Margaret Spelling goes on Celebrity Jeopardy and loses. This can hardly give one confidence about the state of the people running America’s education system.
WASHINGTON — Education Secretary Margaret Spellings says she studied hard to prepare for Tuesday night’s airing of “Celebrity Jeopardy!”
“I didn’t want to be the education secretary who didn’t know how to spell potato,” Spellings joked, describing how she read books and sought advice from a former show contender and her daughters.
In the end, Spellings said she thinks the effort was worth it. She came in second behind the actor Michael McKean, best known for his role as ‘Lenny’ on the television show “Laverne and Shirley” and for the movie “This Is Spinal Tap.”
Think about that. The Secretary of Education lost to Lenny from Laverne & Shirley.
November 22nd, 2006 at 9:07 am
Too funny!
November 22nd, 2006 at 9:18 am
Maybe Lenny turned his effort level up to 11?
December 4th, 2006 at 9:13 am
[...] The media in general has been much too nice to Secretary of Education Margaret Spellings and her defeat at Celebrity Jeopardy. Personally, I don’t think I could have done any better than second place out of three, but the reactions from bloggers are decidedly more entertaining. But losing to Lenny from Laverne and Shirley? Who would have thought that there was so much skill involved in pushing those little buttons? [...]