Posted on 07/16/2012 3:44:48 PM PDT by GSWarrior
What a fool I was.
In 1986, I spent a week in State College, Pa., researching a 10-page Sports Illustrated Sportsman of the Year piece on Joe Paterno.
It was supposed to be a secret, but one night the phone in my hotel room rang. It was a Penn State professor, calling out of the blue.
"Are you here to take part in hagiography?" he said.
"What's hagiography?" I asked.
"The study of saints," he said. "You're going to be just like the rest, aren't you? You're going to make Paterno out to be a saint. You don't know him. He'll do anything to win. What you media are doing is dangerous."
Jealous egghead, I figured.
What an idiot I was.
Twenty-five years later, when former Penn State defensive coordinator Jerry Sandusky was accused of a 15-year reign of pedophilia on young boys, I thought Paterno was too old and too addled to understand, too grandfatherly and Catholic to get that Sandusky was committing grisly crimes using Paterno's own football program as bait.
But I was wrong. Paterno knew. He knew all about it. He'd known for years. He knew and he followed it vigilantly.
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Who cares what the sexual preference is of a child molester? They are monsters whether they are attracted to boy or girls.
the two cases you mention are one man against one girl - child. Sandusky et al raped and molested dozens - of the same sex, that was and still is my point. If Liz smart had been about a woman kidnapping her it would be closer to Sandusky, but there are breeding grounds out there - that set up these monsters - the media will not explore them or call them out...it stays in the media closet.
I mentioned 3 cases. And I don’t understand your point.
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