I don't mean to be sophomoric and immature but good Lord what an asswhole. His rantings make me believe he's not really all there mentally. How he can be allowed to inject any content into these ongoing debates is beyond me.
Anyone gone to Bernie McCue's FB page? That guy needs his ass kicked
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He's 79 years old....some of his Twitter enemies enjoy yanking his mental chain.
Problem is that you'd have to throw away your shoes after the kicking was done.
Up until now the best strategy has been to ignore him. Unfortunately, Ganim unethically decided to use someone who clearly has some mental health issues to advance her own agenda.
Ganim hitched her wagon to him, so we'll see how that pans out for her. Most of us are smart enough not to give personal recommendations for people we don't respect and trust. Apparently Ganim felt that this guy was credible and worthy of being a source. Personally, I think that was probably a poor decision on her part. I guess we'll see in time.
I can't believe no one has followed him and beat the eff out of him by now. He's a total imbecile.
I have been following all of this for a while and decided to check out his FB page. Because he allows for anyone to see what he posts, I noticed he commented on a number of articles about Joe's "10 year cover up". Kind of strange that it went from a 10 year cover up in his post on Feb 22 and now he claims he has known about a cover up since the 70's? CNN is trash.
Ummm if he's known about for 10 years or, now since the 70's, and hasn't said or done anything until 2011 then he's just as bad and guilty as Joe.
Hell Joe did more anyway he at least escalated it up the chain of command (which is exactly what he was supposed to do).
Maybe Bernie didn't want to get caught up in anything and shine a beacon of light in his direction. Who knows what that would have uncovered....well actually some people do know.
Or maybe the 71 accuser told him not to speak about? Not saying that's the case, or I would believe it without solid evidence.
To insinuate he's guilty of anything other than being a whack job with a vendetta (without proof) is counter productive.
OK. Let's take Bernie at his word.
He was a 35 year old school teacher who heard from a 16 year old that he had been violently raped.
He didn't report it to the police or any other authority.
He kept his mouth shut even as the rapist went on to establish a child-serving charity.
He kept his mouth shut even when he was picked up by local police and plead guilty to harassment charges.
Sure. Whatever. I have a bridge in Brooklyn that's for sale.
Worse - he uses his psu.edu address to send inflammatory and insulting emails. He has a police docket.
I simply can't understand why a guy who clearly is mentally ill, is allowed a cameo appearance in a film and pandered to by CNN. Lots of red flags (rockets and flares) with this behavior and yet...he's out there. Does he have family? Aren't they concerned about him roaming around like this?
I simply can't understand why a guy who clearly is mentally ill, is allowed a cameo appearance in a film and pandered to by CNN. Lots of red flags (rockets and flares) with this behavior and yet...he's out there. Does he have family? Aren't they concerned about him roaming around like this?
You're right, going to police when you know the witness/victim has no intention of ever admitting it is the way to go.
It's not like being raped by man would leave him with trust issues. And then having the one person you trusted ignore his promise, go to police, and invite the entire world to know of the thing he was most ashamed of.
You people endlessly talk about understanding sexual abuse and victim psychology. But as soon as it doesn't meet the standard of "This is what vindicates Joe Pa" it's all BS.
Nevermind the fact I said I wouldn't believe it without concrete evidence.
How many women did Bill Cosby rape before it became public knowledge? You don't a single one of them told a person close to them?
So you've repeated this possible scenario across several threads. So a couple of questions for you. If you were McCue and you were finally spilling the beans 40 years later, don't you think you'd say something along the lines, "this has been killing me having to hold this in for 40 years. But victim A begged me not to tell anyone. I couldn't violate his trust after he'd already been through so much." Also, have you not seen the screen capture of a post of McCue's on some form of social media where he talks about respecting Paterno until 2011 when the scandal hit? So he respected a man that he knew was privy to his friend being raped and didn't do anything about it? C'mon, that is so beyond preposterous as to not even be worth playing devil's advocate to support.
So the victim has no problem telling Joe Paterno, who was not close to him , his story, but wouldn't tell it to the police? What did he expect Joe to do?
Bernie was not a victim, you twit.
Bernie was a fully grown adult - a school teacher - who supposedly heard the story of a child being violently raped, and Bernie did jack shit about it even though he knew Sandusky went on to establish an organization serving at-risk kids.
You can take your lame excuses and stuff them where the sun doesn't shine.
Yeah, I made the mistake of trying to engage with him but he's either totally lost or simply trolling. So I'm done with him. Good luck.
He was vetted by a Pulitzer Prize winner. That's good enough for me....
Perhaps McGettigan spoke with him and "convinced" him it was almost 45 years....
You're right, insinuating he's the one with something to hide is clearly the way to get people in your corner.
Literally anything that doesn't fit into your narrow minded view is a troll. You just go around accusing this and that in your little corner of the Internet.
All I did was offer an explanation, that was qualified BTW as something that would take serious evidence for me to believe.
McCue is such a clown, it's impossible anyone could defend this meat whap.
A few on this site are his peers in terms of pushing the crazy line. Hopefully they can maintain themselves.
And he couldn't do that with his foster father who made the call to Penn State against the kid's wishes? Yeah.
Most persons would look at Bernie as being somewhat mentally challenged, better to walk away and avoid physical adversity.
Art asked a hypothetical question. I provided a hypothetical answer. Not stating this is what happened.
Except isn't it an established fact he didn't respect them prior to 2011? This is a genuine question.
And who says he believed it in 1972?
As far as what you should expect him to say, if we go down that road a lot of people are going to look bad based on what was said.
I'm not even trying to explain something I believe, like at all. I'm offering possibilities since nobody is even entertaining the idea something could have happened.
for son many years, I read several of the boards and never bothered to post. during that time, I would occasionally see the phrase "you can't spell imbecile without "mbe". Anyone know who coined that.
Well, he did nothing, except cash in when PSU was handing out money to anyone
I'll concede that the 1971 incident is possible. But if all the protagonist can rest his case on is Bernie McCue then he's SOFL.
(phone rings)
PSU Operator: "Thank you for calling Penn State. How may I direct your call?"
BMcC: "I'm calling to report a sexual assault."
PSU Operator: "Can you hold please?" (puts caller on hold & dials Joe Paterno's extention) "Coach?"
JP: "Yes, what is it?"
PSU Operator: "There's someone on the phone wanting to report a sexual assault."
JP: "Good God, woman, put him through, and tell Jim to get his ass down to my office! Oh, and tell no one of this!"
Yup. Completely plausible.
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Have you ever wondered who coined the phrase "Coined the Phrase"?
Yup. And they're required by law to immediately phone the nearest D1 football coach & report it.
