What an idiot. The reason Liberals end up as professors is not because they are intelligent but because they go to school so long they naturally meld into academia. I would love to see how many liberal-arts types are political liberals as opposed to other disciplines (medical, business, engineering) types. I think there might be a difference.
And just because one has a Ph.D. does not necessarily equate to being "intelligent." I took a comparative religion class where the professor marked me down on an essay because he said that "transpired" (a word I had used) does not mean "happened/occurred." Huh?
From dictionary.com
Usage Note: Transpire has been used since the mid-18th century in the sense “leak out, become publicly known,” as in Despite efforts to hush the matter up, it soon transpired that the colonels had met with the rebel leaders. This usage has long been standard. The more common use of transpire to mean “occur” or “happen” has had a more troubled history. Though it dates at least to the beginning of the 19th century, language critics have condemned it for more than 100 years as both pretentious and unetymological. There is some sign that resistance to this sense of transpire is abating, however. In a 1969 survey the usage was acceptable to only 38 percent of the Usage Panel; nearly 20 years later, 58 percent accepted it in the sentence All of these events transpired after last week's announcement. Still, many Panelists who accepted the usage also remarked that it was pretentious or pompous.