The final word on Herman.

I was going to prepare an epitaph for Herman Cain's political tombstone tonight, but the more I tried to think of something to write, the more I came up with blanks. I never considered Herman Cain a serious candidate from the start, so it was difficult to formulate a serious argument about him.

Herman Cain never had a snowball's chance in Satan's home of winning the presidency of these divided states of A-merry-ca, and I suspect that he had to know that. If that's the case; the joke may be be on all of us. Like Sarah from Alaska, this was all a money making scheme for Herman from the start. Book deals, higher speaking engagement fees, and a television show on the news network for dummies is sure to come. And Herman will be smiling all the way to the bank. Hopefully he will be visit Jared and take care of the Mrs. after all the crap she put up with for him over these past few months.

There are some folks who saw Herman's run as some sort of republican conspiracy, and, who knows, they might be right. I wouldn't put anything past those people. This is NewsOne.com's West Coast Editor's take on the Herman Cain affair:

"Regardless of how you might have felt about Sharon Bialek or Karen Kraushaar, by the time Ginger White emerged, it was a wrap. Rather than face the firing squad alone, he walked out dragging his wife before the cameras. It was so sad. It was painful to watch.

The meteoric and mysterious rise of this largely unknown Black Republican was over. Herman Cain’s campaign went down harder than a groupie at a Lil Wayne concert. That the Republican Party would have any Black answer to the charismatic Barack Obama seemed so unlikely. But there he was. He was funny, relaxed in front of the cameras and clearly passionate. He was no dummy, did not come from a lot of money but made a lot of money selling pizza. He was everything your average Republican wanted to see in a Black candidate — almost. We all know when it comes to the Oval Office, almost is never good enough. It was a character assassination, no doubt.

But who was the triggerman? Meet Mark Block, Herman Cain’s campaign manager. This man is impressive. Mr. Block was the first 18-year-old ever elected to office in Wisconsin in 1974. In 1997 he was banned from politics in Wisconsin for three years and paid a $15,000 fine after being accused of violating election laws when he served as campaign manager for state Supreme Court Justice Jon P. Wilcox. Mark Block is powerful indeed. Yet he’s not powerful enough to get Cain on the national stage by himself.

In October of this year, an Associated Press story on Herman Cain explained some of the power behind the power “Cain’s campaign manager and a number of aides have worked for Americans for Prosperity, or AFP, the advocacy group founded with support from billionaire brothers Charles and David Koch, which lobbies for lower taxes and less government regulation and spending.”
If you don’t know the Koch brothers, that’s OK. For those that don’t know, they run a company called Koch Industries. Wikipedia says Koch Industries is a conglomerate that is the second-largest privately held company in the U.S. David Koch is recognized as a philanthropist. His personal worth was recently clocked around $22.5 billion. Cain was backed by hardcore conservative one percenters. Why would they want a Black man to run the free world?

With the backing of the Koch family, it looked like the game was locked for Cain. But someone, somewhere knew Cain had a weakness for women. They had to. How was it before his campaign got underway nobody said “Hey look, if we’re gonna do this we need to know if you have any side chicks, spring break video tapes, baby mommas- anything?” Somebody had to have done some homework.
When the story first broke, Cain blamed Perry:

“Mr. Cain, in an article published by Forbes on Wednesday afternoon, accused Curt Anderson — an aide with Mr. Cain’s 2004 Senate campaign in Georgia and now an adviser to Mr. Perry — of being the source. Mr. Cain recalled telling Mr. Anderson about the harassment charges in 2003.

“It was a typical campaign conversation,” Mr. Cain told Forbes. “I told him that there was only one case, one set of charges, one woman while I was at the National Restaurant Association. Those charges were baseless, but I thought he needed to know about them. I don’t recall anyone else being in the room when I told him.”

Perry denied the charges and promoted the idea that it was possibly Romney who pulled the trigger. But it really doesn’t matter now.

The question is why? The answer is simple. The Republican Party never wanted a Black man to lead, but they wanted to look like they did. After the RNC Chariman Michael Steele (a right wing token if we ever saw one) was bullied by Rush Limbaugh and cast aside like a rusty spittoon, there was no Black Republican leader to represent the right. Most of the candidates Black America knew from the right were either seen as Toms (like Steele) or just had no juice on the block. They needed a new guy. A charismatic guy. A Black guy who looked like he could win, but couldn’t. Herman Cain was that Black guy.

Ultimately, Herman Cain assassinated himself. Shot himself in the heart and took his wife with him. His infidelity is his to own and his to work out between his God and wife. He knew what was in his past. Only his ego, or the false support of those in on the hit, would make him believe he could get past the vetting of so many in such crucial times. As of now, there is no fingerprints, no weapon, no get away vehicle. Suspects? There are many. We have Mark Block, the Koch Brothers to Perry, Anderson, its a long list." [Source]

I will leave the conspiracy theories to other folks. Me, I am just glad that I don't have to watch another day of this Herman Cain soap opera: All My White Women.







 

Lazy Negro children, Herman goes home, and a birther holds a debate.

Newt is blowing his dog whistles already. I guess you can't take any chances with the base. It's always good to appeal to their prejudices and fears while you are on top.

"On Thursday, Newt Gingrich reaffirmed previous comments that child labor laws are “truly stupid.” At a campaign event in Iowa, Gingrich explained that poor children need to learn how to earn money, rather than get it illegally.
“They have no habit of ‘I do this and you give me cash’-unless it’s illegal,” Gingrich said, according to multiple reports of the event.

A few weeks ago, Gingrich proposed a program in which janitors’ unions in schools would be thrown out and replaced with poor children. This, Gingrich said, would allow these children to learn how to work — something he says they do not learn in their communities. “Really poor children, in really poor neighborhoods have no habits of working and have nobody around them who works so they have no habit of showing up on Monday,” Gingrich said Thursday." [Source]

Yes, those poor kids don't know how to work, as opposed to those rich ones who  bust their asses all day.

