Posted on 11/08/2011 10:06:00 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
When Herman Cain held the long-awaited news conference late Tuesday afternoon to tackle allegations that he sexually harassed four women, a smooth-talking Southern attorney was the first person to step to the microphone.
Cains lawyer is L. Lin Wood, a well-known Atlanta-based trial attorney who has carved out a successful career representing the high-profile and falsely accused, often seeking eye-popping damages for those he believes have been libeled or slandered in the press.
Former CBS news anchor Dan Rather once called Wood the attorney for the damned.
When asked why he had chosen to represent Cain, Wood cited the media circus.
I have spent many years representing clients who have seen their reputations and lives destroyed by false accusations in the media, Wood wrote in an e-mail message to The Post Tuesday evening. I believe that Herman Cain has been unfairly put on trial in the court of public opinion based on reports from unknown or anonymous sources, rumor, speculation and inherently improbable statements by the most recent accuser.
With Woods hiring, Cain has a powerful ally on his side. A partner with Wood Hernacki & Evans LLC, Wood has a three-decade-long career prosecuting, and defending, celebrity clients, sometimes winning mega-settlements on their behalf. He is a fierce advocate....
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonpost.com ...
Need to hear more from Newt. Cain needs some good advisors! So sad!
You over look the overriding motivation.
Sanctimonious self righteousness is the motivator. It over rides the redemption tenet.
It is far more valuable to publicly display self righteousness than to forgive.
Don't worry, you haven't, he just doesn't like Cain, pure and simple. He's bashed him from the get go, almost to the point of being psychotic about him.....You'll see him trash Cain on virtually every Cain thread running.
Cain could be JC and Stormer would trash him for feeding the masses only bread and fish........
Depends.
You're correct on the first part but when it comes to the second part, Politico is in deep, deep do do here and I'll bet you dollars to donuts their legal department is in crisis mode worrying about a little thing called "malice" that , if establish, could lead to not thousands, but millions of dollars in settlements and, or ....... jury damage awards. I wouldn't want to be in their shoes!
Go get'm L. Lin Wood! :o)
First as someone said Bachman was too mentally unstable, Perry was a racist, Palin well we know what they did for her
and now they are on Cain. Media will continue until they have last man standing. Romney.
Wonder how Cain is polling
I almost fell over when Lin Wood walked out on the stage yesterday. I would hate to have him after me.
I think they have underestimated Cain.
Exactly! He has said that he behaved badly in the past and regretted it. H converted to Catholicism, where I think confession comes into play. Absolution is just that.
Those Christians that want to keep nagging at Newt and his so called baggage would do well to remember:
Matthew
14 For if you forgive men their trespasses, your heavenly Father will also forgive you:
15 But if you forgive not men their trespasses, neither will your Father forgive your trespasses.
Good choice. Switch from the one with false accusations of adultery to the one with verifiable proof of adultery.
Wait until the media starts on Newt. Easy target with lots of baggage - he'll "appear" buffoonish within a week after the attack machine starts on him.
You might as well save time and start supporting Romney now if you're going to provide your support based on how the left attack machine makes a candidate appear.
Indeed—He was just supposed to hang his head and slink away. That he’s fighting back has to have surprised them. Things will get far nastier going forward, I expect.
On another note, the tacit agreement with these unsupported allegations against Cain by most of the other GOP “candidates” tells me all I need to know about them.
Great comments and advice.
Neophyte? Hardly. Cain was a senior advisor to the Dole campaign in 1996, had a brief presidential run in 2000, and ran for the Seante in 2004. He’s been on the board of the Federal Reserve and has basically worked as a lobbyist or a fundraiser since the early 90s.
Uh, can you read?
No, it looks like the ad was shot in a monochrome so you can’t tell what color his eyes are.
Everyone who favors photo ID is accused of 'voter suppression'.
What did he actually do? Or is that putting to fine a point on it?
By default, the answer to your question 2ndDivisionVet about who stormer supports, has to be Obama.
That’s what I took from it, as well.
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