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Maddow Kicks Herself For Not Realizing Herman Cain Is A Performance Art Project

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Rachel Maddow was very disappointed in herself last night. It finally dawned on her, she explained, that she had been had. “I should have known at Pokémon– we all should have known at Pokémon.” Maddow was talking about the Herman Cain candidacy, which she had concluded was not a real campaign. “The gaffes are too perfect,” she told her audience, concluding that the campaign was “not about politics– this is art about politics.”

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“I feel like an idiot about this,” Maddow confessed, beginning with the Pokémon reference that raised more than one eyebrow, as it appeared in a presidential debate, and Cain prefaced the Pokémon theme song quote with, “a great poet once said.” “I believe that the Artist Formerly Known as Herman Cain was trying to end it right there,” Maddow argued, “[but] we weren’t willing to see the whole thing at that point.”

So then Herman Cain released 999, which ended up being, as Maddow explains, “the operating tax structure in Sim City,” a video game where you get to play the mayor of a town and try to not bankrupt your own government. Granted, “Herman Cain angrily denied this,” but Maddow contends “we were supposed to get the joke at this point.” Instead, he’s at the top of the polls. While Maddow understood that unpolished politicians made gaffes, for her, “the gaffes are too perfect… this guy is pulling our leg.”

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At that point she turned to a serious Cain appearance– his abortion comments on Stossel, where he intermittently went from saying he was “pro-life,” but that it “wasn’t the government’s choice.” As he said this, fellow guest Ellis Henican‘s jaw can be seen literally dropping. “Ellis Henican, at that moment, on Fox News, knew we were being punked,” Maddow noted, showing the screen capture.

The problem with the “art project,” Maddow concluded, is that there was nothing the Cain campaign could do to stop it or make people get the joke. “There’s nothing this art project can do to get Herman Cain out of the polls,” she notes, “America is by and large not getting the joke.” The reason? “I blame myself… when he quoted the Pokémon movie song,” Maddow concludes, “that, I think, was a challenge to people who have jobs like mine to recognize that this has been an art project. This has been satire.”

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  • Anonymous

    No need to kick yourself

  • http://www.facebook.com/miraclelurker?v=wall Ellen Carey Rowe

    Love you Rachel !

  • Anonymous

    Idiot GOP voters had Pat Robertson winning early primaries once.  They will vote for any fraud if he sounds like  a preacher and promises to cut their taxes.

    Oh – they have to be an Aborto-Freak too.  Check list complete. 

  • Anonymous

    It’s kinda like the Truman Show turned on its head.

  • NDanielson

    The media in this country are performance arts, because people actually believe what these idiots like Maddow, Maher and Colbert have to say.

    I saw videos of youths burning things in Oakland, but was told that it
    “was a small minority” and atypical of the protest. Not long ago I saw
    no clips of anyone spitting at black congresspeople wading into the
    Tea-Party demonstration, but was told they did and that it was typical
    of tens of thousands of racialists on the Mall.  – Victor David Hanson

  • MARY

    I can’t watch anyone with the face of a cow.

  • MARY

    I can’t watch anyone with the face of a cacacacow.

  • MARY

    Madcow Maddow.

  • MARY

    Mamamamamammadcow Madow.

  • Texan

    The smear attempt by politico and the left looks to be a dismal failure. The accusers, even after the gag orders being lifted aren’t coming forward. What’s next?

  • MARY

    Mumuumumust be a Madcow supporter moderating this.

  • MARY

    Madcow Maddow’s ratings are in the toilet.

  • Kom

    mamamammadcow maddow.

  • Kom

    Madcow Maddow

  • NDanielson

    Well it’s a good thing you liberal democrats know how to vote for the real thing. A socialist loving clown who’s preacher, wife, and ghost writer/mentor hate the USA. Only your Barry is a real “aborto-freak”, too. I don’t think there is a baby conceived that he wouldn’t abort.

  • Anonymous

    I am looking forward to all the lame attacks on Rachel for doing this brilliant segment.

    Also, I am thrilled that the sensation of the GOP candidate race did it by things like quoting the Pokemon song and saying “Uzbeki-beki-beki-stan”.

    While the right network is in arms to defend Pokemon Cain he might very well be a genius jokester. One can only hope he´s doing a documentary about this.

    It´s gonna be so much fun to read here why Cain said: “Life can be a challenge, life can seem impossible, but it’s never easy when there’s so much on the line.”.

  • RACE BAITING@6 RESIST WE MUCH!

     “The gaffes are too perfect,” she told her audience   IRONY ALERT for the MAN IN BLACK !!

  • RACE BAITING@6 RESIST WE MUCH!

     “The gaffes are too perfect,” she told her audience ……IRONY ALERT from the MAN IN BLACK !!

  • Anonymous

    Quit lying.

    Gag orders were not lifted.

  • Texan

    Funny, I remember someone named Edwards being the frontrunner at one time. ;)

  • Anonymous

    Oh that is hilarious.
    Rachel Maddow calling someone else a joke.
    If I want to get my news from an angry transvestite I will call Perez Hilton.

  • http://twitter.com/MarkH76248 Mark H

    Maddow really needs to move her act to the comedy channel.

  • http://twitter.com/MarkH76248 Mark H

    Why doesn’t Madcow move her schtick to the Comedy Channel?

  • Texan

    Yes, they were.

    “The statement went on to say that the restaurant association had agreed
    to waive the confidentiality provisions if the woman wanted to discuss
    the allegations.”

  • NDanielson

    The National Restaurant Association said in a statement released as
    Bennett was speaking that it “can confirm that more than a decade ago,
    in July 1999, Mr. Bennett’s client filed a formal internal complaint, in
    accordance with the Association’s existing policies prohibiting
    discrimination and harassment. Mr. Herman Cain disputed the allegations
    in the complaint. The Association and Mr. Bennett’s client subsequently
    entered into an agreement to resolve the matter, without any admission
    of liability. Mr. Cain was not a party to that agreement. The agreement
    contains mutual confidentiality obligations.”
    The
    statement went on to say that the restaurant association had agreed to
    waive the confidentiality provisions if the woman wanted to discuss the
    allegations.
    Bennett said he and his client “have not asked them to lift
    it beyond making this statement.” He also expressed concern about
    violating “confidentiality and non-disparagement” provisions in the
    agreement.

