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Jack Cashill: Malia, Michelle, Barack and the College Admissions Scandal
americanthinker.com ^ | Jack Cashill

Posted on 03/18/2019 7:01:27 AM PDT by RoosterRedux

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.

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KEYWORDS: admissions; affirmativeaction; college; harvard; malia
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1 posted on 03/18/2019 7:01:27 AM PDT by RoosterRedux
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To: RoosterRedux
This is because it [Michelle Obama's thesis] wasn't written in any known language.” Hitchens exaggerated only a little.

Gotta love it!;-)

2 posted on 03/18/2019 7:03:30 AM PDT by RoosterRedux
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To: RoosterRedux

MO, BO and Malia combined IQ’s SQUARED, wouldn’t make minus zero


3 posted on 03/18/2019 7:04:30 AM PDT by SMARTY (Hatred is a feeling which leads to the extinction of values. Ortega y Gasset)
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To: RoosterRedux

#blackprivilege


4 posted on 03/18/2019 7:04:49 AM PDT by Atticus
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To: RoosterRedux

The worst part is these people always get away with everything. Not gonna doubt if this gets let down easily.


5 posted on 03/18/2019 7:07:21 AM PDT by graciebraswell
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To: SMARTY

Barack’s high school teachers questioned how a “B” student got into an Ivy League school.


6 posted on 03/18/2019 7:07:58 AM PDT by boycott
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To: RoosterRedux

I wonder if Harvard paid the Obamas to send daughter there?


7 posted on 03/18/2019 7:07:59 AM PDT by nascarnation
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To: RoosterRedux

Grammar Police trigger warning - please shade your eyes:

“The study inquires about the respondents’ motivations to benefit him/herself, and the following social groups: the family, the Black community, the White community, God and church, The U.S. society, the non-White races of the world, and the human species as a whole.”
[sic] Michele Obama


8 posted on 03/18/2019 7:11:22 AM PDT by QBFimi (It is not your responsibility to finish the work of perfecting the world... Tarfon)
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To: RoosterRedux

Who was getting paid at the schools?


9 posted on 03/18/2019 7:16:27 AM PDT by hadaclueonce ( This time I am Deplorable)
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To: nascarnation

That’s where my head goes. I would venture it’s the case with Bush’s and Clinton’s daughters as well. Kids off to the highest bidder.


10 posted on 03/18/2019 7:22:41 AM PDT by Blue Collar Christian (Socialism is for losers.)
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To: SMARTY
"MO, BO and Malia combined IQ’s SQUARED, wouldn’t make minus zero"

There is nothing, when squared, that is negative unless except, of course, i, which is imaginary. However, the products of multiplying together, or squaring their IQs, likely all get even smaller, meaning they all start out less than 1.0. Unless you mean that BO is the dog Bo. In which case, his IQ likely starts out above 1.0.

11 posted on 03/18/2019 7:23:27 AM PDT by norwaypinesavage (Calm down and enjoy the ride, great things are happening for our country)
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To: boycott

He was a “foreign” student. We’ve been swindled.


12 posted on 03/18/2019 7:25:46 AM PDT by onedoug
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To: QBFimi

the mile long freight train of run on sentances


13 posted on 03/18/2019 7:30:30 AM PDT by slapshot ( Speaker Ryan was a sober and less tan version of John Boehner)
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To: boycott

I am pretty sure how he got in. And that his educational ‘record’ is sealed BECAUSE of that. He’s plum dumb and everyone KNOWS it.

Of course when he stepped into the political arena, there wasn’t time to properly ‘doctor’ the record, so it was sealed.

We will only get to see it when everyone concerned is dead and gone (well beyond fielding questions) and then the finalized ‘fiction’ will be made available


14 posted on 03/18/2019 7:31:18 AM PDT by SMARTY (Hatred is a feeling which leads to the extinction of values. Ortega y Gasset)
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To: Blue Collar Christian

Those people don’t have to pay, the schools just automatically know what to do.


15 posted on 03/18/2019 7:31:36 AM PDT by bigbob (Trust Trump. Trust the Plan.)
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To: RoosterRedux

Dense and turgid? I read that thing. More like ungrammatical, semi-literate and illogically argued.

I’d have been lucky to get a C- on it had I turned it in in junior high.


16 posted on 03/18/2019 7:33:22 AM PDT by 9YearLurker
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To: RoosterRedux

Hitchens was great.

And nobody can slip in the insult dagger like the English.


17 posted on 03/18/2019 7:34:34 AM PDT by 9YearLurker
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To: RoosterRedux

What schools get Soros’s $$$? Finding that out will answer a lot of questions.


18 posted on 03/18/2019 7:35:53 AM PDT by ryderann
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To: QBFimi

“The study inquires about the respondents’ motivations to benefit him/herself, and the following social groups: the family, the Black community, the White community, God and church, The U.S. society, the non-White races of the world, and the human species as a whole.”
[sic] Michele Obama

Looks ok to me


19 posted on 03/18/2019 7:37:52 AM PDT by al baby (Hi Mom Hi Dad)
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To: RoosterRedux
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.

Corrupt liberal 'elites' protected them...

20 posted on 03/18/2019 7:40:46 AM PDT by GOPJ (Harris & Little Willie; Mika & Joe; Bill "Slick Willie”"& interns; Strzok and Page; etc.-- MadMax)
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