{"version":1,"type":"rich","provider_name":"Libsyn","provider_url":"https:\/\/www.libsyn.com","height":90,"width":600,"title":"The O'Leary Review - Ep 9 - The Penn State Case w\/ John Ziegler","description":"Over the last week and a half, we\u2019ve been fielding a lot of questions about a segment of our podcast that takes on the dominant narrative surrounding the \u201cPenn State Case.\u201d 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\u2019ve written about it in the past\u2026taking a position as I have\u2014which unfortunately appears to be the only reasonable position\u2014is 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\u2026it very well could. But this is an important story and it goes much deeper than a man\u2019s guilt or innocence. It exposes the cultural rot that exists within this society\u2026and its cause is probably the opposite of what most people have been told. We have a corporate media structure that exists in today\u2019s culture comprised\u2014almost entirely\u2014of truly unimpressive people. These people jump to rash conclusions either out of sheer ignorance or wonton political\u2014read: leftist\u2014motivations. I don\u2019t 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\u2014even in the last show notes page\u2014was to send you back to Episode 77 of Sportlanders the Podcast, which I called \u201cthe most important podcast\u201d we\u2019d done up until that point\u2026and start from there. Human nature is such that people would rather insult me than go through the effort of hunting down an old podcast\u2014a 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 \u201c2-in-1 podcast\u201d 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\u2019s 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 \u201cstarter kit podcast\u201d for the Penn State\u2013Paterno\u2013Sandusky case as it stands right now. The foremost expert on the case is John Ziegler, who we\u2019ve had on the show twice so far\u2014once in February and once again in September. You can find those shows in our archives, if you need to, but the whole shootin\u2019 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\u2019s episode consists of the two interviews, slightly edited for time and clarity \u2026 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\u2019Leary Review Podcast. Part one is probably what I call a \u201csurvey\u201d 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\u2019ll hear us mention it several times throughout this show. Go over to John\u2019s podcast with Liz Habib\u2014With the Benefit of Hindsight\u2014and there you\u2019ll get the whole story. But there is also several days-worth of content to get through. Here, you can get the basic picture in one or two sittings by listening to this show. Part two is from the third part of a long form podcast we did in September that also touched on LIV\/PGA golf and the state of college football. The segment we include here is a bit of an update on the Penn State case from where we left it in February, but also incorporates more examples of the corporate media\u2019s malfeasance, especially as it relates to the realm of sports.   John Ziegler is a documentary filmmaker, author, Emmy-winning commentator, podcaster, former radio talk show host and television sportscaster John\u2019s podcast, which he hosts with Liz Habib, called With the Benefit of Hindsight is over 60 hours of detailed reporting on the case. In this podcast series, \u201cThe truth about what happened at Penn State has been locked in a vault for ten years \u2014 you\u2019ve just been given the key.\u201d You can find everything relating to the podcast at FramingPaterno.com Other than his tireless reporting on the truth in the Penn State debacle, which includes a 2012 documentary called The Framing of Joe Paterno, Ziegler is most well- known for his second feature documentary film called Media Malpractice which covered the 2008 presidential election. Ziegler is an alumnus of Georgetown University and grew up in Pennsylvania, though with no direct ties to Penn State University.   The Penn State Case   John\u2019s YouTube channel   Clip of the questionable McQueary TD pass in 1995.   Zig\u2019s offer to Sara Ganim   Immaculate Reception (Franco Harris) Franco Harris Twitter @francoharrishof   We come at the second part of this discussion from the perspective that Jerry Sandusky is innocent and therefore Joe Paterno\u2019s reputation has been dragged through the mud unfairly. The conversation then builds on that notion. John Ziegler\u2019s reporting on this case leads to no other conclusion other than Sandusky\u2019s innocence and that Paterno was certainly framed and became a fall guy for the ineptitude of the corporate media and the vendetta academia has against sports\u2014college football in particular. If this claim disturbs you at all, one needs to first do some basic research on the facts of the case. Start by listening to this podcast from the beginning! The Penn State Case has proven to be a perfect storm, not a hoax or a conspiracy or a cover-up\u2026the cover-up comes elsewhere with the media and the prosecution. Conspiracy: \u201ca secret plan or agreement between persons for an unlawful or harmful purpose, especially with political motivation, while keeping their agreement secret from the public or from other people affected by it.\u201d Conspiracy Theory: \u201can explanation for an event or situation that involves a conspiracy by sinister and powerful groups, often political in motivation.\u201d The covid era was not a conspiracy, either. Much like this case it was the dumb leading the stupid to insane conclusions.   \u201cI want to make something clear. I am not raising doubt about what happened. I know what really did and did not happen. What we were told did not happen. It did not. Period! Did not happen! Jerry Sandusky is completely innocent\u2014as insane I myself would have thought that was insane. If you told me that in 2012, I would have thought that was insane. In fact, when people did tell me that in 2012, I thought they were nuts.\u201d \u2014John Ziegler   If you have the time\u2014and you do\u2014listen to the entirety of With the Benefit of Hindsight.   \u201cThis whole saga is the worst example in modern history of a complete fraud that was\u2014to this day still\u2014accepted as gospel truth by every single element of the news media and not one of those news media members. Not one of them can tell you even the basic facts of the case\u2026 And it doesn\u2019t even bother them! It doesn\u2019t even bother them that they can\u2019t tell you any facts of the case. Because they know the truth because everybody in their bubble said the same thing and even though we know they\u2019ve been wrong so many times.\u201d \u2014JZ   Reference the Duke\u2013BYU volleyball controversy and then the BYU\u2013University of Oregon football episode. Ziegler was on with Dan Abrams on NewsNation the other night talking about it all.   The Jay Paterno diagram of how the showers in the Lasch Football Building at Penn State were designed. After this case broke, there exist no known photos of the showers and the entire building was renovated in 2012-2013.    Did the prosecution team tell Mike McQueary to \u201cclam up?\u201d   The Ziegler appearance mentioned with Piers Morgan in 2013.   John Ziegler \u2013 Twitter   The Sandusky Case Flow Chart   The horrible HBO movie Paterno. Not recommended whatsoever.   How do Hall of Fame coach Dick Vermeil and longtime NFL and college head coach Herm Edwards tie into this case? Can\u2019t say for sure, because nobody will talk on the record. Interestingly, Vermeil wrote the foreword to Jerry Sandusky\u2019s book, Touched. Herman Edwards, a former player for Vermeil, according to a conversation Vermeil had with Ziegler, told his former coach, \u201cThere\u2019s a guy in California who\u2019s going to break the case wide open\u2026\u201d Probably this guy\u2026 Penn Law Fumble \u2014 PennLawFumble.info on the Internet Archive Wayback Machine     We talk about the \u201cOhio State wrestling scandal\u201d involving Ohio congressman Jim Jordan. I don\u2019t know of any decent reporting on this after a cursory glance of the search engine results. If anyone has a decent breakdown \u2026 of the truth \u2026 please leave it in the comments section.   For more\u2026 BrianDOLeary.com             ","author_name":"The Brian D. O'Leary Show","author_url":"https:\/\/briandoleary.com\/","html":"