Posted on 11/03/2011 8:28:07 PM PDT by smoothsailing
Justin Sink
November 3, 2011
Herman Cain said Forbes Magazine - and not his campaign - was responsible for the concluding that Rick Perry's campaign leaked the story of sexual harassment allegations during Cain's tenure as the president of the National Restaurant Association.
"A reporter did this research and came up with these facts, we didn't," Cain said Thursday on Sean Hannity's radio show. "That was the reporter that wrote the report for Forbes."
But despite adamant denials from the Perry camp, Cain said he still doesn't "see any other way this could have come out."
The Forbes article, headlined "Cain Says Perry Camp Behind Sex Harassment Leak," quoted the candidate as saying that he told former staffer Curt Anderson, now a consultant for the Perry campaign, about the allegations. But Cain is not quoted specifically accusing Anderson of being the leak.
The Cain campaign quickly seized on the article Wednesday night, seemingly validating Forbes' reporting that Cain was laying blame at Perry's feet.
"Rick Perry needs to apologize to Herman Cain, his family, and America for this despicable story," Cain's chief of staff Mark Block said Wednesday on Fox News.
Anderson has denied the accusations, saying in a statement: "I have great respect for Herman and his character and I would never speak ill of him, on the record or off the record."
He also told Fox News that any reporters he had ever spoken to about the Cain allegations were free to openly attribute those comments to him. In doing so, he opened up the door for Politico, who originally reported the allegations, to confirm him as the source. Politico has not done so, effectively eliminating Anderson as the source of the story.
Block said earlier Thursday that he would "accept" the claim by Anderson that he was not behind the story.
"Until we get all the facts, I'm just going to say that we accept what Mr. Anderson has said, and we want to move on with the campaign," Block said on Fox News.
But Cain seemed unconvinced, telling Hannity "there aren't enough breadcrumbs that leads us to any other place."
"I believe a lot of people are connecting the dots for themselves," Cain said. "I don't see any other way this could have come out."
Cain also said he's "almost certain" he told Anderson about the allegations.
"I am almost certain that I did. … This is why we want to get off this merry-go-round," Cain said.
If you read the news articles that came out at the time he hired both men it said why he hired them, it was after the last debate and it was because he needed to add some experienced people who were more familiar with the entire political landscape, not just the Texas landscape... and Anderson came with a good recommendation. Anderson has said any news orgs he has spoken to are welcome to reveal any and all communications, so far I have not seen Cain telling NRA he would like those women released to speak; but tomorow the NRA will make their decision... BTW the current head of the NRA is a Romney supporter AND has worked for Obama in this adinistration, so jumping directly to Perry was a huge stretch from Cain.
I don’t know yet.
I thought we were looking for a conservative leader, not the head of a debate team. I’d wager Perry knows China has had nuclear weapons since 1947.
Cain launched a national radio and Internet ad blitz concurrently with the sex scandal story. The ads are generating revenue, but are they really generating net cash flow? Advertising on Rush Limbaugh is EXPENSIVE!! We’ll know when the Jan 15, 2012 reports come out. By then, however, there may not be a Hermain Cain campaign.
I spend so much time at it? Really? Why don’t you tell me how much time I spend — you seem to know so please share!
Yes, the Perry need some seriously professional help was obvious. But it’s not like there aren’t hundreds of qualified political operatives who could have filled the bill. Yet, Perry selects a guy that just so happened to have worked for Cain? It’s the kind of coincidence that really stretches credulity.
Keep perspective. FF to July 2012 and Perry is up against Obama. Tell me how he pulls this off.
There are some here who are quite sensitive, that’s for sure.
Everything else being equal I am increasingly disturbed at Cain’s penchant to make everything about racism; I thought this was the man who said he was above all that, yet he jumps into the rock story and calls Perry a racist and then this and today on Hannity once again it is about racism.. I am sick of this mime from Obama and will not vote to continue it with a Republican.
Nicodemus’ question?
Although this thread and forum is probably not the best place for that discussion.
From what I’ve read, he’s a good political advisor, a hard worker, and has connections in Georgia that are helpful. Professional campaign advisors bounce around from candidate to candidate, usually because they like the candidate but also because they think they are viable.
Maybe Cain fingered Anderson because he tried to get Anderson on his staff but Anderson turned him down. Who knows?
But given that Anderson regularly works on major campaigns, it would make no sense for him to leak something he was told as a campaign advisor. That would pretty much put him out of business. What campaign would hire a guy knowing the guy might leak details later on?
Which means that if Cain didn’t have absolute proof, he should have known he was threatening Curt’s livelyhood with his unfounded accusation.
Here’s the CNN John King interview with Perry. Rick Perry has hit it out of the park on his interviews lately. I hope he can “crush it” in the next debate. I think a great debate performance will settle a lot of anxiousness among conservatives. http://rickperryreport.com/article/2011-11-03/rick-perry-economy-cnns-john-king
We are ALL interested. Maybe you could freepmail me as well.
I reaaly think Cain should dump Block ASAP.
Really?! Please to post a link (to your fellow PerryBot, of course) wherein you have ever made a fool of anyone but yourself.
Well, if he does as well one on one as he has been doing in interviews the last few weeks then he will do just fine in debates with Obama; it is nigh on impossible to call what we’ve seen so far debates, 9 people, 90 minutes less than 60 seconds to respond... that isn’t a debate, that is a cattle call. I stayed up last year watching the debates in the UK, people here would be appalled, I was fascinated, now THOSE are debates and you find out what the candidates are really made of... these are nothing more than glib one-liners and who can get it off the quickest.
You’ll be glad then to know that tonight, instead of blaming Perry, he blamed Forbes Magazine for making him accuse Perry of the leak.
Thank you!!!!!!!!!
You can’t hire anyone anywhere who has not worked for someone else at one time or other, that is a fact of life in politics.
It isn’t
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