Former Alabama Senate candidate, and accused pedophile, Roy Moore needs your money.

Courtesy of WaPo: 

Embattled former Senate candidate Roy Moore is making a public plea for help to pay the legal fees he faces defending himself from a lawsuit brought by an Alabama woman who says he touched her sexually when she was 14 years old. 

In a statement posted on his Senate campaign’s Facebook page, the Republican former judge made the ask in a grievance-filled note, saying that he faced a “vicious attack from lawyers in Washington D.C. and San Francisco who have hired one of the biggest firms in Birmingham Alabama to bring another legal action against me.” 

“My resources have been depleted and I have struggled to make ends meet,” Moore wrote, saying that his legal fees could exceed $100,000. “I have had to establish a legal defense fund, anything you give will be appreciated.” 

Leigh Corfman filed a defamation lawsuit against Moore in January, part of an emerging legal strategy of litigating sexual misconduct claims through civil lawsuits when the statute of limitations has expired for criminal charges. 

In November, Corfman told The Washington Post that Moore took her to his house, undressed her and touched her sexually when he was a 32-year-old district attorney in 1979, and she was 14. The accusations shook up the Senate race in the deep-red state, and helped catapult it to wide national attention. Moore denied the accusations, maintaining that he was the victim of a conspiracy by liberal groups, mainstream media organizations and others. Corfman claims some of the statements he made defamed her.

Man I am trying very hard to come up with even an ounce of sympathy for this POS.

Nope, I got nothing.

But wait, maybe this will help.

Here's my check #RoyMoore #RoyMooreChildMolester pic.twitter.com/HwtP1UNFY8

— Agent 99 (@agent_orangutan) March 3, 2018

There you go, that, along with God's grace, should be all a religious man like Roy Moore needs to see him through these challenging times.

CPAC panelist requires security to escort her out of the building after she calls conservatives out for supporting Donald Trump and Roy Moore.

Mona Charen bravely discusses the hypocrisy against women in the WH at #ustoo panel during @CPAC

She specifically mentions the Roy Moore endorsement. Audience boos.

pic.twitter.com/rrG5fmEAmq

— Scout 🕊 (@about_scout) February 24, 2018

Courtesy of Raw Story:

Right wing pundit Mona Charen had to be protected and escorted by security officers when leaving the CPAC stage Saturday afternoon after voicing her opinion on Republicans who hypocritically support “sexual harassers and abusers of women,” specifically, President Donald Trump and former Senate candidate Roy Moore. She also called French neo-fascist Marine Le Pen a “disgrace.” 

Charen was part of a four-person panel at CPAC, the Conservative Political Action Conference, who was asked what riles her up. 

“I’m disappointed in people on our side for being hypocrites about sexual harassers and abusers of women who are in our party, who are sitting in the White House, who brag about their extra-marital affairs, who brag about mistreating women,” Charen, speaking about President Trump, told the audience. They reportedly booed her. 

“The Republican Party endorsed Roy Moore for Senate in the state of Alabama even though he was a credibly accused child molester,” she continued. 

Several people in the audience booed and shouted, “Not true!” 

“You cannot claim that you stand for women, and put up with that,” Charen insisted.

Now before you get too excited about this woman you should know that she writes books attacking liberals and  the LGBTQ community, and is essentially a fairly terrible person.

She just happened to speak a little truth in a place where truth is defined as an enemy of the people.

Roy Moore files legal complaint to prevent Doug Jones from being sworn in as Alabama's newest Senator, citing already debunked allegations of election fraud.

I don't understand math.

Courtesy of WaPo: 

Roy Moore, the Republican nominee who lost Alabama’s closely watched Senate race this month, has filed a last-minute legal complaint alleging “election fraud” and asking the state not to confirm the victory of Democrat Doug Jones. 

In the complaint filed in state court, Moore’s campaign argues that Alabama “will suffer irreparable harm if the election results are certified without preserving and investigating all the evidence of potential fraud.” It cites rumors of election fraud that have already been investigated and refuted by the Alabama secretary of state, argues that high Democratic turnout in key areas was statistically unlikely, and reports that Moore himself has taken a polygraph test — an attempt to disprove allegations that he made unwanted sexual advances on teenagers when he was in his 30s. 

Moore’s lawyers filed the complaint at 10:33 p.m. Wednesday night and announced it to reporters less than two hours later. At 1 p.m. Thursday, Alabama’s election officials — all Republicans — are scheduled to certify the election. Early Thursday morning, they gave no indication that they would delay that process. In Washington, leaders of both parties expect Jones to take his oath of office when the Senate returns next month.

