Waiting for Kryptonite V.

Would you buy an operating system from this man?

Susie Madrak discusses the faux doc Waiting for Superman at Crooks and Liars.

“I don’t know whether to vote for Fenty or Gray,” a D.C. friend confided to me last week.

“Which candidate is backed by the white progressives?” I said.

“Fenty.”

“Then vote for Gray.”

“Why?”

I told him that contrary to what he’d heard, Michelle Rhee wasn’t the savior of D.C. schools and it was nothing more than the corporatization of public education. (“If you don’t trust Bill Gates to sell you an operating system, why would you trust him to sell you an education system?” is my motto.)

Now that I’ve read this piece about “Waiting for Superman,” the documentary that has the privileged classes all in an admiring tizzy (Arianna is already pushing it, along with the rest of the usual wealthy, high-powered suspects), I’m even more convinced I was right about Michelle Rhee.

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