Ben Carson Shows Deep Levels of Bigotry And Poor Judgement, Plus False Apology

“Gifted Hands”; Bigoted Mind.

Bill O’Reilly once used the politically confused Juan Williams for “Color” commentary regarding getting on a place and being “nervous” (about people who appear in Muslim garb) as “Muslims.” Color commentary is most definitely a intended metaphor! Williams allowed himself to be used for backing Bill O’Reilly’s overt racism and Williams paid the price of termination from NPR. All Muslims do not wear ”Muslim Garb” and most airline suicide bombers have not worn traditional muslim garb. Factually, most European Muslims do not wear such garb.  That sheds considerable light on Williams’ racism.  It should not have taken Einstein like brilliance to understand terrorist are coached to appear as they are not.  O’Reilly stooge. Williams was serving as an on-air flatulence clearing butt-boy for Bill O’Reilly. Of course, FoxPEN (Fox Propaganda and Entertainment Network) hired the ‘color commentator’; immediately as I am sure O’Reilly felt his ‘butt-boy” had suffered for running interference and picking up O’Reilly’s fumble.

We have seen Herman Cain on public platform claim his is a “brother from another mother to the Koch Brothers.” 

The right has of late done a yeoman’s job of finding and proliferating African-Americans who stand to reap major celebrity, income, and notoriety via utterance of ridiculously ‘sick’ comments.  Alas the Right has found one who carries credentials at the PhD, M.D. level to join the likes of Ron Paul and Rand Paul.  I should quickly add the quality of political an social cognition from the GOP’s latest spokesperson is not much an improvement of the Paul and Paul. 

Ben Carson delivered the keynote speech at a prayer breakfast yet feet from a documented racist in Jeff Sessions (R) AL, and the 44th President of the United States of America. We linked the speech in case you have interest.  My thoughts on his words: 27 minutes of “Yawn.”

And, as is customarily the case the latest GOP Frankenstein Monsters has already blown-up in the face.  He has hit the trail with early apologies for bigoted remarks and innuendo against liberals which are not born-out by facts.  while complete reading is not necessary follow the good doctors, mind-boggling bigotry and offensive remarks. I wonder if he practices as such when his patients to not fit his paradigms of acceptability.

Ben Carson On Fox: “No Group, Be They Gays,” NAMBLA, Or Bestiality Supporters, Gets To Change Definition Of Marriage (Link) 

Ben Carson Attempts To Explain Away Controversial Marriage Equality Remarks, Apologizes “If Anybody Was Offended” (Link) 

Ben Carson Goes On The Offensive, Lashes Out At “Racist” Critics (Link)

Media Matters has reported on the good doctors cognitive constipation accompanied by oral diarrhea. 

Ben Carson Back To Apologizing For “Offensive” Anti-Gay Remarks

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Dr. Ben Carson, after comparing marriage equality advocates to supporters of pedophilia and bestiality, and then apologizing “if anybody was offended” by those remarks, and then attacking his critics as “racist[s]” who were trying to portray him as a bigot, is back to apologizing for his “offensive” comments. 

According to New York magazine, Carson, a professor of neurosurgery at Johns Hopkins Medical School and nascent right-wing media star, sent an email to “the Hopkins Community” saying that he is “sorry for any embarrassment” his anti-gay comments may have caused them. 

But what really saddens me is that my poorly chosen words caused pain for some members of our community and for that I offer a most sincere and heartfelt apology. Hurting others is diametrically opposed to who I am and what I believe. There are many lessons to be learned when venturing into the political world and this is one I will not forget. Although I do believe marriage is between a man and a woman, there are much less offensive ways to make that point. I hope all will look at a lifetime of service over some poorly chosen words. 

Carson’s apologetic email was sent just “a few minutes” after Paul Rothman, Johns Hopkins’ dean of medical faculty, sent his own email calling Carson’s remarks “hurtful, offensive,” and “inconsistent with the culture of our institution.“

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Paul Rothman, Johns Hopkins’ dean of medical faculty (Washington Post) on Carson offensive remarks.

It should be noted in case you missed a key fact, Carson did not apologize until shortly after his managing Dean declared his remarks offensive. I find that typically Republican, commonly false, and existentially insincere. If the heat had not reached down to his level, the rest of the nation may not have heard his phony words of apology. The good doctor is no Sarah Palin, Gohmert, King, Bachmann, Gingrich, trump, nor Perry. He has great cognitive abilities that are often used to carefully craft poignant messages to patients and students His attempt to use the increasingly common words, of “I misspoke, what I meant to say…..” reminds me very much of Mitt Romney’s post Boca Raton comments.

