01/05/24: "Yale COULD use an international airport," said the Admission officer to Rodney Dangerfield (trying to get his son into an Ivy League school; The Simpsons). Buy one for Harvard (purchase the entire lower half of New Hampshire, just to impress them). See if that works. Offer to name it after Gay, if necessary.
Don. I love your turn of a phrase here by changing just one letter. "Harvard thought it had reached a milestone in hiring her but she quickly proved to be a millstone on its institutional collar.." Nicely done sir!
Maybe so, but we know for sure it IS a plagiarist. And for sure, Cat gets extra treats for the short poll with only one answer! It was like cribbing for a mid-term!
The end of the day it wasn't her antisemitism or love of Islamic savages. It was her copying other peoples work. Go figure. Guess this was something even the Magic Negro couldn't live with. Maybe it brought back memories of his own plagiarism.
I think the antisemitism was the issue - but Harvard is so ingrained with the DEI disease that they needed something else to push her out the door. Had the donors not demanded her removal, we never would have seen the plagiarism come to light. Rufo would never have gotten on her tail. She would continue to be a blight on US higher education that would remain unseen. Her testimony opened up the eyes of people - much like the Virginia gubernatorial race highlighted what was going on to the general population.
The plagiarism just became the process by which her removal was done.
It was the justification for her removal, not "the process." Seriously, stop using that word. I see it misused three dozen times a day because people either don't know what it means, or if they do, use it anyway because everyone else is.
01/05/24: Which means that the daily drain of money from their $52 billion endowment must be enormous, and Harvard's #1 job is to replenish the money being spent, NOT to educate their students.
01/05/23: Remember how, when The Big Oreo was president, his endorsements practically doomed political candidates, to the point where they begged him not to endorse them? Well, he threw his (snake-sneaky) support (behind the scenes) for Gay. BAM! Another fatal endorsement. Day-Yam! If he were in charge of the Obits in the NY Times, that section would be the largest one in the paper.
I just love it when lunatic leftists paint themselves into a corner by following their own hypocritical made-up rules before reluctantly yielding. Sadly, the yielding didn't occur because of an admission of wrong doing. It happened because the Board of Trustees saw they were losing millions of dollars. It was about money
It angers me the only risk the two presidents faced was to step down and return to a very safe and protected (and well compensated) faculty role where they will cause continued destruction on the thinking minds of students. Nobody got fired. They all are doing quite well and may be rewarded in other ways by the DEI pushers for taking the hit on this one.
Maybe Jewish students will sign up for her classes and make her life a living hell to the point that she resigns completely. Hey, I can dream, can’t I?
I doubt very much if she'll do any actual lecturing, having become a complete laughingstock in America, but if she is actually pencilled in, I hope they tag-team her with Brian Stelter (another Harvard "bad joke" hire) . Next up: Put her face on a can of Bud Light. Or Raid. Either one, doesn't matter.
Hi Shrugged - The fact that neither of them was fired and actually kept their faculty positions also angers me also - no consequences to the perps who will continue doing their same old thing
Yeah, while not common for a faculty member to step up to University President (usually filled in interim by the provost), faculty regularly step up (and down) to department chair and Dean positions. Tenured faculty have a job one way or the other. Perhaps her tenure -knowing the plagarism evidence now- should be challenged.
I agree with you. Gay is already working with a lawyer no doubt to repair her resume and image. She will likely not stay at the university but will walk away with her full salary. She will end up in Biden’s administration most likely thanks to Mr. Obama and his friends.
Waiting for Sally Kornbluth, that smug, detestable traitor (I don’t know if she has children but if she does I don’t know how she looks them in the face) to pull the plug on herself… ‘context’ eh, you bitch!
I don't think so. An oxymoron is a contradictory combination of things or qualities. The world is full of people who can be very smart in one very limited specialty -- like, say, contract law, or anal operations -- but intensely stupid in other areas, like human relations or politics. And that problem, I think, is exactly what was at the bottom of that ridiculous scene with the Three She-Stooges in Congress. The nonsense they produced was so identical, in preparation they must have met as a group, with expensive lawyers coaching them -- lawyers who, going by the results, were intensely stupid.
