There has been quite a bit of press about her letter to Harvard University that was riddled with grammatical errors, but I found this report only in the Irish Star.
The former promoter, who co-founded World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE), shared her thoughts during a recent panel discussion in San Diego, California. McMahon said to an assembled crowd: “I heard…there is a school system that is going to start making sure that first graders, or even pre-K, have ‘A-one’ teaching in every year, starting that far down in the grades.”
With respect, playing gotcha (remember Dan Quayle and "potatoe"?) not only doesn't call forth our better angels, but is often wrong in the "conclusion" that it draws.
ReplyDeleteFor instance, I scored in the 99th percentile on the SAT verbal section (and towered like a colossus over fully 40% of my competitors in math!), yet there are words that came quite late to me. For instance, while I knew what "rendezvous" meant from my many Hardy Boys books, I never knew how it was pronounced...until a 10th grade spelling test. French words and I have never had a close relationship.
I think we all know that if the VERY BEST people were chosen for every position, there would not only be a spoils system, but we'd have a mix of Democrats, Republicans, and the such under EVERY president.
In Trump's world, his cabinet is going to do what he wants done anyway, so even a trained monkey could do the job. For that matter, the same is true for Biden and Obama's administrations. Remember the great confidence boost we all got when we found that deputy assistant secretary Binton (of Spent Fuel and Waste Disposition in the Office of Nuclear Energy)--who was bald and dressed in florid drag--was in office?
That was CLEARLY an appointment to win votes. I'm pretty sure Trump's appointment was likely an attempt to payback the help he no doubt got from UFC and WWE groups.
"I'm pretty sure Trump's appointment was likely an attempt to payback the help he no doubt got from UFC and WWE groups."
DeleteAaronS, I don't find your statement very reassuring re the competence of our federal government.
regarding ‘I'm pretty sure Trump's appointment was likely an attempt to payback the help he no doubt got from UFC and WWE groups.’ – you do realise the bar she failed to clear was laying on the floor?
Deletethe minimum that’s asked of her is to present a passable front to, what i assume to be, a reasonably large staff who know things about the remit she represents. what she did isn’t even on the level of having misunderstood a point in what she got briefed on. she showed she has never had a single conversation on the topic she was talking about.
her gaffe and having developed a vocabulary from reading that far outsizes what you hear spoken around you, are nowhere near the same thing. one might even say, they express almost exact opposites.
raphael
Just buy the bye (lol) ... try pronouncing hyperbole when you have only ever read it, never had it spoken before you.
ReplyDeleteAnd, of it is not obvious, we here outside the USA are having a field day of laughs about your American government.
A field day, laced with terror, should the orange idiot decide to send those massive war machines towards the country where we live.
No disrespect meant for the American people, just the ones that voted for the orange fruit loop.
Reminds me of how some people think "Il" in Kim Jong-Il stands for "the second".
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