Breitbart Puts a Transparently Disgusting Spin on the Roy Moore Story
On Thursday, The Washington Post published a story alleging that Roy Moore, the Republican candidate for Senate in Alabama, repeatedly “sought relationships with teenage girls” when he was a district attorney in the late 1970s and early 1980s. Citing interviews with 30 people, including four separate women who detailed Moore’s advances on the record, the piece claims that a politician who’s made traditional values central to his career had a habit of preying on children as young as 14.
Just minutes before the Post story went live, Breitbart published a thinly-veiled attempt by Moore to get ahead of the revelations. It was based in part on a letter Post reporters sent to the campaign seeking comment, which was apparently provided to the right-wing website. The headline gives you a good sense of how seriously Breitbart grapples with the Post’s reporting:
Noting that Moore is a happily married grandfather—and that the legal age of consent in Alabama is 16—Breibart then provided prime real estate to a statement suggesting that such rumors, if true, would have surely come out during Moore’s previous campaigns. In describing each of the four women’s accounts, it also happened to overlook any troubling pattern in how a public official in his 30s consistently approached teenage girls.