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Karl Rove’s Advice To Herman Cain: Let Your Accusers Come Forward

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This afternoon on the Kilmeade and Friends radio show, seasoned Republican political strategist Karl Rove took some time to weigh in on the allegations of sexual harassment lobbed against presidential hopeful Herman Cain.

Rove referred to this morning’s New York Times report on the two women who have come forward and noted that, in Cain’s view, there appears to be a discrepancy between an “agreement” and a “settlement.” He then offered some advice for Cain:

RELATED: Lawyer For Cain Accuser Says She’s ‘Very Upset’ With Cain Response

I think the only way to get past this is to get the National Restaurant Association to release its report so that… what they found when they investigated come out and, second of all, that now, having Mr. Cain spoken, it’s going to look unfair if he doesn’t take proactive measures to encourage the Restaurant Association to allow the women in question to come forward.

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  • Anonymous

    It’s only going to get worse!

  • yungchii

    Karl Rove did the hit job.

  • http://gregingleright.weebly.com/ Greg

    Rove has an obvious interest in the information going public, Cain every reason to resist.  If the media were so very “liberal”, the topic would be Cain’s potentially criminal violation of campaign finance laws.  Instead, the right dangles something far more titillating and the feeding frenzy begins… one of the flaws of market domination over the means of public knowledge. Ho hum.   

  • Moosenuts99

    So true. The campaign finance controversy was/is about to hit BIG TIME

    Youre not giving the media enough credit, I’m sure they can balance two controversies at once.

    WHEN WILL FOX REPORT ON CAINS CAMPAIGN FINANCING CONTROVERSY?!!

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_FSPIVAFYI672OH5NOKVRTEZA4U MadCharles

    Why isn’t Rove in jail yet ?

  • Anonymous

    Yeah, why? He is easy to find. Just follow the slime trail, and look under the damp rock.

  • Anonymous

    Getting advice from Karl Rove must be extremely hard to take at this time.

    So much for this all coming from the left….

  • S R Karenova

    Nice, unbiased opinion from someone with no skin in the game here. Can you believe his title is that of news analyst at Fox News? LOL.

  • Ralph

    Nothing prevents the media from identifying any of the complainants.  The two received settlements, and only Cain is identified as a party to the investigations.  The women don’t have to talk if they’re bound by the settlement, but the public still has a right to have them identified and scrutinized.  Maybe they’ve filed frivolous complaints with other image-sensitive organizations in addition to the Natl Restaurant Assoc.

    The women must be identified and scrutinized to determine whether their actions were reasonable or not.  They aren’t rape victims who are protected by rape shield laws.  Their identities are very newsworthy.  One was described as a “lifelong civil servant,” which must be a lie because she worked at the National Restaurant Association, a trade group, not a government organization.

    Now a third complainant has emerged, but she’s anonymous AND didn’t file a complaint.  Yet the media is acting like it’s something newer and better.  It ain’t.  The only thing weaker than an anonymous accuser who filed a compaint 12 years ago is an anonymous accuser who file no complaint at all.

    Oh, there is one person on the record.  A pollster for Rick Perry said he saw Cain do something that he didn’t like wouldn’t do, but was a long time ago too.

    What these women signed that prevents them from talking does not diminished the public’s right to know who they are.  Publish the names and scrutinize the character of the accusers.

  • joe

    praise jesus brothers and sisters–the truth will set you free..

    as we know the heathen liberals cannot face the truth–they mock the lord and creator of all by spewing facts and science===welll hogwash..

    we know that the conservative Christian folks are our last salvation. Herman sings the hyms so pretty now….
    so–let the truth come out and if any of our good conservative Christian friends should lie, use the lord for profit, or cheat or break any commandment–they should be run out of the party and forced into excile to burn with the heathens..
    now i know we may have a secret homosexual conservative now and then and then again–we have our good ole boys who love the children a little to much–and yes we have those boogers who force themselves unwantingly on hussies that ASK FOR IT…
    well we know this is the devils work and we will forgive them—all they have to do is come to the lord and ask for it…
    so—as noted—us good Christian conservatives do not allow this behavior and we will not stand for the lies–and of there is a flippity flopper, or a worshipper of  gold and power;if their is a deciever or a person who would use the lives of others for political gain—they should be run out of the Grande Ole Party…
    thanks lord—and let the blessed be blessed and the rest of yun’s can go straigh to hell…

  • Anonymous

    Let me be the first to call Karl Rove a RINO.

