Over the last week and a half, we’ve been fielding a lot of questions about a segment of our podcast that takes on the dominant narrative surrounding the “Penn State Case.”
I am not interested in in appearances, as I often say. I am concerned with the truth. The Sandusky case is not something I had any desire in learning about, but once I scratched the surface, it began a deep-dive into the facts and the narrative surrounding the case.
I’ve written about it in the past…taking a position as I have—which unfortunately appears to be the only reasonable position—is an easy way to get one shunned from polite society.
So here is my challenge: just listen to the show. You may not want to. You may think it will creep you out…it very well could. But this is an important story and it goes much deeper than a man’s guilt or innocence.
It exposes the cultural rot that exists within this society…and its cause is probably the opposite of what most people have been told.
We have a corporate media structure that exists in today’s culture comprised—almost entirely—of truly unimpressive people. These people jump to rash conclusions either out of sheer ignorance or wonton political—read: leftist—motivations.
I don’t know how we fight back against it, but I believe that being aware of the problem is a good place to start.
Part of my initial strategy for building awareness—even in the last show notes page—was to send you back to Episode 77 of Sportlanders the Podcast, which I called “the most important podcast” we’d done up until that point…and start from there.
Human nature is such that people would rather insult me than go through the effort of hunting down an old podcast—a task which was not difficult, as I gave the link right in the show notes.
Thus, after a rash of BS heading my way, my tactics changed.
What we did is compile our material on the case into one single show, edited for clarity and relevance.
We encourage you to start here. Today.
This “2-in-1 podcast” is designed to help you get the basics of what is going on with this case and to ultimately go and listen to John Ziegler’s epic podcast series With the Benefit of Hindsight.
Meanwhile, we are praying that all our friends in Florida, the Carolinas, and the rest of the eastern seaboard are safe after the hurricane. In fact, we had to reschedule a podcast because of the hurricane earlier this week.
So, for today, my team cobbled together a “starter kit podcast” for the Penn State–Paterno–Sandusky case as it stands right now.
The foremost expert on the case is John Ziegler, who we’ve had on the show twice so far—once in February and once again in September. You can find those shows in our archives, if you need to, but the whole shootin’ match is right here for you.
Go to BrianDOLeary.com for all of those resources and to sign up for our daily newsletter and to be notified whenever new podcasts are launched.
Today’s episode consists of the two interviews, slightly edited for time and clarity … yet this program you are about to listen to still runs at over two hours.
The first part of the program you will hear in a moment was from Episode 77 of Sportlanders the Podcast. The second part was a conversation from within Episode 8 of The O’Leary Review Podcast.
Part one is probably what I call a “survey” of the case.
John came on the podcast with me in February when I was still very wet behind the ears on the subject and after I had recently finished his podcast series, which is the best resource for the case. You’ll hear us mention it several times throughout this show.
Go over to John’s podcast with Liz Habib—With the Benefit of Hindsight—and there you’ll get the whole story. But there is also several…