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Starr already looked, as Dan Wetzel put it, “clumsy and clueless” in an interview with ESPN earlier this week. He took clumsy and clueless to new levels in an interview with KWTX in Waco.
Reporter Julie Hays presented Starr with a Nov. 2015 email from a woman who says she was raped by former Baylor football player Tevin Elliott, who was sentenced to 20 years in prison for a separate sexual assault. The email, which was addressed to Starr, former head coach Art Briles and others, featured the subject line “I Was Raped at Baylor,” and was featured in a recent episode of ESPN’s Outside the Lines.
When Hays asks Starr about the email, Starr – at first – says he may have seen it.
“I honestly may have. I’m not denying that I saw it,” Starr said.
Soon after these words left Starr’s mouth, KWTX’s report says a public relations woman named Merrie Spaeth asked the station’s news director not to use Starr’s comment when the piece airs. The news director, of course, objected to that request. Spaeth then interrupts the interview to pull Starr out of the room, presumably to coach him up with a different, more image-friendly way of answering Hays’ question.
When Starr returns to the room, Spaeth instructs Hays to ask the question a second time. She does. This time, Starr’s answer is different: “All I’m going to say is I honestly have no recollection of that.”
At this point, Starr inexplicably turns to Spaeth to ask her if his answer was “OK.” The cameras are still rolling, and a clearly exasperated Spaeth instructs Starr to look at Hays, not at her.
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