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Maybe at least there will be some specific actions mentioned that Cain was supposed to have done. To, like, an actual victim.
Note to Politico: This is how you report a sex-scandal story. Note the obscure journalistic artifacts knows as “facts” and “names”.
Crap. Link fixed.
So you don’t think he’s going to be sunk over this? I mean, Billy Jeff got elected despite his sex scandals during the campaign, but he’s a big D. (as in Democrat)
I’m a total Eyeore.
I think we’re supposed to pair an article like this in the Washington Times, Politico and the Cain story that wasn’t, with a partner article in the Washington Examiner, Four ‘Cs’ of why Cain is unelectable, through the imputation of Cain’s “handling” of the empty story Politico propounds to an imagined “handling” of a national security issue in a Cain administration. He’s incompetent, you see, our political betters would have us understand. Why, voters would have to be diminished morons to believe otherwise.
So when is Geraldo gonna open up Cain’s vault?
*Sound of cloven hooves*
Note to Politico: This is how you report a sex-scandal story. Note the obscure journalistic artifacts knows as “facts” and “names”.
To be specific: the grand jury did all the hard work, Reuters took the grand jury report and packaged it up with a bit of inconsequential trivia, and the Grauniad slapped a headline and an AP photo at the top of the wire story.
That’s proper journalism! As a wise man once said: not just anybody can summarize the news.
Two seconds after Allred reveals the name of her client, I wish Cain would challenge her to a side by side lie detector test. As in, they’re both in the same room hooked up to machines and answering the same questions.
If Cain is lying, he drops out of the race, if he is telling the truth, Allred donates a million to Cains campaign.
I wonder what hard hitting questions the “credentialed” press will ask at the Allred presser?
Mr Jacobson has a funny tally.
Looks like we’re in for extended reporting on a brand new epidemic in sexual harassment:
And I remember the 90s, groping underlings, rape even, no big deal and just a private sexual matter. Everybody lied about it don’t cha know. Let’s just Move-On®.
PS: http://www.sondrakistan.com/?p=13610
Gloria gets a twitter treatment.
Well we have a specific allegation and it is one which is likely impossible to disprove or prove.
Wait, that story left an implication that was wrong.
If that were true, she should have screamed and stood up, knocking her chair over and causing a scene. That she did nothing until now, well, I say it is unlikely.
Leigh the first story left the impression that it happened at a dinner, but it seems that the actual accusation is that they were alone in a car. Going to be very hard to either prove or disprove.
He said/She said. Herman, we hardly knew ye.
The depositions are just like the “witnesses” that Joel Bennett through out. Hearsay, and hearsay from 14 years ago. Nice touch Gloria & Joel. Non-evidence evidence.
Precisely. It’s only Monday and this will give the newsies another drum to beat on while ignoring Fast and Furious and other Obama related issues.
I guess this will give Michele with one ell something to work with for a change anyhow: “Look! It’s blond! And registered Republican! I’m a mom of 28 children and I’ve been groped too! I just want to speak for a moment to you ladies out there. It’s gross, amirite?!”
is it just me or does the hoochie look suspiciously like Ann Romney in a floozy wig?
Chicago,
Chicago,
Chicago.
America’s Rome apparently.
This has Axelrod’s handwriting all over it.
Saw it mentioned that you don’t register a political party in Illinois.
Take a look and see if you can find where you’re supposed to mark party affiliation on the .pdf.
They’re going to destroy Cain, and “republicans” are going to let it happen.
Fine. As was said before, if we get Romney as our candidate, I’m writing in Herman Cain, because fuck you, assholes, who are a party to this shit.
Former Senator Santorum joins Michele with one ell, just asking questions, but now he too has something more to talk about. Kinda like he says, no surprises there.
I saw where she’s got disgusting acne scars… so she’s fat AND disfigured. So we’re to believe someone hit on her even though she was fat and disfigured just cause she has porn hair?
I’m not buying it.
Ah, good, we have in John Huntsman another campaigning question asker (though it’s possibly silly to be asking for divulgence of details should the story be false, where there simply are no details, no?):
But who knows, perhaps Huntsman has a thing for blondes inclining him to belief without knowledge? Or, heaven forfend, tits.
Huntsman is even more vaginesque than Wall Street Romney I think
I’m still puzzled as to Bialek’s own view of her statement “We need a leader who can set an example which exemplifies the standards of a good person and moral character.” Of course, my wonder is for the most part a wonder set in a political context. Had she determined, prior to making her decision to speak out against Mr. Cain, that some other one among the current candidates on offer fits the standards she invokes? So finds it possibly useful to the candidate of her choice to tell her story about Mr. Cain, and came to that decision precisely in the light of her acknowledgment that “America is in a horrible turmoil . . .”?
