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Charles Krauthammer Sternly Advises Herman Cain To Stop Accusing People Of Setting Him Up

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With the possibility of making it to a primary increasingly slim for Herman Cain as he faces a number of sexual harassment accusations, Charles Krauthammer visited Bill O’Reilly tonight to give a review of his press conference. Krauthammer was impressed with Cain’s “high wire act” but warned him that he had made one mistake that had surfaced before– accusing the Democrats of having something to do with the story surfacing, after his chief of staff previously accused the Perry campaign of the same.

Krauthammer noted that he did believe Cain could survive, “but it won’t be easy.” In today’s “high wire act,” Krauthammer argued Cain “crossed a wire just about intact,” but for him to “blindly blame it on the Democratic machine” did him no good: “you can’t go around making charges if you don’t know they’re true or not.”

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O’Reilly agreed, noting there was a lot against Cain, including CNN (which he called “the Cain Network now over there”) and the establishment Republicans, who “weren’t on his side to begin with.” Despite that, Krauthammer argued, “the establishment Republicans aren’t behind this,” and warned Cain should “stop throwing out accusations.” He also advised voters to keep the presumption of innocence, though O’Reilly didn’t believe this was possible: “we live in a country where judgments are based on nothing and people are destroyed,” he concluded.

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  • Anonymous

    Why did the Democrats go back in time and make those ladies accuse Herman Cain of sexual harassment?  And why won’t they share their time machine?

  • The Real Royal Emperor

    Chuck, please. A Republican with accountability! Surely, there are more fish with bicycles than Republicans with accountability.

  • Anonymous

    lol at Herbie complaining about unfounded accusations as he makes some himself.

    drip   drip   drip

  • Ark

    Herbie is going down faster than his pants at the sight of a blonde.

  • http://mediamatters.org/ Leedog

    Charles is basically telling Herb Cain that he should blame himself for the mess he’s in!!

  • Anonymous

    Funny…I happened to see that interview and it wasn’t at all like this intentional misleading headline suggests….hmmmmm
    Mislead much Frances??

  • lawl

    herman cain’s new motto” “Who wants Herman Cain’s sperm in their domain?”

  • Mandingo ate your baby

    Does anyone remember a guy named Wiener?

  • Anonymous

    WOW!!!  EVERY article on the first page of Mediaite is about Herman Cain.  Has ANY story ever dominated this site the way this one has?

  • Anonymous

    Breaking News: A woman from Ubeki Beki Stan Stan also said that Herman Cain sexually harassed her.

  • Anonymous

    Has any other Black republican front runner sexually harassed 5 white women?

  • Anonymous

    Herman Cain should step down just like he did.

  • S R Karenova

    Charles Krauthammer also sternly predicted the Iraq War would be easily won in America. Why people still pay attention to him or Dick Cheney is beyond my comprehension.

  • Anonymous

    What these ladies are accusing Herman Cain of, in the main, is not sexual harassment, but sexual assault. That poses a huge credibility problem. Why didn’t they press criminal charges earlier? Why didn’t they sue him in a court of law? Was $45,000 enough to buy their silence? If so, how strong were their claims? Why aren’t they keeping silent? Why now? And why Gloria Allred?

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cIK2mxZuK50

  • Anonymous

    Hasn’t he heard? Cain’s cash support has gone up.  There is nothing a teabagger can relate with better than a Victim.  He’s following the Palin playbook for cons, ‘Always be the Victim.’

    Teabaggers are nitwit rubes begging to be the mark.

  • Anonymous

    I would like to call not only Krauthammer a RINO, but I would also like to call everyone attacking him one. Also, Herman Cain is one. As is everyone attacking him. Finally, the entire Detroit Lions offensive line. All RINOs.

  • CosmosDan

    Cain is like a poker player

    I’ll call your accusation and raise you two more. It is ironically funny. 

