Rudy Canoza
2008-12-16 18:05:21 UTC
Where does this bullshit originate, and why do boneheads swallow it
uncritically?
I have spent a good few minutes searching on "Caroline Kennedy" +
"constitutional scholar", plus a few other search terms thrown in, and I
can find *NO* documentation for this. The only things that turn up are
anonymous people commenting in blogs, all of whom keep calling her a
"constitutional scholar" but without saying how they know it. Yes, it
seems to be the Scheisskopf Effect again: "everybody" says she's a
constitutional scholar, because...well, because "everybody says so."
In fact, while there isn't much doubt she graduated law school, and
maybe even passed a bar exam somewhere, there is little evidence that
she had any kind of legal career at all. The Boston Globe writes:
A trained attorney who does not practice law, Caroline Kennedy
*dabbled* in legal scholarship and New York civic life while raising
three children with her husband, Edwin Schlossberg. [emphasis added]
http://www.boston.com/news/nation/articles/2008/12/10/caroline_kennedys_new_political_turn/
The AARP linked to the story on their page, too:
http://bulletin.aarp.org/yourworld/politics/articles/caroline_kennedy_s.html
I'm not convinced she had *any* kind of significant career in law at
all, much less that she is a "respected constitutional scholar", as the
colossal fuckwit milt shook - the stupidest poster on Usenet - shit
himself in posting:
She's been one of the most respected Constitutional scholars in the
country for years, and has extensive experience as a lawyer, as well.
shookie, the stupidest poster on Usenet, is just showing he's completely
and slavishly subject to the Scheisskopf Effect when he writes shit like
that. He has *NO* evidence for what he wrote.
uncritically?
I have spent a good few minutes searching on "Caroline Kennedy" +
"constitutional scholar", plus a few other search terms thrown in, and I
can find *NO* documentation for this. The only things that turn up are
anonymous people commenting in blogs, all of whom keep calling her a
"constitutional scholar" but without saying how they know it. Yes, it
seems to be the Scheisskopf Effect again: "everybody" says she's a
constitutional scholar, because...well, because "everybody says so."
In fact, while there isn't much doubt she graduated law school, and
maybe even passed a bar exam somewhere, there is little evidence that
she had any kind of legal career at all. The Boston Globe writes:
A trained attorney who does not practice law, Caroline Kennedy
*dabbled* in legal scholarship and New York civic life while raising
three children with her husband, Edwin Schlossberg. [emphasis added]
http://www.boston.com/news/nation/articles/2008/12/10/caroline_kennedys_new_political_turn/
The AARP linked to the story on their page, too:
http://bulletin.aarp.org/yourworld/politics/articles/caroline_kennedy_s.html
I'm not convinced she had *any* kind of significant career in law at
all, much less that she is a "respected constitutional scholar", as the
colossal fuckwit milt shook - the stupidest poster on Usenet - shit
himself in posting:
She's been one of the most respected Constitutional scholars in the
country for years, and has extensive experience as a lawyer, as well.
shookie, the stupidest poster on Usenet, is just showing he's completely
and slavishly subject to the Scheisskopf Effect when he writes shit like
that. He has *NO* evidence for what he wrote.