Dope!

I have a news flash for Newt: people in those "poor neighborhoods" work twice as hard as some of his neighbors and his fat ass. They just get paid minimum wage as opposed to the 1.7 million he gets for lecturing the folks at Fannie and Freddie about "history".    

Herman Cain is heading home to see his wife; apparently he hasn't spoken to her since Ginger surfaced.

I really feel sorry for that poor woman; Herman says that she didn't know that he was paying a lot of Ginger's bills. (But it wasn't an affair, because Herman is just a nice guy like that.)

Anyway, Herman says that he has a big announcement coming tomorrow.

We can't wait.   

Finally,Donald the Birther -working with some wingnut news outlet- is hosting his own debate on December 27, 2011, in Iowa. That should be a barrel of laughs. Donald really seems to have a grip on the republican party. All the major players have been to kiss his ring, and you get the feeling that they don't want Donald to fire them from his own political reality show. Let's call this one The republican Apprentice Candidates.

Good for Jon Huntsman. He told the clown from Birtherland to take a hike. Let's see who among the remaining republican candidates for president will do the same.   

Herman's latest adventure.

I am sure that you all have heard of Herman's latest missy adventure by now: A modern day Scarlett O'Hara from Atlanta named Ginger White (Yes, that's her name. I swear you can't make this stuff up.) is saying that Herman was her Rhett Butler for 13-years

Now I am going to shock some of you, but I am not going rip Herman Cain for his alleged affair. This is not like allegedly harassing women and making sexual advances towards them against their will. As Herman's lawyer said earlier tonight, this was something that happened between two consenting adults. Besides, a 13 year affair with someone other than his wife would not affect how Herman does his job as president. Some of our better presidents in A-merry-ca (See Bubba & JFK) were known philanderers. Hey, the man leading the GOP pack was cheating on his wife while she was dying for crying out loud.

Still, I am begging Herman to get out of the race. He is killing us married guys out here. Every time one of these stories hits the news we get the fuzzy eyeball from out significant other. That is not cool. He has got to know by now that he has no shot of ever winning the republican nomination. They just can't trust the guy anymore. He is ruining the republican brand. They have all got to be thinking the very same thing: "What's next?"

Finally, I knew that you A-merry-cans loved to shop. But this next story is a bit much:

"A Black Friday shopper who collapsed while shopping at a Target store in West Virginia went almost unnoticed as customers continued to hunt for bargain deals.
Walter Vance, the 61-year-old pharmacist, who reportedly suffered from a prior heart condition, later died in hospital, reports MSNBC.

Witnesses say some shoppers ignored and even walked over the man's body as they continued to shop, reports the New York Daily News.

Friends and co-workers saddened to learn of his death, expressed outrage over the way he was treated by shoppers.

"Where is the good Samaritan side of people?" Vance's co-worker Sue Compton told WSAZ-TV.

"How could you not notice someone was in trouble? I just don't understand if people didn't help what their reason was..." [Source]

Their reason was 50% off on the latest electronic tablet item. Santa has to put something under the tree.

Poor Walter, someone should have told him that shopping is serious business here in A-merry-ca. It's a matter of life and death.    

  

Et tu, T.G.I. Friday's?

WTF is wrong with these chain restaurants in A-merry-ca? First Applebee's, and now T.G.I. Friday's. (That's a shame; I actually like T.G.I. Friday's)

"NEW YORK — A New York man is suing TGIFriday’s for firing him after he told his boss he voted for Barack Obama in 2008.
Michael Verzillo, who is Black, claims his white boss, regional manager Tanya Edwards, launched a campaign against him after he revealed his vote and then fired him.

Verzillo, a 15-year company worker, said he was falsely charged with changing expiration dates on food and leaving early during a snowstorm.
“She sent me home two days before Christmas,’’ said Verzillo, and then fired him by phone." [Source]

Mr. Verzillo, if you worked for TGI Friday's for 15 years why weren't you managing the joint? Damn!

Anywhoo, next time keep who you vote for to yourself, because you never know who might be listening.

Speaking of never knowing who is listening, I know my man Mr. 9-9-9 is hoping that no one listens to an interview he did with a Wisconsin paper. Folks, please don't watch it, I am no fan of Herman Cain and I honestly felt sorry for the guy. (BTW, Herman, I told you that if you allegedly attacked a woman of a certain race this would happen.) Why do republicans think that they can just run for president and have zero knowledge about the world?

"Republican presidential candidate Herman Cain struggled to answer a question during an interview Monday when asked whether he supported President Barack Obama’s foreign policy in Libya.

A top aide said later Monday that Cain had not had enough sleep.  

The exchange over Libya with the Georgia businessman came during a meeting with the editorial board of the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel.

Cain hesitated when asked whether he agreed with Obama’s decision to back Libyan rebels in overthrowing Moammar Gadhafi. The longtime Libyan dictator was killed last month.

“I do not agree with the way he handled it for the following reason,” Cain said in the videotaped interview.

“Uh, nope that’s, that’s a different one,” said Cain, who fidgeted in his chair and crossed his legs. “See, I got to go back, see, got all this stuff twirling around in my head. Specifically what are you asking me, did I agree or not disagree with Obama?”' [Source]

If Herman didn't have enough sleep this might be why:

(CNN) -- A former boyfriend of Herman Cain accuser Sharon Bialek said Monday that she told him in 1997 that Cain touched her inappropriately after the pair had dinner together in Washington, D.C.

Dr. Victor Zuckerman told a news conference that Bialek came back to Chicago from the trip and told him what happened.

"When she returned, she was upset," Zuckerman said a news conference arranged by celebrity attorney Gloria Allred. "She said that something had happened and that Mr. Cain had touched her in an inappropriate manner...."

