{"id":179743,"date":"2017-11-09T22:56:00","date_gmt":"2017-11-10T03:56:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2017\/11\/09\/and-roy-moore-takes-his-clown-show-to-a-new-level\/"},"modified":"2017-11-09T22:56:00","modified_gmt":"2017-11-10T03:56:00","slug":"and-roy-moore-takes-his-clown-show-to-a-new-level","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2017\/11\/09\/and-roy-moore-takes-his-clown-show-to-a-new-level\/","title":{"rendered":"And Roy Moore Takes His Clown Show to a New Level"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"border: 1px solid black; float: right; margin: 0px 10px; padding: 5px; text-align: center; width: 330px;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"180\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/2rGypxyL-h0\" width=\"320\"><\/iframe><br \/><i>Cannot post this without invoking Lily Allen<\/i><\/div>\n<p>I was surprised when I read of allegations that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/investigations\/woman-says-roy-moore-initiated-sexual-encounter-when-she-was-14-he-was-32\/2017\/11\/09\/1f495878-c293-11e7-afe9-4f60b5a6c4a0_story.html\">Alabama candidate for the US Senate Roy Moore has been alleged to have had sexual encounters with teen girls<\/a>, but only because I was expecting that the skeletons in his closet to be pre-teen boys, because that is how homophobe hypocrites tend to roll.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: blue;\">Leigh Corfman says she was 14 years old when an older man approached her outside a courtroom in Etowah County, Ala. She was sitting on a wooden bench with her mother, they both recall, when the man introduced himself as Roy Moore. <\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span> <span style=\"color: blue;\">It was early 1979 and Moore \u2014 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/politics\/roy-moore-disrupts-alabama-senate-race--and-prepares-for-new-level-of-defiance-in-washington\/2017\/09\/21\/2a88a4a2-9e38-11e7-9083-fbfddf6804c2_story.html?utm_term=.8d52160ee0a2\">now the Republican nominee in Alabama for a U.S. Senate seat<\/a> \u2014 was a 32-year-old assistant district attorney. He struck up a conversation, Corfman and her mother say, and offered to watch the girl while her mother went inside for a child custody hearing.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span> <span style=\"color: blue;\">\u201cHe said, \u2018Oh, you don\u2019t want her to go in there and hear all that. I\u2019ll stay out here with her,\u2019 \u201d says Corfman\u2019s mother, Nancy Wells, 71. \u201cI thought, how nice for him to want to take care of my little girl.\u201d <\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span> <span style=\"color: blue;\">Alone with Corfman, Moore chatted with her and asked for her phone number, she says. Days later, she says, he picked her up around the corner from her house in Gadsden, drove her about 30 minutes to his home in the woods, told her how pretty she was and kissed her. On a second visit, she says, he took off her shirt and pants and removed his clothes. He touched her over her bra and underpants, she says, and guided her hand to touch him over his underwear.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span> <span style=\"color: blue;\">\u201cI wanted it over with \u2014 I wanted out,\u201d she remembers thinking. \u201cPlease just get this over with. Whatever this is, just get it over.\u201d Corfman says she asked Moore to take her home, and he did.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span> <span style=\"color: blue;\">Two of Corfman\u2019s childhood friends say she told them at the time that she was seeing an older man, and one says Corfman identified the man as Moore. Wells says her daughter told her about the encounter more than a decade later, as Moore was becoming more prominent as a local judge.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span> <span style=\"color: blue;\">Aside from Corfman, three other women interviewed by The Washington Post in recent weeks say Moore pursued them when they were between the ages of 16 and 18 and he was in his early 30s, episodes they say they found flattering at the time, but troubling as they got older. None of the three women say that Moore forced them into any sort of relationship or sexual contact.<\/p>\n<p>\u2026\u2026\u2026<\/p>\n<p>Neither Corfman nor any of the other women sought out The Post. While reporting a story in Alabama about supporters of Moore\u2019s Senate campaign, a Post reporter heard that Moore allegedly had sought relationships with teenage girls. Over the ensuing three weeks, two Post reporters contacted and interviewed the four women. All were initially reluctant to speak publicly but chose to do so after multiple interviews, saying they thought it was important for people to know about their interactions with Moore. The women say they don\u2019t know one another.<\/p>\n<p>\u2026\u2026\u2026<\/p>\n<p>The legal age of consent in Alabama, then and now, is 16. <a data-xslt=\"_http\" href=\"http:\/\/alisondb.legislature.state.al.us\/alison\/codeofalabama\/1975\/coatoc.htm\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener\">Under Alabama law<\/a>  in 1979, and today, a person who is at least 19 years old who has  sexual contact with someone older than 12 and younger than 15 has  committed sexual abuse in the second degree. Sexual contact is defined  as touching of sexual or intimate parts. The crime is a misdemeanor  punishable by up to one year in jail.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Moore, of course, is claiming that it&#8217;s all a political hit job.<\/p>\n<p>Me, I have a simpler explanation:&nbsp; You are a skeevy perv.<\/p>\n<p>If you are wondering why this is happening now, you could put it down to happenstance, or increased awareness following l&#8217;affaire Weinstein, but I have a simpler explanation:&nbsp; <b><span style=\"font-size: 100%; font-variant: small-caps;\">God hates you, Roy Moore<\/span><\/b>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cannot post this without invoking Lily Allen I was surprised when I read of allegations that Alabama candidate for the US Senate Roy Moore has been alleged to have had sexual encounters with teen girls, but only because I was expecting that the skeletons in his closet to be pre-teen boys, because that is how &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[447,435,375,387,374,486,448],"class_list":["post-179743","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-congress","tag-crimes","tag-elections","tag-hypocrisy","tag-politics","tag-schadenfreude","tag-sex"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179743"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=179743"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179743\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=179743"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=179743"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=179743"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}