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Former Chairmen of Penn State’s University Faculty Senate Repudiate the Freeh Report and Decry Unjust NCAA Sanctions

August 30th, 2012 | Add a Comment

The burden of being a full-time graduate student at the Pennsylvania State University during the academic years of 1973-1976 was almost enough to push my frivolous enjoyment of Penn State football completely out of my life. I was spending much time in the stacks of the Pattee Library. Some of that time was spent on Saturday afternoons, occasionally Saturday afternoons when Joe Paterno’s Penn State football team was competing against some other team right down the road from the library. Don’t get me wrong, I was (and remain) a big Penn State football fan, especially because of the pride I took in the belief that Coach Paterno attempted to assure that his players did things right. Education and the building of character first, then the winning of football … Read entire article »

Filed under: Cultural Criticism, Current Events, Media, Sandusky Scandal

Another Media Clown Show Stupifies Minds About Penn State

August 27th, 2012 | Add a Comment

It started with the grand jury report released in November 2011. First, very few Americans knew that the grand jury report was a summary of testimony, not a transcript of testimony. Second, very few Americans knew that New York State chief judge Sol Wachtler once said: “a grand jury would ‘indict a ham sandwich,’ if that’s what you wanted.” Third, America’s news media did nothing to enlighten them. Thus, very few Americans were mentally equipped to question assertions made by the individual who summarized Mike McQueary’s grand jury testimony. Consequently, too many Americans fell too easily into righteous indignation when they heard or read that McQueary supposedly testified he “saw a naked boy, Victim 2, whose age he estimated to be ten years old, with his hands … Read entire article »

Filed under: Cultural Criticism, Current Events, Media, Sandusky Scandal

The Tide Begins to Turn on the Sandusky Scandal

August 23rd, 2012 | 2 Comments

With the release, yesterday, of the “CRITIQUE OF THE REPORT OF THE SPECIAL INVESTIGATIVE COUNSEL,” (“SIC,” otherwise known as the Freeh Report) by the lawyers representing former Penn State President, Graham Spanier, the tide has begun to turn against Mr. Freeh’s erroneous and irresponsible allegation that Mr. Spanier, Gary Schultz, Tim Curley and Joe Paterno – “repeatedly concealed” evidence of child molestation by former assistant football coach Jerry Sandusky. Mr. Spanier also did his part to turn the tide yesterday—both in an interview that appeared in the New Yorker and in interviews by ABC News and Nightline. In the New Yorker, Spanier asserts: “The Freeh report is wrong, it’s unfair, it is deeply flawed.” During his Nightline interview, Spanier asserted: “Never in my time as President of Penn State did … Read entire article »

Filed under: Current Events, Media, Sandusky Scandal

BIG LIES in the Grand Jury and Freeh Reports, a New Poll and “Framing Paterno”

August 15th, 2012 | 2 Comments

At the behest of John Ziegler, owner of the website named “Framing Paterno” (to which this writer is affiliated), a reputable polling organization, Wilson Perkins Allen Opinion Research (WPA Opinion Research), recently conducted a poll of one thousand Americans from across the country. It attempted to assess just how well they knew important details of the Jerry Sandusky child molestation scandal that has rocked The Pennsylvania State University and the legacy of Joe Paterno. The results are in and the pervasive ignorance exposed by the poll is astounding. Granted, ignorance about the Sandusky scandal is small potatoes, when compared with the fact that, in March 2003 (the month when the U.S. invaded Iraq), 51 percent of Americans believed that Saddam Hussein was personally involved in the 9/11 terrorist attacks, … Read entire article »

Filed under: Bush Administration, Current Events, Media, Sandusky Scandal, Uncategorized