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The Five‘s Eric Bolling On Cain Leak: I’m Praying It Is Coming From The Left And Not Republicans

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Not one response to the leak Herman Cain sexual harassment settlements has gone particularly well. However, while all of the race talk that flared up instantly might have seemed particularly unhealthy, it’s now looking like the most self-destructive comments came from the Cain campaign itself. Last night, Cain’s campaign manager Mark Block completely broke Ronald Reagan’s 11th Commandment by directly accusing Rick Perry’s campaign for the leak. This has not gone over well with many Conservatives. The reaction could best be summed up by The Five‘s Eric Bolling as he announced that he was “praying” that the leak actually came from the Left.

After watching Block’s uninspiring follow-up appearance from today, Bolling described his feelings as such:

BOLLING: And I’m hoping, I’m praying that [the leak is] coming from someone on the Left or someone who doesn’t like Herman Cain. Only for this-

JUAN WILLIAMS: You are always political!

BOLLING: Because I’m just hoping it’s not coming from a Conservative, it’s not coming from Perry or Bachmann or Romney because what we on the Right really need to do is focus on beating Obama, not beating the crap out of each other before we get to Obama.

Everyone was in agreement (and has been since last night) that, were the leak to be definitively proven to have come from Perry then, yes, it would hurt him. However, if it’s not 100% proven, then this is going to hurt Cain quite a bit, perhaps more than the content of the leak itself.

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  • Jonathan Cantor

    Both fair and balanced…

  • Your Mama’s so fat

    Pray harder Eric.

  • Anonymous

    That would just be stupid.  The smart thing to do is just what the Obama camp is doing.  Keep hammering at Mitt in hopes of knocking him out during the primary season …. so the right is stuck choosing one from the rest of the field of loser clowns.  The left doesn’t want Cain out of the race … nor Bachmann nor Perry nor Newt nor any of the rest of them.  The only other candidate on the right that has a chance of garnering votes from the center is Huntsman …. but the lunatic fringe will never allow that to happen. 

  • LaughingDem

    Um knuckledragging dipshits……. why on earth would liberals want to “damage” Herman Cain?  On the contrary, we want this fellow to hang around as looooooooooooong as possible.  We don’t want to remove any of the clowns from the Republican clown car.  Give ‘em hell Herman… and pizza!

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Eric-Larson/1589499840 Eric Larson

    I thought the bigger story was the OWS violence in Oakland today. Are there any stories here about that? they opened that on the five today and Wan Williams again tried to say that the T party had their loons on their side also. But while that it true the t party did not have enough loons to do what has been going on at these OWS events. Especially in Oakland.

  • Anonymous

    “I’m Praying It Is Coming From The Left And Not Republicans…
    so that I don’t wind up looking like as big an ass as Gloves Donahue!”

  • Michelle

    Do you consider yourself part of the lunatic fringe on the left?  Just curious.

  • Michelle

    Well if that were really true, Politico would’ve buried the story like the corrupt, liberal media did with the Edwards story.  The Enquirer broke it, but the corrupt, liberal media wouldn’t even report on it until Edwards was out of contention. 

  • Anonymous

    They’re just too stupid to figure it out. 

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Eric-Larson/1589499840 Eric Larson
  • Anonymous

    Occupy rioting in Oakland . Pelosi ambushed by 60 minutes, Dems tell 50 states they want no voter IDs checked . There is nonCain news going on .

    Democrats to state officials: oppose voter ID laws

    http://www.seattlepi.com/news/article/Democrats-to-state-officials-oppose-voter-ID-laws-2250866.php

  • Michelle

    You might like the Solyndra subpoenas handed to the regime today?

  • Anonymous

    “I’m praying that [the leak is] coming from someone on the Left or someone who doesn’t like Herman Cain. Only for this”

    Those crazy fundies pray for the funniest things from their magic genie!

  • Pious Jeffy Teabagged

    “praying”

    All aboard the 666 Cain Titanic!

    Start NOW!

  • Anonymous

    “Corrupt, liberal media”

    DRINK!!!

