On today’s BradCast, our fight against fake news — and helping the electorate to understand which news is real and which news is fake — continues! [Audio link to today’s real show is posted below.]
Alabama’s Republican U.S. Senate nominee Roy Moore continues to deny Thursday’s explosive and detailed investigative report from the Washington Post, charging that when the controversial far rightwing religious zealot was a 32-year old Assistant District Attorney he sexually molested a 14-year old girl. She, like three other teens he also is said to have pursued around the same time, have all gone on record, by name, with their claims.
Despite those blockbuster charges detailed by some 30 sources in WaPo’s coverage, and (somewhat cowardly) calls from Republican U.S. Senators for Moore to drop out of the upcoming U.S. Senate Special Election against Democratic candidate and former U.S. Attorney Doug Jones on December 12, most GOP officials in the state of Alabama still appear, embarrassingly enough, to support Moore. Some refuse to believe the allegations at all and others don’t seem to care, even if the charges are true and amount to a sex crime against a minor. One statewide elected official (AL State Auditor Jim Ziegler) went so far as to cite the bible in support of the alleged pedophilia, and another elected official (AL State Rep. Ed Henry) actually called (twice) for charges to be brought against the victims themselves.
Nonetheless, despite ongoing “conventional wisdom” that a Democrat couldn’t possibly win an Alabama U.S. Senate seat, new polling taken the day the story broke shows the race between Moore and Jones is now in a dead heat. And that’s data from before, as the pollster notes, the news about Moore “had a chance to fully sink in.”
Then, Donald Trump’s so-called “Election Integrity” Commission headed up by top GOP “voter fraud” fraudster and KS Sec. of State Kris Kobach continues to face huge problems. After eight lawsuits have previously been filed against the sham commission, on Thursday, a ninth was filed. That one by one of the Democratic Commissioners on the panel itself!
Finally today, a number of totally fake news stories (about Tuesday’s election and Hillary Clinton among other things) became popular via social media this week. We debunk several of them with the help of the Associated Press fact-checkers, included several items of fake news about the American economy and trade with Japan that the President of the United States himself spread during his ongoing Asian tour.
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As usual, it’s not his extreme policies that have gotten wanna be Senator Moore into trouble. Bill Clinton was impeached for consensual adult sex (with a severe power imbalance) but not for his impeachable policies. When Dennis Kucinich and Cynthia McKinney tried to impeach Bush the Lesser and Cheney, the Democratic Party leadership refused to support them and ensured both were thrown out of Congress. Would Trump have been able to “win” (with faith based voting machines) if there had been accountability for Bush and Cheney’s abuses (or Iran-Contra, 1980 October Surprise or November 22, 1963?).
The problem is that the Nation’s voters are not like those who are analysing them.
The popular vote was insanely too close:
(Cook).
Sixty-Two million voted for Trump even though he campaigned using insane rhetoric.
We are in much more trouble than we realize.
Religious Right= Moral majority
Trump Effect: Religious Right= Immoral Majority
The Religious right made a pact with the devil to get a supreme court appointee in place. 2000 thru 2006 Republicans controlled the President, Vice president, senate, representatives, supreme court and not once was a abortion issue brought before the supreme court. If they overturn Roe vs Way they will lose half of their voters. Everyone I talk to say they vote for the right because of abortion. They even vote against their own interests and that will end.