Gonna Lecture Like A Rock Star

The Washington Examiner pokes at Obama's Chicago days and offers this about the self-proclaimed "constitutional law professor":

Time magazine gushed in 2008 about Barack Obama's 12-year tenure as a law lecturer at the University of Chicago Law School, saying, "Within a few years, he had become a rock-star professor with hordes of devoted students."

That may have been true during his first two years, when he ranked first among the law school's 40 instructors, with students giving him a rating of 9.7 out of a possible 10.

But law student evaluations made available to The Washington Examiner by the university showed that his popularity then fell steadily.

Foreshadowing his Presidency, and now they tell us!

In 1999, only 23 percent of the students said they would repeat Obama's racism class. He was the third-lowest-ranked lecturer at the law school that year. And in 2003, only a third of the student evaluators recommended his classes.

His classes were small. A spring 1994 class attracted 14 out of a student body of 600; a spring 1996 class drew 13. In 1997, he had the largest class of his tenure with 49 students. But by then, his student rating had fallen to 7.75. Twenty-two of 40 faculty members ranked higher than Obama.

Yeah, but was Mitt Romney on the roster with an alternative class?

Some former faculty colleagues today describe Obama as disengaged, doing only what was minimally required and almost never participating in faculty activities.

They only say that because golf was not a faculty activity.

Comments

[Ignatz Ratzkiwatzki]

--It was in reference to her link to Mel Brooks on Cary Grant.

Posted by: Danube of Thought | September 20, 2012 at 07:35 PM --

Yeah, that was quite good and for me a little M Brooks goes a long way.

[Ignatz Ratzkiwatzki]

--Another Bob, 07:18 thanks for a powerful LUN. I recommend everyone read it.--

Concur, pagar. When Codevilla's on he's as good as it gets.

[Jane - Mock the Media!]

Daddy, Porch, I provide sources all the time - I always have them even if I don't say them, except stuff I assume everyone knows - which they don't. I was just pissed off because the producer seemed to indicate he wanted a more even playing field and back and forth instead of actual news. He even asked if we could have a regular person join us on Dick's side - to which Dick replied: "I can hold my own."

If I stay mad, I should quit. If I get over it, I won't.

[Narciso]

Well yes, when you see Jorge Ramos, think David Gregory, and jose Diaz balart, the one member of the family not in politics, did a good Scarborough vapors impression.

[Ignatz Ratzkiwatzki]

--He even asked if we could have a regular person join us on Dick's side...--

LOL. That's rather high praise Jane, congrats; and I see Dick understood it was also pretty low criticism of him.

[Janet]

Don't quit, Jane...look for moving to the next level. You are very good (& I don't just say that cause I like ya). You have a great radio voice. Like I said about Brown, you speak cool & easy. Not stiff or halting at all. Conversational & fun, like Dennis Miller.
Awhile ago on the DaTechGuys program you sounded the most professional of everyone on there.

[Narciso]

Even Jennifer rubin did a decent impression on CNBC, whereas Kudlow went all panicky, believing the economic numbers

[Narciso]

The IG report was of course a joke, it's only when there is GOP administration, does the administration have to justify their very hiring rationale, and of course the writing of the report by Mara kessler, who ' botched' the CIA Interrogation report, gave the game away.

[Narciso]

Well it's as with Clarice's btw appearances, it's the combination of humor, common sense and knowledge, it really is like the radio free massachussetts

[Sara]

Did Two MSNBCers Smear Romney with Deceptive Editing?

I think this is the Megyn Kelly clip you were waiting for. Megyn Kelly fingers David Corn and Lawrence O'Donnell for airing a deceptively edited video clip.

[Jane - Mock the Media!]

Aww thanks Janet

[Jane - Mock the Media!]

That's it Sara, thanks!

[Jane - Mock the Media!]

Why isn't it getting more coverage? And where did Kelly get it?

[Janet]

from FB -

[Clarice]

Thanks--so the part that Corn edited related to Romney's foreign policy statement and there is also a 2 minute gap which under pressure from Jacobson Corn finally conceded were missing with respect to the first half of the tap on non-tax paying voters.

[Narciso]

The fundamental problem is that their is no real Palestinian constituency for peace. Fayyad who is the only good egg, has been explicitly told not to run for higher office, and then there is that merger with Hamas, but it's Air america tv, what do you expect.

[Janet]

Jane, I think it is an extended clip that was left out of versions given to the press. It's not the missing 1 or 2 minutes that LI is investigating.

So 2 different things.

[Janet]

Yeah, Clarice @ 9:20. I think that's right.

[Narciso]

Well do unlike te question that prompted the response.

[Clarice]

Yes,Janet. I agree.

[Narciso]

Well's it's much the 'two minute hate' that Zimmerman, some actions and thoughts are just Haram, 'forbidden'

[Sara]

Jane:

Hope this headline makes you laugh as much as it did me.

Pow-Wow… Scott Brown Hits Spitting Bull Warren on Her Phony Indian Heritage

[Narciso]

So, I would suggest that only Voltaire's Candide, really capture the delusion that has been on display.

[Sara]

MARCO RUBIO in new ad for RR:

”Mitt Romney and Paul Ryan get it. Medicare is going broke. That’s not politics, it’s math. Anyone who wants to leave Medicare like it is, is for letting it go bankrupt. My mother is 81 and depends on Medicare. We can save Medicare, without changing hers, but only if younger Americans accept that our Medicare will be different than our parents when we retire in thirty years. But after all they did for us, isn’t that the least we can do?”

I like it.

[Janet]

This was my favorite JOM comment (so far) about Warren -
"You call that multitasking?
....Try taking the bar exam while trying to peer over your high cheekbones with a 1/64th papoose clamped to your teat."
Dave(in MA)

Too funny!

“I was the first nursing mother to take a bar exam in the state of New Jersey,”

She's a damn liar, just like Obama.

[Clarice]

And DWS and Susan Rice and Eric Holder, Janet.

[Dave (in MA)]

Janet, glad to help.

[JM Hanes]

Jane:

He even asked if we could have a regular person join us on Dick's side - to which Dick replied: "I can hold my own." If I stay mad, I should quit. If I get over it, I won't.

Reading from back to front here, so my opinion may be a retread, but the above suggests that they're not really worried about any lack of sourcing. It sounds like they're worried because somehow you're winning with sources they don't recognize or don't want to believe.

Now for the unsolicited advice. Don't quit while you're mad. Use this time to think about how you might like to shake up the show. Maybe a fresh format, or different ways of interacting -- just let your imagination run wild for a bit. If you can't come up with anything that ends up moving you, yourself, forward, then quit -- or try scouting out possibilities elsewhere and then jump ship.