In March of this year Romney spoke with FoxPEN (Fox Propaganda and Entertainment Network):
Mother Jones

In an interview with Chris Wallace of Fox News that aired on Sunday, Romney was once again asked about the video Mother Jones revealed last September. Here’s the exchange:

Wallace: George Will said you’ve got a problem when voters don’t like you. You’ve got a real problem when voters think you don’t like them.

Romney: Yes, it was a very unfortunate statement that I made. It’s not what I meant. I didn’t express myself as I wished I would have. You know, when you speak in private, you don’t spend as much time thinking about how something could be twisted and distorted and—and it could come out wrong and be used. But, you know, I did. And it was very harmful. What I said is not what I believe. Obviously, my whole campaign—my whole life has been devoted to helping people, all of the people. I care about all the people of the country. But that hurt. There’s no question that hurt and did real damage to my campaign.

While we at times hear such form the Left, It seems to me we hear or read a false apology from the Right almost on a weekly basis.   Of course, President Obama has today apologized for referring to the California State Attorney General as the most attractive of them all.  A not-so-smart remark from the president, but his remarks pale in relation to the vitriolic drivel from the Right.

Mario Piperni: Captures Herman Cain On Fox

Within the past 30 minutes,  I have confirmed it is impossible to type or keyboarding you prefer while gut rolling laughing.   After receiving an email notification that our “friend” Mario Piperni posted a new piece, I clicked over to mariopipernidotcom. 

Clicking over to the web page led to immediate laughter.  (See below).  After the visual, read the piece and after reading the piece, get the full impact of Mario’s piece with the Fox Entertainment and Propaganda Network’s O’Reilly running “setup” man for Herman Cain lunacy.  

Herman Cain’s Idiot Quote of the Day

This is rich. No other than Mr. Ignoramus, the pizza man himself, Herman Cain, tried to make the case on Fox News that the reason that President Obama won reelection was because 51 percent of the population is severely ignorant. Which 51 percent is that? Well, the 51 percent that voted for Barack Obama in 2012 of course.

“We have a severe ignorance problem with the people who are so mesmerized by his [Obama's] popularity that they’re not looking at the facts. Martin Luther King Jr. said fifty years ago in 1963 something that is so appropriate to today, “There is nothing more dangerous than serious ignorance”, and that’s what we have and he [Obama] gets away with it…”.

When Fox got rid of Sarah Palin and Dick Morris, there was hope by some that Roger Ailes had finally come to understand that stupid talk by uninformed ‘analysts’ was not the way to go in this new age of Obama. Sure they still had Hannity and O’Reilly and Doocy and Guilfoyle and Bolling and Gutfeld and Tantaros and Varney and many, many more to breathe life into the hermetically sealed Bubble of Ignorance that many on the right call home…but hey, they fired Palin. That was a start to saner times for Fox, wasn’t it?

Apparently not because they turned right around and hired a person who could very well be the dumbest, least informed, most shameless political figure to ever take a stab at the White House – Herman Cain. Herman Freakin’ Cain! Can you believe that?

The man who said, “…when they ask me who is the president of Ubeki-beki-beki-beki-stan-stan I’m going to say, you know, I don’t know” will now be educating Fox News viewers on foreign policy.

The guy who quoted Pokemon, “A poet once said, ‘Life can be a challenge, life can seem impossible, but it’s never easy when there’s so much on the line‘”, at a Republican presidential debate will be doing deep political analysis on the major issues of the day and Fox viewers will be none the wiser. They’ll be told stuff by a know-nothing doofus and they’ll take in every word as if it were the gospel truth because…well, because they’re Fox viewers and that is what they do.

So for all of you who wouldn’t waste a second of your time watching Fox but would love to recapture some of those crazy magical moments of sheer stupidity from the Republican primary…here’s a little Herman Cain. Enjoy.

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The Daily GOP Ignominious – Herman Cain joins the week of the GOP!

Herman Cain joins Allen West at the Cuckoo’s Nest!!!!  What is the real point here?


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God Screws Up – Michele Bachmann Leaves Race

Cross posted from http://www.mariopiperni.com

JANUARY 4, 2012 BY MARIO PIPERNI 

And then there were six.

When first announcing her candidacy to become the Republican presidential nominee, Michele Bachmann claimed that God had asked her to run. And so the question becomes, was God messing with her or is Bachmann one crazy lady? I’m thinking it’s the latter.