Unfortunately for Moore and his alternative reality living supporters the Alabama Secretary of State says there are no plans to alter the will of the people.

Courtesy CNN:

Alabama Secretary of State John Merrill confirmed Thursday morning that Democrat Doug Jones will be certified the winner of the Alabama special Senate election despite Republican Roy Moore's refusal to concede and request for a new election. 

"Will this affect anything?" Merrill said on CNN's "New Day," referring to Moore's challenge. "The short answer to that is no." 

Merrill said he would meet Thursday afternoon with Alabama Gov. Kay Ivey and the state Attorney General Steve Marshall to certify Jones' win, and that Jones would indeed be sworn in when the Senate returns in January. 

"We will sign the documents certifying him as the senator for the state of Alabama," Merrill said. "He will be sworn in by Vice President Pence on January 3 when the Senate returns."

This is something that I never thought I would say but in the case of Roy Moore, being a pedophile may not have been his worst personality trait.

This guy is a straight up asshole through and through.

The Senate really dodged the bullet on this one.

I cannot imagine that this douchebag works and plays well with others.

Update: It looks like a judge just rejected Moore's challenge, and Jones is about to be certified as the new Alabama Senator. 

Update 2: Doug Jones was just now certified as the winner of this election.

So now pedophile Roy Moore can just jump on that poor horse of his and ride off into the sunset. 

Assuming that horse does not throw him off onto his ass of course.

Both Bretibart news and James O'Keefe believed Roy Moore's accusers, and yet they attacked them anyway in the name of politics.

Breitbart editor in chief explains that he believed Moore accuser Leigh Corfman but that they had to discredit her to protect Trump. https://t.co/ACeAGaFpd5

— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) December 22, 2017

Courtesy of CNN Money: 

Though Marlow concedes that Breitbart made coverage decisions around protecting Trump, before the sexual misconduct allegations against Moore, Breitbart had been hammering the news media and Hollywood for supposedly protecting individuals like Harvey Weinstein. Asked about the view from critics that Breitbart had done exactly that with Moore, Marlow claimed the website has been "much more careful" than other outlets when covering ongoing allegations of sexual harassment and assault, saying the website looks for "certain factors," such as "a certain level of detail" in allegations. 

Marlow also stressed that he was personally uncomfortable with the behavior attributed by The Post to Moore, and noted that he did believe the accusations from Leigh Corfman, who said Moore assaulted her while she was 14 -- they were "not perfect," he said, but had "a lot of credibility." He also noted that he, and much of the Breitbart audience, initially supported Mo Brooks in the Republican primary, and only shifted support to Moore because of his opposition to Strange as the establishment candidate. But he said he saw political motivations behind The Post's reporting on Moore and wanted to home in on the "coverage of the coverage."

So the editor-in-chief of Breitbart actually believed at least one of Moore's accusers, but because the Washington Post was accurately reporting on the allegations, and it hurt the conservative candidate, he thought it was appropriate to attack their credibility?

Now does somebody justify that while arguing that they should be taken seriously as a news outlet?

And it should come as no surprise to any of you that James O'Keefe, who you may remember had a woman pretend to be one of Roy Moore's victims in order to discredit the Washington Post reporting,  had essentially the same attitude.

I spoke with James O'Keefe and he said he *actually believes* Roy Moore's accusers, even though he payed a woman to pretend to be a rape victim in a failed effort to discredit the allegations https://t.co/86E4WonAzJ

— Caleb Ecarma (@calebecarma) December 22, 2017

Courtesy of Mediaite:

After initially dodging questions regarding the credibility of the at least nine women who have accused Moore of sexual misconduct and predatory behavior, O’Keefe admitted to believing these claims during a sit-down interview with Mediaite. 

“Yes [I believe them], but it’s not my subject matter,” said O’Keefe. “That’s not what my investigation was about. It wasn’t about the victims, it was about the bias in the media.” 

Just let the irony that these two outlets justify these tactics because they are convinced that the MSM reports "fake news" sink in a little.

Do you feel that wave of nausea?

I inoculated myself against it by purchasing subscriptions to both the Washington Post and then New York Times.

We need to support factual reporting at every opportunity.

That is the only way we get our country back. 

It is finally official, Roy Moore will NOT be the newly elected Senator from Alabama.

