The Penn State University football scandal has been ugly in a variety of ways, but not all of them are immediately obvious. In particular, the mainstream press, so proud of its progressive views on most moral matters, showed the puritanical streak they always reveal when a person widely believed to be of good moral character can be knocked down and branded a hypocrite. The media coverage in this case displayed the classic American journalism tactic of conveying salacious stories under cover of moral indignation. This was obvious in the rush to make Penn State football coach Joe Paterno the center of the story.
The real focus should naturally have been former Penn State defensive coordinator Jerry Sandusky and the Penn State officials who knowingly covered up the knowledge of Sandusky’s misdeeds. What Sandusky allegedly did to so many innocent boys over the course of at least two decades and probably more ought to be enough to make him the obvious villain in this story, the clear center of the press coverage. Yet he was rather quickly shoved to the background — my web search for stories on the scandal found that four times as many mentioned Penn State coach Joe Paterno as mentioned Sandusky.
It is equally clear that Penn State athletic director Tim Curley and vice president Gary Schultz are morally culpable and that they engaged in criminal behavior in covering up the matter, according to the grand jury testimony. There is no telling, at this point, how many boys were victimized as a result of their alleged refusal to bring the matter to the attention of the proper authorities when they apparently knew full well that a criminal action had been done on their watch. The same allegedly applies to university president Graham Spanier, who was fired by the institution’s board of trustees.
Yet all of these obvious alleged wrongdoings were given much less coverage than was accorded to Penn State coach Paterno. Instead of a story about sexual predation and a cover-up by government employees, this became a story about hypocrisy — a particular obsession of the U.S. media in recent years. Paterno should indeed have been subjected to much scrutiny for his involvement in the matter, but his emergence as the central cause of concern indicates an agenda among the press, whipped into a frenzy by a partiality toward simplistic, heroes-and-villains storylines.
It’s apparent that Paterno was wrong in failing to follow up on the matter after sending it up the chain of authority, according to the grand jury testimony. He should have kept after them, it’s now clear. And the lateness and weakness of his mea culpa suggests a lack of sympathy toward the victims, something which he did not correct until a few days into the week’s events.
By S.T. Karnick, Americanthinker.com
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I think the situation at Penn State says a lot about what the heck is wrong with our nation. Fire the football coach and the idiots attending the school destroy private property and yell and scream. If the person fired had been the history, math or english professor there would not have been anything said. I would almost bet that Joe Paterno is/was the highest paid government employee in the state!
We are experiencing the Trance formation of America. A new society in which perversion, corruption and unscrupulous, immoral behavior is tolerated by the masses, in exchange for the ability to just be left alone. Left alone to worship the way we want to, left alone to believe what we want to (even the lies), left alone to work and support our families, even left alone by those that try to encourage us to become active for our own sake. Our apathetic attitude has made us so complacent and blind, that we are content to wash ourselves in a river called Denial. No one even cares to fathom that this kind of perversion even exists higher up in the food chain.
Because if it doesn't affect us personally, and we didn't witness it first hand, we've been conditioned to label it as political slanderous rhetoric or unsubstantiated accusations against our favorite despot that we support.
The Mondale Act of 1974 was the communist manifesto for American children and families. Children, ripped from falsely-accused parents, fall into the quagmire of institutionalization and subsequent abuse by the State. Meanwhile, those we entrusted with positions of power and gave wages to, that were above the average working citizen, betrayed our trust and were committing the unfathomable. But they had an out, a conditioned populace, a controlled Judicial system and unbridled immunity from any and all prosecution, through this thing called National Security. Only one, of dozens of cases of high level child abuse, made it through to the so-called justice system, only to be shut down and thrown into the abyss of National Security. Evil and perversion exists in every level of society, it is only through our fears and reluctance to face this evil, in higher levels in society, that allows it to grow and thrive and multiply.
Access Denied, is just one book written by Cathy O' Brien, exposing such hideous evil and perversion, that most minds shake from both anger and fear when attempting to read it…. Tags, are the simplest way to search out information, key wording like, Franklin cover up, Trance formation of America, MK Ultra, Project Monarch, mind control and pornography, Mind control in America, Agenda 21, can all be found by doing a search in your browser or in the search box on Youtube. If you do not care to believe what you find in these searches, then you may as well join in with the hypocrisy and denial that allowed Sandusky to continue for so long and ruin so many trusting children and their families lives. You will be no better than the administrators at Penn State, because that is supposed to be your duty in this Republic, the masters of both the courts and congress.
What infuriates me in the situation is that the ACLU defends LAMBDA, the Education Department tries to cram the indoctrinate and cram down the throats of school children of how Sally can have two mommies and Johnny can have two daddies; and that's ok. Yet, the practices they defend and say we should accept is what they are compalining about. Yes, Paterno should have pushed the issue more to have his coach's removal, but he did was according to protocol.
McQueary is the one, other than Sandusky that should be on the "hot" seat! I am a 66 yr old woman and I am here to tell you that if I had walked into that locker room and saw a 10 yr. old boy being raped. I would grab any weapon available and tried to kill the attacker and taken that child to safety and then called 911. I think McQueary has a yellow streak a mile wide. The only way I would left that shower without that child is if I were carried out unconscious!!
demanee1 is right the fellow should have helped the boy first and reported it after. Tis all started in 2002. Here we hear about it in 2011. Many heads should rool from this.
One Thing About What Happened Years Ago Sexually Is Still A Crime Today, But If It Was Barry Soetoro AKA Barack Obama With His "Larry Sinclair Love Affair" We Will Just "Rope-A-Dope" The Soros Media Empire And Kick The Can Down The Road, Yikeess, However The Canadian Free Press Has The Complete "Love Affair Story" Obama/Sinclair With Tepid Interest, Yikeess, Wake-Up America Your Not "Lazy" Your Drinking The Obamacare Kool-Aid And His "Spin Sermons" Just Keep Changing The Subject, "Until After The Election" Chi-Town Style Politics Style. God Bless America.