Ok. This is just too crazy to believe. Then again, we did have an escort in the WH press room, so maybe this is pretty believable after all.
In other medical news, Rand Paul apparently never graduated from college, but somehow got into Duke Medical school.
Catsy
Wow. That is a truly stunning parade of crazy.
But that’s okay, because some guy on the internet once made a video comparing Bush to Hitler, and that’s just what the Nazis would do. Why are you pro-Nazi?
Spaghetti Lee
Seems like the most brilliant doctor in the world ought to have a better haircut, wouldn’t you say?
Midnight Marauder
I can never be amazed at just how slimy the company Andrew Breitbart surrounds himself with. This Pezzi guy just totally encompasses everything that is terrible and all too commonplace with conservatives today:
Okay, that’s pretty standard ignorance. But what does Mr. Pezzi have to say about Native Americans?
And yet remember, according to E.D. Kain, the Obama Administration is somehow more wrong in firing Shirley Sherrod than Andrew Breitbart is for fostering an atmosphere of bigoted propaganda and race-baiting.
Martin
A bachelor’s degree is not a requirement for medical school. Medical school admissions requirements are quite specific and involve the equivalent of about 2 years of coursework in science and math, sometimes with speech or other non-technical courses added in, plus the MCAT exam. About 5% of students that go to medical school each year don’t have a bachelors degree. That number used to be higher, but as it’s gotten harder to land a seat in medical school, getting in without a degree has gotten less common.
Law school is similar in that they usually require 3 years of undergraduate coursework. Getting in without an undergraduate degree is even less common, but it is possible.
Tom Hilton
I love the part about his Sprezzaturas (or is it Mary Roshes?). I can’t help wondering if this is performance art that just happened to go way over Breitbart’s tiny head.
Poopyman
@Spaghetti Lee:
Kinda reminded me of Doogy Hauser.
And if he can make his dick bigger, why can’t he do something about his complexion?
stuckinred
@Martin: You also do not need a law degree to be a lawyer, no?
freelancer
Bah. This is just a Soros funded liberal smear campaign to make Breitbart into some kind of knuckleheaded propagandist tarbaby.
Bubblegum Tate
Aleksey Vayner + racism = Kevin Pezzi
Mark S.
Lordy, that is some crazy shit.
Hi everybody!
Martin
@stuckinred: Possibly, but that would likely vary by state (licensure is handled by state labor boards based on standards set by the professional body). For professional engineers (similar licensing requirements as lawyers) you can get licensed without a degree in most states, but it usually requires in the neighborhood of 16 years of working under a licensed engineer, in addition to letters of recommendation, a clean ethics record, and passing the required exams. It’s pretty rare, but it is possibly. By comparison, someone with an accredited degree can complete the same process in 5 years, and they can start on that process usually a year before their earn their degree. Typically you need to get licensed separately in each state, so you might meet the requirements of one state before another. Some states recognize the license of other states.
For lawyers, my guess is there are similar ways around the conventional route.
El Tiburon
So what? Rachel Maddow looks like a Dude! And she likes lady parts.
Liberal Fail.
Breitbart Epic win.
russell
Nothing is too crazy to believe.
The new rules are: the crazier, the more likely it is to be true.
I’m ready for the laughing gas.
NonyNony
@Martin:
The weird part about this story is that his campaign was telling people he had a degree from Baylor. Did they not know that he’d not graduated from there? Getting into med school without finishing your undergrad degree is kind of an accomplishment, not something to be ashamed of I’d think.
Violet
It’s not unheard of. A medical school can accept you if they deem you qualified, even without an undergraduate degree.
I used to work with some people who were on the admissions board of a prestigious medical school and we occasionally discussed the types of candidates the interviewed. They told me a Bachelor’s degree was recommended but not mandatory. They didn’t admit very many students without undergrad degrees, but it had happened. For the most part, such students were the child-genius types, where they were doing amazing scientific research at twelve years of age, etc.
It was more common for such students to get into the graduate programs because medicine still involves a lot of personal interaction during the training years, and students who are too young are not respected by their patients and may lack the emotional maturity it takes to be a good doctor. The admissions committee did take such things into account.
J.A.F. Rusty Shackleford
Dr. Kevin Pezzi sounds almost as accomplished as Kim Jong Il.
