Eleanor Clift: Herman Cain Got 'Free Ride' From Media Until Politico Hit Piece
There have been a lot of ridiculous comments made in the past week since Politico published its hit piece on Republican presidential candidate Herman Cain, but one of the most absurd yet came from Newsweek's Eleanor Clift this weekend.
Appearing on PBS's McLaughlin Group, Clift actually said, "This is the press doing what the press should be doing, and they should have done due diligence on this candidate earlier on...He got a free ride for a good long while." (video follows with transcript and commentary):
ELEANOR CLIFT, NEWSWEEK CONTRIBUTING EDITOR: Well, there were financial settlements that were made, and the women’s anonymity so far has been protected. I'll bet if this story continues to play out the women may step forward and we may hear their side. But Pat says on the one hand he is being victimized because he's black and because he’s a conservative. But on the other hand there may be some substance to the charges. I mean, this is the press doing what the press should be doing, and they should have done due diligence on this candidate earlier on. I think there was an assumption and there still is an assumption that he is unlikely to be the Republican nominee, and he is very unlikely to be president. So he got a free ride for a good long while.
Is this what Clift considers a free ride?
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Comments
Another candidate for retirement
Submitted by Fredy on Sun, 11/06/2011 - 5:38pm.
This experts commentary has far outlived both her honest and relevant days.
If Cain DID get a 'free ride'
Submitted by killa37 on Sun, 11/06/2011 - 5:39pm.
If Cain DID get a 'free ride' by the MSM............I sure as hell didn't notice it!!! They've been all over the 'pizza boys' case from day one - and from every angle possible..............of course Clift woudn't know - she IS part of the delusional MSM and beltway mentalilty, and has no clue as to what really goes on out here in the 'real world'.
So let me see if I got this right.
Submitted by NeoKong on Sun, 11/06/2011 - 5:39pm.
Eleanor Clift is against candidates getting a free ride....? Is this something new ?
Clift
Submitted by Curly on Sun, 11/06/2011 - 5:50pm.
She's had a "free" ride her whole stinkin' media life! She is a complete dumbass.
Compared to whom?
Submitted by HelloDare on Sun, 11/06/2011 - 5:51pm.
Compared to whom?
Just to make the comparison fair, let's pick another Black politician, oh, let's say Obama. Cain got a free ride compared to Obama? Eleanor, you got to be kidding.
And I don't remember a whole
Submitted by killa37 on Sun, 11/06/2011 - 5:55pm.
And I don't remember a whole lot of 'due diligence' when Boy Barry was running...........or even after he won, including up to the present moment.
The Day the Music Died...
Submitted by Annie Ashe Fields on Sun, 11/06/2011 - 6:03pm.
So... Ellen, honey... In order to be SCRUPULOUSLY fair, you'll send your attack dogs to gather anonymous sources making vague claims on something that maybe happened in a restaurant and radio station hallway witnessed by people who also withhold details though they're not bound by legal covenant... on OBAMA... RIGHT?
Hmmm... Let's print a story that says a married Obama got a Lewinsky in a limo in Chicago in 2006 ... by a guy...
Nah.
Too ridiculous.
Cuz there were all those bimbo-eruptions and all those old girllfriends of Obama's we know abou...
Nevermind.
PREDICTION: Political historians will write about this moment as "the day the slime-music died" in politics. Fifteen years after the broad entrenchment of Fox/talk radio/internet, the liberal media could no longer lie with impunity, and THIS was their last rodeo. Herman Cain will ride this backfire right into the White House.
Remember where you heard it first ;)
The Hermanator's 'free ride' lasted until about 5 minutes...
Submitted by Dave. on Sun, 11/06/2011 - 5:57pm.
...after he announced he was a candidate for the republican nomination.
This idiot lives under a rock, apparently.
-Dave
Vote for the American in November
"I think there was an
Submitted by ant on Sun, 11/06/2011 - 8:01pm.
"I think there was an assumption...he was very unlikely to be the Republican nominee, and he is very unlikely to be the President."
Sounds to me like Eleanor's suggesting his free-ride was in the back of the bus. Racist!
Can't really fault Eleanor.
Submitted by Jerry on Sun, 11/06/2011 - 8:50pm.
Can't really fault Eleanor. She and everyone else knows that Republicans don't get free rides. They pay their own way and pay for those who don't pay their own way also. So, Obama getting a free ride from the MSM (D) for 4 years is nothing out of the ordinary, but rather it is to be expected.
Cain is simply paying his press dues and Obama's too. And typical Democrat Eleanor, thinks Cain is not paying his fair share.
Talk about dog whistles
Submitted by DaMav on Sun, 11/06/2011 - 8:53pm.
I expected Clift to finish her little diatribe with "after all, he is VERY black"...
Did 'ya ever think one of the reasons...
Submitted by KyWriter on Sun, 11/06/2011 - 8:56pm.
...Newsweek is going under is this dessicated old bat?
I can't help it - HARPY
Submitted by amyshulk on Sun, 11/06/2011 - 9:07pm.
I can't help it - HARPY springs to mind when she starts cawing!
Ronald Reagan
May I add "shrill" to you
Submitted by rockyracoon on Mon, 11/07/2011 - 7:03am.
May I add "shrill" to you description, amyshulk?
Facts are like kryptonite to the liberal.
rockyracoon
Submitted by amyshulk on Mon, 11/07/2011 - 7:25am.
That works too rockyracoon. When she gets going it really is like fingernails on chalkboard, huh?
I really do try to listen to her, so when I heard Cain's "excuse me" played over and over, it reminded me of all the times she used it, and how for her it really was a weapon, to shut down others, whereas Cain used it like a normal, regular person would!
Ronald Reagan
"This is the press doing what
Submitted by big.league.slider on Sun, 11/06/2011 - 10:01pm.
"This is the press doing what the press should be doing, and they should have done due diligence on this candidate earlier on..".
Due diligence? Is she kidding? These were unsubstantiated accusations from anonymous sources. Normally, this would be referred to as slander.
The public implosion of liberals and the MSM gets more entertaining each day.
Eleanor Clift is like a wind vane pointing due liberal
Submitted by jakee308 on Sun, 11/06/2011 - 11:11pm.
no matter the subject.
I can count on her to be lined up like a Rockette in the chorus line of Democrat/Liberal dancers to the tune of the Internationale.
Elanor Clift: Living proof
Submitted by mattm on Mon, 11/07/2011 - 7:56pm.
Elanor Clift: Living proof that ignorance and insanity are required for entrance into the libtard media.
Good evening matt
Submitted by cocodrie on Mon, 11/07/2011 - 8:01pm.
You sure she's living?
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