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Cain Train Permanently Out of Service

Experiencing a mixture of disappointment and anger. Both at Herman Cain and his detractors.

Herman Cain drops out of presidential race
By James Oliphant
December 3, 2011, 10:46 a.m.

Herman Cain, the insurgent populist whose candidacy has been ensnared by allegations of sexual impropriety, said Saturday that he is leaving the race for the Republican presidential nomination, saying that the allegations have cast a "cloud of doubt over me and this campaign."

"As of today, with a lot of prayer and soul searching, I am suspending my presidential campaign," he said at an event in Atlanta. "I am suspending my presidential campaign because of the continued distraction, the continued hurt ... on me, on my family, not because we are not fighters, not because I am not a fighter." ...

Whatever.

Right now Obama and his henchmen are celebrating: What could have been his biggest nightmare on the '12 campaign is now but a distant memory.

I can't help to think that Cain was railroaded by the slick Obama-Axelrod smear machine. I can't prove it -- any more than these bitches can prove the sexual indiscretions they've accused him of.

Meanwhile, the commentators begin to comment. Daniel Greenfield at FrontPage writes:

Once is a shot in the dark, twice is a pattern, and it’s an ugly pattern. Leftists eagerly tear apart women who accuse Democratic politicians of improper behavior and then suddenly become born-again feminists when there’s a black Republican to be taken down.

Anita Hill was treated as a hero, not because of anything that happened to her, but because she was useful to the Left’s cause. Seven years later, the women who stepped forward to accuse Bill Clinton of wrongdoing were jeered and demeaned for opening their mouths by the same politicians and activists who had presented Hill as a role model for women. Meanwhile, Kathleen Wiley, who accused Clinton of attacking her and was libeled for it by the Left, has expressed her support for Cain.

The unwinding is obvious at the fringes. Janeane Garofalo has accused the Republican Party of being the last bastion of white supremacy in the country. When Cain began to achieve prominence, she tried to deal with the contradiction by claiming that he was there just to cover up all the white supremacy. Now that he’s the front runner, and there are sexual allegations against him, she can resolve the contradiction by attacking Cain on the allegations and then pointing to the remaining white candidates as proof that the Republican Party is racist. ...

 

Obama, Cain, and Family T'giving Discussions

For many of us, Thanksgiving weekend meant seeing family. Because I am one of the extremely few conservatives in both the wife's family and my own, discussions that turned to politics became interesting. None of these conversations were particularly long or involved, but some of them provided some insight that I was not expecting.

Truth be told, I was not spoiling for a fight or really looking for political conversation. But if the topic came up, I would gladly engage. With an uncle the topic of Occupy Wall Street came up. Because I know him to be center-right I thought I was safe to express my utter contempt for the Occupy movement. Surprisingly, I was wrong. My citation of certain Limbaugh quotes about OWS didn't help things either. My uncle was much more sympathetic with OWS than I anticipated -- not their behavior, but their message -- and resented Rush "looking down his nose" at them.

Unfortunately, due to the craziness of the gathering and because dinner was about to be served, I didn't get the chance to follow up by determining exactly what message was being presumed. I had a feeling that this relative, no stranger to newspapers and current events, had formulated his opinions about OWS based on doctored and whitewashed media depictions.

Next, a liberal-Democrat relative asked me, "So, are you still on the Cain train, or is that over?" That was actually a valid question. True, I have not blogged about Herman Cain lately. As much as it pains me to say it, he has totally screwed up the past two debates (foreign policy and national security) as well as his defense against the sexual harassment allegations. If Cain were as serious as he promised, he would have prepared himself much better for those debates.

Let me state right here that, due to all his assets, Herman Cain is still my favorite candidate (along with Newt). But if he allows himself to get crushed by the relentless media smears, false accusations, and his own unpreparedness, it will have been his own fault.

This is basically what I told my questioner.

A third conversation I was simply a witness of, not a participant. A devout Jew declared out loud that from now on she's just voting on the topic of Israel. Good, I thought. Another vote for Obama lost.

Finally, the following exchange took place while enjoying the unseasonably mild weather outside with a Democrat relative whose spouse is among the most staunchly leftist (socialist even) in my family. When she started with the question, "So, don't tell me you like Sarah Palin and this Tea Party crap," I knew this was gonna get good.

I responded, "First of all, Sarah Palin isn't running for anything and secondly, I am a proud Tea Partier and it's not crap to want our nation to return to small, constitutionally limited government." Interestingly, she did agree with me that the Democrats had indeed made government way too massive and intrusive and that maybe she'd vote Republican next year, just for the hell of it. But then she said something about the rich and the poor and there needing to be more "fairness" and then said she's probably a socialist. I clarified that if she was really socialist then she would want government to get even bigger, not smaller.

Yes, she was all over the place. She really doesn't follow politics and basically just "goes with the flow." These are the people we have to get hold of. When "independent" minds listen to arguments, they should in theory side with conservatism.

Anyone else out there have family political discussions this past weekend that turned interesting?

Liberal Media Bias: CNN 'Developing Story': 'Is Cain the Anti-Women Candidate?'

Un-freaking-believable. Ken Shepherd at NewsBusters has this report about a developing CNN story: 

CNN 'Developing Story': 'Is Cain the Anti-Women Candidate?'

Seeking to breathe new life into the political damage of unproven sexual harassment charges against him, CNN's Lisa Sylvester presented viewers with a "developing story" in the 4 p.m. hour of The Situation Room entitled "Is Cain the Anti-Women Candidate?"

Sylvester glommed onto "recent controversial comments" Cain has made, such as referring to former Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) as "Princess Nancy," and saying that "tutti-frutti" is the ice cream flavor that would best describe Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-Minn.).

