Jerry And O.J.

[Robert Crisman]

Joe Paterno's family has announced that they're launching their own investigation into the Jerry Sandusky-Penn State rape scandal, insisting that the truth re Old Joe has not yet been told.

I suppose that's not quite as dumb as O.J.'s claim in the wake of his trial that he would bring Nicole's real killer to justice.

Later he said that he thought he'd gotten a look at the guy on the 16th hole of some golf course; turns out, however, it was just some raccoon that he saw out the corner of his eye as he shanked his ball into the woods, a near-impossible duffer-esque fuckup from that vantage point on the fairway, and so much for a gimme par three on the hole...

There was actually some speculation if that was the coon that tore up his finger the night that Nicole and Goldman got killed; O.J.'d been trying to blast his way out of a sandtrap that night on the very same course's hole nine, and he told the cops that the coon had gone straight for his nuts and--no, wait, it was the Bronco, he cut the damn finger fucking around in the Bronco and--wait, that's not it, it was...

Jerry Sandusky! The guy went straight for his nuts!

[Robert Crisman]

@Angela: it's the goddamn moral cowardice and greed that gets me. They've got Joe on tape trying to hush the whole thing up, but his family really dug living large with a plaster-cast saint, and so, fuck the truth.

[Mike Handley]

Funny what people say when microphones are thrust into their throats. No, wait, it wasn't microphones ...

[Gita]

And just look how well OJ's investigation turned out, unh-hunh. If anyone needs investigating it's Dottie Sandusky. I want whatever drugs she was on for 30 years that helped her tune out the reality under her own roof. Let's see, now. My husband hasn't touched me since we got married and he likes to hold sleepovers with young boys. Oh well, I'll just pop a few more whatchamacallits. Meanwhile, Paterno's more concerned with keeping the money stream coming into Penn State's football program so he covers up for the rapist.

His family can put lipstick on a pig and call it Monique, but it will always be a pig.

 

[Angela]

Oh, yes.  Although Paterno's family must be devastated, and are perhaps grasping at straws (with the same desperation) as OJ was.  Awful to think about the children, of course, and so many other's lives ruined.