Remember Christine O’Donnell the anti-masturbation Jesus witch running for the Senate? Yeah, her. Well, she has been keeping a low profile of sorts this week (probably spending campaign contributions on collectible Jesus figurines and a 50-pound barrel of Haribo Gummi Bears at CostCo) but she showed up to put to rest all of those accusations that she falsely claimed to have won the 2007 Nobel Prize for Adorableness as well as matriculating at the five or six colleges that Sarah Palin didn’t get around to attending.

After nearly disappearing from public view following her upset victory in Delaware’s GOP primary, Senate candidate Christine O’Donnell re-emerged Friday, denying reports that she tried to falsify her education background.

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This week, questions were raised about whether O’Donnell had falsely suggested on two online business networking sites, LinkedIn and ZoomInfo, that she had attended Oxford University in England, when in fact she had simply attended a summer program there under the auspices of the Phoenix Institute.

“I know I never created a LinkedIn profile for myself,” O’Donnell said. “I don’t even know what Zoom is.”

All evidence to the contrary:

By now you may have heard that the claim that Christine O’Donnell studied at Oxford has now turned up on a second O’Donnell online resume, this one from ZoomInfo.

I’ve got some more information on what happened from ZoomInfo, and it seems to strongly undercut O’Donnell’s claim that her LinkedIn bio making the same Oxford fib was unauthorized or unknown to her.

To back up: This morning, the Democratic National Committee pointed out that O’Donnell is also described in a ZoomInfo entry as having achieved a “certificate” in “Post Modernism in the New Millennium” from the “University of Oxford.” The Zoom Info entry was labled, “user verified.”

ZoomInfo, which has spent the day looking into this, has sent over a statement detailing what happened with this profile. According to the company, O’Donnell’s profile was claimed in 2008 through something called a “double opt-in process.”

The company says this process cannot function without “response to a verification e-mail message.” ZoomInfo is not releasing that email address, citing privacy. But here’s the rub: The company is confirming that they have identified the emailer….

It is possible that some anonymous hacker went to great lengths to create a LinkyZoomy profile citing O’Donnell attendance at a fancy-schmancy book learning university in an attempt to malign O’Donell as some kind of smart lady elitist to the aced-my-GED-woot! tea bagger crowd who aspire only, Jude Fawley-like, to the majesty that is Glenn Beck U.

But what of that Not Phoenix University, Also Not Oxford University class O’Donnell took for three weeks in the summer of 2001? Did she ace it? Hell, yeah:

Christine O’Donnell was a joy to have in the tutorials: intelligent, engaged, dynamic, good with questions and interested in ideas. Her paper on cloning was one of the two best papers written for me that summer. She successfully completed a rigorous, intellectually demanding course that was the equivalent of a course in the humanities at any graduate school at any university. As a result, I was happy to write recommendations for her for future graduate study.

So there you have it from Bruce W Griffin, official college instructor at…what college was that again?

In the summer of 2001, I was a doctoral student in classics at the University of Oxford, and looking for summer employment. I signed on with a group called the Phoenix Institute to do a tutorial at Oxford on postmodernism and natural law.

This was my second summer with the Phoenix Institute. The Phoenix Institute was a group of Jedi academics; rebels and renegades against the evil empire of politically correct university life. Their summer school at Oxford ran three weeks, and was intended to give intellectual alternatives to the philosophical morass of postmodern moral relativism.

Oh dear.