I just love having a steaming bowl of schadenfreude with my regular lunch.
The Great Penis Hunter of the 1990s (thanks Charlie Pierce) was unable to detect what was going on right under his nose.
I’m spreading it on crackers at this very moment!
AND Baylor’s football coach also got the ax.
OK, so this article was written in a very confusing way, sortof mis-mashing some different things together, but
Are you saying that Ken Starr, who conducted the biggest, most expensive, witch-hunty sex scandal investigation in the history of history, was President of Baylor University during numerous sex scandals and failed to conduct proper investigations of them?
The universe just poops irony, don’t it?
I did not have sexual-assault coverup with that University.
–Kenneth Starr
no… just saying there were no interns to protect and no cigars involved…
It’s heartening to know that Starr, having epically failed as President, will transition sideways to another lucrative position. Heaven forbid there would be actual consequences.
And that, ladies and gentlemen, is how Rethugliklan meritocracies work.
I’m speechless.
This is what happens when an athletic program long on the ropes gets a taste of winning and loves it so much that it must become institutionalized at any and all costs.
I say this as a proud Oklahoma Sooner who has seen our program suffer from this at times. But nothing like this vile bit of horror will make Baylor suffer.
Just makes me admire Boren and Stoops that much more.
According to Baylor’s most recent IRS filing, Briles’ base salary in 2014 was $4.2 million, which was considerably more than university president Kenneth Starr’s base salary of $789,000 annually.
… however, had the semen stains been on a Baylor green dress …
@tiowally: no kidding - I missed that first time through. It’s like the Peter Principle for Republicans, except it costs a helluva lot of money and lives.
And I said it yesterday. Fuck You Starr.
@twowolves: how are you going to make it in today’s media if you can’t spin and twirl this for at least 2 minutes?
Starr has quite a history of failing upward.
Baylor University’s board of regents announced Thursday that Ken Starr would be removed as president and transition to the role of chancellor at the Texas university.
So, is he still leading Baylor as president or as chancellor? It depends on what your definition of “as” is.
Anyone KNOW WHAt these GIRLS who WERE “assaulted” were wEARIng?
To those who suggest that Starr somehow did not see what was happening, the stink of this was that Starr knew full well what was happening, but it was “his people” doing the raping. He wanted to win at Football, and if a few woman got raped, so what.
This is proof x1000 that his pursuit of Clinton was nothing more than rank politics. He did not give a crap what Clinton did, or did not, it was simply an effort to “win” for his side. Now when “his people” are doing far, far, far worse things, really ugly shit, he covers up for them.
Starr will do down in history as one of the biggest hypocrites ever, his pursuit of Clinton justifiable seen as nothing but naked abuse of his office.
Thankfully, some of it catches fire to warm the rest…
Ken Starr would be removed as president and transition to the role of chancellor at the Texas university.
Some demotion, more than likely includes a raise… after all he helped put those liberal lezzies in their place. Coach takes the fall being lowest man on totem pole.
And, no doubt, the seeds of his recent moderation…