Call it inappropriate behavior on the part of intoxicated men or inflated egos of women who interpret any interaction with a man as a “pass,” but a new survey is reporting that four out of five working women say they have been hit on at a company party or event. (more)
SPARTANBURG, S.C. (AP) — Republican candidates will challenge President Barack Obama on foreign policy, an issue they have given scant attention in recent weeks, in a debate Saturday night. (more)
“Herman Cain accused by two women of inappropriate behavior.” With that headline, Politico lit a spark that has turned into a raging fire. But are GOP voters paying attention? (more)
In 1926, the British lawyer and novelist John Galsworthy wrote, “Between ‘everybody knows’ and ‘somebody tells’ is a great gap fixed.” Last week, Herman Cain was floating within that gap. Now he’s crossed over into the “somebody tells” territory. (more)
All the ingredients are here. We have a potentially powerful politician, a hopelessly flimsy accusation of sexual misconduct and a predictable media, desperate to fill broadcast hours. Was there really ever any doubt that alleged civil rights attorney Gloria Allred would get involved? (more)
On Monday’s “Laura Ingraham Show,” MSNBC contributor Pat Buchanan said damage from allegations of sexual harassment to Cain’s poll numbers and fundraising has been minimal, because flaws in the substance of the charges have caused an anti-media backlash — and brought increased support for Cain. (more)
The Society of Professional Journalists’ code of ethics is apparently unknown to, and easily dismissed by, MSNBC’s Andrea Mitchell. On “Andrea Mitchell Reports” Monday, the anchor introduced Politico’s Jonathan Martin after playing a clip of former Godfather’s Pizza CEO Herman Cain suggesting some reporters at an event in Texas check the Society of Professional Journalists’ “code of ethics.” (more)
Former Republican National Committee Chairman Michael Steele told The Daily Caller that Herman Cain “needs to get back on message” by getting “out in front [of allegations of sexual harassment], lay out what happened, let those individuals who are involved address this issue as well — since he’s already spoken on it — and move on.” (more)
Herman Cain’s presidential candidacy appears to be showing some “initial resiliency” in the wake of allegations that the Georgia businessman sexually harassed three women when he was the head of the National Restaurant Association in the 1990s. The latest Washington Post/ABC News poll (conducted Oct. 31-Nov. 3) shows Cain trailing former Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney by just one point in the race for the 2012 Republican presidential nomination. (more)
On his Friday radio program, radio talker Rush Limbaugh proposed using the website Politico’s rules against the news outlet by finding a “Republican Larry Flynt” to offer a bounty to anyone who can document sexual harassment among members of the media — specifically at Politico. (more)
Lost in the press’s non-stop hunger for a lurid he-said-she-said regarding the allegations against GOP presidential candidate Herman Cain is a more basic look at the nature of sexual harassment claims in this country. (more)
Thank you, Politico, for dragging our already divided and depressed nation back to the “high-tech lynching” days of Justice Clarence Thomas’s Supreme Court confirmation hearings. (more)
On Wednesday evening The Daily Caller spoke to Washington Post Executive Editor Bob Woodward, and Washington Post vice president and former executive editor Ben Bradlee, about Chris Matthews’ new book “Jack Kennedy: Elusive Hero” — and about the sexual harassment allegations facing GOP presidential candidate Herman Cain. (more)
“Let Reagan be Reagan” is a much and too often abused saying. When discussing politics on television, right-of-center pundits like to repeat it for the dual purposes of trumpeting their fondness for the legend of Ronald Reagan while simultaneously belittling all other political operatives (campaign managers, consultants, press secretaries, etc.). In the time of Reagan, “Let Reagan be Reagan” meant that all of the consultants, handlers and talking-points craftsmen were overwhelming and undermining Reagan’s natural charm and poise on the campaign trail. Today, Herman Cain is applying the phrase to not only himself — “Let Herman be Herman” — but to his campaign manager, the famously smoking hero of the recent Cain Web ad, Mark Block — “Let Mark be Mark.” (more)
Below is a hypothetical conversation between myself and Herman Cain: (more)
Stop the presses! News flash! Story of the year is here! Herman Cain, newly christened a top-tier Republican candidate for president, has become the target of “sexual harassment” charges made by as-yet unnamed sources. (more)
Without a detailed account of what actually happened, 1990s-era allegations that Herman Cain sexually harassed two unnamed female employees while CEO of the National Restaurant Association have raised a question: What actually constitutes sexual harassment? (more)
As readers of my blog, ResCon1, know, I’m with Jeffrey Lord, Rush Limbaugh, Ann Coulter and Laura Ingraham: The Herman Cain sexual harassment controversy is a high-tech lynching of a highly accomplished black man who threatens the liberal order. Indeed, it’s no “Herman Cain sexual harassment scandal”; it is, instead, a Politico media harassment scandal. (more)
A Sunday story in Politico, an outlet with a dubious reputation among conservatives, has resulted in a rough 24 hours for the insurgent campaign of Herman Cain. (more)
Vermont Democratic Sen. Patrick Leahy’s reauthorization of the “Violence Against Women Act” has already begun to cause a bit of a stir — and he has yet to even introduce it. (more)