    Well, yes it appears the “gag orders” were lifted.

    http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-503544_162-57318924-503544/herman-cain-accuser-stands-by-complaint-wont-go-public/

  • Bryan Lonn

    Look who is funding Herman Cain….its no surprise Ron Paul has to do this in order to be top tier.

  • http://OsamaObamaBIDENbiNLAden.blogspot.com/ ObamaOsamaBIDENbiNLAden

    Performance art or Psy-ops, potato potato. Whether you like it or know it, we’re getting 5 more years of Bush until 2016

  • Rex the Wonder God

    For the hard of thinking*, Maddow’s line “This has been satire” is a deeply layered joke.

    I explain: the word “This” refers to a) “This” the Cain campaign, which satirizes political campaigns in general, American political campaigns in particular, and Republican campaigns most precisely;

    b) “This” widening from the Cain campaign (itself a piece of performance art utilizing satire) into media –
    not just mainstream media, but the entire range of NCI media per the Pew Foundation definition, PLUS the partisan political media one finds in parts of msnbc, all of FoxNewsChannel, Current TV, parts of NPR, most of talk radio, Daily Kos and similar liberal & progressive websites, the Pajamas Media group and similar so-called conservative & reactionary websites, and he-said-she-said media like CNN and Mediaite — much of the pieces of which are unintentionally SELF-satirizing by taking or at least purporting to to take a) seriously; and

    c) “This” her own piece on a) and b) being satire, that is, an intentional outing of her own piece of ‘serious appearing’ analysis of a) and b) as being itself a satire on attempts to treat apparently serious subjects that by virtue of the way they approach those subject result in self-satire.

    Although, I would say, that she may not be quite right on c) at least, given c) is more in the nature of parody than satire, and indeed one could argue that a) is at least as much parody as satire, though b) is definitely unintentional self-satire.

    *The main reason the Cain campaign has “succeeded” so far (that is, in being taken seriously in polling and by media, not necessarily in that order) is that it exploits the chief characteristic of “the American people”, being lack of education, the inability to thinking clearly, logically and rationally, great susceptibility to con artists out of general gullibility, and a wide-spread deeply-embedded ignorance of history, science, knowledge and facts.

    For instance, compare and contrast the amount and nature of media coverage of the Cain campaign with that on the continuing dysfunctionality of Congress in addressing the national economic crisis, or of media coverage of the Fed failing to address the other of its double mandates (those being to secure the value of the American currency through controlling against inflation, and to ensure against widespread unemployment of American workers), or of the causes and consequences of the single largest and most pressing social movement in American society today, the Occupy movement, or indeed of the main causes of American dystopia: income & wealth inequality and the dominance of corporatism. Any one of those subjects is on the order of thousands to millions of times more significant to the current state and future of this democratic republic than the Cain campaign, a profoundly clownish and unserious minor phenomenon; yet – look at the blanket media coverage of the Cain campaign versus the bare to nil coverage of those vastly more important subjects, each of which has direct consequences on the fate of the nation and of its citizens.

    In fairness, Maddow is the beneficiary of a very strong educational background, having obtained three degrees, including a PhD, and having been awarded and taken advantage of a Rhodes Scholarship. That is, Maddow is in a particularly strong position to construct and present her satire and parody of the satirical nature of the Cain campaign and media coverage of it. If she were a typical American, this segment would never have been made.  

  • Ark

    Of course the low-information, low-IQ Fox audience won’t figure it out just as the Kochs intended.

  • Anonymous

    What sort of “project” is Raphael Madcow? (S)he looks like something out of a horror film.

  • david r

    Reagan was like that.  I can’t believe people let him skate on Iran-Contra.  Once a reporter asked him a question about the expensive B-1 bomber at a WH press conference, and he just laughed and said, “You’ll have to ask Caspar Weinberger.”  Then all the press laughed with him and went on to other topics.

  • Anonymous

    Maddow always reminds me of  ‘warm and fuzzy’ “Howdy Doody”, when I see her clips. Such animation. LOL.

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gI-vWwqc3A4&feature=fvsr

  • david r

    I thought it was insightful, and I’m not a fan.

  • Red Rover

    This “woman” is the biggest joke on T.V.  She may have a high I.Q..  but you have to wonder how she became so obnoxious.

  • Texan

    Thanks, phony king aka philby aka buck down, etc, etc…

  • Anonymous

    Herman Cain is a black male Sarah Palin with a penis (a penis smaller than hers of course).

    Now before you snap back with a nasty retort.. think about it.. take a step back, take a breath and think about it.  Think of from the moment you learned of Sarah’s name and watched her the last 3 yrs, her personality her antics, her emotional response to any situation.. her (and his) idiosyncrasies of emotion and movement when we see them in media.

    He is literally her incarnation.

  • Anonymous

    Maddow is right for kicking herself but not for the reason she is stating.Both her show and the network it is on are performance art projects.Think about it,who would have ever thought that a channel created to dispense news and information would become a voice for an ideology,hire over the top talent including a lesbian and a number of total psychos as show hosts and expect the viewing public to accept this as a legitimate source of information?

    It’s too perfect,too satirical,too surreal to be real.

    Especially when you have a similar situation at a rival network.

    It’s all too perfect a set up to not be contrived,not be a put on to the American public,a way to draw viewers to two tv channels and all the revenue that brings with it.

    Yes Rachel,you should be kicking yourself because you have been had,by your own employers. 

  • VideoSavant

    Rachel Maddow sits smack dab in the middle of “performance art “every night of the week (and has the ratings to show for it).

    Sounds like more liberal projection.

  • Anonymous

    when and where was fluff boy Edwards ever in the lead?  for a minute and a half before the election period even began?  Look he had some good ideas, was an idealist.. but unfortunately his own ego got in the way of political good doing..  and that is exactly what you have with Herman Cain.

