New PSU documentary blames media for Paterno's downfall

Okay PSU

I'm surprised they didn't blame the refs.

Boom Staee'd

Damage has been done. Move on, PSU.

Isn't this the same guy who directed, "Adolf, not a bad fella" and "Why cancer is healthy" ?

"Hey Guys, when do we get the koolaid?"

This has seriously dove to depths of delusion and irrationality that I cannot comprehend. 

PSU:  "It didn't happen."

SANITY:  "But what about this condeming evidence that JoPa and the administration knew something was going on?"

PSU:  "Evidence?  I'm not listening! LA LA LA LALALALALA!"

"And we would have gotten away with it if it wasn't for those pesky victims and the media..."

-Ghost of JoPa as special celebrity guest in a Scooby-Do episode

still doesn't get it

wow if you go to the youtube video, Penn State fans are totally pumped for this. Again, Penn State fans still more concerned about Paterno's legacy than molested children. And now I'm back to wanting to see them lose every game ever.

That is all.

but then they can go ahead and lose all the rest of them. God those idiots don't get it and never will.

It's really amazing to see such denial.  Franco Harris has convinced himself that because McQuery didn't see "intercourse," therefore what McQuery did see was not a sexual assault.  Because, you know, there is nothing sexually inappropriate about a grown man pressing his naked body against a naked prepubescent boy in a shower at 9 p.m. on a Friday night.  I wish they had gotten the death penalty for 4 years.

...it was a year ago today (+/- 1 day) that this whole story broke.  Its amazing what changed in that year and how fast it took. 

but beat Nebraska, please... then crawl under a rock

kthxbai

Crazy people gonna be crazy.

ugh let this story die already, though i know it never will. i'm all for psu rebounding as it makes the B1G stronger, but the delusion is sickening. your coach was a fraud who cared more about wins and losses than the well-being of children. he's responsible for his own downfall. story over, move on.

...but I guess my only question is this - does the International Documentary Association also give out a yearly award for the "Most Unashamedly Biased Documentary"? If so, will John Ziegler get some sort of grant to produce more like this? I hope not.

ADDENDUM: John Ziegler is the person who produced this - here's the link to his accompanying editorial on the subject. If you didn't watch the video, reading this will basically tell you why you shouldn't watch the video if you're expecting something thoughful (which you shouldn't).

Srsly, and some idiot made a movie denegrating Muhammad.

Look, anyone with a computer can make a movie these days.  And stick a camera in someone's face and record total drivel.

I don't see anyone explaining who made this video.  I didn't see any credits, up front or at the back (sadly, I'm not compelled to watch all 32 minutes).  So when the OP said "PSU" made this, I don't think so.  An official PSU movie would say that, someplace.  Frankly, anyone with a professional reputation would say who made this.

Seems to me this is some underground PSU fan trying to put up a fight for the sake of fighting.  Not anything official or sanctioned. And no one in the mainstream is going to believe this garbage, so don't get worked up over it.

In other words, move on people, just someone wallowing in his misery.  (And wasting some of his coin to do it.)

I, for one, am looking forward to the upcoming perjury and obstruction of justice trials of the "big three".  My bet is that at least one (if not more) of them will roll big time on St Joe in effort to save their skin.  It will be very interesting to see what the PSU slappies have to say if one of them say....has physical evidence they can produce showing evidence of Paterno trying to extort their silence.

As much as they'd like it to be over the public disclosure and investigation of the depth of their crimes has really just gotten started.  Who knew what and when did they know it is going to come out.  It always does.

feel good story of the year. 

...on BSD.

Where is the accountability?

Pretty much anyone can get one now, and that's not a bad thing, but it makes it pretty easy to make a documentary.

I watched the first minutes and all they say is "No they/he did not" across every news report. Sounds like they are attempting the now infamous and nearly successful Etch-a-Sketch defense.

This was shot in a Holiday Inn conference room.  Or Dunder Mifflin's Scranton branch.

Listen, I had my doubts about the quality of this film, but then I saw animated text superimposed over video clips and I was hooked.

Listen, when you don't have facts on your side OR public sentiment, just stick two fingers in your ears and yell really loud until everyone listens to you.  That is apparently the approach taken by this video.

Paterno wasn't the monster who raped a bunch of boys; he's just the guy who let it happen under this watch and failed to take adequate steps to halt it.  He's not a "bad" guy in the same way Sandusky is; he's a person who grossly failed in his duties as an employee at PSU and as someone who should be trying to protect small children from a sexual predator he employed.

If the PSU folks in the video believe all of what they say in the video to be true then why not sue the living shit out of ESPN for slander, liable and anything else?

Why make some youtube video about it?

I hope everybody realizes that the actions by a crazy faction of the fanbase doesn't represent the entire fanbase.  I know a lot of PSU alums and none of them are even close to resembling the crazy fools who keep making the headlines like this.

The hatred for the parties responsible for what happened is understood but I really wish the blanket statements and lumping of groups would stop.  It really sucks when some of your close friends are called Ped State rapists when they are just as disgusted by what happened as anyone else.

Penn State...what a joke.  Can't believe I have to root for these assholes tomorrow. 

Ever get the impression that Coach O'Brien has the "super jalapeno sensation" with this topic - very uncomfortable during the first dose  while eating and then persistent discomfort while exiting. 

"Super" with PSU because they're trying to shove the excrement all the way in reverse and disclaim the whole thing.

You cannot compare the two. In the case of Cuse, the sole "victim" was some dude who apparently slept with the coaches bitter wife and, according to him, had consensual intercourse with Fine into, at least, his mid 20s. His testimony was inconsisten left and right. On one tape he says this and on another he completely contradicts himself. His story was not corroborated, then corroborated, then not corroborated, the corroborated, etc., by his druggie brother, who has a shady past, a record, and (likely) along with his brother wanted to get some $$$ from Fine, in light of the PSU coverage. Of the other two "victims" in the Fine case, one was a felon who admitted that he flat out lied (and never actually met Fine) and the other was about to get a couple of decades in prison for molesting small kids and, it turned out, he (admittedly) lied as well. In the PSU case, the assistant actually caught Sandusky in the act and the whole PSU admin covered it up, including Paterno.

Everytime I think PSU has suffered enough and it's time to give them a break, they go ahead and do something so unabashedly shameful to reignite my hatred of them.

Creating a "documentary" that tries to rewrite history fits into this category

F*#k Penn State....and oh yeah, beat Nebraska.