{"id":14826,"date":"2016-05-25T00:18:34","date_gmt":"2016-05-25T00:18:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=14826"},"modified":"2016-05-25T00:26:33","modified_gmt":"2016-05-25T00:26:33","slug":"is-karma-about-to-bite-kenneth-starr","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=14826","title":{"rendered":"Is karma about to bite Kenneth Starr?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/ken-starr.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-14827\" src=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/ken-starr-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"ken starr\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/ken-starr-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/ken-starr-768x513.jpg 768w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/ken-starr.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Does anyone out there see the irony in reports that Kenneth Starr has been fired as president of Baylor University?<\/p>\n<p>Baylor&#8217;s board of regents will announce soon whether reports of Starr&#8217;s dismissal are true.<\/p>\n<p>Why all the fuss over Starr? Baylor University has been struggling with a sex scandal on campus and reports that school officials failed to take action when one of the school&#8217;s football players was accused of raping a female student. The athlete was convicted and other cases emerged in which Baylor officials allegedly failed to take proper action.<\/p>\n<p>The incident and the ensuing scandal has swallowed up the school.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.texastribune.org\/2016\/05\/24\/amid-reports-starrs-firing-baylor-says-expect-anno\/\">https:\/\/www.texastribune.org\/2016\/05\/24\/amid-reports-starrs-firing-baylor-says-expect-anno\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The irony is this &#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Kenneth Starr is the very same fellow who more than 20 years ago launched an investigation into President Bill Clinton&#8217;s real estate dealings. Congress appointed him as a special prosecutor to probe the Whitewater investment matter.<\/p>\n<p>Then something happened. Starr got wind of an inappropriate relationship that the president was having with a young female White House intern. That scandal grew as well. The investigation into a real estate matter morphed into something quite different, more salacious.<\/p>\n<p>The president was summoned before a federal grand jury, which asked him about the relationship. The president, who swore to tell the truth, <em>didn&#8217;t<\/em> tell the truth and he was impeached for lying under oath.<\/p>\n<p>Sex has this way of engulfing things, if you know what I mean.<\/p>\n<p>I get that the cases are far from similar. Starr hasn&#8217;t been accused of doing anything improper here. He might take the fall, though, for others&#8217; actions or <em>inaction<\/em>. He does run the university and as President Truman&#8217;s famous White House desk sign pointed out: The Buck Stops Here.<\/p>\n<p>Still, as the saying goes: Karma can be a real drag, man.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Does anyone out there see the irony in reports that Kenneth Starr has been fired as president of Baylor University? Baylor&#8217;s board of regents will announce soon whether reports of Starr&#8217;s dismissal are true. Why all the fuss over Starr? Baylor University has been struggling with a sex scandal on campus and reports that school &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=14826\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Is karma about to bite Kenneth Starr?<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,13,14,17,18],"tags":[562,631,1035,2654,4728,5256],"class_list":["post-14826","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-legal-news","category-national-news","category-political-news","category-sports-news","category-state-news","tag-baylor-university","tag-bill-clinton","tag-clinton-impeachment","tag-ken-starr","tag-texas-tribune","tag-whitewater"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14826","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14826"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14826\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14829,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14826\/revisions\/14829"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14826"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14826"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14826"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}