On Wed, Mar 13, 2019 at 10:40 AM Jon Delfin <[email protected]> wrote:
> David Mamet (friend of Huffman and Macy) has commented to the effect that > he sees no difference between bribing universities by donating a building, > and bribing third parties to perpetrate fraud on said universities. David > Mamet is a moron. > There is a difference, just as there is a difference between somebody scoring drugs from a dealer on the street vs somebody scoring drugs from a doctor in a lab coat. To paraphrase the late Spenser/Jesse Stone author Robert B Parker, police aren’t in the right and wrong business, they are in the legal and illegal business. Giving money directly to a school to influence its admissions policies is legal, but it is also just as wrong as the indirect methods used by the people who were charged yesterday. > On Wed, Mar 13, 2019 at 1:34 PM PGage <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Another target is a wealthy winery operator here in Napa Valley (though >> it looks like he lives in the City). Looks like most of these parents are >> general entitled wealthy people (though I have always enjoyed Huffman’s >> work, but pissed media is tagging her with Housewives label instead of >> Sports Night, which obviously has priority). >> >> I checked in with my late 20s daughter and her BF, both Ivy grads who >> were not smart enough to choose wealthy parents to buy their way in, to >> find out what they and their friends thought. As I suspected, they lacked >> the extreme moralized indignation that we have seen from so many of the >> upper middle class (but not actually upper class) media types have been >> indulging in. They and their friends mostly shaking their heads, but see >> this as a minor example of the much more pervasive practice of children of >> the elite classes getting into Ivy League level schools though legacy, >> donations and influence rather than ability or hard work. >> >> On Wed, Mar 13, 2019 at 7:58 AM Jon Delfin <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> Also note: If there were more celebrities ensnared by this operation, >>> we'd have heard about them by now. So, mostly wealthy, but not Hollywood, >>> people. >>> >>> On Wed, Mar 13, 2019, 10:37 AM Mark Jeffries <[email protected]> >>> wrote: >>> >>>> He just said "Hollywood," as if that meant everything. Besides, I >>>> thought Lori Laughlin was a Republican--or am I getting her mixed up with >>>> Candace Cameron Bure, since they were both on the same show? >>>> >>>> Besides, seems to me that the Tim Allen show that the Trumpies love so >>>> much is filmed in Hollywood, not in Atlanta or at Pat Robertson's place in >>>> Virginia Beach. >>>> >>>> Mark Jeffries >>>> Saints Spotlight Editor >>>> [email protected] >>>> >>>> >>>> On Wed, Mar 13, 2019 at 4:50 AM 'bermuda999' via TVorNotTV < >>>> [email protected]> wrote: >>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> On Tuesday, March 12, 2019 at 1:58:41 PM UTC-4, Doug Fields wrote: >>>>>> >>>>>> Children of the rich can get preferential treatment in admissions to >>>>>> upper-echelon schools if the parents grease the wheels with a little >>>>>> financial "donation"? >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> I'm shocked. Shocked, I say! >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> Doug Fields >>>>>> >>>>>> Tampa, FL >>>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> And thankfully it didn't take long for the President's oldest son Jr >>>>> to chime in, brimming with his usual amount of self-awareness >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> -- >>>>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google >>>>> Groups "TVorNotTV" group. >>>>> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send >>>>> an email to [email protected]. >>>>> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. >>>>> >>>> -- >>>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google >>>> Groups "TVorNotTV" group. >>>> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send >>>> an email to [email protected]. >>>> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. >>>> >>> -- >>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google >>> Groups "TVorNotTV" group. >>> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send >>> an email to [email protected]. >>> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. >>> >> -- >> Sent from Gmail Mobile >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "TVorNotTV" group. >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >> email to [email protected]. >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. >> > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "TVorNotTV" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- Kevin M. 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