  • Anonymous

    Mediaite runs 46 articles on Herman Cain in just 4 days….and not one of the articles dealt with a policy issue.

    Learn from this, my friends: this is how the liberal media deal with Republican candidates that pose a threat to their agenda.  

  • Anonymous

    Have you ever once posted like an adult intellectual, a mature response to any post?  You sound like a lunatic seething in hate and your own urine.

    To you, this site’s comment section is a pissing contest and you actually think you win every time.   

  • Anonymous

    Thank you, Rachel!!  I finally get it!!  MSNBC is an Art Project!!  All those times we were trying to understand how they called themselves a new program as we were confronted with the evidence they were a non-stop  propaganda machine?  THEY WERE PULLING OUR LEG!!  Got me to thinking about Obama in a whole new light too… they gave him the Nobel Peace Prize BEFORE he actually did anything?  hmmm….

  • joe

    it is to demand real news—
    time for the sensationalism to stop. everyone is chasing the FOX’s tail trying to see who can outcrazy the next–
     
    we have an economy that could be fixed within months by actually just doing what needs to be done–
    fix our streets, our schools, bridges, power grids and communications—
    it has to be done–if not now–then later–
    the difference being–if we do it later–we will have less of a labor force, higher costs and even more damage and decay..
    BIZ 101–YOU BUILD WHEN COSTS ARE LOW–AND THAT IS NOW–WE HAVE MILLIONS READY TO WORK–AND GOOD SKILLED LABOR AT A GOOD PRICE…
    when the economy changes–all bets are off–
    labor costs up—material costs up–and damages up–
    just think if your child had cancer–you could borrow the money and stop it now—or wait till you had the money and try in a year or 2 when things are much worse..
    does that sound reasonable?
    well we have a country suffering from a cancer called failing infrastructure and we have  a great opportunity to do great things now–in transportation, education, energy, communications…
    and we are letting the media and a few greedy billion dollar  power grabbers sacrifice our future for their profit and ratings..
    AMERICA–TIME TO STOP THE SILLINESS—REALLY~
     

  • NDanielson

    About those fantastic degrees:

    The graduate with a science degree asks, “Why does it work?” The
    graduate with an engineering degree asks, “How does it work?” The
    graduate with an accounting degree asks, “How much will it cost?” The
    graduate with a liberal arts degree asks, “Do you want fries with that?”
    — Jane Haddam

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

    It’s so hard to wake someone up when their not sleeping. Time to wake up Gone

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Angli-Sclone/100002587894218 Angli Sclone

    Maddow is a Transvestite,yearns to be a man, the choice of dress is appropriate.
    I find  the so called newsy programming is nothing more than a slime piece.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Angli-Sclone/100002587894218 Angli Sclone

    Well isn’t that what you voted in?

  • Obama2012

    Republican candidates steady chasin’ that paper… everyone else drop dead.  Conservatard suckers.

  • Anonymous

    Since when does ANY article on Mediaite deal with policy issues??

    Mediaite is a site dedicated to covering the media….which is different than covering politics or issues or governance.

  • Anonymous

    And, of course, the predictable string of   “Rachel Madcow” and “she looks like a man” comments from conservatives.

  • Obama2012

    Exactly what threat does Herman Cain pose and to whom?  Have you heard anyone but the press acknowledge this egomaniac?  What’s amazing is how easily the Teabaggers are duped and how pathetic they look in looking for their Conservative Knight in shiny armor.

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

    If the gag order was lifted why did they put this Rachael person’s picture at the top of the story page ?

  • Texan

    yea, never hear that about Coulter….

  • Anonymous

    Since Sarah Palin demonstrated her ignorance and blamed her inability to compete intellectually with the press and other politicians, she started to calling them the “elite”, and the other Tea Baggers followed.  They too recognized their own mental deficits and followed Palin in using the word to express their frustrated feeling of being inadequate to their educated superiors.  You too would feel inferior if you were always passed over for promotions or jobs when a college educated or someone from and Ivy league school got the job they wanted.  Fox provides bias news and delivers it in a simple way they can understand, but they’re too undereducated to understand what Fox is telling them is bias.

  • Texan

    Mediaite is the site for news, information and
    smart opinions about print, online and broadcast media, offering
    original and immediate assessments of the latest news as it breaks.

  • Texan

    his ego? lol

  • Anonymous

    Another blind conservative that, like the above commenter said, “lacks the education, the ability to thinking clearly, logical, rationally, great susceptibility to con artist out of general gullibility and a wide spread deeply seated ignorance of history, science, knowledge and facts.  This same description matches the far right evangelicals like Sarah and her followers.  

  • Anonymous

    I know you are, but what am I?

  • Anonymous

    Dan, is that you?

  • Texan

    Curious, what part of the “media” is Cain?

  • Anonymous

    What’s fascinating here is that MSNBC pays for this.

    I’d ask to have a word with her after this segment, if she were an employee of mine; especially when I know the effect of these nonsensical ideas on TV ratings.

  • Anonymous

    The women wants to talk about it to counter Cains explanation of the event, which is constantly being changed by Cain.  So if the women wanted the order lifted, your quote is confusing and doesn’t make any sense. 

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

    If the “liberal” press were going after Cain they would focus on the campaign finance story… Which has been out for a week with scant coverage. A republican threw the press a bone… Cain failed to manage the issue well… Media catnip.

  • Anonymous

    After their massive, coordinated, unsubstantiated SLIME ATTACK on cain, the lamestream socialist fake-news media stooges of the d-cRAT socialist party thought he would be instantly crushed, annihilated and effectively wiped-off the face of the Earth.

    But guess what ACTUALLY happened: his position in the polls INCREASED, he received more campaign contributions than ever before and he is a stronger and better regarded candidate than before the slime !!!!!

    And why? Because NOBODY believes any of the BS from the lamestream socialist media. They are are the ones who have been crushed, annihilated and effectively wiped-off the face of the Earth. !

    Nov 2012 will be Armageddon for lunatic-left d-cRAT socialism !

