While we await input on the subject of Herman Cain’s Sweet Sweetback Badassss Sexytalk from experts in the field such as Bill O’Reilly, Juan Willams, and Richard Cohen , here is J. Robert Smith at the hilariously named American Thinker:
Republican presidential contender Herman Cain is the subject of a bombshell accusation on Halloween day that he sexually harassed two women during his tenure at the National Restaurant Association. Cain stoutly denies the charges.
The curious thing about the accusations against Cain are their timing. Why now? Why did Politico break the news now, as opposed to weeks before or later, if Cain secured the GOP presidential nomination? Did Politico only obtain the story now, or had it been sitting on the report for a while? Why now?
Early opinion among conservative leaders is that the fossil media is up to its old tricks in reporting allegations of sexual harassment against Cain. Politico is serving as the cat’s paw for its liberal allies and the Democrat Party, goes the thinking. This could be. The fossil media – Politico included – may have determined that Cain poses a potent threat to Barack Obama’s presidency and that he had to be politically offed now before he gained any more momentum. A Cain presidency could shake liberaldom, the race industry, and the Democratic Party to its foundations.
Well, yes and no:
J-Rob Smith again:
But there’s another consideration to make in the Cain attack. Who benefits immediately from bursting Cain’s fast-rising presidential balloon? Why, Cain’s Republican rivals. Sherlock Holmes wasn’t about sleuthing for the obvious suspects, nor should those following the Cain story as it unfolds. It may be worth investigating Cain’s GOP rivals, who have every reason to facilitate the allegations against the Georgia businessman.
patechinois 19 hours agoFabulous. Let’s do the dirty work of the Democrats and put the suggestion of smear on Republicans when there are no facts out yet as to where this story emanated. Can you conspiracy/inflammatory/eat-your-own type writers just keep quiet till the real investigative journalists at BigGovernment get this figured out?
Awesome. Fire up James O’Keefe’s rape boat, we’re going investimigating….








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Hopefully, Ken Norton gets signed for Mr. Cain’s autobiographical film.
Ahhh. I see. Keep quiet, American Thinker brainiacs, let Big Government do the leg work, then you can philosophize & interpolate!
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Wow! Some puppet show! Which one’s Punch, in this version, heah?
Devolution, indeed. Elevator cable broke, and shit’s headed for sublevel IV.
Whooee!
hehehe….OK, T-Bogg, tell us you’re not trolling American Stinker. patechinois is trying to either commit an act of mass reader cognitive dissonance or one of the morons had an unintentional moment of honest clarity. Extra points for this: Can you conspiracy/inflammatory/eat-your-own type writers just keep quiet till the real investigative journalists at BigGovernment get this figured out? Any more irony and the unsuspecting reader would need a Desferal IV, stat.
You know the GOP decided to have their favorite internet “news” site leak this story. Cain was getting a little too much momentum against the pack, particularly the annoited one, Mitt. The messaging orchestration was vintage – Rush and Coulter on the same page blaming the Democrats before the digital ink was dry (a two-fer!). Problem is, why would Democrats do that before the convention? We’d love to see Cain get the nomination…then drop this turd in his punchbowl.
This just in from the braintrust at FR-
The lawyer for one of the Cain accusers, Joel P. Bennett, just told the panel on Anderson Cooper’s CNN show that it was “his understanding” that the allegation was “leaked to Politico from a Board member of the National Restaurant Association”.
Could it have been the former President of the NRA who took over after Cain left, who is a Romney supporter?
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2801141/posts
Let the fireworks begin!
I did’n't even know they did an Afro version of Mars Attacks cards, wow.
Fire up James O’Keefe’s rape boat
“Mr. Romney, Mr. Rove, do either of you have a substantial interest in…dildos?”
Because we’re EVIL! We hate strong black men and want to destroy them, even though we elected one, but he isn’t really black, because he’s half-white and muslim, but he still panders to blacks, and Herman Cain doesn’t, even though we know he can if he wants to.
I think I’ve about explained the reasoning.
I see where you got your handle.
Nom nom nom. Jive ass turkey sure do taste good.
What’s wrong with this sentence? Democrat-ic Party? Oh, boy. Somebody’s going to have to answer for that.
