Fox News Retracts Roy Moore Accuser Lies

The rightwing pounced on false claims a Roy Moore accuser forged a yearbook entry he allegedly made. Cenk Uygur, Ana Kasparian, and Jimmy Dore, the hosts of The Young Turks, discuss. Sign petition here

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“In a Friday morning interview with ABC’s Good Morning America, Beverly Young Nelson, the woman who presented her high school yearbook she said was signed by Alabama senate candidate Roy Moore, altered the story she originally told during a press conference in November.

At the original press conference, Nelson said Moore had signed the yearbook, but made no references to annotations she may have added. On Friday, however, Nelson wrote she had simply added a note at the bottom of his inscription writing the date, “12-22-77,” and “Olde Hickory House,” the restaurant of where the two had met.

This discrepancy is nothing new, however. Moore’s defenders have pointed to the difference between the 7s in “Christmas 1977,” which Moore wrote, and “12-22-77,” which Nelson wrote. As Will Saletan noted in Slate, the inscription and the appended text were obviously written by different people, with Moore writing the former. On November 15, an attorney for Moore said in a press conference that he questions whether “everything written in that yearbook was written by Roy Moore,” a non-denial that acknowledges part of the inscription could have been written by him. Now, Nelson is confirming that the she wrote one part while Moore wrote the other, but now right-wing media has begun to use this against her by saying the entirety of the inscription is fake. If this were the case, both the handwriting on inscription and the annotation would be the same.

Moore himself has repeatedly told false and contradictory stories about his relationship with these women while they were young girls. He first admitted to knowing two of them and called them both “good girls,” but he later changed this story and said he’s never met any of them and they are all liars.”

Hosts: Cenk Uygur, Ana Kasparian, Jimmy Dore

Cast: Cenk Uygur, Ana Kasparian, Jimmy Dore

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