Corruption would “make Lincoln roll over in his grave.”

[David Lockmiller]

Tomorrow, the Editorial Board of the New York Times will publish in its print edition an editorial with the title: "It’s Time for Michigan State to Clean House."

In the first paragraph, the Editorial Board makes the following statement: "the leaders of Michigan State University, where [Dr. Larry Nassar] worked, have yet to take full responsibility for their failures to protect those girls, or to even learn what went wrong and regain the trust of the public."

In the second paragraph, the Editorial Board calls for the resignation of all of the Michigan State University Board of Trustees:

"To ensure real accountability, members of the university’s Board of Trustees, which picks the university’s president, oversees its administration and sets policy, should resign to make way for new leadership unencumbered by the Nassar scandal and the recent report by ESPN that the university concealed allegations of sexual violence by members of its prized football and basketball programs."

The following is the seventh paragraph in the New York Times editorial to be published in tomorrow's newspaper:

The university resisted commissioning an independent investigation and gave the public the impression that it had hired Patrick Fitzgerald, a respected former United States attorney, to run one. It turned out that Mr. Fitzgerald was representing, not investigating, the school. Belatedly, on Friday, the board said it would “bring in an independent third party to perform a top-to-bottom review of all our processes relating to health and safety.”

What I think to be very strange is the fact that nowhere in the editorial does the New York Times Editorial Board call into question the conduct of "Patrick Fitzgerald, a respected former United States attorney."

Patrick Fitzgerald must have known how both the President and the Board of Trustees for Michigan State University were characterizing his "investigation" to the Public and yet he did nothing to correct this misrepresentation. After all, this is same respected former United States attorney who prosecuted "Rod R. Blagojevich, the idiosyncratic former governor of Illinois accused of trying to get something in exchange for an appointment to the United States Senate seat that Barack Obama vacated when he was elected president." And, at the same time he declared that the Governor's corruption would “make Lincoln roll over in his grave.”

What would Lincoln have done?