except that Obama is not dumb as a box of rock (spare me the debate - I know you believe that he is)
There is no doubt that many people without degrees are intelligent and many who have degrees are not.
Citing Gates is meaningless because he was attending one of the best schools in the country and could have easily finished if he chose to do so
Beck and Rush couldn't manage to stay in even manage to get thru the earliest years of an udergrad program
Beck especially (maybe to a lesser extent Rush) is a complete idiot.
He has said his mother committed suicide and that he was also suicidal and an alcholic and has been diagnosed with ADHD. None of those would make him a candidate for someone who's opinion I would trust
The craziest thing of all is that he CHOSE to become an Mormon. His fully formed adult brain looked at the Mormon beliefs and decided that they made sense to him. That alone would disqualify his opinion on any topic
AND? Rush dropped out of college, because he was bored. Yet, a pack of progressive geniuses try to compete with him, head to head, on the radio and got CRUSHED!!
Based on your cracked logic, because Beck had a troubled past and he's a Mormon, he can't talk about current political events, even though he's mopped up the floor with the MSNBC bunch (Maddow included), more times than I care to count.
Events that surprise folks like you are usually of no surprise to listeners of Beck and Limbaugh, because they saw them coming a mile away (the Muslim Brotherhood taking over Egypt and the Syria debacle, among the examples).
Once again, the lefties love to claim how much smarter they are. Yet, when they go toe-to-toe with the likes of Rush, Beck, and Hannity, they get the lips slapped off their faces.
They can't compete on TV or on the radio, which might explain why they tend to whine about the "Fairness Doctirne" or endorse boycotts to try and get their sponsors yanked (Schultz, Ed that is, was all gung-ho, until some of HIS sponsors started leaving; then he had a change in tune).
And, you're really daft enough to believe the Limbaugh is incapable of getting an undergrad degree? PLEASE!! He has undergrads working for him.