Good Column on the "Santimonious Hypocrites" in the Sandusky Case

[JPZenger]

http://themoderatevoice.com/136321/sanctimonious-hypocrites-can%E2%80%99t-diminish-the-warmth-for-joe-paterno/

Excerpts:

"That would be the same Tom Corbett who, as attorney general, assigned only one investigator to the case in 2009, while devoting almost innumerable personnel and financial resources to prosecute high-profile cases that could help lead him to the governor’s office.
That would be the same Tom Corbett who had the authority to order the arrest of Jerry Sandusky as soon as the claims were made, but who allowed the investigation to drag two years.

That would be the same Tom Corbett who accepted about $200,000 in campaign donations from trustees of Sandusky’s Second Mile foundation and then danced around questions of why, as governor, he authorized a $3 million grant to the Second Mile.

Now, let’s look at the Board of Trustees... That would be the same Board that violated every expectation of due process, listened to the other sanctimonious hypocrites who were quick to condemn someone without knowing the facts, and by a cowardly and impersonal phone call violated four levels of the chain of command and fired Joe Paterno hours after he had announced his retirement. It was their pathetic way to make people believe they, not the most recognizable person in Penn State history, were in control. The reality, of course, is they botched the firing in a feeble attempt to protect themselves, not Penn State and, certainly, not the rights of a tenured full professor, who had given 61 years of service to the university.

That, of course, would be the same Board that should have known for at least six months, and probably longer, of a grand jury investigation into Jerry Sandusky’s conduct, but apparently had no crisis management plan to deal with what would become the greatest scandal in its 156-year history. That, of course, would be the same Board that had operated in a culture of secrecy that regularly violated the state’s Sunshine law and enjoyed its status as receiving state tax moneys while not having to be under the glare of the public right-to-know law."

[baldguy]

1. The first reply at the link says it all:

jodipus says:
January 25, 2012 at 8:42 pm

So ur basically saying that everyone should have just continued to ignore what Sandusky was doing to save Joe Paterno’s image..

Sad…

[msanthrope]

2. Thread win on the first post....

Paterno was responsible for his own failures to report. As Governor Corbett will be, too.