What: "Less Vetting Than the Average Godfather's Pizza Delivery Boy", The Cagle Post
When: November 3, 2011
Democratic strategist Karl Frisch sort of states the obvious, and it's hard to know where to start. Of course, the obvious ought to be pretty much ... well ... blatantly obvious to begin with. So let's go with this:
... [Y]es, I realize conservatives assume facts have an intrinsic liberal bias just like the media, science, weather, letters, numbers, and shapes.
At 11:20am on Monday morning, Cain told Fox News, "If the restaurant did a settlement, I wasn't even aware of it." That is essentially the same thing he told the National Press Club not two hours later when he said, "I am unaware of any settlement. I hope it wasn't for much, because I didn't do anything" indicating that he not only had no knowledge of any agreements but that he also had no knowledge of the amount of any agreements if they actually existed.
By 6pm that evening, Cain's story was beginning to change. This time he told PBS, "I was aware that an agreement was reached."
Before calling it a night, Cain appeared on Fox News again at 10pm to completely contradict himself saying, "We ended up settling for what would have been a termination settlement, quite frankly … Maybe three months' salary or something like that."
In less than twelve hours, Cain went from being clueless about the whole affair — pardon the pun — to knowing quite a bit more than he'd let on about.
Don't for a second assume that Cain and his team first heard about these accusations when they read them in Politico — they had been contacted several times over the course of nearly two weeks in advance of the publication of the story by reporters requesting comment in writing and in person.
Since the story broke, a third woman has come forward, telling the Associated Press that she had received "a private invitation to [Cain's] corporate apartment" and that the future presidential candidate had made "sexually suggestive remarks or gestures" towards her.
Few people know exactly what happened between Cain and his female employees and only one person has been free to discuss the story openly: Herman Cain.
Since Cain has proven himself unreliable, perhaps the National Restaurant Association should free these women from their confidentiality agreements so they can tell their side of the story.
Then, and only then, can this blame game end.
The natural conclusion, then, is best explained by Republican advocates. Such as Rush Limbaugh, who said on his radio show that the scandal is a hit job, and the real motivation "is about blacks and Hispanics getting too uppity".
Or Brent Bozell, who runs a right-wing propaganda outlet: "In the eyes of the liberal media, Herman Cain is just another uppity black American who has had the audacity to leave the liberal plantation". Or Ann Coulter, who is playing to the hilt either because nobody has figured out she's just joking or she realized some time ago she's going to hell for all this and might as well get all the mileage she can out of it. She quite literally said of conservatives that "our blacks are so much better than their blacks".
And Republicans wonder why so many believe racism is alive and well in the American right wing? As Paul Constant noted back in May:
The Fox News focus groups chose [Herman Cain] as the winner of the first Republican debate, which could mean that Republicans are dumb enough to think that the only reason Obama is president is because he's black, so they'll vote in a black guy in order to confuse and disorient Democrats. This is known in politics as "The Michael Steele Stratagem."
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