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)
Why does anyone give a rat's rear end what that RINO Jeb Bush has to say?
Leni
and how did they turn out?
lol
IIRC GW Bush was reading a book to public school children in a Florida Public School at the time of the 9-11 attack.
Have some compassion. He wasn’t reading from a script. Like Sean Penn. Actors need a script to be able to speak coherently.
A) Matt Damon has his kids in private school
B) Hard to believe Bush during his tenure never set foot inside a public school.
So Matty boy is going to be really surprised eating those shoes.
I am not particularly a Bush fan. But just why would anyone even care where the Bush crowd went to school?? It’s no one’s business.
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"I liked how Tapper didn't let him off the hook, and the transcript shows a limolib lamebrain even less coherent without a script than his hero Zero.
“Hmmm...not that it matters, but wasn’t W at a public school when 911 happened?”
Yes. And leftists are still nagging about it.
I guess he wants better for his kids than he obviously received. He doesn’t sound very well spoken.
I don't care for the Bushes neither, but you have to identify when they attack the Bushes as a means of attacking ALL conservatives, whether or not the Bushes are conservative isn't the point.....Libtards, like Damon do see them as Conservative.
does he wear meat shoes?
Liberals are really to stupid to understand the very words they say. It is specifically because of the policies instituted by liberals like Mr. Damon that our schools are not like the ones he attended.
Matt was unable to read the memo saying that it was time to move off the Bush family and onto Palin and Cruz.
He’s from Cambridge-—that says it all
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Bingo. That's why people send their kids to private schools. Because the public schools they went to themselves have been ruined by years of liberalism.
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