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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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To: SeekAndFind
http://www.realclearpolitics.com/epolls/2012/president/us/republican_presidential_nomination-1452.html

Check the Real Clear Politics poll average. Cain's support has gone almost vertical while Romney is fading

21 posted on 11/02/2011 11:29:17 AM PDT by MNJohnnie (Giving more money to DC to fix the Debt is like giving free drugs to addicts think it will cure them)
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To: eCSMaster
...and anyone else who has been sexually assaulted by Democrats to relate their stories to the news creeps.

He would have to hold it in the Super Dome.

22 posted on 11/02/2011 11:30:04 AM PDT by Drill Thrawl (The patient is too far gone to save.)
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To: Drill Thrawl

Cain wasn’t screaming. He was raising his voice, and yet smiling the whole time.

They ARE misrepresenting the situation.

Jerks.


23 posted on 11/02/2011 11:34:47 AM PDT by LibsRJerks
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To: LibsRJerks

And then he very calmly and politely,
like a gentleman addressing a slow child,
said “what part of ‘no’ don’t they understand?”


24 posted on 11/02/2011 11:36:41 AM PDT by MrB (The difference between a Humanist and a Satanist - the latter knows whom he's working for)
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To: SeekAndFind

Oh.


25 posted on 11/02/2011 11:37:13 AM PDT by chris37 (Heartless.)
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To: Interesting Times

Great imagery!


26 posted on 11/02/2011 11:37:46 AM PDT by MiddleEarth (With hope or without hope we'll follow the trail of our enemies. Woe to them, if we prove the faster)
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To: SeekAndFind
with at least one newspaper photographer taking a hard blow to the face.

By not making it clear, the reporter appears to imply that Mr. Cain hit a photographer in the face.

27 posted on 11/02/2011 11:40:58 AM PDT by proud American in Canada (Go, Herman!)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

I’m glad you’re now aboard the Cain train! Send him all the money you can afford, he’ll need it to win the general election.


28 posted on 11/02/2011 11:41:09 AM PDT by Carl from Marietta (Cain, there's a new sherrif in town.)
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To: SeekAndFind
If this is the best (worst) they can dig up on my main man Herman, then hell he has nothing to worry about.
I mean did she need ice on it? Was there a blue dress? Did he soil the sink? Did he commit perjury in court?

Case Closed.

29 posted on 11/02/2011 11:45:59 AM PDT by DeaconRed (My Hat Don't Hang on the same Nail to Long. . . . . . . . .)
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To: SeekAndFind

Message to Mr.Herman Cain!!! Mr. Cain, I know this hurtful destructive war against you is painful to you, your wife, your family and millions of your loyal supporters. The attacks, however, IMHO, will continue unabated from your enemies of all stripes. You represent a sea change to these people, whoever they are. You represent the change of the elitist establishment that has worked so diligently to tear America down. Sir, you and only you, must reach inward and continue on just as Washington did in our Revolution and Lincoln did during the civil war. America stands firm today because of the pain and personal attack that these freedom builders sustained. Yes, it is hard and....it is also hard on all around you, including the persons of accusations. They, like Anita Hill are being used as pawns to be discarded, thrown onto a garbage heap after, the vultures around them get to pick their bones clean. I pray, they have the good sense not to enter this failing fray, by honoring their agreements which are in place to protect them also. Our Lord in his wisdom has chosen you to become both savior and game changer in this American moment. You must, for your sake and....more importantly ours, stay strong, above the fray and focused on the end result for you and your country, America. I can assure you, the Lord has ordained that you have been chosen to forge America into one nation with equality, liberty, opportunity and freedom for all Americans and future Americans to come. We, the people, got your back, sir!!! Onward with no mean, or hurtful, malice, just progress, focus and success!!! Martin Luther KIng is proud of you, and...is in your corner as we are!!! A profile in courage you must become!!!


30 posted on 11/02/2011 11:50:05 AM PDT by JLAGRAYFOX
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To: Tublecane

If it is the video I just watched linked from Drudge, I thought he was extraordinarily calm about the whole deal, shrugs. Eye of the beholder I guess, but again, from my POV, he was very clear with them. They ignored what he said and blocked the way, so he responded with three increasingly firm “excuse mes”, before he commented aloud about what part of no they did not understand, lol.

May God guide our course.
Tatt


31 posted on 11/02/2011 11:58:49 AM PDT by thesearethetimes... ("Courage, is fear that has said its prayers." DorothyBernard)
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To: LibsRJerks

“Cain Avoids News Media in a Tense Encounter”

Yeah, totally unfair to Cain. Poor SOB doesn’t have a chance - the media is in full destruction mode now. They created the scene and are making Cain look like he caused it!


32 posted on 11/02/2011 12:03:53 PM PDT by teddyballgame1
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To: SeekAndFind
The Left (and maybe some of the Right) is truly getting hysterical over Cain. This just makes me think more and more that we've found our candidate.
33 posted on 11/02/2011 12:04:19 PM PDT by Major Matt Mason (The Chicago Way isn't the American Way.)
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To: Tublecane

Watch the video. The reporter scum were the ones screaming, not Cain. The report is a lie.


34 posted on 11/02/2011 12:08:00 PM PDT by ozzymandus
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To: Blueflag

Do you happen to have a link to the video?


35 posted on 11/02/2011 12:23:18 PM PDT by justsaynomore (Cain 2012 - http://teamcain.hermancain.com)
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To: SeekAndFind

The comments at the link are by and large atrocious.


36 posted on 11/02/2011 12:30:29 PM PDT by elkfersupper (Member of the Original Defiant Class)
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To: SeekAndFind
...a little bit of a scrum and tussle ensued...
That's the second time I've seen this word used today and from different places.

Cain gets testy with reporters asking about sexual harassment allegations
“Let me say one thing,” Cain told the scrum of reporters.

scrum - 1 b : a usually brief and disorderly struggle or fight : scrape, scuffle
2 b : a usually tightly packed or disorderly crowd : throng

Either way, these reporters appear to be the "Scrum of the Earth".

37 posted on 11/02/2011 12:31:58 PM PDT by philman_36 (Pride breakfasted with plenty, dined with poverty, and supped with infamy. Benjamin Franklin)
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To: elkfersupper
(Member of the Original Defiant Class)
I didn't know you were a Trekkie. {;^)


Defiant Class

38 posted on 11/02/2011 12:38:57 PM PDT by philman_36 (Pride breakfasted with plenty, dined with poverty, and supped with infamy. Benjamin Franklin)
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To: proud American in Canada

“implies that Mr. Cain hit a photographer in the face”

If he had he’d jump another 10 points in the polls.

lol


39 posted on 11/02/2011 12:40:19 PM PDT by Fightin Whitey
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To: Blueflag

I MOSTLY remember to don’t say to my wife “Well you don’t have to yell.”

YELL? YOU THINK THAT WAS YELLING, THIS IS YELLING, NOW.....


40 posted on 11/02/2011 12:44:33 PM PDT by 21twelve
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