Sex with a minor is not just illegal. It’s wrong. So too is rape. Sexual assault. Then as the Roy Moore case unspools, it is reasonable to ask: Since Media Matters is giving these 38-year old allegations so much prominent play (and Moore denies them) – why did MM spend so much time defending Hillary Clinton – the enabler of Bill’s behavior that resulted in allegations of rape and sexual assault? And why the hasty leap to the side of New Jersey Senator Bob Menendez – he too denying Moore-like charges of sex with underage girls. What we have here is a massive hypocrisy. There is one Media Matters standard for Menendez and another for Moore. In the Menendez case Media Matters notes that in reaction to a story originating
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