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)
But Mr. Damon is a leftist, therefor he’s a genius in his own eyes.
Al Gore was an ardent supporter of the NEA and public schools and against “school choice”. None of his children ever attended anything other than expensive private schools.
Screw you, Damon. You started it when you brought up the Bush family. Now we will finish it.
What’s a “Jeb”?
“”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.””
HUH? Like his hero, he can’t talk without a script??????
Once again, a lib completely misses the point. Dense.
Why don’t you just eat it anyway, Matty.
The reason he does so is because NYC's public school population is 70% black and Hispanic. Without tracking, his kids will learn at the rate of the slowest students in class. That's what "gifted" programs are all about - it's a way of providing a limited form of tracking without implementing the full-blown thing. Mozart was gifted. Newton was gifted. Any given valedictorian in a school, public or not, is not the kind of 1 in a billion talent that Mozart and Newton were.
Laura Welch went to Bowie Elementary, San Jacinto Jr High and Lee High School—— I’m thinking class of 65 but am not sure. had cousins that went to school with her— apparently she was pretty nice I gather.
She went to SMU and UT Austin and I think she worked as a librarian for MISD in the late 70s before the girls were born.
I await correction.
What about Obama?
Madrassa in Indonesia
Punahou Prep School in Hawaii
Occidental College
Columbia City College (allegedly)
Harvard Law School
Lots of plebeian institutions in that list.
Ditto.
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