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Herman Cain Cancels Newspaper Editorial Board Meeting Following Disagreement Over Taping

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Today’s meeting between GOP presidential hopeful Herman Cain and The New Hampshire Union Leader‘s editorial board was canceled by Cain’s campaign people one hour before it was scheduled to begin, apparently due to a disagreement over whether their talk should be filmed.

Although it is being reported that it was Cain’s campaign that had an issue with the filming (the paper often allows C-SPAN to broadcast its meetings with presidential candidates), Cain spokesperson J.D. Gordon maintains that it was the newspaper that called off the meeting. Gordon did admit, however, that the campaign attempted to “change the terms of the interview,” revealing late last night that Cain only had 20 minutes for the interview and that he would not allow videotaping.

RELATED: Watch Herman Cain Flounder With Libya Question During Editorial Board Interview

You may recall that, earlier this week, Cain seemed to flounder during a taped interview with the Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel‘s editorial board when asked about Libya.

h/t WSBTV

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  • KY-Conservative

    Oh nigga please!

  • http://mediamatters.org/ Leedog

    Lol!! It appears that Herb Cain is worried about having his interviews taped due to his propensity to have trouble answering simple questions concerning the foreign policies of this country!!

  • Bware

    LOL

    In another month this laughable clown will be back in his pizza delivery van.

  • Kid Dynamite

    Herman thought the taping would involve him doing anal with Megyn Kelly.

  • FunnyTonyMase

    If I were Herman Cain, I wouldn’t take any more questions.  Just smile and say 999.  

    …maybe sing some gospel music.  

  • Anonymous

    Token is falling back on his old pizza strategy..

    You get your interview in 30 minutes or less.

  • Thinker

    Can anyone remember a bigger joke than this guy!? He’s making a mockery of the whole process! Does anyone still take this guy serious!?

  • Anonymous

    Pablo

  • Tony

    He’s a joke. Why do we waste our time listening him?

    “Mr. Cain what do you think of Obama’s handling of the war on terror?”

    ” – Obama?…Obama is the president of the US correct? Just wanted to make sure before I say anything…..I think Obama’s actions are wrong…..I’m not sure how but I’m against Obama…I think he should’ve sent more troops into Ubeki-beki-beki-stan…..and…..uh…….NINE – NINE – NINE!! “

  • Tony

    The Tea Baggers love him.

  • Tony

    Just say shake your head and go NINE NINE NINE to everything Cain!

  • Anonymous

    Someone’s a little scared of a case of verbal diarrhea. Guffaw. 

  • Anonymous

    So this guy can’t do a sit down unless “Fox” edits? All he’s got is 999 and that doesn’t add up, but “teas” love his lack of knowledge! “Someone who can(‘t) lead not read”! Wow, lets back this guy!

  • Juliebnike

    Mediaite.com is fair, unbiased, unafraid!!! I like “You may recall that, earlier this week, Cain “seemed” to flounder during a taped interview with theMilwaukee Journal-Sentinel‘s editorial board when asked about Libya”. 
     Truth be told Herman Cain was not quite sure what President Obama’s position was in Libya ’cause he had none! The fact was that President Sarkozy championed and pushed for the ouster of Col. M. Qaddafi, then Prime David Cameron, Chancellor Angela Merkel, Secretary Clinton, Senators J. McCain and Lindsey Graham pushed him to support Qaddafi’s ouster. 
     It’s President Obama supporting the single payer healthcare system and then succumbing to then Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s healthcare deal. 
     We Herman Cain in the White House, a man of conviction. Herman Cain for President!!!  

  • Rex the Wonder God

    Oh Ky-JellyCon, please!

    Pretty obvious Creepy’s handlers got the call from winger central not to allow any more Wisconsin Debacles. So now the plan is for ‘more-or-less as-credible-as-possible deniability’. Way too late for the Creepy Train – it’s been derailed miles back. 

  • kromecom

    You are a very brave idiot. The unability of ANY PRESIDENTIAL candidate to answer basic questions on foreign policy is critical to selecting a candidate. If you don’t accept that you belong in a media free country like Syria where the media is certainly not free. You’re a very sad excuse for a “patriotic American.”

    And, by the way, one of the worst terrorists in history was swiftly removed by NATO, at a fraction of the cost of Iraq and without loss of U.S. life.  That’s how you do it. Now spin that into Obama is stupid if you dare.

