He referred to Minority Speaker Nancy Pelosi as Princess Nancy and had to back track on that little remark. The latest is Anita Hill comment. At a meet-and-greet in Michigan, GOP presidential candidate Herman Cain laughed with his audience at the prospect of an endorsement by Anita Hill – the woman who accused U.S. Supreme Court nominee Clarence Thomas of improprieties.
Herman Cain on Anita Hill Joke: ‘I Got a Laugh Out of It..On Friday, following an event in Kalamazoo, Mich., Cain was caught joking with supporters about Anita Hill, wondering whether the lawyer who accused Clarence Thomas of sexual harassment in 1991, a case many are comparing to his ongoing scandal, would endorse him.Cain told Cavuto that he found one of the comments from a supporter to be hilarious. Cain said of his joke, “That was funny. That was hilarious because I would never in my wildest dreams expect her to endorse me. He got a laugh out of it. I got a laugh out of it.”
Fox News showed the video last night:Newt Gingrich takes exception to Herman Cain joke about Anita Hill
One of his rivals – Newt Gingrich — was not amused. The former U.S. House speaker’s reaction, on Laura Ingraham’s radio show this afternoon, was noted by Alexander Burns of Politico.com:
The First Joke..Moat and Alligator's along the avenue President Obama in his speech in El Paso.be ###
I just got back from China. Ever heard of the Great Wall of China? It looks pretty sturdy. And that sucker is real high. I think we can build one if we want to! We have put a man on the moon, we can build a fence! Now, my fence might be part Great Wall and part electrical technology. . . . Put me in charge of the fence and it will be a twenty foot wall, barbed wire, electrified on the top. And on this side of the fence, I’d have that moat that President Obama talked about. And I would put those alligators in that moat! Watch the clip below from Think Progress:CAIN'S IN DEFENDING ALLEGATIONS OF SEXUAL HARASSMENT..
The second joke If President I would build an electrified all along the border and kill those who tried to cross.CAIN AMERICANS NEED TO LEARN HOW TO TAKE A JOKE..Cain raised eyebrows last week when he told audiences at two campaign rallies in Tennessee that he would “secure the border for real” with a fence that could deliver a lethal charge of electricity.“It’s going to be 20 feet high. It’s going to have barbed wire on the top. It’s going to be electrified. And there’s going to be a sign on the other side saying, ‘It will kill you — Warning.’” At an earlier rally, on the campus of Tennessee Tech University in Cookeville, Tenn., he added that the sign would be written “in English and in Spanish.”During an interview on NBC’s “Meet the Press,” Cain said “That was a joke ...That was not a serious plan.” He said he would address the problem of illegal immigration with “a combination of a physical fence, technology, and in some terrible areas we might have to put troops there. Cain's third joke in regard to Anita Hill.. Some things aren't a joking matter if you are a candidate for president. Cain Three Jokes and you are out .
The moment that Cain made that claim, one could almost feel a nation of skeptics suddenly looking for photographic evidence of these two individuals together.
Reporting for the Sun-Times, Michael Sneed reports on the recollection of local radio co-host Amy Jacobson, who claims to have seen Cain and Bialek back stage at a Chicago hotel:
The Sneed source … is WIND radio co-host Amy Jacobson, who tells Sneed she witnessed the Cain/Bialek encounter a month ago while backstage at the AM 560 WIND sponsored TeaCon meeting in Schaumburg Sept. 30-Oct. 1 at the Renaissance Hotel and Convention Center.There are many ways in which a cynical person can dismiss this report, not least of which is that even if Cain and Bialek shared a friendly encounter as Jacobson alleges, this in no way means that the GOP frontrunner would know or recognize his accuser a month later. Herman Cain is participating in a very busing schedule and likely comes in contact with hundreds and thousands
◆Quoth Jacobson: “I had turned on TV to find out who was Cain’s accuser, and I almost fell over when I saw it was Sharon Bialek accusing Cain of groping her genitals.”
“I was waiting for Herman Cain’s ‘Accuser No. 4’ to surface — and up pops Sharon!”
“I couldn’t believe it. I was shocked.”
“I recall Sharon was hell bent on going backstage at the TeaCon convention — where she cornered him,” said Jacobson.
of fans and supporters in the course of a day’s worth of campaigning.
Further, Amy Jacobson is an aspiring broadcast personality who will get loads of attention/promotion from inserting herself into this story. That is not to say that she is being duplicitous, but cynics will likely use that, perhaps unfairly, as circumstantial evidence that Cain is the real victim here. Glenn Beck interviewed Jacobson yesterday, a video of which you can see below. According to TheBlaze writer Jonathan Seidl the encounter between the two was intense:
Jacobson said Bialek “bum rushed” her to get to Cain while backstage at the event. That led to what she described as an intense encounter that you could “cut with a knife.” She said Bialek had Cain’s ear for two to three minutes, and after it was over, Bialek “stormed” off. That has led Jacobsen to conclude that Bialek was, in fact, confronting Cain about the alleged encounter.Video of Cain Press Conference
Watch the interview between Beck and Jacobson below:
Source: ABC
Related: Daily Mail
