Wow. CNN senior justice correspondent Evan Perez appeared on last night’s episode of Wolf Blitzer’s “The Situation Room” and attempted to refute President Trump’s assessment of Harvard as a “cesspool of leftist thinking.” (Harvard is, in fact, a cesspool of leftist thinking.) Perez thought he had definitive proof that the representation was false.

“Now, what [the Trump administration] is asking for, Wolf, is for Harvard not only to comply with what they say are anti-Semitic, control of anti-Semitic issues on campus, but they want bigger changes. They want to oversee hiring and admissions standards. They want to make sure that conservative views are being represented on campus.”

Here comes Perez’s brilliant argument: wait for it….

“Now, one of the things that I think is lost upon this is that there’s plenty of conservatives that have come from Harvard: Tom Cotton, Neil Gorsuch, Ted Cruz, you know, over the years, Harvard has produced a lot of conservatives. So, the idea that Harvard is some cesspool of leftist thinking, you know, certainly what the President believes is not quite what we know is true.

This is the quality of logic, analysis and thought CNN presents to its audience. This is from the “expert” CNN consults on legal matters. This is a network that millions rely to understand the world around them. Perez’s argument would have landed me on my sixth grade teacher’s “mentally challenged” list if I made it in her class. (Admittedly, she was tough.)

The fact that three conservatives graduated from Harvard (all law school, with Cotton also a Harvard College grad) doesn’t prove anything except that at least three students had sufficient independence, knowledge, perspective and intelligence not to be indoctrinated while at Harvard. So, I have to mention, did I. Harvard can’t successfully indoctrinate everybody. Even Yale can’t indoctrinate everybody. My freshman room mate, eventually a Wall Street financier, also graduated from the college and Business School as conservative as he arrived, and he made me seem like Abbie Hoffman. What kind of moron thinks what Perez said is an intelligent argument, much less a persuasive argument?

One survey found that over 76% of Harvard’s faculty identify as “liberal” or “very liberal,” while less than 3% regard themselves as “conservative” or “very conservative.” Only 13% of the Harvard’s class of 2024 claimed to be conservative compared to 59% who self-identified as progressive. In addition, Harvard’s policies and pronouncements have been reliably hard Left for many years and characterized by pandering to Woke World. My personal favorite? Firing a law prof as a resident dean because he defended Harvey Weinstein in his New York criminal trial. Well, maybe it was punishing male students who belonged to private all-male clubs not affiliated with Harvard….or appointing an unqualified president because she was black, female, and obsessed with DEI. There are so many examples to choose from.

Oh, remember that I just asked what kind of moron thinks what Perez said is a persuasive argument?

Wolf Blitzer told Perez, “Excellent point. Thank you very much, Evan, for that.”