So. The lawyer for an accuser — her special pleader — will be allowed to release a statement on behalf of an accuser who will still remain anonymous, with said release based on accusations sealed in an agreement Cain has never seen and didn’t sign, stemming from a case that was never adjudicated, the outcome of which was a severance agreement, not a “harassment settlement”.
And we’ll then have to watch as putative “conservatives” help Politico and the mainstream press turn this into something significant, when really all it is is one side of story — which we already know exists, given the very fact of a complaint — and with no repercussions for what could be entirely false allegations redounding to the accuser, whose identity remains protected, and who’s story cannot be directly questioned.
Dumped on a Friday afternoon so it can dominate the weekend news cycle.
I weep for journalism. And more specifically, I’m repulsed by those on the right who will spend endless column inches blasting the “left wing media bias,” then happily sign on to it when it helps them in whatever their agenda happens to be.
“Verdict first, trial after.”
This whole affair motivated me to send $200-bucks last night.
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We really want Mitt, don’t we?
Who at the NRA agreed to this, and
what is their agenda? I guess that 2nd part answers itself.I’d take whatever flows out of this tool’s mouth for what it’s worth. Wake me up when there’s an agreement we can see the details of.
The currency of journalism is credibility.
Times are tough all over.
It shouldn’t have come out in the first place, if the accusations and identity of the accuser couldn’t be revealed. That’s the ENTIRE point of the confidentiality agreement, which are generally used when a. the defendant disputes he was at fault for anything but paid a nuisance settlement or b. when the settlement is so large, they keep it confidential so they don’t inspire others to try similar torts. If I was Cain, I’d demand full disclosure, identities revealed and if the former accusers won’t come forward, the whole thing needs to be dropped.
Fuck Politico, Media Matters and the whole Soros backed lot of them.
How long until they conflate the timing of the severance agreement with her with his having left the NRA… they musta pushed him out over this!!eleventy!1!
Fuckers.
Well Jeff, Republicans are principled. Uncompromised. In the face of the left-statification of everything from what you drive to what you can say, deeply and profoundly introspective.
And we can’t be going around being like the left, nosiree. Republicans must be above. Republicans must cut out even the appearance of impropriety.
Or risk becoming what they fear, my good man. Pluck thee not motes and like that.
No way in hell this woman’s identity should remain anonymous. Not unless she thinks she can take the case back through the legal system. Allegations of sexual harassment are not equivalent to rape. You want to make a statement, you do so with full acknowledgement of the repercussions because everyone will know your name.
And frankly, if she tries to remain anonymous, absolutely the Cain campaign should leak her name to the press.
Wait a minute. The NRA signed the agreement. Last I heard, the leak about this whole thing supposedly came from someone within the NRA.
Hence the agreement was already breached. I must have missed something.
Joel Bennett’s racist slut that he represents is a very dishonorable slut I think cause she’s not even trying to honor her part of the agreement
Cain is too much of a gentleman to release her name. However, I would not lay that claim at the doorstep of some of his staff to drop it somewhere anonymously … which, good. Where is the horse corral at the Florida state fair, again?
They think this is gonna feed the fodder for the weekend rumor mills, but no one who will eventually be voting in the republican primaries is gonna be paying much attention. Roll Tide! or Geaux Tigers. They really don’t know their voting target at all.
CNN is running a live feed for the lawyer’s statement: http://www.cnn.com/video/#/video/cvplive/cvpstream3
CNN is chumming a live feed as the sharks have been spotted coming back for a second bite and they want to make sure the water is plenty bloody.
FTFY
Sometimes life really is a Python sketch.
What about the victims in this case…
…who freely accepted the terms of the deal, and thus by their own actions relinquished their ‘victim’ status. Stupid lying MSNBC hosts.
If some dude smashes my car, and offers me $2k for the damages, and I accept it… do I then get to claim “woe is me, a victim of Bob’s shitty driving!” for the rest of my life? Or are we now ‘even’? Isn’t that what the word “settlement” means?
I mean, it’s not like a criminal case, where the victim doesn’t get “made whole” — sure, they may see the nasty person sent of to the Bad Place, which has a certain schadenfreude-tastic charm to it, but doesn’t really fix anything.
Surely you aren’t proposing to ‘allow’ victims to move out of the victim class? Surely you aren’t suggesting someone react and act with something other than their feelings?
Heretic!
That live feed was a whole lot of nothing.
Lawyer lied. He said that ‘Cain was fully aware of the allegations involved in the complaint” then he stated that ‘he believed he was no longer there when we filed the complaint.’ Then “I would be astounded if the complaint was not brought to his attention.”
The lawyer’s statements are no more precise than Cain’s… I don’t remember I don’t recall.
The fact that there was more than once complaint only means that she was attempting to buttress her complaint.
Still he said she said as there is no ‘recollection of witnesses’ on the part of the lawyer, but he maintains they are true because there was more than one allegation and besides we didn’t investigate it and just settled. So she waited til he was no longer there and accused someone in absentia of claims and got a settlement… seems to me like the NRA were pushovers.
It was a non disclosure and non disparage agreement.
Reminds me of the greasy defense lawyer in a trial where I was a juror.
Presented some novel theory about alcohol absorption from one study, pointed out the study’s result had never been refuted, therefore IT’S SCIENTIFIC FACT BITCHEZ!!!! TEH SCIENCE IZ SETTLED!!!11!!!!
We convicted his client — deniers, every one of us.
But but but they’re such lovely straws!
No, just typical businesses and people. Sure, we can fight back. Of course, we’ll be in the same position as the mortgage lenders under CRA:
We can settle, or we can put up with the bad publicity, the accusations we can’t refute, the news conferences slamming us and our customers, the complaints to EEOC, OSHA, etc. that can eat up still more of time and money, etc.