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Roy Moore's Alabama
NYT ^ | 10 Dec 2017 | Howell Raines

Posted on 12/10/2017 2:42:14 PM PST by Rummyfan

ARLEY, Ala. — I recently drove the back roads from Birmingham for over two hours before I finally found a sign for Roy Moore, the Republican candidate for the United States Senate, outside the Arley Coffee Shop. A retired coal miner who frequents what the cashier called the “liars’ table” put it to me in the familiar Winston County way. “The women,” he said of Mr. Moore’s accusers, were lying to make him look like a sexual predator. “Groping,” he added, “used to be all right anyway.”

The Free State of Winston is Alabama’s most distinctive political culture, and now it may be the center of America’s current political convulsion. Winstonians tend to go to one side or another in a big way, and they don’t care what the rest of the world thinks. According to one historical account, the residents voted 515 to 128 for an antebellum legislator who promised to oppose the Ordinance of Secession that took Alabama out of the Union in 1861. Today they believe President Trump is an untarnished Republican savior and are cheering his endorsement of Mr. Moore.

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


TOPICS: News/Current Events; US: Alabama; US: New York
KEYWORDS: alabama; douchejones; dougjones; howellraines; mediawingofthednc; newyork; newyorkslimes; newyorktimes; partisanmediashills; roymoore; winstoncount
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I have closely studied Winston County history and have long been proud of my ancestral ties. I wanted to explore whether traditional Republicanism could fully explain how the Old South’s most independent thinkers became Trump zombies willing now to send a plausibly accused pedophile to the Senate rather than a Democrat.

Biased much there Howell?

Wasn't Raines the editor when Jayson Blair was filing his phony news reports? From his apartment in Brooklyn?!

1 posted on 12/10/2017 2:42:14 PM PST by Rummyfan
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To: Rummyfan

What did Dingy Ditch (he more and more reminds me of Hairy) do to get discharged early from the Army?


2 posted on 12/10/2017 2:45:15 PM PST by Paladin2 (No spelchk nor wrong word auto substition on mobile dev. Please be intelligent and deal with it....)
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To: Rummyfan

How does live with this level of hate in their hardened hearts???


3 posted on 12/10/2017 2:46:06 PM PST by gov_bean_ counter (Enough of the mindless rants of the obtuse.)
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To: Rummyfan

“willing now to send a plausibly accused pedophile to the Senate rather than a Democrat.”

Remember when Howell said Bill Clinton’s character didn’t matter? Yea, me too.

L


4 posted on 12/10/2017 2:46:18 PM PST by Lurker (President Trump isn't our last chance. President Trump is THEIR last chance.)
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To: Rummyfan

@$$hole. Did he “get his immunizations” before he came?


5 posted on 12/10/2017 2:47:53 PM PST by RushIsMyTeddyBear (Screw The NFL!!!!!! My family fought for the flag!)
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To: Rummyfan
I recently drove the back roads from Birmingham for over two hours before I finally found a sign for Roy Moore...

Translation: I got hopelessly lost.

6 posted on 12/10/2017 2:53:44 PM PST by COBOL2Java (John McCain treats GOP voters like he treated his first wife)
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To: Lurker
“willing now to send a plausibly accused pedophile to the Senate rather than a Democrat.”

Let's tell the truth...

“willing now to send a falsely accused pedophile to the Senate rather than a baby-killer.”

7 posted on 12/10/2017 2:54:10 PM PST by aMorePerfectUnion
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To: Rummyfan

NYT is dreaming of a world where people see Republicans as “hateful bigots,” have Trump Remorse, and will overthrow the Republicans as soon as they can get to a voting booth.

They’ve been dreaming that for a couple of years now.


8 posted on 12/10/2017 2:54:29 PM PST by Fido969 (In!)
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To: Rummyfan

I understand Soros is giving away a week long cruise in the Caribbean to the news media puke who writes the most negative story about Moore.

This guy has a chance for the prize.


9 posted on 12/10/2017 2:56:38 PM PST by Presbyterian Reporter
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To: Rummyfan

Yes, Howell Raines was/is one of the biggest turds in MSM history. He protected Jayson Blair until the scandal grew too large to resist. Howell Raines represents some of the worst of the liberal MSM.


