Posted on 09/25/2011 5:52:11 PM PDT by mandaladon
In the aftermath of his big Florida straw poll victory, Herman Cain appeared on Fox with Neil Cavuto, who asked Cain to respond to actor Morgan Freeman’s contention that the Tea Party was based on racism. Cain, who is a favorite at Tea Party events and who owed his remarkable victory yesterday to Tea Party activism, told Cavuto that being a great actor doesn’t always equate to having a grasp on reality. Cain declined to take offense, as Newsbusters reports, and instead focused on the desperation from the old-guard hard Left who just assumed that the race card was a winning trump that was exclusively theirs:
NEIL CAVUTO: Morgan Freeman, the actor, has been very critical of Tea Parties, and said that what they’re doing is racist based, and going after and unseating Obama has at its underpinnings racism. I’m paraphrasing here, but what do you make of that argument?
HERMAN CAIN: Well, first of all, I doubt if Morgan Freeman, with all due respect, who is a great actor, has he ever been to a Tea Party? Most of the people that are criticizing the Tea Parties, Neil, about having a racist element, they have never been to a Tea Party.
CAVUTO: But wait a minute, wait a minute. He has played, wait, wait, wait. He has played a President of the United States.
CAIN: Oh. Great, yeah, in a movie. This is real life out here on the campaign trail, man. This is not a movie.
CAVUTO: So, are you offended by that?
CAIN: No, I’m not offended by it. I just, I just think that it is sad that they’re so short-sighted in really understanding what the whole Tea Party citizen movement is all about.
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Very classy response by Herman Cain. I really hope he gets the nomination.
More often than not it seems to equate to being completely disconnected from reality.
Unless Palin gets in HERMAN CAIN IS MY CHOICE~!
Haven’t actually taken the time to look at Cain, but I must admit this is an impressive guy.
Herman Cain is always classy!
I’m a Cain fan but he should’ve been able to annihilate this comment and make a buzz. The ability to have done so may have made his campaign. Missed opportunity.
Drama isn’t inherently unethical or immoral. But modern methods of drama coaching seem to ignore reality a lot in the name of creating virtual realities on screen or on stage.
Morgan Freeman sees nothing wrong with marrying his step daughter. His judgement disqualifies him from any serious discussion at all. He is your typical Hollywood pathology.
Herman Cain is a rocket scientist, businessman, capitalist, who reeks of competence and relevance. He will be a wonderful President.
Morgan Freeman will be nothing more than just another Hollywood soap opera idiot making poor life choices.
Cain seems to be hinting obliquely that he pities Freeman more than seeing Freeman as worthy of being distracted over. Which is both classy and appropriate. A president can’t get distracted over every petty drama queen.
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LOL! He left out the “Bless his heart.” :)
Not to put too fine a point on it, but I think it was his step grand-daughter. That he fell in love with when she was 17, IIRC.
I see your point. I respect your posts. Getting into it w Freeman may not be a good idea. But if a black man wants to win the Presidency on the pub side they have to eventually state the race issue is over and it’s all about country.
Disagree. I think it's a word perfect response.
Cain Is Able!
We need a honest no nonsense electable conservative that is capable of solving the massive economic problems. One additional necessary ingredients: EXCITEMENT ENERGY ENTHUSIASM. We got it with Cain. He had seven standing ovations at the Fla. Straw poll. Did you see the euphoric faces of the delegates when his name was called?
We need a honest no nonsense electable conservative that is capable of solving the massive economic problems. One additional necessary ingredients: EXCITEMENT ENERGY ENTHUSIASM. We got it with Cain. He had seven standing ovations at the Fla. Straw poll. Did you see the euphoric faces of the delegates when his name was called?
Cain has class.
Obama’s missing the first two letters.
What's a man his age doing with a 17 yr. old? Come on "falling in love?"... Rubbish!..the guy was married...no less. He wanted to pay around with school girls and that's just the way it was....while keeping it in the family...what a complete dork!
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