Sidney Blumenthal’s university
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Clinton sleazeball Sidney Blumenthal’s DUI arrest got a lot of buzz last week. Lots of schadenfreude–and well deserved. You will well remember Sid the Squid’s sliming of Arkansas state troopers whom he accused of “attempted fraud, drunk driving and marital infidelity.”
But the New York Sun editorial board dug deeper and noticed something else noteworthy and disturbing about the story:
…what struck us about the news was the affiliation some of the press coverage listed for Mr. Blumenthal — New York University. It turns out, according to the NYU Web site, that Mr. Blumenthal is a “research fellow” at the “Center on Law and Security” of NYU law school, a center that describes itself as “committed to promoting an informed understanding of the legal and security issues defining the post 9/11 era.”
Mr. Blumenthal will no doubt emerge from his dealings of the New Hampshire authorities with a more informed understanding of the legal issues than he had going in. But what the kerfuffle underscores is the way that NYU’s Washington Square campus has become a kind of Clinton administration in exile. Mr. Blumenthal is just one among many, starting with one of NYU’s top administrators, Cheryl Mills. She is identified on the university Web site as “senior vice president, general counsel, and secretary of the university.” Ms. Mills, a 1990 graduate of Stanford Law School, was deputy White House Counsel in the Clinton administration and defended the 42nd president during his impeachment trial. An NYU spokesman told us yesterday that Ms. Mills had moved to part-time status at NYU to serve as general counsel to Senator Clinton’s presidential campaign.
Mr. Clinton’s top White House speechwriter, Michael Waldman, is director of the Brennan Center for Justice at NYU law school. A director of the Office of Management and Budget in the Clinton administration, Jacob Lew, was executive vice president for operations at NYU before leaving in 2006 to join Citigroup. NYU will take Democratic Party refugees even if they don’t have strong Clinton ties. A losing Democratic candidate for mayor of New York, Mark Green, ended up as a “distinguished visitor,” lecturing at NYU law school. A campaign consultant to Senator Kerry’s 2004 presidential campaign, Robert Shrum, has fetched up as a senior fellow at NYU’s Robert F. Wagner Graduate School of Public Service.
Definitely something to keep in mind if you’ve got a high-schooler scouting out colleges and universities.
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Now Sid can research the legal and security implications of driving while under the influence.
He might start with the statistics on how many illegal aliens have killed American citizens and/or legal residents by flouting our laws. I guarantee he would have a very interested audience for the results!
I didn’t see much coverage about his arrest, but that doesn’t suprise me. It was on Fox news web page for one day then disappeared. The article said he was driving 70 mph in a 30 mph zone, failed the field sobriety test and refused to take a breathilizer test.
It didn’t say who posted his bail.
I’ll probably claim he was doing “research” for the Center on Law & Security.
I also wonder who MADD is endorsing for Prez.?
I’m a firm believer in “what goes around, comes around.”
Just took a long time. But this pompous –S deserves it.
I question the timing of the “news” though. I read this on Friday, and wondered why it took so many days to get out.
Oh, that’s right, we had to wait until AFTER the Dem primary, so the Hillbilly could take her fake win without anything related to her getting the way.
Yeah, reported on Friday, right before a weekend. Typical.
If this was a Republican associate, the press would be hyperventilating about it the second he/she got out on bail.
I read over a year ago that NYU offers courses in “lawyering” as opposed to law. Presumably, this would lead to a BS degree.
Sorry, He’ll probably claim it was Research.
There is another little known episdoe in the distinguished career of Sid Vicious. Some years ago, he filed a defamation lawsuit against Drudge. At the beginning of the lawsuit, the MSM trumpeted it as a slamdunk for Sid and the end of Drudge. But something funny happened. The lawsuit ended without a retraction from Drudge or a monetary settlement to Sid. In fact, Sid ended up having to pay some of Drudge’s fees. It was never really explained how this turnaround happened. And enquiring minds
would love to know what happened to Sid tthat made him change his tune. Maybe DDrudge’s team of lawyers found something in the “discovery” phase of the lawsuit that Sid didn’t want public. Just curious if anyone recalls this episode.
Damn. Sid Vicious is still on the public payroll. And still does not work for a living.
