Obama Got Worst Grades in Harvard History -- and It's Up to Him to Prove He Didn't

Limbaugh: "Obama Got Worst Grades in Harvard History -- and It's Up to Him to Prove He Didn't"

Ya gotta love Rush's logic. He joked that a completely anonymous caller said that he went to Harvard with Obama and that Obama got the lowest grades that any Harvard graduate ever got.

Therefore - it's up to Obama to prove he didn't!!!

Don't sweat it, O. I got your back on this one.

1. Undergraduate Obama graduated from Columbia, not Harvard.

2. Obama went to Harvard Law, where he graduated magna cum laude.

Reader's comment:

"He was using Reductio ad absurdum to make a point. He was comparing it to Harry Reid's comments on the Senate floor. There was no phone call. I love how people, who never listen to him, can read a transcript without hearing tone of voice and think he is being serious."

Scoop's note:

You are driving toward a fair point, but you missed my point. There's a reason why people would not understand the alleged satire: Rush messed up from his lack of preparation and logic. The arguments are not even vaguely parallel.

Reid listed things from an alleged anonymous source that could possibly be true, but could easily be disproved by releasing the hidden facts.

Rush, on the other hand, listed things from a supposed anonymous source that are already refuted by known facts.

What could Rush have done to make a correct point satirically through reductio ad absurdum?

Simple.

If Rush had said, "the worst grades in the history of COLUMBIA," he would have hit the nail on the head, because Obama's undergrad grades are a mystery, as are Romney's taxes. In that case the two situations would be precisely parallel: Reid's ridiculous allegations could (presumably) be refuted by Romney's releasing his tax returns, and Rush's ridiculous parallel allegations could (presumably) be refuted by releasing Obama's transcripts.

And that would be an excellent point, indeed, since we all assume that both men are hiding something so damaging that they can't afford for it to see the light of day. On my part, I assume Obama got some D's, maybe even an F in there somewhere, maybe even in a subject that would prove really embarrassing, like American History. Oh, how Rush would pleasure himself if he could point out that Obama failed American History, but got an A+ in Socialist Theory. Similarly, I assume that the Romney returns either (1) disprove some claim he has made publicly, or (2) contain some years when Romney paid a ridiculously low amount of taxes through some perfectly legal manipulations that would nonetheless be considered totally shifty and/or unpatriotic, the sight of which would give Rachel Maddow an instant orgasm.

Or they would reveal that Mitt Romney is Batman, as Jimmy Kimmel noted on July 19th, and as I wrote elsewhere:

"You should have stopped harassing him on this point. That forced curious ol' me to hack his accountant's files, and it thus forced me to spoil the world's most important secret.

In his 2007 returns is the following deduction:

$117 million dollars for adding electricity, high-tech weaponry, gadgetry and vehicles to a natural cave hidden under one of his many homes. That entry also included the labor costs, and within that sub-entry was a note that the workers were collected each Monday from various spots around the globe, were flown and driven to the cave blindfolded, slept there during the week, and were returned blindfolded to their homes on Friday.

I saw that and it finally sank in. Of course he can't release his tax returns to the public, for the very same reason his literary alter ego, Bruce Wayne, never released his in the roman-a-clef comics based directly on Mitt's life. If Mitt released his returns, everyone would know that he is Batman.

Don't worry, Mitt. Your secret is safe with me."

George Will has pointed out about Mitt's returns, and we can fairly extend the argument to Obama's transcripts, that both men know the cost of non-disclosure and must have calculated that it is far less than the cost of disclosure.