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)
What little mind he has.
"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"
Hummina hummina hummina *sweat*
moron
OMG, WHAT?
Free Willy!
OK azzhat.... (Damon, not the OP)
W. Bush was in a PUBLIC SCHOOL when he was informed of 9-11!
(ignorant liberal azzhats!)
Everybody should send him A shoe with “Eat Me”
written on it. Couldn’t even donate it.
Matt Jerkwad.
“Why does anyone give a rat’s rear end what that hypocrite Matt Damon has to say?”
I can’t answer for everyone, but for me it’s that I want to now see him eating his shoe in an online video.
Do madrassas in Indonesia count?
I guess Matt didn't pay much attention to the news on 9/11.
Let them have a cage match with chainsaws and grenades.
Dub went to public school until they moved to Houston. Jeb went to public school. Laura went to public school all the way until she went to SMU. The twins started at public school in Dallas and finished at Austin High.
Hope you wear something healthy to eat, Matt.
“Sounds like the moron could do with some classroom time himself.”
They all think they are so damn smart. I don’t even think he can act either.
There’s W, hatin’ on black people early in his first term.
Affleck recently converted to Christianity, and Matt’s been stuck up him like gorilla glue for 20 years, so some change must be undergoing in Matt’s mind. Could be a positive thing, we’ll see...
I do not support Vouchers however...I think it would be the “camel’s nose in the tent” that would allow the government to effectively take over the private schools.
"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"
His criticism doesn't carry much weight, when he speaks like that!
Mrs Bush was friends to an older lady, a math teacher in the high school.
Well, you nailed it by post #5. GW was in a public school when notified about 9/11.
Matt, start eating.
Yep, and what Jeb does, for that matter.
I'd Eat My Shoe If Matty Damon Could Name a Time That He Ever Walked Into A Regular Job-Job...?....you know, a real job, not just a "I'm a pretty boy and look good on the camera job".....
you're turn Matty...
but just to remind you Matty Damon dear, our past REAL PRESIDENT actually was in a school when the 911 bombings happened, and they happened because YOUR guy was into too many White House flings with interns....Arsewipe...
Sounds good to me.
Just say no to liberalism(the Hollweird variety, the Dem variety and the RINO variety alike).
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