I can't believe this is considered news or anything worth discussing period, let alone making a story around. Saying "Princess Nancy" is anti-woman??? This is the same brain-dead mentality that incited Herman Cain's supposed "victims" of crying "sexual harassment"! Calling Pelosi "Princess Nancy" is more than apt. I could think of much worse.

Where was Donna Brazile when Sarah Palin was called the worst names by the staunchest of Obama supporters? What about all the misogynous attacks on Michelle Bachmann? Crickets chirping. Just like with all the racist attacks on Herman Cain (which is all this is)?

This talentless hack who must have gotten her journalism degree out of a Cracker Jack box continued:

"Some critics see him as the anti-women candidate," Sylvester insisted of Cain, turning to "CNN contributor Donna Brazile" who "says he has a credibility problem with women." Sylvester failed to note that Brazile is a liberal Democratic strategist who contributed to President Obama's campaign this September.

Donna Brazile??? Of course she contributed to the Obama campaign! She's not just a Democrat strategist, she's a bitter partisan and wholly biased liberal hack. She's the woman who ran Al Gore's 2000 presidential campaign, infamously saying that they weren't going to "let the white boys win."

And she's a CNN contributor? Jeez, what a surprise. Curiously, to this day CNN has not done a story about whether Donna Brazile's then-candidate Al Gore was the "Anti-White" candidate. (I know what you're thinking: Wait, Al Gore is white! Silly reader, you're trying to look for logic in a statement made by a liberal!)

They are just throwing everything they can at Herman Cain until he goes down.

Racists.

Liberal Stupid-Ass Comment: Bill Press Compares Herman Cain to Jerry Sandusky

Who's Bill Press, you ask? Don't know. Don't care. Some lefty who used to be on CNN and has his own show somewhere. On his Friday broadcast he actually compared Herman Cain to Jerry Sandusky [h/t Brian Maloney at Radio Equalizer]: 

What's the difference, really? There's no difference, really. I mean, okay, we have maybe sexual assault in the case of Sandusky, but let me tell you something, assuming, and if what Sharon Bialek says is correct, that's a lot more than sexual harassment on Herman Cain's part. That's sexual assault on his part. I think any lawyer would tell you that. So I just get sick of these right-wingers trying to defend this guy when five different women come forward. Five different women come forward! Same story. You're just believe him?

So with nothing but hearsay from two very suspicious and opportunistic women, Press made this offensively inapt comparison.

The racist.

 

This Whole Cain Harassment Thing Stinks

This whole gaggle of Cain accusers suddenly out of the woodwork stinks. To high heaven.

First, by Michael J. Fell at the Colony Rabble blog:

Don’t be concerned that one accuser currently serves as a communications director at the Inspector General’s Office of the Treasury Department, a position she has held since last year.   A member of the “progressive” administration leveling charges against a Conservative political opponent?  There’s nothing to see here folks.  Zero possibility of conflict of interest.

Never mind that Gloria Allred pigeon Sharon Bialek, who has a history of financial troubles and legal squabbles, who has been described as a complete gold digger; the day after making her accusations enjoyed her fifteen minutes of fame spending her waking hours smiling her way through the morning TV rounds.  This is just business as usual in reality TV America.  There is absolutely nothing out of the ordinary about this.  Perhaps if she plays her cards right she’ll get a shot at a Kardashian style wedding scam someday.

Never mind that Bialek lived in the same Chicago building as top White House aid David Axlerod.  That’s purely coincidence.  She just happened to live there.  Big deal.  You know, like the current White House occupant just happened to live in the same neighborhood as 1960′s Weather Underground radical and unrepentant terrorist Bill Ayers?  Nothing to worry about.  That was ”handled” by the “progressive” Party Pravda back in 2008 when they demonstrated full blown journalistic incompetence by repeating the “progressive” campaign’s claim that Ayers was “just a guy who lives in my neighborhood” ad nauseum.

Don’t concern yourself with the fact that Bialek met publicly with Cain just a month ago at a Tea Party event, an encounter witnessed by WIND radio co-host Amy Jacobson, who described it this way: “It looked sort of flirtatious,I mean they were hugging. But she could have been giving him the kiss of death for all I know. I had no idea what they were talking about, but she was inches from his ear.” ...

And my girl Ann (Coulter) smells the B.S. all the way from Chicago:

Herman Cain has spent his life living and working all over the country -- Indiana, Georgia, Minnesota, Nebraska, Kansas, Washington, D.C. -- but never in Chicago.

So it's curious that all the sexual harassment allegations against Cain emanate from Chicago: home of the Daley machine and Obama consigliere David Axelrod.

Suspicions had already fallen on Sheila O'Grady, who is close with David Axelrod and went straight from being former Chicago mayor Richard M. Daley's chief of staff to president of the Illinois Restaurant Association (IRA), as being the person who dug up Herman Cain's personnel records from the National Restaurant Association (NRA).

The Daley-controlled IRA works hand-in-glove with the NRA. And strangely enough, Cain's short, three-year tenure at the NRA is evidently the only period in his decades-long career during which he's alleged to have been a sexual predator.

After O'Grady's name surfaced in connection with the miraculous appearance of Cain's personnel files from the NRA, she issued a Clintonesque denial of any involvement in producing them -- by vigorously denying that she knew Cain when he was at the NRA. (Duh.)

And now, after a week of conservative eye-rolling over unspecified, anonymous accusations against Cain, we've suddenly got very specific sexual assault allegations from an all-new accuser out of ... Chicago.

