"I'm ashamed that so many 'liberals' decry holding sexual harassers like Al Franken accountable"

[Willie Pep]

11. I have never agreed with trial by media.

There are way too many examples from past history where lives were ruined by trial by media. Everyone should watch the 1995 HBO film Indictment: The McMartin Trial based on the real story of the McMartin Preschool trial where a number of people (including women) were falsely accused of the Satanic sex abuse of children.

https://www.nytimes.com/2014/03/10/us/the-trial-that-unleashed-hysteria-over-child-abuse.html

Now certainly some accusations are stronger than others and there seems to be way more evidence against Trump and Moore than against Franken so that is significant here. But ultimately there needs to be formal procedures for dealing with harassment claims to make sure innocent people aren't hurt along with the guilty. That is why I supported an ethics investigation of Franken. That is a good way to balance the interests of the accused and the accusers. But media lynch mobs are not acceptable and frankly they are not in keeping with liberal values in my opinion.