WaPo Piece on PSU/Sandusky/Paterno
https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/2017/sports/penn-state-six-year…
I'll offer this without much commentary. But wow, if you want a recap of just how delusional some folks on and near that campus are, read this in its entirety. To some of these folks, nothing matters or would ever matter in changing their minds; JoePa was framed, he knew nothing, and he should be celebrated daily on PSU's campus...
EDIT: Holy shit, this post resulted in 9/11 Truthers revealing themselves semi-publicly? My day is finished, my work is done here.
December 28th, 2017 at 2:39 PM ^
December 28th, 2017 at 4:02 PM ^
Mother of God.
December 28th, 2017 at 6:03 PM ^
December 28th, 2017 at 1:44 PM ^
JoPa never molested anyone and didn't benefit from Sandusky raping children. The guy was a football coach who just wanted to coach football. People should put the blame where it belongs (with the rapist) and stop dragging JoPa into it. I know a lot of other people feel the same way but they refrain from saying so on this board out of fear of losing fake internet points.
December 28th, 2017 at 1:46 PM ^
December 28th, 2017 at 2:00 PM ^
Or if it were FieldysNuts kids or grandkids, I don't think he'd let JoePa get off scott free
December 28th, 2017 at 2:03 PM ^
December 28th, 2017 at 2:16 PM ^
December 28th, 2017 at 1:47 PM ^
A real comment, is it?
A LOT of other people feel the same way?? I would sure like to meet those lot of people. Because unless they live or attend in and around Penn State, I think you'd be hard pressed to find ANYONE who shares that laughable sentiment.
December 28th, 2017 at 1:47 PM ^
Paterno was in charge of the football program at Pennsylvania State University. You know that place where a coach molested children for 30 years. So I would say Mr Paterno deserves a lot of the blame.
December 28th, 2017 at 1:56 PM ^
December 28th, 2017 at 1:58 PM ^
I completely e-gree with you.
December 28th, 2017 at 1:50 PM ^
Are you for real? To an exaggerated degree, Hitler never was proven to have actually killed anyone. He is still responsible for one of the most heinous acts in our civilzation's history. I hope you can draw the connection here. Just in case, being complicit is an act of deviance. He's not clean.
December 28th, 2017 at 1:49 PM ^
From all the evidence I've heard as a non-insider, JoPa was a clear accomplice to a sick crime. Whether he personally benefited (and not having to fire his coordinator was clearly a benefit) is irrelevant. He harbored a child molester and actively concealed that monster's actions. If others on this board feel the same as you, then I am deeply saddened for this board.
December 28th, 2017 at 2:16 PM ^
I'm not sure based on your comments that you know that Sandusky had not been employed by Paterno for several years. He was Paterno's right hand man and heir apparent and abruptly resigned out of the blue to run the charity.
December 28th, 2017 at 3:02 PM ^
you decide not to take into account the Insurance Companies documented records of Paterno knowing about Sanduskys actions in the 1970s.
December 29th, 2017 at 11:00 AM ^
Eh, there is a reason the insurance company info never made it into criminal proceedings. There is a lot of hearsay there.
December 29th, 2017 at 12:22 PM ^
But the court of common sense says that rumors confirmed by actions three decades later were most likely reliable.
December 28th, 2017 at 1:49 PM ^
December 28th, 2017 at 1:50 PM ^
This is the most asinine thing i've seen so far today...
December 28th, 2017 at 1:51 PM ^
December 28th, 2017 at 1:57 PM ^
I'm a 7-star general who just wants to blow stuff up in some foreign country, so why should I do anything about my soldiers raping women and children in foreign countries?
It must be nice to be able to compartmentalize everything.
EDIT: Also, so far 15 people have anonymously negged you, and 0 have anonymously pos-ed you. I think that's a pretty good indication that there's no silent majority of people on this board who think JoePa's actions were kosher.
December 28th, 2017 at 2:31 PM ^
We are seeing it in other areas like Entertainment, Politics, the media/journalism and Academia. Turning a blind eye is nothing new.
December 28th, 2017 at 1:55 PM ^
It's a good thing you don't value "fake internet points", because you are going to lose A LOT
and deserve to
December 28th, 2017 at 1:55 PM ^
December 28th, 2017 at 1:58 PM ^
You're an idiot
December 28th, 2017 at 2:02 PM ^
JoPa never molested anyone and didn't benefit from Sandusky raping children.Strange, then, that he was content to look the other way and not contact the police about Sandusky, if there was zero downside to doing that.
December 28th, 2017 at 2:14 PM ^
These could simultaneously be true:
- Not beneftting from Sandusky's actions.
