Kutcher Paterno Tweet: Actor Becomes Poster Boy for Clueless Idiots

Thanks to Twitter, we no longer need a collective subconscious. The thoughts of the human race are right there in front of us, all neatly spelled out in 140 characters or less.

We even get to know the thoughts of famous people!

...Which isn't always a good thing.

Take what happened last night, for example. Shortly after longtime head football coach Joe Paterno was dismissed from Penn State in the wake of the Jerry Sandusky scandal, Twitter blew up. Most people were expressing honest "Good riddance!" messages, but some were expressing outrage.

Ashton Kutcher of That '70s Show and Two and Half Men fame, was one of the people expressing outrage:

That tweet no longer exists, but it existed long enough for Kutcher's millions of followers to get his point that firing Joe Paterno was a classless gesture on the part of Penn State.

This despite the fact that a grand jury report alleges Paterno knew of former defensive Jerry Sandusky's possible sexual misdeeds with young boys for close to a decade without ever reporting them to police. A grad assistant told him in 2002 that he had witnessed Sandusky sodomizing a young boy in the football locker-room showers, but all Paterno did was tell his superiors.

So, Ashton, you really think firing this guy was classless and in poor taste?

Apparently not. Per People.com, Kutcher later tweeted: "Heard Joe was fired, fully recant previous tweet! Didn't have full story." 

That tweet was also deleted. It was eventually replaced by two tweets. First came this one:

And then this one:

In other words: "Oops" and "Mea culpa."

Because of Kutcher's celebrity status, this looks bad. But truth be told, he's just one clueless idiot among many.

We know this largely because a whole bunch of clueless idiots turned Happy Valley into a war zone immediately after Paterno was fired on Wednesday night. The idea was to show their support for Paterno, but instead they looked like a mob of morons who didn't care that numerous children had possibly been abused for a period of, allegedly, 15 years.

Happy Valley was the center of it all, but support for Paterno existed (and still exists) elsewhere in the union—more's the pity.

So you see, Kutcher wasn't alone on Wednesday night. The only difference between him and all the other misguided Paterno supporters is that his name is bigger and he has more Twitter followers.

This is the world we live in, folks.