Herman Cain has never lived in Chicago. But you know who has? David Axelrod! And guess who lived in Axelrod's very building? Right again: Cain's latest accuser, Sharon Bialek.

Bialek's accusations were certainly specific. But they also demonstrated why anonymous accusations are worthless.

Within 24 hours of Bialek's press conference, friends and acquaintances of hers stepped forward to say that she's a "gold-digger," that she was constantly in financial trouble -- having filed for personal bankruptcy twice -- and, of course, that she had lived in Axelrod's apartment building at 505 North Lake Shore Drive, where, she admits, she knew the man The New York Times calls Obama's "hired muscle."

Throw in some federal tax evasion, and she's Obama's next Cabinet pick.

The reason all this is relevant is that both Axelrod and Daley have a history of smearing political opponents by digging up claims of sexual misconduct against them. ...

From his press conference Monday evening I was even more convinced that Herman Cain is completely innocent of these ridiculous smears. I'm also becoming more convinced that this is a Democrat-media smear campaign of a black conservative. Nothing less.

Let the facts yet to come prove me wrong.

 

 

Liberal Media Bias: The MSM's Curious Scandal Coverage Disparity

Noel Sheppard at NewsBusters noted yesterday that the three major network news stations have done more reports on Herman Cain's sexual harassment scandal in one week (84) than they ever did on three scandals of candidate Obama: His relationship with unrepentant domestic terrorist Bill Ayers (41), his relationship with his rabid anti-American and anti-Semitic "Reverend" of 20 years, Jeremiah Wright (82), and his relationship with Chicago slumlord Tony Rezko (40):

With this new allegation, it seems a metaphysical certitude that the networks' coverage of the Cain "scandal" will soon surpass their combined reports of all three of Obama's.

Exactly how do the heads of these news outlets explain this glaring disparity in coverage?

Gee, I dunno. Couldn't be 'cuz, as usual, the mainstream media's taken sides???

And it's not just Obama the MSM dutifully provided cover for. Andrew Klavan at PJ Media reminds us:

In 1998, when Newsweek reporter Michael Isikoff got the full details of President Bill Clinton’s adulterous affair with a 21-year-old intern, the magazine killed the story, leaving the nascent new media, in the person of The Drudge Report, to bring it to light. In 2007, when John Edwards was still a viable Democratic presidential candidate, the National Enquirer broke the news of his illicit affair and illegitimate child, but the mainstream media actually covered it up, with one CNN journalist explaining it was “unimportant.”

And yet when the left wing news website Politico recently published anonymous allegations about 10-year-old sexual harassment complaints against Cain, the mainstream media lit up like a Christmas tree. For a week, the aforementioned CNN and the other left wing outlets went wall-to-wall with the charges. And now, with Sharon Bialek finally stepping forward to make more detailed accusations in person—accusations Cain wholly denies—we can be sure the story will remain explosive for some time to come.

Not only is the news coverage of alleged sexual misconduct different according to political affiliation, the consequences of actual misconduct are often quite different as well. Republican congressman Mark Foley sent suggestive emails to male pages; he resigned under GOP pressure. Democratic congressman Gerry Studds actually had sex with one of the boys, then flung defiance at the House when they censured him; he was re-elected by Democrats until his retirement.

And what if a drunken Republican senator had accidentally dropped a car containing his adultery mate into the water? What if he had sauntered back to his hotel to clean up while the poor woman desperately pounded on the car window until she drowned horribly? Would conservatives have re-elected that man? Would they have declared that man “The Lion of the Senate?” The very idea makes one ill. Conservatives would have demanded his arrest and trial with a single voice. ...

So, with one hour before Cain publicly responds to the charges of one Ms. Sharon Bialek, it stands to be worth repeating that when it comes to Republican scandals (such as they are) vs. Democrat ones, the MSM have several times revealed their alliances.

MSNBC analyst: Cain popular with the right because 'he knows his place' [UPDATED 10/31]

Projection: One of the two official Defense Mechanisms of the Democrat Party (the other is Denial).

H/T Rick Moran at the American Thinker blog, via Weekly Standard: The Tea Party likes Herman Cain because he's a black man who knows his place? These are the words of a liberal racist named Karen Finney. She said it on MSWTF to a nodding, approving Martin Bashir.

Moran calls this a perfect example of projection. And he's right. It is racist liberals like Finney, Bashir, Garofalo, Matthews, Olbermann, and the rest of the MSWTF freak show who like blacks who know their place. That's precisely why they don't like Herman Cain.

To the racist Democrat left, the black man's place is stuck in crime-infested ghettos of the city, where poverty and unemployment is rampant and black-on-black crime is abysmally high.

To the racist Democrats, the black man's place is on multigenerational welfare and food stamps. 

To the racist Democrats, the black man's place is on line by the thousands just to get an application -- not actual money but just an application for money!  --  for housing money from the gubmint.

... as well as waiting on line by the thousands to apply for jobs.

To the the racist Democrats, the black man's place is in failed public schools rather than being given Republican-supported vouchers to go to schools of their choice. The current black illiteracy rates are totally fine to the Democrats. Keep 'em stupid, keep 'em controlled, right, you folks at MSWTF?

To the the racist Democrats, the black man's place is in gangs and racist violent organizations like the New Black Panthers, whose president was caught on video engaging in voter intimidation wielding a club at a Philadelphia voting site in 2008 and on another video shouting that "white cracker" babies should be killed.

So as long as black Americans stay on welfare and food stamps, in urban hell-holes where crime is high and blacks are killed by other blacks, where they "graduate" dilapidated public high schools virtually illiterate, where their only hope for relief is standing on line with thousands of other blacks signing up to get money that the government stole from other Americans, to fall in with gangs and violent racist groups.