Courtesy of the Washington Examiner: 

After coming up short on Election Day, Judge Roy Moore urged his supporters to keep the faith. Praying for a recount, the Republican reminded his supporters that “God is in control.” But either the Almighty just didn’t hear or the divine decided to vote Democrat in Alabama for the first in more than two decades. 

The Alabama secretary of state’s office just announced that it has received 5,333 overseas and provision ballots well below the number needed to trigger a recount, let alone overcome the 20,715-vote lead of Democrat Doug Jones. It is now numerically impossible for Moore to win. 

Candidates must come within 0.5 percent or less to trigger a recount according to state law, and currently, Jones is ahead of Moore by 1.5 points. 

Hoping that the candidate’s Army service would play well with troops stationed overseas, the Moore campaign pinned its fate to military absentee votes. “A lot of votes are in, but they’re not all in yet,” said campaign chairman Bill Armistead. “There’s a law in Alabama that requires a recount if the vote is one half of 1 percent.” 

That optimism was swiftly dashed Wednesday when the secretary of state announced that just 4,967 provisional ballots had been received and declared that “no additional ballots are eligible to be received.” Those results could be certified as early as the day after Christmas.

You know the funny part is that everybody else had already moved on and Doug Jones was all but sworn in, which left old Roy Moore stomping his feet and cussing into the wind about how unfair it all was essentially almost all by his lonesome.

Of course that did not stop Moore from continuing to fleece the morons.

Roy Moore just sent out this new fundraising email: pic.twitter.com/kqFTc8fVZw

— Lauren Walsh (@LaurenWalshTV) December 18, 2017

Well, what can you say?

He is definitely a Republican.

Roy Moore was trounced last night in Alabama, but that does not mean he is ready to concede.

Man after listening to that speech you would think that God was running on the ticket right along with this accused pedophile.

Courtesy of AL.Com: 

Roy Moore has frequently said, in social media posts, that he will never give up the fight. 

And after he lost the Alabama Senate election on Tuesday to Democrat Doug Jones, Moore is sticking with that mantra -- refusing to concede the race to Jones. 

He waited more than a hour after the race was called to address supporters in downtown Montgomery late Tuesday night, then told them to wait some more. 

"Realize when vote is this close, it's not over and we still have to go by the rules," Moore told the crowd, which cheered when he appeared on stage. 

Even as Moore refused to surrender, Alabama GOP Chair Terry Lathan issued a statement late Tuesday night acknowledging Jones' win -- concluding her statement with "now that this race has ended."

An automatic recount only comes into play if one candidate beats the other by less than 1 percent of the vote, but since Jones beat Moore by 1.5 percent that will not come into play here.

And if Moore thinks he will get any support from Donald Trump, well he has another think coming.

The reason I originally endorsed Luther Strange (and his numbers went up mightily), is that I said Roy Moore will not be able to win the General Election. I was right! Roy worked hard but the deck was stacked against him!

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) December 13, 2017

That Mr. Moore is known as being thrown under the bus. (Say hi to Reince Priebus, George Papadopolous, and Michael Flynn while you're down there.)

Now while we are all celebrating the people of Alabama (Actually the black people of Alabama.) for rejecting this teen girl assaulting asshole, keep in mind that over 650,000 Alabamans voted for his racist ass.

So perhaps we should keep the victory parade a little short, and then recognize that there is still much work to be done.

But as Julian Castro pointed out there are those who certainly need to be aware that something is coming.

Be afraid, @tedcruz . Be very afraid.

— Julián Castro (@JulianCastro) December 13, 2017

Best cover ever!

Bama bucks the perv! https://t.co/9ZaMFXw7aA

An early look at Wednesday's front... pic.twitter.com/HkiiBl4v0V

— New York Daily News (@NYDailyNews) December 13, 2017

That is worthy of framing.

Alabama Election Open Thread. Update!

Courtesy of the New York Times:

The results of a special Senate election in Alabama on Tuesday will carry immense national implications for President Trump and both parties, after a strange and ugly campaign left voters exhausted by the politicking and confused at the polls. 

A victory by the Republican candidate, Roy S. Moore, who has been accused of sexual misconduct with teenage girls, would illustrate the enduring limitations of Democrats in the deeply conservative South. A win by his Democratic rival, Doug Jones, to fill the seat left vacant when the president appointed Jeff Sessions as attorney general, would shrink Republicans’ Senate advantage to a single seat, putting their majority in play. 

Mr. Trump, who ultimately gave Mr. Moore his full-throated endorsement, tweeted his support on Tuesday morning: “Roy Moore will always vote with us.” 

