This blogger didn't watch it, but the post-"60 Minutes" commentary clearly placed Elisabeth (Betsy) DeVos on a Celebrity Mountain ledge alongside the She-Witch (rhyming B-word preferred) of the North who was verbally drawn-and-quartered by Katie Couric in 2008. A decade later, in 2018, Leslie Stahl did the honors. In fact, (wait for it) there have been rumbles out of the Oval Office that the current occupant will seize more TV-time with yet another Cabinet firing with a tweet at Secretary of Education DeVos for her flop on "60 Minutes" — too many "I don't knows" instead of big, blustering lies. If this a (fair & balanced) demonstration of utter incompetence, so be it.
[x New Yorker]
Betsy DeVos Calls “60 Minutes” A Waste Of A Half Hour
By Handy Andy (Borowitz)
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Furious about her treatment on the CBS news-magazine program on Sunday night, Betsy DeVos spoke to reporters on Monday, and called “60 Minutes” a “total waste of a half hour.”
“I had never watched ‘60 Minutes’ before, but I can tell you this, I will never watch it again,” the Education Secretary said. “I have better things to do with a half hour of my time.”
Calling her interviewer, Lesley Stahl, a practitioner of “gotcha journalism at its worst,” DeVos said that it was “very unfair of her to ask me so many questions about education.”
“She asked me one thing about schools, and then another, and another,” she said. “If I had to answer every question she had about schools, I would have had to bone up on education for a month.”
DeVos said that she was “frustrated” that Stahl neglected to ask her about any of her “really good ideas” for the nation’s schools, such as “purchasing guns for teachers with money that is currently being wasted on books.”
“If a bear comes into your classroom, throwing a book at him will only stun him momentarily, at best,” DeVos said. # # #
[Andy Borowitz is the creator the Borowitz Report, a Web site that is a lot funnier than the stuff posted by Matt Drudge and his ilk. Borowitz is a comedian and writer whose work appears regularly in The New Yorker. He is the first winner of the National Press Club's humor award and has won seven Dot-Comedy Awards for his web site. His most recent book (and Amazon's Best Kindle Single of the Year) is An Unexpected Twist (2012). Borowitz received a BA, magna cum laude (English) from Harvard University.]
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