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

    the only people who thinks Rachel is ‘obnoxious’ are ignorant Repiglickin swine like you who can’t STAND the fact that she’s a WOMAN who is MUCH smarter than you’ll ever dream of being in your most masturbatory Repugnant fantasies…oh and she just happens to do a brilliant job of exposing the stupid, hypocritical, lying, hateful, fearful, right-wing scumbags that you fantasize about while performing said Repugnant masturbation…so just keep on fuckin’ THAT chicken moron and be enjoy the ride (also the other Repig grifter $carah Palin loves u…too! :)

  • Anonymous

    You must only watch Fox and conservative radio pundits to be that ignorant.

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

    too bad you Repigs can’t retroactively ‘aborto’ yourself freak and leave the rest of us a peaceful world without all you hateful, fearful, angry, ignorant white male chickenshit chickenhawks to keep screwin’ the rest of the planet with your ignorance btw why IS it that angry white male assholes like you care SOOO much about embryos but don’t give a DAMN about babies once they’ve been actually BORN? And if you had any education human physiology/ reproduction you know that over 50% of fertilized human embryos are never implanted in the uterine wall thus being spontaneously/ naturally ‘aborted’…I guess that makes your GAWD the worlds’ #1 aborto-freak’ eh…why does GAWD hate ‘Merkan baby embryos, HENGH, HENGH?!?!

  • I am Who I am

    mediate covers the media….so….I mean….jeez….
    need a drawing or something?

  • mosesdinoark

    No.  She is more of a horse.

  • Norbit

    Message to all white Democrats:

    Please stop harassing the Black Man because he refuses to obey YOUR rules on how and what he should think!
    That is considered patently RACIST!

  • Norbit

    Their idiot supporters buy into this media propaganda.
    Check out what I just put on another thread:

    breaking News:
     
     
    FOX reporting on TOXING – where protestors take pics of police officers’ badge numbers & names, and they twitter outsiders the info in order to harass them through e-mails, facebook, and the like.
     
    FOX states that Mainstream Networks are aware of the practice – but are NOT REPORTING IT in order to help bolster public support for the OWS movement.
     
    In other words, the mainstream media is DELIBERATELY misrepresenting – through omission –  the very News we entrust them to reporton!
     
     
    So we have an Administration that will LIE about anything, and a Media that will LIE about anything!
    Your Democratic Party.
    ·                

  • Sean

    Yes because, being really smart, having an incredibly pleasant demeanor and treating guests you whose opinions you don’t agree with with respect, not shouting them down and allowing them to speak is SO obnoxious. Although, maybe for a right winger, who’s used to such crap from their advocates, it is obnoxious.

  • Sean

    Yes because, being really smart, having an incredibly pleasant demeanor and treating guests you whose opinions you don’t agree with with respect, not shouting them down and allowing them to speak is SO obnoxious. Although, maybe for a right winger, who’s used to such crap from their advocates, it is obnoxious.

  • Norbit

    He poses a threat to the insidious dependency/entitlement ethos the Democrats and THEIR MEDIA have inculcated into the black community.

    1961 = appx. 80% 2-parent child upbringings and support

    1965 = Democratic Welfare 

    2011 = appx. 30% 2-parent child upbringings and support 

    Even liberals with a public education ought to be able to do the math on that one!

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

    You might be a racist…
    … If your view of African Americans is the same as unreconstructed confederate throwbacks.
    http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/33/Freedman%27s_bureau.jpg

  • Anonymous

    This little man is always so angry.

  • Holistic

    This from the Queen of cards. Just regular Maddow silliness!

  • Anonymous

    M moonbats
    S spouting
    N nothing
    B but
    C crap

    And Maddow really flies high!

  • Anonymous

    I want Pokemon Cain as GOP candidate.

    I want more gems from the Pokemon universe to inform us about Cain´s world view and be part of the political debate.

    “Life can be a challenge, life can seem impossible, but it’s never easy
    when there’s so much on the line.”

    More of this and Cain actually might snatch the candidacy from Mitt Romney. 

    I wish Pokemon Cain, new and unlikely hero of Teabecki-becki-beckistan, great success for his project.

    “Jiggly puff puff”.

  • Texan

    Not even close.

  • Texan

    thanks for debunking mwb or whatever he’s calling himself today

  • Texan

    Take it up with the accusers lawyer, then.

  • Anonymous

    Please oh please oh please let Cain get the nomination. Please oh please oh please let him pick Michelle Bachmann as his running mate. Please Mr. Pokemon, please!

    What’s sad is that those that supposedly support Cain willingly overlook his myriad of shortcomings simply because he puts an “R” after his name. If it were a “D” they would be calling out his numerous deficiencies with a megaphone. Sadly, they would rather do harm to the nation than to admit that candidates like Cain, Palin, Bachmann, et al are simply not suited for the highest office.

  • clever

    She should kick the living shit out of herself for not realizing that she sucks as a tabloid show hack.

  • Bluerooster29

    Ugh, I guess your cute anecdote means that people with college degrees are basically useless.
    Hey, here’s an idea, how about if you have a college degree, you can’t run for elected office.  Hey, that would eliminate all the past 15 Presidents.  Brilliant idea!!  Tell us about your degree N. 

  • MRREXX

    not liking yourself todayAngli??

  • Namvet6963113

    Koch-Cain is owned by the the Koch brothers he will do what every they pay him to do! He is  a token black set on the the stage to please thee left wing while they continue their march to take over the white house. It will bee a Koch presidency if Cain is elected!

  • Namvet6963113

    Cain is an offender of women, the Koch brother have paid off the woman and she does not want to embarrass her husband because she give Cain sex.

  • Anonymous

    If Cain were a gay man, she’s call herself homophobic.  But he’s a black conservative, so it’s okay to be demean him and pretend he’s not a well-educated, accomplished person.  He’s got a masters degree in computer science, so by comparison she’s got a j-degreee.  If only she had a math BA like he does, I could simply tell her to look at her resume, then look at this.  Do the math.  

    He’s a ballistic systems engineer, former CEO and she’s follows politics.