  • Anonymous

    Rove is right, put it out in public and get ot over with. The coverup is worse than the actual story. Get the information out and move on with your campaign

  • Anonymous

    Doesn’t it look like Karl is sitting down at a piano and about to sing and play you a song like Stevie Wonder?  If only he had chose that career :(

  • http://twitter.com/TommyBennett Tom Bennett

    Rove is trying to “help” because wants nothing more than to keep Cain in the race. If Cain goes he allows Perry to become the only rival to Romney.

  • http://twitter.com/JCP1975 JCP1975

    Don’t worry, the conservatives, despite proof and reality, will always blame the left for Cain’s indiscretions (and everything else that goes wrong in the world).  

  • Anonymous

    There is one small flaw in your arguement in regard to the first two women–neither one of them contacted the media.

    Someone who had knowledge of the settlement gave documents to the media which contained the names of the first two women.

    But it is really doesn’t matter because the media has already attempted to contact them and it is only a matter of time before those women’s identity is public knowledge.

    As for the third accuser well she could be exposed and probably will be

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_VSZBGXS4SLZ6BJBTWPMTPBKZZI BanjoGOD

    Chris Holly performs Dylan Classic for Cain town hall. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AokBQwrn6u0. Bob fans not happy on youtube

  • Anonymous

    We don’t need there names, NRA could release the settlement with the names blacked out.

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  • Anonymous

    This is the man to listen to. For real. When it comes to dirt he is the cream of the crop.

  • Anonymous

    Do what I say, not as I do. By the way Karl, how did you get out of ignoring those congressional subpoenas?  Atta boy Karl, you tell um.

  • Considerate Liberal Pedophile

    uuuhhh… No. But we hope that becomes a picture of you in a casket soon!

  • Considerate Liberal Pedophile

    Your black grammar spelling of styling is really “fly”, yo. Now, “do what I say” and STFU.

  • Considerate Liberal Pedophile

    The left has ruined America. Don’t worry, we’ll get a grown up Republican president in 2012 to repair the damage caused by this WHITE GUILT AFFIRMATIVE ACTION SOCIAL EXPERIMENT NBA EXPERT president now living in the Halfwhite House.

  • Considerate Liberal Pedophile

    The damp rock that say’s niggerhead on it? You silly liberal little girl liberal’s.

  • http://twitter.com/Screaming_Head The Screaming Head

    Didn’t Karl just do a video with a whiteboard trying to destroy Cain?

    And why did it have to be a WHITEboard? Huh? What’s wrong with a BLACKboard?!The Purple Truth A Political Blog

  • Hugh G. Rection

    cain is much better than president mamalakaboobooday

  • Ralphieboy10

    You are correct ralph. The democrat hate cain because they are racists.

  • Anonymous

    That was hardly considerate

  • Anonymous

    Jester’s advice for Karl Rove – Shut up and slink away !

  • APKay

    It’s not up to Cain to “let them come forward”.  They need a waiver from the Restaurant Association–that’s who they entered into their confidentiality agreements with. 

    I was listening to some legal opinion about this on tv yesterday–no matter what Cain says to the RA, it’s very unlikely the RA will ever agree to release these women from their agreements.  And if the women break the agreements, they’re liable for returning whatever money they accepted from the RA.

  • Ralph

    Private citizens can have private information published about them if it is newsworthy.  Cain had the fact of the settlements published and now two other people have spoken out against him.  Once the names of the complainants are pubished, then the public can learn if they are serial complainants and litigation entreprenuers.

    The news blackout on the subject is harmful to American democracy.