New Yorker
Again, it’s getting harder and harder to differentiate the “mainstream” right from off-the-deep-end conspiracy theorists. This guy sounds like the kind of fraudulent “experts” that 9/11 truthers bring in to prove that the WTC was brought down by explosives.
stuckinred
@NonyNony: I earned a doctorate and have a GED!
stuckinred
@New Yorker: Or the Prop 8 witnesses. Rachel had a ball with them last night.
Tonal Crow
This is far less crazy than the GOP nostrum that cutting taxes and increasing spending reduces the deficit. But it is funnier, in a Palinesque sort of way.
roshan
Checkout the “Doctor’s” Myspace Fan Following
Oscar Leroy
Maybe someone here mentioned this already, but Colbert did a bit about how Rand Paul isn’t board certified by THE board of ophthalmology but by a board he himself invented, and which has certified only him.
Gina
@New Yorker: Poe’s Law
Martin
@stuckinred: Yeah, we have way too much degree elitism in this country. I was out visiting junior colleges many years ago with a number of faculty and in the 2nd day they realized they had all gone to junior college themselves. None of them initiated discussion of it because that information puts you lower in the academic strata than someone who started at a 4 year school, which puts you lower than someone who started at an Ivy. Even though you may have earned a doctorate and be highly respected in your field, where you chose to start college when you were 17 still influences how you are treated by your colleagues when you’re 60.
And we wonder why parents are batshit insane about educational decisions for their kids. What matters is what you do, not how you got there.
NonyNony
@Oscar Leroy:
Yup. He didn’t like the politics of the actual board so he went Galt and created his own board and certified himself with it.
I’m unclear whether he’s the only ophthalmologist certified by his board or not, but I do recall that the story said a few of his family members were listed as board officials. IIRC his board doesn’t have AMA recognition.
Asshole
I know of at least one state where it’s possible to practice law without graduating from law school: Vermont. You have to complete a four-year clerkship program and pass the Bar exam before you can be admitted, though.
Hob
My favorite part: before he enlarged his manhood, it used to be “embarrassingly small (at least to me)“. I guess that qualifier means that he has higher standards than other guys, who would’ve settled for a measly 8 inches.
bemused
Steve Benen asks a very good question, “where do conservative media outlets find these guys”?
Fleas correct the era
Or eating.
Or breathing, for that matter. New hope for the dead.
Also.
stuckinred
@Martin: Well the judge said Army or jail so on my 17th I took the train to Ft Campbell! But you are so right, I started at Illinois and, after a number of years at the local JC, finally got my undergrad. Actually part of my motivation to get a doctorate was to throw it up in their elitist faces!
parksideq
I love how he says
in the middle of a screed defending his use of an epithet that stereotypes people.
Some Onion editor is weeping in his office right now; he just realized his satire will never be as bizarrely absurd as Pezzi’s (delusional) reality. This guy is definitive proof that Breitbart can eat a salty dick with chapped lips.
dcdan
Add this to the fact that he had to set up his own qualification board to certify himself (and staffed it with family), and I can only conclude one thing:
These people live in a different world than me and my kind.
I actually have to finish school, and have never created a fake certification school to get professional credentials.
Tom Hilton
Apart from the wackjobbery of this, it really does seem like Breitbart is trying his damnedest to prove the malice part of Ms. Sherrod’s upcoming lawsuit.
roshan
@dcdan:
Don’t blame others if you couldn’t select the right parents.
JWL
Dr. Ooze, lounge lizard extraordinaire.
Ripley
This might be the PBR talking (the traditional, old guy kind – not the hipster doofus kind) but I’m going to go with…. LIBERAL PLANT!
It’s either that or
1) Ow, my balls!
2) ???
3) Just took down the Institutional Left.
timb
@stuckinred: HAH! Maybe back in the day, but law school’s a racket and rackets can be VERY persuasive
Origuy
@Violet:
Having a father who’s a Congressman was a pretty good qualification for Baylor, I guess.
Hob
@Poopyman: And if he can make his dick bigger, why can’t he do something about his complexion?
It’s possible that that’s not his face– he just made his dick really big.
Quiddity
I want this Kevin Pezzi guy front and center with whatever Breitbart does.