It’s clear after watching their testimony that they all huddled together and were coached on their answers because they knew what was coming. Hearings like this are about as spontaneous as the sun coming up each day.
The problem is that racial quotas have been in effect since the '64 Civil Rights Act, when a bunch of EEOC lawyers wrote them and added to the Act. So, we have millions of jobs let out on the basis of race, ethnicity, gender, sexual orientation, etc., to people who fit one or more of those boxes, plus have the proper ideology, for decades. Gay was a bureaucrat who couldn't hurt anyone physically, but think of all the positions where people like her make life or death decisions.
Not exactly correct. Racial quotas came a few years later, in response to society not being all with the Civil Rights Act (CRA) of 1964. As a result of executive order first handed down by Nixon I believe, affirmative action became the lens through which most people interacted with discrimination law until the amendment to the act in 93 (i think) turned innocent until proven guilty on its head with sexual harassment.
Affirmative Action was always in conflict with the Civil Rights Act. And we were OK as a society for the most part to divert our attention from that fact until Obama became the first racist black president, and the first obviously racist president since LBJ, at which point the public trust on looking the other way was broken. So in fact, Obama was a transformative president in ways he never imagined. In his attempt to break the country's mold, he broke affirmative action and will help expedite our country into the color blind one we always hoped we would be.
I'm slowly training myself to quietly chuckle instead of roaring with laughter. The cat is in my lap. Fox News is playing in mute. I'm slowly oozing into reading my favorite blogger. Cup of coffee already finished. Now I know how God feels watching us. We are so entertaining. I once asked God if I could not make stupid mistakes. I thought I heard a heavenly chuckle. I assume that's not on the agenda. If you need more info, just ask my daughters how stupid I act when I'm dating at the age of both 60 and 75. No I'm not going to tell you.
We might have to chill a tad. I made a stupid rooky mistake yesterday, then realized I hadn't really made the rooky mistake. I wasted a lot of energy worrying about it anyway. No wonder The Almighty chuckles.
Her pathetic resignation letter was nothing more than a saccharine melange of post-modern gobbledygook that will be forgotten in a week. Good riddance, but if past is prologue, they will hire someone even worse as her successor.
She looked silly at that House hearing. She looked even sillier trying to defend her own plagiarism. But she looked silliest when she wrote in her letter that she was hounded out of the presidency of Harvard by racism. I suppose she is waiting now for Elizabeth Warren to defend her plagiarism. That would be fitting.
i commented on another site that she probably plagiarized her resignation letter from Larry Summers. I trust it is not plagiarism for me to copy my own thought elsewhere?
Now some places are saying since her speech is all over that that is the reason that it came up as plagiarism. Of course the guy ran it though Before it got posted everywhere plus, I am not sure that flags plagiarism anyway.
After reading all the leftist comments by people like the (never) Rev Jackson, it’s absolutely clear that the very people who continually call those of us on the right “racists” are in fact the real racists of our time. They will never let the industry called “racism” die because it is the institution that supports the Democrat party and so many of its backers to this day. But Claudine Gay didn't get pushed out for her horrendous anti-Semitism testimony, she was ousted because she made it clear that Harvard hired a plagiarist , they knew it, and didn't care until it was exposed for all to see. So tell me, when are the members of the corporation board who hired her going to resign as well? Maybe the Harvard Crimson could reclaim a modicum of its reputation if it finally exposed the source of the university’s rot.
It is so true. They have nothing they can cite as accomplishments for humanity or this country, so the only thing left is to make something up and pretend it's real.
I feel like applying at Harvard, then taking every course Claudine Gay teaches so I can yell, "BULLSHIT" every time she opens her mouth.
Not much chance of that coming to pass. Harvard is very selective, so unless you are [fill in the blanks] you won't be admitted.
01/05/24: "Yale COULD use an international airport," said the Admission officer to Rodney Dangerfield (trying to get his son into an Ivy League school; The Simpsons). Buy one for Harvard (purchase the entire lower half of New Hampshire, just to impress them). See if that works. Offer to name it after Gay, if necessary.
