The Weight of Expectation

The Worm Turns
For weeks, university officials were careful not to strike a defensive tone, emphasizing that whatever doubts there were about the account, they saw a problem that needed addressing. But on Friday, the university’s rector, George Keith Martin, opened a meeting of its governing Board of Visitors with a broadside at the news media.

“Our tightly knit community has experienced the full fury of drive-by journalism in the 21st century — of callous indifference to the truth and callous indifference to the consequences,” he said, adding, “our great university’s reputation has been unfairly tarnished.”

Before reciting a long list of things the administration is doing to make the campus safer, Teresa A. Sullivan, the university president, said, “Our concern with sexual assault was not something that started with the Rolling Stone article.” And she said she felt compelled to state that “UVA’s climate and culture are generally healthy.” (New York Times,. 12/19/2014)

The University of Virginia Rape Hoax. 

Instead of an apology to the fraternity that she was quick to punish, UVA President Teresa A. Sullivan now blames...the media!

To Liberals who suddenly and unexpectedly face scrutiny from a previously docile and compliant media we offer little in the way of sympathy. Imagine for just a moment how the UVA frat that was unjustly accused feels. 

And just remember, the next time that you hear of some atrocious sexual assault on a college campus: it is undoubtedly a hoax. 


Why?
A Vermont Senator Asks, Why Not a Socialist President? (New York Times headline, 12/19/2014)

Well...because he's a nut-job.


Heavy Lifting
Still, the president acknowledged that he would have to work with Congress on contentious issues, including lifting the 54-year-old American trade embargo against Cuba. “We cannot unilaterally bring down the embargo,” he said, although his administration is undertaking a major effort to loosen key elements. (New York Times, 12/20/2014)

Prediction? 

Six months from now Obama will announce an executive order lifting the trade embargo against Cuba. He will deny ever having said that he could not take such action unilaterally. 

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