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Razing Cain
American Thinker ^ | Nov. 6, 2011 | Clarice Feldman

Posted on 11/06/2011 8:11:52 AM PST by COUNTrecount

The media have been up to their usual tricks this week, smearing a Republican candidate with innuendo and anonymous charges. As the always fair minded James Taranto notes, Cain seems as much a victim as a villain in this latest mediagenic tale:

With virtually no facts available, a fair-minded person cannot possibly draw any conclusions from these stories. Maybe Cain behaved badly. Maybe the women were unhappy in their jobs and took advantage of a legal regime that--especially in the wake of the furor over Anita Hill's unsubstantiated accusations of ribaldry against Clarence Thomas--is highly indulgent of sexual-harassment allegations. Maybe the real story is something in between and involves elements of misunderstanding.

It seems to us, however, that the original Politico report is a pretty poor excuse for journalism. Of the six questions a reporter is supposed to answer, Politico told us only where and when--at the National Restaurant Association in the 1990s. Politico withheld information about who (both the accusers and its sources) and either didn't know or didn't say what, why and how.

Journalists have confidentiality agreements of their own, which they strike with sources in exchange for information--but in this case there wasn't enough information to make a real story. That is in part because of a practice of also concealing the identities of women who make any kind of sexual allegations against men, a custom originally intended to protect rape victims.

The latter assumption presupposes the sexual innocence of women--a paternalistic assumption that dates back to an era in which women were also held accountable through social shaming to standards of sexual innocence. If women in such disputes enjoy a presumption of innocence that is nearly impossible to rebut--"I believe Anita Hill"--that amounts to a presumption of guilt against any accused man.

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TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: gotomartin; martin4romney; pimpingmitt; politico4romney

1 posted on 11/06/2011 8:11:53 AM PST by COUNTrecount
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To: COUNTrecount
The media, even Fox News, have been completely shameless.

This morning they spend hours gassing about the “Cain Sexual Harassment scandal” despite the fact their “scandal” has been exposed as a complete political smear job.

Then when they started talking about Fast and Furious they were very very careful to avoid saying anything like “scandal” instead it was all “mistake” “operation gone wrong” etc.

Sorry Media, you are fooling no one with this transparent bias.

2 posted on 11/06/2011 8:15:46 AM PST by MNJohnnie (Giving more money to DC to fix the Debt is like giving free drugs to addicts think it will cure them)
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To: MNJohnnie

When Hannity still has Carl Rove as a guest each week leads me to believe they are not fans of Herman


3 posted on 11/06/2011 8:17:02 AM PST by ronnie raygun (V)
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To: MNJohnnie

When Hannity still has Carl Rove as a guest each week leads me to believe they are not fans of Herman


4 posted on 11/06/2011 8:17:10 AM PST by ronnie raygun (V)
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To: COUNTrecount

High five to Cain for telling off the msm last night.


5 posted on 11/06/2011 8:21:42 AM PST by bgill (The Obama administration is staging a coup. Wake up, America, before it's too late.)
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To: ronnie raygun
Hannity does what his director and fox news tells him to do, nothing more. When he is talking he is like a little wind up toy, says the same thing over, and over, and over, and over. And when he talks to dirt bag rove, I turn it off.
6 posted on 11/06/2011 8:39:20 AM PST by org.whodat (Just another heartless American, hated by Perry and his fellow demorats.)
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To: COUNTrecount

Karl Rove is Myth Romneys bag man selling a myth to an over propagandized republican public..
Who promotes him?.. O’Really, Hannity.. Butch VAn Sustern.. Bair the RINO rider.. and Shemp Smith..


7 posted on 11/06/2011 9:00:49 AM PST by hosepipe (This propaganda has been edited to include some fully orbed hyperbole...)
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To: COUNTrecount

Someone suggested we shoudl send this to every news outlet that has taken part in this:

http://www.spj.org/ethicscode.asp


8 posted on 11/06/2011 9:30:31 AM PST by justsaynomore (Pray for Herman Cain)
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