There will be a day of confusion and possible acceptance. Then the echo chamber will start to spin out and amplify all the tortured rationalizations for JoePed's actions. Within 72 hours, JoePed will be back up on his pedestal with halo firmly in place, and anyone who says otherwise will be shouted down. Within a week, an entire bizzarro world intellectual framework will have been constructed that is both self-reinforcing and immune to outside criticism.
That will be the knee-jerk reaction to the e-mails.
I mock JoePed as "Dear Leader from whom all knowledge flows," but there's an underlying truth. That fanbase's entire sense of self-worth is wrapped up in Paterno's image. They can never let go of it.
