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The Spectacle Blog
So.
Here’s the story.
From a liberal media outlet.
An “Exclusive” story about Herman Cain. A story about a black man who is a conservative and just by coincidence is now riding high in the presidential polls. A story about anonymous women making allegations of sexual harassment against Mr. Cain. And getting bucks for their efforts.
Women who won a “settlement” for the charges, which are said to be centering on “inappropriate behavior” by Mr. Cain during his tenure as the head of the National Restaurant Association.
That’s all there appears to be.
But shall we recall another time?
When a sitting President of the United States, a white liberal, was accused by multiple women of not only sexual harassment… but rape?
And the sum and substance of the response from his supporters was that these kind of charges were only about sex. Just one big no deal. To be specific in terms of the response from one James Carville of Clinton advisory fame:
“Drag a hundred-dollar bill through a trailer park, you never know what you’ll find.”
Perhaps this story is really only about the upgrade of the Carville scenario from the dragging of cash through a trailer park to the National Restaurant Association? And maybe a bit higher end on the cash front?
Oh yes.
One other memory.
The last time this kind of story was deserving of keeping somebody from high office, strangely enough that target turned out to be a black conservative man as well.
So. Do we have this right?
We can’t have a conservative black man in the Oval Office because he was once accused by anonymous women of “inappropriate behavior”?
But we can give a pass and an attaboy to a liberal white man who was actually in the Oval Office when accused of infinitely worse behavior by said multiples of women? Including, say again, rape? And now everybody just has a big ole laugh about it all at said ex-president’s 65th birthday when Lady Gaga shakes her booty at Bill and everybody roars?
Yes indeed. That does appear to be the game.
Alas, too many people have seen this movie. So they already know what to call this.
High Tech Lynching of an Uppity Conservative Black man.
The Sequel.
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Simon Templar| 10.31.11 @ 12:39AM
What timing! Right on cue!
It really is getting absurd, predictable, and insufferable. Expect about 300 comments by end of monday on this one. They will range from the guy's finished, he is guilty to every slam and accusation that can be dreamt up. Paulbots will be out in good form. Of course, reactions and useless defenses falling on ears that will not listen will be offered. Liberals trolls will be crowing and laughing there hypocritical asses off in complete denial.
Buckle up, it is going to be a bumby ride.
Clint| 10.31.11 @ 7:38AM
Cain’s TARP talk, praise of the Fed could hurt him with conservative voters
By Cameron Joseph - 10/13/11 08:38 PM ET
Businessman Herman Cain has shot to the top of the polls with support from Tea Party members, but his backing of the Troubled Asset Relief Program and opposition to auditing the Federal Reserve could hurt him with those same voters.
Levi Russell, the spokesman for the fiscally conservative group Americans for Prosperity, said that Cain will have to explain his stances on these issues if he is to remain a first-tier candidate.
“Among the Tea Party audience, the TARP bailout is something they’re adamantly against, and they’re going to absolutely need to hear more from him on this issue to be comfortable with him,” said Russell. “I don’t know one Tea Party activist who’d say it’s a bad idea to audit the Fed, that’s not a popular position for him to be staking out.”
The Tea Party Rebellion Is Here.
Jack in Wi| 11.2.11 @ 6:13PM
Herm Cain: Mr. Federal Reserve, Mr. TARP, Mr New national sales tax, Mr. Endless wars for Israel, Mr. I love Alan Greenspan and Henry Kissenger, Mr. incohernet on abortion, economics, foreign policy, geography, and now sexual harrassment is the favorite of the dimwitts of the Republican party.
The main stream media isn't lynching old Herm any more then it did Bob Packwood, Eliot Spitzer, Mcgreevey, Weiner, Jesse Jackson, Bill Clinton, The gay Idaho senator in the airport bathroom, the gay Republican congresssman from Florida, or Newt Gingrich. Herm is getting the same attention he should have figured he would get with all the claims he has against him. He should have come out in the open with this information right away and cleared the air. It is hard to clear the air when all the people involved have signed gag orders.
I predicted weeks ago that the race had come down to Romney and Ron Paul. Herman destroyed himself long before these seemingly true charges surfaced. I predict that there will be an attempt to push Newt gingrich forward. but with the charges against Herm, I don't think it will get very far. Newt seems to have been, as big a sexual exploiter of the staff as Herm was.
W| 10.31.11 @ 8:32AM
Simon,
The attacks will come from the liberal media and Democrats. The Paul supporters are not the problem, it is the MSM that will play this story.
Clint| 10.31.11 @ 8:57AM
And The Attacks On Dr.Ron Paul's Supporters Will Come From The RINO-CINO'S & Israel Firsters.
The Tea Party Rebellion Is Here.
Wendy| 10.31.11 @ 9:55AM
Ron Paul's trolls find a way to bring Israel (Jews) into any and every every discussion.
