Ken Starr named Baylor University President

[BlueGirlRedState]

Source: Waco Tribune Herald

Kenneth W. Starr, the former independent counsel whose work led to the impeachment of then-President Bill Clinton, was named president of Baylor University this morning, sources said.

The 63-year-old Starr, who has been dean of Pepperdine University’s School of Law in Malibu, Calif. since April, 2004 will become Baylor’s 14th president.

Starr’s appointment as president of Baylor brings a nationally known, but highly controversial figure to the Waco campus at a time of prolonged and occasionally tumultuous transition from a teaching school to one focused on research and the pursuit of a top-tier ranking among colleges nationally. It ends a nearly 20-month-long search that began when former Baylor President John M. Lilley was fired in July of 2008.

Starr will always be recognized as the dogged independent prosecutor who relentlessly pursued Clinton’s role in a land deal called Whitewater and the president’s affair with White House intern Monica Lewinsky. But he brings to Baylor a deep resume filled with roles in public service that go back three decades, as well as a Rolodex filled with national contacts that may serve him well in the key areas of academia and fund-raising.


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[musette_sf]

1. omfg n/t

[Cleita]

2. Why are these anti-American right wing operatives being rewarded when

they should be held in contempt by all Americans who didn't appreciate their obstruction of government when we needed a President focused on the business of the nation? On-the-other-hand, trading Malibu for Waco might be a punishment of sorts.

[Dr.Phool]

11. Because crime really does pay?

[Cleita]

13. It would appear so.

:-(

[janet118]

34. Republicans take care of their own . . .

Look at all the young Repugs recruited and given jobs for life while young Dems have to contribute money or time that they don't have without any support. And as long as the Repugs remain loyalists, they will be employed and promoted by right wing institutions. Dems have no such support system in place and their institutions are nowhere near as well funded. Read David Brock's "Blinded by the Right" and George Lakoff's "Don't Think of an Elephant." Think Heritage Foundation vs. Rockridge Institute.

[customerserviceguy]

40. Y'know, it really was up to the President

to keep his attention focused on the business of the nation. He handed his enemies everything they needed to keep his agenda (and ours) from being put into place. The last three years of his Presidency were a lost cause.

Could we have prevented the Iraq war if Dubya had given us the opportunity of a photograph of a coke-fueled party in the White House? I guess we'll never know, because either A) He never did it, or B) He was careful enough to do it in front of people who weren't stupid enough to talk about it.

[Javaman]

52. Because baylor is a right wing school.

I had a few buddies that were professors at baylor. They got out as fast as they could. It's a sham of a school. Anyone here in Texas knows that. So many legacy students expecting to pass on money and name alone.

My one friend was threatened with a law suit by a parent if their spoiled little brat didn't get an A in his class. My friend said, sure sue me, I will bring you child's papers to court and read them aloud and let the jury decide. The parent shut up and the kid got the C he deserved. There are many many many more stories like that.

So in essence starr taking over as president is nothing more than a money gift to that slimy son of a bitch.

[Zoeisright]

54. I agree - they lie and cheat and are rewarded for it.

Apparently that IS the American way.

[prezpeng]

3. ha!

If that is what they want...an ass for a president, then that is what they deserve.

[LuckyLib]

4. A perfect match, in my book. He can mosey on over to the Chimp library at SMU

and do his "scholarly" thinking.

[damntexdem]

14. I wonder whether Dubya could be convinced to move his reading room down the road to Waco.

Why make Starr drive all the way up to Dallas?

[DFW]

49. In Dallas, we would be thrilled if W would move to Waco--it's perfect for him

It starts with a "W" and has only four letters--a 20% reduction in the number of letters he'd have to remember.

Plus, we are always up for pollution reduction....

[Haole Girl]

64. +1

[heli]

5. SMU has the George W. Bush Library, Baylor has Ken Starr. What's Rice gonna do?

[rfranklin]

6. Condoleeza is waiting in the wings....

And Junior will be able to swing by for conjugal visits.

[DFW]

48. Probably the Tom DeLay School of Ballroom Dancing n/t

[Mz Pip]

7. On the bright side

It gets him out of California. Too bad for Texas and Baylor, though.

[TrollBuster9090]

8. Goodness, without any right win political assassins on the faculty...

Pepperdine will be nothing more than a place to film "Zoey 101."

[DBoon]

25. or a competitor for the "University of Phoenix" for MBA wanna-be's (nt)

[sinkingfeeling]

9. Texas has the worst luck. The Bushes, Karl Rove, Darth Vader, and now Ken Starr.

[Jane Austin]

15. And all those are transplants -

not native Texans.

