The Dunces Have Elected A Dunce

http://www.slate.com/articles/news_.../2017/12/roy_moore_s_story_is_unraveling.html

"Porter, Moore’s spokeswoman, has lied with abandon. She claims that on CNN, Nelson’s
attorney, Gloria Allred, “wouldn’t deny” that Nelson’s “yearbook is a forgery.” That’s a gross
misrepresentation: What Allred demanded was a Senate investigation, under penalty of perjury, in
which independent experts would compare the yearbook to known samples of Moore’s handwriting.
Porter also claims that Corfman’s mother “disputes her arguments and her case.” “Her own mother
doesn’t believe elements of her story,” says Porter. False again: Corfman’s mother confirms her
daughter’s account and says she witnessed Moore meeting her daughter, contrary to his statements."

"On Monday, the Washington Post reported that one accuser, Gibson, had just found her
high school scrapbook in her attic. The scrapbook had a card from Moore, in which he had
written “Happy graduation Debbie,” and, “I wanted to give you this card myself.”

Moore’s initial story to Hannity—“If we did go out on dates, then we did”—was compatible
with the card. But Moore’s new story, that he didn’t know any of his accusers, wasn’t.
So the card had to be attacked. Moore’s campaign strategist, Dean Young, went on CNN to
dismiss the card as a meaningless, well-wishing note from a politician. Porter said that
Moore was just a “family friend” and that Gibson’s story—that the card was more intimate—didn’t
pass “the straight-face test.”

Unfortunately for Moore, such disputes can be adjudicated. The card was signed “Roy.” It was
taped to a page in Gibson’s scrapbook. On another page in the same scrapbook was this note:
“Wednesday night, 3-4-81. Roy S. Moore and I went out for the first time. We went out to eat
at Catfish Cabin in Albertville. I had a great time.” If the card is real, then presumably
the date between Moore and Gibson was real, too.

Young thinks Moore can plead ignorance. “Judge Moore made it perfectly clear: If he did date
a teenager, he didn’t know about it,” Young said Monday on CNN. “I can’t tell you how many
times I’ve been on a date and then asked a girl how old she was.” But the graduation card, l
ike the inscription in Nelson’s yearbook, shows Moore knew both girls were in high school.

What’s most damning is the handwriting on the card. It’s indistinguishable from the handwriting
in the yearbook. Nelson and Gibson didn’t know one another, yet both have old documents bearing
Moore’s signature, and the writing matches other samples. To believe that the yearbook inscription
is forged, you have to postulate that a master forger somehow got access to both Nelson’s yearbook
in Anniston, Alabama, and the scrapbook in Gibson’s attic in Delray Beach, Florida. And you can’t
blame the Post, which revealed Gibson’s story but not Nelson’s. Only one person had access to both
women: Roy Moore."


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