Clarence Thomas was accused in a hearing of sexually harassing a woman. That woman had never filed a complaint, and continued to work for him. The only “corroberation” was another woman who CLAIMED Hill had told her about it, but that woman also didn’t say anything at the time.
The story here is that two women actually filed complaints, and got settlements, back in the 1990s, way before Cain was a candidate for anything. Their charges were certainly NOT politically motivated — maybe greed-motivated.
Cain has admitted that there were charges, a complaint, and a settlement, so Politico has been largely vindicated in their reporting, except if you think their story was too accomodating of the charges (I don’t know, because I’ve been ignoring the actual charges since this story broke — I still haven’t read the politico piece, only what people have written here about it — and I’m not talking about the actual allegations).
People are upset that there is a story, but now that Cain has admitted that there was a settlement, it seems absurd to be upset at Politico for reporting the settlement — we’d certainly be upset if we found out some democrat had such a settlement and the media had ignored it.