W| 10.31.11 @ 10:16AM
I have a novel idea.
Let us concentrate on the MSM and liberals and stop attacking each other?
Clint| 10.31.11 @ 10:19AM
Israel Firster Trolls Find A Way To Bring Dr.Ron Paul & His Tea Party Patriot Supporters Into The Discussions First.
" Simon Templar| 10.31.11 @ 12:39AM
What timing! Right on cue!
It really is getting absurd, predictable, and insufferable. Expect about 300 comments by end of monday on this one. They will range from the guy's finished, he is guilty to every slam and accusation that can be dreamt up. Paulbots will be out in good form. Of course, reactions and useless defenses falling on ears that will not listen will be offered. Liberals trolls will be crowing and laughing there hypocritical asses off in complete denial.
Buckle up, it is going to be a bumby ride."
The Tea Party Rebellion Is Here.
W| 10.31.11 @ 11:12AM
Clint,
Constructive criticism, not personal: You will help Ron Paul if you stop calling people who disagree with Ron Paul "Israeli firsters."
I suggest you try it and see how they respond to you.
Occam's Tool| 10.31.11 @ 11:18AM
W,
you truly are a good soul. However, you are about to be bit. No talking to a mad dog.
W| 10.31.11 @ 4:12PM
Occam, haven't seen enough of your posts recently. Hope all is well with you.
pmains | 10.31.11 @ 1:33PM
Paul's detractors are very focused on how his policies would affect Israel, but his supporters aren't. I was at the Phoenix Ron Paul Meetup last week, and Israel wasn't mentioned once. You seem to be projecting, Wendy.
LarryK| 10.31.11 @ 9:11AM
Man they are so good at this stuff, why is unemployment continuing to hove around 10% and why is the economy in the crapper?
dmerrin10000| 10.31.11 @ 2:39PM
Ok, I hadn't meant for this to post right away. Wanted to add this-- these allegations will be investigated again and we will probably learn what approximately happens. Calling the story a lynching and getting mad at those who published the allegations is foolish-- suppose the allegations were true? Wouldn't you want to know as much?
jtom| 10.31.11 @ 5:55PM
Not really. It's not really germane to the job at hand. Clinton proved that even a rapist can make a decent President (given a Republican congress). False acquisations of harrrassment is a common strategy for women who get less than glowing job reviews. Just imagine the different ways a person could interpret any comment made about a pepperoni pizza. I was in a position of some responsibility before I retired, and you have no idea how many innocent quips I kept to myself simply because I knew I couldn't possibly imagine all the different ways a woman nursing a grudge could interpret them. It's a PC world out there with a lot of hungry lawyers.
vicky bennett | 10.31.11 @ 11:11AM
Reminds me of Justice Clarence Thomas. Wonder why?
B. Clinton, such an embarassment, and everyone loves him.. he is liberal.
vicky bennett | 10.31.11 @ 11:11AM
Reminds me of Justice Clarence Thomas. Wonder why?
B. Clinton, such an embarassment, and everyone loves him.. he is liberal.
Occam's Tool| 10.31.11 @ 11:17AM
Doubt it will fly.
|| 10.31.11 @ 12:41AM
Quick! Find someone to discredit the accusers with an article calling them a little bit nutty and a little bit slutty. Also start looking for a publication sleazy enough to carry that kind of thing.
jtom| 10.31.11 @ 5:57PM
Can't do that because they are 'anonymous', which is also a code word for non-existent.
Consertive View| 10.31.11 @ 2:24AM
There is absolutely no limit to the depths of slander that the liberal press will not sink to in order to lench a black consertive. And that's what this is, a high class lenching.
No name for these women, though I suppose two will slink out of the woodwork at some point as the scandle is pumped. Lots of unnamed sourses, and a first class smear of an honorable man.
I am so angry I can hardly see my key board. This is raceism at it's worst. If I dislike liberals before, my dislike has turned to true hatred. That blind seeing red hatered. It goes for the liberal press, the liberal politicians, and any and all brain dead unthinking liberals in general.
Up to now in this blog I have been Mister Nice Guy, careful to never through out a personal attack, to call the President names, to insult anyone that doesn't agree with me. No more mister nice guy. Liberals have crossed the line.
