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Ken Starr Is Just Making Everything Worse

It's going to be a long, embarrassing decline.

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kenneth-starr-politicians-photo-1Perhaps it’s just because I’ve never been fired in a firestorm of mismanagement, rank incompetence, and grievous sexual misconduct (yet?), but I think it’s safe to say that Ken Starr isn’t handling his dismissal from Baylor very well.

Honestly, after his amateurish televised interview and his departure from the law school, it seemed most likely that the former Supreme Court hopeful would drift into the sunset to become an ignoble footnote and the occasional response to Jeopardy’s “Remember the 90s” category.

But, instead, Starr’s raging against the dying of the light and now he’s gone public with the kind of pull quotes that should make Baylor trustees feel warm and fuzzy about showing him the door.

From ESPN’s “Top Headlines” Sunday morning —

Kenneth Starr: ‘Grave Injustice’ done to Briles

Holy hell. Considering Starr’s dismissal was predicated upon finding a pervasive culture of valuing football success over victims of sexual assault, the idea that the “grave injustice” in this whole story is what happened to Art Briles instead of, you know, the women who got raped would be more troubling if it weren’t so entirely predictable. It’s almost like Starr’s trying to prove why Baylor fired him one interview at a time. Cue the non-apology tour!

During an interview at the Texas Tribune Festival in Austin, Starr said Briles was an “honorable man who conducted an honorable program.”

“Briles has devoted his life to molding the lives of young men,” Starr said. “A grave injustice was done to Art Briles. Coach Briles has been [calumniated] … it’s completely unfair.

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Well, there’s where the Pepper Hamilton report seems to completely agree with Starr. It’s just the law firm seemed to think the sort of molding Briles did created a threat to the university. Whether or not Pepper Hamilton’s conclusion is calumniation or not (shout out to whoever bought Starr that “Word of the Day” desk calendar) will be hashed out if Briles ever chooses to litigate his wrongful termination claim, but until then continuing to spout platitudes out of the lazy sportscaster script isn’t helping anyone.

It would seem that Ken Starr would be better served to take some of the millions he’s amassed and decamp to somewhere where he’s not continuing to harm himself and his university in the public eye by callously disregarding the seriousness of these charges. But some guys just can’t help themselves and keep beating the dead horse of their own embarrassing failure.

And this time there isn’t a constitutional procedure to put an end to his shenanigans.

Former Baylor president Kenneth Starr: Art Briles was unfairly criticized [ESPN]

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