This is business as usual for the Clinton crowd. We will see what kind of defense he come’s up with, some how it’s going to be Booosh’s fault. My boy’s are more responsible than any of these idiot’s could ever think of being.
I can see it now, a photoshop of a drunken Sid the Squid stand with Britney, Paris and Lindsey, all trying to walk a straight line with a state trooper watching intently and then rolling his eyes.
Perhaps Sid the Squid Blumenthal and Bill Moyers can arrange a NUI…I mean an NYU symposium on ‘Right-Wing Media Bias Towards Liberal DUI Offenders.’
Did he go to the Ted Kennedy Driving School?
At least, ol’ Sid should have plenty of familiarity with the laws he broke.
What I find disturbing is that this incident got less coverage than when former Phish guitarist Trey Anastasio was DUI the year before.
Let’s see now…one guy played music for a living, the other was an assistant to a former and (possibly) future president - OF COURSE we’ll cover the guitar guy!
When Bill Moyers got busted in Vermont for drunk driving, the MSM barely mentioned it. When Sid Vicious gets busted for drunk driving in New Hampshire the news media barely mentioned it. When the MSM got wind of the fact in 2000 that George W. Bush had been arrested for drunk driving in Maine in 1975, the MSM paraded it all over the media. And what was truly sanctimonious about Moyers was that right after his arrest for drunk driving, he was back on PBS (our tax dollars at work) ranting about the Bush administration’s “lawlessness”. Moyers and Sid Vicious could both have killed children when they were driving drunk and their judgment and vision gets impaired. Yet neither Sid Vicious or Bill Moyers sees anything hypocritical about driving drunk and then lecturing others about “lawlessness”.
I’m all for throwing the book at DWIs. Did you know our President is one too?
But about NYU and out of power bureaudemocrats (or demobureaucrats), many high level bureaucrats of both parties park themselves in universities when their party is out of office. The Hoover Institute has lots of Republican parking spaces. Often the affiliations are pretty loose. “Distinguished visitor” means the person has a desk and a library card, but probably not a salary. If the person wants to live in a major city, the choices are Columbia or NYU or Georgetown or Harvard.
Sounds like material for “Indoctrinate U” the sequel!
84% of College profs voted for Al Gore in 2000.
Universities are NOT fair and balanced, and the American education system is becoming more of a joke as ways to skirt around hard work and studying are found and masked by concepts like tolerance and diversity.
Liberals can simmer over it all they want, but we all know it’s true.
Those who can, do.
Those who can’t, teach.
Those who can’t teach are liberal professors.
#16 On January 14th, 2008 at 4:23 pm, Straight_Talk_Luigi said:
“84% of College profs voted for Al Gore in 2000.
Universities are NOT fair and balanced, and the American education system is becoming more of a joke as ways to skirt around hard work and studying are found and masked by concepts like tolerance and diversity.
Liberals can simmer over it all they want, but we all know it’s true.”
You are absolutely correct.
It is past the time for a far more effective, far less expensive alternative to a college so-called education as a way to educate young people to enter the work force.
#17 On January 14th, 2008 at 4:53 pm, KaosKlerik said:
”Straight_Talk_Luigi said:
84% of College profs voted for Al Gore in 2000.’
Those who can, do.
Those who can’t, teach.
Those who can’t teach are liberal professors.”
I first heard that expression ~35 years ago from my mother, who taught for 30 years!
From an episode of “The White Shadow” of the late 70s-early 80s:
Those who can, do.
Those who can’t, teach.
Those who can’t do either, administrate.
LGM you are a little late about your post on Bush having a DUI. The previous post did mention it and all the publicity it got compared to top demos getting them. Admit that the Demos own the media.
Since we are throwing the book at drunken drivers and are on the topic of DUIs, let us not forget that a drunken Ted Kennedy left a woman to die in his mother’s Oldsmobile at Chappaquiddick.
As Garyt aptly notes, the Dems never seem to get the same level of scrutiny (or any for that matter) when they screw up (I cite the the comments of Trent Lott and Chris Dodd on Strom Thurmond and Robert Byrd respectively, or the scrutiny of President Bush’s and John Kerry’s Vietnam era exploits).
Wonder why that is? /sarcasm
I always thought it was:
Those who can, do.
Those who can’t, teach.
Those who can’t do either, teach gym.
But then, what is the difference?