@Sipowicz1042@Zigmanfreud So the testimony from those with a financial interest is “evidence” and the testimony from those with nothing to gain is “subjective”. Got it.
@Zigmanfreud Great interview, including the contentious parts. Time is running out for Jerry - people like Justin need to be bold and go for broke if they truly want to make a difference.
Everyone who listens to the “With the Benefit of Hindsight…” podcast with an open mind must *at least* come to the conclusion that Sandusky was treated incredibly unfairly by the legal system and media. It’s a mindblowing podcast with far-reaching implications…
New…
Here is my exclusive interview with the president of the Penn State Football Letterman’s Club, Justin Williams, about his new book about playing for Joe Paterno & how he concluded, thanks to our podcast, that Jerry Sandusky is very clearly innocent!
https://t.co/7MN3rDeSun
It’s remarkable how poorly the alleged “good guys” have fared in the Sandusky case compared the alleged “bad guys”.
I wish people would be willing to re-evaluate it all with an open mind. When you do it’s so obvious what happened.
Shocking news…
Allan Myers, the former marine who was the “boy in the shower” in the infamous Mike McQueary episode (which McQueary twice testified to the year of incorrectly) and who publicly and privately defended Jerry Sandusky until after his trial, deciding to take $6.9 million of Penn State’s money, has passed away, for unknown reasons, at the age of 39.
I was first to break the news of his identity way back in 2013, after I figured it out on my own and was censored by the NBC Today Show from divulging his name on TV (even though he had written letters in local papers defending Sandusky against the allegations of sexual abuse, and had never testified against him).
The totality of the evidence makes it VERY clear that Myers was never abused by Sandusky and that he saw him as a literal father figure until he was convinced by an unscrupulous lawyer that he could cash out after Sandusky’s conviction.
Sandusky always (naively) believed that Myers was his most likely “accuser” to eventually tell the truth of what did not occur, but now that will apparently never happen.🥲
Here is a report on his death and the story of his very key relevance to the Sandusky case by Frank Parlato.
https://t.co/H651ijF79b
With all the attention on the Russini/Vrabel affair, there has not been nearly enough focus on the the role of @nytimes@TheAthletic and @espn…
Journalistically, it is astonishing and extremely telling that the New York Times initially fully backed the lies of Russini. This was strange when the story first broke, but now that a mountain of evidence has been uncovered, and she resigned on her own, even eventually deleting her social media, it is clear the NY Times completely failed when it came to basic journalistic instincts and investigative skills. They were probably also influenced by their arrogance because the story first broke in the @nypost which the NY Times looks down upon.
It is now clear that the NY Times was exposed as completely clueless when it came to evaluating their own journalistic standards, and it should be a black mark on their record forever, making people fundamentally question their basic judgment.
The ESPN situation is perhaps even more interesting and telling because of their history when it comes to covering stories of alleged sexual improprieties and supposed organizational cover ups.
It has been the height of hypocrisy and journalistic malpractice that, to this date, even with the story having HUGE significance because it has impacted the NFL Draft, one of ESPN’s biggest events of the year, that ESPN has not reported AT ALL on the photos indicating that Russini was having an affair with Vrabel while she was a key reporter for ESPN and he was the coach of the Titans. Incredibly, they haven’t even released a substantive statement as of yet.
When you compare this total silence to how ESPN immediately decided in November 2011, with ZERO actual evidence/logic, that Joe Paterno and Penn State had obviously been engaged in a cover up of Jerry Sandusky’s presumed crimes, going literally wall to wall with coverage until Paterno was eventually fired, it is extremely enlightening.
While the stories are obviously not totally analogous, at the core of ESPN’s Penn State coverage was their fervent belief that it would be impossible for Sandusky to be engaged in the behavior alleged (even as a FORMER employee of Penn State) without Penn Stare knowing about it. It was also assumed by ESPN that Penn State had a huge incentive to cover up the story (which, since Sandusky was a former employee at the time of the key allegation, never made any sense).
Based on ESPN’s own precedent/standard, it is more than fair to presume that it would be impossible for ESPN to not realize that one of their primary NFL reporters was engaged in an affair with an NFL head coach (especially given all the hints Russini was leaving publicly). It would also be totally reasonable to presume that ESPN was more than willing to cover up this information because they were clearly benefiting from Russini’s unique “access” to news. It would not even be a stretch to presume, using the standard that ESPN used in the Penn State case, and in other similar moral panics, that this type of behavior from their female reporters was systematic and essentially approved of by ESPN as a effectively a legitimatized (or at least somewhat accepted) “journalistic” practice.
While there has been some effort by sports news outlets to force ESPN to act responsibly here, there has not yet been nearly enough to force action. ESPN must be held to their own standards of evaluation and accountability in these types of situations.
But since the news media in general, and the sports media in particular, are currently completely broken, I won’t be holding my breath for this to actually happen.
He has a "husband".
Now he needs a baby.
The problem is, the baby has to lose his mother to join that "marriage."
This is why we must overturn #Obergefell. From the child's perspective, not all marriages are equal. @MakeKidsGreater
I don’t know who needs to hear this but Democrats don’t actually care about Swalwell probably sexually abusing women the same way they didn’t actually care that Biden was a senile vegetable. It’s simply a mtter of how useful they are to the party. The second they aren’t needed anymore they are disposed of.
A deeply human scene: composer James Newton Howard created Hunger Games music that only world class pianist Yuja Wang could perform & watched her play it with tears of joy in his eyes. Moments like this will become increasingly rare in a world of AI-generated content. 😢
"We’ve tried being openly trusting toward all digital technology and in some notable cases that has caused significant harm to us and our children. Maybe it’s time we wise up and slow down and think before we adopt."
It’s so illuminating that the same people who have spent decades fighting nativity scenes on public land for a week a year & church groups renting public school spaces for a few Sundays are now fighting tooth & nail to allow loud, 5am Muslim calls to prayer every damn day.
I am a Democrat. I served in the Clinton administration. I did not vote for Donald Trump and am highly unlikely to support him or his acolytes in the future. I also have serious disagreements with many of the Trump administration’s domestic and foreign policies.
But it is profoundly disturbing that a growing segment of the far left appears to be almost rooting for Hamas, Hezbollah, the Iranian regime, and other forces fundamentally opposed to the United States and our allies. This seems to reflects a corrosive strain of anti-Americanism, dressed up in postcolonial theory, that risks blinding us to the moral realities of our world and the nature of our adversaries.