- Believing you might get away with not reporting Sandusky's action to your potential benefit (not losing you DC).
December 28th, 2017 at 2:20 PM ^
Well yes. It's not that the child rape itself benefitted PSU (obviously), but keeping quiet about it probably did - so he figured, anyway.
I don't think it was so much that he thought Sandusky would be irreplaceable, but that he feared the negative publicity.
December 28th, 2017 at 2:25 PM ^
December 28th, 2017 at 2:42 PM ^
Correct. He benefitted(at the time) by not having his football program tarnished by having a child molester preying on children in his locker room.
December 28th, 2017 at 2:03 PM ^
Joe knew and little kids got screwed.
December 28th, 2017 at 2:04 PM ^
crimes never came to light. He and his beloved program were going to take a whenever they were revealed. Keeping them from becoming public was worth it to JoePa, even if it meant more kids getting hurt.
December 28th, 2017 at 2:12 PM ^
He benefited tremendously by being an adored figure as well as the most powerful person at the university every single day that he kept covering up for Sandusky. For him and the administration it all became a too big to fail situation, and I'm glad they finally burned for it.
December 28th, 2017 at 2:06 PM ^
but fail to mention he KNEW what was going on and did NOTHING to stop it..that alone makes him culpable
December 28th, 2017 at 2:07 PM ^
Joe Paterno was the enabler of a child rapist. At minimum, he allowed the rapist to prey on more kids by not reporting Sandusky to the police when he found out. The longer Paterno knew, the more culpable he is in all of it.
December 28th, 2017 at 2:08 PM ^
December 28th, 2017 at 2:08 PM ^
An accomplice does not actually commit the crime, but his actions helped someone in the commission of the crime. This includes failing to prevent it.
Where is East German Judge? We need some words of wisdom here.
December 28th, 2017 at 2:20 PM ^
fuck psu and all their joepa-loving delusonal fans!!!
Hope this helps for now.
December 28th, 2017 at 2:08 PM ^
"JoPa never molested anyone and didn't benefit from Sandusky raping children. The guy was a football coach who just wanted to coach football."
All that might be true, but it is also true that has the leader of the football team (not to mention an influential voice in the larger PSU community) JoePa had greater responsibilities than just football.
Further, while it is likely true the JoePa didn't benefit from what Sandusky did, he very likely benefitted (or at least believe he would benefit) by looking the other way so he could keep Sandusky around.
December 28th, 2017 at 2:27 PM ^
after knowing what Sandusky was doing. Of course he benefited from saying nothing.
What world are you living in Fieldy? You can't possibly believe what you just wrote, can you?
December 28th, 2017 at 2:25 PM ^
December 28th, 2017 at 2:27 PM ^
An accomplice to murder didn't actually commit the murder. But he/she helped bury it, cover it up, plan it, stood by while it happened and did nothing, etc. The same holds true here.
JoePa didn't rape children. But he had enough information to do something about it and didn't. He enabled the rape to happen. In many ways it's just as bad. In his heart of hearts, he may have been a good man, but as that old saying goes: the only thing that is necessary for evil to triumph is when good men do nothing.
December 28th, 2017 at 2:30 PM ^
December 28th, 2017 at 2:54 PM ^
99% of MGOBLOG: "Wow, I don't know if any post is this thread could get worse than the 9/11 conspiracy post."
Fieldy'sNuts: "Hold my beer."
December 28th, 2017 at 3:47 PM ^
December 28th, 2017 at 3:56 PM ^
December 28th, 2017 at 4:03 PM ^
No he was a football coach worried about his wins. He sat in the booth not coaching the last couple of years and collecting wins to beat Eddie Robinson's total. JoPa didn't give a shit about those kids just his own legacy and in the end his legacy has suffered and rightly so. Fuck JoPa and Fuck PSU. The truthers also want to ignore that JoPa allowed that twisted Fuck to take kids o the road with him after JoPa knew and he was allowed to keep an office on campus and was still bringing kids around after he retired (fired) Fuck you Paternos
December 28th, 2017 at 4:36 PM ^
Gotta love the idea that people act independent of environments. The fact is that we love to scapegoat because it removes us from implication. Focusing on Sandusky allows Penn State to contnue on practicing their perverted morality without feeling guilt or remorse. MSU is pretending nothing happened outside of Nassar's actions. They do this because it works. The myth of individuality is so pervasive that we are doomed to repeat history until we hold up what's really right and what really matters. If anything like MSU or PSU happens in Ann Arbor they should shut football down until they take care of the problem in entirety, but this will never happen as long as winning and profit are all that matter.