    Yeah, calling him an idiot is very racist..  Cain’s getting great polling with independents (you know, the ones who don’t bother watching MSNBC….  

  • Namvet6963113

    when you find out the woman was white you will change your tune!

  • Anonymous

    On a good note, since I always say its unfair to mock the way she looks, I suppose given her constant, racist marginalization of Cain. Let me point out the obvious.  When you choose to look like a boy, and apparently think this is a great ‘look’ to present your opinions on TV, let me point out the obvious.  Your common sense is not wired correctly, so don’t go attacking others intelligence or common sense of others.  

  • Anonymous

    I’m betting no one on the right actually watched the video to see how Herman has been running a performance art joke on the American people.  They never read the articles and watch the videos.  They’re too afraid they may learn something.  lol  Too funny!

  • Rio

    Senator “reporting for doooty” picked him for VP, whew! he dodged a real bullet by not winning that one.

  • Anonymous

    And Texan pipes in to present the evidence.  lol

  • Anonymous

    I know, you’re salivating when you see Rachel’s name – so was I.  I liked the headline and hoped she kicked herself hard enough to kick herself into tomorrow.

    The woman is a boob.  The eye rolls and silly facial expressions along with the loony rhetoric have officially branded her as an idiot.  She is not and should never have gone for the “comedic” delivery, because she just doesn’t have it.  If she would have stayed a reasonable lefty which she was when she was a bit player – she might have been a contender.  As it stands, she’s now lumped in with the Sharpton, Matthews, Schultz’s and Bashir’s – absolute nut cases.  None of them have figured out that nut jobs don’t sell,  They just get on your nerves.  (well not yours – cause you’re a special case).

  • Anonymous

    seek I can see you are going to make this so much more fun for me.  Thanks for volunteering.  It’s much appreciated.   Watching all the desperate denial from the right while Cain continues to toss out blatant hint after hint just makes this all the more delicious.  yum yum yum! 

  • Anonymous

    They’re not capable of seeing his numerous deficiencies.  That’s what makes this all the more entertaining.

    Palin ran a scam too as the Snowbilly Grifter but certainly not anywhere near as clever and not for humor.  

    The great poet Pokeman as part of your closing statement during a presidential debate!
    The Sim City tax plan repeated over and over …. just remember 999.
    The campaign videos …. especially the one where his campaign manager blows smoke in the viewers face and Cain then smirks at us all.
    The number 45 in his book that he says is so special 4+5=9
    The settlement for $45,000 4+5=9
    The settlement was in 1999
    The settlement by month 9/99
    The inappropriate breaking out in song.
    The Koch brothers brother from another mother straight out of a movie.
    The lines he used from a recent Family Guy episode.
    The I’m Hagen Das’ black walnut ice cream because it has staying power … when Hagen Das’ Black Walnut doesn’t exist anymore.

    It’s been like going back after you find out that Bruce Willis was actually a ghost in the Sixth Sense and see all the hints that were being thrown out to you all along.  I can’t wait so see what else is coming and the right’s denial is the thickest, most yummy icing on silly cake.

    Well done Mr Cain!
     

  • Anonymous

    If you cannot construct a proper sentence, don’t try to attack someone of greater intelligence.

  • Anonymous

    Guess what? It’s legal.  You know what’s not legal? Covering you names and badge numbers with tape … which the police have been doing.

    Nice change of subject tho.  so what do you think of the performance artist formerly known as Herman Cain?

  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=653373043 Joseph Serrano

    ZOMGG22111111 TEH DEMCRTS R TEH COMUNISTS111!!!1111 TEY KILL TEH BABIEZZZ EVRYDAY!1111!11!111 THY HATE TEH UNTED STAYES OF AMRCIASS111!111

  • Anonymous

    You don’t think it’s important to expose the leading Republican candidate as performance art? 

  • Anonymous

    We want Cain!  We want Cain!

  • Anonymous

    That’s the denial we’ve all grown to love! :)

  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=653373043 Joseph Serrano

    Colbert is a satire based on the “news” styling of Fox, MSNBC, etc. I guess that sort of thing is lost on you though. I find it depressing that people idolize and worship people like Cain, Palin, Beck, Hannity, and all the other fear propagandists.

  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=653373043 Joseph Serrano

    Conservatives just can’t wait to insult someone’s sexual preference. Why do all insults coming from the reich wing have to do with sexual orientation? Is there some sort of Freudian repressed desires for the same people you demonize? Instead of calling Maddow a transvestite, why don’t you use that big piece of pink/gray sponge cake you call a brain and pick out a few points she made and pose a rebuttal? I think I may be asking too much of the Faux News crowd. And btw, I never watch Maddow.

  • Anonymous

    Hilarious, isn´t it.

    Naturally, the facts Rachel presented aren´t disputed by anyone. All efforts are directed at discrediting her by pathetic, homophobic ad hominem attacks.

    I must point out that on the right many seem to be unbelievably huge  fans of Pokeman. Hardly a coincidence. Still, I find surprising they value Pokemon even more than the Holy Bible…

  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=653373043 Joseph Serrano

    She’s ugly as sin, but physical beauty (or lack thereof in the cases of Maddow and Coulter) has nothing to do with right and wrong. Coulter is a raving mad lunatic who has called christians “the perfected form of Jew” and believes that in order for people to vote, there should be a poll tax and literacy test. She also said there are benefits to “local fascism”. 

  • Anonymous

    Yeah and the same will happen to Cain this time.

  • Anonymous

    Dont look in the mirror!

  • Anonymous

    Please watch this segment.  It’s thoroughly entertaining and informative.  

  • Anonymous

    Unlike you huh?

  • Anonymous

    Queen of cards.
    That’s stonepark!

  • Anonymous

    Inserting the words to a Pokeman song into a presidential debate was pure genius.  I have a new appreciation for Cain …. as long as he doesn’t make it all the way to the WH.  That would be like Peter Sellers in Being There.

  • Altollew

    I think Joe moma a missed the short bus and had to walk home with a load in has dipper.

