The Deliciously-Ironic Demise of Ken Starr
I can’t make this stuff up. We all remember Ken Starr. The self-righteous, lip-pursing prig/special prosecutor who took great delight in preparing an ‘ independent report’ designed to get Bill Clinton impeached, and designed to provide every salacious detail the prudish prig could produce. The man reeked of moral rectitude. As the Huffington Post reported:
Judge Starr liked to tell reporters that he saw himself in a similar role as the character “Joe Friday” in the old television cop show “Dragnet,” whose tag line was: “just the facts, ma’am.”
Ho-kay. Well, this dedicated ‘just the facts, ma’am’ bird dog ended up as President of Baylor University, garnering the position in 2010.
Almost immediately, two things happened. (1) The longtime football doormat became a pigskin power. (2) Several significant instances of sexual misconduct by members of the newly-emergent football power took place, but were buried by the university.
How big a bleeping disgrace was it? Check this out:
This had been going on for years, all of them while Ken Starr was president. Today, this institution that proclaims its Christian values to the, um, heavens, made the only decision such a moral institution could. It kept the successful football coach, and fired Ken ‘Joe Friday’ Starr.
After all, phony moralistic leaders are easier to find than successful football coaches.
Nah ha
What’s really interesting is that the timing of his firing coincides with this report published today in the NYT.
“Kenneth Starr, Who Tried to Bury Bill Clinton, Now Only Praises Him”
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/05/25/us/politics/ken-starr-impeachment-bill-clinton.html
And so it seems that the real reason he was fired was because he defended the Clintons in a hard right wing environment.
It’s the price of honesty.
All 3 of them (Bill, Hillary & Ken) deserve a slow and painful death. They’re terrible people.
And now Baylor claims it hasn’t fired Starr. Maybe that was a trial balloon?
And here’s more. Ken Starr published this three weeks ago:
http://www.wacotrib.com/opinion/columns/guest_columns/ken-starr-guest-columnist-from-rancor-confusion-baylor-alumni-forces/article_521dcba4-c6d6-51d5-bac8-d6b91a166fc0.html
And the NYTimes article is starting to look like a hit piece.
It looks like Starr may have ruffled someone’s feathers…
Starr wasn’t a villain in the NYT ‘hit piece’.
Looks like he decided that his name wasn’t going to be dragged through the mud on behalf of those who are looking to protect the football program uber alles.
What I know is that Baylor football players raped several victims, the university was all too aware of this, the university did nothing, it was exposed, and now at least one of them is in jail.
@ES “Starr wasn’t a villain in the NYT ‘hit piece’.”
Are you sure? I saw it a as a piece that would increase his chance of getting fired.
When there are three sudden and independent stories about one person from the past, there’s usually a background story and maybe people pulling strings.
I don’t think we know what’s really going on here…
He’s gone…
He just resigned — and laughably said it was based on principle.
Time to retire.
Actually he is not gone. He resigned as Chancellor after being removed as President but he is keeping his professor job at the Baylor Law School. And keeping what I am sure is a very healthy pension. Home cooking. Disgraced school leader and world class hypocrite shuffles along and loses virtually nothing within his circle, which is the neo nut rightwing.