And vote Democrat. Ninety-freaking-percent of them.

Actually in a way they're right. I like Herman Cain because he does know his place: His place to me is as an upstanding, educated, successful, and patriotic man of good character who has lifted himself up from his bootstraps and went from being dirt poor in the segregated South to being a millionaire.

Herman Cain is has two college degrees. He's held executive corporate positions for three decades. He's been a successful talk show host. And now he's on top of several polls for the GOP presidential nomination. That's a place I like to see any decent American regardless of his color.

Herman Cain was smart enough to escape the Democrat plantation. Racist Democrats like Karen Finney and Martin Bashir will be damned if he gets away with it. So they project their own racism onto the Right by claiming their support for Cain is because he knows his place.

UPDATE 10/31. Columnists and bloggers continue to weigh in:

Bob Beauprez at TownHall informs us that:

Karen Finney is not just any Democrat; she was the spokeswoman for the Democrat National Committee, served in the Clinton White House, was the press secretary for Hillary Clinton's New York Senate race, and is a veteran of four Presidential Campaigns. ...

In her attempt to disparage both Herman Cain and the Republican Party, Finney actually told us volumes about herself and the Democrat Party for which she was the designated singular voice. 

 James Taranto at WSJ's Best of the Web:

Like some others on the left, [Finney] accuses Cain's supporters of backing him because they are racist. That the targets of such a charge would find it offensive is understandable though not interesting. What is interesting is that she made a mind-bogglingly illogical statement on national television, and the host meekly accepted it.

Think about what she said: "I think they like him because they think he's a black man who knows his place." In reality, he is a black man who thinks his place is in the White House. If Herman Cain is "a black man who knows his place," then so is Barack Obama.

 

Liberal/Democrat Racism Toward Herman Cain Already in Full Force

I hear people keep asking if liberals/Democrats really believe the crap they spew daily. For instance, are the Democrat-media complex aware of their hypocrisy as they credit President Hope&Change for the killing of Muammar Qaddafi when several months ago — and remember : this operation was only to take “days, not weeks” — they were dutifully parroting the president’s promise that U.S. troops were not directly involved in the Libyan invasion?

Does President Hope&Change even care what a hypocrite he looks like when, after the Democrat-media complex blamed the likes of Sarah Palin and right-wing radio for creating an air of “incivility,” he goes around the country praising figures who call his ideological opponents “sons of bitches” and “barbarians at the gate,” and voices his support for the hate-filled, violent and destructive Occupy Wall Street?

Does Veep Biden realize what an imbecile he looks like when he accuses Republicans of being responsible for violent crimes and robberies in cities like Flint, Michigan when it has precisely been liberal Democrats like Biden who for 40+ freaking years have enacted policies that have aided and abetted such crimes and coddled their perpetrators?

Does Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid realize what a moron he looks like when he actually states with a straight face that the private sector is doing fine, that it’s the public sector that needs rescuing? (Oh did you hear, this week Washington, D.C. became the nation’s richest city.)

Do the DBF* media realize what blatantly biased Democrat mouthpieces they are when they continue to act as cheerleaders for the hateful, violent, extremist Occupy protests while at the same time smearing the peaceful, patriotic Tea Party as such?

Do the “fleabaggers” attending the Occupy protests realize (or even care) that, if they are truly angry about the state of the economy and unemployment in this country, they are aiming their rage at the wrong targets?

Do the Occupiers realize what hypocrites they are when they are joined by multi-millionaires like Michael Moore, Susan Sarandon, Russell Simmons, and Kanye West? Multi-millionaires

Yes, to be a liberal Democrat means to occupy a world irrevocably divorced from reality and to act like an utter hypocrite.

But while all the above are examples of this, the one that takes the cake is the Democrat-media complex’s treatment of Herman Cain. For seven years now, they have worshiped Barack Hussein Obama like a god and willingly ignored (or openly celebrated) his radical Marxist-socialist past.

And anyone who had the audacity to criticize President Golden Calf, from Rush Limbaugh to the Tea Party, were smeared as hateful racists who “just don’t like a black man in the White House.” The news media like the NY Times and MSNBC still say it. Self-appointed spokespeople for the black community like Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton say it. And celebrity blowhards like Jeneane Garofalo, Joy Behar, Harry Belafonte, Morgan Freeman and Samuel L. Jackson say it.

Liberal/Democrats’ Public Enemy #1

So now that Herman Cain is hitting the top of the GOP polls, what do all these wizards of smart have to say? First, political genius Jeneane Garofalo told an approving Keith Olbermann that the Tea Party was supporting Cain simply to hide their racism. Karl Rove, she went on to say, keeps his racism very covert. Which is weird since Rove is an establishment “Beltway” Republican and is most likely not even backing a Tea Party conservative like Cain, just as he was not supporting a Sarah Palin candidacy.

O.K., whatever helps you sleep at night, Jeneane.

But what is the most hypocritical is how the Democrat-media complex are themselves treating Herman Cain. All the racism and condescension and hostility they projected upon Obama’s critics they are now all overtly enacting upon Cain!

On MSNBC Lawrence O’Donnell conducted a thoroughly insulting, abusive and condescending interview with Cain. (To its credit, the left-leaning Atlantic called O’Donnell out on that.)

Even more outrageously, people have called Cain—a black man, mind you—a “bigot” and a “racist.” (Wait, I didn’t think black people could be racists. I’m so confused!) Among those hurling those accusations are the Obama-worshiping NY Times, the Obama-worshiping Time Magazine, and the Obama-worshiping NY Times again.

