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Cain Avoids News Media in a Tense Encounter (Scuffle ensues with media, hotel security)
New York Times ^ | 11/01/2011 | Susan Saulny

Posted on 11/02/2011 11:07:40 AM PDT by SeekAndFind

ALEXANDRIA, Va. — It’s getting rougher on the campaign trail for Herman Cain — and for the people who cover him.

Mr. Cain arrived at a Hilton hotel in suburban Virginia on Wednesday morning for what was advertised to the news media as a meeting on health care reform, which was to be followed by a news conference. But he immediately disappeared into what organizers of the meeting, Docs4PatientCare, called a “closed-door session.” Upon emerging, a mob of hotel security and other campaign personnel pushed back against the assembled photographers, and a little bit of a scrum and tussle ensued, with at least one newspaper photographer taking a hard blow to the face.

All the while, Mr. Cain, who looked unusually agitated in the center of it all, was screaming: “Excuse me! Excuse me! Excuse me!”

The mob, with Mr. Cain still in the middle, made its way into a second conference room where Mr. Cain delivered a short statement that borrowed lines from his stump speech. “I was thrilled to be here,” he said, adding later, “I feel passionate about the repeal of ‘Obamacare.’”

(Excerpt) Read more at thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: cain; hermancain; media; scuffle
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1 posted on 11/02/2011 11:07:46 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
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To: SeekAndFind

Herman Cain is being Palin’d...
His China comment is already being portrayed as his “I Can See Alaska From My House!” moment...


2 posted on 11/02/2011 11:10:27 AM PDT by tcrlaf (Election 2012: THE RAPTURE OF THE DEMOCRATS)
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To: SeekAndFind

The “mob” with Cain..good Lord. Do these people know how stupid they look with their blatant bias and hate!


3 posted on 11/02/2011 11:11:11 AM PDT by Earthdweller (Harvard won the election again...so what's the problem.......? Embrace a ruler today.)
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To: SeekAndFind
Up until this all started I was candidate-less because Sarah ain't running.

I am no longer candidate-less.

The enemy of my enemy is my candidate.

4 posted on 11/02/2011 11:12:00 AM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum (The enemy of my enemy is my candidate.)
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To: SeekAndFind

The Times focuses its attention on Hermain Cain.


5 posted on 11/02/2011 11:13:15 AM PDT by Interesting Times (WinterSoldier.com. SwiftVets.com. ToSetTheRecordStraight.com.)
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To: SeekAndFind

I haven’t seen video, but how tense could it be, really? The reporters are just putting in a dishonest day’s work, and Cain may be a nice fella but he’s running for president, not going about his daily life, and knows it. He can’t take things all that seriously.


6 posted on 11/02/2011 11:13:39 AM PDT by Tublecane
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To: SeekAndFind
NYT kooks in action. Do a little reporting on Obama’s records, his home grown terrorist friends, his Nazi adviser.
7 posted on 11/02/2011 11:14:22 AM PDT by boomop1
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To: SeekAndFind
...with at least one newspaper photographer taking a hard blow to the face.

That's a real shame.

8 posted on 11/02/2011 11:16:38 AM PDT by who knows what evil? (G-d saved more animals than people on the ark...www.siameserescue.org.)
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To: SeekAndFind
I hope Cain continues to snub the media.

He has nothing to gain by answering any of their shoutings.

Let them chase their tails - it will only take a week or two before they start to get bored and focus on some other thing.

Hang tough, Mr. Cain. We're all with you and this too will pass.

9 posted on 11/02/2011 11:17:15 AM PDT by FroggyTheGremlim (Democrats: the Party of NO!)
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To: SeekAndFind

“King-of-the-Hill” is a tough game, whether you are a grade-schooler or a politician. But, participants learn from it ... or they are eliminated.


10 posted on 11/02/2011 11:17:32 AM PDT by RobinOfKingston (The instinct toward liberalism is located in the part of the brain called the rectal lobe.)
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To: SeekAndFind

does he have secret service

or private security?


11 posted on 11/02/2011 11:17:49 AM PDT by ken21
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To: SeekAndFind

It’s seems the New York Slimes does not like having an uppity negro on the other side of the fence.


12 posted on 11/02/2011 11:18:00 AM PDT by Drill Thrawl (The patient is too far gone to save.)
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To: SeekAndFind

How many “closed press” events are there for Hussein?


13 posted on 11/02/2011 11:18:22 AM PDT by Recovering_Democrat
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To: SeekAndFind

I watched the video. The reporter **LIES** when he writes “”was screaming: “Excuse me! Excuse me! Excuse me!””

He raised his voice and sounded stern and annoyed. He was NOT screaming.

I have heard screaming. I have experienced it at the brim of a staff sergeant’s brim.

Deliberate, willful misrepresentation of what happened.


14 posted on 11/02/2011 11:18:35 AM PDT by Blueflag (Res ipsa loquitur: non vehere est inermus)
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To: SeekAndFind

“with at least one newspaper photographer taking a hard blow to the face.”

Awwwwwwwwwwwwwwww.

/s


15 posted on 11/02/2011 11:18:52 AM PDT by RushIsMyTeddyBear (A MUST WATCH: http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=KeOLurcQaqI)
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16 posted on 11/02/2011 11:19:04 AM PDT by onyx (PLEASE SUPPORT FREE REPUBLIC BY DONATING NOW! Sarah's New Ping List - tell me if you want on it.)
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To: Recovering_Democrat

My apology!

I didn’t mean to post the graphic to you!

I didn’t catch it in time!!!


17 posted on 11/02/2011 11:20:20 AM PDT by onyx (PLEASE SUPPORT FREE REPUBLIC BY DONATING NOW! Sarah's New Ping List - tell me if you want on it.)
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To: eCSMaster
Well, I came up with another idea.

Maybe Cain should announce a free-for-all news conference where the media can ask whatever they like.

But before the questions, Cain should invite Juanita Broaddrick, Katleen Willey, Paula Jones, and anyone else who has been sexually assaulted by Democrats to relate their stories to the news creeps.

Let's see what they focus on.

18 posted on 11/02/2011 11:20:53 AM PDT by FroggyTheGremlim (Democrats: the Party of NO!)
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To: ken21

Cain needs to request secret security detail now. Obama requested this with even more time before the election.


19 posted on 11/02/2011 11:22:48 AM PDT by NowApproachingMidnight (“Civilizations die from suicide, not murder.")
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To: NowApproachingMidnight

yes, i remember.

it was because he was so special,

and republicans “hate” blacks.


20 posted on 11/02/2011 11:26:59 AM PDT by ken21
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