  • Non-Toxic Mama

    They seem to do a good job ruffling your feathers. ;)

  • Texan

    Ahhh, a “liberal” that likes to tear up the earth with his 4 wheeler. Nice.

  • Texan

    I know you are but what am I?

  • Texan

    you didn’t serve you worthless scumbag troop hater

  • Anonymous

    Whatever you say. PEEWEE TEXAN.

  • Anonymous

    Wow! She nailed Herb ‘The Perv’ Cain to the wall in that segment.

    Just…WoW!

  • Anonymous

    Your deductive reasoning skills are so profound, you inferred his military history without him even saying anything !! Heck, you could tell he was a “troop hater” simply because he said nothing about troops !! And all of this whilst not addressing the comments’ actual contents !!

    Teach me your magical technique, ignorant one !

  • Anonymous

    Aha..see your pointing out that she wears formal attire that looks somewhat like a man’s suit OBVIOUSLY means that any information she reports on MUST be incorrect !!

    Oh wait, only a true idiot would draw such a conclusion and deem it logical.

  • Anonymous

    Yeah ! Who cares what she says, no matter whether it’s important or truthful or insightful, because she looks weird !! EWW !!

    You are the kind of person who needs to take a good long look at themselves and get their priorities straight.

  • Anonymous

    If I was a true idiot I would have my own show on MSNBC.
    Just like Rachel.

  • joe

    the cons are so stupid–they actually had Colbert at the WH correspondents dinner…
    ya–THEY THOUGHT HIS IRONY WAS SINCERE–THEY ARE SO STUPID–IF YOU MAKE FUN OF THEM–THEY TAKE IT AS A COMPLIMENT….
    HAHAHAHAHA
    to funny to be sad and too sad to be funny~

  • Anonymous

    Let me remind you, Cain who quotes a Pokemon song among other things is doing pretty well in the race for the GOP candidacy. 
     

  • proud2teabagu

    Easy to impress are you?

  • http://www.thepoliticalagitator.com Curmilus Dancy II

    “Ignorance will never
    end. Even those with money can’t buy SENSE!!” Author: Curmilus Dancy II
    The Political Agitator

  • http://twitter.com/maynardbrainard Jeremy Brainard

    I see what you did there.

  • Texan

    THE WOODLANDS, Texas (AP) — Republican presidential contender Herman Cain on Saturday vowed to answer no more questions about decade-old sexual harassment allegations and blamed journalists for the claims that have dogged his campaign.

    :)

  • http://twitter.com/maynardbrainard Jeremy Brainard

    Edit button.  
    It exists.

  • big taters

    Run on sentences suck.

  • Anonymous

    If your avatar and screen name are any indication, a crybaby.

  • Anonymous

    You are a real smart one. I’ll bet you are the first child that made it through sixth grade in your family – and it only took you four years.

    Obama2012??? More like Nobama, ever.

  • Anonymous

    I thought you ran out of crack yesterday…

  • Anonymous

    Where were these questions when Obama was campaigning in 2008? Suppressed by his mindless zombies and the press who couldn’t be bothered.

    If you were saying this stuff about Obama back then you would have been called a racist, so now that you are doing it to Cain, I think it is fair to call you a racist now.

  • Anonymous

    Of course, your referring to the times of post civil war in the South is totally above board now.

  • Anonymous

    Is that why you are so entrenched in denial yourself?

  • Anonymous

    No thinking required to see that you are a flipping idiot.

  • Anonymous

    The problem is what she says possesses neither truth nor insight.

  • Anonymous

    Of course the low-information, low-IQ MSNBC audience won’t figure it out, just as the CEO of GE intended. The only value you MSNBC watchers get is the vocational training they put on late nights and all weekend in the LOCK UP Raw segments.

  • Anonymous

    Herman is the joke candidate whose risen the crest of a wave and now that wave is receding. The joke is no longer funny.

    The inadequacies are a little too glaring, even to his own Party.

    Keep clicking your heels Mr Cain. The allegations won’t go away.if not properly answered well…

  • Anonymous

    I’m conservative (not some Neocon pretender), and I lmao every time I see this video.

  • Anonymous

    How so? The evidence is pretty damning, with Cain providing all the evidence! All she did was lay it out and present it for us.

  • cdnhawk

    So if you make fun of someone who says and does stupid things and that person happens to be black,…that makes you a racist?…..OK

  • Anonymous

    Fact: 75% feel that the economy is worse off since Obama became president!!!!

  • Anonymous

    Fact: 75% feel that economy is worse since president Obama was elected!

  • Anonymous

    Fact: 75% say economy is going in wrong direction under Obama!

  • Anonymous

    Fact: Obama’s both claim to be lawyers but they both were stripped of the right to practice law due to violations against the law!!!! Criminals of a feather flock together!

  • Anonymous

    Fact: Hey guess what porn is legal to but you don’t just shovel it out at all in society and say so what! Again here is another values issue that demoradents just don’t have the morality to understand! Face it your just pathetic!

  • Anonymous

    Yes it is.
    Fact: Once the ship is listing you can’t blame the new captain for hitting the freaking iceberg in the first place!

  • Anne carney

    Yes Herman Cain just keeps blowing smoke in our face!

  • Anonymous

    Anyone who takes to heart anything this Dyke Skank says, has real mental challenges, perhaps a little retardation also.

  • Anonymous

    That obviously describes you, or you wouldn’t have commented in the first place.

  • Anonymous

    The wording is actually “Economy a mess, it’s going to get worse — but it’s not Obama’s fault, Americans say: poll” — but thanks for trying to stick it to President Obama, instead of those from whom he inherited the problem — Bush and the do-nothing-or-do-worse Congress.

    http://articles.nydailynews.com/2011-08-12/news/29898182_1_president-obama-republican-respondents-economy

    It’s always quite revealing how neocons try to present “the facts”.

  • Anonymous

    OK, we get it — you’re a lead-paint-chip-eating neocon dittohead.  

    Stop repeating your version of the “fact”, when it’s really this:  http://articles.nydailynews.com/2011-08-12/news/29898182_1_president-obama-republican-respondents-economy

  • Anonymous

    Are we to assume you are impressed by Cain’s quoting a Pokemon song, minstrel singing about pizza, and flip-flopping worse than a flounder or Mitt Romney about nearly every issue in the debates?

