Alabama Senate Republican candidate. Roy Moore is hit with serious sex allegations. So is Louis K.

And we'll check the mailbag. I'm Ben Shapiro. This is the Ben Shapiro show.

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But before any of that happens, we will get to the news of the day. I'm going to talk at length about Roy Moore. How seriously should we take these allegations? Are they credible? What should Roy Moore do? And why is it that everyone always seems to jump to the defense of a person so long as they are on their political side? We'll get to all of that. But first, I want to say thank you to our sponsors over at Birch Gold. So you look at the economy right now, it's doing great. Thank God. It's all great. The stock market is doing really well. The real estate market is booming. But we have seen this before, and very often it has followed every eight to 10 years, apparently, by some sort of crash. And that's why you should at least be hedging your bets with some precious metals. You should at least have some of your portfolio in precious metals. You can do that with my friends over at birchgold.com. Right now, thanks to little-known IRS tax law, you can even move your IRA or eligible 401k into an IRA backed by physical gold and silver, which is perfect for folks who want to protect their retirements and they're afraid of serious changes in the market. Birch Gold Group has a longstanding track record of continued success with thousands of satisfied clients, countless five-star reviews, and an A-plus rating from the Better Business Bureau. You can get a comprehensive 16-page kit showing how gold is silver can protect your savings and how you can legally move again, your IRA of 401k into precious metals if you so choose.. To get that no-cost, no obligation kit, go to birchgold.com. slash-com. That is birchgold.com slash ben. Use the slash-bens. They know that we sent you.

Okay, so the big breaking news over all of the day yesterday and most of the day-to-day

is Roy Moore, the very controversial Alabama Senate Republican nominee.

He was hit with a series of allegations by the Washington Post.

30 sources have talked to the Washington Post about Roy Moore's alleged history of when he was in his early 30s,

trying to go out with women who are anywhere from 14 to 18 years old. The most serious

allegation is brought by one particular woman who was 14 years old named Lake Horfman, and she

alleges sexual assault by Roy Moore when he was 32 and she was 14. The allegations themselves

are sickening. There are some people today who are trying to make light of the allegations by saying, well, you know, he's 32 and she's 16 or 17. Is that such a big deal? I am 33 years old. Okay, I'm exactly the age that Roy Moore was when Roy Moore was apparently doing this stuff. The idea of even going anywhere near a high school freshman is so perverse and sickening. And anyone who ever tried to do that to my sister or my daughter, I would be very tempted to grab my shotgun from my safe, drive them to a remote spot, and take them out. Really, if someone were molesting, if my 14-year-old sister, that would be the proper solution. Now, the question is whether these allegations are true or not, but here's what the Washington Post says. And we owe it to the people who have spoken on the record by name to at least take the allegation seriously. And the reason I say that is there's this tendency on some people, on part of some people, on both the right and the left, to basically let things go when it's your side.

So Teddy Kennedy drives a car off a bridge. There's a woman in the back. She dies. But Teddy Kennedy is really an important politician. He's part of the Kennedy family, so we let it go. Bill Clinton, he can molest the help. It doesn't matter. So long as Bill Clinton is for abortion, Nana Burleigh of Time magazine, says that she would perform oral sex on him as long as he keeps abortion legal. We see this with Donald Trump in the last

election cycle. All these allegations of sexual assault and sexual harassment hit. And a lot of people say, well, you know, lesser of two evils, you still got to vote for him. Or at least we still, we at least have to voice support for him. Now, I'm not going to equate voting for a candidate with necessarily supporting everything that the candidate is,

does, and has done in the past, because there is more to it than that. But there is a moral

question here as to whether you are allowed to either vote or support a candidate who does

these sorts of things. And this is something that I had serious problems with during the election

cycle. The lesser of two evils mentality, particularly in politics, will lead to the worsening of all of our politicians. Because basically it allows you to get away with anything. Teddy Kennedy can murder someone, and that's totally fine, so long as Teddy Kennedy votes the right way. Bill Clinton can molest the help. Totally fine, so long as he votes the way, the right way. Donald Trump will be the right way on abortion for the right. Therefore, who cares whether he was saying that he could grab women by the P-word? And then there were allegations of sexual assault by a number of women, some of whom were underage. Right? All of this goes by the wayside. I hate this stuff. I hate it. The reason I hate it is because in the end, the American people are going to have to decide what kind of people we are.

Are we the kinds of people who care so much about the policy and so little about the character of our politicians that we are willing to elect the worst people in America just to defeat the other side?

Or are we going to have to get together and collectively bargain together against our own immorality?

Because what we have here is a basic classic prisoner's

dilemma. I've talked about game theory on the program before. A prisoner's dilemma is essentially

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