The Leftist news media is happily predicting the demise of Herman Cain’s campaign for the Republican nomination. It’s what they do: Collect slime and spread it on and play it up like it was the most important thing. Then sit back and ballpark how effective it’s been.
Not that Cain hasn’t hurt himself. Despite insisting he’s going to hang in there, even as his principal Tea Party backers bail. He should have seen this stuff coming and prepared better. Always amazes me that any Republican candidate—especially a black man who presents an obviously stronger racial challenge to Obamalot than any white man—could imagine the Dem media would treat him/her fairly.
With or without hidden baggage, but especially with. Never has happened. And never will. As a surprised John McCain found out in 2008, objectivity and fairness are not the Fifth Column’s game.
UPDATE: Ann Coulter has a good take on this: “[T]his is how liberals dirty you up when they’ve got nothing…”
And then, a day after I posted the above, Cain bailed out of the race.
THE TEXAS SCRIBBLER 
Objectivity and fairness is not exactly the name of the game in politics and in media both. Of course, Dems could always counter with the case where all that fury was unleashed against their own (Clinton) in a similar case…
Your memory is a little off. Clinton pretty much got a pass. They even joked about it, calling his accusers the “bimbo eruption.” Bimbos, get it? Not to be taken seriously. And why not, it’s the Dem media, and he’s a Dem. If not for Drudge, his seduction of Monica might have remained a secret. Newsweek refused to run it and an outraged staffer tipped the info to Drudge.
It always kind of surprised me that McCain didn’t realize the game wasn’t played by the rules. After all, I doubt that the management at the Hanoi Hilton did.
Nope. I guess the NYTimes suckered him, writing all those nice pieces about him. So long as he was the Republican gadfly, he was their boy. When he represented the party, he was just another racist, etc., who needed slaying.
Oh well, I cannot in all fairness claim that I was into all the sordid details of the story then, neither am I now into Cain’s mishap.
Suffice to mention that in some places in Europe a story like this will only enhance the candidate’s chances to get there. Talk about healthy attitude to a bit of hanky-panky…
I agree it’s generally a healthy attitude, though several of Clinton’s encounters bordered on rape.
I did not follow the details on Cain’s escapades, either, but there was a complicating racial note to some of them, the women being white. Something that is still not always appreciated, and not just in the South.
Uh, actually, calling a woman a “bimbo” is not a compliment, David. And, other than young Monica, who was starry-eyed about sucking up (literally) to power, Clinton’s complainers were not happy at all about being groped and/or propositioned. Or could you actually name one who was?
FYI, I used to be a member of the “dirty smearing lying liberal media” so I know that, yes, that’s pretty much what they do. Guess you had to be there.
I’ll let you have the black expertise, though, which seems to be a white liberal’s thing. They’re on your plantation, after all.