Guv's Daughter Gets Unearned College Degree... Guess Which Party?

Looks like the daughter of the West Virginia's Democratic governor has gotten herself into a bit of a scandal with an unearned, politically awarded college degree from West Virginia University. A panel to review allegations that the woman didn't really earn that degree was convened and it was determined that she just does not qualify to get that degree that was awarded her by "High-ranking academic officers" at the school. Naturally, no report mentions that Gov. Joe Manchin is a member of the Democratic Party and that HE was the one that appointed the school's officials.

It seems that at the school, highly placed friends of the Democratic governor were trying to cover for the Guv's daughter who claimed for several years that she had a degree when she did not. Heather Bresch was suddenly awarded an MBA from WVU nearly a decade after she left the school and after the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette called the University to check on the woman's degree.

Back in December of 2007, the Post-Gazette broke the story of the politically awarded degree.

Top officials took the action nearly a decade after she was a student. The revision was sparked by a routine call from the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette to confirm the academic credentials of Ms. Bresch, daughter of West Virginia Gov. Joe Manchin, following her Oct. 2 promotion to chief operating officer at Mylan. The Cecil-based company is chaired by Milan Puskar, WVU's largest benefactor.

The paper then recounted all the appointments that the Governor made to the school's board and hinted that the MBA was awarded because of politics and not completed class work.

Since then, a board had been looking into the awarding of the degree and now it has been concluded that the Governor's daughter really didn't earn the degree she was awarded.

Now, the news today is that the board is announcing their findings that Bresch does not deserve her MBA. As usual, the stories are filled with all sorts of details about the situation and about the woman's father, Governor Joe Manchin. Well, all sorts of details but the fact that the Governor and all his appointees to the school are Democrats, that is.

So here we go again with a story that easily fits the subject of government corruption, a "culture of corruption," because the Governor's sycophants at the school were the ones that gave out a degree for political reasons and yet, the Guv's party just isn't "relevant" to these news folks.

Who can doubt the were West Virginia's Gov. a Republican that old "Republican culture of corruption" would have been the meme of the day?

So, the AP forgot Governor Manchin was a Democrat just as the local papers and state wide news sources and TV stations did.

But, the funniest example of absurdity with this issue is the reactions at the Democratic Underground. You'll never guess who's fault the Demmies there blamed for the Democrat daughter of a Democrat Governor getting a fake degree?

Yeah.... you guessed it.

George W, Bush!

Hilarious for it's utter stupidity. BDS shall never die.

(h/t Newsbusters reader capav)

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