Rice Marching Owl Band Mocked Ken Starr (Sweet Revenge)

[Jim Beard]

Baylor beat Rice, 38-10, on Friday night in Houston. During halftime, the Rice MOB (Marching Owl Band) performed a routine that included jokes “written by Fozzie Bear.” The second song they played was “99 Red Balloons” with the band in the form of the Roman numeral nine, IX. A reference to Baylor’s Title IX investigation and rape scandal. As the band moves into formation, the P.A. announcer said this:

The number of the day is nine. Since nine is the number of justices on the Supreme Court. Or is it? Wocka wocka.

If that wasn’t obvious enough, the announcer then read a quote from Ken Starr and the band played “Hit the Road Jack” in a star formation.

Now for our featured quote of the day by famous Clinton prosecutor and former Baylor president, Ken Starr, who said, quote, ‘I did not investigate that coach.’

Rice’s band is known for making jokes at the expense of opponents, but this one seemed to be in especially poor taste.

Rice halftime at Baylor


It isn't poor taste to me. Hell, Texas Tech Even hired Alberto Gonzales

[Ilsa]

1. Earlier thread:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/10028171004

[Major Nikon]

2. Ken Starr should leave a bad taste in everyone's mouth

He spent $100 million taxpayer dollars investigating the Clinton's and never got within a cab ride of indicting either one of them. It takes a monumental lack of integrity to piss away that much money with nothing to show for it. So either he was completely corrupt, or he was completely incompetent. Either way he was unfit to hand out towels in the men's room, much less manage a large university. He wasn't even a Baptist. Those that hired him should have proceeded him out the door if they had the least bit of sense.

[radicalliberal]

3. "... this one seemed to be in especially poor taste"?

Let me see now. Stephen Douglas objects to a Rice MOB routine, but he expresses no outrage over the rapes. This speaks volumes. A moral vacuum, to say the least. Rape is nothing, but a marching band routine is outrageous!