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Sexual Harassment Accusers: Not Automatic Saints Or Sinners Liberal feminist attorney, Gloria Allred held a press conference in which her female client made shocking graphic sexual harassment allegations against Herman Cain. Sharon Bialek described a Herman Cain totally alien to the man I know. Think about this folks. Suppose someone came out of nowhere to make totally out-of-character sexual harassment allegations against your dad, pastor, husband or friend. You would give your dad, pastor, husband or friend the benefit of the doubt until proven otherwise. This is called loyalty and friendship. You would not go along with the politically correct...

When not busy going after Herman Cain, the media bombards us nonstop with unwanted sexual inuendo, banter, and other forms of lasciviousness. Here we go again. A powerful, intelligent and charismatic conservative black man seeks high office in the United States of America, and is subject to the scurrilous slings and arrows that are always deflected from their liberal counterparts by the shields of the mainstream media. In our nation, where the election of Barack Obama might have signaled the end of endless claims of racism, the oldest stereotype of black men has once again reared its ugly head: it...

The fatal blow to the campaign has been made. Whether he knows it or not, Herman Cain's campaign is over. I would be overjoyed to be wrong, but the numbers and believability of sexual harassment claims against him have amounted to the critical mass of complaints that end the Cain campaign. It is only a matter of time before everyone realizes it. Read more: http://www.americanthinker.com/2011/11/curtains_for_cain.html#ixzz1dTfrW7In

Herman Cain, who is seeking the Republican presidential nomination, has hired a high-profile defamation lawyer to keep an eye on the sexual harassment accusations made public by two women this week. Atlanta attorney Lin Wood told Reuters Thursday he was not hired to scare, intimidate or threaten anyone from making statements, but to monitor the accusations against Cain and respond accordingly. Wood, a top libel and defamation lawyer, was hired on Monday morning when it became clear that Sharon Bialek was about to become the first of four women alleging inappropriate behavior by Cain to go public with her accusations....

Donna Donella, one of the five women caught up in the charges of sexual harassment being leveled against Herman Cain, said Wednesday she is not an “accuser.” “I take issue with being labeled in the media as 'Accuser No. 5,' ” she said in an interview with The Washington Times-affiliated “America's Morning News” radio program. “I want to make it very clear that Herman Cain never sexually harassed me, I’ve never accused Herman Cain of sexually harassing me. The only reason that I came forward is because I saw behavior, the one day that I met him … that was...

A woman who got a big payout from the National Restaurant Association after accusing then-boss Herman Cain of sexual harassment filed yet another workplace complaint against her new employer just three years later, it was revealed yesterday. And Karen Kraushaar -- whose claims against Cain have rocked the Republican presidential hopeful’s campaign -- reportedly wanted a hefty series of perks, including a big raise and a one-year stint at Harvard, to settle her complaint against the US Immigration and Naturalization Service. Cain’s campaign -- which has vehemently denied he ever harassed any women -- quickly seized on the revelations, linking...

Barring a stunning admission or equally stunning retractions, it’s safe to say that we’ll never know with certainty what happened — if anything — between Herman Cain and his accusers. We’ll be able to make educated guesses, but those guesses will be drawn primarily from our subjective judgments of character and veracity but without reference to the kinds of evidence common in sexual-harassment cases. Corroborating evidence like hotel receipts are likely long-destroyed (very few businesses have record retention policies permitting retention for more than a few years), memories are impaired or embellished by time, and the lack of any contemporaneous...

In a move that immediately had the Twitter-sphere reeling in apparent disbelief, Herman Cain on Wednesday coined a new nickname for House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi: "Princess Nancy." Cain, speaking at CNBC's Republican presidential debate in Michigan, was referencing a Republican health reform plan that stalled in committee because "Princess Nancy sent it" there. "The legislation has already been written," Cain said when asked to present an alternative to the Obama health reform bill. "H.R. 3000. In the previous Congress it was H.R. 3400. And what that does -- it has already been written." But, he said, "We didn't hear...

ROCHESTER, Mich. (AP) -- Republican presidential candidate Herman Cain is calling the House minority leader "Princess Nancy." Cain on Wednesday night said Nancy Pelosi blocked any effort when she was speaker of the House to repeal Democrats' health care overhaul, legislation she helped marshal through.

The crowd was not happy when Maria Bartiromo brought up the sexual harassment allegations 15 minutes into tonight's CNBC debate. CLICK ABOVE LINK FOR THE VIDEO

NEW YORK (The Blaze/AP) — No, this isn’t déjà vu. Last year, around this same time, the Blaze reported about the same controversial video clip featuring ants crawling on a crucifix that was supposed to be included in an exhibit at the National Portrait Gallery in Washington, D.C. Now, the video is back, once again raising eyebrows. A museum in New York City that is launching a gay-themed art exhibit is going to include the film, which many have dubbed as anti-religious. The controversial exhibit opens next week at the Brooklyn Museum, an institution known for presenting edgy and bold...

