Sandusky tells film-maker John Ziegler, who is involved in a project called "Framing Paterno,'' that he was merely "fooling around'' with the child and that McQueary had misrepresented "his behavior."

Portions of the interviews aired Monday on NBC's Today show.

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Ziegler told Today that his "focus is on Paterno.''

"I'm trying to get Joe Paterno's day in court,'' Ziegler said.

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Penn State said in a statement Monday that Sandusky's remarks "continue to open wounds for his victims, and the victims of child sexual abuse everywhere."

Paterno family attorney Wick Sollers described Sandusky's remarks as a "sad and unfortunate development.''

"Sandusky had the opportunity to speak, under oath, during his trial and he chose not to do so,'' Sollers said in a written statement. "Releasing a recording at this time, nearly a year after he was found guilty on 45 counts, is transparently self-serving and yet another insult to the victims and anyone who cares about the truth in this tragic story.''

Aside from the questionable facts, “Framing Paterno” is nothing less than an act of moral bankruptcy, for one simple reason: It has much, much more anger about the circumstances under which Joe Paterno was fired than it does about the unchecked molestation of several children. The two things aren’t remotely comparable, and the film’s failure to see that is what makes it utterly contemptible.

It’s really kind of sad, as we hear from a whole bunch of people still in deep, deep denial that their hero did a terrible thing, from university trustees to several ex-Penn State players. This includes Franco Harris, the Penn State and Pittsburgh Steelers football player who, with his constant Paterno apologies, has spent the past year systematically napalming his previously impeccable reputation.

What happened at Penn State—multiple people in power, over more than a decade, failing to stop a known child abuser—is, on the outrage scale, about 100 out of 100. Compared to that, Joe Paterno being forced out of his job a couple of weeks before he wanted to be is about a one out of 100. Even if Paterno had been railroaded completely, I would have considerably less sympathy for him than I do for the children who were abused.