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I really don't know any of the particulars of this case, other than it's unsurprising that a moral right-wing crusader has a morally questionable past. But I'm very surprised at the efforts put forth to claim not that the claims are credible, but that they shouldn't even be questioned at all and anyone who expresses doubt is a 'ghoul' or 'doofuses'. Shouldn't that be concerning to everyone? I have been noticing (with alarm) increased usage of the term "Privilege of the doubt" being used on Jezebel... these are connected. Doubt and inquiry is being treated as negative thing. Why isn't everyone else terrified of this?
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gop = The Pedo Party!
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Breitbart sending "researchers" to Alabama to discount this story and harass the accusers sounds awfully similar to when Trump sent "researchers" to Hawaii to confirm the secret Kenyan Muslim atheist socialist plot hatched by Obama to usurp our democracy. In both cases, the best case scenario is that the "researchers" are grifting their morally bankrupt benefactors for as much money and free vacation as possible.
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Steve Bannon looks like a scrotum but has none of the charm.
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I'm expecting any day this is going to blow up into the biggest "O They Will Know We Are Christians..." post ever.
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I'm pretty sure you could run Charlie Manson as a Republican in Alabama and he'd still beat the Democrat.
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Also, we have to remember that Trump did his public relations internship with Roy Cohn (look it up): Accuse, accuse, accuse, accuse. Lie, lie, lie, lie. Deny, deny, deny, deny. Then threaten litigation. But never apologize and never, never admit a mistake.
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The whole GOP loves Homophobe racist, the racist senate candidate who also hates gays. *5 seconds later* we regret to inform you the Homophobe racist is also a pedophile.

*5 seconds later* The whole GOP loves Pedophile Homophobe racist
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In a recent poll, almost 40 percent of Evangelicals in Alabama said they were more likely to vote for Moore following allegations that he molested a 14-year-old.
This is because the messaging that *they* are receiving is that this is a "liberal mainstream media (fake news) attack job". Apparently the ability to assess information on one's own is not a widely held skill, so simply asserting that scandalous information is simply a "hit job" (now that we can all dismiss anything we don't want to hear) is the way to discredit damaging details.

The utter balkanization of information. The Promise of the Internet turned out to be a seriously misguided hope. As opposed to Thomas Jefferson's 'Enlightenment-belief' quote that "The cure for bad information, is more information. ... it turns out that there's a limit to a human's information processing ability, and eventually "more information" becomes "too much information", and everything becomes an information white-out, with no clear truth.

This is the new Dark Ages, folx. Rumors run rampant, witches get burnt, and mob violence is the order of the day.
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Talk about reading comprehension....

The latest accuser was 16 at the time of the assault. She was 15 when she started working, and had her birthday, THEN Asshat McDoofus Sexual Assaulter attempted to force her into oral sex.

She wasn't 15. She wasn't 14 as stated by #3. She was 16.

Which is a stupid thing to have to point out. It was sexual assault. But there is all this emphasis on the age of consent -- so even though she did NOT give it, he was legally in the clear for trying to "date" her.

I feel sick to my stomach that I have to point this out. It should not matter. It isn't as if conservatives supporting Asshat McDoofus Sexually Assaulter give a hoot about facts at any other time....
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“49%” is the same sort of “vast majority” that got trump elected.
(If you’re going to make cracks about reading comprehension, maybe try and be better than that)
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Meanwhile, how much you wanna bet there are more shoes to drop on this sleazy geezer?
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@3 I'm not commenting on the particulars of this case - he could have 300 accusers, each of them as pure as arctic snow. I'm talking about the steady erosion of the popular concepts of due process. It's very 1984. Like, literally, we just had a big hulabaloo over the "if true" statements, with people arguing that one should never ever question if something is true and instead believe something (or not) based on the class of individual making the statement, not on the veracity of whatever statement they make.

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