“They’re going to come after me more viciously than they would a white candidate,” Cain responded. “You’re right. Clarence Thomas. And so, to use Clarence Thomas as an example, I’m ready for the same high-tech lynching that he went through — for the good of this country.” Cain smiled broadly. “I’m ready for the same high-tech lynching.”
That’s EXACTLY what I’m talking about. Who says stuff like that?
Clarence Thomas MEANT that his “high tech lynching” was character assassination and they were out to destroy him.
He has said in interview that the committee hearings were about one issue... abortion.
He didn’t say in that same interview that they came after him because he was a black man. In fact, he brushed that premise aside when it was offered.
And now, Cain uses “high tech lynching” to emphasize that they are going to come after him and destroy his character. He KNEW this was coming.
And he was right.