Zuckerman, a pediatrician, described himself as a registered Republican who is not supporting any candidate so far in the 2012 presidential campaign. He said he neither asked for nor received any money for going public with his support for Bialek's account of what happened.

When he heard of the sexual harassment allegations against Cain, first reported by Politico on October 30, Zuckerman called Bialek to ask if she was involved, he told the Monday news conference.

She told him no, but Zuckerman said when Bialek heard Cain's denial of any sexual harassment in his past, she was "livid."
"She felt she had to speak out," he said." [Source]

Do you know who the blond with the makeup by Glidden is now, Herman?

Finally, have any of you ever heard of Bounce TV? Don't worry, you are not alone.

Unfortunately, according to some folks who have been tuning to this new black digital television channel, it might be just more of the same.

I am still waiting for the all news black television network that focuses on A-merry-can and world news. The operative word being news. You Negroes like music and drama too damn much.    

More on Mr. 9-9-9 on 11-11-11

Today is Veterans Day, and every one of you reading this should take a minute or two to think about the men and women who have served this country.

The field has mad respect for all of them.

The field doesn't have any respect for Herman Cain. I don't know what really went on between him and those women, but his flip and cavalier attitude about this entire scandal (even using it to raise money) has been disgusting to watch.

He is like a character from a seventies black exploitation film. (I keep seeing him in that big hat that he likes to wear) All that's missing is the Courvoisier and a velvet covered love seat.

And now he is cracking jokes about Anita Hill:

"Republican presidential candidate Herman Cain — facing allegations of sexual harassment — is defending a joke he made about Anita Hill.

Cain said Friday he was approached at a recent event by a supporter who said Hill was trying to contact him.   

“And my response was ‘Is she going to endorse me?’” Cain said in an interview Friday on WGDJ-AM Albany, N.Y.

“He said it in a humorous way. I gave back a humorous response. It was in no way intended to be an insult toward Anita Hill or anybody else,” Cain said." [Source]

Herman seems to like to joke a lot. I guess that's why conservatives love him so much. There is nothing like a black man who likes to joke jig and laugh to keep some A-merry-cans entertained. There is one in every crowd. Sorry Herman, being president is no laughing matter. These are  serious f*&^%*g times!

I am not laughing with your simple behind, and I am pretty sure that most A-merry-cans echo that sentiment. Still, there are a lot of things you do that makes me want to laugh at you. Your 9-9-9 plan comes to mind. And the fact that you didn't realize that China has nuclear capabilities when in fact they have had it for over forty years. That one had me in stitches.

Meanwhile, two of the so called serious candidates in the republican primary were in New Hampshire demonstrating to the rest of us how they would lead our country.

"Republican presidential candidates Newt Gingrich and Rick Santorum participated in the Granite State Patriot’s Constitutional Conversation Thursday night, where the two were not short on criticism of President Obama’s interpretation of the constitution.

“What’s the biggest constitutional failing of the Obama administration?” the moderator asked Santorum. The crowd laughed as Santorum scratched his head for a moment with a perplexed look.

“This is going to be a much longer debate now,” Gingrich said.
“
Gingrich paused and said, “Not understanding which country he’s president of.”
The crowd erupted with applause and gave the only standing ovation of the night to Gingrich’s comment. Santorum followed up by saying “Obamacare.”....

..The discussion then turned to the role of religion in the constitution in relation to a civic society. Gingrich asked Santorum asked what steps he would take to create a virtuous society.

“I was in a church in Iowa and I walked into a conclave of pastors. The pastor was up there preaching revival, and in many respects that’s true, American needs a revival of the principles that made America the greatest country in the history of the world,” Santorum said." [Source]

"Preaching revivial"? A revival of what? Jobs? No. Decent health care? No. A better educational system? No. Better environmental protections? No. "The principles that made America the greatest country in the history of the world". Oh, well if you put it that way; let us all pray.

Penn State fires a legend, republican gaffes, and frat mobs run wild.

Drip; drip; drip; the hits just keep coming from "Happy Valley".  JoePa is gone. He tried to leave on his own terms, but the board of trustees wasn't trying to hear it. You are gone Joe! Thanks for the memories.

And let's take a little time out to give some credit to a real journalist out there, Mark Madden; the guy had this thing all figured out back in April. And now he has an even scarier message about what possibly went on at Penn State.

Pimping out young boys to wealthy donors??!! Lord please make this story not be true.

I watched the republican debate last night. And I know that everyone is talking about Mr. Big Hair's YouTube moment, (How can you not remember the name of an agency that you want to get rid of?)  but he wasn't the only one who messed up his lines.

Herman called former speaker Pelosi "Princess Nancy", (I didn't find it all that offensive, but apparently quite a few people took offense and saw the statement as being sexist) and he had to apologize.

And Flipper Mitt wanted us to know that he is not a "flip-flopper" because he has been married to the same woman for 42 years...oh wait, he flip-flopped on that as well:

 “I have been married to the same woman for 25 — excuse me, I will get in trouble, for 42 years. I have been in the same church my entire life,” added Mr. Romney. “I worked at one company, Bain, for 25 years. And I left that to go off and help save the Olympic Games.." [Source] 

Mitt, there is a big difference between 25 and 42. But we get it; you have a lot on your mind. It's not easy to keep up with all those ideological shifts. I just hope that your wife is not like the lovely Mrs. Field.

These republicans better stop debating. I just saw the latest Gallup poll and his Oness leads the generic republican by a percentage point. He was actually down by as much as eight points last month. I think the more A-merry-ca sees of these clowns is the less likely they are to vote for one of them.

Finally, did everyone see the Frat Mob up at Penn State last night? Those kids were turning over news vans and destroying property all because Penn State fired a man who might have helped to cover up the crimes of a child rapist. Nice.

But not all mobs are created equal. The kids in these mobs were more well educated and...well, nicer. At least they looked nicer. They were so....white. Unlike the hooligans who ran wild in urban A-merry-ca this past summer. They looked so mean and so......well, black. At least these kids aren't "ignorant and stupid" like those "byproducts of sperm donors". Ain't that right Mayor Nutter?

