If the facts had been as Cain had believed, that wouldn’t have been wrong to criticize, any more than criticizing calling Italians spics and wops. Cain didn’t get the facts right and he unwittingly fed the sharpie Sharptons of the world.
That’s no excuse. If he didn’t get his facts right before speaking, it makes him dumb. Dumb like Mike Steele. Not that I have anything against dumb people.