No more denials. Jim Jordan must acknowledge what he knew: editorial

[deminks]

https://www.cleveland.com/opinion/index.ssf/2018/07/no_more_denials_jim_jordan_mus.html

By Editorial Board

Lame-duck House Speaker Paul Ryan this week called Jim Jordan, the former star wrestler and embattled Ohio congressman who served as an assistant Ohio State University wrestling coach for many years, "a man of honesty and a man of integrity."

It's nice Ryan thinks so. It's hardly on point, however, to the rising questions about whether Jordan responded appropriately to the alleged sexual abuse of OSU athletes by Dr. Richard Strauss, a longtime physician for OSU's athletics program. Strauss killed himself in 2005.

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And there, Jordan's staunch insistence that he never saw, heard or suspected anything as an assistant OSU wrestling coach from 1987 to 1995 just doesn't pass the sniff test.

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That is, if no one said the words "I was sexually abused" out loud, despite any other evidence to the contrary, it did not happen?

With all due respect to Jordan, there's a slang word Ohioans use to describe such fine-line distinctions: "Weaseling."

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[Lulu KC]

1. All due respect is less than zero n/t