They want a war. It is long past time to give them one.
richard ryan| 10.31.11 @ 9:02AM
This is typical. We knew it was coming. Here's my take: those behind this story believe that it's the Southern conservatives who will break from Cain over this garbage. They truly believe that we are racist at our core, and will jump on the bandwagon to persecute Mr. Cain. It won't happen though. It will only add fuel to fire up the Cain Train. Keep it coming, you liberal idiots. He just might get the nomination at this pace!
dmerrin10000| 10.31.11 @ 2:33PM
The article, and this reply, seem premature-- I mean, I just read the story site f mcently and they cited a "five figure settlement." I'd say t
hat sounds like a lot for the company to have paid out. Also, I'd guess that there are probably many who aren't totally sure what constitutes harassment-- is it always definable by what the victim claims made her uncomfortable. Mind you, I'd guess that when a person does feel uncomfortable due to the actions or utterances of a particular man, the odds strongly favor the notion that something the man is doing is, at the least, inappropriate, and that the man should change his behaviors and then try to learn for the benefit of future
jtom| 10.31.11 @ 6:01PM
This Southerner will go one further: if this is being promoted by any 'operatives' of another Republican candidate, I would rather vote for the diaster in office than that candidate.
martin j smith| 10.31.11 @ 7:33AM
The Socialists are acting out their typical selves and frankly it shows once again how racist,bigoted,ignorant,lying and needing of good deodorant they are. But its the Republican Establishment who so much wants Romney as their candidate that I blam to some extent as well.
Here is why: It is in the RINOS interest to habve Cain hit pieces. Thus, who can you trust. So I am left this this. Romney will now be considered eliminated in my mind as a preferred an candidate and perhaps even joinng the ranks of those I will not ever vote for those are Ron Paul and John Huntsman. If I were Romney I would not only get out front and center and denounce
the Socialist garbage but -- and here is the kicker--offer to run as Cain's VP. That would be classy. So say: I would be honored if Herman Cain chose me as his VP candidate. Romney is now going to be in a box.
martin j smith| 10.31.11 @ 7:36AM
Actually I have another idea--Romney Cain and all of the other candidates should jointly have a press conference renouncing Socialist Racism. And, stop all further schedualed debates with MSM.
Prester John| 10.31.11 @ 7:38AM
So did politico find this story on it's own or was it directed to it by a third party?
And if it was directed to it, by whom?
A.M. Mallett| 10.31.11 @ 9:27AM
This was a "political research" exercise with the intention of trying to find dirt.
Pecos Pete| 10.31.11 @ 8:02AM
Back in the 1990s my company was threatened by a woman hired as a vice president. There was no basis for her claims. She was the first female vice president in a 100 year old company and thus had to interact with males. But, within six-months of appointment, she claimed harassment due to inappropriate language and my company paid her off to avoid the cost of court and the embarrassment resulting from a public trial. Subsequently the company instituted an "open door" policy that required all meetings that included females must be held with an open door.
My sympathies are with Mr. Cain. We will never know what happened at the National Restaurant Association, but he will be tarred forever by these claims.
rpm| 10.31.11 @ 9:24AM
And, frankly, that holds all women and minorities back. You don't hire people that are more likely to sue you. Hire a white straight Christian male--you decide you don't like his choice of ties--tell him to clean out his desk, be gone by 5PM. Same thing with a Black, female Muslim--you probably spend a couple grand on legal advice BEFORE you even talk to her. And, you better have a very good reason. And if someone had commented on the color of her burka--forget about it.
Rule One: Never hire someone you can't fire.
Paul from SA| 10.31.11 @ 12:28PM
Yep. My boss has the same unofficial policy -- Do not hire women and blacks. He is not sexist or racist. He is a smart businessman trying to avoid a lawsuit. White men don't file lawsuits; you just fire them when needed. But they are the first to get hired.
Bubba Six Pack| 10.31.11 @ 9:29AM
How are these incidents related?
DaProf| 10.31.11 @ 8:35AM
Of course. This is a complete contrast with the admirable courtesy and restraint conservatives have exercised dealing with candidate and President Obama.
Bubba Six Pack| 10.31.11 @ 9:31AM
Yes, reporting the facts is always a "high-tech" lynching. He knew that this would eventually come out so he preemptively dismisses it as "lynching."
All the Drudge ducklings come quacking.
Solo| 10.31.11 @ 1:32PM
"All the Drudge ducklings come quacking."
Funny.....I thought it was Politico which broke the story.
"Quacking", indeed!
tonypal| 10.31.11 @ 11:24AM
The difference is we don't have to make it up with Obama. Here it is in a nutshell: Conservatives spend way too much time denying who they aren't and liberals spend way too much time denying who they are.
Solo| 10.31.11 @ 1:35PM
"Of course. This is a complete contrast with the admirable courtesy and restraint conservatives have exercised dealing with candidate and President Obama."
Hey "Prof".....is that comment directed at us "bitter clingers" clutching our guns and religion across most of the "57 States"?
Just curious.
Casey Abell| 10.31.11 @ 8:47AM
Lord's completely in the tank for Cain, of course. If these allegations were directed at Romney...well, let's just say, Lord wouldn't jump right on the Spectator site to denounce them.
Right now Herm is doing a perfect job of keeping the allegations alive. His non-denial denials are almost painful to watch, regardless of whether the Politico story is true.
This may just be an industry group paying a couple of complainers to go away. But Cain's reaction does not inspire confidence. Of course, supporters like Lord will circle the wagons and dust off the usual denunciations of the media.
