Posted on 11/16/2013 2:34:03 PM PST by Sub-Driver
Matt Damon: 'I'd Eat My Shoe If Jeb Could Name a Bush That Ever Even Walked Into a Public School' By Noel Sheppard Created 11/16/2013 - 2:48pm
As NewsBusters reported, former Florida governor Jeb Bush pounded public school activist Matt Damon in August for putting his kids in private school.
Damon gave CNN's Jake Tapper a rather lame excuse for this in an online segment of their interview Friday while claiming, "I'd eat my shoe if he could name a Bush that ever even walked into a public school" (video follows with transcript and commentary):
JAKE TAPPER, HOST: Does that just come with the territory? I mean, I know actors can be, you know, used to criticism when it comes to your talents or cast in a movie. But when it comes to activism and ideas, it might be different.
MATT DAMON: Yeah, yeah, no, I think I…
TAPPER: Well, people said, “Well, you send your kids to private school. Why are you even involved in this?”
DAMON: Well, because I, you know, because I want the public schools to, if they were, if they went back to, if I could find my, the private school that I send my kids to is the thing closest to the public school that I went to that I could find. And that’s why I send my kids to private school. I wish I didn't have to, it’s expensive, and I also want my kids to be part of a, you know, their local community, you know, and not have to commute to somewhere else to go to school.
And that’s likely why most people send their kids to private schools: because the quality of public schools in most areas is so poor.
As such, Damon was perfectly illustrating the liberal credo of “Do As I Say, NOT As I Do!”
But there was more:
TAPPER: I don’t mean to bear down on your kids, I just…
DAMON: No, no, no, no, because that was a criticism, I think it was Jeb Bush who tweeted that, and then retracted it pretty quickly. Although I'd eat my shoe if he could name a Bush that ever even walked into a public school, but that’s another story. But, but no, I…
TAPPER: You might have to eat your shoe. I’m sure.
DAMON: Really? Maybe I will. Billy Bush, maybe he’ll call me up, “Man, I went to public school.”
Heck with Billy Bush.
The Miami Herald reported in 2002 that Jeb Bush initially attended the public Grady Elementary School in Houston before mother Barbara enrolled him in the private Kincaid School closer to where they lived.
Brother George W. attended public schools in Midland, Texas - Sam Houston Elementary and San Jacinto Junior High - before being enrolled at Kincaid when the family moved to Houston.
As such, would you like some salt for that shoe, Mr. Damon?
*****Update: Tweep @bzaz points out that George W's kids Jenna and Barbara both attended public schools - Preston Hollow Elementary in Dallas and Austin High School in Austin - and Jenna a few years after graduating college worked as a teacher's aide at Elsie Whitlow Stokes Community Freedom Public Charter School in Washington D.C.
(HT Twitchy)
Didn’t he go to one of the oldest public “test” schools?
“but that kind of progressive education no longer exists in the public system. It’s unfair.”
What drugs is he on?
In public schools he can have his daughter finding boys in her shower and his elementary school-age kids will come home to practice with their condoms
Damon thinks we are all stupid and he can lecture us in a movie without us knowing it...
Elysium, it is safe to say, will not lose Damon money. The big-budget sci-fi action thriller is set 50 years in the future, when Los Angeles has been reduced to a post-apocalyptic slum and the super-rich have fled our ravaged planet for a ruthlessly exclusive space station, Elysium, where everyone owns a machine that can cure illness and injury within seconds. LA’s desperate and dying will pay anything for a place on a craft bound for Elysium, only to be shot down by military rulers who consider their privilege a right, and self-preservation a moral absolute.
In other words, it is an allegory: a movie about global injustice and immigration that looks like your average sci-fi extravaganza but is artfully crafted to make western audiences identify for once with the poor and destitute who gamble with their lives to reach the west every day. Even if some viewers miss the allegory altogether, Damon says, “I don’t feel like anyone’s going to feel like they’re the ones on Elysium.” And for all its fantasy elements – the cyborgs, the magic medical machines – he doesn’t think its futuristic vision is too far-fetched.
“I honestly think the world’s going to look very different in 20 years. I mean, could you imagine,” and he holds up his mobile phone, “that this has access to more information than the president had 15 years ago? There’s more computing power in this than the strongest computer in the 1970s.”
http://www.theguardian.com/film/2013/aug/02/matt-damon-activist-star-elysium
He has no idea because his kids go to private school...
“Damon has travelled a long way from the Boston commune where he grew up in the 70s and 80s among five other families who were, if not quite hippies, then firml
“Damon has travelled a long way from the Boston commune where he grew up in the 70s and 80s ———”
Damon never lived in Boston.
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He might try Hush Puppies!
If Matt Damon could trade his shoe for his brain it would double his IQ.
It’s amazing how stupid they sound when they’re not reading from a script.
Dense
Asinine
Moronic
Oligomaniac
Nucklehead
Put it all together and what do you get? Overpaid, undereducated, over-opinionated, hollywood liberal elitist.
He's too dumb to realize the Bush's are more on his side than our's; and that conservatives, who Damon is trying to tweak, can't stand the Bushes.
George W.
He was at Emma E. Booker Elementary School, a public school in Sarasota, FL, on the day that 9/11 happened.
Now, Matt, I recommend eating the Florsheim's, since they have a slightly-nutty licorice flavor.
“the Clinton mutt”
Wow, I almost choked on my soft drink; but that’s a good one! I’ll have to remember that one.
Laura was a Librarian in Midland Public School.
Every bit as hypocritial as Rosie O`Fatass railing against guns and then sending an armed private security guard along with her kids...to pivate school.
Liberalism = Hypocrisy.
What an ignorant, arrogant doofus!
Where does he think G.W Bush was when the 911 Koranimal attack took place?
Time to manger les chaussures, messieur Damon!
My cousin was a teacher of both W’s daughters, at a public school in TX.
Another episode of Liberals Being Prejudiced.
Details, details....roflol
He should have said he’d eat a shoe if a Kennedy attended a public shcool.
Who gives a dump about Matt Damon?
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