Did you hear the one about the blond and the pizza man?

Those of you who put your money on the fact that Herman tried to hook up with  missy can go ahead and collect.

Sorry Herman, but I think that your poll numbers are going to drop faster than your pants would have if missy had promised to play put the sausage on the pizza with you.

"I want you to come clean Mr. Cain," Bialek told a packed audience at the Friar's Club in New York City.

"Just admit what you did, admit that you were inappropriate to people," Bialek said while standing alongside her lawyer, celebrity legal eagle Gloria Allred.

Cain's campaign immediately shot back that Bialek's allegations were "completely false," and said they were focused on the economic issues facing the country.

Bialek, a Republican, said she had met the charismatic Cain at several restaurant association events.

She said Cain was charming and attentive to both her and her boyfriend at these events, so when she was fired from her job, her boyfriend suggested Bialek reach out to Cain.

Cain agreed to meet her, so Bialek said she traveled to Washington.

Since she had no job, Bialek said her boyfriend booked her a room at the Capitol Hilton. She expected a no-frills room — and was was stunned at the lavish suite she was given, and thought it was some kind of mistake.

She called Cain to let him know she had arrived, and he told her meet him in the lobby bar at 6:30 p.m. that evening in July, 1997.

"He asked me how I liked my room," Bialek said. "I said 'I was very surprised.'"

Cain "smirked" and said "I upgraded you."

He then took her out for dinner at an Italian restaurant and he asked "Why are you here?"

Bialek said she told him she had been fired from her job and that her boyfriend suggested Cain might be able to help her.

After dinner, Bialek and Cain got into his car, she said. He offered to show her the restaurant association's offices. But instead of going to headquarters, Cain parked the car.

"He suddenly reached over and he put his hand on my leg, under my skirt and reached for my genitals," Bialek said.

"He grabbed my head and brought it towards his crotch," she claimed.

"What are you doing...I have a boyfriend," Bialek remembered saying.

She said Cain's answer stunned her.

"You want a job, right?" Bialek recounted.

She said she told him to stop, which he did, and take her back to the hotel, which he did.

She then told her boyfriend at the time, and a businessman who was a friend and mentor, that Cain was sexually inappropriate."

Herman, I guess blonds don't always have more fun. [Story]

So now it will begin. We will hear what a liar this woman is, how she is a plant for the democrats, and how desperate she is for money, etc. etc. 

Then again, maybe not.  Because the thing that those of us familiar with how "color arousal" works in A-merry-ca have been saying all along, that would actually cook Herman's goose, is the color of his accusers. That color, of course, being....you know. 

Herman, I have some bad news for you: Yes, A-merry-ca loves their house Negroes, but, sadly for you, they love missy even more. Never forget that Herman: all the jigging in the  world can't buy you a sexually harass missy pass.

Finally, I am glad that another circus of a trial in L.A. is finally over. The good Doc is guilty, and he might have to spend some time behind bars. They cuffed him up right there at the bar of the court for all the world to see. I hope his lawyers had prepared him for that. Maybe they did. He didn't look too surprised.  

Outside people were cheering and I have to wonder why. Unless you were a Jackson family member, you had no business cheering this verdict. The good doc should take some responsibility for Jackson's death, but so should Jackson himself, and all the enablers (including other doctors, health care professionals, and family members) who contributed to Jackson moon walking right out of our lives.

Conrad Murray is an easy scapegoat; we have to blame somebody, because it's so hard for us to blame ourselves. But we are responsible for Jackson's death as well. Why? Because we are a part of this twisted culture that worships celebrity and puts unrealistic expectations on mere mortals to satisfy our own sick need to be a part of something bigger than ourselves. And when it all goes wrong we get some kind of sick pleasure and twisted enjoyment in watching the pain it brings to others.

Conrad Murray was on the receiving end of that today; he deserved it because he placed himself smack dab in the middle of the drama. We, on the other hand, just watched the drama play itself out. And judging from what I saw outside that courtroom today we enjoyed every sad morbid minute of it.      

    

  

Herman, and now Keith.

So the Herman Cain drama continues, and his conservative peeps are standing by their man. Herman has been telling anyone who will listen that he did not flirt or act inappropriately with that woman.

That woman's attorney, Joel Bennett, was on CNN today telling the world that his client stands by her accusations, and that Mr.9-9-9 knew exactly what he did.
(Poor Mr. Bennett says that he has been getting all kinds of nasty e-mails and phone threats from those God fearing conservatives since the scandal broke.) 

Mrs. Cain, bless her heart, has been standing by her man as well. But there is just so much a spouse can take.  

"Herman Cain's wife, Gloria Cain, has remained out of the spotlight throughout his presidential campaign. And now comes news that she has canceled a scheduled appearance on Fox News, the New York Times reports:

Ms. Cain had indicated to the network earlier in the week that she would appear on "On the Record with Greta Van Susteren" tomorrow night, but apparently had a change of heart. The person familiar with the talks, who requested anonymity to discuss private conversations, said that Ms. Cain did not entirely close the door on appearing on the network some time in the future." [Source]

Oh oh Herman, it might be time tighten up on the home front. At some point you are going to have to make an appearance with the Mrs by your side, if she is not there, it won't be a good look for you.

Sadly, Herman isn't the only brother facing sexual harassment complaints thee days in A-merry-ca. Over at ESPN a powerful television executive is also facing charges of acting in an inappropriate manner.
 

[Keith Clinkscales] "The former ESPN executive who filed a pre-emptive lawsuit denying he fondled himself on an airplane while sitting next to sports reporter Erin Andrews -[*in pic with this post] hours before the website Deadspin actually reported the allegation - had to move quickly to protect his reputation, his attorney told the Daily News on Thursday.

