October 2011

Greg Sargent has this part of Herman Cain’s statement today:

I was falsely accused of sexual harassment. And when the charges were brought, as the leader of the organization I recused myself and allowed my general counsel and my human resource officer to deal with the situation. And it was concluded after a thorough investigation that it had no basis.

As for a settlement, I am unaware of any sort of settlement. I hope it wasn’t for much, because I didn’t do anything. But the fact of the matter is, I’m not aware of a settlement that came out of that accusation. Per the article, two anonymous sources claim it’s sexual harassment. We’re not gonna chase anonymous sources when there’s no basis for the accusation.

As I pointed out earlier, this vindicates the Politico in their reporting (and the “liberal media” claims). Even more interesting is what Jennifer Rubin, someone who is anything but a lefty, points out:

At the National Press Club, Cain says he recused himself as head of the organization from handling the sexual harassment claim and it was dealt with by the general counsel and human resources person. So he never asked what happened to the accusation? No one ever told him about confidentiality obligations? He never got confirmation that he would be absolved of any personal liability? I am having a hard time understanding how this happened..

Herman Cain has a serious race problem. This became more evident yesterday on Face the Nation (via Think Progress):

BOB SCHIEFFER: Okay. I want to ask you, since we’re on the subject of abortion, it was at one point back there when the question of Planned Parenthood came up and you said that it was not Planned Parenthood, it was really planned genocide. Because you said Planned Parenthood was trying to put all these centers into the Black communities because they wanted to kill Black babies–

CAIN (overlapping): Yes.

SCHIEFFER: –before they were born. You still stand by that?

CAIN: I still stand by that.

SCHIEFFER: Do you have any proof that that was the objective of Planned Parenthood?

CAIN: If people go back and look at the history and look at Margaret Sanger’s own words, that’s exactly where that came from. Look– look up the history. So if you go back and look up the history– secondly, look at where most of them were built. Seventy-five percent of those facilities were built in the Black community.

As with most Republicans Cain’s numbers are not backed by fact, but rather totally made up. Fewer than 10% of the nation’s abortion clinics are located in predominately black neighborhoods. Also studies show that far more whites receive abortions than blacks, jabbing another hole in Cain’s notion.

A video posted by the hacking Anonymous stating that on November 5th they will attack Fox news servers and bring them down. The reason for the attack is over Fox's coverage of Occupy Wall Street (or should I say their propaganda against it).

Here's the video posted on YouTube by Anonymous:

The group doesn't seem to be stopping at only Fox, but also their talents. They specific label names like Sean Hannity and Bill O'Reilly. Next Friday should be a very interesting day as this attack commences. I wonder how many extra servers Fox is ordering to try and keep up with the increased traffic from both people seeing if they are online and an onslaught of DDOS attacks.

How hard? This hard:

EXCLUSIVE: ACORN Playing Behind Scenes Role in 'Occupy' Movement

The former New York office for ACORN, the disbanded community activist group, is playing a key role in the self-proclaimed “leaderless” Occupy Wall Street movement, organizing “guerrilla” protest events and hiring door-to-door canvassers to collect money under the banner of various causes while spending it on protest-related activities, sources tell FoxNews.com.

The former director of New York ACORN, Jon Kest, and his top aides are now busy working at protest events for New York Communities for Change (NYCC). That organization was created in late 2009 when some ACORN offices disbanded and reorganized under new names after undercover video exposes prompted Congress to cut off federal funds.

That would be non-other than FOX news pushing a story that an organization, which closed-up shop 19 months ago, is behind the #OWS movement. Of course the actual article isn’t as eerie to the tinfoil hat wearing right as the headline. All we find out is that “someone” told Fox that one of the people involved in the protest used to work for ACORN, or shorter wingnut meme “how dare you liberal hippies go out and find a job after losing yours, not get to work you unemployed freeloaders!”