Name:   MartiniMan - Subject:   An exercise in critical thinking Date:   12/10/2017 9:22:18 AM

Your post is a perfect example of the insidious nature of the fake news and the inability to think critically.....or maybe more so the unwillingness to do so.  You state as a simple matter of fact that the signature has been determined to be Moore's.  And who exactly is the source of this claim?  None other than the known liar Gloria Allred and her client.....you know the very same people who originally claimed the entire thing was written by Moore.  Recall how damning that evidence originally was and the long list of people that abandined Moore as a result.  The year, the name of the restaurant, his very unique "D.A" after his name.  Open and shut case......he sexually assaulted her for sure, right?  I mean he lied that he didn't even know her so he must be lying about everything, right?  Except as of right now the only documented liars are Gloria Allred and her client.....you know, the ones you are wiling to believe despite their proven lies.

And who was the handwriting expert?  What are his credentials?  What are his lines of evidence?  Well no one knows because the known liars Allred and her client have conveniently not identified their expert.  I refer you to an interesting article in the Washington Post where they contacted an FBI handwriting expert and he could not confirm it was Moore's signature.  Spent a lot of time talking about how people's handwriting changes over time, how he would neeed to study the original for ink type, pen type, age of the ink, etc.  None of which will happen before the special election (even though there was plenty of time).....because of course the known liars Allred and her client refuse to release the yearbook.  If you could think critically and be intellectually honest you would wonder why.  I know I do.

If someone were intellectually honest, and you may well be, they would be very suspicious of the veracity of these claims.  And they would consider that this allegation is at odds with Moore's behavior with all the other women.  And they would consider the original lie told about the signature.  And they would consider the refusal to release the yearbook.  And they would consider the refusal to identify the handwriting expert.  And they might look at all the evidence and say, "He may or may not have signed the yearbook but there is a reasonable weight of evidence that he did not.  And even if he did sign the yearbook it is not evidence of sexual assault.  It is evidence that he lied about knowing her, or maybe he doesn't remember her from 40 years ago or whatever.  But this claim, of which there are lots of questions may in fact be false."  If you were not good at critical thinking or intellectually honest you would simply repeat the claim that the signature has been verified as a fact because you desparately want it to be true.......even though it proves nothing about a sexual assault claim.

In my view a reasonable person could refuse to vote for Moore based on his creepy behavior 30-40 years ago.  As I have stated many times I think that's a mistake because you are rewarding the media and their lacky's in the Democrat party for their "the end justifies the means" approach to politics.  But a reasonable person would view this claim by the liar Allred and her client as highly suspicious, if not outright false.  Heck, even her stepson has called her a liar in a video and she certainly had an axe to grind with Judge Moore after she lost custody of her kids.  But those partisans that lack critical thinking and intellectual honesty will repeat your claim as if it is a proven fact not subject to debate, which of course is not the case.  Not even close.