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Video: Herman Cain Asks Politico’s Jonathan Martin ‘Have You Ever Been Accused Of Sexual Harassment?’

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One of the more compelling parts of Politico‘s bombshell story about allegations of sexual harassment by GOP frontrunner Herman Cain (allegations he calls “false”) was the online paper’s account of a confrontation with Cain outside the studio of CBS’ Face The Nation on Sunday. Although not included in Politico’s initial story, they have now made available some video clips of that encounter.

Here’s how Politico described the encounter with Cain on Sunday, following his interview with Face The Nation‘s Bob Schieffer:

Cain said he has “had thousands of people working for me” at different businesses over the years and could not comment “until I see some facts or some concrete evidence.” His campaign staff was given the name of one woman who complained last week, and it was repeated to Cain on Sunday. He responded, “I am not going to comment on that.”

He was then asked, “Have you ever been accused, sir, in your life of harassment by a woman?”

He breathed audibly, glared at the reporter and stayed silent for several seconds. After the question was repeated three times, he responded by asking the reporter, “Have you ever been accused of sexual harassment?”

While the video doesn’t play quite as dramatically, perhaps because of the edits, it certainly is quite a contrast to Cain’s smooth handling of the issue today. Given the ten days his campaign had to prepare for the publication of Politico‘s article, you’d think he would have been better prepared yesterday.

Here’s the clip, from Politico:


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  • Anonymous

    Zzzzzzzz………

    Off to workout – endorphins are fun. :)

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_G6WAK2FDYYCIIKQGXD5BLQORHY Not a happy camper

    Always fun to watch white conservatives AGHAST that a black man could be accused of sexual harassment!!

  • Anonymous
  • Rufus Danegro

    Lying trollop. You keep saying that. Now scram!

  • Rufus Danegro

    Keep hitting them where it counts Tommy!

    BRAVO

  • Anonymous

    Tommy:
    Do you feel that racism plays a role in your crusade against Herman Cain?

    You accuse Cain of being “smooth”.  Page 943 of my liberal playbook says “smooth” is coded racist language.  

    You say that politico had a “confrontation” with him.  It didn’t look terribly confrontational.  Page 403 says that using words like “confrontational” is designed to make black men sound scary and mean.  

    You say he “glared” at the reporter.  See above regarding page 403.

    You say “you’d think he would have been better prepared”.  What you really mean is “if he were white, he’d have been better prepared”.  How dare you, sir!

    I think you owe Cain an apology.  You should know better than that, Tommy.  Afterall, you wrote the book.  

  • Pete Pitt

    Jonathan Martin “”we’re just not going to get into the details of exactly what happened with these women,”I guess that means when the details come out we will be underwhelmed.

  • Anonymous

    http://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2011/10/31/politicos_martin_its_up_to_cain_to_explain_what_he_was_accused_of.html

    According to Martin, they spent weeks on this story and basically, this is the best they could come up with.  Oh, and it’s up to Herman Cain to tell everyone what he was accused of.  You’d think the media would learn it’s lesson from trying to tear people down based on accusations.  Duke Lacrosse anyone?  And, the women settled for 5 figures.  Whoa!  5 whole figures?  Before the decimal point?  

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_G6WAK2FDYYCIIKQGXD5BLQORHY Not a happy camper

    Come on, Politico. Everyone knows that almost every private citizen has been accused of sexual harassment multiple times and has had to pay hush money for their actions. 

    Sheesh.

  • Anonymous

    In fairness, everything Cain’s been accused of is perfectly legal in Uzbeki-beki-beki-stan-stan. 

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

    TC, is this about the equivalent weight?

    http://images.pictureshunt.com/pics/i/iceberg-12474.jpg

  • http://mediamatters.org/ Leedog

    Come on!! Ever hear of the saying don’t blame the messenger??

  • http://mediamatters.org/ Leedog

    Lol!!

  • Anonymous

    2008 called.  It wanted it’s anecdotal evidence back.

  • Anonymous

    Race Card!  Ba-COCK!

