JUDGE ROY MOORE, FALSE ACCUSATIONS, AND THE FOG OF POLITICAL WAR

In the bipartisan rush to destroy Roy Moore, here is a defense of him and his reputation. 

The fact is that Roy Moore is an evangelical Christian of the kind that's disliked by the Establishment of both parties and hated by the Ruling Class.  The only people who really like him are, in Hillary Clinton's words: "deplorables." 

It's long but worth a read because so much of what we hear about Moore is either not credible or simply untrue.

I have seen multiple posts by people claiming various versions of the following statement: “Roy Moore has been credibly accused of sexual assault by multiple women who have nothing to gain from accusing him. Their accounts have been corroborated.”

This is false on many levels. Anyone interested in living in a fair society needs to call the bluff of ANYONE who posts such statements, even if you like them. You can be professional and objective (not necessarily polite or civil) but you must rebuke people for engaging in this kind of clever deceit.

1. The word “credible” has to mean something

The charges against Roy Moore are not credible by any standard. The accusations have come through the filter of journalists, publicists, or lawyers, who exercised total control over the content of statements released to the public. These journalists are overseen by editors. So the accusations are well edited, but this actually makes them less credible, because the incoherent content of the accusations conflicts with the highly professionalized tone, leading us to suspect that the accusations we have heard are not transparent memories shared by a disinterested person (that would make them more credible)–but rather, doctored, coached, and rehearsed scripts colored by people who were from the beginning motivated by considerations related to their own professional standing as commentators, advocates, and lobbyists. Let’s take a look at the content of the “accusations.”

All but three of them involve no hint of wrongdoing at all; they present a portrait of Roy Moore as a single man in his thirties courting eligible young women and showing restraint and chivalry.

Keep in mind that the UVA Fraternity Rape scandal and the Duke Lacrosse rape scandals were both supposed to be credible, corroborated, and published by reputable news sources.  Both were total fabrications dressed  up by partisans for political purposes.