Comrade Javamanphil
@roshan: Guess those eleventy billion websites and books of his don’t net much money if he can’t hire a halfway decent photoshopper in this job market. Those are some creepy photos.
NonyNony
@Origuy:
Medical degree is from Duke, not Baylor.
I’m unclear if Rand was in med school while Ron was in the Congress or not – Ron dropped out of the House to run against Phil Gramm for Senator and lost in ’84. I think that’s about the same time Rand was entering med school.
Bella Q
But he’s a name dropper – his website has a link to a blogpost about, and titled: Why I refused to date Katie Couric. I’m sure she was crushed.
twiffer
it’s odd. i mean, that is a link to a whole bunch of crazy; the man has obviously created his own alternate reality where he is chuck norris. but, for some reason, what really bugs me the most is this:
for the simple fact that you don’t know who your are going on a blind date with. that’s the entire fucking point.
I have issues with Baltimore
I’m not surprised Dook would do something like that. As a native North Carolinian, I patiently await the day when the collective sins and carpetbagging doucheness of Dook alumni forces Satan to rend the land asunder and swallow all of Durham up in a gaping fiery maul of Eternal. Burning. Pain.
superking
Well, in a truly free market, patients would only go to doctors who are actually educated. So, there is no real need to have regulations on who can be a doctor.
licensed to kill time
Dr. Pezzi, Dispenser of Candy for Fools.
Oscar Leroy
http://www.colbertnation.com/the-colbert-report-videos/313483/june-22-2010/usa-board-of-ophthalmological-freedom
Poopyman
Andy Breitbart is proof that Andy Kaufman never died.
RDL
It seems that other reporters who asked got the right information, long before the CJ interview which got MANY things wrong if you compare the article to the video of the interview. Clearly Rand Paul wasn’t hiding that his undergraduate record was so exceptional Duke Medical School was willing to accept him even before he got his undergraduate degree.
Take a look at this. http://rothenbergpoliticalreport.blogspot.com/2010/08/kentucky-senate-paul-campaign-clear.html
Tom Hilton
@twiffer: You’re missing the point: if it’s a blind date, and you don’t go, then it would have been with whomever you imagine it to have been.
Ash Can
Wow, this Pezzi guy is either trying his damnedest to be the next Borat or is spectacularly, perhaps dangerously, fucked up in the head. Or possibly both. If I were Andrew Breitbart I wouldn’t sleep well with someone like this guy in my employ. On the other head, I imagine Breitbart himself is messed up enough that someone else’s mental illness isn’t going to register all that well with him.
ruemara
There just is no crazy left behind, is there?
Xanthippas
You know, on his thing about Native Americans thanking the white man for all the wonderful toys the gave us…Natives probably WOULD have thanked the Europeans if they had just come over in big ships full of metal pots and guns, and just started handing the shit out left and right, along with detailed instructions on how to make it all. Hell, Natives might’ve gone and carved the faces of white men on their sacred hills all by themselves, and praised white people for their generosity and kindness!
Only, that’s not quite what happened.
Jason Brzoska
If you actually read his various sites, it all gets even better. He LOVES talking about huge penises. An example:
http://www.erlove.com/er_stories/er_cure.php
“A man presented to the ER with a copious penile discharge. He’d recently returned from Las Vegas and admitted that he’d had sex with a prostitute. This surprised me somewhat, because his penis was so large that I thought penetration would have been next to impossible.”
Amazing stuff…
-Jason
asiangrrlMN
I need a shower now. Ew.
@Xanthippas: Plus, I’m sure had the ninety percent of indigenous people who were eradicated by smallpox and such when Columbus landed on these lands had actually survived, they would be more than grateful to the big white man for all the benefits the white man brought to this country.
Bella Q
Breitbart took him down. Well, scrubbed his column, and the bio from the bigbullsh!t site.
raholco
We now know the level of fact-checking done by Breitbart:
“I saw it on the Internet, so it must be true.”
Comrade Sock Puppet of the Great Satan
OK, this is going to surprise nobody, but Dr. Pezzi claims:
“Dr. Kevin Pezzi is a prolific inventor and website creator. Among his “over 850 inventions”
…but there’s no K.Pezzi listed as an inventor in the U.S. Patent Office database of patents or patent inventions. Surprising none of those alleged 850 inventions were worth patenting. Unless, y’know, he just made shit up.