Dunking on Duncan: Ivy League Diploma Not What It Is Cracked Up to Be

"I would just like to say something, ladies and gentlemen. Something that I think is very important. It is that, you, we - we own this country. We - we run it. It is not you owning it, and not politicians owning it. Politicians are employees of ours." - Clint Eastwood

Phrasing it "clumsily," perhaps an Ivy League education in general and race-baiting White House officials specifically aren't "as brilliant as they thought they were and their school isn't quite as good as they thought they were, and that's pretty scary." Showing why the "scary" Department of Education should be excised, Secretary Arne Duncan, who scored 20 points for Harvard as a senior in 1986-87 against then nationally-ranked Duke, scored zero points with "white suburban moms" by blaming them for Common Core opposition.

A widespread attempt to standardize national education has angered a diverse coalition of parents across the country. As usual, the establishment media has largely given a pass to magna cum laude Duncan, who averaged 13.3 ppg and 4.8 rpg in his career with the Crimson. But what would the pathetic press have done if Duncan was a mean-spirited conservative and substituted "African-American inner-city moms" for "white suburban moms."

Not making Eastwood's day or anyone with comparable standards, condescending Duncan insisted he seeks an honest conversation about the challenges of the Common Core guidelines. He offered a common apology for the insult about as honest as his boss did for chronic fabrication to the American people about their health-care policies. Duncan, who was CEO of the Chicago Public Schools under Mayor Richard Daley, previously implied that opponents of beleaguered Common Core are unreasonable, saying "fringe" conspiracy theorists believe the requirements are a vehicle for control-freak federal government know-it-alls to assert unwarranted control. When will these elitists realize they work for us; not the other way around?

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