Jack Cashill: Malia, Michelle, Barack and the College Admissions Scandal

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People have been scamming their ways into prestige universities for decades, maybe centuries, but in the past they have had the good sense not to put the cash on the table. It seems that in this scandal a few of the bribers and their brokers may well pay for their indiscretion with prison sentences as well.

The media pretend to be shocked. In an editorial on the scandal, the New York Times singled out Harvard University for its “special admissions preferences and back doors for certain applicants.” This is the same New York Times, however, that published an entirely uncritical article three years prior headlined, “Malia Obama Rebels, Sort of, by Choosing Harvard.”

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Michelle was the next to attend Harvard, in her case Harvard Law School. “Told by counselors that her SAT scores and her grades weren’t good enough for an Ivy League school,” writes Christopher Andersen in Barack and Michelle, “Michelle applied to Princeton and Harvard anyway.”

Sympathetic biographer Liza Mundy writes, “Michelle frequently deplores the modern reliance on test scores, describing herself as a person who did not test well.” She did not write well either. Mundy charitably describes her senior thesis, "Princeton-Educated Blacks and the Black Community," as “dense and turgid.”

The less charitable Christopher Hitchens observed, “To describe [the thesis] as hard to read would be a mistake; the thesis cannot be ‘read’ at all, in the strict sense of the verb. This is because it wasn't written in any known language.” Hitchens exaggerated only a little.

[an amused spectator]

He had to let the Wookie win, lest she tear one of his arms off... ;-)

[Liz]

<><> The "stylish" Michelle went to elite Princeton though she was told her grades were not good enough.

<><>Obama’s kids were easy---they applied as the children of a black foreign exchange student (smirk).

<><> How did this imbecile get into Yale? VA School of Law. And into Congress?

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The current college admissions bribery is all about white LIBERAL PRIVILEGE
All White. All Rich. All Liberal Progressive. The haves taking from the have nots

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<><> Alexandra Pelosi graduated from University of Southern California's Annenberg School for Communication in 1993.

<><> What did the Clintons pay to get their idiot child Chelsea into college and Oxford?
They threw her father out of Oxford.

The unfolding elite schools' bribery case, the largest college admissions scam in US history, has raised questions about "affirmative action," and whether or not it should be abolished. Asst US Attorney Eric S. Rosen told Judge Rya ­Zobel that briber/mastermind William Singer “[lied] about wealthy students’ ethnicities and other biographical information in an attempt to take advantage of perceived benefits from affirmative action and other programs” (programs designed to assist the undeserved). (hat tip NY POST)

High Time to determine the scope and dimension of the collusion among parents, school figures, middlemen, and the rest. Cheating and bribery are the major criminal elements, but the fake charities, financial reporting, and fraudulent tax deductions are the core of the case.

And like a lot of crimes------Al Capone comes to mind, jailed for tax evasion, not his actual crimes-----

It's what they did before and after the commission of the crime that should be examined.

<><> did they falsify official documents?
<><> how did they handle the money exchange on their income tax returns?

<><> how did the bribees handle the exchange of money?
<><> did the latter falsify documents, as well?

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