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Playinghardball Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Nov-11-11 05:03 PM
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Jon Stewart rips Penn State officials, rioters over sex abuse scandal
Source: Raw Story
By David Ferguson

Are you ready for some football horribleness?” Daily Show host Jon Stewart asks at the beginning of this short-but-devastating segment from late in Thursday’s show. In it, he talks about the sex abuse scandal at Penn State and the riots on Wednesday night that saw students turning a news van on to its side and toppling streetlights.

He compares the situation to the abuse of children by Catholic priests and reminds the rioters, “No one is trying to take away your religion, they’re just trying to bring some accountability” to a Pope-like Joe Paterno and “some of his Cardinals”.

Watch the clip, embedded via Comedy Central, below

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2011/11/11/jon-stewart-rips-penn-state-officials-rioters-over-sex-abuse-scandal/
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Uncle Joe Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Nov-11-11 05:07 PM
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1. Kicked and recommended.
Thanks for the thread, Playinghardball.
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Pacifist Patriot Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Nov-11-11 05:27 PM
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2. Brilliant as ever.
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Name removed Donating Member (0 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Nov-11-11 05:43 PM
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TBF Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Nov-11-11 05:46 PM
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4. Excellent thread. Glad Jon gets it - plenty of adults don't seem to -
even on this site.
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LuckyLib Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Nov-11-11 06:03 PM
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5. Well said. "Of course you'll have football on Saturday. You're young, and we wouldn't want
this memory to scar you for life."
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bluedigger Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Nov-11-11 06:11 PM
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6. John said it very well. n/t
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progressoid Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Nov-11-11 10:54 PM
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7. It was very good.
k/r
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GoneOffShore Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Nov-11-11 11:06 PM
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8. Waiting for the PSU apologists to show up. n/t
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Patiod Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Nov-12-11 12:19 PM
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13. Oh yeah, because they've been all over DU this week
Defending Paterno, defending Spanier, defending all those who covered up the abuse.

:eyes:
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WhaTHellsgoingonhere Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Nov-11-11 11:16 PM
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9. That was great! Thanks!
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nilram Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Nov-12-11 05:08 AM
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10. Awesome. I wish they had not blurred the college student's faces. They're adults and they should own
their own words. I expressed this on the site.
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SixthSense Donating Member (251 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Nov-12-11 11:39 AM
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12. I was thinking the same
then I realized that these are pretty stupid kids and the consequences of that following them around are far worse than the crime of being stupid that they are committing
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nilram Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Nov-12-11 05:47 PM
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14. yeah, yeah, I can go that way, too.
I'm just so disappointed and saddened and pissed off that that level of stupid is out there.
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ellisonz Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Nov-12-11 06:00 AM
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11. Nailed it.
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