Last night, among growing outrage over the cronyism that allowed longtime assistant coach Jerry Sandusky to (allegedly) rape young boys in Penn State facilities, the Penn State board of trustees fired Joe Paterno, who was at least partly complicit. But apparently Ashton Kutcher, who has 8 million Twitter followers, missed every detail of the story that dominated sports headlines for five days. It seems unlikely, but he deleted the tweet and followed it up with apologetic tweets that are more sincere than the typical celebrity mea culpa.
As an advocate in the fight against child sexual exploitation, I could not be more remorseful for all involved in the Penn St. case.
As of immediately I will stop tweeting until I find a way to properly manage this feed. I feel awful about this error. Won’t happen again.
So yeah, Kutcher’s probably guilty of being an ignorant doofus, but that’s still a gigantic step up from Charlie Sheen that the “Two and a Half Men” producers probably won’t even blink at this. “What’s that? A Twitter gaffe? Cool, let us know when he punches a hooker.”
