So where the hell were all those press watchdogs -- including you, Eli -- when Reichert got a free ride for that gross exaggeration for so long?

It's a manufactured controversy, but they wouldn't have been able to manufacture anything if she had just worded it a little differently.

PS. I thought Goldy was complaining that it was Esser who is the partisan hack, which he is. They both are.

Even Sarah Palin keeps saying let's campaign forward ... dear, get a clue.

It is 2008 and the vote is NOW for this cycle. You alone keep hacking the Green river stuff, old, old, old, faded news.

Bruner is toast. She manipulated the truth, that is called a lie when done by adults with motive.

Lie.

And on the Eastside where folks keep close track of stuff like that...

Following her telling voters she was a Microsoft Exec. Not true. Darcy has a loose tongue....maybe a palinesque imagination.

Even Sarah Palin keeps saying let's campaign forward ... dear, get a clue.

It is 2008 and the vote is NOW for this cycle. You alone keep hacking the Green river stuff, old, old, old, faded news.

Bruner is toast. She manipulated the truth, that is called a lie when done by adults with motive.

Lie.

And on the Eastside where folks keep close track of stuff like that...

Following her telling voters she was a Microsoft Exec. Not true. Darcy has a loose tongue....maybe a palinesque imagination.

Do you think for a moment that the "liberal blogosphere" is unaware of the double standard? There are a lot of smart fuckers out there and every one of them likely did a palm-to-forehead and silently cursed Burner. They then went about the work of trying to defend her and hopefully dilute the impact of her bonehead comment.

Save the criticism and postmortems for a few more weeks if you can help it. For the greater good.

Eli, you're the one engaging in misinformation here. Burner never misstated her qualifications. You are trying to salvage something from a story virtually everyone who knows anything about Harvard knows is wrong, by saying "well OK, but Darcy still shouldn't have said she had an econ degree."

But she didn't.

Her campaign submitted this bio information to the Seattle Times, which has been featured on the Times' website for months, that reads:

"Education: Harvard University, B.A. in computer science with a special field of economics, 1996."

Your reporting has been pretty consistently biased against Burner. She has to win on her own, of course, but I don't see why you're carrying water for the right wing. It's the last thing I expected to ever see from an Eli Sanders byline.

Yeah, and let's suppose that you could get a PhD from Harvard by drawing a rabbit really well.

But it's not the case. There are no "minors" at Ivy Leagues and Burner LIED.

She has a a degree called an L.I.E. and it don't mean Long Island Expressway, bucko.

Speaking as someone who has two degrees that no one understands at face value (ACMS and Informatics), I totally understand the instinct to phrase it in a way that is technically accurate and yields the least confused looks.

He's good at that - and at running up massive debt nationally.

She took five courses in Economics.

She didn't have to prove her overall knowledge to get her degree.

There was no "special focus" or degree in Economics.

She took five courses.

Since when are you nitpicking Libs so generous with words?

She LIED.

Anyone with a real economics degree should be calling for her to step out of the race.

As long as you're so indignant, mind linking me to the proof of your indictment?

SIR - ELI IS A JOURNALIST OF MERIT.

NOT A NIT WIT BLOGGER BEING PAID TO HYPE A CAMPAIGN.

LOOK FOR THE CLUE BUS, SOON.

It shouldn't be a huge deal, but the fact is she was embellishing. And she got called on it.

Of course, you've gotta love the Seattle Times for quibbling over the education of someone who went to Harvard. That's a classic.

1) Be black -or-
2) Have tits -or-
3) Be the child of some famous overpaid asshole -or-
4) All of the above

As someone who lived & played near the Green River during the Killer's prime years, I seem to remember Reichert was a detective on the Task Force and never dropped the case as he progressed through the department. He's been effusive in saying that the capture was a team effort, which it was. (Though way too long in coming!) In a world that thrives on simplification, using Reichert as the face of the Task Force is very understandable. Not much different than my "Classical History" shortcut, or Burner's econ degree statement. Has Reichert said "I caught the GRK myself" on the stump, in a recorded setting? That would be the natural counterplay for Burner here.

Regardless, is Darcy Burner the best candidate the Dems can come up with in that district? No one with any governing experience wants to run against a mediocre GOP Rep in a landslide Dem year? Being a mid-level manager at the Group Think Capital known as Microsoft is qualification for.... a similar position in the same company.

But, I still am not sure whether saying you have a "degree in computer science and economics" would be a valid thing to say if you only have a minor in economics.

None of your fucking stupid points are correct in our case (well, she has tits).

Sorry you are such a pathetic loser that they rejected. Umm, actually I'm not sorry.

I understand her desire to simplify an arcane degree system. She should have done it more cleanly than she did.

But lets assume she took one music theory course, was bored to tears, and never darkened the music department's door again. If she were to now say she had a music degree, that would be much more egregious than this. If I were in the 8th, it sure wouldn't be enough to switch me to someone who swallowed the Iraq lies hook, line, and sinker.

Damn those stupid voters. Why don't they wise up and just do what the pollsters and opinion mavens tell them to?

if...Reichert had misstated or exaggerated or clumsily described his Bachelor’s degree

Reichert doesn't have a Bachelor's degree. He has an AA from a Junior College. But most of his bios just say "graduated from Concordia College," certainly implying he had a traditional 4-year degree.

BA in two challenging concentrations from Harvard vs. AA from a junior college. Hardly even a comparison to be made.

Or the ones in Environmental Economics.

The world is changing.

Darcy Burner's comment about receiving an Economics degree is at 4:28.