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)
Head up his ass?
Check.
Foot in his mouth?
Check.
He’s a lib alright.
After his parents divorced, (his father a stockbroker) Damon and his brother moved with their mother back to Cambridge, where they lived in a six-family communal house.
Damon appeared on Hardball with Chris Matthews in December 2006 and, while discussing the ongoing war in Iraq, he stated: “It seems like we have a fighting class in our country that’s comprised of people who have to go for financial reasons... I don’t think that that is fair. If you’re gonna send people to war... then that needs to be shared by everybody, you know, and if the president has daughters who are of age then maybe they should go too.”
Is that top photo really Matt Damon??? Naaaaaaaah!!!
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 what does Matt Damon and the Tsarnaev brothers have in common? An extreme lefty private school known as Cambridge Latin that spawns freaks like Damon and killers like the brothers.
The *real* reason probably is he wants his kids to remain heterosexual. He probably wants grandbabies.
NEWS/ Matt Damon Earned $150,000 Per Second to Appear in Nespresso Ad With George Clooney
Nov. 11, 2013
Matt Damon is reportedly raking in some serious dough after making a cameo in a Nespresso advertisement.
A source tells E! News that the Monuments Men actor is said to have earned $3 million for his 20-second appearance in the commercial geared for only the U.K. market. Page Six was the first to report details about the star’s major payday.
Maybe Matt is trying to get a gig on MSNBC.
I think MSNBC has a recently opened slot in the late evening.
I thought at least one of them went to the Texas University system?
We’ll even b kind and let the mouthy retarded punk eat his she with catsup or any other condiment he chooses. Due to ObamaCare canceling insurance policies with his total liberal support, he won’t be eligible for any medical care as a result of the shoe.
Has he ever came out of the closet? I keep thinking today will be the day.
Damon and Affleck attended elite Cambridge Rindge and Latin School....Damon 1988 grad Affleck 1990.
“During the late 1980s and early 1990s, the school was subject to multiple accusations of inherent racism in its infrastructure, which led to the disbanding of the original houses, as well as the changing of the original school mascot from a bust of a Native American to a yellowjacket, and eventually to the currently used falcon.”
Wikipedia.
Boston was the one of most racist town in the country. The city was 70 % White and the schools were 70% black except for the “elite’ schools who could willow out the uppity Blacks. Today, with diversity these “elite” schools SATs are no better than average.
Obama attended Punahou in Honolulu. Their kindergarten cost more the a 4 yr state university tuition. Then on to Occidental, Harvard & Columbia. & Obama’s kids aren’t exactly attending public schools. What nonsense, I can’t stand liberal millionaire actors and their completely phony and ignorant rants!!
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Boston was the one of most racist town in the country.”
What does Boston have to do with it ????
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Another liberal myth, i.e., lie, is that “W” was intellectually “uncurious” and never read a book in his adult life. In fact, he was and is an avid reader who reads about a book a week. He has also taken up painting in recent years, and his work isn’t all that bad for a relative newcomer. If “O” were a painter, everyone would be fawning over it and talking like it was further proof of his genius.
Matt Damon’s politics owe a great deal to his mother. The first time Nancy Carlsson-Paige saw her son featured in a glossy magazine, she was appalled. “My beautiful boy is being used to sell products,” she told a newspaper. “He is just a cog in the capitalist system.” She’d never even read a magazine like Vanity Fair before, her son explains. “She’s a professor. If it’s not the Nation, she doesn’t read it. And she said, ‘This thing is nothing but page after page of adverts for products that nobody needs!’” He chuckles. I’d love to know what his mother makes of his latest film, Elysium, a big-budget sci-fi action thriller packed with set-piece fights and expensive pyrotechnic violence. “Hmm, well, my mom’s big on non-violent conflict resolution,” he grins.
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 firmly on the countercultural left. Today he is one of cinema’s all-time highest-grossing leading men, voted World’s Sexiest Man by People magazine, with his own star on Hollywood’s Walk of Fame. A father of four (three daughters, aged seven, five and three, and a stepdaughter, 15), this summer he is moving his family from New York to Los Angeles, and the challenge of giving them a childhood that remotely resembles the one he enjoyed is about to get even harder.
Choosing a school has already presented a major moral dilemma. “Sending our kids in my family to private school was a big, big, big deal. And it was a giant family discussion. But it was a circular conversation, really, because ultimately we don’t have a choice. I mean, I pay for a private education and I’m trying to get the one that most matches the public education that I had, but that kind of progressive education no longer exists in the public system. It’s unfair.” Damon has campaigned against teachers’ pay being pegged to children’s test results: “So we agitate about those things, and try to change them, and try to change the policy, but you know, it’s a tough one.”
http://www.theguardian.com/film/2013/aug/02/matt-damon-activist-star-elysium
Has he ever came out of the closet?
Damon is damned lucky to be in his position - he has average looks and zero charisma. I really don’t understand how he became a marquee performer.
I thought at least one of them went to the Texas University system?
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