Mr. Jones, who cast his ballot early, will need strong turnout from black, urban and suburban white voters. Mr. Moore, who rode his horse to the polls, will need support from rural white voters.

This of course should be a slam dunk for the Republicans, as Alabama is a deeply red state.

However that was before Trump forever damaged the brand, and before they nominated an accused pedophile to run for the Senate.

Now the outcome of the election is anybody's guess.

But one thing for sure is that a win by a Democrat could indicate a progressive revolution that could sweep through Washington in 2018.

And for that matter even a close race in which Moore barely ekes out a victory could also indicate a progressive revolution that could sweep through Washington in 2018.

Both Jones and Moore already voted of course, though Moore's arrival at the polling station was somewhat more theatrical.

Roy Moore rides away on his horse after voting in the Alabama Senate election.

Here's what to watch in today's hotly contested race: https://t.co/iONlmtfGJd #alsen pic.twitter.com/WI2xoJbi6s

— POLITICO (@politico) December 12, 2017

You know it takes more than a tiny pistol and a Brokeback Mountain sexy leather vest to be a real cowboy, and this guy certainly does not ride like a real cowboy.

It appears he is as real of a cowboy as he is a Christian.

For polling results online you can click here.

Update: The Associated Press just called the race for Jones.

BREAKING: Democrat Doug Jones won election to the U.S. Senate from Alabama in a sharp blow to President Trump that narrows the GOP’s majority in the Senate to two. He beat Roy Moore, a former chief justice of the state Supreme Court who had been accused of sexual misconduct.

— The Associated Press (@AP) December 13, 2017

This seems a little premature, and I don't think any other news outlet has joined them, but they seem confident. 

A pro-Trump SuperPAC thought it was a good idea to have a 12 year old girl interview accused pedophile Roy Moore, and other Alabama election news.

Courtesy of The Hill: 

A pro-Trump super PAC arranged for a 12-year-old girl to interview Alabama Senate candidate Roy Moore (R) as he faces mounting allegations of sexual misconduct with teenage girls. 

The America First Project brought Millie March, a girl whose interviews during the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) went viral, to Alabama to interview Moore. 

“We decided that we were going to bring Millie to Alabama, after everything that’s happened in this Alabama Senate race up until this point,” America First Project’s Jennifer Lawrence said in the video, adding that the group wanted "to show there is a wide range of people who support Roy Moore."

I was trying to think of a metaphor for what a bad idea this was, but what idea is actually worse than dangling a twelve year old girl in front of a known sexual predator?

Really can't imagine one.

In other news we learn that the same Russian troll army that supported Donald Trump is now all in for Roy Moore as well.

Courtesy of Mother Jones:

In the run-up to Alabama’s special election, Kremlin-linked news sites and trolls have battled vigorously on behalf of Roy Moore, the Republican candidate for US senator accused of sexual misconduct against multiple women, including teenage girls. Since allegations against Moore were first reported by The Washington Post on Nov. 9, Russian-linked Twitter accounts—including some operated by Russian news outlets RT and Sputnik—have attacked the credibility of the women accusing Moore as well as US news media reporting the allegations. During a week in mid-November, when sexual misconduct scandals were a top focus of these Kremlin-linked accounts, a majority of the content they pushed on the topic was in defense of Moore, according to the cyber security research project Hamilton 68: “Among pro-Moore articles, close to 70% attacked the credibility of the accuser(s), 38% attacked the media in general or the Washington Post in particular, and one story attacked Lindsey Graham for not defending Moore.”

The Kremlin’s ongoing “active measures” campaign on social media has aimed to sow confusion and chaos by supporting both far-right and far-left interests in American politics. The Alabama election presented a ripe opportunity, according to former senior CIA official John Sipher, now an expert with the national security group Cipher Brief. “In the case of Moore, the Russians certainly assess that the hyper-partisan and heated campaign is pitting Americans against each other and they want to do all they can to add fuel to the fire,” he says. “They likely assess that a Moore victory will bring the fight to Washington and further weaken the strained US political system.”

You know if you consider yourself a patriotic American, and find that you are voting the way that Vladimir Putin wants you to vote, you might want to reassess your patriotism.

Speaking of Russian meddling as it turns out Alabama's top election official was sent to monitor the elections in Russia, and found them "free and fair."

Well that should certainly put the minds of Alabama voters at ease.

At least one Alabama judge is concerned about a little election day hanky panky.

