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I previously posted about the NBC Today morning show having an exclusive interview with Jerry Sandusky, the Penn State assistant football coach convicted of multiple counts of child abuse. And today I have learned new details behind the interview.
The person doing the interview is former talk radio host turned filmmaker John Ziegler, whose filmography includes Blocking "The Path to 9/11" and Media Malpractice: How Obama Got Elected And Palin Was Targeted (2009). One portion of Media Malpractice had over 2 million views on YouTube since then, interviews with random Obama voters from a polling place designed to make 'em look ill informed:
Ziegler's latest project is The Framing of Joe Paterno (also known as Framing Paterno). It was originally released a few days after the presidential election on YouTube. Ziegler also was interviewed on WILK radio of Wilkes-Barre, PA on Aug. 28. Didn't get much coverage outside PA at the time. Trailer below
As USA Today reports today:
Portions of the interviews aired Monday on NBC's Today show.
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Ziegler told Today that his "focus is on Paterno.''
"I'm trying to get Joe Paterno's day in court,'' Ziegler said.
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Penn State said in a statement Monday that Sandusky's remarks "continue to open wounds for his victims, and the victims of child sexual abuse everywhere."
And not even the attorney hired by Paterno's own family is too happy:
"Sandusky had the opportunity to speak, under oath, during his trial and he chose not to do so,'' Sollers said in a written statement. "Releasing a recording at this time, nearly a year after he was found guilty on 45 counts, is transparently self-serving and yet another insult to the victims and anyone who cares about the truth in this tragic story.''
Also, the Philly Post blog called that movie "contemptible":
Its really kind of sad, as we hear from a whole bunch of people still in deep, deep denial that their hero did a terrible thing, from university trustees to several ex-Penn State players. This includes Franco Harris, the Penn State and Pittsburgh Steelers football player who, with his constant Paterno apologies, has spent the past year systematically napalming his previously impeccable reputation.
Blue_Tires
(55,445 posts)Not only is he a pseudo-libertarian nutbar, his ethics are laughably compromised (even by libertarian standards)...
NBC should get raked over the coals for this stunt...
Dawson Leery
(19,348 posts)Shame on NBC for allowing him this interview.
One should not be surprised to see a conservative defend Paterno. Football is a sport which demonstrates and re-enforces the traditional ideals of masculinity. For Ziegler's type, they need to do anything to preserve this tradition.