  • Ralph

    There is no need to release the document in order to publish the names of all those involved. 

    Cain had his involvement in the document published and now others have said bad things about him.  Publishing the names of all the complainants will allow the public to scrutinize them fairly for all to see, and may reveal that one or all of them are serial complainants or litigation entreprenuers.

    EVERYONE in Washington knows all the details already.  Only the public is in the dark and the news blackout is harmful to our democratic processes.

    Publish the names of all involved!

  • Ralph

    It’s just like that part of the hate crimes statue that says a perpetrator of an attack is guilty of a hate crime if the attack is more violent or more vicious because of the perceived status of the victim.

  • http://mediamatters.org/ Leedog

    Anyone with the word “Pedophile” in their username is beyond disgusting!! You should be banned just for that!!

  • http://mediamatters.org/ Leedog

    Karl “Turd Blossom” Rove is adding fuel to the fire… and enjoying every minute of it!! Rove may be an A-Hole, but he’s no idiot!!

  • http://gregingleright.weebly.com/ Greg

    You lack Grace.

  • Ralph

    Nothing prevents the news media from publishing all the facts they know of, regardless of what the complainants signed or didn’t sign in exchange for money.

    http://www.citmedialaw.org/legal-guide/publication-private-facts

    Are the claimants serial complainants or litigation entreprenuers who have settled other lawsuits with image-sensitive organizations?

    Are the complainants racists who supported Cain’s opposition in the election to become the President of the National Restaurant Association?

    The public needs all the details on these allegations in order to make informed decisions.  The news blackout on this story is harmful to our democracy, especially because EVERYONE in Washington already knows the whole story.

  • Ralph
  • Anonymous

    I don’t like Rove..but what did he do to be put in jail?? You don’t like his politics…fine,I don’t like them either…he should do jail time for his politics? What crime did he commit?

  • Guest

    Please at least learn proper English before spewing your idiocy all over this site.

  • Guest

    Take a look at your own spelling and grammar before commenting on others’ style, racist.

  • Anonymous

    Karl Rove is a slimeball working behind the scenes to get Romney elected, and lose the general so he can get Jeb Bush in 2016. Rove tryed to sabatage Sarah Palin. Sarah was a threat to Roves game plan. Sean Hannity calls him the Arcihtect, I call him the Wrecking Ball!

  • Anonymous

    I agree,fox should not have Rove as a contributor…the conservatives do not like or want Rove,Bush or any other liberal republican around…these guys helped screw this country up along with the rest of the liberals…as an ex california liberal I’m sick and tired of the liberal agenda being shoved down my throat…
    Michael Moore,Warren Buffet,George Soros and all the other rich liberal’s who think we should pay more taxes..lead by example and write out the checks,the treasury will be happy to cash them….they won’t..they just like to hear themselves talk…

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_EDODDT7OVQNEMDEJQPWAODWNTA EllellCee

    well….for one thing, he was instrumental in outing and releasing the identity of one of our own operatives.  In otherwords he put the life of a spy in jeopardy by making sure everyone knew her identity. Valerie Plame. Look it up, there’s plenty more about that pustule of a slime ball.

  • Anonymous

    it was never proven that it was Rove…and I know the liberals tried hard to get him and if he were guilty they would have convicted him….There is so much bullshit surroundind the Bush Adminstration and Karl Rove,I think some Liberal outed her to Robert Novak…how about that??I really don’t want to sticking up for these guys..I didn’t vote for Bush..but the same lies keep getting repeated over and over again until some people think it must be true…..Just the facts please….

  • ayungclas

    He and Dick Cheney and Oliver North could be cell mates.

  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100002816267951 Jim Petersen

    I think Karl Rove will be found to be behind the disclosure. Dirty politics are straight from his playbook.

  • Anonymous

    And that’s an understatement.

  • http://twitter.com/aloysiusokon Aloysius Okon

    That’s brilliant advice! Assuming Cain did no wrong, letting these accusers publicly state their grievances will only exonerate Cain and allow the press to move on to other things. 

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