LA Times puff piece on "cheerful, wistful, genial, reflective, easygoing, eloquent Kenneth Starr"

[Amerigo Vespucci]

The LA Times writes a puff piece on Kenneth Starr
By: John Amato on Monday, December 31st, 2007 at 6:30 AM - PST

http://www.crooksandliars.com/2007/12/31/the-la-times-writes-a-puff-piece-on-kenneth-starr/



Can someone please email Jim Newton and explain to him why this article with video is so offensive…[email protected]

I mean Starr made a mockery out of the role of the “independent counsel.” Read this LA Times opinion piece in amazement:

To meet Kenneth Starr is to question the anger of his most partisan critics and the ardor of his most ideological admirers. As few have forgotten, Starr’s pursuit of President Clinton endeared him to Clinton’s enemies but also made him, for some, a modern Inspector Javert, sneeringly derided in one publication as a “pious lawman.”

And yet, here Starr is, atop the law school at Pepperdine University, cheerfully imagining a culture of engaged and conscientious young lawyers, wistfully harking to a time when the nation was less divided and acrimonious.

His critics might be surprised, but Starr is neither monster nor prude. He is genial, reflective and easygoing, lighthearted even. Committed to public service, he speaks most eloquently on the notions of service and compassion.

OK, it gets much worse.

So, this is Los Angeles’ Kenneth Starr — not the pursuer of a president but rather the educator and public servant, the lawyer guided by faith, leading from a hilltop in Malibu. And yet he struggles to shed his polarizing past, trying his best to claim an old mantle of centrism despite those who still are angry at him…read on

Newton would have you believe that he’s just a simple man now, smoking a pipe in his rocking chair and gazing out into the Pacific ocean on a sunny day with a bible in his hand. Salon paints a much darker picture . And what type of faith would lead a man to do this?

Prosecutors: Ex-independent counsel fabricated letters on inmate’s behalf. Lawyers for a death row inmate, including former Whitewater independent counsel Kenneth Starr, sent fake letters from jurors asking California’s governor to spare the man’s life, prosecutors said Friday.

I guess Newton forgot to tell his readers that he was hired to defend Blackwater too.

Blackwater USA, the private military contractor in the Bush Administration’s “war on terror,” has a new lawyer working to defend it against a ground-breaking wrongful death lawsuit brought by the families of four of its contractors killed in Iraq. The new “counsel of record” for the North Carolina-based company is none other than former Whitewater investigator Kenneth Starr–the independent counsel in the 1999 impeachment of President Bill Clinton over the Monica Lewinsky sex scandal.

I’m still trying to figure out why Newton would write an almost revisionist piece about Kenneth Starr at this time. Is there some ulterior motive behind it or just blind ignorance?

[n2doc]

1. let me be the first to

:puke:

[iconoclastic cat]

2. That's really more of a "fluff" piece, if you know what I mean. nt

[Cameron27]

3. OMG

he's nothing but a dirty, rotten pig. Ick.

[Elidor]

4. His current position is his reward from Richard Scaife

In fact, he tried to quit as Independent Counsel at one point to take another position at Pepperdine. Scaife didn't like that and told him to get his ass back out there, which he did. After he finished his role he was rewarded with his current position.

[Evergreen Emerald]

5. Kenneth Gagmewithafork Starr is nothing but a lying, cheating,

hack who took the country for Millions while given carte blanche by the republicans to destroy Clinton. And in the end, after taking our money, he had NOTHING.