Her farewell speech highlighted her delusional ways in grand fashion with references to taking back the country, repealing Obamacare, (etc.)…because, “Mr. Franklin and all the Founders, all the men, all the women, who have given their last full measure of devotion…and our military, our veterans are watching us…and the God who created us…to keep our Republic free.”

Nutcase.

With Bachmann and Cain gone, two of the three least qualified contenders are out of the picture. It appears that Rick Perry (who has the money) hasn’t been embarrassed enough so he’ll be hanging around for his South Carolina thrashing. But then again, with the not-Romney revolving door working overtime as it has, why shouldn’t Perry stick around. If the ridiculous Rick Santorum can climb to the top of the heap, there’s no reason that the equally ridiculous Rick Perry can’t find himself there again.

This much I do know, the Saturday and Sunday Republican debates should be a slugfest. Can’t wait for the Gingrich-Santorum tag team to gang up on Romney. There’s something about perverse sleazeballs ripping each other apart that warms my soul.

Here’s TPM’s goodbye tribute to Bachmann.

UPDATE:

And while we’re on the topic of God and lying conservatives, here’s con man Pat Robertson using God and religion to fleece his naive followers into following his political agenda. Blatant lying by a supposed man of God does not get uglier than this. If anyone ever deserved to be struck down by a bolt of lightning, it’s this fraudulent sleaze.

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Ron Paul: leading the pack?

….and slipping into the same after-life as Cain, Bachmann, and Gingrich.

When the covers are pulled back, the real person is revealed. In 1994, Dr. Ron Paul sat for an interview that ran on CSPAN.

An interview comment.



HUFF Post Jason Linkins…..

But along with that, I also put out a political type of business investment newsletter that sort of covered all these areas. And it covered a lot about what was going on in Washington, and financial events, and especially some of the monetary events. Since I had been especially interested in monetary policy, had been on the banking committee, and still very interested in, in that subject, that this newsletter dealt with it. This had to do with the value of the dollar, the pros and cons of the gold standard, and of course the disadvantages of all the high taxes and spending that our government seems to continue to do.

Apparently, Paul’s recall of the Newsletter is flawed. The video and the narrative just above offer irrefutable evidence of his intimate involvement in the publication. 

Yesterday, I wrote about the prospect Paul’s early political career might have been influenced by his embracing of libertarianism and the theories of  

 Murray Rothbard (libertarian/paleoconservativism).  Influenced by Rothbard’s references to, “Outreach to the Rednecks“, or not Paul seems to have been instrumental in developing the Ron Paul Report. Why not come clean on the past racist writings, reflect back on the works as an error, and vow to serve all in the nation from a position of tolerance? I do not feel he can do so. Rambling statements and summarily ending interviews come across as insincere and dishonest.  I suppose that when the CNN interviewer moved from matters of race to the sickening comments about Jewish complicity in the 1993 WTC bombings, Paul could take no more.

Paul’s current path is leading right to a seat next to Herman Cain. 

A seat on the “has been bench”.

Has been!!!!

Racist Libertarian Gets Visit from Secret Service

President Obama with First Lady Michelle Obama and daughters Sasha, left, and Malia. Mike Theiler/EPA  

Do you see any Monkeys?

“Assassinate the f****n n****r and his monkey children”.

Apparently, the heart-felt racism of Jules Manson, Libertarian-Ron Paul supporter, has landed him a visit from the Secret Service. The New York Daily News reported within the hour…

The failed city council candidate who urged the assassination of President Obama and his “monkey children” got a visit from the Secret Service at his southern California trailer, he claimed.

Manson drew extreme scorned from thousands who read his alleged racist post on Facebook . 

I was first informed on Manson’s racist tirade as I read a Wall post on the Americans Against the Tea Party Facebook Page and a related posting posting on http://www.Addictinginfo.org.

After the Secret Service visit, Manson stated.

“As far as they are concerned I have been cleared but they have to go through the motions,” he wrote.

A response from a Secret Service told the Daily News that he was aware of the situation and implied the case is on-going (under investigation).

As you gathered form reading Manson’s (Now removed rant), he was lashing out with friends about the Defense Appropriations bill being readied for President Obama’s signature.

The bill is very unpopular after a period of watching the behind the scenes workings of the Patriot Act under Bush/Cheney. Manson and his Face book mates joined the 24/7 ranting against President Obama even though the president and his senior advisers have been vehemently against the military detention aspects of the bill since its introduction.

