Our kids in jeopardy

Rick Perlstein's picture

Last day of Celebrity Week on Jeopardy!

One might wish for the sake of the children that Margaret Spellings hadn't had her ass handed to her by a comedian. She missed "life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness"; answered "Henry Bogart" [sic] when the answer was Casablanca; earned a freebie from Alex when she forgot to phrase her response in the form of a question; and didn't know the Psalmist was David—but did know the stock ticker symbols for Exxon and Time-Warner.

Perhaps we should make Michael McKeon of This Is Spinal Tap the Secretary of Education.





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