Until Proven Innocent

                I’m not sure what it says about us as a society when it seems like a daily media contest to see whether the story above the fold will be about another mass shooting or a literal busload of women accusing one fellow or another of various degrees of sexual assault at some point in his past. Neither thing is a very flattering brush stroke in the portrait of the most technologically, economically, militarily (I hope) and prosperously mighty nation on the planet.

                Sexual assault is a horrible crime and I would vote in favor of the most harsh punishment the most twisted minds in North America could devise for those animals found guilty as charged. It does, however, seem like we have totally streaked past the “guilty as charged” phase and rushed straight to judgement by the media which is the least qualified institution in the solar system to judge anyone on an ethical or moral basis.

                Well, ok, there are also those lawmakers in Washington who have declared themselves judge and jury as well but my expectations of them are only slightly higher and both groups reside somewhere well beneath where whales defecate on the floor of the ocean, in my opinion of course. (I keep forgetting some people still watch CNN and MSN-anything and can’t tell a fact from an opinion.)

                Listen, I do believe that most of the time where there is smoke there is fire. I’m still reeling over the whole Bill Cosby thing. Cosby was one of my childhood idols and the smoke surrounding his indiscretions and crimes is thick enough to choke on, not going away and fairly impossible to deny after hearing the courtroom arguments and testimony.

                Take a look at either of the elder Clintons. Bill’s sexual crimes are legendarily numerous and have only gone away in the cases where he’s written his victims a check. As for Hillary, could her foundation and her behavior be any more obviously and disgustingly corrupt? Yet we choose not to investigate or prosecute them in the court of public opinion or even a legal and real court, because, well, because the left controls the court of public opinion and, apparently, the legal and real courts.

                And where there is smoke on the left there are usually also mirrors.

                You still hear noise about allegations made about Donald Trump and sexual assaults before the election on some of the obscure lamestream “news” shows occasionally referenced on Facebook. Allegations made by women who swore before the election they were going to pursue and sue for the wrongs done to them.

Allegations made by one woman on HRC’s campaign staff and payroll for five years. Allegations made by another woman about an assault at a concert in San Francisco (where else) that never played. Allegations that evaporated and went away never to be mentioned again (unless you watch those odd lamestream  story hours I mentioned) without a single check being written to anyone or a single charge or lawsuit filed.

                That smoke cleared so fast it barely had a chance to make anyone’s eyes water, unless you live in California and frankly, I think they simply like to cry.

                And I know this is snide and sexist and misogynistic and stuff but have you seen Melania, Ivana or Marla? And have you seen the gals who made the accusations? Turn the volume off on your TV and you decide.

                So I suppose the most fun ball to kick around the hate news shows and Washington, D.C., right now is Judge Roy Moore. I saw on Facebook this morning that he has pulled out of the special election race in Alabama but I haven’t looked any deeper to see if it’s true or if the Associated Press wrote it.

                Even after the allegations against him he was still leading the democratic candidate for the Alabama Senate seat by six to nine percentage points. I couldn’t help but notice on Facebook and my car radio that liberals found some conservative voters who said that a republican sex offender was even preferable to any democrat in the Senate.

                The libs, of course, are using that to point out what deplorable reprobates and disgusting excuses for humanity any and all conservatives are. I’m sure castration and lynching await me by some non-hateful, loving, gentle, enlightened liberal friends for suggesting that perhaps what most voters think is that a man is innocent until he is actually proven guilty.

                I understand the disgust on both sides though. Many democratic officials and candidates these days are almost too disgusting to look at but I’d like to think it is a minority of conservatives who would vote in favor of a verifiable sex offender over a democrat, as repulsive as they are. You could always opt to stay home from the polls and drink and watch Family Guy reruns.

                If Roy Moore is guilty of fondling underage girls, I want him beaten senseless in the middle of the student union at the University of Alabama.

                But does anyone else think it’s strange that four weeks before a Senatorial special election in which Moore was clearly set to steamroll the democratic wannabe that suddenly, 40 years later, four or five or six (I haven’t checked the paper this morning) women decided it was time to come forward and finger him for, well, fingering them before they were of legal age with extreme clarity as if it had happened yesterday?

                I have heard snippets of alt left news talk show hosts saying it is so convincing because they have all come forward independently and didn’t know each other. Or it is a sea-monster-sized coincidence maybe? Hey, maybe not.

                What I have heard less frequently is that the Washington Post, perhaps in panic mode over seeing democrats lose their fifth straight special election when they would like us to believe America is issuing Donald Trump a referendum (?) at the polls when no such thing is happening, sent a team to Alabama and set up shop and interviewed over 30 different women before they found three to charge inappropriate behavior.

                Hey, maybe that’s just good old fashioned investigative journalism. Maybe it’s something else.

                If I raise my hand and say “Nancy Pelosi raped me,” (I’d have picked a cute one but I can’t think of any) is that all the “evidence” that’s needed to force a resignation? Or is an investigation in order first? How about if two or three other guys come forward independently and tell Fox News the same thing? Is that the corroborating evidence the Court of Public Opinion is looking for? How about we go to court and prove she actually did it? (She didn’t for God’s sake, this isn’t CNN.)

                For the third time, if Roy Moore is guilty as charged then punish him appropriately, or let me order the punishment which would be more harsh than “appropriately.” But before we start ordering the chemicals for lethal injection, how about a trial somewhere other than in the Washington Post or on CNN or the bar where Mitch McConnell hangs out?

                Guilty is guilty and wrong is wrong but we have a system for determining that which does not involve Anderson Cooper or your Morning Joe.

                If it looks like stink, and it smells like stink and it sticks to the bottom of your shoe like stink there is a good chance it may not be your mother’s Thanksgiving sweet potato casserole.

                Just sayin’.