I was once molested by a giant orange puppet ... oh wait, no, sorry that was Speaker Boehner.

Never mind.

Wait, so if I make and recant sexual allegations, I can ruin a career without even having to go fully public? Nice. Someone get me a list of GOP leadership and the press on the phone.

@3 That would require GOP leadership having enough shame to resign.

I had a feeling that Elmo was a pedophile.

"Grifters gonna grift."

Where theres smoke, theres fire. A third person might actually come forward.

@5 - You were still wrong; the anonymous accuser recanted. Anyway, the jokes all got worn out days ago, welcome to the party, slowpoke.

@7 I'll wait for the evidence to believe someone capable of child molestation, actually.

Did Clash vote for Romney or something...why the witch hunt?

Why are we giving TMZ the benefit of being accurate?

"Tickle me, Elmo" ? Really, Amy? What the fuck did you expect? Keep robbing America's children of their God-given right to fantasize and you'll simply increase the supply of Romney-Ryan booble-heads who have their own fantasies about how to run this country. Should they succeed, I suspect it'll be a lot worse than man-on-boy sex.

"What an awful story this is."

Then howzabout you quit wringing your hands and clutching your pearls (alternately) and actually dig into it?

I posted on this the first time around, but maybe I was too cute for the room, so I'll try it again: Anybody following the news out of the UK knows that the BBC, their public broadcaster, is being hammered over allegations that longtime DJ and kids' show host Jimmy Savile was a pedophile rapist of both girls and boys. The rightwing tabloids have been throwing up more allegations against other BBC personalities every few days - all of them gay, closeted and/or conveniently dead.

How big a coincidence is it that one of the better-known performers on public broadcasting in the US (and a previously-closeted gay man) is now getting similar accusations, a few weeks after the rightwing candidate for President targeted his show as an example of defunding public broadcasting?

I'm not much for conspiracy theories, but something about this really stinks. And it would be nice if a heavily gay-oriented newspaper with a Pulitzer to its credit and an activist as its editorial director did something other than go 'aw, damn.'

One lawsuit filed; two more waiting in the wings as of this morning. Nope, I'm not going to judge him without a trial, but it sure looks like he's a scumbag.

@17: Any source on the "two waiting in the wings"? 'Cause Google News sure hasn't discovered it after 12 hours.

And now a 3rd person has come forward. Wont be surprised if there are more.