They've done a great job of exploiting us.

[DBoon]

26. Molly Ivins must be crying from her place in heaven (nt)

[Enthusiast]

37. They also had Judge Roy Bean.

I believe they are kind of making their own luck.

[Flying Dream Blues]

10. That's embarrassing. "Public service!" bwahahahahaha. nt

[damntexdem]

12. Another wacko in Waco!

I guess the Baylor BOR thought there weren't enough there already. ;-)

[SpiralHawk]

16. Starr will always be recognized as the jerk who spent $90 million of our tax dollars

To poke his nose into Bill Clinton's crotch in service to the wide-stance, diaper-clad, sex-in-the-public-urinal Republicon Family Values Pharisees.

[lyonn]

28. Such artful use of the english language.....

Those repub values do tend to bring out the worst in some of us who must be the evil ones, baby killers, etc.. Don't know if I made a bit of sense, bottom line, sorta funny, a bit crude SH but, Starr deserves it.

[tonysam]

17. John Lilley was head of the University of Nevada, Reno,

and his tenure was marked by division and scandal. His tenure at Baylor was even worse.

Baylor must be desperate to hire a shitbag like Starr.

[no_hypocrisy]

18. The term "higher education" just became an oxymoron.

[liberal N proud]

19. See crime does pay

[Turbineguy]

20. This is why the US is doomed.

We reward those who harm the country.

[DFW]

21. I guess he got tired of waiting for Obama to nominate him to the Supreme Court

It would have been a long wait, anyway.........

[pretzel4gore]

22. USA beaten like a red headed step child

despite having 1/2 the world's military budget, the poor dear caint defend itself from a backalley whupping (by nazipooh sissies see ghbush/karlrove/dicked cheney/tom delay/rush limbah etc)
it's like the cartoon of the 2 dogs; the big snarly bulldog and his yappy pal begging to fetch him a bone (or whatever) and getting swatted over a fence for the annoyance when they see Sylvester cat run/hide in warehouse, Big Guy decides to beat the cat good, and goes into warehouse, where an escaped kangaroo is hanging out. The Kangaroo beats the crap out Big Dog, who staggers out to astonished yapper, who stares in wonder, sees Sylvester trying to get away and runs in to whup him something awful...and also embarassing the Big Dog, who's now mad as hell etc goes back in after idiot Sylvester (who hides behind 'the 'Roo just then!) and AGAIN the Big Dog is AGAIN beaten the living crap outta him...as Sylvester watches from inside warehouse and the lil yappy watches from outside before he runs in and whups Sylvester cat AGAIN!
Final scene, the little dog looking tough strolls along street with the Big Dog bouncing around kissing ass and getting swatted to the curb for his troubles....
hahaha
i betcha they soon ban that old cartoon as subversive!

[UTUSN]

23. "dogged INDEPENDENT"?!1 n/t

[hewitt]

24. As a citizen of Waco, I am disgusted

I'm a college professor (not Baylor) in Waco;my liberal colleagues and I are absolutely appalled by Baylor's decision. Starr was a vindictive prosecutor who was determined to uncover any of Clinton's sins, which were not illegal. I am not excusing Clinton's stupid acts, but Starr's persecution of him was unwarranted. I can't believe Starr has been rewarded by this plum of a presidency.

[timtom]

50. Didn't Baylor cut loose from the Southern Baptist Convention

some years ago because they were too liberal?

[LuckyLib]

27. It says everything about Baylor. We already knew about Starr.

[av8rdave]

29. Isn't that ironic?

One of the country's most conservative religious schools appoints the country's greatest professional pornographer as its president.

Wow.

[hlthe2b]

30. That maggot has staying power..

I guess I have to give him that... :eyes:

[theothersnippywshrub]

31. The preeminent semen sleuth of our time. n/t

[2Design]

32. why are the evil rewarded or put on tv or put in the news ? aaarrrggghhhh n/t

[superconnected]

33. Eeeewwwwww. And it calls itself a university. I usually think higher of Universities than to make

choices like that. Ewwww.

[c brand]

35. FWIW Baylor College of Medicine refuses to return to Baylor University

Jan. 27, 2010 - Baylor College of Medicine will remain an independent institution, its trustee board unanimously decided Wednesday, ending the possibility it would get back together with former parent institution Baylor University.

http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/health/6838658.html

[No Elephants]

47. Run like the wind, Baylor College of Medicine. Run like the wind.

[Manifestor_of_Light]

58. BCM is a complete disaster, but not because of religion.

It's run by incompetent administrators, the last president was a drug company shill who ran the school into a $180 million deficit.

