Robert Bobb, the emergency financial manager for Detroit Public Schools had this to say about reckless comments made by Fox News commentator Shepard Smith, who said “If my kid were in Detroit, I’d try to burn the place down,” during a discussion about the school district’s poor academic record illustrated by a recent report.
BOBB: To hell with him. Who the hell does he think he is? There’s nothing wrong with these kids’ minds. Maybe something’s wrong with the adults.
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Bobb says “there’s nothing wrong” with the minds of Detroit students. Bobb has been in charge of district finances since March. He recently asked state lawmakers to also give him control over academics.
Smith made those idiotic comments and showed just how increasingly reckless commentators are getting as the line between news and scarcely considered opinion is now barely visible.
MLive:
http://www.mlive.com/news/detroit/index.ssf/2009/12/robert_bobb_responds_to_fox_ne.html
