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New Herman Cain ‘Women For Cain’ Site Headlined By Stock Photo Of Female Fans

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The embattled Herman Cain presidential campaign has launched a “Women For Cain” website, chaired by Gloria Cain, that is drawing attention for its conspicuous timing, and for attacks on Cain’s accusers that are being posted there. What’s also fascinating, though, is the campaign’s decision to go with a stock photo of “Four happy young women holding their thumbs up,” rather than using a photo of actual women supporters of Cain in the site’s banner.

While the site’s intro doesn’t mention it, Women For Cain is obviously a response to this week’s bombshell accusation by Ginger White, accompanied by phone records and a horribly unhelpful statement by Cain attorney Lin Wood, that the candidate engaged in a 13 year affair with her. Cain has denied the allegation, but has admitted to some things that are hard to explain.

TPM notes that the Cain supporters who are posting on the site have not been shy about discussing the allegations against Herman Cain, and leveling “brutal attacks” on his accusers:

The real prize, however, is a section — which appears to be curated by the campaign — featuring female supporters’ personal testimonials, many of which are brutal attacks against the women who have accused Cain of sexual harassment, sexual assault, and
infidelity.

“Dear Mrs. Cain Don’t pay attention to these pathetic husbandless women who are jealous of women like you in happy long-term marriages,” a supporter from California writes. “These vindictive women can’t find a husband or keep one. They are like stalkers who try to latch on to any man who shows a bit of kindness or attention to them. When these unstable women come out of the woodwork to make accusations about Herman just say, ‘Honey, get a life, I believe my husband.’ We want you to be our First Lady Mrs. Cain!”

Another post, by a support in Georgia, laments how “now because of scheming women that can be swayed by money, attention or whatever else the reason may be, your reputation is at stake – not theirs as it should be. I do not believe these women are victims…I believe you are.”

TPM surmises that the site is “curated” by the Cain campaign, but there’s really know way to know what, if any, moderation is being done on the site. The “testimonials” do bring into stark relief the culture war that’s still being waged on the working, independent women who are most closely identified with feminism.

Setting aside the questionable value of the site (Cain is so done, you can visibly see the pop-up timer), and even more questionable taste of shoving Mrs. Cain out in front when she hasn’t even seen him since the story broke, if you’re going to do a site like this, isn’t this the one time you want a picture of real live female supporters up top? Yes, the use of stock photos on political websites is commonplace, but in this case, it just lends itself too easily to punchlines, most obviously that the campaign couldn’t find three flesh-and-blood women to give Cain the thumbs up, so they had to buy them.

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  • http://twitter.com/JCP1975 JCP1975

    Might as well have fun with Cain now because as of this upcoming Monday, the media won’t give a sh*t about him.

  • Gloves T. Donahue

    About the picture. I have a joke here, but I think I’ll keep it to myself.

  • http://profiles.google.com/fatlibertarianinokc Fat Libertarian

    Is this where his women go for the hookups with Herman?

  • Anonymous

    Guess which one Herman sexually assaulted, get a free trip to the Holyfield fight?

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_3WWXCOIHYBAQCUVFBNBFSRQRA4 Ardiva

    The “whois” on this site comes up with a proxy (identity hidden).

  • Anonymous

    Hilarious.

    Comedians are going to miss him.. but that’s how it goes, god giveth god taketh away

    So long as the Tea Party is out there, there will be no paucity of comedians fodder.. though in Cain’s case they’d given us the material with the actual comedian all rolled into one

  • Anonymous

    Almost every single one is a middle-aged white woman.

    Is this a pro-Cain website or a Wayne Newton show?

  • Anonymous

    So in other words your attack on the site is about it’s artwork and as to the content since you have no way to verify any aspect of it or your insinuations about it…you got nothing…but artwork?

    The rest you poached from TPM,and wouldn’t ya know it,it’s a liberal site.

    That’s some great journalism there.

  • Henry Wood

    I think we would all appreciate it if you kept each and every one of your “jokes” to yourself.

  • Anonymous

    MICHELLE, LINK ME TO YOUR CONDEMNATION OF CAIN PLEASE

    WE CANNOT BELIEVE ANYTHING YOU SAY UNTIL YOU CONDEMN CAIN LIKE YOU SAID YOU WOULD

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

    How many more women does this man need?

  • Anonymous

    All of us do that.  Otherwise you get spam email.  Well at least any professionally created site.

  • Anonymous

    Sadly, I think you may be right. 

  • Gloves T. Donahue

    Thank you, Boring Guy.

  • Anonymous

    Herman Cain is the right’s human shield agaisnt racism.

    We have Cain so we can’t be racist.

    “Our Blacks are better than their Blacks”
    -Ann Coulter.

  • News Of The World

    Wow.  He is REALLY horny.

  • http://www.facebook.com/sharon.shown Sharon Shown

    “Setting aside the questionable value of the site” and my response would be….wouldn’t it fortunate for someone like the writer of this article to have so many folks reach out to ‘you’ but then since it has ‘questionable value’ to  then there would be no need for you to ‘desire’ that. Hope that you don’t have a time in your life when you would like to have your friends rally around you because they may come back to this article and say, “Oh, no need to rally around them because they believe that doing this is of a ‘questionable value’.

