Nonetheless, I did have a very decent one at my small Catholic high school and my little Quaker liberal arts college. I also know that both my favorite English teacher in high school, Chuck Sullivan, and my favorite English instructor in college, Mildred Marlette, would have looked at me like I was stupid if I had said such a thing. Fortunately, I never gave them much reason to think that.

Given Olbermann and I are rough contemporaries who were educated in a time before grade inflation and with higher classroom standards, he either thinks his followers are that stupid or he is suffering from some sort of brain eating amoeba. That is the only way I can explain this level of idiocy in a tweet.