Democrat strategist Cornell Belcher has even called into question the authenticity of Cain’s blackness, as has Princeton’s most humiliating hire, “Professor” Cornel West and PBS’s affirmative action hire Tavis Smiley. Hugo Chávez’s pal Harry Belafonte has called him a “bad apple” and a “false Negro.”

A nice Yahoo! News contributor even declares that Herman Cain’s existence proves that “minorities can be racist too.” (Isn’t that nice? I wonder where this cupcake was when Obama was palling around with Malik Zulu “Kill Cracker Babies!” Shabbazz and the New Black Panthers. Where is she while Obama’s A.G. Eric Holder has made it the official policy of the DOJ not to pursue cases with black defendants such as the aforementioned New Black Panthers?)

It’s already started, people. Just as Sarah Palin was the target of the most hateful, sexist, misogynist, and violent rhetoric from the Democrat-media complex, so is Herman Cain already getting the “lynch the n*gger” treatment from the same people. And it’s going to get worse and worse.

Just sit back and watch the racism continue to come from the party of slavery, KKK, and Jim Crow from now until 2012. Herman Cain is on a roll and if there’s one thing the Democrat Party can’t stand, it’s a black man who’s left the plantation. If Herman Cain happens to win the GOP nomination and then capture the White House, watch the Democrats expose their hate and racism even more.

Related reading: Cain in the Cross-Hairs (Robert Stacy McCain)

*DBF = Democrat-b*tt-f**king

Liberal Stupid-Ass Comment: D.L. Hughley Tweets Offensive Comments About Herman Cain

Gee, the Hollywood A-(hole) List gets longer and longer and longer. Last Saturday, after The Herminator trounced in the Florida straw poll, pundit George Will said it would make liberals' heads explode. And indeed it has.

First, actor Morgan Freeman -- who, after playing roles like "Crazy" Joe Clark in the movie Lean On Me and other movies that send a wholly Republican message -- bashed the Tea Party as a bunch of racists.

At least the DBF media reported that comment. But there was apparently a Tweet by black actor D.L. Hughley that has stayed under the media radar for an entire week already.

Crystal Wright, who blogs at ConservativeBlackChick.com, writes at the Daily Caller:

Black comedian D.L. Hughley is at it again, making racist and incendiary comments about Republicans. Apparently, Herman Cain’s victory in the GOP Florida straw poll was too much for the liberal-minded Hughley to bear. On September 27, Hughley launched into a stream of demeaning, racially charged tweets about Cain on his Twitter account @RealDLHughley, which his loyal followers responded to in kind. You may remember Hughley’s fleeting CNN talk show was cancelled in 2009 because he said during an interview with former RNC Chairman Michael Steele “the Republican National Convention literally looks like Nazi Germany.”

Literally, Mr. Hughley? They were actually wearing Nazi uniforms and swastika armbands? Were theyliterally marching in goose step and burning books and rounding up Jews and throwing them into cattle cars, Mr. Hughley?

No, of course not. The only thing that made the RNC Convention "literally look like Nazi Germany" as that the attendees were predominantly (but not all) white. For some reason this has become a sin to the mentally deranged left. So, to Dem-wits like Hughley, being white = being a Nazi. He's judging a group of people purely by their skin color. Don't know about you, but that sounds pretty freaking racist to me!

Wright goes on:

Hughley’s tirade against Cain may have gone unnoticed were it not for @blackrepublican tweeting about Hughley’s incendiary commentary. “Herman Cain won the Florida straw poll by a lot! I loved Herman Cain when he played Mr. Gaines on a different World,” Hughley tweeted. This prompted other tweets by Hughley and his followers that implied Cain was an Uncle Tom and not REALLY black because he is a conservative who doesn’t choose to believe in Democrat plantation policies that keep blacks economically oppressed.

Apparently, Hughley was too absorbed in his racist Twitter banter to notice a recent Rasmussen poll that found Cain trailing Obama by just 5% in a hypothetical match-up.

Several tweets later, Hughley wrote:

Here are some other tweets from this genius:

This enticed others to compare Cain to the “original Cream of Wheat,” “Stepin Fetchit” and the “butler in Gone with the Wind” — all of which conjure up demeaning, racist caricatures used during the pre- and post-Civil War era to describe the “dutiful slave.”

It’s shocking that, in the 21st century, blacks would so viciously attack a black man because he didn’t agree with their politics. Martin Luther King Jr. would be horrified because this isn’t the freedom he fought and died for.

Even more surprising is the fact that Hughley hasn’t removed or denounced any of the tweets, particularly the one which makes an offensive reference to Sarah Palin.

Most shocking of all, the liberal media has completely ignored the story. If the shoes were reversed and a white conservative comedian or radio host like Rush Limbaugh authored and incited such offensive commentary about Barack Obama or a black Democrat, the left-wing news media and politicians would be outraged. They’d demand apologies, firings and boycotts. But when a black comedian says racist things about a black Republican, he gets a free pass.

Indeed. In fact, in order to brand Rush and other conservatives as racist, the left has needed to make up racist quotes out of whole cloth and propagate them as fact. That's how morally corrupt the Democrat left has become.

And now, as we are seeing, being black does not protect Herman Cain from racist and offensive comments. Just ask Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas.

While the liberal establishment is busy protecting the double standard, their policies are doing nothing to create jobs for the 16.7% of blacks and 45.6% of black teens who are unemployed. Instead of mocking black conservatives, maybe it’s time for black liberals to turn their attention to some new ideas. After all, the Democrat hand of government isn’t helping blacks rise up. It’s only keeping them enslaved and dependent on a promise that is never realized.

Amen, sister.