Does the turmoil she invokes have anything to do with the ruling administration in her view? She doesn’t say. Indeed, she doesn’t mention the ruling administration at all, so far as I can see. We really don’t get much of a sense of her views of political matters at all, outside her apparent leaning hard on the “need [for] a leader”, a character or personality of a certain sort. But again, of what sort, with what views of our former, as against our present, political organization?
bill o’rielly’s republican debate @ 9 pm est 11/7/11
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So, it seems she attended TeaCon last month. It would be interesting to see who she ran into there and whether she made any mention of Cain being a sexual predator.
Something tells me there’s a story in that.
Ms. Bialek’s version of the “truth” and Mr. Cain’s may be completely different. Since no one else was there, how do we know that the unemployed and desperate bimbo didn’t offer her services to the Hermanator in exchange for a quick Benjamin? And, as for Huntsman, I bet he sneaks downstairs at night after the Mrs. takes her xanax and watches porn.
As was mentioned by Jim Geraghty there is one thing which might be checked up on in this whole thing. Did Sharon Bialek’s boyfriend book a room for her at the Capital Hilton in July 1997 and did subsequently Herman Cain upgrade that booking to a “palatial suite.”?
“And, as for Huntsman, I bet he sneaks downstairs at night after the Mrs. takes her xanax and watches porn.”
Give Allred a week, she’ll find someone that watched the pron with him.
I have the utmost faith in Ms. Allred’s ability to find worms on short notice.
She was looking for a job back in the late ’90s, too; it wouldn’t be that she’s looking for a different job today, could it? Though certainly, her accusation will surely provide some sort of occupation for the next week or so.
For some reason I’m reminded of old Kephalos’s reminiscences, in particular of Sophocles:
Dudes get old and their dicks get soft, and evidently, happily in some cases.
Mr. sdferr I assume that when Mrs. Jiggletits says “we need a leader who can set an example which exemplifies the standards of a good person and moral character,” she means to say that we presently lack such a leader. She implies I think that she believes that Obama is a morally lacking scoamf, as the kids say.
She well may hf, though I think under the tutelage of Mrs. Allred she found it inconvenient to mention anything further. This isn’t a question of doing justice to her case, I think, but altogether a question of a political act. I’m just curious what the antecedents of her political act are, and what ends she has in mind going forward. She isn’t at all forthcoming, and so generates mistrust.
There is a faithful narrative.
Black male conservatives are accused of having the hots for the white wimmins, while white male Republicans always are said to be hitting on the young boys. Ancient southern Democrat stereotypes still alive and well as they mirror-image their way along the trail to power.
here is a “partial” transcript
That’s exactly it, geoff. The trouble is is that it is not working this time. Were Mr. Cain like Jesse Jackson, then yes. But he is not like Jesse Jackson.
I think she is shopping a screenplay.
I don’t think a screenplay would work. No one would believe the first black Bill Clinton would be so clumsy making a pass.
Really. I said as much to the husband today.
geoffb: Indeed! I’d love to take my wife to one of Cain’s campaign appearances, but I fear he might uncontrollably inflict a little “chocolate love” on her, right there in the parking lot.
I mean, I’ve been assured by Good Liberal Reporters that “that’s just ‘the nature’ of black men, they can’t help themselves (especially with regards to white women), what with the hot jungle blood coursing through their enormous cocks and all”.
And who am I to disagree. Still gonna vote for him, though.
Does Sharon Bialek think Mr. Cain is corrupt, a money-grubbing power grasper (does she have any knowledge to that effect)? Or is she merely seeking a sort of private revenge for wrongs she thinks he done her, and takes the most public avenue to gain that revenge? Does she merely think Mr. Cain enjoyed too much a knock in the hay with the strange female sex partner back in the day of his relative youth, relative, that is, to today some 15 yrs later? And if so, does she think Cain would use any position of political power he might gain as Bill Clinton used his own, as a means to get himself some healthy younger woman’s services? And that that is corruption enough to keep him from doing the nation’s business faithfully, supposing him to be without aims on the public treasury at all, or standing away from doing remunerative favors for his business world friends?
Old Ben Franklin is said to have been a horndog for the better part of his life, but do we think that made him a corrupt and unequal servant to the needs of the nation? Or is it just possible that whatever took place between Mr Cain and Ms Bialek years ago isn’t in itself a threat to national prosperity, besides possibly happening to be nothing Cain does anymore on account of being loosed from the grip of eros, and therefore isn’t a threat to the nation in any sense? Who knows?