I and probably you are also strongly against provisions of the bill, but we certainly do not have a personal racist make-up from which to draw disgusting remarks.

The business of Ron Paul supports and Paul’s reported incursions into bigoted remarks are gong to be a topic of a developing article, so I will avoid mention of Dr. Paul at this time.

It is impossible to leave the keyboard without again expressing deep concern from that element of the population who ascribe to libertarianism while living in our society as avowed racist.

I will also mentioned that I find it intriguing how many people simply refuse to label the remarks of Manson and Jamie Hein of Cincinnati, Ohio (“White Only” swimming pool) as racist remarks and racist acts.

Free Online Dictionary

bigotry

obtuse or narrow-minded intolerance, especially of other races or religions. — bigot, n., —bigoted, adj.

See also: Race

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rac·ism 

n.

1. The belief that race accounts for differences in human character or ability and that a particular race is superior to others.

2. Discrimination or prejudice based on race.

racist adj. & n.

It appears that either definitions could work to describe Hein; I have a hard time avoiding the latter definition for Manson seems more apropos.  No, I am going to not modify that last sentence, while stepping back and labeling both Hein and Manson as avowed racist. 

To each his/her on on using the racist label; a matter of personal choice.

Hey, I am not hearing anything for the Right about either cases of overt racism.  How about a comment from West of Florida or Herman Cain and…and…and…; I ran out of  African-American conservatives point to for comment.

Fox News: A Driver for the GOP Primary?

FOX-FIX?

Fox News takes the lead in parading towards the eventual selection of the GOP Presidential candidate. You and I know that Fox News is truly not a news network. from the top down it is a political entity and serves effectively as a public relations wing of the Party. Do you need more convincing for your (already) accurate perception.

MEDIA-ite

Dick Morris on the Fox News Couch

It is clear the entire crew on that hyperbolic morning show was scripted as a Fox News commercial. Morris has proven he is a “pay-to-player’ based on this recent admissions that he has accepted money from both Palin and Cain camps in the past. I can only assume that such monetary receipts were for endorsements and supportive comments.

The salient point about the comment is an ever-present show producer sat nearby; a fact that adds validity to a position espoused by Jonathan Freedland guardian.co.uk, How Fox News is helping Barack Obama’s re-election bid, December 13, 2011. Why does Freeland posit as he does?

The extremism, anger, paranoia and sense of victimhood that Fox incubates are all unhealthy for the United States. But it’s inflicting particular damage on the Republican party, which could well lose a winnable election because of its supine relationship to a TV network. It turns out it is not liberals who should fear the Fox – it’s conservatives.

Now for the backstory…..

Freeland acknowledges that Fox News has the largest cable audience in the Untied States.

It’s not just usual-suspect lefties and professional Murdoch-haters who say it, mischievously exaggerating the cable TV network’s influence. Dick Morris, veteran political operative and Fox regular, noted the phenomenon himself the other day while sitting on the Fox sofa. “This is a phenomenon of this year’s election,” he said. “You don’t win Iowa in Iowa. You win it on this couch. You win it on Fox News.” In other words, it is Fox – with the largest cable news audience, representing a huge chunk of the Republican base – that is, in effect, picking the party’s nominee to face Obama next November.

Th real “wirra’ in Freeland’s work; Fox News will pick the 2012 GOP candidate for President. Freeland, with great imagery, depicts Roger Ailes does one who (based on the media and remaining shy of the obvious) will not endorse a candidate for president; he will ‘provide “sunshine” for some and “mouldering shadows” for others.

You ask how does The Guardians writer substantiate such a point? Well, he goes to one of the most reliable international information sources and media watchdogs: Media Matters.

Mediamatters.com offers Fox News Primary reports dating back to June 1, 2011. The reports are revealing in making a points via use of that which the Right: data.

How about supporting one’s (Freeland’s) argument with facts from a MediaMatters November 22, report: The Fox Primary By the Numbers, November 14 – 20. Why does Freeland posit as he does?

Last Week’s Results

Total time: 2 hours and 26 minutes; Total appearances: 20

Most Total Airtime on Fox: Newt Gingrich (34 minutes)

Most Total Appearances: Newt Gingrich, Rick Perry, and Mitt Romney (3 appearances each)

Fox Show with the Most Total Candidate Airtime: Your World with Neil Cavuto (35 minutes)

Fox Show with the Most Candidate Appearances: Your World with Neil Cavuto (4 appearances)

Longest Candidate Interview: Hannity (15 minutes with Newt Gingrich)

Softball Question(s) of the Week: During the Novemeber 18 edition of The O’Reilly Factor, host Bill O’Reilly asked Republican presidential candidate Rick Perry this:

O’REILLY: Do you believe that Barack Obama — the person, not the President, the person because a lot of conservatives do believe this — doesn’t like America?

