Before you start flaming me... Cain was on Cavuto today and this very topic came up. Cavuto suggested in a question that this kind of stuff can become a liability. Cain agreed that he needed to tone it down a notch. However, that notch was only going to go from a 10 the a “9”...
Taken in context - Newt made a fair point. Making these comments in the current enviroment with all this stuff going on (Penn State et.al.) doesn’t serve Cain well. Not wise to be making light - especially when it just focuses attention back on Cain’s problems that he’s supposed to be trying to get past. It’s an acknowledgement of the media and their hypersensitivity. Again, Cain needs to get serious and get the focus where is should be.
That’s fine.
But not relevant to what this incident shows about where Gingrich is and how he’s willing to conduct himself vis-a-viz the Liberal orthodoxies.
He could have intoned all he wanted about how serious sexual harassment is without saying it’s somehow wrong to joke about Anita Hill.
We cannot bring any balance to the cretinous impact of political correctness until we can make people accountable if they want to play that game.
That means people need to realize they will receive the full panopoly of social opprobrium — including being joked about for an eternity — if they come forward with non-serious and overblown accusations.