10 posted on 12/10/2017 2:56:41 PM PST by Enchante (Bill, Anthony, Harvey .... how does lesbo Hillary manage to surround herself with male predators???)
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To: Rummyfan

Plausibly accused...

With manufactured evidence, impossible timelines, and non-corroborated stories...

Whatever you say.


11 posted on 12/10/2017 2:57:42 PM PST by gov_bean_ counter (Enough of the mindless rants of the obtuse.)
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To: Rummyfan

14 years old makes a “pedophile?” Puh-lease. Frank Luntz’ panel included women who said they themselves dated 30 year olds at age 15, and that two grandmas were married at 14. The Mexican age of consent is TWELVE and you don’t see the NYTimes wailing about it.


12 posted on 12/10/2017 2:57:51 PM PST by montag813
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To: RushIsMyTeddyBear

This guy is full of BS!!!

I grew up in Winston County (in the Haleyville/Lynn/Double Springs area), and this writer is nothing more than yet another liberal hack trying to “explain” how backwards the Rednecks in Alabama are if they elect Roy Moore.

According to my relatives back home (I no longer live there due to military duties), Moore will win in a landslide.

No one, other than the folks paid for by out of state Democrats, believe the crap published by the WAPO, etc.

I think it was Arkansas Senator Tom Cotton who said something like “No more trial by newspaper!”. MAGA, Go Moore, Go Trump!!!


13 posted on 12/10/2017 2:58:22 PM PST by dustoff339
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To: COBOL2Java

Conservatives have long learned that only ‘Rats can advertise virtue signaling without receiving the violins of graffiti or worse.


14 posted on 12/10/2017 3:00:04 PM PST by Paladin2 (No spelchk nor wrong word auto substition on mobile dev. Please be intelligent and deal with it....)
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To: montag813

Mad Mo’ “married” even younger I’m told...


15 posted on 12/10/2017 3:01:26 PM PST by Paladin2 (No spelchk nor wrong word auto substition on mobile dev. Please be intelligent and deal with it....)
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To: Lurker
Remember when Howell said Bill Clinton’s character didn’t matter?
While Her Heinous was frantically trying to keep those "bimbo eruptions" under control, Clinton's sycophants pompously proclaimed "I'm voting for a president, not the Pope". After the 1992 election a buddy of mine admitted he voted for Slick Willie, saying that "as far as his fooling around, as long as he keeps his pants up in the Oval Office, who cares?" HA!
16 posted on 12/10/2017 3:01:58 PM PST by Impala64ssa (Islamophobic? NO! IslamABHORic)
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To: Lurker
#4: "Remember when Howell said Bill Clinton’s character didn’t matter? Yea, me too."

And in Clinton's case, it was a little more concrete than "plausibly accused", e.g. forensic evidence in the form of a little blue dress.
 

17 posted on 12/10/2017 3:02:22 PM PST by Governor Dinwiddie
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To: dustoff339

I’ve heard some things, along the lines of people in Alabama are really frustrated that the media in the New York/Washington axis, are trying to tell Alabamans how to vote.

I’ve also heard lots of resentment in Alabama against circus performer Gloria Allred strutting in and stirring the pot.

It’s as if a key issue in this campaign has become the issue of outside liberals condescendingly trying to affect the outcome of this election.


18 posted on 12/10/2017 3:05:57 PM PST by Dilbert San Diego
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To: Dilbert San Diego

Doug Jones ads are running every other commercial break now. I got so tired of them the Tab has been on AHC for the last week.

Massive over saturation with lie filled content is pushing Jones farther and farther behind.


19 posted on 12/10/2017 3:12:45 PM PST by gov_bean_ counter (Enough of the mindless rants of the obtuse.)
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To: gov_bean_ counter

“Doug Jones ads are running every other commercial break now.“

I hope they are spending millions on this.

L


20 posted on 12/10/2017 3:14:18 PM PST by Lurker (President Trump isn't our last chance. President Trump is THEIR last chance.)
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