Judd Burstein, a lawyer for former ESPN vice-president , said he filed the

defamation suit against ESPN employee Joan Lynch, ensuring that the allegations would become public, because the fondling allegation is “ludicrous” and, he said, because Deadspin is not a credible news source.

That’s all I have to say.”

"We have no comment on the lawsuit,” said ESPN spokesman Josh Krulewitz. “With respect to these reports, we want to state very clearly that in accordance with ESPN policies, if a claim is brought to our attention, it is taken very seriously and responded to appropriately.”

“She should not have done what she did,” Burstein said of Lynch. “She shouldn’t be able to get away with this.”

Deadspin has a long history of reporting on boorish behavior by ESPN executives and on-air personalities, and Burstein said that was a factor in his decision to file the suit.

“That was factored into the equation, the lack of respect in the sports world for Deadspin,” he said. “If the allegation had come from a credible New York newspaper, I would have taken a different tact.”

When The News contacted Deadspin editor A.J. Daulerio, the author of the Clinkscales post, for comment, he said: “Oscar De La Hoya. That’s my comment.

Burstein led a ferocious legal and public relations attack on a stripper named Milana Dravnel, De La Hoya’s former lover. When their affair ended in late 2007, she tried to sell photos of the boxer wearing fishnet stockings and women’s underwear. Dravnel filed a $25 million slander suit against De La Hoya, but later dropped the case, claiming she had been intimidated by the boxer and his entourage.

In an interview with Univision in September, however, De La Hoya acknowledged the pictures were real.

The defamation suit Burstein filed on Clinkscale’s behalf in Manhattan federal court on Wednesday says Lynch conducted a smear campaign against his client, falsely claiming that he had fondled himself while sitting next to Andrews on a March 2011 flight. Lynch also lied when she told ESPN colleagues that Clinkscales assaulted her in a production truck in 2007, according to the lawsuit, which seeks in excess of $75,000 in damages.

Deadspin has not confirmed or denied that Lynch, who will lose her job in January because the content development department once led by Clinkscales has been eliminated, was the anonymous source.

The lawsuit was filed hours before Deadspin posted a report that quoted an anonymous source who said Clinkscales, sitting in an aisle seat on a airplane, had fondled himself while sitting next to Andrews.

“It if had happened, there would have been witnesses,” Burstein said. “He would have been arrested.”

Burstein also said Lynch lied when she claimed Clinkscales assaulted her in 2007. Deadspin reported the incident took place in front of numerous witnesses. “The fact that the story has not surfaced even though there are witnesses is ludicrous,” Burstein said.

The lawsuit claims Lynch, who is white, has engaged in a smear campaign against Clinkscales, an African-American, because she believed he was not qualified for his job and felt that she should have been promoted to the position.

“Driven by this racial animus and sense of entitlement,” said the suit, “Lynch was routinely insubordinate to Plaintiff. Worse, still, she was at time incompetent.” [Source]

Sorry Mr. Clinkscales, you are on your own with this one. Unless, of course, you happen to be a conservative.

 

"The Ladies Man"

Oh Lawd Herman! And then there was three.

Herman, for your sake, I sure hope that these ain't no white women you were messing with; because,if it is, your goose is pretty much cooked.

It's one thing to sexually harass a sister (just ask poor Anita Hill), you can always get away with that. A-merry-ca  doesn't care too much about sisters. Unless, of course, they happen to be taking care of our children. But sexually harassing a white woman, Herman, would turn even your conservative friends against you.  

Poor Herman, now he is even snapping at reporters. If only the world was just one big FOX NEWS studio.

"Cain got testy with reporters at a campaign stop in Alexandria, Virginia, on Wednesday, when they pelted him with questions about allegations that he sexually harassed at least two employees while he was president of the National Restaurant Association in the 1990s. Cain has denied any wrongdoing.

"Don't even bother asking me all these other questions that you all are curious about, OK?" Cain said as he left a meeting in Virginia. "Don't even bother."
It wasn't two seconds before a reporter launched into a line of questioning about the harassment allegations.

"What did I say?" Cain, who was flanked by aides and bodyguards, interrupted.
The reporter kept asking.

"Excuse me," Cain said. "Excuse me!"

"What part of no don't some people understand?" he said to himself as he walked away." [Story]

Fortunately for Mr. Cain, the field was not one of those reporters: 

"Mr. Cain, were any of the women you allegedly harassed, white?"

I bet that would have gotten a really hard stare from Mr. 9-9-9.

Condi would be mad at me for asking that question. Condi doesn't like the race card much.

"Former Secretary of State and National Security Adviser Condoleezza Rice says Republican presidential candidate Herman Cain should not bring his race into play when he deals with criticism.

Rice, a Republican, was interviewed Tuesday for a segment that aired Wednesday on the CBS "Early Show."

"I actually am someone who doesn't believe in playing the race card on either side. I've seen it played, by the way, on the other side quite a lot too. And it's not good for the country," Rice told CBS' Norah O'Donnell.

Rice says she feels the same way about those on the left who defend President Barack Obama from criticism." [Source] 

I hear you Condi, and I really didn't want to go that route. But Herman and his friends have been playing that card from the top -and the bottom- of the deck a lot lately.

Of course this all leads me to believe that we are talking about white women. Just think about it; if we were talking about sisters, I bet old Herman would have come clean a long time ago.

"Yes, I made some sexual comments to her, but she was flirting with me." Oh, well if you put it that way Mr. Cain. I suppose it all makes sense. Those black women are such sexual creatures."

So we wait. Because it won't be long before, like Tiger's women, they will all come out of the wood work.

I am taking bets.



 

Beware of those scary skeletons.

II would like to welcome Mr. 9-9-9 to the world of big time politics.

It seems that my man forgot one thing while he was jigging and joking his way into the hearts of white conservatives across A-merry-ca: Your skeletons will always come back to haunt you. We all have them. But we don't all try to get elected as the leader of the free world, or, for that matter, to become a member of the most powerful "democratic" judicial body on earth.