Courtesy of AL.com: 

A judge directed Alabama election officials Monday afternoon to preserve all digital ballot images in Tuesday's hotly contested U.S. Senate special election. 

An order granting a preliminary injunction was filed at 1:36 p.m. Monday - less than 24 hours before voting is to begin. The order came in response to a lawsuit filed Thursday on behalf of four Alabama voters who argued that the state is required to maintain the images under state and federal law.

That's a good idea. I would be very surprised if there were not some GOP hi jinks going on today. 

Roy Moore thinks that getting rid of all amendments to the Constitution after the 10th would "eliminate many problems."

Courtesy of CNN: 

Alabama Republican Senate nominee Roy Moore appeared on a conspiracy-driven radio show twice in 2011, where he told the hosts in an interview that getting rid of constitutional amendments after the Tenth Amendment would 'eliminate many problems' in the way the US government is structured.

Moore made his comments about constitutional amendments in a June 2011 appearance on the "Aroostook Watchmen" show, which is hosted by Maine residents Jack McCarthy and Steve Martin. The hosts have argued that the US government is illegitimate and who have said that the September 11, 2001, attacks, the mass shooting at Sandy Hook, the Boston bombing, and other mass shootings and terrorist attacks are false flag attacks committed by the government. (False flag attacks refer to acts that are designed by perpetrators to be made to look like they were carried out by other individuals or groups.) 

The hosts have also spread conspiracy theories about the raid that led to the death of Osama Bin Laden and have pushed the false claim that former President Barack Obama was not born in the US.

In Moore's June appearance, one of the hosts says he would like to see an amendment that would void all the amendments after the Tenth. 

"That would eliminate many problems," Moore replied. "You know people don't understand how some of these amendments have completely tried to wreck the form of government that our forefathers intended." 

Moore cited the 17th Amendment, which calls for the direct election of senators by voters rather than state legislatures, as one he particularly found troublesome. 

The host agreed with Moore, before turning his attention to the 14th Amendment, which was passed during the Reconstruction period following the Civil War and guaranteed citizenship and equal rights and protection to former slaves and has been used in landmark Supreme Court cases such as Brown v. Board of Education and Obergefell v. Hodges. 

"People also don't understand, and being from the South I bet you get it, the 14th Amendment was only approved at the point of the gun," the host said. 

"Yeah, it had very serious problems with its approval by the states," Moore replied. "The danger in the 14th Amendment, which was to restrict, it has been a restriction on the states using the first Ten Amendments by and through the 14th Amendment. To restrict the states from doing something that the federal government was restricted from doing and allowing the federal government to do something which the first Ten Amendments prevented them from doing. If you understand the incorporation doctrine used by the courts and what it meant. You'd understand what I'm talking about."

It should be noted that besides the 14th and 17th Amendments, which Moore seems to find so troubling, there is also the the 13th Amendment, which abolished slavery, the 15th Amendment which prohibited the federal and state governments from denying citizens the right to vote based on that person's "race, color, or previous condition of servitude," and the 19th Amendment, which extended voting rights to women.

So essentially in Moore's eyes the trouble really started after those damn females and the darkies got the same rights as their white male former owners.  (Yes, at one time women were considered the property of their husbands. Or as Roy Moore calls it, "the good old days.")

I guess that is yet another thing that Roy Moore has in common with Vladimir Putin.

Roy Moore speaks Russian and says "Maybe Putin is right." From an interview with @guardian - the end of this 1 min excerpt is chilling. https://t.co/2HnEOVJdDY pic.twitter.com/O7ymV4XInF

— Crookita (@crookita) December 10, 2017

Moore claims he learned to speak such good Russian when he was at West Point, but that certainly sounds much better than my attempts to speak the French that I learned back in the 8th grade.

Apparently Trump has recorded robo-calls for Moore, so it appears the push is on to make sure this traitorous pedophile wins that Alabama Senate seat.

And now a word from Alabama.

“Forty years ago in Alabama, there’s a lot of mamas and daddies that’d be thrilled that their 14-year-old was getting hit on by a district attorney.”

Watch @FrankLuntz’s full panel of Alabama voters on VICE News Tonight, 7:30PM EST on @HBO pic.twitter.com/IVrHnRcX0v

— VICE News (@vicenews) December 8, 2017

Well at least now we know why Alabama is not horrified about Roy Moore.

And why I will never visit Alabama.