  • ganymede

    I promised myself I would cease to follow this ridiculous story, but when I saw it was Charles Krauthammer interview, I said take a look. Krauthammer is one of the very few rightwing pundits who has a brain and a soul. This Cain thing has become worse than the zaniest of farces. Who cares whether he did this or that. He probably did a lot more and it’s mostly harmless, but it’s so sleazy. At least  Clinton  had style and it was mostly consensual. And who cares who tattled. This story has very long legs and there will undoubtedly be a few more pilers on. Herman Cain, this is your life, your wonderful Republican values. Respect for women and marriage, a loving care and kindness for your fellow man. You may want to eliminate Social Secuity and lower the minimum wage, but we know you really care about people. And your sterling business tactics include taking a lot of money and favors from some of the most backward cvapitalists in the world (Koch etc). I especially like your economic strategy. People of the right, there must be a better way to show us your mettle.

  • Anonymous

    Herman Cain is having to respond to charges he once sexually harassed women. One German woman kept saying, ‘Nein! Nein! Nein!’” –Conan O’Brien

  • Lots Of Smoke

    I will answer this one for ya.  The original report last week was found out by Politico.  None of the women came out and or said anything.  Then when Politico found the 2 women and asked them about the incidents, they advised of a Sealed Settlement made by the Natl. Rest Assn.  Then a 3rd woman came out on her own and made a complaint back in the same time frame. Then 2 more came out also on thier own.  Total 5 woman.  But the original 2 never came out willingly.  Now that thier ID’s are known (Outed by The Press) One of them plans to make a joint statement, if they can get over the Non Disclosure
    agreement.

  • azgrandma

    They’ve got that “victim” part perfected.

  • Anonymous

    Bill O’Reilly: “I respect my audience more than any other audience on the face of the earth.”

    Ok, well there’s your first mistake…

  • http://www.facebook.com/rick.whitehurst Rick Whitehurst

    When you’ve got a name like Krauthammer … I just have to agree with you!

  • Anonymous

    Quick someone pass the popcorn, this is going to be a spectacular explosion.

  • Redleaf

    “We live in a country where judgments are based on nothing and people are destroyed,” Krauthammer concluded. Very true. So stop working for Fox News and maybe you can be part of the solution. 

  • Stewart

    How do you know that they’re all white?

  • Anonymous

    It sounds like Herb is going to need another glass of Rum and Koch to get him through the next set of allegations.  

  • Anonymous

    O’Reilly is such a GOP establishment tool — just like Cain the lobbyist is an establishment tool.

  • Anonymous

    Where’s your proof that anybody harassed these 5 women?

  • Anonymous

    “Establish Republicans”? Yeah, Kraphummer is nothing if not an establishment Republican. What a creep.

  • Gordonbloyershow

    All the commeters should shut up now that the accusers have been found to be serial accusers. These people are all liars.
    Cain is going to shoot back to the top.

  • Hugo Daun

    Hermie, the love bug should listen to Frankenstein’s monster.

  • Gordonbloyershow

    commenters

  • Anonymous

    I especially like the Detroit Lions bit.
    Your humor is missed.

  • Jeffy not the horse milker

    That is just disgusting.

    Sharing your sick fantasies on a web site teeming with little gNOpiglets!

    Shame on you, Gordys!

  • http://profiles.yahoo.com/u/J7SW7DUFNA6I54WNGCPGBCU5TQ Capn

    that ad hurt me

  • Matthew2000ray

    Dr. Mr. Krauthammer, if these women are lying Cain is being set up?   The Irony here is that these women and Gloria Aldred can throw out accusations and its ok? But If Cain defends himself  he has no right to?  By the way the latest 2 cases Gloria Aldred took were Against Republican candidates?  In Calif. supporting her candidate Jerry Brown and now this women against Cain. 

  • http://youhavetobethistalltogoonthisride.blogspot.com/ keyboard jockey

    Allred’s client lived in the same building as David M Axelrod, the other woman works in the Obama administration. This is all just coincidences move along, nothing to see here. 

    She was asked: ‘One of the things is that you lived at a 505 North Lake Shore Drive apartment, right? This is the same building, it happens to be the same building David Axelrod lives in. Do you know David Axelrod? Ever have any interaction with him at all?’

    Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2059107/Herman-Cain-vows-fight-sex-claims-Ill-lie-detector-test.html#ixzz1dDxOo1ka

    One woman who accused Cain of sexual harassment now works for Obama

    Read more: http://www.nypost.com/p/news/national/woman_obama_accused_herman_cain_YUPqjDLbeq89nhLTER8V6N#ixzz1dDxgXWEd

    So Dr Krauthammer, Is there or is there not: Where there is smoke there is fire? Turn about is fair play. 

