Nuts about JoePa

Liberal Asshattery Tomasky finds JoePa

“ THE CRIME On the evening of March 1, 2002, Sandusky, it is alleged, was raping a 10-year-old boy in his anus. A 10-year-old boy. In the very showers used by the Nittany Lions players. A boy Sandusky had seduced with promises of things like tickets to games and visits to the mighty Penn State locker room. A graduate assistant, also a former star quarterback and today still an assistant to Paterno, saw it and went to his father. His father told him to go not to the police, according to the report, but to Paterno. The great man would make it right. MITIGATING And you respected Penn State. You had to. They were good, and they were good: fine young men, early to integrate, high graduation rates. All that was Paterno. A literature major at Brown, for chrissakes. Yet another thing to like about him. UNMITIGATING I liked him less after he joined the Big 10, crushing Eastern conference hopes (a move that reverberates to this day, as we watch the Big East conference asphyxiate). I liked him less still when I read that he (and Lou Holtz) had attended Newt Gingrich’s birthday party in 1995. REMITIGATING  That was mitigated many years later when I saw that his son had endorsed Barack Obama and his daughter (?)  Hillary Clinton in 2008. “I brought my kids up to think for themselves from Day One,” Paterno said, rather charmingly, at the time.  Michael Tomasky, The Daily Beast ” After Sandusky, the people most deserving of contempt are the kid's parents,  for punting  I'm no Penn State fan, but it's sad to see a pretty good man, by all accounts, gone wrecked  for what essentially is a crime of misplaced loyalty.  Anyway, it is what it is.  Here's the thing about unctuous sermonizing by liberals like Tomasky though. They are famously selective about who, and what, triggers outrage.  They'll  reach into the can of nuts and extract juicy political cashews, ignoring myriad Lib peanuts (e.g. Bill Clinton and John Edwards) alone, in their rancid turpitude.   “ I believe that I am a moral person, but if I am confronted some day with a situation that requires real moral bravery of me, where I really have to choose, and it will hurt—would I do the right thing? ”   Only if the politics suit you. It's the Lib disease.