But if there's any truth to these allegations - and obviously Lord has no clue on that - Cain is in trouble. His entire appeal is personal. People like him because they like him, not because they want to pay his sales tax or respect his vast foreign-policy expertise.
And this story does not make Herm look very likeable.
Consertive View| 10.31.11 @ 10:17AM
How do you expect Herman Cain to defend himself against these charges?
Do you know who the women were? He can't confront them if their names are unknown.
Just exactly what were the charges filed. I haven't seen them, only vague references to them.
Who were the unnamed sources? Little tough to check their facts if you don't even know who they were.
So he is charged by nameless women in a charge that can't exactly be found supported by faceless nameless individuals. How does anyone defend himself against that.
Gosh, even the Spanish Inquisition was more fair than this, more honest.
This is garbage of the worst sort, completely depraved in its manner, completely devoid of moral dignity in its exicution. This is liberals at their very best showing of their very worst behaviour.
Casey Abell| 10.31.11 @ 2:07PM
NBC is now confirming that at least one of the women got a cash settlement from the restaurant association. And Cain says he didn't know about any settlements(!) Which really makes him look clueless, as if the harassment claims weren't bad enough already.
All this may not matter to the Cainiacs. But even Aaron Goldstein is having second thoughts. This hits Cain where it hurts. Cainiacs will brush off any issues questions. Herm's appeal has always been personal, not ideological.
But right now he's not looking like such a terrific person.
Casey Abell| 10.31.11 @ 2:12PM
Oops, should have said that Joseph Lawler is having second thoughts.
Paul from SA| 10.31.11 @ 12:29PM
Where are the anti-Romney stories?
Mic Scott| 10.31.11 @ 8:57AM
We know if politico was reporting on Obama the headline would be "Cain’s treatment of women was “the same as his treatment of men. Herman treated everyone great" Then on the last page as a footnote we would read that there were allegations of sexual harassment.
David W| 10.31.11 @ 9:07AM
Ah yes, anonymous sources. It will be interesting to see how Cain's fellow blacks (though liberals) will respond to the so far unfounded allegations. Perhaps Mr. Cain, when asked by a reporter or news reader for his response to his allegations, should say "Bill Clinton". When they ask, "Bill Clinton? Why do you say that?" Then he says, "Well, Bill Clinton was accused of rape, admitted to having an intern perform oral sex on him in the Oval Office while President, and you felt that was acceptable behavior. Why is it that a Black man can't do that (though I haven't)? Is it because you are racist?"
Bubba Six Pack| 10.31.11 @ 9:33AM
I remember some reporting on Clinton and maybe some hearings or something. Do you think it would have been racists NOT to report it?
Solo| 10.31.11 @ 1:40PM
Oh..I remember more than that, Bubba!
I remember Perjury, Subornation of Perjury and abuse of power.
I also remember a President who had to accept disbarment and an agreement to not pursue a further political career in order to avoid prosecution after leaving office.
W| 10.31.11 @ 4:11PM
Bubba, Is this you Slick Willie? Welcome.
Choo Choo| 10.31.11 @ 9:11AM
It's a legitimate story, but ultimately irrelevant. The fact that a candidate was formally accused of inappropriate behavior has to be reported. Obviously, an accusation is easily made, and this one was resolved without an admission or finding of guilt. So, most voters won't care. They didn't care about Clinton's issues, and he admitted guilt. But it's not a high tech lynching and it's not racism. It's a factual piece of little import, so long as Cain handles it correctly. He should just admit the allegation was made; deny the substance; and move on. The truth usually works. So far, he's doing a pretty bad job.
Bubba Six Pack| 10.31.11 @ 9:34AM
Exactly.
Anne Marie| 10.31.11 @ 1:59PM
That's absolute baloney! Just because someone is accused doesn't mean it should be publicized. I accuse you of collecting child porn. Now, someone out there who knows your real identity should ensure your local news sources publicize it so their children can be kept away from you. Geez, use your brain.
nick | 10.31.11 @ 9:22AM
Instead of imputing motives to the reporters or making invidious comparisons to an Impeached President, why don't we wait for more information. Cain's vague memory of a sexual harassment charge does not seem terribly plausible. I think I would remember if that happened to me
A.M. Mallett| 10.31.11 @ 9:25AM
If Cain will take Donald Trump's advice and simply come out and make it clear this was a settlement to avoid many thousands of dollars of legal fees, I think he will solidify his position. After clearing that up, he should take a cue from this article and refer to this as just what it is, a liberal media attempt to lynch a principled, conservative black man.
Bob| 10.31.11 @ 9:29AM
Cain's sexual harassment charges? I don't believe it. Say it ain't so Herm. Come on now black men don't behave in a lewd and lascivious way only white boys like Bill & Newt do such things.
