CNN 'Developing Story': 'Is Cain the Anti-Women Candidate?'
Seeking to breathe new life into the political damage of unproven sexual harassment charges against him, CNN's Lisa Sylvester presented viewers with a "developing story" in the 4 p.m. hour of The Situation Room entitled "Is Cain the Anti-Women Candidate?"
Sylvester glommed onto "recent controversial comments" Cain has made, such as referring to former Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) as "Princess Nancy," and saying that "tutti-frutti" is the ice cream flavor that would best describe Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-Minn.).
"Some critics see him as the anti-women candidate," Sylvester insisted of Cain, turning to "CNN contributor Donna Brazile" who "says he has a credibility problem with women." Sylvester failed to note that Brazile is a liberal Democratic strategist who contributed to President Obama's campaign this September.
"Cain walked back from the Princess Nancy comment," Sylvester noted, but added that "on the tutti-frutti controversy" that a Cain spokesman said that "America needs to get a sense of humor."
"But the issue runs deeper," Sylvester insisted, pointing to polling data that shows the sexual harassment allegations have hurt Cain before turning to American University's Jennifer Lawless who groused that Cain was using "statements that are overtly sexist" on the campaign trail.
Lawless ran unsuccessfully for the Democratic party nomination for a House seat in Rhode Island in 2006. She was endorsed by the abortion-on-demand advocacy PAC, NOWPAC.
Both facts were unnoted by Sylvester, leaving viewers with the impression that Lawless is an otherwise disinterested academic observer.
Sylvester did air a clip of Gloria Cain defending her husband, but immediately followed that by reading a quote from Iowa Federation of Republican Women president Maureen Olsen that Cain "needs to be a little more careful before speaking."
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If I was Cain and the rest of
Submitted by helomech on Wed, 11/16/2011 - 7:03pm.
If I was Cain and the rest of the Conservative candidates, I'd start throwing lawsuits at these piss poor excuses of media outlets on the grounds of slander and defamtion of character or something to that effect; and I'd name individual reporters in order to keep them from having their mug on the screen day and night...
My 0.02 of course..
CNN
Submitted by NewLife56 on Wed, 11/16/2011 - 7:20pm.
The once great News Network is dead, I used to watch them on occasion until about a year ago when for whatever reason they decided to become MSNBC light.
I am not joking at all when I say, it is really sad to see a once great network inner destroy itself. Goodbye CNN, thank you for being the first cable news network and your history, but now, it is time to say Goodbye, to CNN.
I will never tune CNN in again.
Better question for CNN: Could ØBama be gay?
Submitted by jmigyanka@msn.com on Wed, 11/16/2011 - 7:30pm.
http://www.renewamerica.com/columns/rush/080916
http://citizenwells.com/2010/05/25/obama-down-low-man%E2%80%99s-country-...
"on the tutti-frutti
Submitted by Reaver on Wed, 11/16/2011 - 7:36pm.
"on the tutti-frutti controversy"
Honestly you couldn’t make this stuff up, no one would believe it. Oh so serious reporters breathlessly telling us about the tutti-frutti controversy.
CNN, the Communist News
Submitted by d1carter on Wed, 11/16/2011 - 7:42pm.
CNN, the Communist News Network...
Donna
Submitted by Tjexcite on Wed, 11/16/2011 - 7:50pm.
Donna Brazile is not only supporter she is a Democratic supper delegate but CNN will never say that as well. To ask her anything about the GOP might as well as the DNC.
The Cain's have been married for 43 years
Submitted by upcountrywater on Wed, 11/16/2011 - 7:58pm.
Yea sure he's anti-woman...
You Didn't Build That.
CNN, Haven't you received your DNC fax yet?
Submitted by Scout Finch on Wed, 11/16/2011 - 9:08pm.
Herman Cain is so "last week"! Since Newt's moved up in the polls, you're supposed to report nothing but negatives on Newt. Do not waste more precious air time on Cain!
Are the Dems, CNN, and MSNBC racist for playing to stereotypes?
Submitted by nkviking75 on Wed, 11/16/2011 - 9:12pm.
Can we call the Democrats the racist party or CNN and MSNBC the racist "news" networks for playing to the stereotype of black men who can't control their sexual urges, especially in regard to white women?
“Always love your country — but never trust your government!" -- Bob Novak (1931-2009)
When you put the clowns in charge, don't be surprised when a circus breaks out.
Bill Maher and Sharia Muslims
Submitted by Samshile on Wed, 11/16/2011 - 9:37pm.
Bill Maher and Sharia Muslims do enough Anti Women behavior for a century
Sharia Muslims...isn't she a new MSNBC anchor?
Submitted by drsamherman on Wed, 11/16/2011 - 11:04pm.
Just kidding....couldn't resist.........
Really after the kennwdys'
Submitted by eaglewingz08 on Wed, 11/16/2011 - 11:05pm.
Really after the kennwdys' Clintons' Dodd's Kerry's Edwards"
' treatment of women CNN is laughable about Cain being "antiwomen".
Kryptonite
Submitted by Bumr50 on Thu, 11/17/2011 - 10:32am.
Herman Cain is Obama's kryptonite, and kryptonite to the leftist-progressive welfare and race-monger establishment.
That was a convoluted sentence, but if you don't understand what I was trying to say, you probably never will.
Oh, we do.
Submitted by ghidorah15 on Thu, 11/17/2011 - 4:31pm.
Trust me, it doesn't take a Superman fan to understand that Hermain Cain is to that entire movement based on lies and empty words what Kryptonite is to the Man of Steel - the one thing that can (and, in this case, hopefully will) prove fatal.
The Left knows that Herman
Submitted by talkradio55 on Thu, 11/17/2011 - 10:14pm.
The Left knows that Herman Cain could destroy their stranglehold on the Black community. He demolishes their lie about Republicans being racist and could singlehandedly break the Democrat Party. Because if he gets 15 or 20% of the Black vote, it's over.
cnn and facts
Submitted by east tennessee john on Fri, 11/18/2011 - 11:20am.
What actual facts have been presented in the Cain case? settlement agreements with the terms not totally known or the basis for the settlement. Now Cain is a black conservative running for Ptresident. Leaving the "progressive" plantation is a bad thing. Might get people to thinking that nearly 50 years after the Great Society began, it just might be a scam. But let's look at the record of the first, "black" president, Bubba and his factual record. Flowers had actual tapes; Broderick had contusions; Willey had contemporaneous witnesses at least equal to Cain a=ccuser Bialek, and Jones had an $860,000 settlement, a court decision saying Bubba lied in a deposition. Where is the overwhelming balance of evidence. Of course, Bubba is a "progressive" white demoncrat;Cain a self mademan who is a black conservative. Enough said.