But surely she aims to take his candidacy down. I’m only curious why; in the service of what, or whom, and with what certainty on her own part as to her rectitude?
sdferr, it certainly is a puzzler. It’s unfortunate that there are no investigative journalists anymore. Or barring that, the fact tht Anthony Pellicano is still in prison and unable to rummage through the documents of her life, phone records and bank accounts.
I don’t understand. Jiggletits says they had drinks at 6:30… then they drove to dinner say at 7. Then figure at least an hour for dinner so bam it’s 8. So it’s dark and she’s all up for a tour of an empty office building? That’s retarded.
But whatever. The hoochie got fired. That’s how this story starts. Then she calls the ceo president guy and says hey baby what say I breeze into DC and we go out for drinks and some italian and talk about what I can do for you and what you can do for me.
That’s retarded. And more than a little slutty.
Whatever. Here’s the educational thing where she must have worked. It’s in Rahm Emanuel’s Chicago.
Jiggletits says she she said to Mr. Herman that “I was wondering if there’s anything available at the state association level or perhaps if you could speak to someone at the foundation to try to get my job back, perhaps even in a different department.”
Here’s the page about the “state association level.” As you can read, the state associations are not subsidiaries of the NRA – they’re wholly separate organizations. Here’s the story of the one from Illinois, the one Jiggles would have presumably wanted to work at.The head of the NRA can’t get you a job at a state restaurant organization whether you blow him or her or not Mrs. Jiggletits. How could you not have known that?
Seems to me if this was a real story and not a media smear, there’d have been somebody from the Godfather’s Pizza days to come forward by now.
the other key takeaway is when Allred says “for the last two years she has been a full-time homemaker and single mom”
Jiggletits is a desperate desperate hoochie.
now tell me does this make any sense
oh. here is both Allred and Jiggles complete statements… so far it’s the only place I can find them – it’s in that scribd shit
wtf do these two organizations have to do with each other? The NEF is headquartered in DC – the Restaurant thing is in Chicago. They have dick to do with each other. And honestly google can’t even really tell me what the “National Educational Foundation” even is.
But… last question… why would a fucking monkey… Manager, Industry Relations – be seated next to the national head of the organization 3 separate times?
Remember, Jiggles only held down the job for 7 months at most before she was fired.
So if she started in December 2006 she was there through say June 15?
The NRA conventions are in May.
I think the evidence points to Jiggles making an ass of herself at the convention and getting shit-canned for it. But the question is how much Manager, Industry Relations knowledge had Jiggles soaked up in 5 months to merit being sat next to Mr. Cain at three meals?
It must’ve been a lot.
ok oops I got that wrong cause the transcript is wrong
for some reason the transcript at one point says 2006 2007 instead of 1996 1997
basically Jiggles is a child support whore with less than 5 years left on the clock I guess … her kid’s dad is most likely the pediatrician who for whatever reason sent her to go see Mr. Herman
or maybe she cheated on the pediatrician
hard to say
anyway nobody liked how it jiggled enough to put a ring on it
Here feets, NRAEF
I got that one Mr. geoff I can’t find the “National Educational Foundation” that the person worked at who Allred says recruited Jiggles for the restaurant association job
(first blockquote in #55)
Michele with one ell says to O’R. she isn’t taking a shot at Cain on anything personal with her “don’t want surprises” remark, but only intends questions of policy. Whew, that’s a relief.
Try this one.
maybe … it seems like a pretty small operation and I can’t determine where it’s located and still – why would one of their peeps be recruiting for the restaurant peeps?
Well, give Michele (and Santorum too, I s’pose) credit sdferr, at least she picked her poison; unlike that Pawlenty fellow, who declined the media invite to pile on Palin, but didn’t defend her either.
heh, at least she doesn’t take everyone for fools! Oh, wait. . .
Cain presser tomorrow sez Drudge.
Well it was founded by this group and in turn has founded this one.
Feets, the commonality is the organizations all need fundraisers and that was her job at Easter Seals, NRAEF and probably the WGN and CBS radio jigs too. They do get a little lax on her jobs over the past 14 years. They account for 7 1/2 working and 2 as homemaker but that leaves 4 1/2 not mentioned.
The account reads a little strange. Too much detail in some places and too little in others. The supposed language is too precise and stilted for her and too crude for Cain. Seems scripted.
We shall see at the presser tomorrow.
I am resolved to cast a vote for this Herman Cain Mr. geoff
I feel like it’s a matter of that being the person I want to be
Cain on Kimmel is impressive. Real charisma, not the Obama I’m cool, fawn over me media sycophants phonied-up kind. Guy’s winning the “who’d you rather have a beer with” poll.
Well ‘feets I gave him my money. And my vote as things stand now.