If I have to hear one more cable news talking head droning on about how Arizona State isn't awarding Obama an honorary degree, I may be forced to turn to violence. WHO THE FUCK CARES? THIS ISN'T NEWS.
A little backstory for those of you unaware of the situation: President Obama will be delivering the commencement address at Arizona State University on May 13. It was announced that ASU has decided not to award the President with an honorary degree because they feel that while he has accomplished a great deal, his best work is yet to come.
Okay, great. All done. We can stop talking about it now. It's not important, or particularly relevant, or particularly newsworthy. Hell, it's only interesting for about thirty seconds at most. It seemed like they were covering it on The Situation Room every five minutes this afternoon. And over at MSNBC (video here) the anchors and commentators were positively frothing at the mouth with rage over ASU's "lame-brained" decision not to award Obama. Maybe I missed a memo or something, but I wasn't aware that it's okay for a supposed "news" network to refer to the organizations they report on as lame-brained. But that's probably just me being all crazy. Another overwhelming demonstration of thoughtfulness and impartiality from MSNBC.
Grow up, everybody. And move on.
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- Nick Blumberg
- Nick Blumberg is a Phoenix-based multimedia journalist. He is News Director at The Blaze, Arizona State's campus radio station. He is the executive producer and one of the hosts of The Final Word, a weekly news wrap-up show. He is also the producer of Firestorm, The Blaze's political talk show. Blumberg is originally from Chicago, IL.
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Seriously, who gives a shit about it? As I just was saying to someone, Crow is being a tool. As soon as we give Bush a degree, I'll justify giving Obama one. Giving honorary degrees is a joke. It's sucking up to someone publicly who has made a huge success of themselves without your help so you're trying to attach yourself to them retroactively. He didn't come here and put work in so he does not deserve a degree of any sort. If there is a precedent for it, then we should discontinue that precedent. Simple. No degree. He went to universities and got them already. Besides, Notre Dame can suck it.
PS Nig: You should embed/link Firestorm.
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