Dick Armey: "Liberal critics can’t match level of rigor in serious, scholarly Beck's documentation"

[Amerigo Vespucci]

Quote of the Day: Glenn Beck, Scholar

— By Kevin Drum | Sat Aug. 28, 2010 10:07 AM PDT



From Dick Armey, PhD University of Oklahoma, former economics professor at the University of North Texas, and former Republican majority leader in the House of Representatives:

One of the things that we see as we look at Glenn Beck's work that's been fascinating to me, is we see a more true and accurate history of the United States, and we see it documented at levels of rigor that, in fact, one would expect out of Ph.D. dissertations — it is serious, scholarly work.... don’t have to argue with Glenn Beck. They have to argue with his documentation and they can’t match that level of rigor.

Somebody just shoot me now.

http://motherjones.com/kevin-drum/2010/08/quote-day-glenn-beck-scholar

[Dappleganger]

1. If Armey is delusional enough to think that Beck is an historical scholar...

he's sicker than I thought. No wonder the repukes are so lost right now.

[MadMaddie]

2. Once again they deride those formally educated

Beck makes shit up and people believe the rewriting of history.

[Catshrink]

3. BecKKK's follwers wouldn't know scholarly if it bit 'em in the ass.

That's why The Dick Armey gets away with this crap.

[Dawson Leery]

4. Says the Kennedy Killer.

[47of74]

5. Yo, Mr. Armey;

[burnsei sensei]

6. Dr. Armey, if that's what your name really is,

you have turned in your professor hat and taken on the ideological hack hat.
You are nothing more.
Whatever value you placed on knowledge "for its own sake" has hit the side of the freeway in favor of unenlightened self interest.
Also known as ambition and greed.

[Jack Rabbit]

7. Has Armey been drinking again?

Even if Beck's facts were correct (which is not the case), his arguments are pure sophistry. Only a sophist can conflate all the evil -isms that Beck conflates. Only a sophist can spend a day honoring Martin Luther King and denounce in no uncertain terms the concept of social justice.

[fishwax]

8. lol

:crazy:

[EC]

9. Pretty low standards

and I'll bet he thinks Smith or Concordia are ivy leagues...

[AspenRose]

10. Which is it? Elitist Liberals from Ivy League schools or "can't match the rigor?"

It can't be both. MAKE UP YOUR DAMN MINDS! :dunce:

[Bozita]

11. "Serious" and "scholarly" have just been redefined by Dick Armey.

[Douglas Carpenter]

12. perhaps he was being sarcastic?

:think:

[Jim__]

13. For instance?

It's hard to argue with claims of scholarship. Give us an example of his scholarship. The examples I've seen have all been shot down.

[TheMuse]

14. Do they really believe their own crap?

I mean, they can't really, can they?

[emulatorloo]

15. Only thing Dick Armey believes in is his fat paycheck.

Corporations pay him a lot to come up with this doublespeak.

ON EDIT Spelling and GRAMMAR!?!?!

[GreatCaesarsGhost]

16. Colbert and Stewart

argue with his documentation and easily match his level of rigor and expose

Beck for what he is. No Contest there.