Arne Duncan’s Emily Litella Moment. “Never Mind.”
Years ago the late Gilda Radner played a hilarious character on Saturday Night Live named Emily Litella. Emily would appear on Weekend Update and read a passionate editorial against something or the other. The joke was that she got the issue all confused.
She once ranted against those who were opposed to violins in schools, only to be corrected. The issue was violence in schools.
“Never mind,” Litella would say.
The New York Times’ Sam Dillon reports on Arne Duncan’s
