You'd think that rich people would want smart competent people running things instead of their dumb lazy selves, who have to bribe their way into an establishment which should be polishing the talents of the most talented. They should also ask if they want society to be run by crooks such as people like them.
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It may be true but it's a bit hypocritical coming from a rich guy.
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Stephen Colbert believes that the scandal does not concern Mr. Trump, because it is about "higher education." I beg to differ; There is nothing in the news these days that is totally disconnected from Mr. Trump!
Imagine your child getting grades so bad that, at some point in future, he hires a ruthless lawyer to ensure the public could never get a glimpse of his ugly grades. Then, to keep up with the Joneses, you decide to send your child to a reputable university such as University of Pennsylvania. Then, given those horrible marks, how do you go about getting him into Wharton School? And, may be more importantly, once your child is accepted by that school, how is he going to graduate from there?
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Why not send all these admission cheaters to Trump University?
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Seeing a rich and famous comic crack a joke around the idea that, indeed, things are rigged in favor of the rich and famous isn’t funny. It is a sad commentary on life in the Second Gilded Age. It is time to elect leaders who will massively redistribute wealth. This is why a democratic socialist is a popular candidate for president.
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Every day, there's an erosion of reasons to be patriotic for anyone not in the rarified atmosphere of the 1%.
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This hurts the image of William Macy, husband of Felicity Huffman.
In "Shameless" he plays a lower class guy frequently ranting about the rich and the system being stacked against him.
He's also played similar "common man" roles in movies.
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@Baba. Might be a good time to remind people that actors are not the characters they portray.
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The songs of Britney Spears on Broadway? What's next? Debbie Gibson gets voted into the Rock 'n Roll HOF?
P.S. I'm too old to have any 'knowledge' or recollection of the purportedly famous actress 'said' to have starred in a T.V. show called "Full House" … but she must be even dumber than her daughter if, as alleged, she paid 500K in bribes to get that daughter admitted to USC.
USC?
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@Thomas Murray To be fair, it was $500k for two daughters. But still.
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@New Haven
If I had children -- and even if I had 500k in 'loose change' -- I wouldn't spend a tenth of it to get a 'pride' of Murrays into that 'elite' university in your town.
What's it 'called' … Oh! Yeah ... The University of New Haven.
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Twinkle Cake: This is not so strange. He didn't spit on the cake blowing out the candles. I think this is actually considerate. -- Please note: I voted Obama twice and for Hillary.
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True, but he did put his hands on each Twinkie. Not so considerate.
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@Deb H. I don't think he did. Looks like he plucked out each candle without touching the twinkie.
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@Deb H.
He carefully plucks so the staffers can share without being contaminated by politician hands (that shake sick people hands all day).
This is so disheartening. I went into debt for my graduate degrees and won't pay off my student loans before I die. Maybe I should have just worked at the corner 7-11 and called it a day.
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Is that really a surprise, Stephen?
ALL laws are made to protect the rich.
Because all laws are MADE by rich people.
This is just a miscalculated overreach by celebrities and other very wealthy people, who think they, because they're rich, have the same privileges of celebrities.
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@Joe You are so right. Legal has lost all meaning when laws are written for specific groups of people in mind. My favorite example is when congressional insider trading was legal. A google search for Steve Croft and Nancy Pelosi is worth the time.
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@Joe on NPR's Marketplace Report this morning, a Sociology professor said there have always been ways, legally but ethically and morally questionable, to get students of rich families into elite schools, such as endowing buildings or setting up foundations. I've always wondered how George W. Bush got into Harvard, much less stayed. So yes, I agree this was a miscalculated overreach. It is the brazenness of it that I find so stunning.
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@Terri Agreed, this is something that everyone maybe didn't know as a fact but just knew it was true to paraphrase Bill Maher and others. This is brazen and up in you face so to speak. So disturbing. There is some other parallel world that exists behind the scenes for rich folks that is exposed every now and then. I think when this happens one rich person offended another and exposed them to authorities. They all know in other words.
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