  • http://twitter.com/runforfun54 Ilene K

    I notice you don’t mention how leaders of Occupy Oakland have denounced the violence.  Have the Bagger leaders EVER denounced racism? Nope.  Also notice you make no mention of 7,000 ppl in Occupy Oregon — take a peek at the video. You’ll have a hard time calling those in the audience “dirty hippies.”  Hahahah.  Occupy is here to stay baby. get used to it. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Vbmfm3cXvI&feature=share

  • Michelle

    As usual, you are delusional.  Support for your riot is tanking.  The folks have had it with you violent thugs.

  • http://twitter.com/runforfun54 Ilene K

    They can pray all they want … why the hell would the left do anything to damage this guy when he he would be the best candidate the Dems could hope for! Keep praying, big boys.

  • Anonymous

    Hurry Gloves
    Change the subject

    HAHAHA

  • Anonymous

    He also did not mention that the Occupy Oakland demonstrators broke out the brooms and mops to clean up after the few anarchists and trouble makers.

  • Anonymous

    Dems would be concerned with Romney but not Cain. Cain is very beatable on his policies alone.Dems would not like to go against Huntsman, but Republicans are taking care of that problem.

  • Anonymous

    Like this one?

    Senate GOP blocks $60B Obama infrastructure plan.
    “Republicans thwarted the bill because it would have been funded with a
    0.7 percent surcharge on people making more than $1 million annually”

    http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5jl3R7Nxkn0UPPDQyhg0SWsMg7tDw?docId=CNG.415a7b70d2c87769867bb7263cd5057f.b01

  • Anonymous

    Bolling is one of the few in the world who do not think it came from a GOP rival.

  • Anonymous

    Did you stop beating those puppies you’ve trained to bite people and make wear hate mongering signs?  Just curious.

  • Anonymous

    The Occupy Oakland thugs shut down the port of Oakland , then threw Molotov cocktails and bricks at police , spraypainted walls , smashed windows of businesses and did hundreds of thousands in damage .

    Barry is in the Solyndra Scandal up to his ears and he was told again to turn over his e-mail . And there are a lot more green scandals ,

  • Bob

    Tells you all you need to know about Eric “Miami Vice” Bolling and FOX’s motive in their laughable attempts to play the race card and tastelessly invoke lynching.

  • Bob

    We would LOVE for him to be the nominee. It would  be almost as big of a train wreck for the right as a Caribou Barbie candidacy.

  • Anonymous

    Yet their popularity continues to grow with the American people who can see that it is not those within the movement but degenerate hangers-on that are causing the trouble.  The OWS movement does NOT support violence of any kind and shuns those that commit it.

  • Anonymous

    Thanks for the update GD! I’m glad the Dems are fighting back against these ridiculous voter registration laws. It’s about bloody time. The GOP are just trying to make it more difficult for Obama supporters to vote. Voter fraud? Ya, right! It’s hard enough to get people out to vote let alone cast their ballots AND pretend to be someone else!

  • Guest

    That’s because he’s one of the “Fair and Balanced” crowd, no doubt.  ;D

  • Anonymous

    I love GD. Whatever he says, I think the exact opposite and BOY DO I EVER SLEEP WELL!!

  • Anonymous

    Do your Con ladybits have teeth? Just curious.

  • labman57

    Dude, just do as LImbaugh does — ignore the evidence and create a left wing conspiracy from whole cloth.

  • Anonymous

    How are they delusional?

    Leaders of Occupy Oakland have denounced violence.
    http://www.3news.co.nz/Occupy-Oakland-protestors-denounce-violence/tabid/417/articleID/231696/Default.aspx

    I did find several links to tea party groups denouncing racism in general and specific instances, so that part is inaccurate.

    The video speaks for itself, its a large orderly occupy rally attended by some decent looking folks.

    What I cant find is any news story showing the occupy movement loosing support. Did you do a recent poll personally that we don’t know about? Or is it that your just typing out what you want to be true and passing it off as a fact, because that would seem to be more fitting to the definition of the word delusional.

  • Anonymous

    You missed the most important part of the story ….  These are just a few but i can supply many more.

