Nutroots Candidate Darcy Burner Lies About Economics Degree
By 186 on Oct 23, 2008
Uh…oh… Looks like the Nutroots favorite candidate has been caught lying about her education.
In recent weeks, Democratic congressional candidate Darcy Burner has touted her Harvard degree in economics when talking about the nation’s financial crisis and her opposition to the bailout package passed by Congress.
At two debates this month, she brought up her academic background in her opening statement.
“I loved economics so much that I got a degree in it from Harvard,” she said at an Oct. 10 debate at KCTS-TV. “Now everywhere I go in this district, the only thing people want to talk to me about is the economy.”
But while she took courses in economics, Burner doesn’t have a degree in the subject from Harvard.
Observe the Nutroots at DailyKos spinning and going all “media matters”..
The blaring headline at the Seattle Time’s, what passes as Seattle’s “leading” paper, Darcy Burner’s claims of a Harvard degree in economics aren’t true” and the subsequent story would lead one to think Darcy Burner was a serial liar.
And some more nutroot lying logic..
Emily Heffter at the Seattle Times just published a story falsely alleging that Darcy Burner’s claims of a Harvard degree in economics aren’t true. The story is literally made up out of whole cloth. Burner has a degree in computer science and economics from Harvard, as her website says. Having gone to Harvard, I know how this works. You get a degree under one department, take classes in another, write a thesis joining the two, and that thesis is reviewed by professors from both departments. It’s actually much harder to get a joint degree, but the registrar shows a degree only from one department because Harvard doesn’t have minors. In fact, economics is a fairly easy degree to get, while computer science and economics takes a lot more work.
Sorry but if your going to spend close to $200,000.00 on a Harvard degree the diploma better list the degrees you earned!
Oh brother.
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