Moore Accuser's Lawyer Tells Sean Hannity To Fuck Right On Out Of Here
Near the top of everyone's STFU list.
The attorney for Gloria Deason, one of the women who says creepy Roy Moore creepily "dated" her when she was a teenager, sent Sean Hannity's staff a devastating "No thanks" note in response to an interview request. It probably won't make it into any business writing textbooks, but it certainly gets the job done.
Deason was one of the first four women featured in the Washington Post story that revealed sexual assault allegations against Moore; she said Moore took her out several times in 1979, starting when she was 18 and Moore was 32. While their relationship never went beyond kissing and hugging, Deason said Moore had taken her to his home at least twice, and that as she recalls, he bought her wine before she turned 19, then the drinking age in Alabama.
Here's the email exchange between Hannity's booker, Alyssa Moni, and Deason's attorney, Paula Cobia (we've formatted it to fit better in a single column):
There's no date on the email, so we aren't sure whether that was written before or after last Tuesday, when Hannity gave Moore 24 hours to prove himself innocent or Hannity would drop his support of Moore; by Wednesday evening, Hannity seemed to have forgotten all about the ultimatum.
In the annals of great business letters, we'd say Cobia's reply is still a little short of the greatest business letter of all time, sent by the attorney for the Cleveland Browns to a lawyer who had complained about the safety risks of fans making paper airplanes out of game programs and sailing them around the stadium:
But it was still pretty good.
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PREACHER GIVES MOORE LAST RITES
Embattled Senate candidate Roy Moore may have been treading water, surviving, until 48 hours ago. Then not one but two millstones were hung around his neck. First but not worst was the late, reluctant, sort of endorsement by Trump. This amounted to extolling Moore's key, and only virtue: he isn't a Democrat.
No doubt Trump sat up all night twisting the Rubes cube and realized that even if Moore won, and was expelled, he would be able to vote for tax 'reform' before being expelled. Then Trump could withdraw support, join the 16 GOP senators who want to expel, which with the Senate Democrats, ought to give enough votes to expel. Then Sessions could return. etc. The only doubt was raised by VP Pence, who seemed pensive and asked if this might not be perceived as a 'double cross' of his fellow evangelist. Trump shrugged and said there no doubt be new charges by then and after all who was Trump (referring to himself) to defy the will of the Party?
This was all predictable.
Not so the preacher's defense of Moore: that he was 'attracted to young girls because of their purity'. This provoked the near impossible in the land of machine guns and evangelicals: the gag reflex. Moore may not be the only victim of this damning praise, It may also blow back on the source and the tendency of evangelicals to (a) run in packs, and (b) judge not on behavior because you are saved by faith alone.
The response to the porn star threatening to sue is a pearl beyond price.