Walter C Uhler » Entries tagged with "Jerry Sandusky"
The Freeh Report and Joe Paterno
Part One: The Philadelphia Inquirer Mangles the Flawed Freeh Report What do you do when reporters from a major metropolitan daily newspaper—in this case, The Philadelphia Inquirer—demonstrate that they are completely incapable of reading a published report—in this case The Freeh Report—and providing their readers with a coherent summary of its contents? What do you do when the egregious misreading of that report by these reporters presents its readers a very false picture of how officials at Penn State handled Mike McQueary’s allegations of child molestation by Jerry Sandusky in February 2001? Perhaps you would recommend that the Philadelphia Inquirer receive the “death penalty” and not be permitted to publish its sludge for a full year! Readers of my website might recall that, on 9 February 2012, I wrote … Read entire article »
Filed under: Current Events, Media, Sandusky Scandal
My Letter to Jerry Sandusky’s Lawyer and His Grateful Response
On 3 February 2012, I sent a letter to Joseph Amendola, the lawyer representing Jerry Sandusky, to alert him to my critique of the assertions about “Victim 2” found in the grand jury presentment made public on 5 November 2011. The letter said: “Dear Mr. Amendola: I’ve been examining the evidence concerning the Sandusky scandal, insofar as it affected Joe Paterno and Penn State University, my alma mater. Perhaps you saw my letter in the Center Daily Times on January 25, 2012, titled “Investigate the Grand Jury.” It provided a brief summary of a lengthy article I’ve written: “Three False Assertions by the Grand Jury turned the Press and Public against Joe Paterno and Penn State.” I’ve enclosed a copy of the article for your perusal. As the New York Times has correctly observed, … Read entire article »
Filed under: Current Events, Sandusky Scandal
Incompetent Journalists at the Philadelphia Inquirer Slandered Joe Paterno
On Sunday, 5 February 2012, the Philadelphia Inquirer featured Michael Smerconish’s opinion piece about Joe Paterno; further demonstrating that the newspaper has been overrun by journalistic mediocrities, if not morons. The inordinate amount of pure rubbish about Paterno in the Inquirer has been astounding. Consider the column by Bob Ford, “Indictment of former Penn State coach on sex-abuse charges could bring down Paterno,” published in the Inquirer on 6 November 2011, one day after the Attorney General’s office issued the grand jury’s presentment indicting Jerry Sandusky, Tim Curley and Gary Schultz. Although its title says the indictment “could” bring down Paterno, Ford’s third paragraph actually asserts that “Paterno cannot and should not survive…” The outrage permeating Ford’s article indicates he uncritically accepted … Read entire article »
Filed under: Current Events, Sandusky Scandal
Three False Assertions by the Grand Jury turned the Press and Public against Joe Paterno and Penn State
On 5 November 2011, all hell broke loose for alumni and die-hard supporters of Pennsylvania State University and its legendary football coach, Joe Paterno. It was on that date that the Attorney General’s office issued the incendiary presentment written on behalf of the Thirty-Third Statewide Investigating Grand Jury, which had been hearing testimony concerning allegations of sexual abuse of young boys by former Penn State assistant football coach, Jerry Sandusky. In Pennsylvania, thirty citizens are selected from a pool of fifty—which had been winnowed down from an initial pool of two-hundred – to become the seven alternates and twenty-three members that constitute the grand jury. Grand jurors are empowered to subpoena witnesses and documents in order to determine—under the lead of state … Read entire article »
Filed under: Featured, Sandusky Scandal
Part 5 of 5: What Did Joe Paterno Know, and When Did He Know It?
Yesterday’s Preliminary Hearing: What We Learned Concerning Joe Paterno Yesterday, District Judge William Wenner ruled that the charges made against Penn State’s Athletic Director, Tim Curley and Penn States’ Senior Vice President for Finance and Business, Gary Schultz – charges of perjury and failure to report sexual abuse – will move forward to trial. Yesterday’s preliminary hearing featured nearly two hours of testimony from Mike McQueary (the “graduate assistant” in the grand jury report), as well as testimony from McQueary’s father, John and the former chief of the University police, Tom Harmon. In addition, the complete grand jury testimony of Joe Paterno, Tim Curley and Gary Schultz was read into the record. Mike McQueary’s testimony today differed from that found in the grand … Read entire article »
Filed under: Sandusky Scandal
Part 4 of 5: What Did Joe Paterno Know, and When Did He Know It?
New, Previously Suppressed Grand Jury Testimony and Joe Paterno I have a question for all the half-witted, moronic jackals in the news media who — having simply read the grand jury report of November 2011– rushed to denounce Joe Paterno for his failure of moral leadership in handling allegations of sexual misconduct against Jerry Sandusky. It’s the same question I have for the moronic Pennsylvania state police commissioner, Frank Noonan, who provided fodder for the jackals’ feeding frenzy: When did you first learn about Dr. Jonathon Dranov? Who is Dr. Jonathon Dranov? Well, according to Sara Ganim of the Harrisburg Patriot-News, Dr. Jonathon Dranov is a friend and colleague of Mike McQueary’s father, who was present when McQueary (called the “graduate … Read entire article »
Filed under: Sandusky Scandal
Part 3 of 5: What Did Joe Paterno Know, and When Did He Know It?
DeLillo’s Jesuit Priest, the Media Jackals, the Incited Mob and Joe Paterno Having spent years immersing myself in Russian literature (some of it in Russian) and having dabbled in French, German, Czech, English and American literature, I’ve gained a modest acquaintance with the world’s great literature. It is from that perspective that Don DeLillo’s Underworld struck me as the greatest novel I’ve read (possessing a very slight edge over Gabriel Garcia Marquez’s One Hundred Years of Solitude) In Underworld DeLillo persuasively demonstrates a point he has argued elsewhere, namely that serious literature can compete with history, if not surpass it, when it comes to providing a deep understanding of our past. There’s a tremendous section in Underworld (pp. 536-43) about Father Paulus, … Read entire article »
Filed under: Sandusky Scandal
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