The American Spectator

Bob K.| 11.21.11 @ 7:14AM

It keeps the public's attention away from the economic disaster that their darling, President Obama has been presiding over.

And has anybody seen any criticism from these people of Planned Parenthood's covering up of sexual abuse? Our local paper printed a letter to the editor this morning on that subject but this scandal will never become nationwide.

rn| 11.21.11 @ 12:19PM

Thanks, Bob K. You offer good perspective. For the vile ugliness and gross (truly criminal) behavior done on these Pennsylvania kids, at least they are still living. They can live, heal, find help and overcome.

Planned Parenthood? 11,000+ dead fetuses nationwide this week. Right? And it is Thanksgiving.

I am trying now to help a 23 year old cope with what she regretted immensely as it was taking place. Her first child. An abortion. Panic due to to the male. She admits completely, her own fault for ever succumbing to the urges, her naive trust in the guy. Not 100 per cent, but I now believe her when she states she wanted to back out. But it was already too late. The murder of the baby done right within spitting distance of tourist landmarks in NYC.

She is shattered. She is almost herself now lifeless. The media never show this. Never reveal this.

Mr. Gerald Nachman forgot in this article to give us the name of the Philadelphia abortionist. Oh well. He is in good company. Media didn't like that monster, now did they?

Dr. Kermit Gosnell. (You can forget a doc's name when it is Kermitt?)

http://www.cbn.com/cbnnews/us/.....-of-Death/ (some have not forgotten -- read the readers' comments after the article)

Occam's Tool| 11.21.11 @ 1:16PM

When is someone going to ask Bummer the following question: "Why do you support the murder of Black Babies by White Liberals?"

rn| 11.21.11 @ 2:26PM

Occam Tool, good question. Ask also the black preachers and congregants who have a church and attend a church just two or three blocks away from the abortion clinics.

Lawrence D. Cannon| 11.21.11 @ 7:53PM

Between 1865-1971, approximately 2,500 blacks were lynched by Democrats in the South. Between 1973 and today, approximately 12.5 million blacks were lynched by abortionists nationwide.

Alan Brooks| 11.21.11 @ 8:36PM

Good piece. Wry to the max.
Obama is the scapegoat, though, not Sandusky or any of those on your comprehensive list (Unabomber to Madoff) .

IMO the entire GOP is a monstrosity, an elephant that needs to be euthanized.

Pecos Pete| 11.21.11 @ 7:42AM

You left out Jon Corzine. Maybe he isn't the flavor of the week?

daddio| 11.22.11 @ 11:01AM

He's a Democrat, so he gets a pass...

Clint| 11.21.11 @ 7:58AM

Interesting, that the liberal mainstream media agendists aren't going after the rampant & ongoing sexual abuse in The American Public School System.

TrueBlue| 11.21.11 @ 1:51PM

Public school teachers are Democrat union members.

spoofproof| 11.21.11 @ 8:06AM

In today's mainstream media circus of horrors the real monsters are the producers and directors who promote and sensationalize the garbage. The producers say they are only giving the people what the people want but that is a lie. The producers love to glorify the Evil and ignore the Good. Imagine what the world would be like today if Louis B. Mayer had decided to give people what they wanted instead of what was best for them. Today's mainstream producers are irresponsible and hardly human.

rn| 11.21.11 @ 12:24PM

spoonproof, correct. Media is just weird. OWS is completely over-sensationalized. Sure, it needs some note and commentary. But pages and minutes upon minutes DAILY?

Fox did a hour (2 hour?) blockbuster on the weekend on Penn St. Sandusky et al. I was at a relative's house. I begged her to turn it off.

Not because we shouldn't know. But because I knew that the sound effects, visuals, graphics, lead-ins, tense words, grim looks....all whipped together in less than 4-5 days....Can it be quality, thoughtful, journalism? No.

Brian Mc| 11.21.11 @ 8:09AM

This weekend past, one of the TV types made mention of the comparison to "Jurassic Park" in that the media is like predatory dinos of old, whatching for a flicker of movement before they pounce. What an excellent analogy that was directed at the GOP field, by the way.

But you could say that it pertains to this general subject as well. Meanwhile, not a word of outrage at the Catholic Charities debacle in Illinois: funny, that. Can we be that far away from pastors and ministers hauled away for uttering quotes from the letter of Paul to the Romans?

