NEA President Becky Pringle's Unhinged Motivational Speech

• 54:58Tim introduces Becky Pringle, president of the National Education Association, describing her as unwell.
• 55:26His prediction that people having mental breakdowns in public would be rewarded and celebrated as visionary geniuses.
• 56:47Becky Pringle's motivational speech invoking Chief Seattle and rhetoric about inner fire, purpose, and refusing to bend.
• 58:39Tim notes she appeared to do a Hitler salute at the end of her speech.
• 59:16Specifics have been driven out of national conversations—people speak in vague, deep-sounding platitudes instead of concrete plans.
• 59:42When you ask what anyone actually means or what they're trying to accomplish, there's no real answer.

Becky PringleNational Education AssociationFran Drescher