Old interview shows Roy Moore favorably comparing himself to Vladimir Putin and suggesting that America might be “the focus of evil in the modern world.”

This is courtesy of a Guardian article from August of this year: 

Roy Moore, the controversial former judge and a leading contender in Alabama’s Senate race, has said “maybe Putin is right” and “more akin to me than I know” given the Russian leader’s stance on gay marriage. 

Moore, who was propelled to fame in 2001 over his refusal to remove a monument to the Ten Commandments that he’d installed in state courthouse, is a leading contender to fill the vacancy left by Donald Trump’s attorney general, Jeff Sessions. 

Several polls have indicated Moore could have the edge in the Republican primary, which will be held next Tuesday, although the president’s endorsement this week of another candidate, Luther Strange, could change that dynamic.

In an interview with the Guardian’s Anywhere But Washington series, Moore also said that Ronald Reagan’s famous declaration about the Soviet Union being “the focus of evil in the modern world” might today be applied to the US. 

“You could say that about America, couldn’t you?” he said. “We promote a lot of bad things.” Asked for an example, he replied: “Same-sex marriage.” 

When it was pointed out to Moore that his arguments on gay rights and morality were the same as those of the Russian leader, he replied: “Well, maybe Putin is right.” He added: “Maybe he’s more akin to me than I know.”

Well I missed this back in August so it is new to me.

And now we know that not only is a religious zealot, and a possible pedophile, but also a man who sees similarities between himself and Vladimir Putin and believes America is the "focus of all evil in the modern world." 

Damn Alabama, could you not find a sleazier, more anti-American candidate?

But hey, at least he's not one of those liberal Democrats. Right?

Ted Cruz defines the word hypocrisy.

FOX NEWS HOST TO @tedcruz: You cool working with alleged child molester Roy Moore if he's elected?

CRUZ: Sure, no problem, that's up to the voters.

FOX NEWS HOST: And what about alleged groper Al Franken?

CRUZ: Now that's a very serious problem. I'm extremely concerned. pic.twitter.com/1QzMq0Hud5

— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) November 30, 2017

When it comes to the allegations against Roy Moore Cruz is all "let the voters decide," but when it comes to the far less egregious allegations against Democrat Al Franken it is suddenly "These allegations are serious and they keep coming up everyday."

It is like he has absolutely no irony meter.

Two Fox News photographers accuse Roy Moore campaign workers of "assaulting" them.

Courtesy of CNN Money:

Two Roy Moore campaign staffers "manhandled" two photojournalists from Fox News in Alabama on Monday night, the network said. 

Videos of the altercation backed up the network's account of what happened. 

The camera crews were trying to get a shot of Moore arriving at a rally in Henagar, Alabama -- his first public campaign event in 11 days. 

The Moore staffers "decided to push the cameras back and physically manhandle two Fox News photographers, pushing them away and grabbing their cameras," Fox News correspondent Jonathan Serrie said on the air Monday night. 

A Fox producer intervened. The photojournalists were not injured.

I want to have sympathy for these photojournalists, I really do, but when their network has supported and defended this pedophile for such an extended period of time it is hard to get worked up over a little assault directed at them.

Perhaps now they have at least some inkling of what it has been like for all of those Roy Moore victims.

James O'Keefe attempts to undermine reporting by Washington Post by sending in an operative who lied about having underage sex with Roy Moore and becoming pregnant by him.

Man that is some cringe worthy video right there.

Here's the story courtesy of the Washington Post:  

A woman who falsely claimed to The Washington Post that Roy Moore, the Republican U.S. Senate candidate in Alabama, impregnated her as a teenager appears to work with an organization that uses deceptive tactics to secretly record conversations in an effort to embarrass its targets. 

In a series of interviews over two weeks, the woman shared a dramatic story about an alleged sexual relationship with Moore in 1992 that led to an abortion when she was 15. During the interviews, she repeatedly pressed Post reporters to give their opinions on the effects that her claims could have on Moore’s candidacy if she went public. 

The Post did not publish an article based on her unsubstantiated account. When Post reporters confronted her with inconsistencies in her story and an Internet posting that raised doubts about her motivations, she insisted that she was not working with any organization that targets journalists.

But on Monday morning, Post reporters saw her walking into the New York offices of Project Veritas, an organization that targets the mainstream news media and left-leaning groups. The organization sets up undercover “stings” that involve using false cover stories and covert video recordings meant to expose what the group says is media bias. 

