Over the course of instruction of the past hebdomad , Republican prospect Roy Moore ’s already contentious campaign to get ahead the Alabama senate rear lift by Attorney General Jeff Session run low full garbage fire over allegation hemolested childrendecades ago . Moore refused to back down , endorse aTwitter - fueled cabal theorythe Washington Post paid cleaning lady to fabricate the allegations andpromoting misinformationabout whether he still has the endorsement of dozens of local pastors .
Now , someone has allegedly continued to push the Twitter garbage on Alabama voters with an anti - Semite twist . Per WKRG , Creola pastor Al Moore says he received a robocall claiming to be a non - existent newsman named “ Bernie Bernstein ” from the Post offering money for “ prejudicious remarks about Roy Moore . Here ’s the text of the aver call :
Hi , this is Bernie Bernstein , I ’m a reporter for the Washington Post calling to recover out if anyone at this address is a female person between the ages of 54 to 57 years old unforced to make damaging input about candidate Roy Moore for a wages of between $ 5000 and $ 7000 dollars . We will not be fully investigating these claims however we will make a written report . I can be reached by electronic mail at[email protected ] , give thanks you .
A staff source at the Post support that , plainly , there is no Bernie Bernstein employed at the paper . It ’s areal name , but seems to have been choose for sound specially Jewish :
I went to Usury School with Bernie Bernstein
— John Podhoretz ( @jpodhoretz)November 14 , 2017
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You ’d have to be a real dummy to believe that a major metropolitan paper would be soliciting random women to accuse Moore of further , horrifying misconduct by waving stacks of money via random phone call , but that ’s not the point .
irrespective of the design of the call , it further pushes Moore ’s selected conspiracy possibility from the fever depth of Twitter into the public imaging and promotes skepticism the whole controversy is just a serial publication of dirty tricks . Second , it potentially muddies the waters around any woman who step ahead in the hereafter by providing a flimsy apology to attack their credibleness .
It ’s unvoiced to imagine this tactic not backfiring without the assistance of viral , unsourced rumors spread on societal media , which seem to have assist Moore quickly rebound Alabaman right - wingers who are alreadyinclined to supporthis antagonistic approaching . But while Alabama is one of themost button-down statesin the country , making it specially fertile flat coat for this kind of affair , this mess may still be too much for elector to swallow up . If it ’s not , that ’s an ominous looking at at our already very ominous future , whether or not Mooreis ever seated .
Moore ’s drive did not immediately reply to a postulation for comment from Gizmodo , and we ’ll update this post if we get word back .
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