Remember to raise your hand before doing so. We don’t want to be called rude after all. 😛.
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An old AF buddy used to say, “Money talks. And bullshit walks.” Ramon, I thank you my friend.
Gay walks marathons.
The Rosie Ruiz of education is what she is.
You're gonna get a sore throat from yelling all the time.
Don. I love your turn of a phrase here by changing just one letter. "Harvard thought it had reached a milestone in hiring her but she quickly proved to be a millstone on its institutional collar.." Nicely done sir!
I too loved that line. And the title - Lady DEI. Fantastic.
Not so sure that’s a lady…
Maybe so, but we know for sure it IS a plagiarist. And for sure, Cat gets extra treats for the short poll with only one answer! It was like cribbing for a mid-term!
The end of the day it wasn't her antisemitism or love of Islamic savages. It was her copying other peoples work. Go figure. Guess this was something even the Magic Negro couldn't live with. Maybe it brought back memories of his own plagiarism.
I think the antisemitism was the issue - but Harvard is so ingrained with the DEI disease that they needed something else to push her out the door. Had the donors not demanded her removal, we never would have seen the plagiarism come to light. Rufo would never have gotten on her tail. She would continue to be a blight on US higher education that would remain unseen. Her testimony opened up the eyes of people - much like the Virginia gubernatorial race highlighted what was going on to the general population.
The plagiarism just became the process by which her removal was done.
It was the justification for her removal, not "the process." Seriously, stop using that word. I see it misused three dozen times a day because people either don't know what it means, or if they do, use it anyway because everyone else is.
I think you should have said even the magic negro could not fix. He had no problem living with it, he believed it. That's how he got to the top.
"The end of the day for Gay" was the sharp decline in donor funding to Harvard.
01/05/24: Which means that the daily drain of money from their $52 billion endowment must be enormous, and Harvard's #1 job is to replenish the money being spent, NOT to educate their students.
01/05/23: Remember how, when The Big Oreo was president, his endorsements practically doomed political candidates, to the point where they begged him not to endorse them? Well, he threw his (snake-sneaky) support (behind the scenes) for Gay. BAM! Another fatal endorsement. Day-Yam! If he were in charge of the Obits in the NY Times, that section would be the largest one in the paper.
I just love it when lunatic leftists paint themselves into a corner by following their own hypocritical made-up rules before reluctantly yielding. Sadly, the yielding didn't occur because of an admission of wrong doing. It happened because the Board of Trustees saw they were losing millions of dollars. It was about money
It angers me the only risk the two presidents faced was to step down and return to a very safe and protected (and well compensated) faculty role where they will cause continued destruction on the thinking minds of students. Nobody got fired. They all are doing quite well and may be rewarded in other ways by the DEI pushers for taking the hit on this one.
Maybe Jewish students will sign up for her classes and make her life a living hell to the point that she resigns completely. Hey, I can dream, can’t I?
Yes, we can dream their hypocrisy continues to haunt them into complete humiliation. Leftists don’t have much capacity for shame.
If they are admitted at all. She's gone but it is quite likely they will choose another who is simply more adept at hiding it.
I doubt very much if she'll do any actual lecturing, having become a complete laughingstock in America, but if she is actually pencilled in, I hope they tag-team her with Brian Stelter (another Harvard "bad joke" hire) . Next up: Put her face on a can of Bud Light. Or Raid. Either one, doesn't matter.
Hi Shrugged - The fact that neither of them was fired and actually kept their faculty positions also angers me also - no consequences to the perps who will continue doing their same old thing
Yeah, while not common for a faculty member to step up to University President (usually filled in interim by the provost), faculty regularly step up (and down) to department chair and Dean positions. Tenured faculty have a job one way or the other. Perhaps her tenure -knowing the plagarism evidence now- should be challenged.
I agree with you. Gay is already working with a lawyer no doubt to repair her resume and image. She will likely not stay at the university but will walk away with her full salary. She will end up in Biden’s administration most likely thanks to Mr. Obama and his friends.
She'll feel right at home in the Biden administration since I'm sure there are plenty of other plagiarists already there.