And so, the predators sniff the breeze...with that gleeful, demonic smile. Isaiah 5:20 anyone?

rn| 11.21.11 @ 12:29PM

Isaiah 5:20 -- from the New American Standard Bible (NASB)

"Woe to those who call evil good, and good evil;
Who substitute darkness for light and light for darkness; Who substitute bitter for sweet and sweet for bitter!"

Thank you, Brian. Very applicable.

Brian Mc| 11.21.11 @ 1:26PM

Thanks for sharing, rn...one of my favorite versions, by the way.

spoofproof| 11.21.11 @ 8:22AM

Don't forget the debauched and dead-evil Kermit Gosnell. Democrat media buried his horror story. The story broke in February 2011. Gosnell was murdering full-term infants and calling it abortion; making the big bucks on the Democrat plantation. http://www.slate.com/articles/.....women.html

rn| 11.21.11 @ 12:37PM

Sorry, spoofproof. When reading the article itself and then the first few comments, I had not scrolled down to this one you have made earlier this morning Thank you for not letting the story of Kermit Gosnell die. I don't remember (I guess I should), but I think that this story coming out of Philadelphia got about a week's worth of national attention. Maybe not even that on the west coast.

DTOM| 11.21.11 @ 9:23AM

The civil liabilities that arise from Mr. Sandusky's predations will bankrupt Penn State, at which point, the State of Pennsylvania will be financially responsible. If I lived in Pennsylvania, I'd move to another state. Eventually Pennsylvania's taxpayers are going to pay for this. Especially if the cover ups reported are proved.

You've been warned...

Dixie Pixie| 11.21.11 @ 10:14AM

Does the words “Witch Hunt “ mean anything.
Or is it the MSM profession of choice?

Youfamissim| 11.21.11 @ 10:15AM

It's true -- and more. The Media needs examples worse than the groups/individuals for whom they advocate. A serial child molester looks more monstrous than say NAMBLA, or the rights of gay men to adopt or serve as Scout Masters. An individual who steals the wealth of the obsessively greedy looking to make millions without earning that money using traditional standards, is the sort of primal fear every Keeping Up with the Jones' American can appreciate - politicians appear pikers. When excesses can be attributed to the successful in the current economic environment, those whose intellect and spending habits - immediate gratification - bling - do-dads and gadgetry, keeps them unsuccessful and dependent, are quick to escape self scrutiny on WHY they remain serfs to Progressives. It's social engineering 101. Use the greed, hate & envy ruminating in those sans "clue" to increase government control. These same people are willing to trade their liberties for a small stipend increase. At its core - a corruption of the Christian Ethos resides - a "Jesus Club" used to morally pummel anyone who refuses to SHARE his property with others less fortunate than they. The Media has never met an undeserving poor person - one who squanders all he has or will have. The poor are never to blame for their plight - regardless of the energy and effort applied to create their plight. And, to crown their abject failures, they create more mouths for others to feed in astounding numbers. They are the only group whose reproductive habits are undeterred by poverty. Why... how... anyone can argue it is a good idea to reward the behaviors that led to failure and increased the magnitude of the failure by adding children to further burden the demands causing the failure, is symptomatic of the degradation of our language. When it became impossible to accurately describe the dynamics at work causing poverty, because of hurt feelings, the end game was known. How long it takes is directly linked to speed of their breeding enough voters to permanently control government.

daddio| 11.22.11 @ 11:08AM

Some thoughts on poverty in America said better than I ever could:

http://www.lewrockwell.com/reed/reed64.html

Mark MacInnis| 11.21.11 @ 12:31PM

The depravity of our society keeps getting worse and worse....and yet we learn no lesson from it. A previous reply had it right...we (for the media is us, isn't it?) rationalize by using the monsters as balm to assure us that, as deep as the abyss into which our culture is sinking; in comparison, we are still better than the Sanduskys, Dahmers, Petersens, Casey Anthonys and John Gacy's of the world.

In further irony, those monsters all prayed on children and young people....the future. We delude ourselves into thinking that our crimes of omission do not yield the same result as their crimes of commission..... yet the victims of our own failure to reign in our cultural depravity are our children and future generations, just as surely as as the monsters cited above destroyed children. The difference is that the child victims or our failure are walking zombies, unaware of the damage done to them, unable to speak the malaise that grips them; angry, isolated, fearful of the future. For exhibit a....I give you OWS....

