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Nine Irony: Politico Reports $45,000 Herman Cain Accuser Settlement Was Dated… 9/99

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In a move sure to delight late-night comics, Politico is reporting that a $45,000 settlement to one of the women who accused embattled GOP frontrunner Herman Cain of sexual harassment was signed in September of 1999, or 9/99. As Colby Hall noted earlier today, though, the current controversy seems to only make Cain stronger, so perhaps this bit of nine irony will simply help raise awareness of Cain’s signature “9-9-9″ tax plan.

From Politico:

Joel Bennett, the attorney for one of the women who complained about Herman Cain at the National Restaurant Association said Friday that his client’s settlement was dated in September of 1999 and signed by the trade group’s general counsel but not Cain.

Cain had already left the organization by then, before his three-year term was up, as my colleagues reported last night.

The National Restaurant Association is deliberating on whether to allow one of Cain’s accusers to make a statement, and a decision is expected later today.

 

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  • Ralph

    They know so many details but they will not identify Cain’s complainants.  If it’s okay to joke about, then why not reveal the names of those who settled?

  • joe

    it doesn’t matter what the VICTIMS names are Ralphie and I’m sure you don’t know any of them (WTF do YOU want to know anyway pervert?) what matters is that Cain IS a sxual harasser and LIED about it, douchebag…NEIN, NEIN, NEIN!!!

  • http://mediamatters.org/ Leedog

    I guess Herb Cain was lying when he stated the accuser was paid $35,000!!

  • Marcanewman1

    We all KNOW FACTS about Obama and his behaviors. Many proven true, many proven false, many still in not proven. I do not bash Obama for allegations or unproven reports. I and others should bash or praise him only for proven facts. Personally I believe Obama has a perverted view of what America should be fundamentally transformed into and it is my responsibility to bash what I do not want my country to become. I don’t bash the person but I do bash leadership actions that lead America where I do not wish America to be. Regardless of party line I bash former presidents for the same things.
    For those many people who would create a new or expanded definition of “racial” because of this type of bashing, write Websters dictionery, maybe they will put out a new addition and provide you some support. When a Black OR White person says to another “you are forgetting you are black or white” – isn’t remembering which color you are the perfect definition for being racial. Only when you can forget your color can you claim Non racial.
    I will and do bash Obama, Cain, Romney, and others only when allegations are proven true.
    I think one must look at the degree of “positive potential change for America” through leadership of one or the other candidates because certainly none are perfect. Look at where Obama wishes to lead us and where the other candidates wish to lead us. My vote will be determined by who convinces me their leadership plan will move American in the right direction and not by proven or unproven allegations of some past indiscretion that even if proven true may have learned a lesson from, God knows we all have those in our closet. It is those who don’t learn we need to fear.

  • Anonymous

    Every time barks about the stupid 999 plan I will think of this.

  • Anonymous

    Gee how irrelevent this is.Come on Tommy,find the 45000th woman harrassed,Come up with some other numerical connection to justify another of the many long wordy breathlessly typed peices on this.anything will do as long as it suits the agenda.

    Oh here’s one for you,make sure you make a big splash out of the ninth Cain peice you write.

  • White Guilt TV

    Every time I think of you I think of homosexual pocketpool.

  • White Guilt TV

    What doesn’t matter is your fu cked up liberal white guilt opinion. You sayin Cain is “acting white” yo? You ARE a mentally ill liberal.BLOE, BLOE, BLOE, JOE, JOE, JOE!!!

  • Anonymous

    Well stated Tea Bagger…we all know the republican party has the most closeted gays.

  • Anonymous

    Pretty soon, it will turn out that Cain has been with 9-9-9 women.

  • PeeJay

    The Beast – downside-up, too!
    Just ask Abel?

  • Anonymous

    lmao!!

  • Guest

    Wrong story, bro.

  • Guest

    Wow.  Just wow.  No one’s going to be able to forget the meaning of THOSE numbers.  Yikes.

  • http://twitter.com/darrenmcgeary Darren McGeary

    That’s not irony.  Its coincidence.  Buy a dictionary.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Cassie-Adams/100003142745154 Cassie Adams

    Of course Mr. Cain cannot get the settlement figure correct.  Why should he?  He did pay anything!!!  He only committed the crime and others paid for the crime.  The lobbyist organization of the National Restaurant Association paid… Now, JUST IMAGINE IF HE HAD ACCESS TO DEEP POCKETS!  YES, YOUR POCKET, TAX PAYERS!!! 

  • http://www.davidjkramer.co.cc// DavidKramer

    Hey Tommy, how many stories does it take Politico to cover the Cain controversy? 94 and counting.

    Reminds me of the joke about monkeys typing. If they do it long enough, they might be bad enough to write for Politico! Or maybe get a byline here!

    Maybe I can finally create a sockie. If I do, it will be monkeytypingincessantly!

  • Obama2012

    Rachel Maddow might be onto something… the fake Cain campaign is coming to an end.  Sounds like Conservatards are in for a very embarrassing realization.  Another Repug will bite the dust.

  • http://profiles.google.com/1irishpoet Joe Mama

    I doubt a monkey like you could ever come up with anything meaningful/ coherent to say no matter how long you sit at your keyboard…and soon we’ll get to 999 articles about Uncle Herman and he’ll STILL be a plantation monkey dancin’ the Bojangles for his Kock Bro massahs…”why yassuh, I sho ‘nuf wanz to be Prezdint…can I haz sum mo’ money massuh so’s I kin bah me a nahz nu soot?”

