Roy Moore: I Never Dated A Teenage Girl Without The Mother's Permission

Roy Moore

During an interview on Sean Hannity's radio show today, embattled Alabama Republican Senate nominee Roy Moore denied any truth to the allegations raised in an explosive Washington Post article in which 4 women detailed inappropriate behavior by Moore when he was in his early 30s.

Moore began with saying the entire reporting was "completely false and misleading," but then muddied the waters as he continued.

Later in the interview, he admitted he remembered knowing two of the women.

So much for "completely false and misleading."

From Business Insider:

Hannity went through the Post story and detailed the allegations of the four accusers. Moore claimed to know two of four, but denied any instance of misconduct with either. In response to the allegations involving Debbie Wesson Gibson, Moore said, "I don’t remember going out on dates. I knew her as a friend. If we did go out on dates, then we did. But I don’t remember that."

Speaking of the late 1970s and early 1980s, Moore said he "dated a lot of young ladies" after "my return from the military."

"I do recognize the names of two of these young women," he said of Gibson and Deason, denying that he gave the latter alcohol when she was underage. "As I recall, she was 19 or older."

Asked if he remembers dating teenage women when he was older than 30, Moore said, "Not generally, no."

"I don't remember dating any girl without the permission of her mother," he said. He later pointed to The Post's story and said, "These two young girls actually said their mothers encouraged them to be friends with me."

After a commercial break, Moore became more forceful in his denials of dating teenagers. He said doing so "would be out of my customary behavior" and that he "never" would have dated a teen without her mother's permission.

"Not generally, no" is not a "No."

The Twitterverse had a field day:

“You ever burglarize vacant homes while their owners were on vacation?”

“Not generally, no.”

— The Hoarse Whisperer (@HoarseWisperer) November 10, 2017

“You ever eat human flesh?”

“Not generally, no.”

— Patricia Bateman (@Trisha_Bateman) November 10, 2017

HANNITY: "Do you remember murdering that many people?"

HITLER: "Not generally, no"

— Smaller, dumber Groot (@CodeReclaimers) November 10, 2017

Hannity lobs a softball and Moore swings and misses.

— John Mize (@fishygod666) November 10, 2017

Roy Moore: Dating teens when I was 32 "would be out of my customary behavior. I don't recall" if I did.

— Christina Wilkie (@christinawilkie) November 10, 2017

Moore issued a statement this afternoon: