AP Editor: We Still Consider Herman Cain A Second-Tier Candidate
Yeah, Herman Cain won the Florida straw poll, crushing Mitt Romney and Rick Perry. And OK, a CBS poll recently found him tied with Romney among likely Republican primary voters. Sure, he also scored a resounding victory in another straw poll this weekend. And Rasmussen just today released the finding that 56% of GOP voters like Cain's 9-9-9 plan.
So is that enough to make the Associated Press consider Cain a first-tier candidate? Nah. On MSNBC's Daily Rundown this morning, AP's political editor, Liz Sidoti, sniffed "we still consider him a second-tier candidate." Video after the jump.
Sidoti--along with her fellow panelists--suggested Cain merits no more than second-tier status because he doesn't have the money, organization or travel plans worthy of a true contender. Watch this liberal coven of representatives of MSNBC, AP, Washington Post and NPR write off another Republican.
CHUCK TODD, Daily Rundown host: Herman Cain. Liz Sidoti: have you changed the way the Associated Press is covering Herman Cain? Do you, do you increase the amount of events, even at the book signings, that you make sure you have an Associated Press reporter at?
LIZ SIDOTI, Associated Press: When Herman Cain makes news, we put it on the wire. When he doesn't we don't put it on the wire.
TODD: Is it different from how you might cover a second-tier or a third-tier candidate at this point?
SIDOTI: No. We still consider him a second-tier candidate.
TODD: When do you say, OK, first-tier?
SIDOTI: Well, you know, I think this is very difficult. This is something that we wrestle with at the AP often, which is when is a candidate in the first tier? And I think you have to look at many different things, including a candidate's travel schedule, where they're spending their time, and not just the polls. You have to look at money the candidate has, look at the kind of organization that the candidate puts in place, among many other different factors. So, you know, we had reporters at Herman Cain's book-signing last week.
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Racist
Submitted by bkeyser on Mon, 10/10/2011 - 11:43am.
clearly.
Agreed
Submitted by Galvanic on Mon, 10/10/2011 - 12:34pm.
The MSM historically has marginalized black conservatives and GOP candidates.
To the MSM he is second-tier
Submitted by ForeverOnTheRight on Mon, 10/10/2011 - 2:01pm.
To the MSM he is second-tier because 1) he is black and 2) he is conservative. The MSM and the left (one and the same I know) are the racists and race baiters.
Racist: yea...Cain is too black for them,
Submitted by Dbak61 on Mon, 10/10/2011 - 11:42pm.
the only black man they could get behind was an affirmative action mongrel. Seems their lily white guilt does have its bounds.
Herman Cain is not too "black" for the left - He's too American
Submitted by Dave. on Mon, 10/10/2011 - 11:58pm.
-Dave
Vote for the American in November
money, organization or travel plans
Submitted by CarlosS on Mon, 10/10/2011 - 11:53am.
So, Liz..., he's not elitist enough for your political tastes..., you'd prefer a progressive with a billion dollar politcal war chest?
Keeping the black man down
Submitted by Jimme on Mon, 10/10/2011 - 11:54am.
as always!!!!!
News Headline To Associated Press
Submitted by almostacowboy on Mon, 10/10/2011 - 11:58am.
YOU don't get to decide who the candidates will be. YOU get to report on who WE have decided the candidates will be.
Journalism is dead
Submitted by averageschmoe on Mon, 10/10/2011 - 12:25pm.
AP is supposed to report the news, not make the news. That is why journalism is dead in America. RIP Journalism.
WITH HIM ALL THE WAY
Submitted by ROSSMAN on Mon, 10/10/2011 - 12:01pm.
JUST SAW BRAGGING THAT FOOD IN PARK IS BETTER THAN AT HOME. I BELIEVE WE ARE SEEING ALL THE HOMELESS, AND HABITUAL STREET PEOPLE GETTING FRE MEAL BOOZE AND DRUGS. MAYBE FROM THE UNIONS!! I ALSO DON'T SEE ANY COMPANY PRESIDENTS AND SUCCESSFUL FUTURE EMPLOYEES. ALL I SEE IS LOSERS.. ONE SHOOTING, KILLING AND ATTACKS ON POLICE, WE CAN BLAME PELOSI AND ALL THE LIBS. NO DIFFERENT THAN FAST AND FURIOUS!!
Dude, we are right here.
Submitted by Denny Crane on Mon, 10/10/2011 - 9:21pm.
You don't have to shout.
We Are The 53%
Hey, Herman!
Submitted by Cool Arrow on Mon, 10/10/2011 - 12:04pm.
I don't have a Cadillac for them to covet, but I'm definitely hoping you're the authentic American you seem to be thus far.
Let's drain this swamp!
Second Tier?
Submitted by KyWriter on Mon, 10/10/2011 - 12:06pm.
Coming from a second-tier news organization, you would think they would be more circumspect in using that term. If so, then what does that make Obama? Fouth Tier? Fifth? Oh, wait a minute. That only applies to conservatives. Never mind.
We consider Liz to be a second-tier journalist.
Submitted by drsamherman on Mon, 10/10/2011 - 12:28pm.
She's one step below the want ad writer at the local coupon weekly.
AP considers Cain a second
Submitted by Van Halen on Mon, 10/10/2011 - 12:41pm.
AP considers Cain a second tier candidate.
That's OK - we all consider Obama a last-tier president.
So Liz pushes African
Submitted by eaglewingz08 on Mon, 10/10/2011 - 12:51pm.
So Liz pushes African American candidate Cain to the back of the bus. Typical liberal democrap. I am not enamored by Cain, but he definitely has catapulted to first tier candidate. The journolistas are working overtime to try to derail his potential candidacy and to get a smear that sticks, so far to no avail.
Based solely on the numbers...
Submitted by stage9 on Mon, 10/10/2011 - 12:55pm.
wouldn't OBAMA now qualify as a "second tier candidate"? Just saying...
"If God is dead, somebody is going to have to take his place. It will be megalomania or erotomania, the drive for power or the drive for pleasure, the clenched fist or the phallus, Hitler or Hugh Hefner." — Malcolm Muggeridge
Cain flies straight in the
Submitted by rbosque on Mon, 10/10/2011 - 12:57pm.
Cain flies straight in the face of the idiot left who thinks everything is about race. Of course they're going to marginalize him. They can't adaquately explain how a "racist" Tea Party is backing a Black man, it's not in their template.
They have to use race as a weapon because that's ALL they have. They can't possibly defend Obama on his record.
Let's see how "tolerant the left truley is by at least giving Cain a shot.
"we still consider him a
Submitted by celator on Mon, 10/10/2011 - 1:02pm.
"we still consider him a second-tier candidate."?????????????????
Who's "we"? Does she have a mouse in her pocket?
We
Submitted by Kilroy on Mon, 10/10/2011 - 3:30pm.
By "we" she is referring to herself and her dog who knows if he doesn't agree he starves.
This is something that we wrestle with at the AP often
Submitted by Ashrak on Mon, 10/10/2011 - 1:18pm.
Of course,
BECAUSE THE AP DOESN'T REPORT NEWS, it propagandizes by disguising what they do as journalism and news reporting, when in reality they are nothing more than in print and pixel cheerleaders for progressive politics.
Anyone else dyslexic enough
Submitted by Name on Mon, 10/10/2011 - 2:19pm.
Anyone else dyslexic enough to have read her name as Liz Idiots?
First-tier candidate...
Submitted by Karma on Mon, 10/10/2011 - 2:26pm.
...if and when the second most powerful man in the world says so. I didn't know the AP monitors the blow-hard Bloviator this closely.
Liz Sidoti - RACIST Liz
Submitted by Scuba Dude on Mon, 10/10/2011 - 2:27pm.
Liz Sidoti - RACIST
Liz Sidoti - RACIST
Liz Sidoti - RACIST
Liz Sidoti - RACIST
Need I say any more?
MSM meltdown
Submitted by TerryWest on Mon, 10/10/2011 - 3:41pm.
That anyone at MSNBC or the main stream media as a whole considers themselves to be good judge's of tier placement for candidates is amusing considering their tier placement record, aka our current disaster.
Someone might want to let Liz know that ...
Submitted by Tom Blumer on Mon, 10/10/2011 - 3:51pm.
... Cain is barely ahead of Perry in the RCP poll consensus -- which does not include Cain's 20-point lead (suspect as it is) at Zogby.
That makes Cain No. 2. That must mean the top tier at the AP consists of Mitt Romney, Mitt Romney, and Mitt Romney -- as so many of us have suspected all along.
Actually, I'm sort of glad the Ass. Press is kind of ignoring...
Submitted by Dave. on Mon, 10/10/2011 - 3:54pm.
...the Hermanator.
All they are going to do is give him negative coverage, anyway.
-Dave
Vote for the American in November
I consider obama a first rate
Submitted by LAM SON 719 on Mon, 10/10/2011 - 4:03pm.
I consider obama a first rate islamic thug and a moron who has never had an original thought.
That's not for you to decide,
Submitted by Martin2717 on Mon, 10/10/2011 - 4:38pm.
That's not for you to decide, AP.
thats allright
Submitted by Paarl on Mon, 10/10/2011 - 5:01pm.
i still consider AP a 2nd tier news agency/wire...
paarl of rhodesia
watch Rhodesia Television...for the finest in central African news !!!!
Rod Serling is here again....
Submitted by Tomorama on Mon, 10/10/2011 - 7:28pm.
Imagine if you will.....................
When Obambi was an actual second tier candidate the MEDIA championed the cause and they selected, got elected and have protected the worst presentdent of my lifetime.
Imagine if say Faux noise..........., called Obysmal a second tier candidate when he actually was......
The good Revs and the other hucksters would have been on every "news" show for a week.
NOW Cain is a top tier candidate getting second class treatment by the LSM (also see Leg Tingles talking about the top tier and NOT ONCE mentioning Cain in the 10 minute segment).
So because he doesn't have the money, he is not a factor, imagine if you will PART 578977677, SO IT'S ALL ABOUT MONEY??????
Wait a minute, are these not the same frauds that whine about money in politics over and over.............................................................................
NewsBusters own Warner Todd
Submitted by stratman on Mon, 10/10/2011 - 9:44pm.
NewsBusters own Warner Todd Houston rated Liz Sidoti # 9 of America's top ten most biased journolistas in America. Her current trashy article is another attempt to limp past # 8 Christiane Amanpour. (For the list see here. Looks like it's time for an update.)
Sidoti Bio:
A bachelor's in journalism? Well you can hear it now...
Submitted by drsamherman on Tue, 10/11/2011 - 7:03pm.
...her conversations with fellow students in journalism school, "Hey...can I borrow your Plagiarism 101 notes?" or "I'm so ticked! I can't get into Fabricating Quotes 334 without a permission slip." or "I wonder if the student loan people know this is all just bullcrap?"
HA! No Doubt
Submitted by stratman on Tue, 10/11/2011 - 10:05pm.
Concerning Sidoti's Bachelor's Degree from Ohio University:
AP Political Editor Sidoti is another example of how in life and business the best do not always rise to the top. Then again, it could be like children getting trophy's too when they lose. Well done, AP!
AP Should Disclose its KKK Ties
Submitted by Avitar on Tue, 10/11/2011 - 12:26am.
We all know that until the nineteen sixties the KKK was the largest faction within the Democrat Party. We know that the AP supported the Democrat Party for fifty years while that was true. AP has clearly retained ties to keeping the black family down and should be pressured to explain themselves. If they are just racist bigots that is one thing but if their international advertising is benifitted by their stand against black achieverment then something needs to be done.
Word Games!!
Submitted by Radical Reductionist on Tue, 10/11/2011 - 2:41am.
SIDOTI = IDIOTS