    And I suppose you’re impressed by Cain’s “manly man” sexual harassment defense?

  • Anonymous

    Oh, are you implying Sarah Palin is a “liberal” too?

    http://graphics8.nytimes.com/images/2010/03/26/arts/26discoveryspan-1/26discovery_CA0-articleLarge.jpg

    You neocons are so stupid, with your poorly-thought-out all-inclusive whining.

  • Anonymous

    The point you are continually missing is this: there is no story or even basis for this crap fest your liberal people are promoting and encouraging. Cain provided no evidence, and there is no case. These incidents are twenty year old allegations that were settled out of court by the parties involved – the keyword being SETTLED. Over, done, finished, final, the end. Get it?

    Madcow is still a smarmy liberal twit whose focus is primarily lesbian in nature, and she would do well to stick with that. She stinks at politics.

  • Obama2012

    Really?  What is it about her you hate?  She’s smart, coherent, on-point and doesn’t make shit up.  Go back to the Right Wing shills at Faux.

  • Anonymous

    What were they convicted of?

  • Anonymous
  • Anonymous

    That dittohead not-a-fact has been debunked.  

    Unfortunately it’s like a cockroach, it keeps reviving itself like one of the Undead, and we have to keep stomping it into oblivion.

    This is the kind of garbage that the cockroaches feed on – http://shutking.blogspot.com/2010/01/who-is-michelle-obama.html

    And this is what stomps them – http://www.snopes.com/politics/obama/lawlicenses.asp

    And other moronic dittohead claims debunked, over and OVER again – http://www.historycommons.org/context.jsp?item=a041411beckstopcertificate

  • Anonymous

    Sarah Palin chooses to look like a streetwalker, and apparently thinks this a great ‘look’ to present her opinions on TV…

    http://www.nypost.com/rw/nypost/2011/02/18/news/photos_stories/18.2n009.palin1–300×450.jpg

    http://i.huffpost.com/gadgets/slideshows/1718/slide_1718_23338_large.jpg and http://i.huffpost.com/gen/84951/thumbs/s-SARAH-PALINS-TOENAILS-large.jpg

    http://blogs.orlandosentinel.com/news_politics/files/2011/11/palin_orlando_004x-575×842.jpg

  • Anonymous

    Rachel Maddow is a Rhodes Scholar, so your “j-degree” comparison is as full of holes as the rest of your “analysis”. 

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rachel_Maddow :  A graduate of Castro Valley High School in Castro Valley, California, Maddow earned a degree in public policy from Stanford University in 1994.  At graduation she was awarded the John Gardner Fellowship. She was also the recipient of a Rhodes Scholarship and began her postgraduate study in 1995 at Lincoln College, Oxford. In 2001, she earned a Doctor of Philosophy (DPhil) in politics from Oxford University.

  • david r

    When Eisenhower first ran for President, he was a political newcomer.  Having been credited with destroying Hitler’s army, he was courted by both D’s and R’s.  He made a statement during this time that reminds me of Herman Cain’s campaign.  While going over possible reporter questions before a campaign stop, Eisenhower remarked to his aides, “Don’t worry.  If they ask me about that I’ll just confuse them.”

  • Anonymous

    I’m waiting for Herman Cain to say in the next debate, “”Life is like a box of chocolates. You never know what you’re gonna get.”

  • Anonymous

    Since that rant by “joe” was no doubt copied-and-paste, I’m sure he doesn’t think…at all.

  • anon

    “has dipper”

    Um, what? I think you are the one who missed the “short bus”.

  • Anonymous

    Fact: Congress has acted on Obama’s mess with plan after
    plan that have passed with demarodent and republican backing but the Senate has
    failed to have up or down votes on them!!!! Unemployment rate was at 7% when
    Bush was in Office but Obama’s three years it has been staying at almost
    10%!!!!! Libs know so much that isn’t so!!!!! Even libs know Obama is a epic failure and is only a one term wonder boy!!!!

  • Anonymous

    Fact: First freeloader that doesn’t ever want to work
    for a living like a normal person. I hit the entry button and the post
    disappeared as if under review for almost 24 minutes before it popped up after
    several other entries by myself and that’s the fact!!!!! nydaily isn’t worthy real
    fact based news source!!!!

  • Anonymous

    Fact: Facts are just the facts!!!!! proggies are all morons!!!

  • WhiteGuilt2008

    The same thing we hate about you. Bulldyke, incoherent, off-point, compulsive liar, and complicit in the election of an affirmative action quota, white guilt, homosexual guilt, social experiment president.

  • conscience

    Yes, his ego. You, that ego that every man has….down there?….

  • teabagenYourMother

    Lesbian logic?

  • Anonymous

    Fact: They would not release the documents like his school papers or anything else that they willn’t release!!!!

  • conscience

    *you know

  • Anonymous

    Fact: Rag mags like you are using one might throw in a corndog photo!!!!

  • RepulsiveBulldyke

    MSNBS should be shaken down by the diversity police. Should not a black lesbian be the host of this bulldyke show? Does Roochel have a problem with black lesbian’s? Why not a black transexual?

  • Anonymous

    Fact: In college you see all kinds pass just by showing up to class so what’s the point!!!! Some get degree’s because the school likes what they are contributing to their ideology!!!

  • Anonymous

    Fact: Why would one recite Obama’s speech!!!!

  • conscience

    Spit is difficult to see on a phone camera video, but I saw an action that looked like someone spitting coming from a white dude with a vulgar sign, and the black man nearest him raised his hand to wipe it off his face and then proceeded to take off his glasses to clean them. It was on a video, yes it was. I have not seen anything being “burned”. There are agent provocateurs and individuals doing things we don’t necessarily condone in all groups of people. By the majority, the people of “occupy” are constantly working to keep out the trouble makers. I know because I am there a lot, not in oakland which is a much larger group, but in a different city. What I say is the truth. The SIGNS that your teaparty people held were far far more antagonistic and UGLY in a very personal way than any signs you see at the Occupy sites. Truth. Compare those truths with your little friend Victor David Hanson. OH, and Maddow, Maher and Colbert point out the obvious truths that some people just don’t want to see. When you see the light shined on the truth, are you shouting NO NO NO? Why is that? Is it just that you hate the truth and so put it down?