And so here we go again; yet another black conservative is the victim of a "high tech lynching". The last one survived the metaphoric rope around his neck and ultimately found himself in a position where he can influence whether a rope is put around the neck of others. 

Apparently when Mr. 9-9-9 was at the National Restaurant Association he wasn't just making sure that all of us had somewhere nice to eat. He was allegedly making sure that he had somewhere nice to.....ahh never mind. (I hate these types of stories.)

Of course, like most politricksters, Mr 9-9-9 (and the GOP) first denied that he sexually harassed anyone. But then....

"Herman Cain is now saying he does recall some details of a financial settlement with one of his female co-workers who accused him of sexual harassment during his tenure at the National Restaurant Association.
Cain's quotes are being reported by Byron York of The Washington Examiner, based on the GOP presidential candidate's interview with Fox News to be broadcast at 10 p.m. ET Monday night.

Cain spent the day trying to beat back a Politico story that said he was accused twice of "sexually suggestive behavior." Amid his explanations that he had been "falsely accused," Cain twice said he knew nothing about a financial settlement with his accusers." [Source]

Yes, that pesky "financial settlement". Bad news Herman: It exists. Good news Herman: The folks who got the payoff are probably prohibited from divulging the details of the settlement to the rest of us.

But I take no pleasure in watching yet another high profile brotha go down. I don't care how much he jigged for his wingnuts friends and hated and demonized his own people. It's always sad to watch a tragedy such as this play itself out for all the world to see and hear.

"Come on Field, it's not only republicans who do this type of thing. What about Bill Clinton? He was getting pleasured in the people's house for crying out loud and you people defended him!"     

And I would defend Mr. 9-9-9 if whatever he was allegedly doing was between two consenting adults. Sadly, for conservatives, it never seems to be that way. If it was, there would be no charge of sexual harassment.

But the show must go on, and conservatives will now start the spinning:

"In summary: there is a real story here. It's possible thatPolitico got the story wrong, in which case they will be exposed. It's also possible that the story is totally accurate, and yet Cain is innocent of any wrongdoing.

There are plenty of reasons, after all, why a businessman would settle a harassment suit even if he were blameless. The final possibility, of course, is that Cain did behave inappropriately toward women he worked with. Let's hope that's not the case.

A few final points: the accusation that Politico is unfairly liberal (made by Jeff Lord, among others) is itself unfair.Politico undoubtedly employs reporters from liberal media backgrounds, including at least one of the reporters who contributed to the Cain story, Ken Vogel.

On the other hand, they also feature writers hired from conservative outlets. It's worth noting they have published pieces by a number of Spectatorwriters, myself included. " [Source]

Those few paragraphs alone had more twists and turns than a Jamaican country road. But I understand the difficulties that conservatives must be having with this story. It must be sad for them to watch Herman go down. Where else are they going to find a a straight talking black man who is willing to take on uncomfortable subjects and speak of certain things that they are too afraid to utter publicly?

Still, they need to take heart, because, the truth is, Herman Cain was never going to become president, and this story might just make him irrelevant sooner rather than later. Which, in the end, might be a good thing for them.

Happy Halloween everybody, and please make sure that those scary skeletons stay inside the closet.

The "birthers" are back, and Herman is still number one.

I'm baaack. It's always good to finally come home and sleep in your own bed. (Or, in the case of some of you fellows; your own couch.)Taking a break is nice, but being home is always better.

Big shout out to the folks who wished me safe travels.

Anywhoo, now that I am back on A-merry-can soil, I feel like I stepped into a time machine. Didn't we do this whole birther thing before? Can you say "Groundhog Day" boys and girls:

"Gov. Rick Perry isn't convinced President Obama was born in the U.S., but says he doesn't care.

After raising the question of Obama's birthplace over the weekend, the presidential hopeful told CNBC on Monday that he's not too concerned about the issue.

"I'm really not worried about the president's birth certificate," he told John Harwood. "It's fun to poke at him a little bit, and say, 'How about, let's see your grades and your birth certificate.'"

In an interview in Sunday's Parade magazine, Perry ressurected the "birther issue," a belief among some right-wing conservatives that Obama was not born in the states and, therefore, illegally holds the office of the president.
"Well, I don't have a definitive answer, because he's never seen my birth certificate," the Texas governor said.

Perry added that he'd had dinner with Donald Trump, and the topic of Obama's birth certificate did come up.
"[Trump] doesn't think it's real," he said.

Perry stressed, however, that he didn't necessarily agree.
"I don't have any idea. It doesn't matter. He's the president of the United States. He's elected. It's a distractive issue," the governor said." [Source] 

Oh yes, let's get the "graders" on board as well. Poor Rick. Today he unveiled his [flat]tax plan, (if any of you figure out what the hell it stands for and how he plans to carry it out please holla at your boy) and we are all still scratching our heads.

Meanwhile, some thing's have not changed here in A-merry-ca. Mr. 9-9-9 is still leading -or close to the top- the pack among the republican field of candidates.
I guess Rick is trying to keep up with the Cains. If you can't beat em join em.

If you are a republican operative you must be praying for this Cain madness to end. But, sadly for them, Herman is the personification of the republican party as it stands today. A party of soundbites with no substance. A party so shallow,lacking critical thinkers, and full of misanthropes, that its leading candidate for president is proud of the fact that he doesn't know the name of the president of another country in the world. (BTW Herman, Uzbekistan is not some "small insignificant state". ) He also wants to put an electrical fence on the US Mexican border, but that hardly got a peep from his friends on the right. In fact, I suspect that many of them would do the exact same thing.

His campaign released an Internet ad.today that was so comical and goofy, that  there are folks out there who honestly believe that it's a hoax.

But it's not. Like Herman, it's very real. And what's comical and goofy to the rest of us might be just what the doctor ordered for my right wing friends.

