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What Te'o, Armstrong, and Steubenville Say About the Media Coverage of Paterno/Penn State
The Framing of Joe Paterno ^ | 1-17-13 | John Ziegler

Posted on 01/17/2013 1:52:06 PM PST by FlJoePa

I do know however that I am even more sure than ever that the media, as proven by Te’o, Armstrong, and Steubenville, is simply not to be trusted on any story where they become enamored with the narrative and is particularly vulnerable to being completely fooled on a "perfect storm" story like the Sandusky scandal.

In other words, I was always confident that we were correct, but the events of the past couple of weeks have made me morally certain of it. Unlike with Sally Jenkins and Buzz Bissinger, that doesn’t happen unless I am right.

(Excerpt) Read more at framingpaterno.com ...


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Thanks John. Never quit.
1 posted on 01/17/2013 1:52:16 PM PST by FlJoePa
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To: FlJoePa

I’m sorry? Te’o is a scumbag, Armstrong is a scumbag and Steubenville - who dat? - and this somehow exonerates Paterono? The logic seems reversed somehow.


2 posted on 01/17/2013 2:01:44 PM PST by bkepley
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To: bkepley

Let me just add, Paterno is a scumbag, Sandusky is a scumbag, Spanier is a scumbag, and those other administrators facing charges for the cover up - they are scumbags.


3 posted on 01/17/2013 2:06:12 PM PST by NEMDF
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To: NEMDF

Pedo State should be bulldozed to the ground and then nuked from orbit just to be sure. Paterno’s statue should be sent to the Ft. Sill artillery range to be used as target practice.


4 posted on 01/17/2013 2:15:16 PM PST by SVTCobra03 (You can never have enough friends, horsepower or ammunition.)
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To: NEMDF

What crime was Joe Paterno accused of? The AG praised his cooperation, and he was a witness for the prosecution. Not sure why that makes him a “scumbag”.

No need for due process here, huh? You don’t want to hear what Tim Curley has to say in a court of law? You’d rather get your information from rick reilly and mike golic, I guess?

Freeh is going to be up to his elbows in lawsuits soon (like emmert is now). But you keep on believing the false narrative. It’s gotten you this far.


5 posted on 01/17/2013 2:16:45 PM PST by FlJoePa ("Success without honor is an unseasoned dish; it will satisfy your hunger, but it won't taste good")
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To: FlJoePa

I tend to agree with you. I don’t trust the findings of Louis Freeh.


6 posted on 01/17/2013 2:25:53 PM PST by NotSoFreeStater (If you choose not to decide you still have made a choice)
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To: FlJoePa
What crime was Joe Paterno accused of? The AG praised his cooperation, and he was a witness for the prosecution

Apart from that fact that anything Joepa might have testified to would be classed as hearnosay, wouldn't that fact that he was dead prevent him giving evidence?

7 posted on 01/17/2013 2:31:04 PM PST by Oztrich Boy (I think, therefore I am what I yam, and that's all I yam - Rene "Popeye" Descartes)
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To: Oztrich Boy

Joe testified before the Grand Jury in 2011. Maybe “witness for the prosecution” was a misplaced term. “Witness for the State” at that point?


8 posted on 01/17/2013 2:36:42 PM PST by FlJoePa ("Success without honor is an unseasoned dish; it will satisfy your hunger, but it won't taste good")
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To: Oztrich Boy
wouldn't that fact that he was dead prevent him giving evidence?

He gave it unless you are insinuating that there was more to his testimony than he gave...........

Paterno did what he was supposed to do, report to his superiors....Unless you've never been in the military, it's called "Chain of Command".....

9 posted on 01/17/2013 2:43:01 PM PST by Hot Tabasco (Jab her with a harpoon or just throw her from the train......)
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To: FlJoePa; SVTCobra03

Joe Paterno (and the others) KNEW FOR YEARS that Sundusky was a pedophile. And they covered it up, let it continue, so as not to create bad press for PSU. I am not alone in thinking this.


10 posted on 01/17/2013 2:44:56 PM PST by NEMDF
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To: NEMDF
"Joe Paterno (and the others) KNEW FOR YEARS that Sundusky was a pedophile."

This is nothing more than your opinion - yet you speak it as if it is etched in stone somewhere. There are zero (0) facts to back this opinion up, but you're free to have it I guess.

11 posted on 01/17/2013 2:58:06 PM PST by FlJoePa ("Success without honor is an unseasoned dish; it will satisfy your hunger, but it won't taste good")
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To: FlJoePa
Incredible that you remain delusional. It's sad. Really.

Can anyone really agree with you: Joe Paterno knew NOTHING that went on in Happy Valley OR with the Penn State football team, its coaches, their charities, etc. Yep, that's the ticket...he knew NOTHING!

Do you have ANY idea how you are embarrassing yourself? He was a COACH who enabled YEARS AND YEARS of CHILD RAPE...WTH do you not get here?

Go away.

12 posted on 01/17/2013 4:45:12 PM PST by Pharmboy (Democrats lie because they must.)
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To: Pharmboy

I’m not going anywhere. Especially at the urging of someone as uninformed on this case as you.


13 posted on 01/17/2013 5:16:28 PM PST by FlJoePa ("Success without honor is an unseasoned dish; it will satisfy your hunger, but it won't taste good")
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To: FlJoePa

Yeccchhhh...


14 posted on 01/17/2013 5:35:00 PM PST by Pharmboy (Democrats lie because they must.)
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To: FlJoePa

You have taken the fall of your false idol hard. It’s very serious what permitted to happen at Penn State.


15 posted on 01/17/2013 5:59:10 PM PST by SaraJohnson
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To: SaraJohnson

No Sara. I just want the truth. We haven’t gotten it yet. But thanks so much for your concern.


16 posted on 01/17/2013 8:06:13 PM PST by FlJoePa ("Success without honor is an unseasoned dish; it will satisfy your hunger, but it won't taste good")
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To: FlJoePa

It’s clear to me that most people have never read the Freeh Report, or looked into the facts of this case, or even realize that Sandusky was acquitted of any wrongdoing by the jury of that McQueary shower incident — the incident at the heart of all these accusations.


17 posted on 01/18/2013 6:54:21 PM PST by Uncle Chip
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To: Uncle Chip

The folks that immediately comment negatively on threads like this (and send me hate freepmail) not only haven’t read the freeh report, they don’t even read the article linked.

I don’t understand the rush to judge a man like Joe when there are pending court cases that will hopefully tell us the truth. I know we didn’t get the truth from louis freeh.

The reason this story won’t “go away” as people wish it to, is because about 1/4 of it has been told. The b.o.t. meeting today was another bizarre chapter in this unending mess.


18 posted on 01/18/2013 7:27:50 PM PST by FlJoePa ("Success without honor is an unseasoned dish; it will satisfy your hunger, but it won't taste good")
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To: FlJoePa

What happened at the bot meeting???


19 posted on 01/18/2013 7:43:49 PM PST by Uncle Chip
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To: FlJoePa; humblegunner; shibumi

We’ve reached a new level of scum:

Blogpimps

Joe Paterno

Blogpimps pimpimg for Joe Paterno


20 posted on 01/18/2013 7:50:07 PM PST by Larry Lucido
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