Hee-yes, it's an option I've often wished we could have here, the 'Like a WHOLE H*ll of a lot'.
OH Lord, the one thing we DID see on the local news here is the endless stream of well-wishers trapsing off to Paternos front door with flowers, fervently clapsing hands with his wife as the dear soul came to the door. OI! He has an awesome, awesome press agent, although requires none since the news crews do it for him. It's endlessly nauseating, listening to the interviews, too-GOD!
I agree, geesh- I just read in the paper about my OWN ex-doc, get this- he was an awesome do-gooder, gave to the poor, had medical clinics in the poor section of town, one of those rocks of society you read about. He was also turned in by his own daughter for child porn, then confessed to acts through out his career. Yea.Kind of negates the whole GOOD thing across the board, as in forever. He's just some nameless schlup, too, so no-one stepping up to excuse HIS behaviour.
This is a slippery slope for the entire country, this public venerating of Paterno to the point of disallowing him his part in a pedophile's 20 year string of trophies. I'm a little frightened, to be honest because any other celebrity would have been brought crashing down by now. If anything, we're generally incredibly hard on our public figures once the pendulum of public opinion begins to swing the other way. Not Paterno! What IS it with this guy? You can't say it's 'Football', there have been other notable figures who managed to shoot themselves in the career through some hideous misadventure, and not one was connected with something as just plain awful as a pedophile.