(A table of the November 14 – 20 data is available here.)

The Numbers Since June 1

Total time: 61 hours and 9 minutes; Total appearances: 505

Most Total Airtime on Fox since June 1:  Herman Cain (9 hours and 50 minutes)

Most Total Appearances since June 1:  John Bolton (67 appearances)

Fox Show with the Most Total Candidate Airtime Since June 1: On the Record with Greta Van Susteren (10 hours and 15 minutes)

Fox Show with the Most Candidate Appearances since June 1: On the Record with Greta Van Susteren (75 appearances)

Longest Candidate Interview since June 1: Stossel (40 minutes with Gary Johnson)

(A table of all the data since June 1 is available here.)

Over the past two weeks we have learned Fox News viewers may be the less informed viewers of any cable news network. If we take the MediaMatters premise (Fox News Primary) and data indicating Fox News viewers are less informed, we have a dilemma. A dilemma that will lead to the likes of Newt Gingrich as the GOP Presidential candidate.

Need anymore evidence of how Murdoch’s and Ailes’s Fox News may have the “FOX- FIX” on? Did Newt Gingrich not recently comment that John Boulton would be a good choice for Vice President of the United States of America? Now, on what basis would Gingrich make such statement. It is not a leap for me to make a connection to the MediaMatters data (above). [ Most Total Appearances since June 1: John Bolton (67 appearances) ] Gingrich has to know that compared to John Boulton, Dick Cheney would seem a disheartened, fearful and non-confident Lion of OZ.

The MediaMatters series and Freeland’s work for The Guardian are certainly worthy of continued following and review.

NoW) is not being deployed in some way in the United States?

How about a piece of humor. The data are truly revealing. Until his demise, Herman Cain was the most visible on Fox News. Now, that would have been a scary (Primary winner) thought.

Is Freeland suggesting the Fox will shoot itself in the foot?

I’m just sayin!

Herman Cain Quits; Misguided, Manipulated and Maligned!

Herman Cain took the stage on yesterday afternoon with a task of pulling-out of the GOP race for the 2012 nomination.  His path to the ‘word’ suspended was long and arduous; probably due to the need to keep a flow of cash to liquidate campaign debt. (I hope). He continued his ’fire-brand style of preaching and his up and until he finally said the words: suspend my campaign. The words came only after a strategically placed reference to the word ‘pray’.  Yes, prayer for many politicians on the right has become a ticket to entry into the minds of their constituents. For yesterday’s event, constituents who continued to drink from Cain’s ‘cup’, only to hear about Plan-b.com.

Herman Cain burst on to the GOP campaign quest like a three for one pizza special; hard to resist.  He leaves the remaining cast of GOP aspirants with a message to those who contributed time, money and those who gave their support: Misguided, manipulated and maligned.

Cain Quits With a Commercial

December 3, 2011

By The Pardu

 

 

 

PLAN B.com = DONATIONS!!!!!

It should not have surprised anyone that Herman Cain continued his “flim-flam” act even after pulling out of the race for the GOP 2012 Ticket.

As we watched Cain exit, the highly decorated grand entry bus, his nonverbals provided interesting insight. As he offered a perfunctory wave  to the crowd, his wife glowed with zeal,  she smiled and waved. If you looked carefully it was obvious that Cain was mouthing something like, “Come-on Honey”.

Cain bows out with a shoddily cloaked appeal for money, does not declare an end (funding ends, and offers a vehicle to keep the sycophants  contributions  flowing.

We have followed the Cain campaign a very closely. Wasn’t if obvious that Cain was an indication of the evolution of the GOP. Evolve general means to grow from one point to another. Yes, the word was used very much intentionally.

The campaign ’side-shows’ are dropping out of the limelight  (Bachmann,  Perry, and the now politically dead Cain), what remains?

GOP evolution Redeux……will fall next as we move towards the height of all media events for 2011: a Donald Trump moderated show on December 27.

The GOP/GOTP seems to be moving from delirium to pure insanity.

