Is This The Dumbest Insult Ever Uttered In Alabama?
Posted at 10:37 pm on December 11, 2017 by Sarah Rumpf
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You would have to be an idiot to insult Bama while speaking to a crowd of Alabamians in Alabama, right?
Well, that’s exactly what Breitbart’s Stephen Bannon apparently did tonight, at a rally to support Roy Moore, the Republican nominee in the special election for Alabama’s Senate seat, who is currently battling allegations that he engaged in sexual misconduct with teenage girls back when he was a prosecutor in his thirties.
According to NBC reporter Jonathan Allen, Bannon was speaking to the crowd in Midland City, Alabama, and decided to attack MSNBC’s Joe Scarborough, by mocking where he went to college. Bannon went to Virginia Tech for undergrad, and then received a master’s at Georgetown and an MBA at Harvard, while Scarborough went to Alabama for undergrad and the University of Florida for law school.
 Jonathan Allen
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In Midland City, Alabama, Steve Bannon goes after @JoeNBC, saying he got into better schools than Joe could have—Georgetown and Harvard. This might be the wrong place for that attack: Joe went to the University of Alabama.
Scarborough wasn’t having it, posting a string of tweets viciously smacking down Bannon’s insult, defending his alma mater by quoting Lynyrd Skynyrd lyrics and mocking how Bannon likes to portray himself as a populist champion, despite working as a Goldman Sachs investment banker for years.
 Joe Scarborough
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ROLL. DAMN. TIDE. t.co
Joe Scarborough
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Hey Bannon, you only went to Harvard because you couldn't get into Alabama. #RollDamnTide t.co
Joe Scarborough
?@JoeNBC
A Southern Man don't need him around anyhow. #SweetHomeAlabama t.co
Joe Scarborough
?@JoeNBC
I reckon if I'd gotten into one of Steve's fancy schools outside of Alabama, I could've been one of them Goldman Sachs populists too.  t.co
Yeah, wait a second. Weren’t we told that coastal elites looking down on all us good people in the flyover states was a bad thing, and this is why Trump deserved to win? Guess Harvard grad Bannon doesn’t understand that.
Look, as a conservative and alumna of the University of Florida, I frequently find both Scarborough and Bama fans insufferable (it took a lot of self control to not spell Coach Saban’s name “Satan” earlier in this post).
But the idea that some DC-area raised Ivy League grad who made his money in Hollywood and at Goldman Sachs, is going to visit the Yellowhammer State and say something condescending about Bama, well, as we say in the South, bless your heart, Mr. Bannon.
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UPDATE: I was reminded that Roy Moore got his law degree from the University of Alabama, which makes Bannon’s attempt to insult Scarborough even dumber.
https://www.redstate.com/sarah-rumpf/2017/12/11/dumbest-insult-ever-uttered-alabama/
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