Ragster| 10.31.11 @ 9:32AM
Dredging up unsubstantiated and marginal charges against Cain is despicable, of course, and needs to be condemned. But comparing Cain to Clarence Thomas is absurd. Cain is a man who has substantial achievements won through his own talents and hard work. Clarence Thomas was and remains an exceptional mediocrity, one who got into Yale only because of affirmative action (which he now wants to abolish), and whose only qualification for the supreme court in 1991 was --- apart from his uber-conservative outlook --- the color of his skin. Does anyone seriously believe that Thomas would have been nominated if he had not been black? And does anyone seriously believe that Cain's support is coming because he is black?
squalis| 10.31.11 @ 10:24AM
Sorry, got confused by your post. Were you talking about Thomas or Obama?
Proud Mormon| 10.31.11 @ 9:44AM
Well now, frontrunner Herman Cain is having his Gary Hart moment. Remember frontrunner Gart Hart? SS Monkey Business/Donna Rice, etc.? Cain is handling his issue just as badly as Hart and we all know what happened to Gary Hart. Go Mitt!
Aeolus13| 10.31.11 @ 10:22AM
Wow. Straight the conspiracy theories. You realize that all major media outlets would carry a story about allegations of sexual harassment by a major Presidential candidate regardless of his race or party, right?
Mr. Lord is correct that this has no bearing on Cain's ability to be President, but scandal, especially sexual scandal, gets viewers.
JAHININ| 10.31.11 @ 10:37AM
You mean like John Edwards? His affair was sat on by the "major media outlets" until it couldn't be hidden any longer. Don't be so quick to call the media equal opportunity on these matters.
W| 10.31.11 @ 10:24AM
"sexual harassment" charges agaisnst employers are common. Comments that are innocent at the time made will be remembered and characterized as harassment when the employee is laid off or terminated or has issues with the employer. It gives the employee leverage to settle and clean up his record. Employers will settle rather than litigate a messy case.
And this may surprise some, but people do lie and make false accusations.
Just because there was a claim and money paid does not mean there was actual harassment. You need to exaimine the facts very closely and not rush to judgment on Cain.
Of course the MSM are hypocrites. They will attack Cain but defended Clinton, and now make cute jokes about Clinton. Why are we surprised.
Fred| 10.31.11 @ 11:03AM
What counts most is how Herman Cain handles this. If he does that well, this will just exhaust itself and show him as the strong, level-headed leader that he is.
moreco2| 10.31.11 @ 11:15AM
If there was a settlement then there must have been a confidentiality agreement. At least Cain will get his money back right?
gliderdriver| 10.31.11 @ 11:16AM
Did Cain get a hummer in his office?
gliderdriver| 10.31.11 @ 11:18AM
If Cain were a Liberal Democrat, he would certain win his race now!
Mike Rogers | 10.31.11 @ 11:22AM
Anonymous sources, unnamed accusers, vague innuendoes, and this makes a case?
We "Bork" white conservatives, and we "Thomas" the black conservatives?
Cain has long said that the left engage in SIN:
Shift the subject.
Ignore the facts.
call opponents Names.
And here we go: shifting the subject from policy debate, ignoring or making up facts, and calling a good man slanderous names.
Have they no shame?
Who Knows?| 10.31.11 @ 11:31AM
“Say it ain’t so, Joe.”
Truth IS stranger than fiction. Proof?
Cain definitely, IMHO, entered the race for the GOP nomination for PRESIDENT of the USA, and de facto of the whole free world, with zero hope or expectation that he’d ever even come close to winning. Being a rational and experienced business executive, his goal was surely to maximize his own rewards.
Don’t get me wrong. No doubt he is on the right side of the political spectrum, and believes in the American exceptional spirit, and shares the sorrow and fear about the way the left has been ruining this country.
Given this, it is an understatement to say that he is UNPREPARED!
I remember in my naïve youth being concerned about the fact that all the space rockets were made with products built by companies who strove to make “the most with the least”. That is, each element was produced by the lowest cost producer---no gold plated wrenches need apply!
Well, Mr. Cain seems to me to be a pretty “low cost” competitor, in that if you compare his fides with say Romney, especially when it comes to business AND foreign policy chops---well, Herm is in over his head.
Sure, the high tech lynching is happening---but, hey!
It’s a GIFT to America, and especially the GOP.
What’s always needed is for people, one by one, to WAKE UP! And, that Cain is getting the Bork-Thomas treatment, in spades, in 2011, is just what the Enlightening Doctor ordered.
The Lord moves in mysterious ways.
obamanot| 10.31.11 @ 11:37AM
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It would stand to reason that if there was any truth to these allegations, it would have been revealed when Cain ran for the Georgia Senate spot. It would also stand to reason that if such allegations had in fact been made back in the 90's, the Cain campaign would have knowledge of them and would be prepared to defend and/or explain them. I am interested in what Herman Cain HIMSELF will have to say about this matter. Until then, I am reserving judgment.
ta2t2o| 10.31.11 @ 7:32PM
You mean like if there was any truth to Obama not being born in the US it would have worked itself out when he ran for US Senate?
