Reporter Philip Shennon took a potshot at Cooley Law School — and missed every sensible point

© 2018 Peter Free

 

05 May 2018

 

 

A lack of common moral sense?

 

Reporter Philip Shenon — formerly of the (now perpetually propagandizing) New York Times — went after the law school that Michael Cohen graduated from.

 

He wrote:

 

 

Cooley may be, by some measurements, the worst law school in America.

 

And its standing has not been enhanced by a flood of publicity about the quality of the legal work of its best known and, increasingly, most notorious alum:

 

Michael D. Cohen, class of 1991, President Trump’s longtime personal lawyer and the target of a federal criminal investigation in New York that has clearly rattled Trump.

 

Despite its plummeting enrollment, Cooley, which identifies itself a nonprofit institution, has continued to pay handsome salaries to some administrators and faculty members.

 

© 2018 Philip Shenon, Trump’s Lawyer Went to the Worst Law School in America, Politico (0 May 2018) (excerpts)

 

 

What struck me

 

In Mr. Shenon's mind, low-ranking Cooley Law School is ostensibly responsible for Michael Cohen being professionally lousy. As well as, we can infer from his long assault, for Cohen being associated with our sometimes insufferable President.

 

Evidently, it did not occur to Shenon that:

 

 

the even more famous

 

inestimably more vile

 

torture-promoting and rights-eliminating

 

former Deputy Assistant U.S. Attorney General

 

John Woo

 

(of Harvard, Yale and now Cal Berkeley)

 

— as well as the many-many more lawyers exactly like Professor Woo, including former President Barack Obama —

 

are magnitudes worse for humanity than Michael Cohen could ever dream of being.

 

 

Maybe in Shenon's presumably elitist view, an Ivy League label magically protects degree-holders from God's (hopefully eventually piercing) judgment.

 

 

The moral? — Too many elitists fail to recognize their own fecal matter

 

Which, in some ways, makes them more spiritually reprehensible than the rest of us.

 

Michael Cohen may be both incompetent and pretender. But — as only one sampled alumnus — he does not credibly stain Cooley Law School. Which, I should also note, is probably no more of a financial scam than any of the Ivys and most everything in between.

 

Mr. Shenon and his fellow inferred elitists exhibit what I tentatively conclude is an inability to recognize that their arrogant thinking is often out of kilter with morally proportionate and fair-minded common sense.