Scott Walker, the Non-Graduate

Long, detailed, almost morbid: David A. Fahrenthold’s article for The Washington Post on the “mystery” of Scott Walker’s missing diploma from Marquette University. In the end, the juicy news is that in the last year of college, the current governor of Wisconsin chose to accept a good job — at the American Red Cross — and then get married rather than wait for the arrival of a “piece of paper.” A posteriori, we cannot say with certainty that his was a bad choice. How many young graduates from the Reagan area had to fight the Democrats three times in four years in the blue state that invented stars and stripes unionism?

However, you can be sure the argument will become one of battle horses preferred by the mainstream media in the event that Scott Walker were to choose, as seems probable now, to step into the battlefield. According to Russ Smith, on Splice Today, we are dealing with a symptom of panic that is creeping among journalists, who are terrorized by the hypothesis that a “third problem” could ruin the political reality show that they are already organizing in the event of a challenge between the Clinton and Bush dynasties. And there is no doubt that Howard Dean’s extemporaneous appearance on MSNBC, facing a terrified Joe Scarborough, decidedly points in the same direction.

Whatever the motive of so much animosity is — naturally, we cannot exclude the simple anti-GOP bias that characterizes the great majority of traditional media — the paradoxical aspect of all this vicissitude is, as Joe Cunningham notes in RedState, that we are emerging from the dual mandate of a president who, unlike Scott Walker, finished college, but who in college distinguished himself above all for having sniffed more cocaine than a Colombian mule affected by a priapism. However, in the case of “Barry” Obama, as candidate or as president, the media made sure they did not go digging into his past as a college student, limiting themselves to switching Axelrod’s TV hostesses on duty. With Walker, however, who is not a candidate yet, we already know his grade in “Introductory French” (D-). Thank God, for the Republican activists, doing badly in French, and probably also not stinking of the Ivy League, is a positive character trait for a candidate. But the mainstream media will never understand that.