2. They called each other, according to one account, over 60 times in a 4-month period. For those of you who can't do the math, that's once every other day - for months on end. That's a pretty odd "friendship" with a woman that your wife knows nothing about, isn't it? Oh - and at least one of those calls was at a strange hour to be calling a "friend" of the opposite sex - 4:30AM. The fact that his wife did not know he was talking on the phone in the middle of the night with a female "friend" raises more red flags. Your summation is not accurate. For the record this is how it was origianlly reported here:
She showed us some of her cell phone bills that included 61 phone calls or text messages to or from a number starting with 678. She says it is Herman Cain's private cell phone. The calls were made during four different months-- calls or texts made as early as 4:26 in the early morning, and as late as 7:52 at night. The latest were in September of this year.
So, let's examine this:
- The reporter says there were 61 phone calls and text messages. He doesn't say how many of each.
- The reporter doesn't tell us how many were from Herman Cain.
- The reporter doesn't tell us how many originated from Ginger White.
- The calls/texts were not over a 4 month period, but during four different months. What's the time frame? A year? Two years? Five years? It's not specified.
- Was it a phone call or a text at 4:26 am?
- Was the phone call or text at 4:26 am to or from Herman Cain. The reporter doesn't say.
- A short session of texting could easily consume 10-20 texts.
In my opinion the reporter was intentionally vague to make it appear more sensational.