Ken| 11.21.11 @ 12:41PM

Please don't forget that beyond the media there is genuine sadness over the Sandusky fiasco.
I'm a Penn State alum. When I heard the news and the news of Paterno's non-response, it felt like a family member was being accused. It's a terrible embarassment and huge disappointment.

rendite| 11.21.11 @ 1:05PM

Ken, thanks for posting. But....

Can you help? Will you take meaningful action?

Can you help terminate the nonsense that is the multimillion dollar farce called Division I athletics? As an alum, tell your new Penn State U. leadership that this Sandusky incident is the last straw. It heaps on. It blows away once more the veneer of full-time/all-the-time sports legitimacy on campus.

The problem is worlds greater than Sandusky and Paterno and McCluskey.

But if these gridiron and b-ball court sports are "Shaping men!" why the unmanly, indecisive, pampers-like cover-up antics of Paterno and McCluskey. A former QB at 6'4" doesn't know what to do at age 28?

That is not what we call "shaping and forming men to shoulder the responsibilities of the future."

Your embarrassment and disappointment are useless. This needs to translate to action.

A university is only to be a place for higher learning. The mission is to form tomorrow's leaders and best citizens. Not function as a domicile for beefy, brainless numbskulls who earn? the same BA/BS degree that you have.

That is what ought to embarrass you. Now -- what are you going to do about it?

Bob K.| 11.21.11 @ 7:11PM

Don't believe everything you read in a summary of a Grand Jury's testimony which was given without counsel present and without cross examination. Information is now coming out that the 6'4" former Quarterback did take steps to stop the assault but by the time this is discussed under oath in an open court proceeding the incidents that led to this disgraceful situation will be old news and get no publicity. But it is always easy to blame the lowest people in the totem pole of responsibility while the real people who covered this up get time to coordinate their stories.

The accused's actions were known back into the 1990's. It is absurd to blame the coverup on a student assistant and the Football Coach.

And I have always advocated the complete elimination of these oxymoronic Athletic Scholarships. I take great pleasure in doing so while enjoying a beer in a sports bar while college football games are being played. It's good for many laughs except from the fathers of females who get them and they get angry!

Why don't you also start a movement to stop all sports betting while you are criticizing scholarships?

Ken| 11.21.11 @ 3:24PM

@rendite,

I think that people overstate the importance of football and basketball to a university. Are they a lot of fun to watch? Of course. But they represent only a very small part of what goes on at an institution with many tens of thousands of students. Even in terms of dollars they're a small percentage. And they also help to support a lot of the other sports that don't garner the same attention or money. (volleyball, track and field, etc.). I don't think this is a sports problem. I don't even think it's a problem with "today's" society. It's a problem of the Human Condition-- which is to save your own ass and those of your friends. What matters is how the instituation reacts when the wrong is uncovered. So far I think Penn State has done fine.

rendite| 11.21.11 @ 11:59PM

Ken, I guess you don't get it. You perhaps worked or worked very dilligently to obtain your BA or BS degree.

I live near several university campuses. I know what the athletes are like and the low end state of their mental capablities which ought to preclude them from inclusion in a place of higher learning. I rub shoulders with some athletes on a weekly basis.

Right now you are out there competing in the open job market with your BA/BS degree. So is a defensive lineman and offensive tackle who spent most of their days on campus in the weight room or watching films. They had access to free tutors. They were "coached" (counseled) on the easier courses to take. They had papers written for them. They take entire weeks off and need to do no make up work when flying cross country to play.

Problem is an employer looking at both of you 5, 8 or 10 years after graduation may not be astute enough to know what really went on at Big University. Usually they are completely in the dark.

If a school needs money, then sponsor the team. Work out cooperative agreements. Shared use of some facilities. This is simple: Just exclude the athletes in coursework; they should never be enrolled. Athletes standing shoulder to shoulder at graduation exercises with the regular student body is the biggest lie in education in America.

Their inclusion dumbs down the whole.

You do get it, right? This is not just about Penn St. and its false sports motto. This is about the entire stupidity of the monster that sports has become at our universities.