Cain has been running under the radar until he became a front-runner.
Ensign cheated on his wife - it wasn't found out until after the campaign. Edwards cheated on his wife. It wasn't found out until after he dropped out of the campaign. You assessment isn't based on any fact or standard that would have clued us into anything prior to this. Not to mention, it's evident that as is standard in sexual harassment cases, the accusers were paid a settlement with a requirement to stay quiet just to make this ugly episode go away. Thats modus operandi in situations like this.
DanSSF| 10.31.11 @ 11:53AM
Cain has no chance of winning anything. He's just really stupid. Not just really stupid for a presidential candidate, but for any job. How could anyone take him seriously after watching his Stossel interview "relative to" his views on abortion? If the liberal press existed they would do whatever they could to secure him the Republican nomination.
Kingofthenet| 10.31.11 @ 12:15PM
We are starting to learn some of the details of the '9' plan, apparently it starts with 9 inches of sausage...
Felipe Zapata | 10.31.11 @ 12:31PM
My man Cain clearly has his opponents, be they Team Obama or the GOP regulars, worried now. I think that's just great.
Lynda Little| 10.31.11 @ 12:31PM
You are reacting to what has not yet happened, to what has not yet been proved. Wait and see.
Paul from SA| 10.31.11 @ 12:32PM
It happens to every male manager at least once, they say. I was falsely accused of sexual harrassment by a woman I had to terminate. The case was dismissed. I'll never hire another one again.
Kingofthenet| 10.31.11 @ 12:35PM
This is RACIST, what's a Black Man not allowed to go on a 'Booty Call'?
BH| 10.31.11 @ 12:39PM
But which party did this originate from? THAT is the real question.
Connie Boyd| 10.31.11 @ 12:41PM
This story and most of the comments on it are ridiculous. Who most wants Cain out of contention? Not Obama and the Democrats, who would love to run against him. Given the current polls, Romney and the Republican establishment really, really, really want Cain out of the way. If I had to guess the probable source for this story, Karl Rove would be my number-one suspect. It fits his past MO and his current determination to get Romney elected.
Kingofthenet| 10.31.11 @ 1:04PM
For Herman's sake, I hope those women were Black otherwise it ain't gonna play well with the 'Dixie Boy's', you know the ORIGINAL 'Boy'z in the Hood'.
Solo| 10.31.11 @ 1:45PM
You mean like Bull Conner and Gov. Wallace? Those guys?
W| 10.31.11 @ 3:03PM
He could mean Senator Al Gore Sr., Gov.Oval Faubus, Gov. Lester Maddox, Gov. Ross Barnett, Sen. Fullbright, Sen. Eastaland, and the other senators and goverrnors of the Dem party that opposed the Civil Rights Act and integration.
Solo| 10.31.11 @ 3:37PM
Oh Yes! And let us not forget "Sheets" Byrd, Grand Kleagle of the Ku Klux Klan. Democrat extraordinaire.
Sam Meyerson| 10.31.11 @ 2:32PM
Huckabee says Cain sexual harassment story leaked by another GOP campaign:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/.....f=politics
Michael Gross| 10.31.11 @ 4:28PM
This is a prime example as to why we do not have more high quality people running for office. Instead of campaigning on the issues, Mr. Cain must defend himself against sexual harassment.
ta2t2o| 10.31.11 @ 5:48PM
Wasn't Herman Cain the guy who said : "I don't have a lot of patience for people who want to blame racism on the fact that some people don't make it in America,"?
That being the case - aren't you just calling him either a liar or at best naive when you write something like this?
ta2t2o| 10.31.11 @ 5:49PM
He doesn't have to defend himself against anything. Just tell the Restaurant Association to open up the books on this. Michelle Malkin said it best "Sunlight is the best disenfectant". Without anything to hide, he should be happy to bring it into the light.
rpm| 10.31.11 @ 7:39PM
Frankly, his being a)Black and b)CEO, etc. of major corporation(s), I would have been surprised if he hadn't been hit by at least two of these shakedowns. If the quoted "five figure" settlements are factual, these were shakedowns, pure and simple. The Assoc lawyers (may they rot in hell--but it is pretty standard) made the decision that it was far cheaper to pay them off than fight (and prevail) in court. Besides, you might get a reverse OJ jury.
If there had been anything to it, the settlements would have been six figures, or more.
You can't even answer one of these for five figures.
He may well not have known the details of the settlement. Probably would have, but possible not.
It is not inconceivable that he didn't know a lot about the incident, for that matter. Five figures--quick "go away" money. May not have got to him.
rpm| 10.31.11 @ 7:41PM
When the women are ID'd, I would bet at least a starbucks that at least one of them is white.