  • Rex the Wonder God

    Oh, bull crap. That was a NATO mission and Obama wanted as little as possible to do with it without getting on the wrong side of allies or feeding you authoritarian tools. Simple truth: the House Republicans had the unfettered power to stop ANY involvement of the US in the Libyan rebellion. Then you consider Newt was for it – against it – for it – against it – kinda for it – never for it – always for it, and now criticizing Obama for being “indecisive” when the one thing Obama ALWAYS was about this NATO action in Libya was consistent, and the game is clear: whatever Obama does, we’re against it, unless it works, in which case we were ALWAYS against and don’t you DARE role the tape. 

  • Thinker

    …so basically “let Herman be Herman”! That’s all he’s done since the beginning, and somehow He gained supporters!!? It’s good to see that now the blind can see again! Welcome back to reality Hermanation!

  • News Of The World

    And sadly, there are STILL people who are contributing to his campaign and showing up at his rallys.  Either they’re totally ignorant or have been living under a rock.

  • Juliebnike

    Kromecom may your whole entire family perish in an accident!!! If you think President Obama had a policy on Libya from the onset meant to remove Col. M. Qaddafi. Remember United States spent about $2 billion in the ouster of Qaddafi for a country which have $15 trillion in debt and counting. When Qaddafi was dislodged it was President Sarkozy and Prime Minister D. Cameron that visited Libya first.
     How much did they spend in the ouster of Qaddafi? What policy is fighting a war that turned into a covert war without the authorization of the congress is termed a foreign policy?
     Herman Cain for President!!!!  

  • Anonymous

    Coward.

  • Anonymous

    Cain wants deniability next time.  The Union Leader was right not to give it to him.

  • Juliebnike

    Herman Cain for President!!

  • Anonymous

    With only 20 minutes Herman was afraid he would be able to think of a answer that quick.

  • Anonymous

    May your whole family perish in a car crash is to far out of bounds. If you disagree with an opinnon fine, but you should not wish harm on anyone.

  • labman57

    As Clint would say,  a man’s gotta know his limitations.  
    Cain’s extemporaneous speaking skills are limited to brief interviews held behind closed doors … with pre-screened questions … demonstrating a philosophy of the perceived role of the media shared by other faux, tea party brown-nosing political wannabes:  He wants them to only ask the questions that he WANTS them to ask.

  • Ron H

    Maybe he is afraid Ron Paul is going to use his magic again :) http://youtu.be/kmOdSIf_Oik

  • Anonymous

    They couldn’t decide whether to tape his hands or his mouth.

  • WB

    Since Presidential election voting takes place in November, there is not much chance Mr. Cain could have beat President Obama anyway, he’s just born at the wrong time of the year, I know that may sound superstisious, but it’s not surprising his train was derailed at this time of the year.  It’s too bad because the 999 plan was gaining popularity.  Oh well,  back to playing Sim City 4 Deluxe Edition, gotta try and keep those Sims happy.

    WB

  • Bob

    Cain is the latest in a long string of has-beens to come out of this campaign.

  • Bob

    Cain’s campaign is over. As is Bachmann’s, Perry’s, Trump’s and all the other not-Romney’s.
    No matter which idiot emerges from the GOP clown car, President Obama will easily triumph over them.

  • Anonymous

    CAIN AIN’T ABEL!!!!

  • Anonymous

    The gift that keeps on giving

  • Ralph

    Why would they reject 20 minutes of access?

  • kromecom

    Further proof that you are the very definition of the UGLY AMERICAN. Thank the lord that most of you reside south the the Mason Dixon line.

  • Anonymous

    He makes Palin seem intelligent and reasonable

  • Anonymous

    Herman needs to go on the offensive!  Instead of just issuing blanket denials, he should claim that he was the CEO of the NRA and therefore had to train the NRA members how to increase security at their restaurants.  In order to protect restaurant patrons from possible female terrorists, he believed that the best way to do so was to reach under the dresses of all the beautiful patrons and stroke their thighs and panties in a search for concealed weapons and bombs!  He should argue that the receipt of only a handful of complaints from women who claim they were harassed, is proof positive that everybody else knew exactly what he was trying to teach them.

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