  • http://twitter.com/nyforcain sickofliberals

    I am a female, retired Air Force Officer, wife, and mother of 4. I believe we are at the precipice of losing the freedoms we have long enjoyed throughout our nations history. Obama is quickly taking us down the path of communism and must be stopped. I knew we needed a strong, principled candidate who would do what was in the best interest of the country and not what was in their best political interest. I didn’t want to hold my nose again and vote for weak candidates like John McCain and Bob Dole. I knew the only candidate that would meet this criteria would be a non-politician who wouldn’t pander to the political and media establishment. That’s how I came to choose Herman Cain as the candidate I would support. He is not a politician, he’s a successful businessman, a man of God, and most importantly not politically correct. Herman Cain says what most normal Americans say everyday about the future of our country and what needs to be done to turn things around. The more the media and the political class attacked him, the more I knew I had made the right choice. If Herman were not a threat to the status quo, then the right wing and left wing establishment wouldn’t spend every waking moment attacking this fine man. We are truly finished as a country if the tactics used against Herman Cain succeed and he withdraws from the race. There is not one single candidate who would be left in the GOP race that would take the fight to the establishment and get our country back on the right track. It will be simply business as usual in Washington DC and the political class will continue to rob we the people of our money and more importantly our freedom. We the people need you Mr. Cain lest the book be written about the late great USA. God bless you and your family.

  • Anonymous

    Looks like a dating site for extremely desperate women.  Desperate and Dateless.  Looks like a bunch of white females that would be attracted to black guys because, well not even white guys would date any of them.   And the photos and content, to be totally real beyond the jokes, looks pretty phony.    

  • Anonymous

    Heartthrob Herman C should and will be laughed back to the Zig Ziglar tour where he has the pick of the skanky groupies that he has and will continue to attract. Good for him. We will miss him since he was such fun.  

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_L6IS3V5F3E62UDMKZZLIAFJTNE John

    Notice how Cain’s people made sure to get one of each color in that stock photo.

  • Michael Holland

    Jus’ coz Cain be actin’ a player don’t be gettin jealous. Stop hatin’ on him.

  • Anonymous

    You said it all when you said Air Force Officer.  I’m retired Air Force Enlisted, and during my 20 years, I met just a handful of officers that were worth anything.

  • Charles Ulysses Feney

    Cain / Palin 
    The perfect ticket in 2012!
    Cain loves white women, and Palin loves black men!
    _____________________________________

    Sarah, the info babe, didn’t think twice
    When she had her first chance to entice
    A black basketball star’
    Cause she loved that coal tar
    So she hit it like she was “White on Rice”!

    Now Sarah won’t have to explain
    If she gets on the ticket again
    That her mud-sharkin’ past
    Has paid off at last
    When she gets to serve beneath Herman Cain!
    ______________________
    Charles Ulysses Feney

  • Anonymous

    We will be hearing from the hospital on Monday that Cain has dropped out of the race.

  • Anonymous

    You have issues. 

    What? You can’t get a woman? So you have to dis a beautiful, married mother of 5???

    She’s a strong woman too. And used to punks like you. 

    Kiss off, MoFo.

  • Anonymous

    The greatest part of this story is that they took the photo down and left the space conspicuously vacant.   That’s quite a statement, isn’t it? And it’s comedy gold.

  • Anonymous

    You are totally bonkers, you lack of judgment is on par with your over all lack of intellect. You’ve invested a two bit phony con man with god like qualities
    “Man of god” or someone who can con ignorant fools by babbling a bunch of ignorant redneck baptist hypocrisy. When someone starts babbling about God in politics, it means they are clueless

  • Anonymous

    Wow those were some really clueless irrational women on that page. They act like, except for all these “scurrilous” accusations, Cain was otherwise a great leader full of good ideas and policies. He was an over paid mouthpiece for decades and has only the ability to jerk off the moron conservative base, those who value ignorance and backwardness like he does.

  • Anonymous

    It was almost a parody

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_45S32GWGDRUJIL6E2U4HOZW4BM Bob

    As Herb says, everybody likes Black Walnut. It never goes out of style.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_45S32GWGDRUJIL6E2U4HOZW4BM Bob

    Break out the violins.
    It was those durn lib’ruls that made Cain have a 13-year affair, sexual harassment suits and change his story endlessly.
    The GOP – the party of personal responsibility….unless you’re a teabagger. Then, it’s everyone else’s fault.

  • Charles Ulysses Feney

    Thats the nerve I was looking for! Enjoy!

    The Beast in Sarah

    In Alaska, a newsgirl named Sarah
    Whose loins were a steamy caldera
    Let one of the black wolverines
    Get into her jeans
    And use her garage to park his big black Pantera.

    Sarah said “That car’s really got the juice!,
    And it fits in this garage really loose”!
    But the Wolverine had to go,
    And then Sarah, don’t you know
    True to form, started dating a Moose!