Goldwaterite| 10.31.11 @ 8:01PM
When Cain began to emerge from the GOP pack into the "First Tier", my gut reaction was that Herman was destined for the "Clarence Thomas Treatment." The parallels are uncanny and blatant. Will the electorate be wise enough this time to know they are being scammed again? I am nauseated.
davelnaf| 10.31.11 @ 11:42PM
If you take liberal hypocrisy straight and unalloyed the accusation against Cain goes beyond hypocrisy and gets into mental ward territory—that is, if you take liberals seriously except for the damage they can do. Believing in a political party with the fervor normally accorded a religion is something rational people do not do, but for liberals it makes the highest form of sense. So, a Herman Cain comes along and threatens your religion and what do you do about it? Cain gets the highest form of punishment the dem Inquisition can legally mete out: he gets his reputation executed. No one threatens the most holy Democrat church and gets away with it.
Furious Frank| 10.31.11 @ 11:54PM
I'm not sure I would consider impeachment "giving a pass and an attaboy" but hey, nice rant.
David Miller-Engel| 11.1.11 @ 7:22AM
Now don't all of you supporters feel a little silly after his comments on Fox last night ?? Where there is smoke there is fire......
James Guglielmino| 11.1.11 @ 11:49AM
What a hoot you kids are......."uppity black man?" Hardly. Barack Obama is the uppity black man you all hate so much.......But that's not nearly all. Cain can't even get his story straight. It was Politico that outed him...Politico is well known as a right leaning outfit....Furthermore, NBC has confirmed that at least ONE OF THE WOMEN was given a settlement....And then, there is the totally incompetent way that the Cain campaign has handled it....Cain can't even get his story straight......"Didn't happen...." "Happened and I recused myself." "I dont' know anything about a settlement. If it happened, I hope it wasn much, cause I'm innocent....." And the new revelations of campaign finance irregularities have barely bubbled to the surface. If this guy were a liberal, you morons would be destroying him. Because he is a conservative, you can't even bring yourselves to acknowledge that he is totally inept.
With this dumb blog, you have given up any possible claim to relevance. How could you POSSIBLY support anyone who handles himself so with so much incompetence?
John Giles| 11.1.11 @ 12:44PM
1) Endorsed Romney in 2008;
2) Supported TARP;
3) Disclaimed in 2006 a housing bubble and maintained that the economy was a "Cinderella" economy;
4) Taken by surprise by the Panic of 2008;
5) Refused to sign the Susan B. Anthony pro-life pledge, pro-choice statements;
6) Refused to sign the NOM pledge defending traditional marriage;
7) Maintains that gun control is a "States rights" issue;
8) "9-9-9" tax plan would ruin fixed-income seniors;
9) Lied about opposition to auditing the Fed;
10) Wants a Fed Chairman like the disastrous Alan Greenspan;
11) Aquila scandal; and
12) Denied having had sex with pigs.
Controse| 11.1.11 @ 1:49PM
Liberals have no principles to guide them. Let's enumerate the ways. 1) Inappropriate, even criminal, sexual behavior by their cipher of power no big deal since the prep is their cipher of power. 2) Killing American citizens on foreign soil by their cipher of power again no big deal. With the Democrat's it is all about and only about power. There is another name for this: tyranny.
RRuin| 11.1.11 @ 1:53PM
Sorry, but your rant is a sad excuse for a rant. No liberal is trying to destroy Herman Know Nothing Cain. Why would we want to? We want to see him nominated by the Republicans. We love Herman Cain!
Donna Hartley| 11.1.11 @ 2:19PM
I have one comment for the mainstream(?)media: Bill Clinton, Elliott Spitzer, John Edwards, Anthony Wiener, ad nauseum. Need one say more?
Marc Jeric| 11.1.11 @ 3:43PM
When working at a nuclear defense installation, we were given a seminar on sexual harrassment. The legal definition of sexual harrassment was given to us as follows: "Whatever makes a female uncomfortable is sexual harrassment". This reminded me, a former refugee from a communist hell, of the necessary ground to send somebody to Gulag: "Whatever makes a communist uncomfortable is grounds for 20 years of forced labor."
Guest1776| 11.2.11 @ 3:03AM
9-9-9
It's a multifaceted solution addressing many issues at once in its simplicity. I can remember another man with a bold plan that was simple "We win they lose!" and went about putting the policies in place to do just that. Herman Cain has that same sort of bold plan to solve big problems and end class warfare envy politicking as we know it.
9-9-9 encourages working poor to save which is typically the reason working poor are still WP after a decade of working. See immigrants who come with nothing and barely speak the language and live the American Dream through hard work, savings and make it.
The 9-9-9 plan encourages job growth, lowers cost for the employer which has direct correlation to pricing -good for the consumer. Also, gives people more money on their paychecks to spend/save.
