"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.