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Posted on 11/03/2011 8:28:07 PM PDT by smoothsailing
Justin Sink
November 3, 2011
Herman Cain said Forbes Magazine - and not his campaign - was responsible for the concluding that Rick Perry's campaign leaked the story of sexual harassment allegations during Cain's tenure as the president of the National Restaurant Association.
"A reporter did this research and came up with these facts, we didn't," Cain said Thursday on Sean Hannity's radio show. "That was the reporter that wrote the report for Forbes."
But despite adamant denials from the Perry camp, Cain said he still doesn't "see any other way this could have come out."
The Forbes article, headlined "Cain Says Perry Camp Behind Sex Harassment Leak," quoted the candidate as saying that he told former staffer Curt Anderson, now a consultant for the Perry campaign, about the allegations. But Cain is not quoted specifically accusing Anderson of being the leak.
The Cain campaign quickly seized on the article Wednesday night, seemingly validating Forbes' reporting that Cain was laying blame at Perry's feet.
"Rick Perry needs to apologize to Herman Cain, his family, and America for this despicable story," Cain's chief of staff Mark Block said Wednesday on Fox News.
Anderson has denied the accusations, saying in a statement: "I have great respect for Herman and his character and I would never speak ill of him, on the record or off the record."
He also told Fox News that any reporters he had ever spoken to about the Cain allegations were free to openly attribute those comments to him. In doing so, he opened up the door for Politico, who originally reported the allegations, to confirm him as the source. Politico has not done so, effectively eliminating Anderson as the source of the story.
Block said earlier Thursday that he would "accept" the claim by Anderson that he was not behind the story.
"Until we get all the facts, I'm just going to say that we accept what Mr. Anderson has said, and we want to move on with the campaign," Block said on Fox News.
But Cain seemed unconvinced, telling Hannity "there aren't enough breadcrumbs that leads us to any other place."
"I believe a lot of people are connecting the dots for themselves," Cain said. "I don't see any other way this could have come out."
Cain also said he's "almost certain" he told Anderson about the allegations.
"I am almost certain that I did. … This is why we want to get off this merry-go-round," Cain said.
This Block character is dragging Cain down, IMO.
Agree
hannity offered a good defense of cain tonight.
he had jay seculow on.
Good grief.
Can anyone at all see that the communist devils are going to do whatever it takes to take down this “black man” who threatens, not only their precious “0,” but also the entire Democrat and Republican establishment?
I’m astonished that so many of us are so easily “distracted.”
Well, other than NONE of what you posted being true, that’s sure interesting.
Wilson was a witness, but he has said he never told anybody. And the guy he worked for confirmed that Wilson never told him anything about it. Wilson just talked about it this week because it has become public, and he wanted to point out that a lot of people knew about it.
The fact that Wilson knew about it doesn’t mean he spoke about it. Cain new about it — does that mean He’s the leaker?
And there is no evidence Anderson got anything from Wilson. Anderson said he first heard about it when he read the piece, so how could he have “worked on it”?
But that’s a nice try to bring the cain supporter fiction into some sort of alignment with the Cain campaign fiction.
Because they spent all day blaming Wilson, and then Cain and Block came out and attacked Cain’s good friend and admirer Anderson. Because after all, Cain is “almost certain” he told Anderson. So of COURSE Anderson HAD to be the one who leaked it — after all, the only two people in the world who knew where Cain and Anderson (well, and Cain’s wife, but she wouldn’t have told anybody).
I hope I don’t need a sarcasm tag for that last bit. And I wish I could tell which freepers know they are making things up, and which are actually clueless enough to believe what they are saying.
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Cain needs to defect from the Mitt/Rove complex and come on over to our side.
Let’s see how Cain is handling this.Since the story broke he is raising more money going up in the polls and exposing the MSM as fools. You think he needs consultants?
Sounds like you need to take that up with Mark Block then.
All this nonsense because Cain said to a women, “Darling, would you please doctor my tea?”
LOL. This whole thing is really a joke. Those that think Cain will be negatively affected by this have another thing coming if the above quote is true.
I suspect Cain is raising A LOT more money today again because of these smear tactics.
Steve Forbes does not actually write stories for Forbes Magazine. You knew that, right? Cain was talking about a Forbes Magazine Article. He was NOT saying that Steve Forbes blamed the Perry camp. You knew that, right?
I mean, I hope nobody here was confused by something Cain said, and thought that Steve Forbes had said Perry leaked this information.
Of course, it is also true that Steve Forbes worked with Perry on his tax plan, not Cain’s 9-9-9 plan.
I like Cain, but I’m starting to think maybe I gave him too much credit because I dislike the rest of the field.
Bingo
That doesn’t make any sense.
Well, Wilson’s credibility as a witness is being challenged by one of the other people at the dinner:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2802161/posts
I wondered the other day why Wilson mentioned “at least three other people” being there but not naming a single one of them. Now we know why — they would not corroborate his story because it was a lie.
If Cain ends up being our nominee, then it is going up a easy walk for Obama.
This guy is always quick to blame other Republicans without any evidence or fact, a sort of McCain in the making.
Well, the lefty’s are jumping on board your post.
????
Forbes worked with Perry on the flat tax plan. Forbes is not involved with Cain’s 9-9-9 plan.
Forbes also endorsed Rick Perry.
Cain was talking about a Forbes Magazine article. An article which mostly reported what Cain said. And then he used that to suggest it was all Forbes Magazine’s fault that Cain falsely accused Anderson.
To most reasonable people it looks more and more that Perry had nothing to do with this. You want to witness dirty politics just look towards Romney.
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