She will then join the most diverse/perverted administration ever filled by skimming septic tanks.
You guys are hilarious and make these reads enjoyable.
Waiting for Sally Kornbluth, that smug, detestable traitor (I don’t know if she has children but if she does I don’t know how she looks them in the face) to pull the plug on herself… ‘context’ eh, you bitch!
How’s this for context…3 out of 3!
Just as an aside, these 3 morons clearly got the same script from the same law firm… would you pay the bill!
Of course not; the institution pays. But as a consolation prize, this has been a brilliant illustration of how stupid expensive lawyers can be.
Stupid expensive lawyers, isn't that an oxy-moron?
I don't think so. An oxymoron is a contradictory combination of things or qualities. The world is full of people who can be very smart in one very limited specialty -- like, say, contract law, or anal operations -- but intensely stupid in other areas, like human relations or politics. And that problem, I think, is exactly what was at the bottom of that ridiculous scene with the Three She-Stooges in Congress. The nonsense they produced was so identical, in preparation they must have met as a group, with expensive lawyers coaching them -- lawyers who, going by the results, were intensely stupid.
Yeah, free speech and all... for me but not thee.
Five dollars says she keeps her salary as president for the term of her contract.
no bet, how else would she make a million per year as a prof?
And only teach one or two classes a week!
Liawatha only got a quarter-mil to teach her one class. I am sure she is pissed.
It's racism I tell you!!!!!
It’s clear after watching their testimony that they all huddled together and were coached on their answers because they knew what was coming. Hearings like this are about as spontaneous as the sun coming up each day.
The problem is that racial quotas have been in effect since the '64 Civil Rights Act, when a bunch of EEOC lawyers wrote them and added to the Act. So, we have millions of jobs let out on the basis of race, ethnicity, gender, sexual orientation, etc., to people who fit one or more of those boxes, plus have the proper ideology, for decades. Gay was a bureaucrat who couldn't hurt anyone physically, but think of all the positions where people like her make life or death decisions.
Danny Huckabee
Not exactly correct. Racial quotas came a few years later, in response to society not being all with the Civil Rights Act (CRA) of 1964. As a result of executive order first handed down by Nixon I believe, affirmative action became the lens through which most people interacted with discrimination law until the amendment to the act in 93 (i think) turned innocent until proven guilty on its head with sexual harassment.
Affirmative Action was always in conflict with the Civil Rights Act. And we were OK as a society for the most part to divert our attention from that fact until Obama became the first racist black president, and the first obviously racist president since LBJ, at which point the public trust on looking the other way was broken. So in fact, Obama was a transformative president in ways he never imagined. In his attempt to break the country's mold, he broke affirmative action and will help expedite our country into the color blind one we always hoped we would be.
Does anyone else look at her and think “if Steve Urkel had a daughter . . . .”?
Don’t fret for her, she will stay on as faculty and make almost a million dollars a year. I wonder if she will teach a class on Murphy’s Law?
I think she is made to order as the next czar in Bidens anti-Semitism office. She’s a shoe-in.
I'm slowly training myself to quietly chuckle instead of roaring with laughter. The cat is in my lap. Fox News is playing in mute. I'm slowly oozing into reading my favorite blogger. Cup of coffee already finished. Now I know how God feels watching us. We are so entertaining. I once asked God if I could not make stupid mistakes. I thought I heard a heavenly chuckle. I assume that's not on the agenda. If you need more info, just ask my daughters how stupid I act when I'm dating at the age of both 60 and 75. No I'm not going to tell you.
A wonderful commentary. Keep IT UP.
If you aren’t going to tell us, can you at least post some pics? I’m a visual type, myself.
Rev, it’s the stupid mistakes that we learn the most from. They are to valuable to lose.
I think God lets us make stupid mistakes in hope that we learn from them.
We might have to chill a tad. I made a stupid rooky mistake yesterday, then realized I hadn't really made the rooky mistake. I wasted a lot of energy worrying about it anyway. No wonder The Almighty chuckles.
