Linda Kelly Did Everything But Thank the Academy

Via The Daily Beast ~

It was all so surreal Friday night, what should have been a sober and solemn moment turned into an election-night rally at courthouse headquarters in Bellefonte, Pa. A girl mugged for the cameras. A crowd that had gathered on the courthouse steps in T-shirts and shorts cheered when the verdict was announced. There was the usual cry of “Can you hear me?” as the losers and the victors stepped to the microphone-soaked podium. There were the endless speeches of congratulation and self-congratulation with suited stragglers in the back hoping for a little television face time

Everybody was having fun, too much fun, when there wasn’t a goddam thing fun or funny about what had just happened. This wasn’t a time to cheer. This wasn’t a time for endless speeches saying nothing. This was a time to mourn. This was a time to feel the same disgust we originally felt last November when the grand jury report detailing the sexual-abuse horrors of former Penn State University assistant football coach Jerry Sandusky was first made public.

This was a time to express more outrage at Penn State than ever, given the new details emerging of an even more massive cover-up, all in the name of preserving a game called football with no academic purpose and no reason to exist on any college campus with the power that it does and the lifetime immunity it provides to too many within it.

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Posted on Jun 25, 2012 by Ian In: Current Events/Pop Culture/Politics
  • amy

    I think we had CNN on in our house in the background when my husband said to me, “Would you take our kids to the courthouse for the Sandusky verdict?” And, then I started to study the scene on our TV. Why were people gathered at the courthouse? To say, “I was there when Sandusky’s verdict came in”? Our daughter asked me recently why people went to watch public executions a long time ago – this feels like the same thing to me.

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