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What’s up with the Republican penchant for the most moronic candidate? (Also. See Sarah Palin.)
I’m glad he denied it stoutly rather than studly.
Hey, it’s all about supply and demand in their world, right? So, if this bunch is what the GOP faithful have on their shelves, it must be because that’s what they want.
That’s about how twisted you get when you do try to follow their logic. Round of snaps for you….
I’m with Peteykins. I have a “special disdain” for Black conservatives.
http://sparklepony.blogspot.com/2011/11/do-i-have-special-disdain-for-black.html
My guess is if the dressed up pimps from the ‘real journalists’ approach Cain with an offer of, ahem, providing services, they may not be pleased with the response. Then again, I’m sure there will be a few judicious splices of film drifting to the knee deep pile on the BigGov editing room floor.
I like the “Action! Jive!” part on the comic cover the best. Did the paranoid wing of the Republican party mistake that for a director’s call to start this stupid shit rolling?
Oh, yeah, I forgot to add that our Blacks are better than their Blacks.
I’m no fan of Politico, in fact I think they’re little more than a tabloid. But in this case it’s clear they handled the situation correctly by formally approaching the Cain campaign and giving them ten days to respond.
Instead the campaign did the usual pattern of ignore / deny / smear / admit. Cain should have had this press release typed up months ago.
“The fossil media – Politico included” — er, American Thinker dude? Politico was founded in 2007. Your digital fishwrap is four years older than Politico.
That’s teh best he came up with, having ten days notice?!?!?! I should have become a CEO, it sure doesn’t seem to take much to qualify for that type of work…
Those may be the funniest six words ever strung together on the intertubes.
“Of course, the part where everyone’s blaming it on the filthy hippie racist Democrats before there are any ‘facts out yet as to where this story emenated,’ that’s fine. Fire away.”
Yep, that’s what I thought. Politico told him they were going to run the story in 10 days, and look at all the fantabulous CEO-level planning Cain’s campaign engaged in to get in front of this story (as the kids used to say, “not”). When that story first hit the tubes you were initially led to believe they were as surprised as everyone else was.
But that leads to the following point: if this mess of a reaction is the plan they decided to go with, it’s because that’s the best he’s got. Which means this is about to get a whole lot more interesting…
Heck, I just figured it was Rove who spilled the beans. It was only a few days ago that Rove had his ‘whiteboard’ (he’d never have a ‘blackboard’ for these purposes) out to describe the various idiocies/inacuracies emanating from Mr. Cain. Why would the ‘left’ have a need to say anything about Cain when Karl will take care of it?
Too bad too, because I would have loved to see Obama up against Cain. I mean, talk about easy pickings. The guy doesn’t even know China has the bomb. He’s a joke. A disaster. Fun times, ruined by the Cons.
OT, but of critical importance for the denizens of TBogg’s House O’ Snark & Bassets:
Just in time for the War on Christmas!
Where do you find those wonderful book covers?
Oooh! Marking my calendar!
Wait…I’m a girl, a straight girl. Got caught up in the mesmerization there for a second…
I just watch the Shakira’s ass video for lessons on how to do that.
outrageoftheday nails it, not that this was particularly hard to nail (unless you’re a columnist at American Drinker). Obama would have to be drooling at the prospect of going up against a certifiable halfwit like Cain, there’s no reason to undermine that turd wagon. Kee-rist, Cain makes George W. Bush look like a boner-fide Rhodes Scholar.
I guess the supersleuths at American Drinker got this one all fingered out, though, while every damned one of us here on Teh Left just assumed that Perry or Romney (the Marmalard and Neidermeyer of this here campaign) had finally discovered the concept of oppo research.
Real fucking geniuses they got there on the rightard commentariat — against a slate full of clowns kneecapping each other, why would an incumbent org waste a second of energy with primary oppo? If they’d go after anyone it’d be Perry, since the ‘murkin public has already conclusively proven that it will fall for a cornpone king-size Texas asshole every blessed day of the week. Even Perry’s NH speech weirdness — short of blurting that he enjoys cock, there’s not a lot Perry could say that would derail the delusionally devoted.
Hell, I coulda taught cha, back in the day.
Ah well. Life goes on.
Hmm. Wait a minute. I never thought to ask…Can Shakira actually, you know, SING?