Can someone please email Jim Newton and explain to him why this article with video is so offensive….Jim.Newton@latimes.com
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?
UPDATE: And I forgot to mention that Starr:
…argued before the U.S. Supreme Court that an Alaska school had the right to suspend a student for unfurling a “Bong Hits 4 Jesus” banner.
and…
BILLIONAIRE money manager Jeffrey Epstein has brought in a hired gun to help defend charges brought against him in Palm Beach, Fla., of soliciting prostitutes for sex—”Epstein is worried he could be targeted by federal prosecutors, and Starr is still very well-connected with Republicans,” said one source.
That’s some “educator and public servant guided by faith,” wouldn’t you say?
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I think I speak for most Americans on our feeling about Ken….
FUCK KEN STARR !!!
OWWWW! Teh Stupid! It hurts!
Cool music vid. :P
Is Newton pushing the agenda for the evil GOP to get Starr nominated as the next Supreme Court Justice? Me thinks this is still Starrs dream. Vote Democrat or this may come to pass.
jack foster @ 4:
You got that right Jack.
No surprise here. After all, as Joe Conason and Gene Lyons informed us it was poor reporting by The Los Angeles Times that began the witch-hunt known as Whitewater.
So does he pay people to lie about him or do they do it for sexual favors?
This is because right wing “extremism” for the major news producers means only “behavioral extremism”, in which the right winger screams and wave his hands and flings insults.
Calm, cool collected “political extremism” in which you carefully carry out deceptive and extremely harmful policies is not “extremist”, if you’re on the right.
If you’re on the left, well, that in itself is evidence of “extremism”.
The Querist @ 5:
Ditto. The next president may get two supreme court appointments. If that president is republican we’ll get another Alito and another Roberts. I don’t want to think about how awful our lives would be from then on.
Never forget what this man and his cronies did to Susan McDougal:
http://www.buzzflash.com/inter.....ougal.html
This man is pond scum and his name should be scorned through American history
From the linked Salon article:
That would be Richard Mellon Scaife, the financier of the “Arkansas Project,” and grandson of Andrew Mellon, Sec. of the Treasury under Hoover.
Starr got the job after all, because he earned it. That’s what you call “bribery”
Seems like the same willful misjudgment of human nature that makes us say that my neighbor couldn’t be no serial killer cause he helped me shovel my driveway once and we had a beer together.
It sure would be nice if we stopped being fooled by high functioning psychopaths and judged them on their actions rather than their carefully crafted facade, which is after all why they are high functioning psychopaths and not inmate #1223388.
It raises the issue of how gullible we are in the face of these psychopaths, even when their actions are at odds with the facade and even when they “flip-flop” to match our expectations in an effort to manipulate.
Here’s hoping we wise up in 2008! (insert spit take and guffaw)
THe MSM protects the fascist elite; nothing new here.
the media is always playing helicopter parent to these Scaifeian stalkers of the Clintons
Nrwton, “My, this Kool-aid is just delicious! May I have some more? Hey, what if we set up a stand on the corner and sell this Kool-aid to thirsty people? I bet we’ll make a zillion dollars!”
My money’s on “ulterior motive”.
Hillary is not my first choice, but I just may vote for her after seeing this on Ken Starr. Having her as his president would be like an itch you can’t reach. A sharp pain with no relief. A thought you can’t get out of your mind. Yes, I’m voting for Hillary. Thanks for helping me make up my mind!
What a jack ass! Newt was angry about being beaten by the C-man and got even using this tool. The far-right has a nice support network to keep their nut jobs employed and in the news. He makes me sick.
Don’t be angry at Starr - he’s a victim of Clinton Derangement Syndrome.
It’s a debilitating disease that turns otherwise nice, intelligent people into brain-eating zombies.
Unfortunately, there is no cure.
LATimes, WaPo, NYTimes, serving their corporate masters and ushering in America’s smily face fascism. They say Joseph Goebbels was amiable and loved children. The Republican Party and their surrogates are deserving of electoral euthansia followed by deportation.
Dress him up and call him human, if you will, but Ken Star has always left, and will always leave, a trail of slime wherever he goes.
No mention in the article of Richard Mellon Scaife, chief financier of the Paula Jones trial and noted Clinton hater, giving Starr the deanship of Pepperdine as his payoff for the bullshit impeachment nonsense?
This article is a disgrace.
How can any journalist worth his salt not mention the Scaife connection/kickback to Starr for his worthless “investigation”?
Just the mention of lawyer should make anyone want to puke. The walls of hell are wallpappered with the souls of lawyers and satan has many walls.
I didn’t know he was a lawyer. I thought he was a garbage man. All we ever saw of the weasel was him carrying a black plastic sack of trash with that supercilious smile pasted on his face.
Oh wait…that’s what lawyers do
I can not believe they did this….wow…( NYT I would expect it….but not the LA Times..)….hmmm NO.23 said the “walls of hell are wallpapered with the souls…” gee I always thought Lawyers like Starr were Soulless…
Wasn’t $50 million spent by starr and co. investigating the clintons? Isn’t that $49.5 million more than was spent on 9/11? Since we “take for granted” what happened with a measley study like that, two things come immediately to mind: that investigation was a white-wash; whatever really happened can easily happen again since we don’t really know what the hell occurred.
