Not to defend Roy Moore, but this is BS from Ben Jacobs

Wow! Look what Roy Moore said now in a campaign stop on Tuesday!

Roy Moore mourns the end of school prayer and then adds "they started creating new rights in 1965"

— Ben Jacobs (@Bencjacobs) November 15, 2017

That sounds really, really bad! And it was retweeted over 12oo times, too. Blue-check libs jumped on, assuming Jacobs was quoting Moore about the Voting Right Act (1965) or the Civil Rights Act (1964):

Conservative Republicans have been fighting the Voting Rights Act ever since it passed. They just usually aren't this blunt about it https://t.co/9DxfbUNJmF https://t.co/7mnoSVBLhz

— Stephen Wolf (@PoliticsWolf) November 15, 2017

He may be a child molester, but at least he's against the Civil Rights Act. https://t.co/RIkWqILE5i

— Scott Conroy (@ScottFConroy) November 15, 2017

“I know you all think I’m a pedophile right now, but hear me out, I’m also a racist.” https://t.co/Oij2WERbWA

— Jess Dweck (@TheDweck) November 15, 2017

Wonder what rights he could possibly be referring to https://t.co/NwKPFLdgBP

— Eric Geller (@ericgeller) November 15, 2017

Um, that would be black people. Such a lovely man. https://t.co/TdF8KodVB2

— John Aravosis (@aravosis) November 15, 2017

Typo. He meant 1865. https://t.co/4kbneSTvOV

— Will Saletan (@saletan) November 15, 2017

I guess dog whistles are no longer en vogue? This is about as subtle as a 2×4 to the head https://t.co/U36CxzQzHb

— Ryan Sloane (@RyanFSloane) November 15, 2017

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