Posted on 11/15/2017 10:50:09 AM PST by conservative98
An attorney for Alabama Senate candidate Roy Moore seemed to suggest Wednesday that MSNBC host Ali Velshi's "background" might help the journalist understand why the Republican nominee would date underage women.
“Culturally speaking there’s differences. I looked up Ali’s background, and wow, that’s awesome that you have got such a diverse background, it’s really cool to read through that," attorney Trenton Garmon said when asked why Moore would need permission from girls' mothers to date them.
“What does Ali Velshi’s background have to do with dating children, 14-year-old girls?” co-host Stephanie Ruhle interjected.
Velshi was born in Kenya, raised in Canada and graduated from Queen’s University in Ontario.
“In other countries, there’s arrangement through parents for what we would refer to as consensual marriage,” Garmon said.
“Ali’s from Canada,” Ruhle said.
“Ali’s also spent time in other countries,” Garmon said. “So it’s not a bad thing.”
“I don’t know where you’re going with this, Trenton,” Velshi said.
Garmon then defended Moore’s comment that he’d always ask a girl's mother for permission before asking them out on a date.
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Why didn’t he just say Obama’s father
Sounds like an admission of guilt.
I think a handwriting expert would be a better defense. Hell, just print out the Thomas Wictor twitter threads.
With lawyers like that, who needs the Washington Post?
Imagine that... If this was a lib doing this people around here would be foaming at the mouth.. yet this.. normal as can be...
and YES i know these are politically motivated attacks... but this dude is just creepy...
In France, eight months ago, everyone was told by the media that Macron being 15 years old and having a thing with the 39 year old teacher was a wonderful thing back 20 years ago. Now you see the media trying to go the opposite direction.
It is amazing the amount of foam by some people on FR nowadays. I am starting to think they are Rubio's friends at a foam party...
I figure Roy Moore must know literally hundreds of attorneys. And he chose to go with this mess?
This looks like the beginning of an attack phase, good.
PPPPPPFFFFTTTTTTTCHAAAA! (sound of white Russian spewing post-coitus)
LOL!...................
Do you want to boot Elvis out of any Hall of Fame he's in?
What is the point of this nonsense!
I think he is talking about dating younger women. That is not a crime any more than signing, or maybe not signing a yearbook. Forging a name for nefarious reasons could be criminal.
I think the Alabama AG should just announce that they will not be sending Moore to Washington and that a vote for him will just be a vote for the party to fill the seat until they can have another election.
Dating is not the issue - strange for a 30-year-old to date a teenager, but probably not illegal. Sexual assault is something completely different. That he appears to have lied about the dating part, I have to assume he is lying when he denies the sexual assault accusations. The GOP primary voters in Alabama blew it and now will most likely lose a seat that should be safely Republican.
Is the guy Ali a Muslim?
Could be a reference about Mad Mo.
Maybe just an attack on the media?
Their trying things.
If I had to guess, I’d say that McConnell is sending more money to Moore’s attorney than Moore is. Because this guy is a huge Christmas present for the Republicans who want a Democrat in that Senate seat.
Unless there is a back story I am not aware of, Moore seriously needs to re evaluate his communications strategy, or not communicate at all.
We have forgery, bribes and allegations made by the operatives of the opposing candidate
Moore’s accusers have nothing but conflicts and credibility problems so why not go there.
Hint to lawyer - if you are going to attack a media host, attack head on and don’t beat around the bush with BS like “background” .
Moore needs to get a real spokesman because he cannot afford campaign spokesman on the job training in the situation he finds himself in.
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