  • Anonymous

    YIKES
    DO YOU SPEAK ENGLISH?
    WHAT WERE THEY CONVICTED OF?

  • Anonymous

    Fact: Yikes what happened to their law practice degrees? Oh that’s right they got them removed by the state!!!!

  • Anonymous
  • Hetoimasia

    Barely mentions allegations.

  • Anonymous

    Another rightwinger unable to dispute anything she reported and just being plain homophobic and racist.

  • Anonymous

    Another rightwinger unable to dispute anything she reported and just being plain homophobic and racist.

  • Anonymous

    Still has ABSOLUTELY NOTHING to do with what you said.
    You said both Michelle and Barack BOTH lost their licenses due to breaking the law, yet in 4 responses you have shown NOTHING to back up you SO CALLED FACTS.

    Perhaps you should call yourself just4thefactless

  • Anonymous

    I think the editor in charge of writing headlines really meant to say, “Rachel Maddow ‘licked’ herself for not realizing…”.

  • Anonymous

    yes, and he’s a computer science masters, math BA, defense system ballistics analyst, fed board member, and yes, CEO that turned around a huge retail chain back to profitability.

    God forbid you elect someone who’s a business expert to get the economy moving, we know how hugely successful all the academics and lawyers have been so far!   (bless their hearts)….

  • Anonymous

    Amazing… Herman has mastered the sound byte photoshop culture of making a positive impression while saying nothing but meaningless inexplicable gibberish. He understands advertising and what people are looking for…

  • Anonymous

    Allegations that have no substantive factual evidence mean nothing. I could allege you are a brilliant rocket scientist, but that doesn’t mean it is true.

    By the way, it isn’t true. Evidence: your sentence fragment “Barely mentions allegations.”.

  • Anonymous

    Three years ago on October 12th some fool is videoed at a Palin event and you think that is an answer? Nice try, but you would be better off using some Desitin on your diaper rash.

    Try for once to be relevant.

  • Anonymous

    tell us  :)

  • Anonymous

    She does have an incredibly pleasant personality.  Even when she gets the worst right-winger on.  I could never do that.

  • Anonymous

    You got a Dem in the crosshairs just like Jared Loughner(?).  Just like Sister Sarah and Glen Beck told you.

  • Anonymous

    I don’t think you can say Edwards, Hart, and Clinton are bad politicians because they had an affair.  Nor Ike, nor JFK, nor GHWB, nor Reagan, nor Gingrich, nor McCain, nor Ceasar, etc. 

  • http://profiles.google.com/greenleegazette James Greenlee

    God, Mary, you are HIL-AR-IOUS! Who could’ve every come up with that play-on-words? Besides, oh, EVERYBODY?

    Rachel Maddow recently complained on Ellen’s show, that she had very, very boring “hate mail.” Just people calling her “mad cow,” and people saying she looks like a dude. Mary: you’re boring.

  • http://profiles.google.com/greenleegazette James Greenlee

    No, they’re not. Rachel has the highest rated show on MSNBC, usually
    beating every show on CNN as well. Yes, it is true that FOX “News” beats
    Rachel. But I put “news” in quotes for a reason. Every cable “news”
    show could be fact-checked to find errors. But I guarantee you that
    Rachel’s show would get a far higher correct/wrong ratio than would
    anything on FOX.

  • Tim.Shannon

    Let me ask you this, if you knew the child would grow up to be an abortion doctor, would you abort the fetus?

  • Kathleen

    clearly you are 12

  • Anonymous

    :-). I have been saying this for some time. This was a police lineup of candidates. One real suspect(romney) and a bunch of duds. cain has done everything imaginable to get himself out of having to actually take the reins of this fallen empire. But his supporters are steadfast in their belief that the allegations against cain are a liberal media plot. Despite cain himself saying he thinks its perry. The koch brothers paid this guy to be the anti-obama, to draw minority/independent and angry dem votes away from obama plus attempt to build up the notion that the conservative hatred of obama was policy not ethnicity. It’s blown in up in their faces. The voters are even dumber than they calculated. So a bailout has been arranged for cain, who didn’t sign up for this and isn’t being paid enough to be responsible for this mess going forward. A few verified allegations from the past plus a few un-verified and hopefully cain can stand down before he is forced to actually do something for the american people. When did our nation become a joke? This sounds like some whacky movie about a 3rd world country. 

  • Anonymous

    this would be funny if it wasn’t real. Now its the sad final drama of what used to be a great country. The current dialog is like listening to the gibberish of a dying man. just sad. I love my country and unless we act together accordingly, we will not be able to save it.

  • Anonymous

    wow. there’s dumb and then there’s you. btw, nobody is saying cain is an idiot. They are saying cain thinks we are idiots. Now I am saying you are an idiot for supporting this guy no matter what he does or says. just to balance, if obama doesn’t clear up this solyndra and fast/furious issue, he is toast as well. 

  • tsuki

    Or any other day.  

  • Steve from White Plains, NY

    ‘TEH DEMCCRTS’?  I’m new here so I don’t know if that post was a parody or just the usual ‘spittle-flecked invective’, invariably rendered in all captial letters, favored by most of the knuckle-dragging, mouth breathing, drooling teabagger geniuses I run into on internet sites like this.  It’s so close to ‘real’ that it either must be, or it’s brilliant parody.  If it is parody, my hat’s off to you Sir, and a hearty ‘well done’.

  • Steve from White Plains, NY

    Too True!  Guys like NeoKong would do well to remember a quote attributed to Mark Twain:  “It is better to remain silent and be thought a fool, than to speak and remove all doubt”.

  • Namvet6963113

    I am a 61 year old Vietnam war disabled veteran what are you son?

  • Namvet6963113

    now you know one was white what now?

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