This is interesting, however Chris “TEEBALL” Mathews has not reported it. Typical During Barack Obama’s tenure as the president of the Harvard Law Review in the late 1980s, at least two male student editors complained to colleagues and senior university officials about inappropriate behavior by Obama, ultimately leaving their positions at the journal, multiple sources confirm to THE KANSAS CITIAN. The men complained of sexually suggestive behavior by Obama that made them angry and uncomfortable, the sources said, and they signed agreements with the university that gave them financial payouts to leave the journal. The agreements also included language that...

I saw that. I saw you grimace when you read Herman Cain’s name in yet another headline. (Well, at least I imagined it.) Relax. This is about a narrow subject: conflicting poll results from major polling groups on who does or doesn’t believe the allegations against him. All my numbers nerds say, “Yeah!” I for one thought that Cain would weather the sexual harassment accusations if no more women came forward and no new details emerged. But earlier this week, both happened. Still, Cain stuck to the defensive plan that echoed his economic plan: deny, deny, deny. So the crucial...

Karen Kraushaar, who settled a sexual harassment complaint against Republican presidential frontrunner Herman Cain in 1999, filed a different complaint at her next job four years later, accusing a manager of sending out a sexually suggestive email and asking to be allowed to work at home after a car accident. Kraushaar made the complaint, which did not involve a claim of sexual harassment, while working at the Immigration and Naturalization Service in 2003. Her lawyer was Joel Bennett, the same lawyer who had handled her harassment complaint against Herman Cain at the National Restaurant Association. Kraushaar was injured in a...

Hours after being publicly identified as one of several women to accuse Republican presidential candidate Herman Cain of sexual harassment, civil servant Karen Kraushaar told ABC News that Cain could be described as a "monster." Kraushaar said overnight she had attempted to dodge the media spotlight because she feared retaliation from Cain supporters. Her identity was revealed Tuesday and she has since hired a security team to guard her home outside Washington, D.C. Last week, Kraushaar's attorney Joel Bennett said his client had reported a "series" of incidents involving Cain when she worked in the communications department of the National...

The woman who has accused Herman Cain of groping her says the GOP presidential candidate is a "pathological liar" when he says he has no memory of her. Cain told reporters Tuesday that he had never seen Sharon Bialek before a news conference where she accused him of inappropriate conduct 14 years ago.

In case you aren't intimately acquainted with the cast this ongoing drama yet, Mark Block is Herman Cain's top strategist. He's the guy who lit up a smoke in that unusual viral web ad, and who went on national television to angrily accuse an individual Perry staffer of leaking the sexual harassment story to Politico -- only to retract his baseless bombast within 24 hours. Last night he appeared on Hannity, and unleashed another embarrassing whopper (click through for video): Mark Block: "It's become quite apparent that Mr. Cain's candidacy and his rise in the poll is the -- both...

With the possibility of making it to a primary increasingly slim for Herman Cain as he faces a number of sexual harassment accusations, Charles Krauthammer visited Bill O’Reilly tonight to give a review of his press conference. Krauthammer was impressed with Cain’s “high wire act” but warned him that he had made one mistake that had surfaced before– accusing the Democrats of having something to do with the story surfacing, after his chief of staff previously accused the Perry campaign of the same. Krauthammer noted that he did believe Cain could survive, “but it won’t be easy.” In today’s “high...

Herman Cain may have hoped to put to rest the allegations of sexual harassment and impropriety in his press conference yesterday afternoon. Instead, his accusers will raise the stakes in their own joint press conference, in which they will detail their complaints. Attorneys for the two women who have gone public confirmed to the Los Angeles Times that their clients will meet with the media soon: The women whose complaints Herman Cain attacked in a news conference Tuesday are planning to counter with a news conference of their own, attorneys for the women said Tuesday night.“My client has decided to...

A woman who settled a sexual harassment complaint against GOP presidential candidate Herman Cain in 1999 complained three years later at her next job about unfair treatment, saying she should be allowed to work from home after a serious car accident and accusing a manager of circulating a sexually charged email, The Associated Press has learned. Karen Kraushaar, 55, filed the complaint while working as a spokeswoman at the Immigration and Naturalization Service in the Justice Department in late 2002 or early 2003, with the assistance of her lawyer, Joel Bennett, who also handled her earlier sexual harassment complaint against...