Hot Air features video of Secretary of Education Margaret Spellings getting spanked on Celebrity Jeopardy. She was more than $20,000 behind at the start of Final Jeopardy. Ouch. But that’s still not as bad as Christie Todd Whitman’s appearance. Here…

Now, how about a thread about Full Metal Jacket?

I just long for the days when we fought wars to win, by deploying overwhelming force, and by crushing the enemy’s will to win.

Kid from Brooklyn,

Please excuse my earlier snarky comment. I agree with your statement 100%.

Rosetta on November 22, 2006 at 8:00 AM

I agree, too – we need to give our warfighters the true support they need to win – not useless restrictions.

Rules are for games – not wars!

Hey, good news! Schools are run by local governments. — JaHerer22
…over the constant obstructions of an activist, socially radical network of teachers unions, yeah….

Puritan1648 on November 22, 2006 at 12:50 PM

Not to mention the incessant whining of parents, socially activist preference groups, teachers who know less about their subjects than their students, No Child Left Behind, and no grant or levy left unfilled under threat of taking away from the kids, who are just trying to survive in an environment where they have a decent chance of getting stabbed or shot, never mind learning. Hopefully, but not necessarily, in English!

Rant more or less finished. Abolish the Dept. of Ed. – it be broke and can’t fix up!

Michael McKean and Secretary Spellings both did an excellent job.

I have an uncle that rocks at trivia. He hasn’t held a job for more than 2 months straight in his entire life and he, his wife, and their kid lived with his parents until they both died. He spouts of conspiracy theories about that vast-rightwing and sits at home watching tv all day.

I’d hardly call him smart, but he could probably out trivia Ken Jennings.

On the other hand, if this gets people to agree that the DOE needs to be abolished, then I’m all for putting it in campaign commercials and mocking her for the good of the cause.

Of course, it takes a genius to know you’re going to be eating very well for eight years by playing an imbecile on TV.

Education Secretary Margret Spellings was a contestant on Jeopardy and, as I feared, she did not live up to the title of her office. Michelle Malkin’s Hot Air has the video…….

The Bush administration can’t even play the television game Jeopardy right, as actor Michael McKean (Spinal Tap) handily trounced U.S. Secretary of Education Margaret Spellings on tonight’s episode. McKean ended with $38,400, with Spellings a……

Hey, good news! Schools are run by local governments. — JaHerer22

…over the constant obstructions of an activist, socially radical network of teachers unions, yeah….

NCLB isn’t working, and it will never work. Only a moron, like Margaret Spellings, could ever believe it would….

Power Line

Secretary of Education Margaret Spellings competed on Celebrity Jeopardy. It could have gone better. Credit to Spellings for appearing, though.

Hubert Humphrey once appeared on an alumni version of the old GE College Bowl show, represen…

This hardly seems fair. Michael McKean of Spinal Tap is playing on Celebrity Jeopardy and they have an entire category on Stonehenge? How is that fair? I never understood why Saturday Night Live was insinuating that Jeopardy dumbs down the……

Sec. Spellings didn’t lose as much as Michael McKean very obviously won – although a couple blown answers by her didn’t help her at all.

In the end it was both entertaining and $100,000 to some worthy organizations.

The shame of the No Child Left Behind is that the public education system has been allowed to deteriorate to the point that a measure such as NCLB was necessary to stop the churning out of young people who are undereducated. I mean are we supposed to become a nation of Mickey D managers and Wal-Mart cashiers?

I look to my State Legislature as the root of the problems with public education in my state and the fact that the Teacher’s Union complains constantly about NCLB seems to be a good reason to support it. As someone who has worked in a related field that interfaced with the public school system I believe there are many problems that should be addressed not only by the district school boards but also by the state legislatures, but the feds have very little to do with the problems or the fix. So I suggest your discontent is misdirected.

And I do understand the attacking of Spelling is being done by conservatives, or at least those who believe themselves to be the “base” of the GOP.

And how did the election turn out for ya?

Oh Yeah, that’s right. It was Bush’s fault.

Allah:

What’s more embarrassing than being Secretary of Education and having your ass handed to you on Celebrity Jeopardy? Being Secretary of Education and having your ass handed to you on Celebrity Jeopardy by Lenny from “Laverne & S…

No celebrity left behind!

You didn’t like Mork and Mindy?

As an 8-year old kid, I thought it was the best thing since sliced bread.

“Mork & Mindy” lunch box
“Incredible Hulk” Underoos
“Dukes of Hazzard” thermos
“The Black Hole” pillow

The “Incredible Hulk” Underoos were the best. I was 5-years old asking complete strangers if they wanted to see my Incredible Hulk. They would say yes, and I’d pull my pants down.

Looking back, maybe that wasn’t such a good thing.

Margaret Spellings, Education Secretary of the Bush White House, went on Jeapardy! last night. She didn’t do so well. Is our children learning? Not from this woman, we hope. Check the video here…….