File this under, There Is A Tweet For Everything https://twitter.com/felicityhuffman/status/768888270772064256?s=21
On Wed, Mar 13, 2019 at 11:46 AM Kevin M. <[email protected]> wrote: > > > 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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