These are probably not his size, but they ARE made of chocolate.
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)
Bet it wouldn’t make a bit of difference to him if Ted Cruz did. Only Marxits can speak to any issues with credibility according to libs.
Pray America is Waking Up
Right...Matt...we believe you...
Idiot can’t walk the talk.
Maybe his boyfriend’s moving into Christianity’s messing with his mind.
So THAT’S the problem — The Won is actually an actor!
I understand. Like when Susan Sarandon and Sean Penn whined and moaned about Rudy Giuliani when he actually loved abortions and homosexuality as much as they did.
It does not concern me what a Hollywood queer says.
That goes for Palin as well. Whether or not, you like her, understand that liberals use her as a proxy for all conservatives in general.
Liberal Hollyweirders always think it’s “unfair” than any non-Democrat successfully wins office anywhere, even if it’s for dogcatcher.
the Bush daughters “turned out” just fine
both have college degrees
one married with daughter and working in journalism and has worked in education, published several books, has loving relationship with husband Mom and Dad
another working in public health policy, has traveled the world, has loving relationship with family
whats your point?
Fillet of Sole and Heel
BDS is incurable.
“His kids go to the best private schools, so what’s it to him”
And the lil’ Marxist excuss was that he couldn’t find any Public schools that were progressive enough to send his kids too. This guy is a tool, a very dangerous tool.
"As actors, it is our responsibility to read the newspapers, and then say what we read on television like it's our own opinion." - Janeane Garofalo (Team America)
Tell Matt that Barack Obama never saw the inside of a public school.
The Bush kids went to public school....unlike the Clinton mutt and the Obama weird girls.
My girlfriend says he kinda cute for a Munchkin.
What an idiot.
George Bush was reading to school kids when 9-11 was reported to him. Laura Bush was a school teacher.
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