James O’Keefe, the Project Veritas founder who was convicted of a misdemeanor in 2010 for using a fake identity to enter a federal building during a previous sting, declined to answer questions about the woman outside the organization’s offices on Monday morning shortly after the woman walked inside. 

“I am not doing an interview right now, so I’m not going to say a word,” O’Keefe said.

O'Keefe later posted a heavily edited video of that brief conversation with the Post reporter, which made him look like the hero, but WaPo then released the entire thing, which did not. 

So to be clear about what happened here that sniveling POS James O'Keefe hired somebody to pretend to be an actual victim of sexual assault, so that he could attack the actual victims of Roy Moore, and  undermine the journalistic integrity of the mainstream media.

That is a level of fucked up that is almost impossible to comprehend.

Breitbart editor brings up Ringo Starr song "You're Sixteen, You're Beautiful, and You're Mine" as defense of Roy Moore.

Breitbart senior editor defends Roy Moore by citing Ringo Starr's hit cover of the song "You're Sixteen You're Beautiful (And You're Mine)." (via CNN) https://t.co/dCEx3eu8sM

— Kyle Griffin (@kylegriffin1) November 27, 2017

Courtesy of The Hill: 

CNN anchor Chris Cuomo on Monday clashed with a Breitbart editor who used a Ringo Starr song to defend Alabama Republican Senate candidate Roy Moore’s alleged sexual misconduct toward teenaged women. 

“You know, in 1973, Ringo Starr hit No. 1 on the billboard charts with the song ‘You’re Sixteen, You’re Beautiful and You’re Mine,’” Breitbart editor Joel Pollack said during an appearance on CNN’s “New Day.” 

“And it was a remake of an earlier song. He was 30-something at the time, singing about a 16-year-old. You want to take away Ringo Starr’s achievement?” 

“You can’t be serious,” Cuomo said in response. “You think that Ringo Starr’s song is supposed to be a nod towards allowing 30-year-old men to prey on teenagers?” Cuomo asked Pollack. 

“You don’t believe that, Joel. You’re a parent. You don’t believe that.”

So that's a thing that actually happened.

Based on that I have to assume they also took this Judy Collins song literally.

Donald Trump has suggested that the Access Hollywood "p*ssy grabbing" tape is fake and is now doubling down on his support for accused pedophile Roy Moore.

Courtesy of the New York Times:

But something deeper has been consuming Mr. Trump. He sees the calls for Mr. Moore to step aside as a version of the response to the now-famous “Access Hollywood” tape, in which he boasted about grabbing women’s genitalia, and the flood of groping accusations against him that followed soon after. He suggested to a senator earlier this year that it was not authentic, and repeated that claim to an adviser more recently. (In the hours after it was revealed in October 2016, Mr. Trump acknowledged that the voice was his, and he apologized.) 

So Mr. Trump has been particularly open to the idea, pushed by Mr. Moore’s defenders, that the candidate is being wrongly accused, even as Mr. McConnell and a parade of other Republicans have said they believe the accusers. When a group of senators gathered with the president in the White House last week to discuss the tax overhaul, it took little to get Mr. Trump onto the topic of Mr. Moore — and he immediately offered up the same it-was-40-years-ago defense, according to officials at the meeting. 

Mr. Trump’s responses to the Moore revelations have been pronounced but not consistent. He accepted the candidate’s initial denials, and then was shocked at how tepid Mr. Moore appeared when asked during an interview with Sean Hannity whether he still maintained his innocence, according to one person close to the president. 

Privately, Mr. Trump has acknowledged that he is making a cold political calculus in the hope that the Republicans will hold on to the seat. A White House official on Saturday reiterated the president’s view that he believes Mr. Moore should quit the race if the allegations are proved true, but the official stressed that the candidate has denied them. 

Moore's denials closely approximate the same denials put forward by Donald Trump himself in response to the huge number of accusations of sexual harassment and assault that emerged during the campaign.

In some ways you could see Trump's desire to support Moore as a vindication of his own accuser's failure to derail HIS campaign.

Even his private denials that the Access Hollywood tape was real is just another attempt to control the narrative.

After all his 2016 victory was proof positive that a woman should never be allowed to stand in the way of a man's ambitions, right?

That is likely why Trump is now pushing hard for Moore's victory in Alabama, turning the election into an "us VS them" battle, in order to shift the focus away from Moore's past behaviors.

The last thing we need in Alabama and the U.S. Senate is a Schumer/Pelosi puppet who is WEAK on Crime, WEAK on the Border, Bad for our Military and our great Vets, Bad for our 2nd Amendment, AND WANTS TO RAISES TAXES TO THE SKY. Jones would be a disaster!

