Seems like there might be a pattern forming after all. Just not the ones we’ve been told should “concern” us.
Then, of course, there’s the bit we’re being fed about Ms Kraushaar being an “Republican independent.” You know, the kind whose sole political donation, in 2009, went to the DNC services corp.
And finally, why no EEOC claims? Are there no reporters out there willing to ask labor legal experts why, if what Cain is alleged to have done is so “monstrous,” no EEOC claims were ever filed by any of these woman?
I wonder: will Karl Rove and Bill Kristol and Jen Rubin and the rest of those on the “sane” right who’ve helped Politico and the mainstream press turn allegations into a public show trial shift course and suddenly demand that Cain’s accusers “come clean” and “address these allegations head on”?
Howsabout you, Mitt? Interested in probing the backgrounds of the accusers? Or is that off-limits, because it’s insensitive to question the motivations or patterns of behavior of the accusers?
(thanks to Steph, geoffB, and happy; related)
In a ‘where’ve you gone Joe DiMaggio’ kinda way this is sick:
Don’t you just love the suggestion from David Gregory lamenting that the republicans don’t have a ‘GRAND WIZARD’ to force Herman out. Posted on Drudge.
I think he has his parties confused as the democrats are the only ones I know of that once called the head of their party a ‘Grand Wizard.’ Oh why oh why did Byrd have to die, a racist turns his lonely eyes to you.
Well. Sharon Bialek is just trying to make ends meet, after all.
What else does one expect of her?
Hey, maybe the other two will step forward and fill this picture in for us. We need to know, ladies!!!!
armageddon is nigh. zucchini vodka anyone?
I’m refusing to watch the news anymore. I’m trying to figure out a way to use yahoo mail without being forced to see their stupid headlines every morning. I guess gmail here I come.
I am fed up with the various people ‘on the right’ who insist on dragging this down to the level of minutia regarding every nebulous ‘charge’ or ‘allegation’ or ‘report.’ It is willful and it is purposeful, intended to serve to the benefit of their chosen candidate.
This was a tremendous missed opportunity.
Regardless of the particulars of Cain’s situation – which I think have reached a denouement, if not absolute conclusion (that won’t happen until his candidacy ends, one way or another)- this situation, starting with the Politico hit piece, was a prime opportunity to put the media on the defensive – to point up the egregious double standards and blatant hypocrisy of their unwillingness, if not flat refusal, to investigate charges against their anointed ones (Kerry, Edwards, Kennedy, Obama, et.al) particularly as compared to the inquisitions they have directed at those they deem unfavorable (Joe the Plumber, Sarah Palin, etc.)
Every time they brought the Cain story up it should have been met with return fire directed at the media’s own failures. Their choice would have been to keep pushing the Cain story, all the while getting publicly lit up for their own shortcomings, or just drop the whole damn thing in defeat.
Sure, that might have lightened Cain’s load, but it would also lighten everyone’s load in the future.
We had a shot at changing the rules, or at least making more explicit in the public’s mind how the current rules really operate.
But no, the short sighted Little Green Aceballs of the world need to keep it down on the level of itty butty media crap. Not to say there weren’t people who attempted to bring the argument up to the broader, and better purposed level, but specifically to say that, for these types, it was an obvious and conscious choice to keep things as focused on the small, and the negative for as long as possible.
The truly pathetic part is that these are the very types who, for the past several years, have been bitching and whining about the way the media plays by a second set of rules. Now, when faced with an opportunity to not just oppose, but publicly attack the double standard they instead choose convenience and expedience.
Fuck em with a swordfish.
zucchini vodka?
that sounds fun
I don’t know if you could call Little Green Aceballs and his mini-me sidekick ‘itty butty’ after the reaming they are happily taking from Duke & Duke for pushing this… Carin’s description of a ‘clown car’ seems more apropos.
Hf, you know there is a ‘cupcake’ vodka now, yes? It is not bad when coupled with some strawberry liqueur and gran marnier. Kind of a strawberry shortcake martini. A little sweet, but not too awful.
itty butty
If that’s a typo, it’s the best of the year.
this situation, … was a prime opportunity to put the media on the defensive
EXACTLY!
Also, it’s not the double standard that’s the primary problem here: it’s the fact that the allegations are without merit.
The double standard would apply if Cain were guilty of making nasty passes at women, and the media goes full Barnum & Bailey on it while covering up John Edwards et al.
We need a workplace law that directly addresses the lack of any sense of humor whatsoever.
If you are offended by that, you just can’t work with us humans. You need to own your own business so that you can staff your place with a brigade of Ms. Kravitz’s.
Also, how about this formulation: Kraushaar … was among two women who formally settled harassment complaints against Cain
Kraushaar was “among two women”? “Among”? The more natural phrasing is “Kraushaar was one of two women”, but when you really want to write “Kraushaar was among many women”, you end up with that clunker.
now I need to know how to home distill cupcake vodka. Maybe it’s just a vanilla bean soaking in the bottle…?
Grand Wizard is funny. Wasn’t Robert Byrd a Grand Wizard? But then, he was a Democrat.
I saw the cupcake somewhere but I’ve yet to try
If you are offended by that, you just can’t work with us humans. You need to own your own business so that you can staff your place with a brigade of Ms. Kravitz’s.
Every woman should be a bartender. That will not only desensitize them to the normal behavior of men and their humor, but can eventually lead them to joining in.
Which all goes to explain why I have, on occasion, told folks online that they could suck my “appendage” which, as a female, I don’t actually have.
If I were offended by something in the workplace, I wouldn’t file a complaint: I’d go to the originator of the offense and talk with him (or her, but come on: it’s a guy).
It would have to be pretty egregious and repeated and entrenched and stuff for me to go all legal with it.
People who tattle to the authorities every time their hair is mussed… well, we knew them on the playground, didn’t we? Nice of society to enable the adult versions to carry on.
my “appendage” which, as a female, I don’t actually have.
I had my appendage removed when I was eight because I we thought it had burst or something. I can show you the scar on my lower-right abdomen.
Carin, I’m laughing right now, and not filing suit against you for offending my delicate sensibilities with your appendage.
Suck my appendix doesn’t have the same ring, I don’t think Di.
Indeed. The sexual “harassment” flies fast and furious, in all directions, to the delight of everyone involved. Actual harassment gets your dumb ass dragged out, to the delight of everyone involved but you.
Carin, I’m laughing right now, and not filing suit against you for offending my delicate sensibilities with your appendag
Just wait until I make a non-sexual gesture that make you feel uncomfortable.
ndeed. The sexual “harassment” flies fast and furious, in all directions, to the delight of everyone involved.
Yes, it’s referred to as trolling for good tips.
Manufacturing a story to meet an end.An exercise in selective quoting and inventive paraphrasing to fit an agenda.
David Gregory is backing away as quickly as his sycophantic gams will carry him.
Heh, no one ever assumes David Gregory is thinking, so no apology is necessary.
A little sweet, but not too awful.
Gaah. Someone should come up with another word for sweet vodka-based cocktails. Martini is a term that has been abused beyond recognition.
Seconded.
I’m waiting for bacon vodka.
Oh! Time to make a trip to the liquor store!
What if they were two Hmong women? Then it would among Hmong…
Gregory’s “Grand Wizard” is perhaps the best Freudian slip in quite some time. I mean, it’s not like the two words grand and wizard come up connected in everyday langauge all that often unless one is talking about the KKK, or at least thinking the KKK and the GOP are the same thing.