Finally, I have to salute the students of Ohio University for trying to check the Big R:

"Halloween is right around the corner and as costumes fly off the shelves, an Ohio University student group is taking a stand against outfits that promote cultural prejudices.

Students Teaching Against Racism (STARS) started a campaign called "We're a Culture not a Costume" to generate a discussion about Halloween costumes that parody people of color. The group contends that these cultural caricatures help to reinforce stereotypes that are not cool and funny.

Slideshow: Boo! What not to wear this Halloween

By releasing the posters, the group says they want to:

"Educate and facilitate discussion about racism and to promote racial harmony and to create a safe, non-threatening environment to allow participants to feel comfortable to express their feelings."

STARS have garnered over 8,000 plus views on their president's tumblr blog where the posters were first released. However, the comment section has since been disabled due to inappropriate and hateful comments from some visitors."  [Source]

So now I see where some of you folks who comment anonymously were while I was away.

    

 

Still running from the struggle?

I am out of town at a conference, but I am going to do a cut and paste job to encourage discussion about an interesting aspect of this Mr. 999 phenomenon.

"Cain continued on his trail of silly statements this week by saying that racism is not a factor in economic inequality in America. The candidate argues that educational and geographic differences account for disparities in wealth levels and unemployment. The statement is curious, because these words serve as further evidence that Cain never studied structural inequality in school. Also, to continue Cain’s argument, inequality exists because Black people are either naturally, culturally or strategically inferior to whites, which is the convenient explanation taught to us in White Supremacy 101.

While I won’t go into all the reasons that Cain is wrong in his statements on racism, the truth is that Cain seems to be building his campaign by making one eyebrow raising statement after another. In fact, he has become the shock jock of the Republican Party.

Being a shock jock is great for the radio and selling books, but it’s not the stuff that makes one into a serious Commander-in-Chief. Even within the Republican ranks, Cain’s candidacy merely deflects attention away from the flaws of more serious contenders, like Rick Perry’s love for the Confederate flag and all the other things that make Republicans just so darn interesting. But when the dust settles and the smoke clears, Republican leadership will ask Cain to walk off the track in the same way the pace setter is removed after the first two laps of a big Olympic race.

Cain has also made a career of hurling insults at Black people that no white man could ever get away with. His words have not been measured or diplomatic enough to garner broad-based support, and are about as sloppy and ignorant as a man killing a fly with a shotgun. Most of his comments are not the kinds of things he could say about other ethnic groups; if he were to say that all Jews were brainwashed (as he said about African Americans), he’d be off the stage before finishing his sentence.

Herman Cain has become, in many ways, the perfect racist. America lives under the interesting premise that a racist can’t be Black. That’s like believing that a man can’t hate his sibling, or that a woman can’t advocate for a man to beat his wife (as Whoopi did to Oprah in “The Color Purple”). The truth is that racism is typically most effective when you put a Black face on it, and Herman Cain has volunteered to become the cute little political puppet which allows white America to say the things that they are afraid to say.

It is their ability to put Cain out front to absorb the criticism for racist remarks that makes millions of right-wing Americans so happy about his racial politics. Cain validates and brings security to a set of ideas that are generally unacceptable to those who understand America’s ugly racial history. In this regard, Cain is a breath of fresh air because he is the only Republican who doesn’t change the subject when the issue of race is brought to the table.

As an older Black man, Herman Cain certainly understood the challenges of Jim Crow. But Cain was also able to evade Jim Crow by willfully standing to the side in the fight for Civil Rights (yes, he has admitted that he avoided the Civil Rights struggle). So, Cain cannot, in any way, connect his contributions to the Black community, nor his readily marketed ethnic legitimacy to that of his fellow Morehouse graduate, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. While he might have validity among those who gladly accept the rewards that come from the sacrifices of others, Cain cannot profess to have been willing to make necessary socio-political sacrifices himself. He stands on the backs of the brave, yet joins forces with the descendants of their historical oppressors.

Instead of marching for progress, Cain learned long ago that making whites feel comfortable was a powerful and simple key to success. He seems to think that Black folks who are unwilling to give in to structurally oppresive forces are somehow making things worse for themselves by not standing and applauding the grace of whites who’ve decided to no longer hang our relatives in the middle of the night. No different from the way he ducked and hid from those who marched with Dr. King in the 1960s, Herman Cain is ducking and hiding from doing the right thing today.

So, not only is Herman Cain a political gimmick, he is also a coward. That is just a couple of the many reasons that Herman Cain can never be President of the United States of America." [Source]
 
Interesting essay there Dr. Watkins.

Folks, let me know what you think.

Bullets, perms, and curls.

The guy standing in the pic that goes with this post walked into a beauty salon today and killed eight people. Eight! Apparently his wife, an employee of the salon, did something to piss him off. (From the looks of him she might have hid his workout videos.)

Anywhoo, it's just another day for the "Falling Down" crowd here in A-merry-ca.

"A gunman opened fire Wednesday in a busy hair salon, killing eight people and critically wounding another while leaving bodies scattered throughout the business in a normally sedate California beach community.

The gunman got into a car and drove away from Salon Meritage after opening fire about 1:30 p.m. He was stopped by officers about a half-mile away and surrendered without incident, said police Sgt. Steve Bowles.

His name was not immediately released.

Police were struggling to determine the motive for the killings.

"There may be something to the motive as to a relationship with somebody in the salon, that is our assumption," Bowles said.

Seal Beach has seen just one other homicide in the past four years.

Police responding to a report of shots fired found six people dead and three wounded. Two of those three died at a hospital. The other person was listed in critical condition.

Bowles said bodies of the victims were scattered throughout the salon, along with two of the wounded. The other wounded person, a man, was found outside the building. It wasn't clear if he was trying to flee when he was shot or if he was the one survivor.