Her pathetic resignation letter was nothing more than a saccharine melange of post-modern gobbledygook that will be forgotten in a week. Good riddance, but if past is prologue, they will hire someone even worse as her successor.
She was just the poster child of the real problem: the Corporation Board who hired her. They should all be fired.
Good point. As Don reminded us. The inmates are still running the asylum.
We’re living in an astonishing era of “zero consequences” for evil of any kind, no matter how flagrant or egregious.
I find it to be the single-most demoralizing aspect of all the ruinous things occurring all around us - and to us -day in and day out.
“ The wicked plotteth against the just, and gnasheth upon him with his teeth.
The Lord shall laugh at him: for he seeth that his day is coming.”
Psalm 37:12-13 (the whole psalm, really!)
Unless you are Donald Trump. Then, their zero consequences magically become zero escape from the consequences.
Amen
She looked silly at that House hearing. She looked even sillier trying to defend her own plagiarism. But she looked silliest when she wrote in her letter that she was hounded out of the presidency of Harvard by racism. I suppose she is waiting now for Elizabeth Warren to defend her plagiarism. That would be fitting.
Doubtful she wrote her own letter. It was quite good. If one is into this kind of drivel.
i commented on another site that she probably plagiarized her resignation letter from Larry Summers. I trust it is not plagiarism for me to copy my own thought elsewhere?
No problem as long as you're using the MLA Handbook. LOL
Someone ran it though the plagiarism site. It had issues.
Grammarly!
Hilarious!
Now some places are saying since her speech is all over that that is the reason that it came up as plagiarism. Of course the guy ran it though Before it got posted everywhere plus, I am not sure that flags plagiarism anyway.
Denial is a very strong human attribute sometimes.
Isn’t that a river in Egypt?
Yep =p
There is no joy on Smugville,
mighty Gay-see has struck out.
Happy Punday. Thanks for explaining the word 'many' to me; it means a lot.
After reading all the leftist comments by people like the (never) Rev Jackson, it’s absolutely clear that the very people who continually call those of us on the right “racists” are in fact the real racists of our time. They will never let the industry called “racism” die because it is the institution that supports the Democrat party and so many of its backers to this day. But Claudine Gay didn't get pushed out for her horrendous anti-Semitism testimony, she was ousted because she made it clear that Harvard hired a plagiarist , they knew it, and didn't care until it was exposed for all to see. So tell me, when are the members of the corporation board who hired her going to resign as well? Maybe the Harvard Crimson could reclaim a modicum of its reputation if it finally exposed the source of the university’s rot.
Agree, the Marxist/Democratic party is integrally dependent on racism.
Take race/racism away from the Democrats, and they’ve got nothing.
It is so true. They have nothing they can cite as accomplishments for humanity or this country, so the only thing left is to make something up and pretend it's real.
They make too much money at calling everyone else Racist.
Reddog the board is the soft underbelly that must be protected to survive doncha know.
re: was her resignation speech plagiarized? I don't know if you saw the other Babylon Bee story, but it's
https://babylonbee.com/news/claudine-gay-gives-tearful-resignation-speech-entitled-gettysburg-address
The Babylon Bee keeps me grounded to reality. Mostly.
Yes - hire some short, white dumpy transwomen...
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I want to see affirmative action in the NBA. Way way too racially un diverse as presently constituted.
And while we’re at it I want to see more black centers in the NFL.
They need more short Jewish guys
אוי ואבו ! 😀
Are you the same David Thompson from the Denver Nuggets who could leap vertically 42”?
Sadly, no. The skywalker is dead. And I'm more of a basket case than a basketball.
Didn't know David was gone. He was fun to watch when he played. I swear that guy was bionic and had springs in his legs.
Cancel that. I was told he was dead, but I got curious and it appears he is alive but retired. At least as of 2019: https://www.cpr.org/2019/09/11/what-became-of-nuggets-star-david-thompson-after-injuries-and-cocaine-derailed-his-path-to-all-time-nba-greatness/
Harlem Globetrotters, too. Hahaha
Not many black kickers either.
Alas, both the balloon heads, Magill and Gay, are still employed by both universities so their firings are really just symbolic.
Right; they were demoted not fired.