    Vandals hijack Occupy Oakland protests
    http://www.salon.com/2011/11/03/vandals_hijack_occupy_oakland_protests/

    “Thanks to a splinter group of protesters in Oakland last night, the news today is leading with imagery of burning barricades and headlines about property destruction.The Times notes that this was a tiny portion of the thousands of Occupy protesters that marched in support of a general strike earlier in the day:Tear gas hung over Oakland for the second time in two weeks after a small group of demonstrators faced off against police early Thursday following a peaceful march of thousands of Occupy Oakland protesters.A roving group of about 100 mostly young men broke from the main group of protesters in a central plaza and roamed through downtown streets spraying graffiti, burning garbage and breaking windows. The police said some in the group briefly occupied a building on 16th Street near the port.”

    ‘Occupy Oakland’ demonstrators clean up graffiti by vandals
    http://abclocal.go.com/kgo/story?section=news/local&id=5876580

    Occupy Oakland members today are cleaning up graffiti and replacing smashed windows at businesses in downtown Oakland that police say were attacked by anarchists.An Occupy Oakland member who said his name is Ronald told about 40 people during an impromptu meeting in Frank Ogawa Plaza this morning, “I apologize for the people who own businesses” that were damaged.Ronald said the march on the Port of Oakland was successful but that the movement was harmed by a small group of people who became violent.Ronald said he thinks the people who caused the vandalism are “angry young men who don’t know how to deal with their aggression.”He said the violence that occurred “solves nothing.”Another man who spoke to the group said the violence that occurred “was completely unacceptable.”The man said, “It is our responsibility to watch what a few anarchists are doing and stop them in their tracks and stop them from running wild.”

     Anarchist Vandals Taint Oakland OWS General Strike
    http://www.chrisroubis.com/2011/11/anarchist-vandals-taint-oakland-ows-general-strike/

    Leaders of the self-described leaderless Occupy Wall Street Movement in Oakland, California, have told NBC Bay Area that “anarchists” not associated with the group are responsible for last night’s violence. Black-clad troublemakers attacked banks and also trashed a Whole Foods Store (see video below).

    Time for us to do the identification of this crew of vandals now
    http://my.firedoglake.com/spocko/2011/11/03/time-to-identify-the-occupy-vandals/ 

    I noticed that one vandal’s mask slipped while he was held by some OWS protesters who did not want him to vandalize a store.These people might consider themselves part of the movement, but their actions are clearly not in line with OWS principles of peaceful assembly. They, by their actions, removed themselves from the movement and need to bear responsibility for their actions.

  • Anonymous

    I’ve posted a series of links which they will immediately ignore.

  • Anonymous

    I wouldn’t be surprised if the leak came from Glenn Beck. Everyone knows the Mormons are Racist

  • Anonymous

    Do you like comically using loaded questions more or less than you like burning the American Flag?  Just curious. 

  • Anonymous

    OWS wants to control the stories of protester victimization at the hands of criminal predators – they want victims to report assaults and rapes to them and not the police.

    By doing absolutely nothing to discourage the criminal activity being perpetrated on their ranks, they show de facto support for the violence.

    You can shun a criminal predator all you want – they will just keep attacking until the police arrest them or someone shoots or stabs them.

  • Anonymous

    Kitty, you put the lunatic in lunatic fringe. If you were riding on a horse drawn wheeled buggy, it would be the surrey with the lunatic fringe on the top.

  • Anonymous

    I posted links on a thread yesterday that shows they have been reporting assaults and working with police.  But I’ll let you carry on because you’re going to say this no matter how much proof to the contrary is produced.  I think you just can’t help yourself.

  • Anonymous

    Obama is done. There is zero chance of him winning a second term. If the Democrats were smart they would be preparing to run a primary challenge to him that could win the general election, but as much damage as has been done in the past three years there is little chance anyone can save the Democrat party’s bacon.

  • Anonymous

    Cain is going down in flames. Perry has smirked his way to a 20-point drop in the polls. Bachmann is a national joke. Romney can’t break 25 percent. Santorum, Gingrich and Paul are all DOA. 

    And you think Obama’s got troubles? You just keep telling yourself that. Whatever alleviates the pain there, doodoo.

  • Anonymous

    Thanks for the links

  • Anonymous

    HMMM
    you mean this politico?
    American political journalism organization
    Frederick J. Ryan Jr., former Assistant to President Ronald Reagan, is president and CEO.