"We're unsure at this point if he shot from the entrance and people, as they were shot, ran in seeking cover or seeking shelter, but we have fatalities throughout the salon," Bowles told reporters at a news conference outside the business.

"From my observation, it did look like people were seeking shelter at the time," he said.

He said the salon was busy at the time, with every hair-dressing station in operation.

He didn't know what type of weapon was used or if the man used more than one.

Salon employee Lorainne Bruielle, who wasn't working Wednesday, told the Long Beach Press-Telegram the gunman was the husband of another employee.

Bruielle said she talked to the husband of one of the employees involved, who said one employee locked herself in the salon's facial room and was unharmed while another man locked himself in a bathroom but was wounded.

The suspect was cooperative when officers, following a description of the shooter, stopped him nearby. He told them he had multiple weapons in his car, Bowles said." [Article]

"Multiple weapons". Where have we heard that before?

Finally, congrats to Herman Cain. I see that he is the flavor of the month right now in the republican party. Wingnuts just love the plain spoken black man who isn't afraid to put down his own people.

Memo to Herman: Poll numbers can't buy you air time.

Yes, Herman is still popular with certain closeted bigots who need a mouth piece. But sorry Herman, they ain't giving you their money. Poor Herman's campaign is still woefully short of cash.

Maybe Herman should stop saying nine nine nine so much and start saying dollars dollars dollars.

"Do The Right Thing."

There are some things that right wingers and I can agree on. Things such as school choice, and limited government in certain instances. But there are certain beliefs that these folks have that would prevent me from even consider joining their gang. Their bigotry against Muslims comes to mind.

Which brings me to Governor Krispy Kreme. I have ripped him in the past, but I have to give him credit for not giving in to the wave of bigotry that has swept over his party. Governor Krispy Kreme actually nominated a Muslim American lawyer for a judgeship in his state. (New Jersey)

Finally, a potential republiclown candidate for president does the right thing. (BTW, of all the candidates in the republiclown field, only Governor Krispy Kreme trails O in head to head polls by less than double digits. )

His fellow republiclowns, on the other hand, were not so tolerant of those evil Mooslims.

"...Consider these statements by other Republicans, all likely to run for president next year: "I am convinced that if we do not decisively win the struggle over the nature of America, by the time they [his grandchildren] are my age they will be in a secular atheist country, potentially one dominated by radical Islamists and with no understanding of what it once meant to be an American." Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich, once the most powerful Republican in the country, said that last Sunday.

"Not all cultures are equal. Not all values are equal." That was the response from Rep. Michele Bachmann (R., Minn.), a tea party favorite, to a 2005 debate question about riots among French Muslims.

"No, I will not." That was Herman Cain, a longshot candidate who appears before mainstream conservative crowds, last weekend on whether he would appoint a Muslim as a judge or cabinet member."

Herman, you disappointed me. A black man showing bigotry to others? If anyone should show tolerance to others it's you.

"But Christie - who has been courted to run for president - has basically done just what Cain said he would never do. In January, he nominated Sohail Mohammed, an Indian-born Muslim living in Clifton, to Superior Court in Passaic County. Mohammed awaits confirmation by the Democratic-controlled Senate.

Christie had not said much publicly about Mohammed until Tuesday, when he took a question at a Hammonton town-hall meeting from a Marlton man with an American flag on his shirt. Reiterating an accusation that has circulated mostly in the right-wing blogosphere, the man wanted to know why Christie was appointing an "Islamist" who defends Guantanamo Bay inmates.

Christie first said Mohammed was not involved with Gitmo inmates and instead had represented those detained after Sept. 11 before they were released and exonerated.

"Now, I have to tell you something," Christie said. "If it is disqualifying for the bench to be an Arab American in New Jersey who represents innocent people and gets them released, then this isn't the state I believe it is."

Christie, who misspoke in calling Mohammed an Arab American, went on to say Mohammed is a "good, decent American and New Jerseyan." The man with the flag on his shirt thanked the governor, and there was cautious applause." [Source]

OK, he isn't perfect, but he might be the best they have.

*Pic from saveJersey.com

The republican's latest Negro experiment.

"Loyalty to petrified opinions never yet broke a chain or freed a human soul in this world--and never will." ~Mark Twain~

I wish my man Herman Cain well, I really do. I heard that he was in Iowa last week giving em his I am black but I am just like you speeches. I wonder how he is playing down there? It looks like they [the republicans] are going social again and forgetting the economy now that O and his peeps have the Dow over *12,000 and the unemployment numbers heading South and not North. Anyway, Herman might have some work to do before he can convince the rest of you Negroes that he means well.

"Listen, all token black conservative presidential candidates who Republicans keep trying to push on us colored folk; I really don’t have a problem with your decision to throw your hat in the ring. Why not, right? Everyone is entitled, and if you feel like you’re qualified then do your thing and show us just that – your qualifications. Do not, however, use the same tired and insulting tactics year after year in an effort to court a political base that has little interest in you by embarrassing the rest of your community.

First, This Year’s Black Conservative Herman Cain tried to get attention for his pending presidential campaign by telling anyone who would listen: “Don’t condemn me because the first black one was bad.” Yes, of course, the go-to sleaze tactic to use when you are eager to prove to some white people that you dislike President Obama as much as them is to say something attention grabbing like that.

Now, right on schedule, he has busted out the second in what I’m sure will be a series of cliché tactics to appeal to his conservative base: Christianity. Cain appeared on the Christian Broadcast Network and told the interviewer that he believed God brought him through cancer so that he could maybe become president, Politico reports. Stop it, dude. And I say that as a Christian. We know that professed religion is pretty much a requirement for all conservative candidates, but to take advantage of that moment in your life and twist it for political gain is really sleazy." [Source]

Now now Mr. Smith, don't be so hard on Herman. Maybe he means well. Why don't we give him a chance before we call him a house dwelling hypocrite?

Carry on Herman.