No, there is some basis. She ran for and won a number of posts, and managed to oppose her own mother-in-law as her successor, without any indication of lasting enemies. She has been willing to gp tp some lengths to learn her jobs, and to introduce new ideas. She certainly has great confidence in her own mettle. But she also has apparently never learned any more than she absolutely needed, which produced those awful Katie Couric moments, while she searched for the answers she had been fed. Apparently, she didn't know enough to place the questions in context on her own. This isn't five colleges and a hardscrabble upbringing. It's simple disdain of knowledge for its own sake -- knowledge which might have been helpful to her when she faced Katie an Charlie Gibson. Which makes her, to me, far less admirable. And makes the woman who wrote the original article a lot more suspect.