Time Magazine Asks: 'Is Herman Cain the Most Unctuous Black Man Alive?'

News Busters ^ | 10 20 2011 | Tim Graham

[tutstar]

The author who calls himself simply Toure -- a regular guest on MSNBC, and before that on CNN -- is throwing rhetorical bricks at Herman Cain for Time magazine. His article is headlined "Is Herman Cain the Most Unctuous Black Man Alive? Why the Hermanator experience is making me sick."

Toure compared Cain to a circus clown, called him a "buffoon," compared him to "rancid, spoiled, stinky, curdled milk" and dissed him (in the liberal mind) by calling him "the Black Sarah Palin." In the midst of that, he somehow scolds Cain for "sinking to teenage-level disses." He began:

This presidential election has not lacked for clowns, and in a circus Herman Cain fits right in. But as the Black clown, Cain's foot-in-mouth moments mostly involve insulting the Black community. This could be to establish his independence from the community in order to earn his bona fides with the GOP electorate or a way of appeasing the white conservatives he's courting. Or it could be that his foot and his mouth are magnetized. Whatever the reason, as a Black person, the Hermanator experience has been as distasteful as rancid, spoiled, stinky, curdled milk.

[redpoll]

I need to thank Ann Coulter for teaching me several years ago that any conservative candidate or politician will always, always be described as either stupid or evil by the media.

Having thus been inocculated, I can read such crap with general ease.

[Marine_Uncle]

RE: "Cain better get prepared for the next debate on foreign policy or that could be his Waterloo."
Fully agree. He has made some rather irresponsible statements in the past regarding foreign policy. On the fly statements "simple", may not be noticed, but taken in slightly more detail can quickly show how someone lacks the skill sets in a given arena. And Cain has more then once admitted his weakness on this given issue.

[Tunehead54]

I’ve been boycotting Time since 1971 - no particular issue just a clear bias to the lib side making the “news” more propaganda than information. ;-)

[Cyber Liberty]

Who would notice?

[stephenjohnbanker]

Time Magazine = Left Wing Sluts

[RobbyS]

If Romney gets nominated, they are going to teach us a lot about Mormonism. Not the solid citizen side, but the weird stuff that Joseph Smith taught them.

[dennisw]

Early life

Touré was given his name by his mother after she read an article in Time magazine about Sekou Touré, then President of Guinea. In 1989, Touré graduated from Milton Academy in Milton, Massachusetts.[citation needed]

[DoughtyOne]

I agree that he needs to be up to speed on foreign policy. He has said himself that he isn’t yet, and that has seemed to be his weak spot for me. If he can pull that off, he’s a very formidable candidate.

[x]

His mom named him after Ahmed Sékou Touré, President of Guinea, who actually was a Marxist for much of his life.

After Toure's death his rule was called a "bloody and ruthless dictatorship."

[x]

So is "unctuous" just another way of saying "uppity"?

I'd have to say there are plenty of unctuous people out there, Black and White, college presidents, Reverends, activists, etc.

And I'm curious about the qualification by sex/gender.

Is that to let Maya Angelou off the hook?

[tutstar]

unctuous indicates immorality, lack of morals which fits BO to the T!

[BunnySlippers]

It’s a disease.