Tennessee state Sen. Kerry Roberts said he was joking when he proposed getting rid of colleges to 'save America'
A state senator in Tennessee on Monday night said it should have been obvious that he was joking when he suggested that higher education be abolished because it's a"liberal breeding ground."
Roberts didn't identify the woman or indicate how he knew her educational background, but he added:"This is a woman who is a product of higher education. She's learned all of this stuff that flies in the face of what we stand for as a country, and here we are as legislators paying for this garbage to be taught to our children."
Adopting the tone of a patient schoolteacher, Roberts said on Facebook on Monday night that"my listeners clearly understood the humor and hyperbole of it."Senate biography,
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