A new poll was just released in Alabama, literally 2 hours ago. It was sent to me by my dear friend in Alabama.
Doug Jones just took the lead over accused child molester Roy Moore.
Earlier polls had shown Moore cruising to victory with 8-11 point leads.
Apparently some voters were disturbed that a man who claims to have strong religious values may have picked up and molested a 14-year-old Child. Sure, it was a long time ago. But many victims are afraid to speak out. They think no one will believe them. They fear ostracism and blame. They fear that they did something wrong. Sean Hannity of FOX said on a newscast that the accusers wanted fame and money. That’s ridiculous.
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Diane Sean Hannity may even believe that the accusers only “wanted fame and money.” But then, consider the source. That’s probably HIS horizon. OR he is deliberately speaking to aspects of the “base” who, like him, only know that horizon–one that too-easily ignores the question of truth, regardless of motivation. Faux News is really getting tiresome.
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Hannity had long ago sold his honor and integrity for fame and wealth, in his mind everyone else must be the same as him so he doesn’t have to admit to himself that he stands out as an amoral aberration.
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A classic case of projection.
Those who do what they do only for fame and money think that everyone else is similarly motivated.
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dianeravitch That’s the thing about one’s moral (at least) horizon: you cannot know that you are IN a lower horizon until you actually get beyond it.
That’s one “reason” why people of low horizons HATE those who present a higher horizon through their writings and/or their acts: They remind people like Hannity of what Hannity IS NOT, while at the same time calling him to be better than he is. And when you are HIGHLY INVESTED in being of a lesser calibre, then, by all means, you must destroy those who threaten that investment, or you will suffer loss of those investments.
I would say that Hannity is highly invested in being a moral degenerate, as is Trump and as are so many who presently surround him.
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We have a POS POTUS that’s NO better than moore.
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I am still concerned that the tribal Republican zombies will show up to vote for Moore. They would rather vote for a pedophile than a Democrat. The key to this election is in getting the minorities to show up to vote. African Americans are 25% of the population in Alabama.
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Yes, in fact, some of the Republicans who were interviewed in Alabama did actually say that- even if the allegations were true, they would vote for Moore over a Democrat.
Party over country.
Sad.
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Some people did say to interviewers that they would vote for a child molester over a Democrat.
On Twitter, the hashtag #RoyMooreChildMolester was trending.
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That is so disgusting, Diane, I hardly have words for it.
How would they feel if this was their daughter or grand-daughter?
A pedophile is preferable to a Democrat?
Really???
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I live near Pensacola, and we also get the Mobile channels. The news included reactions of several people to the Moore allegations. One woman said Moore was a “God fearing ” man, and this is fake news. Another man blamed the women for seeking fame and fortune. Another woman claimed her “Christian heart” told her that Moore is innocent. There were also two people that wanted Moore to step down.
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Retired teacher, I just cannot imagine people who are so blinded that they are not listening to people who worked with Moore back then and said that yes, he liked them young, high school aged, plus other friends of the women who came forward and said that yes, the women told them about this years ago.
If their god thinks that it’s fine for a fully adult man to try and scr*w, or at least sexually abuse, a 14 year old, then I want nothing to do with that god. And don’t give me that sh!t about Mary and Joseph. That was (supposedly) over two thousand years ago.
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I agree with you about getting those voters to the polls.
Is Alabama running the same kind of voter suppression scam as Wisconsin?
Are they using the same kind of voting machines as were used in Georgia that got mysteriously wiped after a Republican defeated a Democrat and have no paper trail?
I find it very odd that in Virginia in 2016, the actual vote was very close to the polls. But in the states where Trump won by just enough votes to avoid an automatic recount, the Republicans were in charge and many machines had no paper trail.
If we don’t fight for insure fair elections, our democracy is in trouble no matter who the candidate is.
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I don’t know if the suppression is the same as that in Wisconsin. Alabama has a voter ID law. The state is heavily gerrymandered, and they often have fewer voting hours in minority areas. Frankly, Florida is guilty of the same voter suppression tactics.
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Virginia is heavily gerrymandered and upstart young candidates just staged a revolution. The House of Delegates has 100 members. 66 were Republicans. The young Dems captured 15 seats, and 3 more are subject to a recount. At the moment, the Dems have 49 of the 100 seats. They might gain control if they win any of the recounts.
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Diane,
That’s why this Virginia election was so important. Gov. McAuliffe RESTORED voting rights. The Governor of Wisconsin was embracing the firms that specialized in striking off any Democrat whose name was too similar to someone registered in another state. Meanwhile, they seemed to have missed all the Republicans who actually were registered in 2 states like the members of Trump’s campaign.
Gerrymandering can be opposed with votes, but if those votes are systematically being prevented from being counted then it is a near impossible task.
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Sean Hannity started out on talk radio. Talk radio is 98% far right wing hate mongers that spew their toxic sludge 24/7 all across the nation. There are Hannity and Limbaugh clones all over the landscape, they carpet bomb the nation with their right wing propaganda non stop and this has been going on for about 30 years, especially after Reagan repealed (or did not renew) the fairness doctrine and then Clinton deregulated the rules for purchasing radio stations and other media. Hannity gets paid good money to spew the far right wing blather.
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Conservative broadcasters are traitors to our country and should be called that on a daily basis.
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retired teacher is spot on! I live in Alabama and have closely watched this moore issue unfold. I have Republican friends that won’t vote for moore but know others that will vote for him no matter what. They spew their party dogma all the time. A couple even ignored the issue at hand and only wanted to talk about gay marriage and make incorrect statements about the Constitution. Yes, what moore did about that was huge for them even if he broke the law. There are tons of wonderful folks here but there is that segment that can’t think for themselves. So, for them, it’s the party line and the cry of morality which makes no sense if they can vote for one such as moore.
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The frightening thing about the mindset of those who would refuse to hold their own responsible for their behavior is that it hardens back to two incidents that heralded the American Civil War.
The first is the incident in which Charles Sumner was beaten badly by Preston Brooks. Rather than censor Brooks, southerners lauded his defense of his family honor. They saw his violence as justified on the basis of Sumner’s reference to Brook’s family and their lack of values. Southerners sent Brooks canes to celebrate what amounted to assault and battery. There was a building named after Brooks on the University of Georgia campus when I visited there in the 1980s.
Meanwhile, the ax murderer, John Brown, was celebrated upon the occasion of his hanging after his failed raid on Harper’s Ferry by the pacifist Henry David Throeau as an “Angel of light”. Months before, Brown’s contribution to the incident we call bleeding Kansas was a grisly ax murder attack on a pro-slavery family.
We have not moved to the point today where our polarized country is standing behind violence. Not yet anyway.
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