An incident from 1978 being addressed in 2005 and then discussed in 2015.
Remember when the press gave Roman Polanski a pass?
Remember when the press gave Bill Clinton a pass?
Liberals will defend someone of charges of rape rape. So what really is at play here?
I ascribe altruistic motives to the accusers / alleged victims. Virtually all of them have nothing to gain monetarily. There are too many and the timeline is too long for it to be a political dirty trick as you seem to imply. That leaves altruism as the most likely motive. Before you discount altruism, why do people participate in FR? FR has been going on since 1997 (not including its Usenet predecessor). Now it is 2015. Perhaps we are all being paid off by the Koch brothers. For 18+ years. What really is at play with FR?