Good Thing She’s Not Omnipotent

When Margaret Spellings stopped by the Daily Show this week, Jon Stewart began the interview by giving the Education Secretary an apple –  not how you’d expect the acerbic comedian to handle a captive Bush cabinet member.

The segment featured mostly softball questions (well, there was that student loan scandal) and predictable answers (we all –including Stewart – groaned  at “the soft bigotry of low expections”).

Yet when Stewart asked Spellings if, were she Education God, she would ”smite the teachers union” to fix education,  she morphed for just a second into Dana Carvey’s Church Lady before gushing, “Kidding!”

Hmm, NEA’s annual meeting heads to Philly next month. Suddenly I’m having visions of the Schuylkill parting and a plague of locusts swarming the convention center….

View the video here: http://www.comedycentral.com/motherload/index.jhtml?ml_video=87387

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