  • Anonymous

    I know!  It’s like “$25,000 isn’t even *that* much money!”

  • Anonymous

    Personally, I was accused of sexual harassment twice just this morning!

  • Queen Valerie

    Yawn…

  • Anonymous

    How many of the women in that video do you think Herman Cain sexually harassed?

  • Anonymous

    hahahahaha….So a GOP candidate paid off 2 women and you don’t think it’s a story?

  • Anonymous

    Funny how TC didn’t give this kind of attention to the whole John Edwards case, and he was a Presidential candidate….but hey, the leeway given to democrats is so different.
    Rush was right, if these accuations had been made against theOne, the big O, TC would be slandering the women.

    It is what it is, journalism is dead, destroyed by the left’s hatred for anything/everything conservative.

  • Anonymous

    No one has accused Martin of sexual harassment because you would first have to find Martin attractive.

    The fact that Politico wouldn’t break its “source” just shows this story has a short shelf life.

  • http://twitter.com/criticaljane Jane

    That’s the best you can do?   Step up your game, Skippy.   

  • Anonymous

    Hey! Who knew that the person at Mediaite who is most intent on further racializing Herman Cain as a sex crazed Black Man would be Tommy “Southern Strategy” Christopher!
    Shocker!

  • Lemonlimey

    Pretty funny how the Politico “journalist” ran away as soon as Cain asked him “Have YOU ever been accused of sexual harassment?”!!!

    Too funny!

  • Musaqala

    Liberals hate blacks as much as they did during the civil war and right up to 1964 when they discovered they could turn them back into virtual slaves.

  • Anonymous

    If Racist Linguistic Vomit existed, I have a pretty good idea what it would look like.

  • Anonymous

    That’s what you got out of that video?

  • Anonymous

    Ba-COCK!  Race Card!  Gottchya!

  • Anonymous

    No, that’s not what happened. Learn how business works. Herman Cain didn’t give money to either of the women. I’m sure the Association did. The Association is not Herman Cain.

    Herman will gain more from this. Just watch.

  • Anonymous

    You seemed to think it was good enough to respond to.

    Epic fail Jane.

  • david r

    Deep.

  • Tony

    Keep spinning….

    And trust me Herman Cain is done.

  • Anonymous

    Flashback: Jonathan Martin not all that outraged @ Anthony Weiner tweeting pictures of his Penis
    http://bit.ly/vf7jYt

  • Anonymous

    Flashback: Jonathan Martin not all that outraged @ Anthony Weiner tweeting pictures of his Penis

    http://bit.ly/vf7jYt

  • Anonymous

    He led the organization! You Conservatives love to pass the buck…it’s always someone else’s fault, ain’t it?

  • Musaqala

    Ain’t that bizarre: Johnathan Martin DEFENDED Rep. Weiner in weinergate.

  • Jeffy Teabagged

    After the question was repeated three times, he responded by asking the
    reporter, “Have you ever been accused of sexual harassment?”

    The only thing left for this widdle gNOpig teabagged was to say:

    “Have you ever been accused of sexual harassment, by a dude?”

  • Anonymous

    Ain’t that bizarre:  You’re bringing up an old scandal that one cares about anymore in order to ???

  • Anonymous

    There’s nothing to spin.

    This is typical legalese.

    Your concern is noted, but Cain is as done as he was weeks ago. He was never going to be a Presidential contender so this will bounce off him.

  • Anonymous

    Actually, Conservatives take ownership of their actions.

    This case seems to be straight forward. Even Frum is defending Cain. This will backfire. Watch.

  • david r

    Sic transit gloria mundi.

  • Jacobjakeu

    Tommy sounds like a racist to me.

    Why doesn’t Mediaite just get rid of him?

    He undermines the credibility of everyone else’s works with his clear ridiculous biases presented as if they’re fact.

    He’s terrible. I can deal with a left-leaning journalist – but this guy makes MSNBC look moderate. He is the epitome of BAD JOURNALISM.

