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Newsjock

(11,733 posts)
Mon Mar 26, 2012, 12:45 PM Mar 2012

Spelling bee champ out-spells Fox News reporter

http://blog.sfgate.com/sfmoms/2012/03/26/spelling-bee-champ-out-spells-fox-news-reporter/?tsp=1
Video: http://www.redlasso.com/?p=409102

Last week, I wrote about Lori Anne Madison, a 6-year-old homeschooled student from Woodbridge, Virg., who is the youngest person ever to qualify for the National Spelling Bee.

Madison recently warmed up for the the prestigious competition taking place in May on Fox 5 news. The young girl with remarkable poise went head-to-head with news reporter Paul Raphel.

... Raphel couldn’t even get through his first word: “tourniquet.”

“T-e-r-n-i-c-h-e-?” he tried.
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Spelling bee champ out-spells Fox News reporter (Original Post) Newsjock Mar 2012 OP
Hardly surprising Cirque du So-What Mar 2012 #1
Hardly a fair contest. She could have beaten a parrot or cat, too. saras Mar 2012 #2
Which would lead one to believe nykym Mar 2012 #3

Cirque du So-What

(25,941 posts)
1. Hardly surprising
Mon Mar 26, 2012, 12:58 PM
Mar 2012

When I think of FAUX talking heads, literacy is not the first thing that springs to mind.

 

saras

(6,670 posts)
2. Hardly a fair contest. She could have beaten a parrot or cat, too.
Mon Mar 26, 2012, 01:28 PM
Mar 2012

Seriously, she's good, but put her up against an NPR reporter or something, not a nincompoop.

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