Walter C Uhler » Entries tagged with "Joe Paterno"
Did Mike McQueary Commit Perjury?
On 12 June 2012, defense attorney Karl Rominger conducted a devastating cross examination of Mike McQueary in the course of attempting to defend the indefensible Jerry Sandusky. The actual transcript of that cross examination was not released until 21 September 2012, which explains why virtually nobody, except Barry Bozeman (See http://www.notpsu.blogspot.com/ ), has written about the deliberate deception Rominger exposed. Mr. McQueary was the graduate assistant at Penn State who, according to the 4 November 2011 grand jury presentment, “saw a naked boy, Victim 2, whose age he estimated to be ten years old, with his hands up against the wall, being subjected to anal intercourse by a naked Sandusky” on 9 February 2001. But, in fact, McQueary “saw” no such thing. How do we know? First, because McQueary’s actual testimony … Read entire article »
Filed under: Current Events, Media, Sandusky Scandal
Hitting Penn State’s Board of Trustees Where it Hurts
Judging by the tens of thousands of individuals who have read my articles, as well as the tens of thousands who have turned to http://framingpaterno.com , http://www.notpsu.blogspot.com and http://www.tominpaine.blogspot.com as well as numerous Penn State chat boards, one could hope that the groundwork was being prepared to launch an “Arab Spring” uprising against the Penn State’s Board of Trustees. Evidence of such a spontaneous uprising took a pleasantly surprising turn yesterday when it was announced that “A Rally for Resignations” will be held on the Old Main lawn, starting at 10:00 AM on September 15, 2012. Penn State students and alumni have been invited to participate and Penn State football legend, Franco Harris, will be the main speaker. Participants at the rally will demand the resignations of Governor Corbett, … Read entire article »
Filed under: Current Events, Media, Sandusky Scandal
Former Chairmen of Penn State’s University Faculty Senate Repudiate the Freeh Report and Decry Unjust NCAA Sanctions
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
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
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”
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
The Freeh Report, Joe Paterno and NCAA Sanctions
Part One: 1998 Given that it was the Freeh Report that provoked both the rash and unconscionably harsh sanctions imposed by the NCAA upon Penn State and the cowardly willingness of the Penn State President and the Board of Trustees to swallow them, I believe it’s time for somebody to conduct a thorough examination of the report, if only to assure that the report’s scathing criticism of Penn State’s response to the 1998 investigation is justified and that its evidence of a cover-up by Penn State in 2001 actually supports the report’s conclusion of a cover-up at Penn State. For, regardless of what incompetent reporters, irresponsible commentators or your uninformed friends have told you about the Sandusky Child Molestation Scandal and Penn State, all of the available evidence still indicates the Penn … Read entire article »
Filed under: Current Events, Media, Sandusky Scandal
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