Posted on 10/31/2011 3:00:45 PM PDT by Southnsoul
“Herman Cain campaign’s financial ties to Wisconsin charity questioned The feeding frenzy has not started as yet. More to come.....”
Isn’t it amazing that in 2008, even though it was clear Barry was a commie punk with more skeletons in his closet than a city graveyard, McLame and the rest of the Republican establishment handled Barry with kid gloves and excoriated anyone who criticized him. Maybe they were afraid they would lose their 5 - 8% of the black vote.
But boy, the leftists don’t have a bit of problem being equal opportunity trashers—they’ll slime whites, blacks, hispanics, men, women, cross-dressers, you name it.
It makes me sick when the Republican “leaders” won’t fight because they’re afraid the media will portray them as “mean-spirited.” At least the male Republicans. Thank the Lord that Michelle Bachmann and Sarah Palin will engage the leftists in battle without backing down.
to all you people who “ liked Palin but she is too damaged” this is what happens when you let the smear merchants win. they will come after your candidate next, and the next one after that. th e difference is Palin was already vetted these people aren’t- but trust me they will be. The Dems and the MSM have learned that we will abandon our best people on the field- if they smear them enough. Cain isn’t my guy -for other reasons, I don’t have a candidate but I refuse to believe the press anymore.
Yep, I’m giving some money Herman Cain after today. I think this whole think is going to give more steam to the Train.
Best post on the subject I’ve seen. The silence from our side when one of ours is smeared like this is deafening.
The Politico guy was just on TV and he is doubling down on the Cain sexual harassment allegation, said he has information that the behavior alleged was far more severe and extensive than Cain let on today with the hand gesture to the chin, “hey, you come up to here, just the same as my wife” explanation. Jonathan Martin was the guy’s name, and he wasn’t backing off an inch.
“You can no more believe them, than you can Pravda. They must be very afraid of Cain, which means maybe I should think about voting for Cain.”
Very well stated.
I could not agree with you more.
Romney used Martin to do some hit pieces in 2008.
Romney used Martin to do some hit pieces in 2008.
I did not know that. All I know is all these old sixty-something jerks doing hit peices on each other so they can be president while the country goes down is sickening. I used to think there could be a turnaround using the system before the country goes off the cliff; now I’m not so sure.
Have any other women ever come forward and said that they have seen or heard anything inappropriate? Is there a pattern here?
Generally a predator is a predator, and where there is one accusation there are others. (Clinton, for example. He had a clear pattern of preying on women).
Even if this Politico guy comes out with other "examples" of things Mr. Cain supposedly did with these two women, I'll have a hard time believing it. I personally have witnessed other women lying and twisting perfectly innocent statements into something else, particularly when they thought they had something to gain by it.
It's going to take a lot to convince me.
Would be nice if the “Joe the Plumber” her/them.
I’m betting that Gloria Allred’s law firm is working feverishly to locate the two “victims” that Politico “uncovered.” Next, she will have a news conference where she will lambaste Herman Cain and those two women will become instant celebrities on the MSNBC circuit. Of course, in doing so she will have broken the terms of the agreement and have to pay a contempt fine, but who cares...they get to take out a conservative!!
So this is what counts as sex harrassment in the 90s? How pathetic. I first went to work in the mid 70s and sex harrassment was when the boss locked his office door behind your back and made advances while you screamed for your life. And no one cared.
Go, Herman, go!
Politico and Cain: Return of the High-Tech Lynching
Posted By Roger L Simon On October 30, 2011 @ 10:06 pm In Uncategorized
It took the mainstream media nearly a year to catch up with the John Edwards Affair, but only weeks into Herman Cain’s narrow frontrunner status for the GOP nomination, the goodfellas at Politico are letting the uppity black conservative have it.
They begin their “Exclusive: Two women accused Herman Cain of inappropriate behavior [1]” this way:
During Herman Cain’s tenure as the head of the National Restaurant Association in the 1990s, at least two female employees complained to colleagues and senior association officials about inappropriate behavior by Cain, ultimately leaving their jobs at the trade group, multiple sources confirm to POLITICO.
The women complained of sexually suggestive behavior by Cain that made them angry and uncomfortable, the sources said, and they signed agreements with the restaurant group that gave them financial payouts to leave the association. The agreements also included language that bars the women from talking about their departures.
It goes on with a fair amount of unsourced innuendo. Is there any way we can ever know the truth of this? Probably not since the parties are said to have agreed to remain silent for a five-figure payment, a paltry amount in this day and age. One thing is certain, whatever Cain did (if anything), it certainly isn’t in the ballpark of using campaign funds to support a mistress and love child while your wife is dying of cancer or even inserting a cigar in the pudenda of an unpaid intern in the corridors of the Oval Office. Those are certainly more than five-figure infractions — more like eight-figure.
Nevertheless, Cain’s campaign is taking a body blow. We’ll see what emerges. But I would like to mention one thing. Back in 1991, during the Clarence Thomas confirmation hearings, I believed Anita Hill. Years later, my life had changed, and I came to meet Thomas himself at a social gathering. He turned out to be a delightful, unassuming person — it was hard to believe a Supreme Court justice could be so down to Earth and decent to be with on a social level.
I liked him a lot and am now skeptical that I was right about Hill. Maybe it had been just a high-tech lynching. Of course, I don’t know for sure — how can you in these things? But that’s the point, isn’t it? We all live on the knife edge of accusation. I’m the CEO of a media company and I am frequently concerned that I will be sued for sexual harassment. I’m not that kind of person at all, but given the way things are now, you can’t be too careful. I dare not compliment a woman on her hairdo in the workplace for fear I am open to suit.
Herman Cain lived and lives in that world too. So when he responded to a reporter’s queries on this case with “Have you ever been accused of sexual harassment?” I knew where he was coming from.
Politico typically buries the defense of Cain on page four of their article.
It’s interesting that his supporters use their real names (unlike his accusers). Ron Magruder, Denise Marie Fugo and Joseph Fassler, the chair, vice chair and immediate past chairman of the National Restaurant Association board of directors at the time of Cain’s departure, said they hadn’t heard about any complaints regarding Cain making unwanted advances.
“I have never heard that. It would be news to me,” said Fugo, who runs a Cleveland, Ohio, catering company, adding such behavior would be totally out of character for the Cain she knew. “He’s very gracious.”
The support goes on, but we all know that will never make the front of the news. As Glenn Reynolds [2] points out, another black man ran for president and mainstream media has surfaced almost nothing about him after all these years. We don’t even know something so trivial as his college grades, although Rick Perry’s emerged seemingly minutes after he declared his candidacy.
They also gave him a pass on spending twenty years in the church of a virulent racist. No one in the media asked him a serious question about it, nor did they ask him in any depth about his friendship with a unrepentant Weatherman. That’s just cute.
But never fear, when it comes to a black conservative, Politico is on the case. Never mind that what really happened is of course just as unknown to them as it is to us. That’s not the point. A man like Cain cannot be allowed in the White House. Why… why…. he might just…. harass an intern!
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