  • Anonymous

    If you’re going to prattle on about TC being _____, you’d think you’d enlighten us all and point out something that is actually, you know, ______.

  • Geek

    The Politico guys are total pukes.

  • Tan

    Funny how here you say that conservatives take responsibility for their own actions, yet in the other thread you deny that you are an adult capable of responsible decision making like consenting to sex in your TWENTIES! er, massive logic fail. You won’t make a good lawyer bc you can’t make a good argument or even keep a poor one going for more than an hour or so! Just give up now. Not that I believe you are ever going to be a lawyer; no one truly successful feels the need to point out their success nearly as much as you seem to need to.

  • Tan

    You have to find the perpertrator attractive for it to be sexual harrassment? What screwed up law book are you reading? How disgustingly sexist of you. You really make my skin crawl.

    You FAIL at EVERYTHING. For the love of God stop making a fool of yourself and go crawl back into your hateful little hole and never return.

    Disgusting.

  • Anonymous

    Tommy, your attempt to portray Cain as an ‘angry black man’ in your text is an ugly form of racism. I listened to the clip 

    Tommy wrote ” He breathed audibly, glared at the reporter and stayed silent for several seconds. ”

    No he did not, he was calm, he was slightly annoyed, but glared, no.  This subtle racism against black conservatives has got to stop!  The only ones who seem to be racists are the liberal reporters, and seem to only point the ugliness at black candidates. Offensive to treat Cain any differently the Obama.

  • Anonymous

    it’s the old “did you hit your wife? question.  No answer is good since you’ve already smeared someone with the question itself.

    I just hope Cain uses this ugliness to raise money.  I can see this as an excellent opportunity to raise money for Cain to fight the established power and the media bias.  

  • Anonymous

    Anthony Weiner wasn’t running for President of the United States.

  • Anonymous

    “Conservatives take ownership of their actions” you say?  You have been trying to pass off the economic state and the unemployment figure to Obama as soon as he took the oath.  You don’t think the GOP members in congress who passed all those “borrow and spend” bills while Bush was president have to acknowledge they were a part of the problem and that their solution to cut taxes more and more instead of increasing taxes like Reagan did won’t work?

    The GOP in congress doesn’t give a rip about the American people.  They don’t care about JOBS.  The only fricking job they care about is getting the black man out of the white house.
    And if you think the American people are dumb enough to accept the crap the GOP are handing out, you are wrong.  Yes, there are some dummies and they are mostly ALL in the Republican party, following behind corporations like lemmings.

  • AliveStillkickin

    The smell of liberal fear is simply delicious!!

  • Bill Needle

    My anonymous sources say that Jonathan Martin is a member of NAMBLA . And that he is a homosexual pedophile of the worst sort . Anonymous sources also tell me that Kenneth Vogal is a drugged out drunk who has actually murdered in the past . That is what my anonymous sources tell me . 

  • http://twitter.com/eph4_15 Doyl L Watson II

    NAME ONE Christophobe!

  • http://twitter.com/eph4_15 Doyl L Watson II

    ZER0 – ZIP – ZILTCH – NADA -He probably said something that was COMPLETELY HARMLESS, but that was easy for someone to MIStranslate and “CLAIM” offense – AND isnt it SO CONVENIENT that they “CANT” reveal the details or PROOF?!? THIS is SO meaningless and BOGUS it doesnt warrant a minute of news – BUt THe REAL story here is that the LEFT, Dems, RINO’s, Socialists, Regressives, HATE 7 FEAR a real Christian Conservative President and are using LIES, Deceit, and Misdirection to TRY to Undermine his campaign BECAUSE they have NO Legitimate reason NOT 2 vote for him.

  • Anonymous

    Alright, so if evidence comes forward will you change your tune?

    Also, should we be rallying around an imbecile who doesn’t even know which countries have nuclear weapons?  Oh, wait, you guys voted for George Bush, you celebrate ignorance…I get it now…

  • http://twitter.com/eph4_15 Doyl L Watson II

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