Ronan Farrow’s Moment

National Review ^ | May 7, 2018 | Dan McLaughlin

[C19fan]

There’s a lot to be said about the New Yorker’s big, multi-sourced expose of how New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman has abused four different women – as I have documented at length, Schneiderman is one of President Trump’s bitterest longtime antagonists and a self-styled leader of “The Resistance” – but one point that I keep thinking about is how Ronan Farrow, one of the piece’s authors and a key figure in the downfall of Harvey Weinstein, has truly found his calling as a print journalist exposing sexual abuse. What is particularly striking is the contrast with Farrow’s original, failed journalistic career as a MSNBC television personality.

Farrow, the son of Mia Farrow and (his own mother leaves doubt as to this) either Woody Allen or Frank Sinatra, initially had a too-easy path up the ladder: he got a UNICEF gig in his mother’s footsteps at 14, graduated college at 15, got a job in the Obama Administration out of law school at 22, and was on air on MSNBC at 27. He’s a smart guy, as his educational credentials (including Yale Law and a Rhodes Scholarship) attest, but came off on TV as shallow and callow, a guy who was handed things for his good looks and family name and connections.

[nopardons]

Both the high school and college are weird; though most probably far more so, now, than it once was!

[miss marmelstein]

So is it possible he only graduated from high school?

[packrat35]

Mia was married to Frank Sinatra at one time, so the claim is not totally without merit.

[nopardons]

Yes, it's possible; not saying that that is the answer; however, that would make more sense.

Supposedly, he got his law degree at 22. So if he graduated from high school at 15, did 4 years of college, that brings us to 19, a law degree takes 3 years...that brings us to his being 22. Ergo...those numbers add up and kids used to be skipped grades, so being 15 and graduating from high school didn't used to be unusual at all; though it is now, because skipping grades was more or less done away with quite a while back. Still and all, some private schools still do it in grammar and/or high school.

[nopardons]

It makes NO sense!

Frank had been married to Barbara for yonks, by the time Mia got impregnated with Satchel/Ronan and they lived a continent away from each other! Frank and Mia's BLINK AND YOU MISSED IT marriage lasted less than 2 full years in the mid 1960s!

[packrat35]

I didn’t say it made sense. I just said they did have a past relationship.

[nopardons]

Which in this case ( Rona's birth father ), is meritless and utter nonsense.

And having Ronan wear extra blue contacts, to make his eyes look more like Frank's, came about only recently, when he and Mia tried to pull out something stupid, to bash Woody with.