  • Anonymous

    Can you tell me tomorrows lottery numbers?

  • Jonathan Cantor

    Don’t you love the open top button and the fake tan. I wonder who told him he would look cool to us generation Yers. 

  • Anonymous

    Bolling is stupid!  It fell right out of the Perry camp.  You see Republican fingerprints all over the place.  

  • Anonymous

    I’m betting Rove.  It’s just his style.

  • Anonymous

    I salute your apt and on point commentary.

  • Anonymous

    How pitiful is the situation, that all Bolling wants is some Democratic involvement. No, this is probably all a Republican slow moving train wreck.

    Democrats are just eating Extra Large Popcorn in the spectator aisles.

  • Anonymous

    “Because the corrupt liberal media didn’t bury the story, it’s not true liberals didn’t want a story to come out”

    I love that this whole premise starts with the underlying assumption that Politico, easily Matt Drudge’s principal provider of red meat, is part of the “corrupt liberal media”. Even if one was to stipulate to the vast liberal media conspiracy, Politico is just about as left-wing as the New York Post.  But don’t let that stop ya from making more false syllogisms… Glenn taught you well.

  • Anonymous

    What warped sense of priorities these conservative hacks have

    #1 pray the allegations are false. #2 pray that women are not going away for $35K per sexual harassment case and that any one of them had traces of decency to demand nothing less than the harasser getting nothing less than being legally prosecuted #3 pray that the association does not, as it apparently does, have an institutional policy and a structure dedicated to finance protection of serial harassers, no matter how high up they are in the organizational chart

  • Anonymous

    ‘Who (sic) is to blame about Cain’   – um that would be Mr. Cain himself.  As to whom is exposing the fact he had this problem – you ‘pray’ it is coming form the left.  What kind of idiot is this guy?  You think the left wants to cull Mr. Cain out of the running?!?  I dont think so.

    You might want to look at history for people like Lee Atwater and of course Turd Blossom for the real pros in these sort of election antics and yes they were/are Republicans…

  • kromecom

    This is the perfect example of the conservative “hive mind” at work. Cain’s past and mouth have gotten him led to well deserved scrutiny. But in the republican mind–what little there is of it–this is purely a left/right issue. They never learned that truism, people who live in glass houses . . . (look it up)
     
    They REALLY do believe the following:
     
    Their religious beliefs are superior
    Their understanding of history and the constitution is superior (Palin is more familiar with the Constitution than Barack Obama, A LEADING CONSTITUTIONAL SCHOLAR–that’s clearly irrational)
    Jews that don’t convert will be
    The poor are losers and rich are winners — and even though they’re poor themselves
    The government spends too much time focusing on those damn minorities (note the homogeneity of  their movement)
    Science is a liberal plot
    Blacks should stop complaining
    Women should stop complaining

  • http://mediamatters.org/ Leedog

    When Bolling finds out that the “left” or Liberal media had nothing to do with leaking the story, he’s going to hit the floor, curl up in a ball, cry like a little girl and start screaming… “No, this can’t be true…. NO!!” “Republicons attacking fellow Republicons… No!!”

    Then hopefully Bob Beckel can kick him in the ribs while he’s laying on the ground!!

  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1121450878 Suzye Marino

    The truth is — Herman Cain needed to disclose these charges much earlier to voters.  He knew the charges were out there.  Ask youself why he didn’t reveal this information months ago.  And I don’t accept that he simply forgot about the incidents.  Had he done so, these questions wouldn’t be going on.

  • Plumber Joe

    Obviously it came from one of the other campaigns. Just like that Jeremiah Wright sh*t with Obama came from the Hilary campaign.

  • Anonymous

    “….because what we on the Right really need to do is focus on beating Obama..”

    Tome this just screams that he’s more concerned about getting Obama out than is getting good candidate in.  They’re not the same thing, I’m afraid.

  • Anonymous

    Sure, but yours won’t be the winners.

  • Anonymous

    Eric will spin it to blame the left regafless of the truth.

  • Anonymous

    Why would anyone on the left bring this hot mess up at this point? pre-election time?

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