[EricH]

Originally Posted by Alexa Stott

Now there's a generalization if I've ever seen one.

My own representative, Congressman Rush Holt (D-NJ), holds a PhD. in physics from NYU. He also taught for some time at Swarthmore, and was the Assistant Director of the Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory. I'm willing to bet he earned much more than a C in his high school science classes. As such, he pushes strongly for more science and technology in schools, and received an award from ASME for his efforts.

Perhaps a bit of research on Dean's part would have served well in this case.

But was he in Congress when Dean gave the speech? Also, I think it's most likely a reference to the unnamed politician who got the award. In addition to probably being a paraphrase by Dave...

Not all politicians are "stupid" in certain areas, true. But as the joke goes, 99% of lawyers make the rest look bad. There's an exception to every rule. It may be the stunned politician, it may be Congressman Holt.