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They Killed Him
Townhall.com ^ | January 30, 2012 | Bruce Bialosky

Posted on 01/30/2012 5:00:54 AM PST by Kaslin

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1 posted on 01/30/2012 5:00:58 AM PST by Kaslin
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To: Kaslin

Poppycock.

Paterno made his own choices. The consequences he suffered were as a result of his own actions.


2 posted on 01/30/2012 5:07:35 AM PST by PBRSTREETGANG
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To: Kaslin

sorry pal, my sympathy is in teh children who were molested under his watch.


3 posted on 01/30/2012 5:10:09 AM PST by camle (keep an open mind and someone will fill it full of something for you)
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To: Kaslin

Thank you for having the guts to post this.


4 posted on 01/30/2012 5:11:55 AM PST by LoveUSA (God employs Man's strength; Satan exploits Man's weakness.)
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To: Kaslin

Save your concern and sympathy for the young boys that were molested.


5 posted on 01/30/2012 5:14:56 AM PST by midwyf (Wyoming Native. Environmentalism is a religion too.)
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To: Kaslin
Some say Joe died of a broken heart. I say he died from a knife in the back.

I'm confused. Didn't he already have terminal cancer?

6 posted on 01/30/2012 5:16:56 AM PST by Tax-chick (View new baby pictures on the Tax-chick page!)
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To: camle
children who were molested under his watch

I missed this. I didn't know that Paterno had even seen a child in the locker room, let alone one who was being abused.

ML/NJ

7 posted on 01/30/2012 5:16:56 AM PST by ml/nj
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To: Kaslin

Sorry - I can’t work up so much as a single sniffle. Sports figures get away with almost anything, and this is another case of something being swept under the rug getting discovered. So it came back to bite him. Who cares? He made a fortune as head coach, and he, as part of his duties, should have kept an eye on his employees. Screw him.


8 posted on 01/30/2012 5:17:16 AM PST by from occupied ga (your own government is your most dangerous enemy)
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To: Kaslin
The fact that an aging Paterno wasn’t really able to comprehend the whole matter will not convince some of his lack of blame. Some people will insist that he should have been able to understand such despicable behavior, and they will never accept that some among us come from an era where such repulsive activities were utterly inconceivable.

I think it's more likely that sodomy is not about football, so he simply didn't care. So, he informed who he felt he should have, covered his behind, and then just forgot about it, and back to football world.
9 posted on 01/30/2012 5:17:32 AM PST by ZX12R (FUBO GTFO 2012 ! We should take off and Newt washington from orbit.)
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To: Kaslin

National icon my foot. I’m 59 years old and before all this hubbub about him facilitating child molestation, I didn’t know who Joe Paterno was.


10 posted on 01/30/2012 5:19:20 AM PST by Lucas McCain (The day may come when the courage of men will fail, but not this day.)
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To: Kaslin
The author correctly says the following - but reaches the wrong conclusion IMO:

The fact that an aging Paterno wasn’t really able to comprehend the whole matter will not convince some of his lack of blame. Some people will insist that he should have been able to understand such despicable behavior, and they will never accept that some among us come from an era where such repulsive activities were utterly inconceivable.

The premise is right, that a man of that era simply has no understanding of today's culture of homosexuality and so on. That, however, is an indictment and not a defense of Paterno.

11 posted on 01/30/2012 5:19:20 AM PST by C. Edmund Wright
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To: LoveUSA

I totally agree with this article. They killed JoePa and they are still in charge??? SHAME on them and the press!


12 posted on 01/30/2012 5:20:13 AM PST by Cricket24 (Proud to be a CONSERVATIVE WOMAN!!!!!!!)
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To: C. Edmund Wright

Similar thoughts.

The press have been relentless in their condemnation and pursuit of Paterno. They are something much less than relentless in examining the NAMBLA-like aspects of this case. Sandusky’s crimes have been described as everything from molestation to rape to a ‘sex scandal’ (ugh) but the PC code of the press means that the most glaring aspect of the case has been ignored (at worst) or simply recounted in matter-of-fact terms (at best).


13 posted on 01/30/2012 5:26:35 AM PST by relictele (Green energy is neither)
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To: Kaslin

Most Townhhall articles are pretty reasonable, this one isn’t. I don’t see much likelihood that something like that cold have been going on for years and Paterno not have known about it and the school had no options but to get rid of him. For that matter I’d anticipate the football program being shut down for at least the next several years, if nothing else they’re not going to be able to get serious players for a while.


14 posted on 01/30/2012 5:27:02 AM PST by varmintman
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To: Kaslin

“They they they”

Go home little kid, your mommy’s calling you.


15 posted on 01/30/2012 5:30:06 AM PST by bvw
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To: Kaslin
responsible for the premature death of this great man.

The death of an 85 year old man with terminal cancer was "premature"?

16 posted on 01/30/2012 5:31:38 AM PST by Graybeard58 (Eccl 10 v. 19 A feast is made for laughter, and wine maketh merry: but money answereth all things.)
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To: relictele

It’s a very confusing and stunning episode - that we’ll now think of Paterno totally differently than we have all assumed we would think of him for the past several decades.

On one extreme are those who think he’s just as guilty as Sandusky - and on the other are those who want to saint him.

I have no doubt that he really could not process what McQueary was telling him. I am sure that whole scene was totally foreign to him. And yet, rumors are that Sandusky’s proclivities were an open secret in State College. (I cannot deny or verify this).

So -The truth is probably something along the lines of the fact that he held onto a job longer than he should have for a number of reasons - and that part of this motivation for keeping quiet was to protect Penn State football - which is a very poor reason.

I feel for the victims of Sandusky, and for the family of Paterno.


17 posted on 01/30/2012 5:33:17 AM PST by C. Edmund Wright
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The Board of Trustees of Penn State University gave Joe Paterno lung cancer?

Wow! They really ARE all-powerful...


18 posted on 01/30/2012 5:35:11 AM PST by WayneS (Comments now include 25% MORE sarcasm for no additional charge...)
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To: Kaslin

The single most damning moment for Paterno was when he held court a few days after the allegations surfaced and helpfully explained that the Board of Trustees had better things to do than look at the issue.

That was a blatant display of his de facto power, and the board could not let it stand. I don’t think Paterno was evil, and I have come to believe he was more of an addled figurehead than any sort of conniving dictator. But the board did the right thing for the university in the long run. Did they do the right thing for Paterno? Well, that really shouldn’t have been their concern. Everyone thought what was good for Joe was good for PSU and vice versa, but this situation changed all of that.


19 posted on 01/30/2012 5:36:02 AM PST by Mr. Bird
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Ping.

JoePa’s body was riddled with cancer. His days were numbered. That’s what took his life. Not the public. Not the press. Not the university officials. May he RIP.


20 posted on 01/30/2012 5:36:46 AM PST by randita
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