    What’s good for the goose is good for the gander.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_KPKFYC5CCVUCNGVK4A4OSAT3ZM Amen Baby

    LOL

    Yeah Charles , this definitely isn’t a political attack by the GOP establishment and Democrat party!!

    Except that one accuser works for Obama , has a track history of making false claims of harrassment at all her jobs and seems to have a relative that worked for Poltico –although he isnt’ her son
    The other one has a bad repetitioon at her former CBS job, where her former coworkers, including a famed news anchor in Chicago, think it was probably Bielek that tried to grab Cain’s genitals.
    The first accusers lawyer worked at the same CBS location as a “legal expert” with the second accuser.  BUT CHARLES THATS ONLY A COWINKIEDINK!!!

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_KPKFYC5CCVUCNGVK4A4OSAT3ZM Amen Baby

    hhha Sorry but the Cain news conference went very well , including a round of applause by the reporters in the room at the end.

    Cain is in it to win it, And now that the facts about the accusers are out, they are they least believable

  • Huff

    Bill O’Reilly’s comment that CNN has
    covered Cain so much that it is now the “Cain Network” is ridiculous. I have been a long-time
    viewer of the Fox Network and can attest that Fox was first the “Bachman
    Network”, then the “Perry Network”, and now the “Cain Network”. Fox has been so
    bad about it that I have been viewing CNN over the last few weeks. Check the
    records and you will find that CNN is not the champions of Cain, Fox is! I
    suspect that Fox will soon be the “Gingrich Network”.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_KPKFYC5CCVUCNGVK4A4OSAT3ZM Amen Baby

    There aren’t  five women. . the last one was a woman who was offended Cain wanted to invite another woman involved in a question-answer part of one of his apprearance to dinner with everyone else.

    The woman who works for Obama now, is a career accuser , who made up more false things at her next job….according to the AP

    The blonde that worked for CBS in Chicago (with the the other woman’s lawyer) is well known at CBS as a whore and a liar…a senior famed anchor there has stated it was most likely Bielek that tried to grab Cain’s genitals and got turned down.

    Cain is not only cleared of all suspicion but now he’s immune to all other claims in the future.

  • Spermin Cain

    You should send your resume to the Cain campaign.

    Better hurry.

  • Ralph

    At her next job, Kraushaar wanted a Harvard scholarship because she was denied a request to work from home.

    This is a serious person?  Sounds like the media owe Herman Cain an apology.

  • Anonymous

    Why make kraut with a hammer when there are so many suitable knives around?

  • johnny

    Let’s see…

    FACT: Look, the democrat ex-president Biil Clinton was getting blow jobs in the White House by a low-level employee, and that was okay said the press corp.

    FACT: Look, the democrat ex-president Biil Clinton raped several women while the governor of Arkansas, and that was okay said the press corp.

    FACT: Look, the democrat ex-president Biil Clinton LIED while under oath to the US Dept of Justice investigation, and that was okay said the press corp.

    So, look, Krauthammer shove it. democrats..shove it. The global press…shove it. You all have ZERO credability to say anything about Cain. ZERO. the more you push it, the more people will vote for Cain.

    Hey look, Have a nice day now. 

  • Borntoraisehogs

     How did Dr. Krauthammer keep from cracking up while the loofah boy talked about sexual harrassment. We believe Andrea Mackris is willing to talk if released from the nondisclosure agreement with Fox and Oreilly. She got millions the only question is how much after two million(s).

  • One pissed off liberal

    Blinders on….head up ass….as usual.

  • http://mediamatters.org/ Leedog

    Lol!!

  • One pissed off liberal

    Since when do you take issue with unfounded acusations?  Your boy wonder in the White House does it for a living.

  • http://mediamatters.org/ Leedog

    All Republicons know, if Charles basically said you f*cked-up, well… you f*cked-up!!

  • One pissed off liberal

    Of course he does…thats how the narritive is perpetuated.  And its effectiveness is exemplefied by the legion of idiots who buy the narritive hook line and sinker.

