Guy has gone to report the numerous allegations against Alabama Senate Republican candidate Roy Moore. In days since the allegations that he has been inappropriate with teenage girls, the GOP leadership on the Hill have rescinded their support and started packing sandbags. Now, we have a woman, a Trump voter, who alleges that Moore sexually assaulted her when she was 16. Now, we have this story about Roy Moore being reportedly banned from a mall (UPDATE: The former Gadsden Mall manager does not recall Moore ban, though one of his accusers says he was barred.) because he was cruising for high school dates. It’s a mess. It’s thrown the Alabama Senate race into chaos, though it’s still dubious whether a Democrat could actually win here, given the electorate—even with the allegations lobbed at Moore. We'll see what happens. The special election isn't for about another month.

Yet, CNN’s Jake Tapper did note something that is different between now and then, especially when women came forward to accuse Bill Clinton of sexual abuse. Those women were raked over the coals by the press. In a segment with Amanda Carpenter and Van Jones, Tapper admits that Bill’s accusers were treated terribly by the press. Newsbusters clipped the exchange [emphasis mine]:





JAKE TAPPER: You know something? And maybe it's the southern accent that reminds me of this, but I think we are and we've seen — we’ve seen some of this in the press. There was a story in The Atlantic called “Bill Clinton: A Reckoning.” Chris Hayes said something the other day and other people have. But the accusers of Bill Clinton back in the '90s were never given the credence and treated with the same respect that these women are being treated and I think that there is something to be said about how society has evolved since then, but in addition, it's hard not to look back at that period and think, you know what? The media treated those women poorly. AMANDA CARPENTER: Yeah, without a doubt. You can't rewrite history, but what I am concerned about now is that I see a lot of Republicans, people like Ann Coulter on Twitter, going back and bringing up people like Senator Kennedy, Clinton, other people that did have previous acts of sexual misconduct almost as a way of saying, well, they did it. We can, too. Appeals to hypocrisy do not work for a party that has no moral core and we do have a problem now because we have elected a President who has his own accusers. So we're all going to go back through history and there is a lot of reckoning that needs to be done. I don't know where that's going to take us. It is risky because you may lose a Senate seat, but it is a problem for Republican voters because you keep putting these people up who are morally conflicted and now the choice is, well, you can vote for this pedophile or you can lose a seat and hand it to Democrats. The Republican Party has to do better. It has to do it with Republican leadership. I am happy to see Mitch McConnell step up and say he should be expelled. We needed more of that during the primary process.

The article Tapper cites from The Atlantic, Bill Clinton: A Reckoning, argues that it was time for feminists to come clean and admit they totally stepped on a rake defending Slick Willy: