Posted on 10/23/2011 4:39:23 PM PDT by drewh
If neither Perry nor Bachmann names Cain what makes the MSM so sure they were taking a swipe at him. Sounds to me like the MSM is trying to stir things up.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2796268/posts
The “Red State” article that was the subject of this thread discussed it and I have heard or saw it discussed in other articles and FR threads as well.
And they all looked really pety doing it too. It wasn’t a debate after all.
I typically like to go to other sources besides FR...here’s a contemporaneous article that contradicts that assertion:
Ms. Griffin said a community meeting is planned for Friday to discuss the ad campaign. The key financial backer of America’s Pac is J. Patrick Rooney, 78, of Indianapolis. Mr. Rooney, a strong proponent of school choice scholarship programs, retired in 1996 as chairman of Golden Rule Insurance. The company was sold to larger insurer, United-Health Group, in 2003 for a reported $893 million.
According to a report filed with the Internal Revenue Service, a company reportedly tied to Mr. Rooney, Woodland Group LLC, gave $900,000 to America’s PAC earlier this year. Other donors chipped in about $32,000.
Mr. Rooney declined to be interviewed yesterday. The group referred calls from The New York Sun to a conservative, African-American talk show host who voiced some of the ads, Herman Cain.
“The main thing that America’s Pac is up to is it basically is challenging the thesis or the belief on the part of the Republican Party that they cannot attract the black vote,” Mr. Cain said. He said similar advertisements run in 2004 helped boost President Bush’s share of the black vote in Ohio to 16%, from 9% in 2000.
“We don’t believe that was an accident,” Mr. Cain said. The IRS filing indicates that the ads are running this year in 10 battleground states, including Ohio, New Mexico, and Nevada.
Mr. Cain, who once managed the Godfather’s Pizza chain and ran unsuccessfully for the Senate from Georgia in 2004, said he was not troubled that Mr. Rooney, who is white, is funding ads using black voices who claim to speak on behalf of the black community.”You don’t have a lot of black billionaires who would want to fund something like this,” he said.
America’s Pac is the brainchild of a Kansas-based Republican consultant, Richard Nadler.He said Sunday that he is no longer affiliated with the group.
http://www.nysun.com/national/republican-group-chides-democrats-with-abortion/41648/
I typically like to go to other sources besides FR...here’s a contemporaneous article that contradicts that assertion:
Ms. Griffin said a community meeting is planned for Friday to discuss the ad campaign. The key financial backer of America’s Pac is J. Patrick Rooney, 78, of Indianapolis. Mr. Rooney, a strong proponent of school choice scholarship programs, retired in 1996 as chairman of Golden Rule Insurance. The company was sold to larger insurer, United-Health Group, in 2003 for a reported $893 million.
According to a report filed with the Internal Revenue Service, a company reportedly tied to Mr. Rooney, Woodland Group LLC, gave $900,000 to America’s PAC earlier this year. Other donors chipped in about $32,000.
Mr. Rooney declined to be interviewed yesterday. The group referred calls from The New York Sun to a conservative, African-American talk show host who voiced some of the ads, Herman Cain.
“The main thing that America’s Pac is up to is it basically is challenging the thesis or the belief on the part of the Republican Party that they cannot attract the black vote,” Mr. Cain said. He said similar advertisements run in 2004 helped boost President Bush’s share of the black vote in Ohio to 16%, from 9% in 2000.
“We don’t believe that was an accident,” Mr. Cain said. The IRS filing indicates that the ads are running this year in 10 battleground states, including Ohio, New Mexico, and Nevada.
Mr. Cain, who once managed the Godfather’s Pizza chain and ran unsuccessfully for the Senate from Georgia in 2004, said he was not troubled that Mr. Rooney, who is white, is funding ads using black voices who claim to speak on behalf of the black community.”You don’t have a lot of black billionaires who would want to fund something like this,” he said.
America’s Pac is the brainchild of a Kansas-based Republican consultant, Richard Nadler.He said Sunday that he is no longer affiliated with the group.
http://www.nysun.com/national/republican-group-chides-democrats-with-abortion/41648/
It is SO painful to listen to Bachmann lately. She sounds so desperate and tired. I wish she would just get out already.
“I typically like to go to other sources besides FR”
For your convenience I will provide a direct link to the article instead of the FR thread that was based on the article.
http://www.redstate.com/leon_h_wolf/2011/10/21/a-mea-culpa-on-herman-cain-and-abortion/
The media creates a lie about Cain.
A day latter, without using Cain's name, Perry criticizes the senario in that lie.
Perry is slime.
Exactly.
brilliant!
I do not see anything remotely close to a contradiction from that article. If there is anything there suggesting Cain is not 1000 times more Pro-Life than Perry, please bold or highlight it for the rest of us.
Yep, Michele has completely lost my respect. There was a story about her running out of money in late September, and as far as I’m concerned, she can’t hit rock bottom soon enough. I’m really starting to dislike her.
The only things keeping me from saying the same about Perry and Santorum are the flat tax and family values respectively, but I’m rapidly losing my patience. They shouldn’t be joining hands with the media to perpetuate a known lie.
If you know you’re on your way out, do what you can for the cause and take Romney with you.
Of course, Cain is NOT 1000 times more pro-life than Perry. That’s an unsupportable assertion. However, I have been told a number of times that Cain has spent $1,000,000 of his own money for pro-life. There is only sourcing to lifesite.news, which itself doesn’t not source it.
Do you have a source to that’s where and how Cain spent or contributed his $1,000,000 ?
Seems to me you are the one who is accusing Cain since neither Bachmann nor Perry named him, what makes you so sure they are talking about Cain unless YOU think that about him yourself. Otherwise there is no connection to Cain other then you mind making that connection.
Did you know that Michele Bachmann had five kids of her own and raised TWENTY THREE foster kids?? I heard that somewhere.
Cain isn’t perfect...he has had gaffes himself.
That said, he seems to at least learn from them. Bachmann, not so much.
I am Cain all the way.
I originally was for Perry, but the way he has attacked Cain....frankly, it would be hard to support him if he wins the nomination. I would because I don’t want Obama; it would not be easy the way he is so horrible to the other candidates.
Backstabbing cowardly leper:
"Do your duty for me. Attack the woman and the black man.
You surrogates will embrace these attacks through the media,
as when you threw elections 2008 and 2010
to the DNC
.. for ME. FOR ME.
Create, then support, the most vicious anti-GOP attacks from our northern lands,
our bought media, and our plants within the Obama team.
I will gain GOP favor by condemning the very same attacks and
ordering them opposed from our lands in the south.
Whichever way the tide runs, we will arise and only I will be left standing.
All this is meaningless. Like them as conservatives or not, Perry and Bachman are both very much yesterday’s news. 2012 is over for them.
“What is the source for Cain spending a million of his own money? What did you do with it? Where did he give it?”
2006 - African American Businessman Spends 1M to Urge Blacks
to Vote Pro-Life
http://www.lifenews.com/2006/09/13/nat-2583/
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