Devos struggles in pointed '60 Minutes' interview

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Source: the hill




By Rebecca Savransky - 03/12/18 09:57 AM EDT



Education Secretary Betsy DeVos struggled to answer basic questions about education policy and schools during a pointed interview that aired Sunday on CBS's "60 Minutes."

DeVos, a school-choice advocate who has pushed for policies that allow students to leave public schools and take public funding to charter or religious schools, specifically struggled to explain what happened to the schools and students left behind in response to a series of questions from "60 Minutes" correspondent Lesley Stahl.

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“Now, has that happened in Michigan?” Stahl responded. Michigan is DeVos's home state, and the Education secretary as a private citizen spent millions to back school-choice efforts in that state.

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During the interview, DeVos was also unable to answer a question about whether she was suggesting the number of false accusations of rape and sexual assault were as high as the number of actual rapes and sexual assaults.

"Well, one sexual assault is one too many and one falsely accused individual is one too many," DeVos said...............................................

Read more: http://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/news/377913-devos-struggles-in-difficult-60-minutes-interview

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[Moostache]

1. Of course she did, that's what morons DO when pressed for facts...

She is a total joke of a human being and the exemplar of Trumpism....know nothing, do as much harm as possible and then blame the black guy who did the exact opposite. Stand back and watch the morons who support this lap it up, excuse her obvious lack of qualifications and then beg for more...

[TheCowsCameHome]

2. Leslie Stahl made her look like a fool,

of course that isn't too hard to do.

[djacq]

6. My wife and I both said she got educated

Keep in mind that Devos’s mission is to destroy the Public School system and Privatize. This is 100% ideology.

[negoldie]

8. Education

GOP education plan: under fund it, declare it doesn't work, privatize it!

[lagomorph777]

15. Smart people don't vote for RePutins, so they have to destroy education first.

[CanonRay]

3. Another idiot with inherited money

she is an argument for very high inheritance taxes, just like Rebekah Mercer and Eric Prince. Leave these morons to their own devices and they'd be on the street.

[rurallib]

4. wish I could rec this post

you have nailed it.

Rich girl wanted a game to keep her busy.
Great point on the inheritance tax.

[Bernardo de La Paz]

10. +1

[ProfessorGAC]

11. I Believe There Should Be 3 K's in Ms. Mercer's First Name

As in Rebekkkah.

[DesertRat]

5. SHAME ON THE GOP

She sounded exactly the same during her senate confirmation hearings, utterly incompetent!

[lagomorph777]

16. No, the exact opposite of competent, i.e. competent at destroying her agency.

The same selection criterion applied to all of Putin's employees in the American Province.

[Dopers_Greed]

7. I happened to catch the interview on TV last night

She is a complete dolt.

What an embarrassment.

[TygrBright]

9. She has no idea how to act like a human being beyond a few set pieces.

She can do the 'interact with children' thing, and the 'act like you're listening' thing, maybe one or two others.

But otherwise she's like a complete space alien who slept through the 'how to blend in with humans' orientation.

amazedly,
Bright

[Archae]

12. DeVos ran to friendlier place...

Fox and Friends, naturally, where they lobbed softballs to her.

https://www.mediamatters.org/blog/2018/03/12/after-betsy-devos-cant-answer-simple-questions-60-minutes-fox-friends-guides-her-through-softball/219605

[Dreamer Tatum]

13. DuhVos nt

[iscooterliberally]

14. Trump should have made Stormy Daniels his Education Secretary and...

...paid Betsy DeVos the hush money instead.

[maxsolomon]

17. "Gotcha Journalism"

they're crying, no doubt.