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Analysis: Breitbart goes to bat for Moore in his defense
Mercury News ^ | Nov. 9, 2017 | Callum Borchers, W. P

Posted on 11/09/2017 6:42:19 PM PST by Innovative

Minutes before the Washington Post published a story where five women accuse Senate candidate Roy Moore of improper conduct, the news site Brietbart published a story pushing back against their stories.

Roy Moore, the Republican Senate candidate in Alabama, made a similar effort on Thursday to head off The Washington Post’s report that he allegedly initiated a sexual encounter with a 14-year-old and dated teenagers when he was in his 30s. But Moore did not use Twitter or any official campaign channel. He used Breitbart News.

Minutes before The Post published its report, Breitbart posted a preemptive response from Moore under one of its signature, all-caps headlines: “AFTER ENDORSING DEMOCRAT IN ALABAMA, WASHINGTON POST PLANS TO HIT ROY MOORE WITH ALLEGATIONS OF INAPPROPRIATE RELATIONS WITH TEENAGERS; JUDGE FIRES BACK DENIAL.”

(Excerpt) Read more at mercurynews.com ...


TOPICS: News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: Alabama
KEYWORDS: breitbart; moore; roymoore; southernfriedlolita
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Good. Republicans should stand together.
1 posted on 11/09/2017 6:42:19 PM PST by Innovative
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To: Innovative
Republicans Conservatives should stand together.

Who gives a f#%& about Republicans.

2 posted on 11/09/2017 6:43:28 PM PST by Alberta's Child ("Tell them to stand!" -- President Trump, 9/23/2017)
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To: Alberta's Child

Well said. GOP can go to Hell!!!


3 posted on 11/09/2017 6:44:29 PM PST by rhc2000
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To: Innovative

It was just four Moore accusers. Five Russian hookers. And a partridge in a pear tree.


4 posted on 11/09/2017 6:47:38 PM PST by Lisbon1940 (No full-term Governors (at the time of election!)
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To: rhc2000

Conservatives should abandon the GOP by the millions, everywhere, in every state.


5 posted on 11/09/2017 6:48:36 PM PST by reasonisfaith ("...because they received not the love of the truth, that they might be saved." (2 Thessalonians))
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To: Innovative

WHERE’S THE CRIME ?
THESE ALLEGED MOORE SEXUAL MISCONDUCT INCIDENTS OF 38 YEARS AGO WERE WITH FEMALES BEYOND THE AGE OF CONSENT. THEY SHOW NO IMPOSITION OF PHYSICAL FORCE OR WILL WHICH WOULD MAKE IT A CRIMINAL ACT.
In the 19th century marriages between teen aged women and older men were common so the age of consent was in the teens. Presently the age of consent for women in Alabama is 16. In 1979 according to Gateway Pundit it was 12. In Mexico it’s 14.


6 posted on 11/09/2017 6:49:35 PM PST by mosesdapoet (Mosesdapoet aka L.J.Keslin)
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To: reasonisfaith

“Conservatives should abandon the GOP...”

a prescription for political death, and a ticket to absolute national socialism - no thanks!


7 posted on 11/09/2017 6:56:16 PM PST by elpadre (AfganistaMr Obama said theoal was to "disrupt, dismantle and defeat al-hereQaeda" and its allies.)
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To: Innovative

Breitbart should, because they know this is an attack on Bannon as well via McConnell.


8 posted on 11/09/2017 6:56:37 PM PST by snarkytart
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To: rhc2000

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/3603294/posts?page=125#125

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9 posted on 11/09/2017 6:56:56 PM PST by hoosiermama (When you open your heart to patriotism, there is no room for prejudice.DJT Dr)
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To: rhc2000

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/3603294/posts?page=125#125

You might want to share this tweet with others


10 posted on 11/09/2017 6:56:57 PM PST by hoosiermama (When you open your heart to patriotism, there is no room for prejudice.DJT Dr)
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To: Innovative

Breitbart going up against the deep state.


11 posted on 11/09/2017 7:02:32 PM PST by Parley Baer
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To: Parley Baer

The author, a WashPost bottom-dweller enjoys crawling in the mud. An example of his fake news from earlier this year:

“You know what Fox News Channel really doesn’t need right now? Another male prime-time host who invites charges of sexism. Yet Jesse Watters, the Bill O’Reilly protege who joined “The Five” in its new 9 p.m. time slot this week, made what sure sounded like a dirty joke about Ivanka Trump on Tuesday night.


