# Can right and left agree on anything? **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [November 19, 2017, 7:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-right-and-left-agree-on-anything/802094 "2017-11-19T19:28:53Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 257
**Author:** ![eschereal](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eschereal/32/18939_2.png) [@eschereal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eschereal)\ **Post date:** [November 22, 2017, 8:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-right-and-left-agree-on-anything/802094/257 "2017-11-22T20:03:55Z")
> [@JohnT](#): > > I’m sure he did defend Paterno, but since Paterno wasn’t accused of fucking a kid in a bathroom, the “paper towel tube defense” was a defense of Sandusky. So I stand by what I said: He defended child rape by saying it wasn’t physically possible when we’ve nearly all seen enough porn (regardless of our tastes) to know that tall people screw short people standing up all the damned time. He truly did go down the rabbit hole, though, > [@It's time to officially Pit Joe Paterno and the Penn State football program.](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-time-to-officially-pit-joe-paterno-and-the-penn-state-football-program/602167/5166): > > … the kid’s lack of expression shows is that he wasn’t being subjected to the horrible, painful ass-raping … If you fail to show contorted agony, preferably with screaming and tears, you are not actually being raped. Or, if it is not painful, it must not really be rape. Or something like that. --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-right-and-left-agree-on-anything/802094)._