There was one guy with a shower story - Mike McQueary - and he never consistently asserted he saw sexual contact. His lukewarm assertions did firm up a little at trial, after the media was out for blood. For a weak man like McQueary, that was too much inertia to fight.

McQueary claimed he was inspired by watching Rudy to go to the Penn State field house and pick up some film. There, he heard "slapping sounds" coming from a shower and later he saw Sandusky and an adolescent in there.

The timing of McQueary's story doesn't line up. The day he claims this happens (a day when Rudy was in fact on), the field house was crawling with people. There was, like, a concert and a hockey game in the immediate vicinity. I'd frankly question whether McQueary would have been able to find a parking spot that day, much less witness molestation.

The actual timing has been pieced together by others, and it indicates that the day when McQueary went to the field house was weeks prior to the date he claimed.

McQueary did not run to Paterno the next morning. He spoke with Paterno much later about a job opening, and he felt obligated to mention the shower scene because word that "McQueary saw something weird" had filtered to Paterno through the grapevine.

From the time of the shower incident to the advent of the public accusations against Sandusky, McQueary continued to fraternize with Sandusky, playing golf at a charity tournament he organized.

If you toss out McQueary's very flawed recollections, you are left with basically nothing. A lot of the accusers claimed repressed memories had been recovered. That's total hogwash.

No pornography of any sort was ever associated with Sandusky. That's unheard of among child molesters.

Sandusky's medical records indicate he had extremely low testosterone, even hypogonadism, throughout the relevant time period. And yet we have people claiming he forced them to engage in multiple sex acts per day (and not as the receptive partner).

This is just what I remember from a podcast about all of this, by a guy named John Ziegler. I highly recommend it- "With the Benefit of Hindsight."

I took from that podcast the strong impression that Sandusky is exactly what he portrayed himself to be: a perpetual adolescent who devoted his life to a sport and to troubled youths. He was the genuine article. It's really sad.

Oh, and his wife never left him. Where's McQueary's wife? Nowhere near Mike fricking McQueary, I assure you.

And where's McQueary's coaching job? What is he even doing?

What is Sarah Ganim, the young journalist who won a Pulitzer for exposing all of this, doing? Last time I checked, this latter-day Carl Bernstein was a stay-at-home mom. Hmm. Where's her book? You'd think a book would be a no-brainer... assuming it's not all a house of cards. But that's exactly what it is.

This post was edited on 5/1/24 at 5:42 pm