Posted on 07/27/2012 7:06:01 PM PDT by FlJoePa
It is Corbett himself who is most guilty of hesitating. Hesitating as then-attorney general to appropriately staff the Jerry Sandusky investigation, and hesitating for years to make an arrest, both of which jeopardized children. That hesitation, and Corbett’s stonewalling, has created an intense firestorm.
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There was hard evidence that he knew about the 1998 incident.
And he didn't get second hand information, he got first hand information from one of his own coaches.
He had a MORAL responsibility to followup and find out why a former coach was in a shower with a young boy.
I know you Joe Pa apologists can't deal with that reality.
This is typical straw man nonsense, accuse others that 'they must think Paterno is the only one responsible', so you can establish your own wrong position, 'Since Paterno wasn't the only one responsible, Paterno had no responsibility at all' The more this gets investigated, the more Paterno is going to be exposed.
And Paterno is obviously the one you care most about destroying.
Get a life.
hmmmm
No lawyer, for the prosecution or the defense, would have told Paterno ANYTHING.
No police investigator would have told Paterno ANYTHING.
Equally important, Paterno had NO WAY of knowing if McQueary’s report on the shower incident was true or false, exaggerated or factual, mistaken or imagined.
If Paterno had aggressively reported this hearsay to authorities outside his usual supervisors, he ran the risk of being sued by Sandusky if the hearsay was false.
I would agree with you if you claim Paterno had a moral responsibility to advise McQueary to file a police report.
Frankly, I find McQueary's failure to file a police report to be shocking, especially since he discussed this incident several times with his own father.
It makes me question McQueary's honesty.
Doesn't that say it all with respect to Paterno's culpability? The fact that he didn't advise McQueary to file was the beginning of the coverup.
Joe Paterno failure to appropriately advise McQueary resulted in numerous other children being scarred for life.
FReepers!
The liberals would love to hang Corbett because he is the key to Pennsylvania’s natural gas industry.
If the liberals can sink Corbett, they can block natural gas drilling.
So, they are attempting to insert Corbett into the Sandusky affair.
Sandusky was under investigation long before Corbett was attorney general.
This Corbett angle is liberal obfuscation and politics.
<>Joe Pa’s supporters want to make him a martyr.<>
Oh shut up. Why don’t you read something for once before popping off:
Joe Paterno was a loyal conservative and Republican and friend of the Bushs. Does the same go for him?
Oh baloney.
McQueary said early on that he did notify the police -- meaning Gary Schultz who had oversight over the PSUPD. In talking with Schultz he thought he was talking to "the police". Schultz told him that he would take it from there to the necessary authorities and never did. That's where the cover-up began, and that's what the Grand Jury found.
I don't think Paterno can be faulted for proceeding with a certain amount of caution after that.
You also forget that the only version we have of the Paterno-McQueary meeting was reported by McQueary.
There is NO rebuttal version by Paterno.
Personally, I would want to hear Paterno’s side of that story before I tore down his statue.
And I still can't get past the shock that McQueary, who claims he witnessed a child rape, never filed a police report on his own.
Would you have failed to file a report?
I doubt it.
Would your own father - like McQueary’s father - advise you NOT to file a police report?
I doubt it.
There is NO rebuttal version by Paterno.
NO rebuttal by Paterno? He had the opportunity to rebut but didn't. Was that because McQueary's version was accurate? I think so.
Re: Personally, I would want to hear Paterno’s side of that story before I tore down his statue.
Paterno had the opportunity to speak but didn't.
And what about Paterno's comment outside his home, "I wish I had done more." He could have done more, but didn't.
Case closed!
You're right. Joe Paterno had no culpability in this matter whatsoever.
Joe Paterno: "I wish I had done more."
Yeh -- in retrospect he should have done Tim Curry's job for him, as well as Gary Schultz's and Graham Spanier's.
He spoke to the Grand Jury.
Oh you must be referring to the press conference he was going to have outside his home that Graham Spanier, the President of PSU, called and told him to cancel.
Should he have held it anyway???
YES!!
Wouldn't you have? Or, are you an enabler too?
The press conference that was cancelled was in 2011 — well past the ennabling stage.
C’mon, John.
This is 2012.
Paterno was facing both criminal and civil litigation risk.
Have you really not learned the lesson of George Zimmerman in the Trayvon Martin case?
Even if you are completely innocent, SAY NOTHING to the public, SAY NOTHING to the police.
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