Smear-Ye, Smear-Ye: Press Decides Herman Cain Must Be A Sexual Predator

Drawing on decades old rumors and generations worth of ugly stereotypes that all black men are out-of-control sexual predators, Politico has begun the “high tech lynching” of Republican Presidential front-runner Herman Cain.

The Cain campaign is strongly denying  (“denouncing” is probably a better word) a Politico smear that Cain was twice accused of sexual harassment decades ago when he was head of the National Restaurant Association.  The thinly sourced report goes on to say that the women were paid “five figures” (each!) by the association for their silence.

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