I hope Herman Cain gets the GOP nomination. And I hope more black Americans wake up and realize the shackles their Democrat massas have kept them locked up in all these years. 

Liberal Media Bias: ABC's Racism and Condescension Toward Cain [UPDATED]

If ABC News spoke of Barack Hussein Obama they way they did about Herman Cain, the Democrat-media complex -- ABC included! -- would've crushed them.

But it's true: As Scott Whitlock at NewsBusters reports, John Hendren at ABC News said that "nobody" won Saturday's Florida straw poll (the one where Cain got 37% of the vote). Got that? Herman Cain is a nobody. No one worth noting, not mentioning, not giving credit to.

When he actually called Cain by name, Hendren referred to him as a "pizza baron". Got that also? "Baron" = evil greedy rich guy who you should viscerally hate and want to get even with.

As usual for a DBF* media outlet, only Cain's pizza experience was mentioned. Nothing about him being an executive at Pillsbury or Burger King or president of the National Restaurant Association.

What a condescending piece of sh*t. And racist.

Let me tell you who is a real nobody, Hendren: Barack Hussein Obama is a nobody. Jesse Jackson is a nobody. Al Sharpton is a nobody. The incompetent race-baiting Marxist-socialist Castro-loving members of the Congressional Black Caucus are nobodies. Or they would have been were it not for lib media whores like ABC News giving them years of undeserved legitimacy.

Herman Cain is not a nobody. And when (hopefully) he wins the GOP nomination and ultimately the presidential election against the current nobody president, you will eat crow and I will enjoy watching it.

* DBF = Democrat-butt-f**king

UPDATE: [H/T The American Glob blog]: The Politico apparently thinks Herman Cain is a nobody as well. Look who they omitted from their web page on the GOP race:

Can we call them racists now? Why the hell not?

Herman Cain's Florida Win: The Pundits Speak

Alexis Garcia at PJM "Tatler" blog has this to say at Herman Cain's win in Florida [bold mine]:

What Mr. Cain’s straw poll victory tells me is a couple things: 1) The GOP field is hardly settled and the race is wide open and 2) the Tea Party, not the media nor the Republican establishment, will determine the candidate in this election. PJTV has been following Mr. Cain’s candidacy (as well as the Tea Party) since it’s early days. On several occasions, I’ve had the pleasure of interviewing Mr. Cain and watching him on the stump around the country — from CPAC in Washington, D.C.; to the Smart Girl Summit in St. Louis; to Freedom Fest in Las Vegas (video here); and at Congressman Steve King’s conference in Des Moines.

What struck me about Mr. Cain in his appearances was his ability to connect with the crowd and deliver a clear message about his vision of the proper role of government. Mr. Cain has a presence that is able to captivate his audience and evoke a response  – many times cheers and applause — in instances where many other candidates fall flat. (In fact, the two candidates I’ve seen do this well are Mr. Cain and Minnesota Congresswoman Michele Bachmann.) This observation is illustrated in Mr. Cain’s continually strong Gallup positive intensity scores. The latest measure shows Mr. Cain tied with Texas Governor Rick Perry at the top of the heap. The reason Mr. Cain is doing well right now is because his message is one that is resonating with voters. He has one intangible quality that many of the Republican candidates sorely lack: authenticity.

Can't disagree with that.

Cain Corner (9/24/11): Surging? [UPDATE: Hells Yeah!]

According to the blogosphere and punditry, Thursday's GOP debate in Orlando seemed to have hurt everyone but Herman Cain and Newt Gingrich. Everybody else seemed to have shot themselves in the foot in one way or another. Poor Rick Santorum. He (and the rest of the candidates plus the entire freaking audience!) can't get any break with the gay soldier question. It's not that he botched it; it was just another opportunity for the leftosphere -- that includes the mainstream media -- to bash him and all Republicans as homophobes. (I even tried to discuss the incident with an uber-liberal lesbian friend of mine. Forget it -- Waste of time!)

But it was Cain who really seemed to benefit both in pundit-pinion and poll-wise.

For instance, Erick Erickson at Red State, in a blog post titled "Herman Cain Won the Debate," wrote even before the debate officially ended:

The winner is Herman Cain. The audience loved him. Other than his question on Israel, Cain’s answers really were out of the park awesome. He provided the most uplifting moments and the most memorable lines, with substance included.

Also, following the debate, Ann Coulter and Dick Morris both tweeted positive things about Cain. Ann said he "crushed" (I'm assuming that's a good thing.)

Finally, Byron York writes this today in today's Washington Examiner:

ORLANDO -- There's no scientific polling, but talks with dozens of delegates who will vote in today's Florida straw poll suggest that many are making last-minute decisions to vote for Herman Cain.

What seems to be happening is this: A lot of delegates came to Orlando planning to vote for Rick Perry.  But Perry's poor performance at Thursday night's Fox News-Google debate gave them pause and re-opened the question of whom they will support.  And many of the conservatives who were attracted to Perry will, when asked for a second choice, naturally gravitate to Cain, who, it just happens, had a particularly good debate on Thursday.  So with Perry not commanding the loyalty he did just 48 hours ago, Cain appears to be picking up support.

It's not an exaggeration to say that everybody likes the Georgia businessman.  The question is whether delegates view him as an actual contender for the Republican nomination. At the moment, his support is at 5.6 percent in the RealClearPolitics average of polls, putting him in sixth place in the race, behind Perry, Romney, Paul, Bachmann and Gingrich.  Not exactly a juggernaut.

