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Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin

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Mon Mar 12, 2018, 09:15 PM Mar 2018

Betsy DeVos Calls 60 Minutes a Waste of a Half Hour

WASHINGTON (The Borowitz Report)—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.”

https://www.newyorker.com/humor/borowitz-report/betsy-devos-calls-60-minutes-a-waste-of-a-half-hour?mbid=nl_Borowitz%20031218&CNDID=25394153&spMailingID=13103137&spUserID=MTMzMTgyNjg0NzM5S0&spJobID=1361132843&spReportId=MTM2MTEzMjg0MwS2

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Betsy DeVos Calls 60 Minutes a Waste of a Half Hour (Original Post) Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Mar 2018 OP
It's not fair when Andy uses what she actually said to reporters ProudLib72 Mar 2018 #1
I know this is labeled as satire TheSmarterDog Mar 2018 #2
So believable mia Mar 2018 #4
Bright as a sack of ball-peen hammers... Still In Wisconsin Mar 2018 #3

ProudLib72

(17,984 posts)
1. It's not fair when Andy uses what she actually said to reporters
Mon Mar 12, 2018, 09:23 PM
Mar 2018

It's cheating the American public out of real satire! Yes, I'm calling the Borowitz Report fake satire from now on! Who's with me?

 

Still In Wisconsin

(4,450 posts)
3. Bright as a sack of ball-peen hammers...
Mon Mar 12, 2018, 09:24 PM
Mar 2018

Plus, the sack of hammers has a better personality and is actually useful for something.

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