Andrew Klaven:
I have to write this quickly because any minute now, Senate candidate Roy Moore might quit or be cleared or might simply be blown out of the headlines by some fresh violent atrocity that the media will either attempt to exploit in an effort to destroy our second amendment or attempt to distort so we don’t notice that every killer involved happened to be named Mohammed. At my back, I always hear the news cycle’s winged chariot drawing near.
I’m in a hotel in New York, and this morning over my covfefe in the lounge, I looked up at a television and saw a Chyron announcing that someone I’d never heard of was finally going to “break her silence.” And I thought, “Oh, please don’t.” Silence has become a precious commodity and we need as much of it as we can get. Otherwise, it’s all noise and outrage and outrage at the noise and noise about the outrage. As far as I’m concerned, you should only break your silence in case of emergency.
But so far, my words have gone unheeded. And now controversial and kind-of-hilarious Senate candidate Roy Moore has been accused of sexual contact with a 14-year-old girl back in 1979 when he was 32. He’s said to have carried on with a couple of other young-but-legal girls as well. The contact with the child wasn’t forced but, of course, she was too young to consent to it and he was old enough to be responsible, so it’s bad.
I can only see one rational moral response to this: If it’s true, he should step down; if it’s a political frame-up, he should fight it.
What bothers me about the story is I have absolutely no idea which is the case. No clue. Even before the allegations were made, I had been thinking about how easy it would be to set someone up in the current climate. Get a few women together. Say something happened too long ago to check. No one reads past the headline, and everyone’s done something at some point they shouldn’t have, so it’s a slam dunk smear.
In this particular case, too, everyone in establishment politics hates Moore. (I mean, he is kind of a loony-tune, but if that disqualified you to work in the capitol, the place would be empty.) So no one will come running to his defense.
Or… maybe he’s just guilty. I really don’t know.
I blame feminists and the media for this cloud of confusion, mostly because I hate feminists and the media, but also because they do bear some of the blame. For instance, the New York Times, a former newspaper, now has a tip line where you can complain about something sexual someone famous did to you back in the day. How is that not going to lead to abuse? Liars will flock to it. And if someone calls up and complains about Barack Obama, and someone else calls up and complains about Rush Limbaugh — which one do you think the Times will follow up on? Me too.
And then hideous feminists (a redundancy, I know) with their snarling hatred of men and masculinity start shrieking about how it’s an outrage that any male should be considered innocent until proven guilty or that any one event should be judged less egregious than any other. With that kind of attitude, things can get very Salem-y very fast
USA Today has a running list of Hollywood sexual offenders and I was reading through it and came upon the charges against Dustin Hoffman. The now 80-year-old Hoffman is accused of talking dirty to one woman and inviting another woman on a date some 30-odd years ago. And you know what? I don’t care. Not even a little. I think Harvey Weinstein, assuming he’s guilty, should go to prison for what he did and I think what Hoffman allegedly did shouldn’t even be mentioned in the papers. When they’re both on the same list, the whole list becomes a moral blur.
Just like with Clerence Thomas and the infamous Anita Hill all the lies used by liberals to keep Thomas out of the Supreum Court becuase he is 100% pro constitution and opposes Afermatice Action and racial prefrences and why they tried to ruin Joe Arpio becuase he opposes open borders
In case anyone has missed it, the left has made a complete mockery of truth, justice, rule of law and honesty. They have a long history of targeting a prominent Republican with some sort of salacious charge and driving them out of office or a campaign, only to either drop charges or have them or the conviction reversed later… but not before the person’s career is damaged.
The goal of feminists was never equality, each new wave more vicious and less feminine than the last, the newest wave the most disgusting vile and foul, yes they are nasty, a gag reflex. There is a new movement, its ok to be a stay at home mom, its ok to home school your children, it ok to dress as a woman, its ok if the nasties spin off the earth.
Why should a man be afraid to compliment a woman in his workplace, gee your hair looks nice today, that he will be in an HR meeting ?
The lines are gone as to what is considered OK.
Guys its ok to be masculine now add to that man list cause the new movement loves you and needs you and doesnt want geldings. No the media isnt paying attention to the new movement the rejection of nasty. Silence is their best weapon, make you feel like your alone and somehow unpopular and weird.
@Bill… Deplorable Me:
Tom DeLay comes to mind. Because of one, ONE, radical district attorney DeLay’s career, and his income, was destroyed. Never mind that 12 years and $12 million
@kitt: #3
Thank you for this, Kitt.
Too many feminists are ignorant of history, in that courtesy between a man and a woman – holding doors, walking on the outside, that sort of thing – began as men acknowledging that women were more important than we are.
My girlfriend is one of the most feminine people I know, she appreciates every little thing I do for her, and she owns and runs a serious martial arts academy. She doesn’t need anyone to defend her, but she appreciates the fact that I will.
Better I bleed than she bruises, after all.
And she likes being my “girlfriend”.
@Petercat: You are more than welcome, I hate the nasties pouring their hate of men into our little girls and young women. I hope you and your lady find that oneness.
@Bill… Deplorable Me: And of course, when a well known Dimocrat is accused of something terrible, like,oh say rape of several women, it’s OKay let’s move along now. nothing to see here. it’s only a dimocrat being a dimocrat.
Romney kept on running even after months of Harry Reid accusing him of Never Paying Any Taxes for at least 10 years.
Senator Menendez is STILL a Senator!
He’s been accused, indicted, charged and tried.
But still he’s seated as a Democrat Senator!
The Judge Moore problem is that he is being opposed both by the Democrats as well as the entire GOPe.
That’s a lot of Republicans.
But, until he’s proven guilty, he is innocent.
Just like all those “Me Too’s” accusations about Hollywood types.
Big paydays to not say, “me too.”
The GOPe’s latest ploy is to threaten to ignore the will of the people and not seat him, or to, worse, yet, handpick someone else to seat.
@Nanny G: Democrats have a problem winning elections, relying on collecting more votes than the opponent is unreliable. So, ginning up sexual assault and harassment in lieu of a message or a candidate has become the tactic of choice. Though it didn’t work so well against Trump, if it’s dirty and a lie, liberals fall in love with it.
They don’t seem to care that their little scams make it more difficult to take seriously the accusations of women who have actually BEEN abused.