Given that, it is not at unusual at all for delegates here to say, "I love Herman Cain, but I just don't think he can win."  And that, to committed Cain supporters, is a source of great frustration. "Because of the people who say they love him but he can't get elected, it will be a self-fulfilling prophecy," says a man named Jimmy from Wilbur-By-The-Sea, Florida.  "If they would all just love him and support him and not say, 'Well, can't get elected so I'm going to pick Romney or Perry' -- if they would all just love him and get behind him, he'd be the guy."

Could Cain actually win?  It seems unlikely, but it's an outside possibility.  Cain's fortunes depend on whether the delegates here decide to vote strategically -- to support the candidate they consider the most likely to win the Republican nomination and go on to general-election victory -- or to vote their principles and let practical matters work themselves out later.  If the delegates go the latter route, a lot will choose Herman Cain.

This is all good news for us Cainiacs!

I hear too many people tell me: I love Herman Cain; I just don't think he can win. Well, what if all these people actually support him rather than just talk about liking him but doubting he can win? Then he will have a chance to win the candidacy, won't he!?

UPDATE: Linked from Drudge: Hermain Cain trounced the competition in the Florida straw poll. 37% of the 2,600-member vote! Second place Perry had less than half that at 15%. Way to go, Herm!

Cain Corner 8/27/11: Cain in Israel

This past week Herman Cain and his wife Gloria have been in Israel. The first two, from The Blaze, are of Cain at the Western Wall. The other two are of the Cains at the Yad Vashem Holocaust Memorial, taken from his Facebook page:

G0d bless you, Mr. Cain.

 

Cain Corner 8/13/11: Savage Nation Interview

Yes, it's been a while since I've done a "Cain Corner" ...

Thursday's GOP debate on Fox News was certainly interesting, and things will no doubt get more interesting today as the candidates show up in Ames, Iowa.

Despite the fact that Herman Cain, in my opinion, did not hurt himself Wednesday nor did he thrust himself any further, he is still my #1 choice. Right now the net is buzzing with predictions of a Bachmann, Romney, and even Ron Paul win today in Iowa. Cain isn't even in the mainstream GOP radar and that stinks. I firmly believe he is the only one able to beat Obama in 2012. Any other candidate will have to work extremely hard to squeak by a win. That's my opinion.

In other news, here is a pretty good interview Herm gave yesterday evening with Michael Savage at the Savage Nation:

Cain Corner (7/5/11): Speech at "We the People" Convention

I'm still gunning for this guy. Wholeheartedly.

Here's Herm delivering the keynote address at the "We the People" convention in Columbus, OH on July 2. It's about 30 minutes long. Those familiar with his speeches will no doubt hear replays of oldies but goodies (like "a leader, not a reader" and "health care DEform"). As usual, he stirs up the crowd and leaves them inspired.

People keep criticizes Herman Cain (especially those Ron Paul fanatics; I'm sorry but Ron Paul has no business running on the Republican ticket. The man is a staunch libertarian. Get off the GOP train, Ron Paul. You don't belong here!)

There are those who blow out of proportion things like Cain's employment with the K.C. Fed. If Herman Cain was himself part of any underhandedness that went on in the Fed, I'd sure like to see the evidence!

There are those who ridicule his candidacy because he hasn't raised as much money as Mitt moneybags Romney (and let's not even talk about President Hope&Change's billion dollar reelection campaign).

And there are those who consider the fact that Cain has never held public office a detriment. I, by stark contrast, call that one of Cain's advantages.

The GOP nomination is still a whole year away. Let the race continue and the best person win.

Liberal Hypocrisy: Jon Stewart Goes "Amos" on Cain; Liberals Laugh

Bernard Goldberg says everything I've been thinking ever since Jon Stewart mocked Herman Cain to a rolling-on-the-floor (presumably mostly liberal) audience. First, he correctly points out the blatant double standard:

Let’s say a white guy goes on television, puts on an exaggerated Amos ‘n Andy “black voice” and proceeds to make fun of a black man whose politics the white guy doesn’t like. Actually, let’s say he goes beyond merely making fun of the black man. Let’s say he tries to make the black man sound downright stupid. Does that make the white guy a racist?

The correct answer is … it depends.

If the white guy is Rush Limbaugh and the black man is Barack Obama, then of course the white guy is a racist — according to liberals.

But if the white guy is Jon Stewart and the black man is Herman Cain, the conservative businessman seeking the Republican nomination for president, well, then, that’s another story.

The other night Jon Stewart went on his show, and while he didn’t put on blackface makeup and start tap dancing he did put on a “black voice” and proceeded to mock Mr. Cain in a way that would never be tolerated if a conservative had done it.

Yet liberals didn’t scream “racist” the way they do when they see some guy at a Tea Party rally or when conservatives so much as look askance at Barack Obama. Instead, they laughed. For them, it was a regular riot when Jon Stewart, someone they adore, made that conservative black guy sound like a dopey character in a minstrel show.

But why isn’t Jon Stewart a bigot, when Limbaugh and Hannity and O’Reilly would be tagged as racists if they had done the very same thing? That’s easy. Because Jon Stewart is a liberal and liberals aren’t racists. It’s a physical impossibility. Only conservatives are racists. And if you don’t believe me, ask any liberal.

Yes, this is really, really dumb, but liberals really, really believe it. This delusion stems from a deeply held belief that liberals are not just right about the issues and conservatives just wrong. It goes way beyond that. Liberals believe they’re morally superior to conservatives. And morally superior people are never racists. Racism is the domain of morally inferior people — you know … conservatives. 

Then Goldberg discusses why liberals like Stewart dislike Herman Cain:

But we all know what Herman Cain’s real sin is, why liberals think he’s fair game. He’s a black man who has strayed from the liberal plantation. And that is something liberal elites — the supposed benefactors of black people in America — have a tough time dealing with.