  • One pissed off liberal

    Great advice there Captain.  Seeing how five women with really nothing of substance other then what they have said…which aside from the proffessional liar Bialek, have said….nothing…I also think Cain should step down 

    Your astute comparrison to the irrefutable evidence that sunk anthony wiener versus the irrefutable lack of evidence against Cain, is certainly grounds for Cain to step down.

    By the way….what are your thoughts on the whole “swift boat” campaign against John Kerry in 2004?

    —Humor me.

  • One pissed off liberal

    What black republican HAS sexually harassed five women?

  • One pissed off liberal

    He doesn’t have any. 

    He’s a usefull idiot parroting the DNC talking points while not even taking a half second to look at the facts of the whole issue. 

    He’s a member of the party of “dumb” what do you expect?

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_VCT237QQA2CKE5YZO5B6PHJ2HE The Pike

    Liberals are fishes with bicycles….

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_VCT237QQA2CKE5YZO5B6PHJ2HE The Pike

    @The Real Royal Emperor  ….Liberals are fishes with bicycles….

  • Moosenuts99

    Please show us where the “press corp.” said these were “ok”

    BAAAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

  • Moosenuts99

    LOL

    you guy’s can’t even keep your rumors and lies straight anymore

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

    Mostly consensual, I guess that “get some ice for that lip” was Bill just being Bill.

    People that defend Clinton the Serial Rapist, are lower than the scum that is Bill Clinton.

  • NO_MEANS_NO_HERMAN

    Funny, even the Republicans are turning on Cain but this is somehow a plot by the Democratic machine.  Poor Herman, he just wasn’t ready for the big time.

  • Johnny

    Gotcha!

    Look, I “win”.

    Look, You “lose”.

  • https://openid.org/hiddenusername hiddenusername

    Why this whole thing is a big deal? I thought that Clinton supporters explained everybody that it is a private matter and has no bearing on the presidential credentials.

  • Anonymous

    Charles:  Look sharp.  Feel sharp.  BE sharp!!

  • Kiid Dynamite

    So true.This should not disqualify Mr. Cain from the Republican nomination.

    And just think of all the pussy he will get once he’s the nominee.

  • JohnnysStepFather

    FACT: Democrat ex-president Bill Clinton raped Johnny’s mother while the governor of Arkansas, and he refuses to acknowledge Johnny as his son. 

  • Anonymous

    Bill O’ loves irony!

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Danny-Ross/100002149217620 Danny Ross

    Hey Chuck, how about you go suck a lemon or something.  You haven’t liked Herman since day one.

  • Anonymous

    One Piss Brain Conservative,
    so they are all lying and all those documents are frauds? At least no one accused Weiner of sexual harassment.

  • Anonymous

    johnny
    So you are using Clinton’s standards for Mr. Baptist Minister?
    No johnny, The people who have 0 credibility are Cain, you and the rest of the talk radio brainwashed teadreg heads.

  • Anonymous

    Yes, I agree that Cain, and his friends in the talk radio sewer media are liars, so they should shut up.

  • Creamy

    I think you missed that creamy explosion that took place in that car outside the N.R.A.

  • lilolme

    You mean like Anthony Weiner or John Edwards….oh gosh….they aren’t Republicans, SORRY!

  • lilolme

    No video of Herman!  Just she said he said and all the accusers just happen to be democrats.  Funny thing hu?

  • lilolme

    Usually in this country it’s innocent until proven guilty.  You can go with the lynch mob route if you want.

  • lilolme

    Na, Bill just couldn’t tell if he was having sex or not remember?  ”I did not have sex with that woman!”  He just couldn’t define sex, guess he didn’t have a good dictionary or google :D  But it was all OK because the economy was OK.  It was all just peachy!  Nothing sticks to Mr. Bill.

  • Anonymous

    The Swift Boat people lied.  Every Republican knows they lied.  If you’ve ever been in the service, you know that there are good people and bad people enlisted.  Just putting on a uniform does not make you a good person.  Think Abu Ghraib.  Whatever you were before, you were after you went in.  Your character remains the same.  I served three years during the Korean conflict and I know servicemen.

  • Anonymous

    Herman Cain said what the whites wanted to hear so they all got behind him.  Herman Cain was screwing the whites and the blacks.  Remember that creepy grin…..

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