I am really glad Bill Maher said Liberty isn't a real University

[Quixote1818]

It had to be said and it's the type of thing that does instant damage to a schools reputation and helps turn into a laughingstock and butt of jokes. I hope it sticks enough that employers begin to start looking at Liberty as nothing but a fucking mockery and when they see a resume with Liberty on it they simply move onto the next one.

Also, it will now become a four year ritual for Republicans we can joke about and point out how idiotic the school is and the candidate for going there. You have to know everyone at the mockery university was fuming mad when they heard this.


As Maher said: “This is a school you flunk out of when you get the answers right".

[CanonRay]

1. Aren't there a lot of Liberty types in DOJ as Bush holdovers?

I know they recruited heavily there during Bush's eight miserable years.

[lob1]

3. You're right, and I don't believe Obama got rid one a single one.

[left on green only]

2. Jerry Foulmouth = Evil

I refuse to even deal with any person who claims to have come from that background.

[provis99]

4. the real problem is that Libery University is a real university.

It is fully accredited, as are Regent, Bob Jones, Brigham Young, and Oral Roberts.

[Dave1985]

5. Not too many "real" schools out there it seems.

“Thomas Jefferson went to William and Mary”

The Royal charter of W&M “Forasmuch as our well-beloved and faithful subjects, con- stituting the General Assembly of our Colony of Virginia, have had it in their minds, and have proposed to themselves, to the end that the Church of Virginia may be furnished with a seminary of ministers of the gospel, and that the youth may be piously educated in good letters and manners, and that the Christian faith may be propagated amongst the Western Indians, to the glory of Almighty God;“ (http://www.wm.edu/about/history/index.php)

“Madison went to Princeton”

The principles on which Princeton University was founded may be traced to the Log College in Bucks County, Pennsylvania, founded by William Tennent in 1726. Tennent was a Presbyterian minister who, along with fellow evangelists Theodorus Jacobus Frelinghuysen, Jonathan Edwards, Samuel Davies, and George Whitefield of England, preached and taught an approach to religion and life that was the very essence of the Great Awakening period. The seven founders of the College of New Jersey were all Presbyterians, with Ebenezer Pemberton, a minister and a graduate of Harvard, the only one of the seven who did not graduate from Yale. The remaining six included Jonathan Dickinson, Aaron Burr Sr., and John Pierson, who were ministers; William Smith, a lawyer; Peter Van Brugh Livingston, a merchant; and William Peartree Smith. (http://www.princeton.edu/mudd/news/faq/topics/founders.shtml)

“Alexander Hamilton went to Columbia”

Actually, Hamilton went to “Kings College” between 1774 and 1776. Kings was later renamed Columbia. The following timeline from Columbia’s own website shows who founded the University and for what purposes.

1753
May 14 — Trinity Church conditions its offer of land on assurances that college president would always be an Anglican and that official religious services use Anglican liturgy
May 16 — Lottery Commission accepted Trinity Church conditions on land
November 22 — Lottery Commission appointed Samuel Johnson as president of new college; a Massachusetts Congregationalist minister, Chauncey Whittesley, appointed as second master; Assembly withholding lottery funds for what its critics calling an “Anglican seminary”
1754
May 31 — Advertisement for the College of New York published in the New York Gazette by President Johnson; stressed that college welcoming all Protestant Christians
July 17 — Classes began in rectory of school attached to Trinity Church on Rector Street; eight matriculants; Samuel Johnson did all the teaching (http://beatl.barnard.columbia.edu/learn/timelines/cutime.htm)

[cyberswede]

6. I don't understand your point.

Are you implying that since these historical institutions were founded with reference to religion that they're somehow akin to the ridiculous Liberty University (which was founded in 1971)?