Is He For Real? The Demise Of Citizen Cain And Lessons For America

Cross posted from www.addictinginfo.org

November 30, 2011

By The Pardu

As we view the continuing saga of a dissolving Herman Cain, evidence of his demise sprouts a new leaf. Before Cain’s campaign killing allegations of an affair hit the airways, the candidate had secured an important media opportunity. Apparently, Matt Lauer, Barbara Walters, Bill O’Reilly and (of all people) Greta Van Susteren, and others had agreed to join a group of media personalities for a New York City dinner. Cain has now cancelled the dinner.

Huffington Post...Cain Cancels star Studded Media Dinner

It is truly amazing to see how politics and media have changed how they interact and how the outside world perceives them. While, probably showing a degree of personal naïvety, I am having problems with the brazen level of interaction without regard for appearing impartial. How is it possible that Barbara Walters can actually sit in a very social environment with a potential candidate, and convince the public within months that a scheduled interview will be without bias. It seems very much against human nature. Apparently, the relationship between candidate and media has taken a decided change.

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Cain’s decision to cancel the dinner is but another sign of pending doom for his public life. I have often written, I felt Cain’s major interest in running or President was for book sales and an opportunity to land a position with Fox News. He will probably succeed at those unannounced motives despite a failed campaign and what could be a failed family life.

As I watch the dissolving Cain, I actually have grown to feel a bit of consternation about his brief political life. No, I do not feel for one moment the GOP was going to end with Cain at the top of their ticket; Cain would not accept the Vice President opportunity. My consternation is for people who actually believed that he was a viable candidate.

Cain showed complete poor judgment and lack of competency for federal office from the first weeks of his campaign. You know the stories, his seriously dangerous mental misjudgments and failures that lead to rhetoric.

• Muslims could have not place in his administration

• Seventy-Five per cent of African-Americans are brainwashed by the Democratic party. The extent of African-American aversion to the GOP is much higher than 75 percent. The mental disconnect for Cain was his use of the word ‘brainwashed’ without acknowledgment of the faults of the GOP.

• A fence around the southern borders with alligators on the northern side of the ELECTRIFIED fence.

• Obama is ‘not of the black experience.’

• 9-9-9 Tax Plan

• Ethnic buffoonery akin to that of pre-Jim Crow America; Black Walnut ice cream, delivery of the black vote mailings to Iowans, and what appears as a seriously inordinate need to be a clown.

• Complete lack of knowledge of anything related to governance and international affairs.

• Crass declaration of (twisted) kinship to the Koch brothers who openly want to influence national and state politics and are willing to spend millions, if not billions to do so.

Consternation? Yes, consternation about how so many people actually appeared to have fallen for his rhetoric, stage show and tendency for the bombastic. Most people are not adept at observance of human behavior but Cain’s antics took the ridiculous to another level. Therein lies the danger.

Despite my comment that the GOP was not going to allow his candidacy to take foot, what would have been the political scene had he not fizzled? Fox News would have fallen in line to support him. Van Susteren had already taken a step with her Hannity like ‘facilitation interview’ (i.e., prod them a bit and let the person run their mouth). Limbaugh would have reluctantly fallen in line. The rest of the nation’s conservative ‘celebrity crew’ (Beck, Palin, Coulter) would have joined in support for Cain. Problem. The nation is then wide-open for a serous ‘dupe job.’ It could have been a major, “OOPS.”

Has American politics become so soiled that the unthinkable could have happened?

Issues related to Ms Ginger White’s allegations have not been admitted nor confirmed (as yet); to be perfectly clear. But, I cannot help but think about Cain’s audacity, if the allegations are true. If the cell phone evidence was the last plunged stake in his candidacy, how could Cain have thought that his affair would not surface? If Ms. White is ‘a woman scorned,’ what threats would that have presented to candidate Cain?

The problem is not a political party problem as the left has its memorable cases in recent history. The problem is humans failings and those who are so willing to buy-into what should have appeared as, frankly, a phony.

How about the potential attendees for the lavish dinner with Cain? It may have been a case of dining with a flim-flam man. A couple of the media personalities named as guests have reputations as somewhat credible television journalists. What is it about interacting with people like Cain? Could his ascension in the polls have blinded them to his foibles and the ridiculous aura of the candidate. In any case, how do the so-called journalist or news reporters twist their minds to actions that verge of questioning their ethics about potential bias.

I read over the weekend of a senior who attended a rally at which Cain spoke. The senior was reported to have left the event and asked , “Is he for real?”

Well, Maam, no he is not for real.