the history of the most embattled profession which you are all assigned to read. this is fascinating. and it is one of these issues, the candidates are trying to straddle two trains going in opposite directions. why do the donor class care? they always have. the common core starts with the spumings we re being outeducated by competitors by children around the world. that children in other countries are doing much better than kids in the u.s. and that s true. businesses care about that because they want smart and able workers. there s nothing new about that. if you go back to why we have a public education system in the united states in the first place. in the 1830s, it was railroad industrialists who were some of the people saying let s have public schools. basically, you keep sending me these hay seeds from farms to operate my brakes. that s how it starts.
portrayed at undigfied, as hay seeds. steve: there s a column on fox nation. new york times has declared down-home southern cooking undignified in a story on heaping praise on a new southern chef. the food snobs of the time attacked ms. paula in the second sentence calling her a, quote, so-called queen of southern food who cooks with canned fruit and crisco. well, so what? so what, new york times ? canned fruit and chris coof delicious. todd who works here is from the south, and he has a lot of pride about southern cooking. southern food is fantastic. alisyn: it s delicious. steve: have you of had shrimp and grits? alisyn: of course, i have.
you know, seeing them as hay seeds. and i think that sp there are they will realize they realize sarah palin doesn t feel that way about them. megyn: based on the emails we get. we had somebody who was super polished and a harvard grad in the white house and we, the emailers don t like the policies he s putting into place. maybe if we take somebody who is a lot less polished whose policies we can get behind. that s why they get upset. exactly. that s these are great points you are making. harry truman, the last president who didn t even go to college. he was no intellectual. pretty good president, though. ronald reagan wasn t a rogue scholar. but he was a good president.