Keith Olbermann's turn

Pediatric and Penn State go together like champagne and doggy style.

 

Olbermann should be thrown in prison for posting his opinion [Ruben]

 

At some point, a man in his 50s shouldn't spend half of his life responding to people on Twitter.

 

Fine. If you want to engage in mental shorthand and generalize about the school's entire student body -- 99.8% of whom had no connection with that time in the school's history -- and community, you have at it.

After all, it worked for racists for many, many years. And it almost worked for Keith Olbermann in 2015.

 

Serious question. Sandusky aside? Did Joe Paterno have any real redeeming qualities off the field?

He is revered and loved by PSU students and was often fawned over by local press.

I never liked him because I think he helped usher in the age of coaches who severely limited press access.

 

You can't take every shot. Sometimes you gotta' let an easy one go by knowing a much better one come by at some point, especially with those fools. Very juvenile by Olbermann and he should know better.

 

Great. Now you have resorted to comparing people to racists for still holding Penn State accountable for the massive failure that allowed Sandusky to abuse children there for so long. Olbermann's posts were ill-advised, ill-timed and childish, but it is about time you saw that Penn State still harbors much of the same culture that allowed that to happen in the first place.

Penn State still has work to do to wipe away the stain that Sandusky and his enablers left on that university. One positive step would be for the students, alumni and fans to stop whining about how they have been mistreated. At the very least, it comes off as insensitive and self-centered given how those boys Sandusky abused were treated.

 

I think he was the first example of a coach who the national media portrayed like he was a saint while the local guys knew what a dick he could be. I think Coach K has gotten similar treatment. Just my opinion...

Paterno did donate a shitload of money (IIRC, a couple million) to the Penn State library and led the fundraising for the rest, which I think was something like $14 million total. I know at one point it was named after him. I'm not sure if it still is.

He had redeeming qualities. I still don't think that gives him a pass for what happened while he was coach.

 

Yeah, I've considered your stance and think I'll let mine stand. Last shot to ... oop.

 

No. You didn't consider my stance. Not even for an a nanosecond. It would be nice if you would admit to at least that much.

I'm sure no one is surprised by your stubborn refusal to consider that there is still a stain on Penn State, or any other opinion that dares to contain anything negative about the university you love so much. When did this story break? Four years ago? You are kidding yourself if you expect that to be long enough for the stain to go away.

You've got people on and off campus fighting the penalties levied and crying about how unfairly the NCAA treated poor little Penn State. They celebrated as if it was some great moral triumph when the wins were reinstated and started going on about getting Paterno's statue back up. I can only imagine how disgusting that must sound to the victims and their families. Your comparison to racism is disgraceful. Penn State absolutely brought the horrible reputation on itself and it continues to do so. Many of the people involved may be gone, but the culture did not change. I know you are incapable of seeing it, but that does not change the reality of the situation.

 

Let's not forget one of the more powerful images from 2011.

 

Olbermann could have made a decent point. Instead of just saying Penn State is pitiful he could have said it was pitiful that after the student body rioted in support of Paterno and lashed out over NCAA sanctions it wants to pat itself on the back and be lauded for a fund raiser that's as much about being a campus status symbol and a place to continue to show support for Paterno as anything else.

But he was just trying to make them mad, not make an actual point.