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Matthews to Michelle Rhee: Stay Away From Those Ideological Fools on the Right! | NewsBusters.org

Matthews to Michelle Rhee: Stay Away From Those Ideological Fools on the Right! | NewsBusters.org

Matthews to Michelle Rhee: Stay Away From Those Ideological Fools on the Right!

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On Wednesday's Hardball, Chris Matthews brought on former Washington D.C. chancellor of public schools Michelle Rhee to discuss the state of public education in this country and praised her for work on the part of students but also warned her to "stay away from the right wing" because she was "too good to be grabbed by some ideological fool."

After Rhee explained to Matthews why public school students needed an organization like the one she founded, Students First, to counterbalance the influence of the teachers unions, Matthews congratulated her for not becoming a tool of conservatives.

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