Herman Cain’s FIRM DENIAL Breaking Down…ALREADY!

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" On Fox News this afternoon, Herman Cain dismissed the Politico story dogging his campaign this week in the strongest possible terms. There’s only one problem with his denial of his story of how the Politico piece came to be: there are huge holes in it already.



On Fox, Cain said that Politico came to him with two anonymous anonymous tales of sexual harassment settlements reached while he was was the head of the National Restaurant Association. And that’s why he didn’t respond to Politico’s request for comment. “I was aware of the false accusations that took place at the restaurant association, and then when we were asked for me to comment, they wanted for this to be from two anonymous sources,” Cain said. “We weren’t going to go and chase anonymous sources.”



That line of reasoning is fine, as far as it goes, except Cain neglected to mention one thing: one of the sources Politico came to the Cain campaign with wasn’t anonymous at all. This is from the original Politico story (emphasis ours):

Cain said he has “had thousands of people working for me” at different businesses over the years and could not comment “until I see some facts or some concrete evidence.” His campaign staff was given the name of one woman who complained last week, and it was repeated to Cain on Sunday. He responded, “I am not going to comment on that.”

http://dyn.politico.com/printstory.cfm?uuid=9BF98DF6-86A6-4B3B-BB63-1E4E3AA9FD97

Cain Chief of Staff and famous smoker Mark Block confirmed to TPM that Politico’s reporting of the events was accurate.



“I think Politico gave the campaign a name — I don’t know what that name is,” Block told TPM outside Cain’s event at the National Press Club Monday. “I think they did pass a name along, correct.”



So Cain’s strong words to Fox are already being found to be less-than-true. That’s not a good sign for a campaign trying to put a tough story
behind it.



cont'

http://2012.talkingpointsmemo.com/2011/10/herman-cains-firm-denial-breaking-downalready.php?ref=fpa


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[Kingofalldems]

1. And it's repubs who are taking him down

[Karenina]

5. As Gomer Pyle said...

Surprise, surprise! :rofl:

[Ganja Ninja]

8. Yup.

The question now is which crazy lunatic will Mitt Romney be running second to next week? Sarah Palin? Joe the Plunger?

[KamaAina]

2. Bet that isn't the only thing of Cain's that's firm and breaking down

:evilgrin:

[gratuitous]

3. Classic non-denial denial language

"We aren't going to go and chase anonymous sources." See how that doesn't really say anything about the underlying substance of the allegation? As far as it goes (which is nowhere), the statement doesn't deny the allegations. It's about "anonymous sources," not allegations of sexual harassment.

In case this is in danger of falling into the "Who cares what Herman Cain did or didn't do" category for some folks, a candidate who is trying to make his campaign all about moral authority, it's not a good thing to appear immoral. And this sort of behavior doesn't play with the people who flock to a person's moral banner.

[Segami]

6. I think the Rosetta Stone is currently offering the New ' Non-Denial-Denial ' Language course

:rofl: :rofl:

[stlsaxman]

4. As earlier posted- this scandal comes from WAY above Breitbarts or FOX's pay-grade...

it comes from the very top of The Party.

Only POLITICO can give it "legitimacy"....

Cain is toast.

[SpiralHawk]

7. Another RepubliClown consigns himself to the toaster by degenerate Republicon Family Values

Some day Republicons may have a Spiritual Awakening and abandon their degenerate so-called 'Family Values' based on greed, fear, hypocrisy, and deceit. Perhaps they will finally embrace simple, old-fashioned American values like decency, honesty, hard work, and respect. The sooner the better.

[gratuitous]

9. Dream on

Greed, fear, hypocrisy and deceit work so well for the Republicans. Got George W. Bush two terms in the White House, and John Boehner is currently squatting in the House Speaker's office. They start going for decency, hard work and respect, and where do they think they're going to get all that lovely, lovely campaign cash? It would be the end of Speaker Boehner's golf game, that's for sure. Besides, hard work is hard work! Didn't you know that?

[SpiralHawk]

15. I have a dream.

Sometimes it takes a turn toward totalitarian nightmare (R), but nonetheless I have a dream.*

* Somebody else might already have coined this phrase...

[louis-t]

10. When he says "bring me the accuser" he knows

they can't talk about it per their settlement.

[bklyncowgirl]

11. They say when someone's lying they blink rapidly.

Ol' Herman's lids were going up and down like a windshield wiper in a downpour.

I wonder if it was the GOP establishment, or the Mittster or Goodhair campaigns that fed this story to Politico. I could see Goodhair doing this--Cain's not just kicking his butt but he also jumped all over him on the N#!*@%head issue--but I also think the GOP establishment is all sorts of nervous about Caine. The business guys want the Mittster and have no intention of allowing the rabble to anoint Caine or anyone else for that matter.

Where's Bachman on this?

[EC]

12. Since he is saying he didn't know which two cases

Politico was talking about, that must mean there were more and he couldn't confirm if the two reported on were correct or not because he didn't know which two, of many, they were.

[Sheepshank]

13. I don't know if I dare say it out loud......

Reps vocally support Cain, he proves to the them they are not racists. But they don't really want Cain to win...he is black after all. This smear campaign is all coming from the Right.....it just makes so much more sense than any of it coming from the Left. As soon as Cain realizes this, he can make the transition to the Democratic Party.

The Left would wait to publisize anything like this until after there is a GOP Presidential nominee...not now, it's not worth the time and effort now. In fact, it would have been better for the Dems (imho) to have Cain as the nominee vs Romney.

[Lint Head]

14. This helps Romney and Perry.