I have a great method to help you
get shunned from polite society and called all sorts of names
How?
Buck the popular narrative, no matter how false that narrative is.
Covid, for instance.
A cinematic example: Adrian Cronauer, Robin Williams’ character, in 1987’s Good Morning, Vietnam was drinking at the G.I. bar, Jimmy Wah’s, only to be rushed out at the last moment by his Vietnamese “friend” Tuan.
Well, a bomb went off, killing two American soldiers. Cronouer was more than shaken-up. So Cronauer, an armed forces disc jockey went into the studio, attempting to relay the news of the explosion to the troops in the field over Armed Forces Radio in Vietnam.
Sgt. Major Dickerson, played by the great character actor J.T. Walsh, pronounces the bomb explosion and the deaths as “unofficial news.” Can’t report it.
Cronauer locked himself inside the studio and reported it anyway.
Spoiler Alert: he was soon fired…for telling the truth.
And so it goes…
Then there is Twitter.
There are more than a few mush-brained blue-checks out there in the Twitterverse. They will shun you and call you names if you step out of line.
(If you’re not on Twitter, take my advice and don’t start.)
One such tweet came out a few days ago: “If you haven’t downloaded this, you should: ‘The Mayor of Maple Avenue.’”
In the “olden days,” we would have called someone advocating this sort of stupidity “feeble-minded.” Today, I have no qualms about calling her an idiot.
Don’t go near this abomination of a podcast.
What The Mayor of Maple Avenue podcast intends to do is tell a story of a young man who was a supposed Jerry Sandusky victim.
The problem is: the whole thing is made up.
Earlier this year, I interviewed John Ziegler about the real story with the “Penn State Case.”
Ziegler is a former nationally syndicated radio host, documentary filmmaker, Emmy-winner, and the foremost expert on the “Paterno Scandal” that broke in 2011.
I don’t want to give away the whole thing, but we spend a more than an hour on the subject.
Ziegler shredded the conventional narrative from the beginning.
Paterno, Sandusky, the unspeakable acts. All of it.
Nothing, repeat nothing, is as we were led to believe, the shoddy reporting and cheerleading from the corporate media in this country notwithstanding.
With his own podcast, With the Benefit of Hindsight… The true story of the Penn State scandal, Ziegler and Liz Habib take us on a 19-episode journey through the case.
The popular narrative is shredded by the end of it and leaves you with a realization that the whole entire story the corporate media has been pushing for over ten years—with ESPN at the forefront—is a nest of lies.
Ziegler is a tireless and fearless reporter—a lone wolf in his crusade in many respects—and has an entirely different take on the events that snowballed starting in November of 2011.
Our interview at Sportlanders the Podcast is just the basic outline of the case.
Shocking. Eye-opening. Disturbing.
And we touch upon the farce that is The Mayor of Maple Avenue, at the time unreleased, but currently being peddled as a must-listen podcast.
Try again.
I am genuinely surprised, however, that these poltroons had the gumption to release this series.
Doubling down on lies is rarely the best path to the truth.
A lot of people don’t want to go down this “Penn State” rabbit-hole, and I don’t blame them.
It ruined John Ziegler’s professional career.
I’ve been called names and then some, just for opening up a discussion on one of the most egregious violations of justice in my lifetime.
Water off a duck’s patoot for me, however.
Wouldn’t you want to know the truth?
The real story starts here at our show notes page:
https://sportlanders.com/ziegler/
Brian O’Leary