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) November 26, 2017

I endorsed Luther Strange in the Alabama Primary. He shot way up in the polls but it wasn’t enough. Can’t let Schumer/Pelosi win this race. Liberal Jones would be BAD!

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) November 26, 2017

The question to ask is who represents the "us" and who represents the "them?"

Because I think it is less about the Republicans VS the Democrats, and more about the Men VS the Women. 

Retired Alabama police officer says that she was told to keep Roy Moore away from the high school cheerleaders.

Just lookit those gals shake those pom poms.

Courtesy of HuffPo: 

A retired Alabama police officer said she and her colleagues were told decades ago to “make sure” Roy Moore “didn’t hang around” high school cheerleaders, and confirmed previous reports that the Republican Senate candidate was banned at the time from a local mall for predatory behavior toward teenage girls. 

“The rumor mill was that he liked young girls, and ... we were advised that he was being suspended from the mall because he would hang around the young girls that worked in the stores and ... really got into a place of where they say he was harassing,” former Gadsden police officer Faye Gary told MSNBC on Tuesday. 

“We were also told to watch him at the ball games, and make sure that ... he didn’t hang around the cheerleaders,” she said.

I swear every day this Roy Moore story just gets creepier and creepier. 

But hey, according to Donald Trump allowing this pervert into the Senate is still better than letting some Democrat in who demonstrated how soft he was on crime by prosecuting members of the KKK.

So now it 's official. Donald Trump would rather have an accused child molester in the Senate rather than a Democrat.

Trump, commenting on Roy Moore sexual assault allegations: “You don't need someone who's soft on crime like [Doug] Jones.” pic.twitter.com/CdnZZhRTSh

— Kyle Griffin (@kylegriffin1) November 21, 2017

"He denies it, he totally denies it, he says it didn't happen."

Now where have we heard that before?

Oh yeah, I remember:

"He (Putin) says he didn't meddle. I asked him again. You can only ask so many times," Trump told reporters aboard Air Force One on the trip to Hanoi, Vietnam. "Every time he sees me, he said: 'I didn't do that.' And I believe, I really believe that when he tells me that he means it." 

Apparently if you are a Republican, or a Russian dictator, all you have to do is deny that you did anything wrong and you are believed.

However if you are a liberal or a Democrat, well then even after eight separate investigations have cleared you of wrongdoing, you are still guilty, guilty, guilty.

So this is the Republican party now.

Refute evidence which clears your opponents, and take on faith the word of anybody who benefits your party politically.

Wow!

Roy Moore's lawyer threatens to sue local news outlet if they don't retract allegations. Response: "AL.com hereby rejects your demand."

Courtesy of AL.Com:

After The Post published an investigative article documenting Roy Moore's pursuit of a 14-year-old girl in 1979, the Republican Senate candidate from Alabama pledged to sue the newspaper. "The Washington Post published another attack on my character and reputation because they are desperate to stop my political campaign. These attacks said I was with a minor child and are false and untrue - and for which they will be sued," Moore said a week ago during a campaign stop in Huntsville, Alabama. 

Turns out Moore was also concerned about a media outlet closer to home. Moore's camp has twice threatened the Alabama Media Group, home to AL.com, according to a letter from a lawyer for the company. "You have accused AL.com of making 'false reports and/or careless reporting' about multiple subjects related to your clients," reads the letter from John Thompson of Lightfoot Franklin White. "Your letter demands that AL.com retract and recant its prior stories and that it 'cease and desist' from any further reporting about your clients," reads the letter. 

"AL.com hereby rejects your demand," it continues. 

Michelle Holmes, vice president of content for Alabama Media Group (AMG), tells the Erik Wemple Blog that the company lacks specificity on just what stories have offended Roy Moore, Kayla Moore and their Foundation for Moral Law. "As the letter outlines, these demands appear to be a show more than they are a serious attempt to question what we believe to be fully legitimate, serious reporting," says Holmes. The letter states, "You have not explained how anything that AL.com has reported is untrue, inaccurate or erroneous, nor do you provide any support for your position."

I have said it before, but it bears repeating.

We NEED to financially support our local news outlets, and bigger operations like the New York Times and the Washington Post.

Right now they are literally our last line of defense against Donald Trump and other power mad politicians and government officials.  

The truth is dangerous to these people, and that is why access to the truth must be protected at all cost.