12 posted on 11/09/2017 7:10:02 PM PST by Bookshelf
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To: elpadre
We didn't abandon the GOP, they abandoned us. At this point, the only path to salvation for the US (and it's a slim one) is a total meltdown of both political parties. Then there's a chance that a majority made up from members of both parties will pass legislation that saves our freedoms and restores the middle class.

I'm not a Republican. I'm a Deplorable. Why? There's no excuse for Ryan still being Speaker after he didn't have a plan to repeal and replace Obamacare. Other reason? Thinking that the money corporations bring back to the US will be used for middle class jobs and wages is not believable. Just as with the money given to banks "to big to fail", it will be used to buy out competing companies and to line the pockets of upper-tier employees. What we want is EVerify and incentives to create and keep jobs in the US for US citizens.

13 posted on 11/09/2017 7:11:33 PM PST by grania (Deplorable and Proud of It!)
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To: Innovative

This is a re-hash of what they did to Herman Cain in 2012—with even flimsier evidence. Judge Moore needs to come out swinging and expect that the media and GOP will attempt to pile on over the next two weeks. He needs to resist all pressure to step aside. If he does that, he’ll still win. The public hates all of those piling on. Make them the bad guys here—it won’t be hard.


14 posted on 11/09/2017 7:21:34 PM PST by Antoninus ("In Washington, swamp drain you.")
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To: mosesdapoet
WHERE’S THE CRIME ?

Whether it is a crime is less relevant. The dems want to reduce voter turnout for Moore. This will be effective in doing that. Will it be enough to elect Doug Jones? Not sure.

But I would not downplay the impact in a highly churched state when you have the head bible thumper ten commandments zealot accused of going after teens when he was in his 30s. Whether he scored or not matters not. Even if unproven it adds seeds of doubt and that is the dems' intent.

15 posted on 11/09/2017 7:31:39 PM PST by plain talk
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To: Innovative

Of course, the accusations take place when Moore was still a Democrat.

One of the accusations was that he took out an 18 year old woman, and ordered wine for her when the drinking age was 19.

The woman would be at least as culpable as Moore for such conduct, as Moore didn’t make her drink the wine and she was no longer a child. If folks think this is newsworthy or disqualifying, especially in a world of Kennedys and Clintons ... sheesh!


16 posted on 11/09/2017 7:38:16 PM PST by Dr. Sivana (There is no salvation in politics.)
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To: Innovative

Did the Merk have to fill up two empty columns? There is no substance to their article that takes 2,000 words to complain that Breitbart published an article with headlines in caps!


17 posted on 11/09/2017 7:50:45 PM PST by blueplum ( "...this moment is your moment: it belongs to you... " President Donald J. Trump, Jan 20, 2017)
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To: Innovative

Ironically, the Washington Com-Post may have done conservatives a favor. First, Alabama voters know the score, and they are not biting at this story, and THEY are the ONLY voters who count.

But there is something more afoot. I frankly don’t think the Democrats, at least the overt Progressive socialist crybaby wing, is NOT the culpable party. I smell a putrid Big MacDouble burger: McConnell and McCain. Have you noticed how all the RINO’s are the MAIN whiners about Roy Moore in this debacle?

In short, it is the GOP Establishment that is running this con. They would obviously wish to deal with a Democrat than a Conservative, and it is extremely apparent that they are trying to establish their perogative.

THIS HELPS IDENTIFY THE TRAITORS in our group, JUST IN TIME to get primary opponents up to speed. We NEED CONSERVATIVES to challenge these pieces of crap posing as Republicans. THIS is what will win us elections for years to come.

But if we go all-RINO, we lose. For good.


18 posted on 11/09/2017 7:51:38 PM PST by GOP Congress
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To: plain talk
But I would not downplay the impact in a highly churched state when you have the head bible thumper ten commandments zealot accused of going after teens when he was in his 30s.

... You understand that Christians know that we are all sinners and that Christ came to save sinners, right?
Are you saying that the "highly churched state" (whatever that means) of Alabama will have expected their "head bible thumper ten commandments zealot" (glad to know your feelings about Judge Moore) to have been sinless throughout his life?

I suspect that this blatant smear will just piss people off at the Bible spreading the smear - not against Moore.

19 posted on 11/09/2017 8:09:39 PM PST by El Cid (Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, and thou shalt be saved, and thy house...)
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That Southern-fried Lolita is not at all credible. She has led a very sketchy life...3 divorces..bouncing around from job to job..she thinks she has now hit the mega- million lotto with her barely-legal work of fiction. Her description of the alleged molestation almost forty years ago reads like an excerpt from Nabokov...even down to the guy’s whitey-tighties !


20 posted on 11/09/2017 8:28:41 PM PST by miserare ( Hillary--you lost! Get over it!!)
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