Examine simple facts: Illiteracy among 3 or 4-year scholarship winners in the big sports who "graduate:" Football, basketball, baseball. Now frequently soccer, too.

Dumb and dumber.

Vern Crisler| 11.21.11 @ 3:49PM

Your forgot that evil monster Herman Cain, who 60 years ago may have said something inappropriate to a floozy or two. There's nothing more vile than that, you see, something that requires endless confession. And as long as the perpetrator remains a Republican, there can be no redemption.

Margie| 11.21.11 @ 4:26PM

I am thankful that God is Just, and that accusers if they accuse falsely will get their just "rewards."

Brian| 11.21.11 @ 4:03PM

It amazes me how worked up people get about this (due to the clowns at ESPN hyperventilating about two things they know nothing about, our justice system and journalism), when child predators are common in our over-resourced, woefully underperforming public school fiasco, that were taxed to death to support, yet no one cares.

Preying on children is bad, unless it's someone or something Democrats care about, then it is something to be willfully ignored.

Tony in Central PA| 11.21.11 @ 9:10PM

The media loves a salacious story. For me, this one was a lot more newsworthy because I grew up in Central PA. My Dad worked for PSU and I'm an '83 grad ( PSU's first National Championship ). I've met and spoken to Jerry Sandusky, attended fundraisers for the Second Mile and donated money. I purchase season football tickets, which have risen exponentially in price since I left PSU.

There is some national interest in this story because of the current state of athletics at large universities. Its all about money, of course. At many schools, the football coach is the highest paid person on the university payroll and PSU is no exception. PSU funds all of its many varsity athletic programs from football revenue. Football has been the only sport making money at PSU for quite some time. This is not a unique situation.

Universities value the advertising from high - visibility sports programs, especially schools with huge undergraduate classes like PSU. PSU has actually recorded consistent undergraduate application bumps associated with success on the football field the year before.

Few of the media people covering the Jerry Sandusky scandal know or even care about the preceding points I brought up. Few of them also asked about the many unanswered questions raised by the Grand Jury presentation in the case. There was a surprising level of ignorance by many of the people reporting this story as to the basic facts such as names, dates and places readily available from the leaked GJ report. You'd think a 23 page, double - spaced document wouldn't have been too much for somebody to read and comprehend if they're getting paid to do just that. Apparently, it was in most cases.

Long before the investigations get to the bottom of this awful scandal, the media will have lost its interest. There will be new villains that need to be shrieked at in repeated acts of public self - affirmation. There will be those annoying facts that continue to obstruct the solid, opinion - based journalism that the public has come to expect and demand in the era of 24 - hour news.

ban| 11.22.11 @ 12:14AM

You kinda invalidated anything you might say when you say you are a PSU season ticket holder. You might as well say - - I am a moron.

God gave you that money. Well, actually no. It is still God's. God has just entrusted it to you for the moment.

And, no, it is not your whim or fancy that gets to determine its use

look up the story Jesus told on stewardship. See what the three men did. Which one are you?

this comment equally applies to anyone. Same ,same if it is NHL, NBA, MLB or some other nonsense divsion I school....

You really have nothing to say if that is where you place your values. Yes, where your money goes, that speaks of what your values really are.
Show me a man's checkbook and credit cards statements, and it reveals his morals and character.

Tony in Central PA| 11.22.11 @ 9:28PM

Actually, 2010 was the first time I ever purchased season tickets. It cost me about $800 for seven games. That works out to a bit less than $114 a game for two tickets. I suppose from your reply that you consider that an extravagance. Just to let you know, I didn't go on vacation this year.
Maybe I was selfish spending this much on my own enjoyment.

Just for comparison sake, in any given year, I give an average of around $ 3500 to my church. My total charitable contributions usually end up around 10% of my net income, but I don't consciously try to aim for that 10% proportion. Am I still going to hell for buying football tickets ?

I'm not sure why I bothered to post this. The vast majority of the time the only people who know about what I give and to whom I give it are the recipients and my accountant.
Besides the humility aspect of it, there's a practical reason for giving quietly ; its often easier to give and give cheerfully when its not expected.

Ken elsewhere than Texas| 11.23.11 @ 7:40AM

What a hypocrite you are Margie!