Kenneth Starr belongs on the Mount Rushmore of evil right next to Bush, Cheney, Rumsfeld, and Hitler.
I would guess that Mr Newton decided to become a conservative writer!
Oh wait, he left off the great equalizing cliche of our time, “He’s a guy you could sit down and have beer with”. God knows that if Pol Pot made a good drinking companion we’d fucking forgive him too.
The more you see of the republican owned MSM and their heroes and role models, the more you are reminded that this country is in ONE HELL OF A MESS.
No matter who the Democratic candidate is, we MUST be sure that they win. To have this absolute piece of turd crap to even be considered for a supreme is stomach churning at the least.
There republicans should just ride into the sunset and FADE AWAY. Never to be heard of again. They are the most reprehensible human beings this country has ever produced.
jack foster @ 4:
Uh, no. Even the Democrats wouldn’t allow confirmation of Starr. Besides, Republican strategy is to appoint ‘em young so they stay 30 years. Starr’s a good 10-20 years older than they’d want in a nominee they’d have to, at least, really fight for.
If you want a conspiracy theory, you’ll have to do better. Try this: Starr has dirt on Hillary Clinton that he held back; this is part of his payment.
enigma4ever @ 25:
He won’t be condemned to Hell, he’s already on staff down there.
Get used to it. The revisionism will be coming fast and thick.
Soon we’ll be hearing about how an environmentally conscious George W. Bush was stymied from pushing green legislation by the do-nothing Democrats.
Soon we’ll hear how the evil, war mongering Democrats pushed a reluctant Bush into a hasty war.
It’s coming.
-GSD
Looks like a secret signal meaning something like, “Ken, I will be in the 3rd stall at the second bathroom at the international section of the airport.” Bible thumpers (Ken) know how to play nice when they want to, doesn’t change the rotten worms inside.
I had no idea the LA Times was just another Murdoch rag.
Wow… Jim Newtons HEARTS Kenneth Starr
… me thinks Jim wants to “Monica” Kenneth….
bubba @ 29:
Pol Pot made a heckuva bloody mary back in the 70’s.
-GSD
Starr is a stalker. Also, his investigation of Bill Clinton’s sexuality is a perversion that I simply cannot relate to. Maybe Starr has “mother issues” or “father issues.”
On the millions spent, I think the figure is something like $70 million spent investigating the Clintons. Originally $3 million approximately was allocated to investigating the events of Sept. 11, 2001, but after sufficient outrage, the bush administration generously *snark* raised the amount to $15 million. Makes you feel all warm and fuzzy to know where the GOP priorities lie, doesn’t it. (Numbers are ballpark, but fairly close.)
It’s here. Turdblossom is already trying to spread that piece of manure.
What Kenneth Starr needs is a good, long, honest, satisfying blowjob.
But this time, he should try it on the receiving end.
From a woman.
GSD @ 37:
Back in college I took a class on Hitler and the Nazi era. One of the texts was Theodore Abel’s Why Hitler Came to Power written in 1938. I recall one German man talking about the “warmth and love in Herr Hitler’s eyes.”
Fuck Godwin, it’s the truth.
Oh no fucking wonder. This is a puff piece, paid for by this institution, or this Starr jerkoff. Give me a break, this is when like a lawyer or a doctor has a glowing “article” about him/her in a tourist magazine. Starr is scum, and we are in for a shitload of revisionist history in the next couple of years. The same ones that brought us this shit will shove it down our throats, as if to say, “didn’t you enjoy it?”
I just saw The Good Shepherd and what struck me was the similarity between the character Edward Wilson and the people in the Milgram experiment. Perhaps Ken Starr is a similar character. Told by an authority figure what they were expected to do was “patriotic” or “necessary,” they just plod ahead without any critical thought process. I’m sure they are all nice people, yet nice people can be convinced to do horrendous things. Look at all the people who are now justifying torture because the Bush administration tortures. People like Ken Starr are scary.
“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?”
No one should underestimate the ignorance of today’s press, but there is definitely an ulterior motive behind this kind of writing. Check the car in Newton’s driveway today and again next week. He’s going to get an upgrade very soon….
Starr’s “investigation” would have never got off the ground if it wasn’t for ReTHUG’s disgust of Clinton’s blowjob. Not that he got one, but that he got one from a female. That just ain’t right to ReTHUGs.
MN USA @ 42:
Look at Lt. William Calley and My Lai. Sometimes they do realize it’s wrong but are afraid to speak up.
The squeaky wheel gets greased, but the nail that sticks up gets pounded.
i think that rudy the sausage has a tiny penis, and that he constant pussy hounding is a cover for the fact that he has a tiny member. maybe kenny starrfucker can get the dirt on rudy’s micropenis. afterall that is his legal speciality.
Starr is definitely in the elite group of GAY, bathroom trolling, Reslugs too.
Wasn’t Ted Bundy genial and easygoing, lighthearted even?
wouldn’t newton blowing starr on Fox accomplish the same end. Why go to all that trouble to write shit down.
Bill B. @ 48: