Once you eliminate the impossible, whatever remains, however...

[mojowork_n]

...improbable, must be the truth.

Is the most recent Cain fiasco an example of that?

10 days warning and as late as yesterday, on the Sunday news shows, the Cain campaign was still stalling and back-pedaling?

Today’s the day they finally came out with a blistering denial?

I can't believe they are that stupid.

Impossible? Maybe.

The worst PR firm in the world would have told them that to be credible, denials like that have to be issued as soon as possible, must be consistent with the known facts of the episode, and they must at least seem to be straightforward and honest.

The campaign’s strategists were still acting as though the legal settlements were not a matter of public record.

The only conclusion I can draw is that two (still anonymous and very, very likely to remain that way?) ladies – who once worked for the Restaurant Lobbying Association – have, by now, with the help of their attorney’s, concluded the process of re-negotiating their allegiances. And they’ve been bought off once again, only for truly lavish and munificent sums.

So the candidate can safely come out with his denials, the “lib’rul media” will once again come off like the bad guys, and all will be right (better than ever, in fact) in Charles’ and David’s world.

Another case of "organized greed always defeats disorganized democracy?"

From Matt Taibbi's Rolling Stone piece in July, 2009, "The Great American Bubble Machine"

http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/the-great-american-bubble-machine-20100405#ixzz1cOJTaGYu

".....any attempt to construct a narrative around all the former Goldmanites in influential positions quickly becomes an absurd and pointless exercise, like trying to make a list of everything. What you need to know is the big picture: If America is circling the drain, Goldman Sachs has found a way to be that drain — an extremely unfortunate loophole in the system of Western democratic capitalism, which never foresaw that in a society governed passively by free markets and free elections, organized greed always defeats disorganized democracy.

The bank's unprecedented reach and power have enabled it to turn all of America into a giant pump-and-dump scam, manipulating whole economic sectors for years at a time, moving the dice game as this or that market collapses, and all the time gorging itself on the unseen costs that are breaking families everywhere — high gas prices, rising consumer credit rates, half-eaten pension funds, mass layoffs, future taxes to pay off bailouts. All that money that you're losing, it's going somewhere, and in both a literal and a figurative sense, Goldman Sachs is where it's going: The bank is a huge, highly sophisticated engine for converting the useful, deployed wealth of society into the least useful, most wasteful and insoluble substance on Earth — pure profit for rich individuals."

[truedelphi]

1. Keep 'em coming.

Good points you are making here.

And I love to rec any article that has Matt Taibbi in it.

[mojowork_n]

2. I've been reading his stuff since he was at the eXile.

Some good writing.

Still looks like the Cain folks waited just long enough to be able to claim
victimhood. Hard to figure they wouldn't have their butts covered, but who
knows? When and if the story just sinks beneath the waves, silently, that
might be one explanation. I think something similar may have happened here
in Wis. during the recent election for State Supreme Court justice. There
was an embarrassing -- but very old -- legal case that looked bad for the
Republican candidate. Until, all of a sudden, someone from the family that
had been victimized by the alleged pedophile priest (whom the Republican
candidate had helped, back when) showed up on TV, whining about how the
Democratic candidate just wouldn't let sleeping dogs lie.

It was a disaster.

[mojowork_n]

3. Fingers crossed, hoping I was WRONG....

http://www.washingtonpost.com/investigations/lawyer-cain-accuser-wants-to-talk-but-is-barred-by-agreement/2011/11/01/gIQA0bOIdM_story.html

One of the women wants to go public, according to the Wa. Post.

One of the women who accused GOP presidential candidate Herman Cain of sexual harassment wants to tell her side of the story but is barred by a confidentiality agreement, her attorney in Washington said Tuesday.

Lawyer Joel P. Bennett called on the National Restaurant Association, where the woman and Cain worked in the late 1990s, to release the woman from her written promise not to talk about the allegations or disparage the trade group.