If One gets $200.00 EXTRA a on their paycheck each week and the same bag of groceries One paid $200.00 for under 70,000 pages of tax code - One pays an extra $18.00 but still has $182.00 to put into savings that week or offset other taxable goods they might purchase that week. Many will see much more on their chacks that $200.00 and even the working poor will have more funds available each week.
When people are putting their money into savings accounts then banks don't need TARP bailouts the Federal Reserve printing money to supply them therefore devaluing savings accounts of the elderly and hurting the poor with inflation.
When perpetual working poor are saving they won't be perpetual working poor and they won't need government forcing banks to change time tested loan standards or F&F distorting the housing market creating bubbles.
9-9-9 takes away the catalyst for most if not all the divisive bickering ie envy politicking and class ware rhetoric as it treats everybody fairly, the same. The rich spend more because they can so they will pay their fair share.
9-9-9 allows Michael Moore or the frugal Warren Buffet to stimulate the economy and pay more taxes until their hearts content. True patriots! Moore can film a documentary of him and Buffet going around the country spending their money until they're blue in the face paying taxes. Moore can call his documentary "Warren and Me."
When we pass 9-9-9 pols will not be able to raise taxes because it will be easier for the opposition to explain how that “directly affects your life” to the consumer/voter. You’ll have a lot more people voting when you try raising their taxes. Good luck with that tax loving Democrats or even the "read my lips crowd" within the GOP establishment.
Herman Cain one simple plan addressing many problems directly at the roots and SOLVING THEM. Romney 59 of them just tweaking around the edges.
Millionaires like Romney and billionaires will be getting a tax break too and instead of hiding their money in the loopholes of 70,000+ pages of tax code, they will spend it and pay plenty of taxes. Why? How? - Because the so called “rich” spend more money by default.
Cain's plan sends the taxes to the government through the economy which means free markets will decide the winners and losers - not the government!
Guest1776| 11.2.11 @ 3:03AM
Isn't this laissez-faire approach exactly what we tried from 1979 to
2007, when inequality shot through the roof, according to the CBO?
NO! What we had is government interference into free markets and when government interferes it distorts the market and bubbles are created and popped. Take Fannie and Freddie with all their just sign here and own a home loans for instance. It created a boom as homes were in demand and put a lot of people to work building them but it was a bubble bound to pop because it was created by government forcing banks out of time tested loan standards the community organizers like Obama called racist. You know its racist for a bank to require good credit, 10-15% down and ability to pay loan with one week's pay etc...
Many people want to blame Wall St and the removal of Glass-Steagall but the fact is if that never happened there is still a banking crisis because of sub primes loans banks were forced to come up with by government that were based on the economy.
And another thing to consider is that if all those loans that were packed and sold were time tested loan standards before the government interfered then the Glass-Steagall thing wouldn't have mattered much because they would have been responsible loans where mortgages were paid regardless of slowing economy.
Pols like to have it both ways. For example Democrats are demonizing banks for not making small business loans yet require banks to have more cash on hand before making them. Dodd/Frank did that and did not address the F&F problem. Another example of government interfering into free markets is the Durbin Tax banks are now charging for debit card use. Example: Walmart and banks willfully agreed that Walmart will pay pennies per purchases using debit cards so banks didn't charge you the customer to cover their processing cost. The Durbin Tax removed that and now banks have to charge you $5.00 a month for your debit card whether you use it or not to cover the cost while Dick Durbin demonizes banks for charging that fee he forced them into charging.
Pols love to have both ways and its the same thing with the 70,000+ pages of tax code where pols are demonizing companies they tax for raising the cost of their product or service after pols raise their cost through higher taxes. Pols know those cost are always passed onto the consumer but its a win/win for them because they can then demonize the companies.
Herman Cain's 9-9-9 plan gets rid of all those hidden taxes and loopholes within the 70,000+ pages of tax code lobbyist lobby them to change etc... and when implemented 9-9-9 will result in an economic boom with cheaper products because companies will evaluate their bottom line with the money they save and lower cost trying to steal consumers from their competition. Competition is always good for the consumer and this is exactly why big corps lobby for taxes and loopholes that'll hurt their small business counterparts and exactly the reason we need a Main St President not a Wall St POTUS like Obama has been or Romney will be.
Basically at the root of the problem with the mortgage crisis is this noble but misguided idea that everyone deserves to own a home. Its not true! You deserve to ow a home when you can meet the free market standards for getting a loan. To pretend as pols do that banks want to loose money on their loans and need a bailout is nonsensical.
snuh| 11.2.11 @ 11:06PM
one is tempted to make a joke about the spectator continuing to give jeffrey lord enough rope with which to hang himself.
mikenimzo| 11.3.11 @ 1:43PM
seems all you clows, author included, owe the "liberal media" an apology