Cain vs. Paterno

  College students rioting for a man accused of ignoring child abuse does not inspire confidence in our system of educating young people, but then neither does the freakish behavior of the occupier college graduates who seemed to have learned nothing in school but bad behavior and enablement.
  But what can you expect when their professors go to jail with them.
  For years, athletes' behavior has been excused, on and off the field. They can beat their wives, act bizarre in public, abuse the fans, treat the people who pay to see them as if they're nuisances, yet the team and its fans go along with it, defending them in public, wearing their shirts and acting as if these thugs have special privileges in a free society.
  Last night on Midnight Trucking radio, caller after caller after caller defended Joe Paterno's lack of concern about the welfare of the child who was being molested in his locker room by one of his coaches. 
  Paterno shouldn't have been fired, they said, and shouldn't be held to the same moral standard as the hosts' moral standard.
  As the love pours out for Paterno, whose history and age surely stir empathy in the media and country, the opposite is happening for Herman Cain, who has been accused of doing something as yet unsubstantiated. 
  We don't want to fall into the trap of defending Herman Cain if he's guilty, but rather to point to the difference in treatment of Paterno, who knew definitively that abuse had been committed and failed to follow up, and Cain, who has been accused by anonymous women, a political operative, a "troubled" woman, all of whom are oddly from Chicago and all of whom are being shepherded by notorious Democrat grievance monger Gloria Allred.
  At Penn State, one man after another, for 15 years, from the coaches to the head of campus police to the district attorney looked at the evidence and turned away. 
  When a substitute janitor reported witnessing the behavior and being so shaken by what he saw that his peers were afraid he'd have a heart attack, he said he told other custodians thus making covering up the child abuse part of the culture at Penn State.
  Everyone knew.
  The BleacherReport:

It is the height of hyperbole and hypocrisy to feign any shock at all about what is shaping up to be the greatest cover-up in major college athletics history.
Because let’s face it, cover-ups are what major college athletics excel at.  

Sexual assaults. Attempted rape. Slapping women around. Disorderly conduct. Weapons possession. Weapons discharge. Drug possession. Trafficking controlled substances. Aggravated assault. Resisting arrest. Driving while under the influence of various substances.

  That a man who worked in "Happy Valley" and called his autobiography Touched: The Jerry Sandusky Story was allowed to go untouched by the authorities for so long and indeed was enabled by the very people who should have reported him reveals the dark and sinister forces at work in the human heart.
  The Second Mile, which is the agency Sandusky founded and through which he had contact with disadvantaged youths whose parents undoubtedly trusted him to care for their children while in his presence, does not believe the abuse took place on their property:

However, the organization knew as early as 1998 that Mr. Sandusky was under investigation for similar sexual misconduct in a Penn State shower involving a different boy from the program, according to a presentment by a statewide investigating grand jury. 

Mr. Sandusky started the program in 1977 to help troubled boys, but it provided him with access to hundreds of vulnerable youths, at least eight of whom he is accused of sexually assaulting over a 15-year period, the presentment said.

  Hindsight is great. One of the problems with today's litigious environment is that claims of abuse are so prevalent that it is hard to tell the truth and sort out the facts. 

  The flippancy with which people like Allred  and Bialek accuse someone of a crime is a significant part of the problem. The reality is that if you work with people, particularly young people, you might get accused of abusing them. 

  And you might have actually done that. 

  But to be "uncomfortable" and turn that into an official complaint stinks. 

  Karen Kurshnauer claimed at her next job that an email joke was sexual harassment. What was the joke?

Meanwhile, the woman who settled a sexual harassment complaint against Cain in 1999 complained at her next job about unfair treatment and accused a manager of sending a sexually-charged email. 

Karen Kraushaar, 55, filed the complaint three years later while working as a spokeswoman at the Immigration and Naturalization Service in the Justice Department. She also claimed she should be allowed to work from home after a serious car accident.

  And here's the joke she was so upset about:

HERE IS THE EMAIL:Computers are Like Men...And Women...From e-mail forward...Computers are Like Men... In order to get their attention, you have to turn them on. They are supposed to help you solve problems, but half the time they are the problem. They have a lot of data but are still clueless. As soon as you commit to one, you realize that, if you had waited a little longer you could have had a better model. They hear what you say, but not what you mean. 
Computers are Like Women... No one but the Creator understands their internal logic. The native language they use to communicate with other computers is incomprehensible to everyone else. Even your smallest mistakes are stored in long-term memory for later retrieval.As soon as you make a commitment to one, you find yourself spending half your paycheck on accessories for it. You do the same thing for years, and suddenly it's wrong.

  And there ya go. We're willing to sue for a harmless joke, try to ruin a man's life anonymously, but when we KNOW numerous children are being abused by a person who has their lives in his hands, because we LIKE him and because millions of dollars are at stake, we ignore the behavior.
  And the fans try to justify inaction in the face of child abuse.
  The riot should have occurred for the children, not the one who didn't report the crime.
  I'm not defending Cain; I'm pointing out that much of the claiming of abuse is indeed political, and it's a politic that results in authorities not taking real child abuse seriously.