They wanted to merge with Rice. Rice University was smart enough to run like hell.

[Enthusiast]

36. Hey! I know, when Sarah Palin

gets elected president she can nominate Ken Starr for supreme court! Yay!

[Jakes Progress]

38. starr fits the profile.

Here is a supposedly religion based university who seeks out a leader whose only claim to history will be his unending and expensive (millions of tax dollars) fascination with Bill Clinton's penis.

But it's not stupidity on Baylor's part. Given the exceedingly low level of thinking that goes on with it's donors, the school will get a windfall in donations from the kind of idiots who think starr is anything other than a well-paid pervert. Trouble is that they are way too many of those kinds of idiots.

[struggle4progress]

39. Baylor must be trying to pump back up its cred in Wingnut Wacko World

[aquart]

41. What a horrible man. "Dogged independent prosecutor"? YE GODS!

He is a vile sack of shit and pus.

[David Zephyr]

42. History will judge this vile, effiminate heterosexual, pentecostal fucker as the shit he truly is.

Nothing will ever expunge the much deserved villanious role that history, both written and still to be recorded, will hold for this puritancial, weakling and coward who still, foolishly believes that he can save his shitty reputation.

Ken Starr will forever be an All-America sterotype: a hung-up, hypocritical, jealous and secretive and mousy pervert who envied and hated other boys and men stronger, braver, better looking than him, and those who mingled with ease and grace among women.

Laugh and rejoice: History will crown Ken Starr as a true Amerian villain. Take joy in his misery.

I do.

[bamacrat]

43. God. n/t

[keopeli]

44. Bad for Baylor; Great news for my alma mater, Pepperdine!!!

Although they will mourn his leaving like the loss of a demi-god, I'm thrilled to know that Starr is leaving PU. The University has tanked in national rankings since he first set foot on the campus and has been lacking (as usual) in alumni contributions. Their pro-fundamentalist christian teachings written into their mission in the late 90s have gotten them nowhere fast. The alumni backlash to their pro-H8 articles by faculty in local papers with no campus policy defending GLBT rights has been fierce.

I'd like to think this was a signal of change in direction for the University I used to know, but I'm not holding my breath.

And, good luck Baylor. You deserve everything you just signed up for.

[martymar64]

61. The only good thing about Pepperdine is its location

Who wouldn't want to go to school in Malibu? Too bad its another wingnut factory.
Can't be all bad if you made it out intact.

[provis99]

45. Baylor is the home of right-wing whackjobs in Texas.

They make North Texas or Texas A&M look like beacons of liberalism. It will be a good fit; sort of like making Sarah Palin head of Liberty University would be a good fit.

[No Elephants]

46. And Yoo is on two faculties. .No words for any of hese schools. none.

[belpejic]

51. Look for Baylor to beef up its efforts in porn studies. n/t

[tinrobot]

53. As a Californian, I say good riddance!

[KamaAina]

55. Why is sex banned at Baylor?

Because it might lead to dancing! :P

And now the most repressed man in America is its prexy. :eyes:

[DebbieCDC]

56. Nice goin' Baylor

But WTF -- I've never read a bigger puff piece in my life. Did somebody pay the Waco paper to write that?

[jmowreader]

57. So I can put my Pepperdine Law application back in and ignore my Baylor acceptance?

Good to know that. Thanks. :cheers:

[Manifestor_of_Light]

59. The Starr Family Cemetery is right down the road from me.

I wouldn't do this, but somebody could theoretically make a sign that said KEN, WISHING YOU WERE HERE.

[martymar64]

60. Great. Now that asshole is coming to my state.

At least its Baylor and not UT. Baylor is just another religious nut factory like Bob Jones.

[Manifestor_of_Light]

62. Bet he'll expel everyone who TPs the statue of Abner McCall.

Complete with a roll hanging out of the top hat in his hand.

:rofl:

[ElsewheresDaughter]

63. well thanks for the heads up and informing my children to NOT apply to that school.....

....Thank the gods for the Jesuits at Boston College, and the Franciscan brothers at Siena for offering her 66K in scholarships towards her liberal arts degree. oh and 44K from Syracuse if that's where she desides to go(she loves the big O's)

is Pepperdine a Christian school also?

[Supersedeas]

65. sign of good things to come for Yoo, and other Bush League lawyers?

[Cha]

66. THe shame is on Baylor.

[Rambis]

67. Ken there is sex going on at that college

most often between consenting adults. I think it is safe to say there are no dodgy land deals so no need to spend another 52 million.