Dr. Bernard Carroll, known as the "conscience of psychiatry," contributed to various blogs, including Margaret Soltan's University Diaries, for which he sometimes wrote limericks under the name Adam.
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Notes of a Neophyte
November 12th, 2013 at 7:28AM
This post prompted me to do a “where are they now?” search for 2006 Nebraska Football Hall of Fame inductee Christian Peter. Here’s an update….http://www.moremonmouthmusings.net/2013/04/05/former-nfl-player-sex-offender-christian-peter-is-a-supporting-member-of-christie-fundraiser-committee/
November 12th, 2013 at 7:38AM
“He was given a second chance by the New York Giants who signed him to a league minimum contract at the behest of Oakhurst psychologist Dr. Joel Goldberg.”
Polisciprof: Great article – thanks for the link. My favorite part of it is what I’ve quoted above. When all else fails, wheel in Dr. Goldberg.
November 12th, 2013 at 11:57PM
Polsciprof:
I didn’t see anything in the article that might have prompted anyone to do a search for Christian Peter. Nor is it clear why his being a supporting member of a Christie fundraiser committee is relevant to anything. If you want to smear Christie you’re going to have to do better than that.
UD: “Great article” Oh please. It’s a cheap shot at Christie. Peter paid his debt to society. I thought liberals believed in rehabilitation.
November 13th, 2013 at 12:46AM
@AVY, what article are you referencing? I knew that Christian Peter had very serious charges brought against him while playing at Nebraska. He had been an All-American, and was one of several Nebraska players that had been arrested for felonies. It was a major story several years back, all anyone needed to realize it was Mr. Peter was a functioning memory.
And the article you find so offensive is one published this year, and details who CP was and what he’s currently doing. Other than you, who’s trying to smear Gov. Christie? He has a fundraiser, who while college age, was brought up on rape charges and arrested numerous times for sexual assault. The Gov can have anyone he wants to help raise money for his election. But you nor he can’t whine if people ask why he would do such a thing, or question a media outlet’s interest in that story. And since have an interest in smear jobs, what’s liberal about asking why The Gov would find Christian Peter capable of working on behalf of campaign? Seems as if you have some beef with liberal and are attempting to smear them…
November 13th, 2013 at 11:46AM
Charlie,
I’m glad you brought this up because you read some things into my comment that aren’t there.
The problem is this. UD’s post was about Incogito and the Nebraska football team. There was nothing in there calling specific attention to Peter or Christie. Polisciprof was inspired to look up Peter and what does he find but an article that says Peter is now apparantly leading a law abiding life but with the headline that he is is on a Christie fundraising committee, which he brings to our attention.
If polisciprof wanted to inform us of all the loutish or criminal behavior of Nebraska football players, I could see te connection between that point and UD’s post. But that’s not what he did. Peter was singled out because of his role as a member of Christie’s fundraising committee.
Now of course who is on the fundraising committee might be important if there’s a possible conflict of interest, but that doesn’t seem to be the case here, or at lesst it wasn’t the point of the article. Also, Christie can’t be expected to check the backgrounds of everyone on a fundraising committee. (Our President doesn’t seem to know of any the problems on his watch until long after they happen, and the left doesn’t blame him.) But the headline creates an innuendo that Christie did something wrong.
So yes I do have a beef with those on the left who likes to work by innuendo. If you don’t believe they do this,just ask Sarah Palin (or Gov. Christie)
November 13th, 2013 at 1:45PM
@AVY, respectfully, I disagree. Christian Peter was part of a long line of criminals which played for Nebraska. Currently, he does fund raising for a major politician, with a national profile. Again, if The Gov and his minions have no problem with CP, who just happened to have been an All-American and guy arrested multiple times for sexual assault, that’s fine. But it forces anyone to ask why? A fund raiser has to be influential enough to induce people to give money for a cause. Apparently, Christian’s football prowess and reputation is enough to get people to open their wallets. But what is disturbing is that his football reputation outweighs his criminal reputation, at least as far as the people giving money or the Christie campaign are concerned. What innuendo is involved? Football ability seems to outweigh the criminal background of the person asking for money.
To add, why would the Christie campaign ask Mr. Peter to work for them, if it isn’t to exploit his football past. Is Christian Peter some kind of political/economic/issues maven, who has the knowledge to sway people based on his expertise? Just what is it about this guy that The Gov and his folks find so appealing? It’s a legit question, and it may be that he actually is that maven, and is good at what he does. So, a rapist has turned good, maybe, possibly. But that doesn’t mean that he wasn’t a rapist, and that he does ask for money for The Gov. Read into it what you want, but that doesn’t mean you can’t question the motivations of either party…
November 14th, 2013 at 1:02AM
Charlie,
I see what you’re saying although I’m not sure I agree with it, but the analysis is coming from you, not from either polisciprof or UD, so I have no idea if that’s what they were thinking.
But I also think you miss my point. Suppose UD had written a post criticizing the U of Illinois at Chicago’s football team, and then someone had commented with a link to an article with a headline that one instructor, who happened to be President Obama’s erstwhile crony. is still teaching there.
There are differences of course because the teacher in question is much closer to Pres. Obama than Peter is likely to get to Christie, and the teacher in question still holds the same views that made him notorious, but it would still be considered by some to be a smear of Pres. Obama.
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