    Later “Mama Griz” decided to marry
    Her sweetheart polar bear, who’s white ordinary.
    Now “Once you go Black,
    You never go back!”
    Is liable to give Todd his first coronary!

    So Mama Griz, the political over achiever
    Put some ice on her hot Alaskan beaver.
    But now we all know
    That there’s more to her show
    ‘Cause this candidate once had “Jungle Fever”!

  • Charles Ulysses Feney

    Thats the nerve I was looking for! Enjoy!

    The Beast in Sarah

    In Alaska, a newsgirl named Sarah
    Whose loins were a steamy caldera
    Let one of the black wolverines
    Get into her jeans
    And use her garage to park his big black Pantera.

    Sarah said “That car’s really got the juice!,
    And it fits in this garage really loose”!
    But the Wolverine had to go,
    And then Sarah, don’t you know
    True to form, started dating a Moose!

    Later “Mama Griz” decided to marry
    Her sweetheart polar bear, who’s white ordinary.
    Now “Once you go Black,
    You never go back!”
    Is liable to give Todd his first coronary!

    So Mama Griz, the political over achiever
    Put some ice on her hot Alaskan beaver.
    But now we all know
    That there’s more to her show
    ‘Cause this candidate once had “Jungle Fever”!

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_GQ6XMKYC57MFTW5URHEPKV4CQI Ngjgk
  • Anonymous

     Female fans want to be shown as a good leader in the Politics.She has always work for the favour of woman.
    http://thuongmaidalat.vn/member.php?85754-Hennah

  • Anonymous

    Keep your daytime job of professional freeloader in your mother’s basement. Spend some time on investigating who your daddy is instead of writing dirt about honorable people.

    If you were an honest liberal (pardon the the obviously redundant oxymoron) you would celebrate – however false and alleged, without proof – that a white woman may have had an affair with a black man, or – also alleged without proof – that a black man might have had an affair with a white woman.

    But, then, honesty and liberalism are mutually exclusive.

  • Anonymous

    You could NEVER be a successful guy like Herman Cain and your mother, daughters and sisters will never be on the top of any poll (or in the case of the aforementioned skenks, POLE, you know, stainless steel in a strip joint).

    So we all understand your frustration and forgive you for your lame and miserable attempt at poetry. 

  • Anonymous

    It writes itself… Just imagine the pictures comedians will be inserting in it’s place in 3,2,1 photo shop go..

  • Ben Dover

    It appears the ladies in the picture are saying “Sit on this and spin, Herman Cain!”

  • WiddleBabyDanielson

    Come on now.
    Tell me you didn’t BUST out laughing when you were done typing that crap.

  • WiddleBabyDanielson

    If you could translate, I would read it.

  • Anonymous

    I went to the site to post a comment-doubt they will actually post it as the site is a shill. that being said, reading the comments supposedly posted by female supporters of cain is an amusing way to spend a rainy december saturday.

  • Anonymous

    bless your heart. {that is texan for ‘you poor dumb b!%$h”}

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_IGXFTEMTD6ZOT5BS7YKNLQTMYA debonair

    Air Force ? Officer? LMAO!

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  • http://twitter.com/DreadfulPenny81 Melissa E.

    C’mon, this is the kinda thing Rachel Maddow whines about on her show once or twice a month (conveniently, her only targets are right-leaning websites). Guess what? Federal and state government websites use stock photos, too. I doubt that the people depicted on the websites for the NY state Dept. of Labor or benefits sites are people really receiving food stamps or HEAP, let alone people living in the state. Focusing on stuff like stock images on websites is an absurd waste of time.

  • Charles Ulysses Feney

    Herman Cain’s the Boogie Man
    (Sung to Boogie man- Freddie King
    youtube.com/watch?v=oMC2Zh0JH_8)

    I got a funky reputation
    because I like to get low down,
    All of you daughters better lock up your mothers,
    Cause the Herman Cain’s in town…
    They call me the boogie man,
    Nobody can do it like I can.
    They call me the boogie man,
    I’m a Cain sized boogie man!

    The Media’s has got my number,
    They took me down last fall,
    I taught Ginger White how to do the boogie,
    Now my campaign’s in a stall.
    They call me the boogie man,
    Nobody can do it like I can.
    They call me the boogie man,
    I’m a Cain sized boogie man!

    I used to be in the national debates
    As a Republican
    I got caught, doin’ the boogie
    My wife hit me with a fryin’ pan!
    They call me the boogie man,
    Nobody can do it like I can.
    They call me the boogie man,
    I’m a Cain sized boogie man!

    I tell all you good time women
    And you debutantes on the prowl
    Jus’ a lil’ taste, of my good boogyin’
    And you white girls gonna howl!
    They call me the boogie man,
    Nobody can do it like I can.
    They call me the boogie man,
    I’m a Cain sized boogie man!

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_LZQKKFSBRQTD5L2ZL5EWXHS32U Graham

    You capitalize the Tea Party but not God?  This is a tiny speck of what’s wrong with this country.

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