Finally, a strategy in response to liberal criticism of black conservatives:

On the O’Reilly Factor recently, I told Juan Williams who was sitting in for Bill, that conservatives should do what liberals have been doing for years — they should play fast and loose with the word “racist.” They should promiscuously call every liberal who criticizes Herman Cain — or any other conservative black man — a racist. Not because it’s true, but precisely because it’s a lie.

Let’s see how those superior liberals feel when they’re the ones being slandered, when they’re the ones being maligned as racists simply because they oppose a black man’s conservative policies. Let’s see if they recognize that they’re the ones who perfected this form of slander, by calling conservatives racists simply because we disagree with President Obama’s liberal policies.

So, is Jon Stewart a racist for doing his Amos ‘n Andy routine to make fun of Herman Cain? Yes! Absolutely! And I will say that over and over again, every chance I get — even though I don’t believe it. And I won’t stop until my liberal friends finally get it. 

I’ve thought of doing precisely this for quite a while. If liberals’ everyday speech comprise of phrases like “that racist George W. Bush!” or “that sexist Rush Limbaugh!” when neither such character assassination is warranted, why can’t conservatives do the same to liberals?

After all, not only did Jon Stewart pull the Amos n’ Andy routine that would’ve gotten any conservative fired in about six-and-a-half seconds, but notice he also accused Herman Cain of not knowing how to read, or at least not liking to read. Can you imagine if a <i>conservative</i> suggested that a black person had a problem with reading? He would be fired in <i>four</i>-and-a-half seconds! But, as Goldberg argues, Stewart gets away with that too because he’s a liberal and liberals by default aren’t racists.

To quote an old Bill Cosby routine: Right!

Incidentally, Stewart is so intelligent (like Obama) that he either misunderstood or misrepresented Cain’s demand for three-page Congressional bills. Cain was making a very reasonable and cogent argument; only a liberal like Stewart wouldn’t get it. Why he or his audience even thought that bit was funny is beyond me. It would almost be as stupid as if a liberal misunderstood or misrepresented the “three-fifths” clause of the Constitution. Oh, wait …

So from now on, perhaps I will say “that racist Jon Stewart!” And also “that racist Joe Biden.” Not only did he call Obama a “clean, articulate” black man—as opposed to an ebonics-speaking thug lookin’ like a fool with his pants on the ground—but he also said you couldn’t go into a 7-11 without an Indian accent. This is the man Obama picked as V.P.!?

From now on, I could easily speak of “that sexist Bill Maher” and “that sexist Bill Clinton.” And I’d be much closer to the truth. Rush Limbaugh has never called a woman a “tw@t,” let alone a stupid one, as Maher did recently before a laughing (and presumably mostly liberal) audience. He certainly hasn’t faced credible accusations of sexual assault by several women over the span of a decade, as Clinton has.

To conclude, then, I’d say I agree with this entire Bernie Goldberg article except for one thing: When he threatens to wantonly call liberals racist he says he does it because he knows it’s a lie. If I were to start doing it, it would be because I believe it’s the truth.

P.S. Herman Cain did appear on Fox & Friends and said he didn’t think Jon Stewart’s comedy “act” was racist. I think Cain is giving him too much credit.

 

 

 

 

 

Cain Corner 6/15/11: To Know Him Is to Love Him II

I have to admit, I've been a little worried about Cain since the last CC post. One week ago Gallup had him at 40% recognition rating -- among the lowest of the GOP hopefuls -- and a 25 positive intensity (P.I.) score -- the highest by far of all the candidates.

A lot has changed since then. First, last week on CBS News Cain said that homosexuality is a "sin" and a "choice". Even as a staunch conservative, I don't agree with either description and can't condone those statements. And that's going to bite him in the butt politically because it's going to repel the independents (that's my unprofessional opinion).

Cain is also still taking heat from his comments on requiring a loyalty oath to the Constitution (not the Koran) from Muslims seeking positions in his administration. I understand where he's coming from on this, but on the flip side can see how it could rub potential voters the wrong way.

Even among the right Cain is getting criticism for alleged deficincies. Jonathan Tobin at Commentary is thoroughly unimpressed with his foreign policy knowledge, such as the Palestinian "right of return" issue. I don't hold that against Cain (or any candidate for that matter). I really don't expect non-Jews to know what "right of return" is any more than a Jew might know about, say, the intricacies of the papacy. Barack Obama had no foreign policy knowledge prior to the presidency -- and he still doesn't in my opinion -- but that didn't stop hoardes of gaga Americans from supporting him.

Why am I airing all this dirty laundry? Because for one, even though I wear my politics on my sleeve I try to be realistic and intellectually honest. And secondly, we're all human and a candidate isn't going to succeed at being all things to all people. Is Herman Cain perfect? Of course not. But I still firmly believe he is one of the best candidates in the GOP right now.

There's a third reason why I bring all this up. It appears that despite these flaws, the latest Gallup poll nevertheless has Cain at a 41% recognition rating (surprisingly just a blip up from last week) but a huge jump in P.I. from 25 to 29. This is still the highest of all the Republican candidates including Romney and Bachmann, whose P.I. scores Gallup has at just below 20:

Notice that this is before Monday the 13th's debate in New Hampshire, at which Michelle Bachmann publicly announced her candidacy, and at which I believe Cain didn't particularly wow the crowd, but didn't underwhelm either; he was basically right down the middle, I'd say.

So we'll see what people continue to say about Herman Cain in the week to come. For now, he is still my #1 pick. He's a strong, smart, (usually) eloquent, passionate, and patriotic problem solver. Exactly who we need in this White House.