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.