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This story was from a month ago and The Gadfly must have been snoozing to have missed it, but boy, oh boy, oh boy -- this is just so magnificently rich that The Gadfly is slapping his forehead, Home Simpson style, for not having caught it at the time:
Tucked away in a Washington Post story about a Potomac high school teacher accused of molesting female students over a thirty-year period is the fact that more than 90 people — including former ABC World News anchor Charlie Gibson and former special prosecutor Kenneth Starr — wrote letters on his behalf.
The teacher, Christopher Kloman, pleaded guilty this summer to four counts of indecent liberties with a child younger than 14 and one count of abduction with intent to defile. Kloman, who students testified that they used to call "The Wolf," taught at the school from 1966 to 1994.
It's not immediately clear why Gibson and Starr wrote the letters, although Starr's daughter attended the Potomac School, graduating in 1998.http://gawker.com/charlie-gibson-ken-starr-wrote-letters-in-support-of-a-1448317981
So let us dear readers take a moment to digest the delightfully entertaining irony of this ignominious little tale - shall we?
First - a little background history:
Ken Starr, for those who may not be learned of American political history of the past 35 years, is the guy whom the conservatives and Republicans hired as an attack dog to investigate the infamous Clinton Whitewater land deal during Bill Clinton's first term in 1994 - an investigation which magically morphed in to an expansive, and quite expensive, witch hunt and smear operation of Bill and Hillary Clinton. By the time the dust had settled and Vicar Starr's star chamber proceedings had concluded, it became clear that the whole contemptible affair had magically morphed in to multiple parallel investigations of the Clinton's finances, their investments history, Mrs. Clinton's former law office work, and of course Bill Clinton's sexual history.
The end result, as we all know, was the persecution of and impeachment of William Jefferson Clinton for prevaricating about being on the receiving end of, by all known evidence, a fabulous blow job in the Oval Office. Every single one of Starr's expanded side investigations yielded absolutely ZERO charges against the Clintons and as far as the original Whitewater deal goes, it turned out that the Clintons were actually victims of fraud on the land transaction and not involved in any illicit goings-on in the matter.
Factoring in the 7 years of Starr's investigation of the White House Travel Office incident and the expanded Whitewater/Travel Office/Rose Law Firm/Blow Job inquiries, and more than $70 million in taxpayer funds, one would think that there would have been something they could have found to charge the Clinton's with. But they had nothing - absolutely nothing. But that was no surprise to those of us who closely followed that inquisition - for it was quite evident that partisan vindictiveness oozed from every pore of the proceedings from ignoble beginning to blundered end.
Kenneth Starr was the right's and the Republican's knight in shining armor. A former federal judge and Solicitor General under Poppy Bush. He was a converted Christian who wore his religiosity on his sleeve, and an eminent presence in GOP politics. His legal credentials were impressive and impeccable - mostly in government positions. It was clear that the GOP viewed Starr as their silver bullet to slay the dreaded and formidable Clenis.
Fast forward to present day. Kenneth Starr, the man who snooped relentlessly in to Bill Clinton's sex life to the point of catching the man having oral sex (the HORROR!) and then fibbing about it, has written a letter to a judge asking for mercy for a scum bag, who over a 30 year period, sexually molested multiple teen-age girls.
Do you dear reader see the irony, and of course, the brazen hypocrisy of one Mr. Kenneth Starr here? He was the conservative's righteous and moral judge, jury and would-be executioner in the quest to use Bill Clinton's sexual peccadilloes as a weapon to destroy him politically. Yet here he is now asking a court to bestow forgiveness on a serial child rapist, who by all accounts, appears to be a long time acquaintance of Mr. Starr and his family.
And you dear readers still wonder why The Gadfly has such a visceral level of contempt for the conservative movement and it's adherents? Put quite simply -- they are frauds and charlatans and their constant bellyaching about other people's morals and lifestyles is nothing more than a cynical effort to deflect attention away from their own sanctimonious moral shortcomings. And in The Gadfly's view, that goes straight to the heart of the integrity and trustworthiness of their movement and leaders.
And that is about all that The Gadfly has to say about this sordid matter.
----TFG
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