  • http://profiles.google.com/1irishpoet Joe Mama

    yeah yeah yeah, thanks for proving in your ignorant/ delusional/ comment what a fucking mental retard you are, is that  REQUIREMENT for being part of the Repugnant Party?…it’s amazing they don’t screen you Repiglickers a little better like maybe an IQ test or somethin’! btw, WTF are you talkin’ about “white liberal guilt”? My best friends are black folks but we jus’ cain’t STAND uppity house negros like ‘ol Uncle Herman…thou dost project a bit methinks (and I wouldn’t expect a moron like you to even have a clue what that means so please don’t bother with another mentally retarded comment

  • kit9

    Why am I not surprised Tommy is using the word irony incorrectly? Jesus. You can do better Mediaite. 

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_SMUGSPLRKQOJBS5T6I4S5H2YSE Andy-48

    They have their right to privacy. And as for Mediaite’s complaining that these complaints were from 1999.
    Since Cain was only the head of the Restaurant Association from 1996-1999 it makes sense that the complaints would have only occurred during those years.

  • Anonymous

    It’s all part of Cain’s performance art.
    http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/21134540/vp/45171907#45171907

  • Anonymous

    Notice another 999?  This is indeed performance art.  He even talks in his book about 45 being a special number.  And now he’s settled in 1999 for $45,000 which added together is 9.  His 999 tax plan is the Sim City tax plan.  In his first debate in his closing statement he said he was quoting a poet …. that poet turned out to be words from a Pokeman movie theme song.  Today someone picked up that he was quoting from the Family Guy.  He’s goofing on the American people and daring us to catch on.  Game over! 

  • Anonymous

    What idiot came up with this stupid idea, the 9-9-9 connection?  The Lame Stream Media and it’s brain dead so-called “journalists” will do anything and make up any kind of BS for a story, even if it is completely false!  I only take Media so that I can laugh at how stupid you Leftist Whores are.  That is the only good this website does, is make common sense people see how stupid and desperate the Left is because Herman Cain is going to wipe the floor with Obambi, especially in a Debate.  It will be funny to see Hussein lose his cool when Cain shows the world what an A§§wipe Obambi and that he has done nothing but Fail his entire pathetic life.  Lol, it will be so much fun to watch!

  • Anonymous

    Truly enlightened.

  • Anonymous

    So, she was given the freedom to speak out, go public, and decided to remain silent.  The NRA settled with her months after Cain wasn’t even there; Cain didn’t sign any papers regarding this settlement.  The chief counsel of the NRA at the time is essentially saying that Cain is being slandered – eye witnesses to the so-called events have come forward claiming NOTHING happened…and yet NONE of those stories are being reported here.

    For shame Dan, COlby and TC….you really should laern to balance your stories and not be so openly biased for Team Obama and the DNC.

    There is clearly no there there – given the freedom to come out in the open, she has decided not to do so.

  • http://profiles.google.com/1irishpoet Joe Mama

    srsly, it’s obvious Uncle Herman harasses his sleazy slimy self all over those women otherwise they’d NEVER have paid them off and Uncle Herman wouldn’t be squirming and lying about, plus he ‘left’ the NRA a few months later…hmmm I wonder why, could it be that they didn’t want the sleazeball around anymore even tho he filled their need for a token black guy? srsly this asshole is a guy who has failed UP all his life cuz he kissed the white plantation owner’s butt enough to guarantee him a nice job as ‘House Negro’ and he clearly seems to relish his role as Stepin Fetchit (plus he gets to wear nicer clothes and eat better than the field hands)

  • http://profiles.google.com/1irishpoet Joe Mama

    nice work billtwit, it’s obvious from your comments here that you are just one more hateful, fearful, bigoted, angry white Repiglickin moron…and if you SRSLY think that Uncle Herman is a SERIOUS candidate for POTUS then you are more ignorant than even the average Repig…if this moron was REALLY running for President then he’d have a NATIONAL campaign organization to make it happen, and he does NOT and will NOT because the asshole is another grifter like Palin takin’ as much $$$ from the mentally retarded Repugnants while he can and then eventually gettin’ his own show on the plantation called Fux Noise…and if you were NOT such a fucking moron this would be clear to you! (unfortunately your own ignorance will keep you angry/ bitter/ stupid for a loooong time, also…too :)

  • Anonymous

    All those numbers don’t apply anymore, Cain’s new mantra is 69-9 at 9.

  • Anonymous

    Denial Clown, first of all “Cain” doesn’t stand a chance of being your candiate. Next, wipe the floor with Obama,…..no. Whoever is not “Cain” that runs against Obama, it will be close. “Especially in debate”! What are you on? You can hate him and love “Cain”, but debate is what he does! That sounds about as stupid as someone saying “Cain’s” never been in business! You clearly don’t deal in facts,… just hate!

  • Anonymous

    Is it a “tea’s” default setting to just lie? You have “No” Idea if “Cain” signed anything! Most likely he “did”, but I don’t know that,… you clearly don’t. The witness you lie about,… didn’t claim “nothing” happened! ”Cain” has lied about this “nothing” issue from the start!

  • Anonymous

    Nothing compared to the new Occupy Wall Street shirts that just came out….

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Dave-Be/1751243136 Dave Be

    Here in America we write the month, then day, then year.  This would be a lot less “ironic” if it was 9/22/99 or whatever. 

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