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RUSH: “BREAKING: PJM Sources Report Details of Alleged Cain Incident.” Stick with me on this. “Adding to the ongoing Herman Cain sexual harassment controversy, two sources have now confirmed to PJ Media that a female employee of the National Restaurant Association told associates she had been brought by Mr. Cain to his Crystal City, Virginia, residence where she alleged ‘he had taken advantage of me.\u2019 Both sources claim to be politically conservative. One source, a male, told PJ Media: ‘Herman took advantage of seniority and power with a young woman. It was an abuse of power.\u2019 Implying that coming forward with the accusations was an ordeal for the young woman, the source also said: <\/p>\n
“‘Who do you believe, a CEO or a mid-level staffer? It was unsettling for her to make charges.'” Stick with me on this, now. “The name of the woman — who was in her early twenties at the time of the alleged incident — has been confirmed by PJ Media. We have chosen not to reveal her identity for reasons of discretion. Both sources, one male and one female, worked at the time — mid-1990s — for the governmental affairs department of the National Restaurant Association, as did the woman. According to the female [conservative] source, Mr. Cain and the woman had been with a large group for a long evening of food and drink at the Ciao Baby Cucina, a restaurant near NRA headquarters in downtown Washington, D.C.<\/p>\n
“This was a normal routine, as the trade association worked with the food and beverage industry. Afterwards, Mr. Cain allegedly took the woman by taxi to his apartment, where she spent the night and woke up.” At least she woke up. Note the word ALLEGEDLY, here. This is “breaking” news. “This was a normal routine.” Everybody in the office went out to dinner and adult beverages. “Afterwards, Mr. Cain allegedly took the woman by taxi to his apartment, where she spent the night and woke up The female [conservative] source told PJ Media that she witnessed the woman and Herman Cain break away from the large group as part of a smaller group. <\/p>\n
“Neither source has direct knowledge of what occurred at Mr. Cain\u00c2\u2019s residence…” Let me read that again: “Neither source has direct knowledge of what occurred at Mr. Cain\u2019s residence” except that she woke up alive. “but several days after the alleged incident, the female source witnessed the woman returning to her workplace ‘distraught.\u2019 ‘She was very upset,\u2019 … several days after the alleged incident.” Now, again here, the “alleged incident” is the big group goes to dinner. Cain and the woman break off from the group. They go by taxi to Cain\u2019s apartment in Crystal City, she wakes up the next morning alive. Then days later, she is distraught … allegedly. “One source told PJ Media: ‘Some people didn\u00c2\u2019t believe [the accuser]\u2019 at the time she made the allegation.”<\/p>\n
We don\u2019t know and this story doesn\u2019t say what the allegation was. “The female [conservative] source recalls the woman continued working at the NRA for several weeks after the encounter; the male source recalls the woman continued working there for a few months. Both sources claim that during this period following the incident while the woman was still employed, the NRA\u2019s human resources office held many ‘closed door meetings\u2019 that included her. The woman\u2019s parents retained legal counsel and arranged an undisclosed financial settlement. Today, the [Restaurant Association] is expected to meet with attorney Joel P. Bennett, who represents one of the women who have made claims against Mr. Cain.<\/p>\n
“Bennett has stated he wants the NRA to terminate a confidentiality provision which bars his client from revealing the grounds for the settlement: ‘[The NRA] ought to waive the confidentiality and non-disparagement provisions and let the two women, if they choose to do so, come forward and tell their stories so that it can get a complete public airing.\u2019 Mr. Cain has steadfastly denied that he harassed any female employees at the National Restaurant Association when he was president. He originally said any allegations…” Stick with me on this, folks. It\u2019s a little dry here, but hang in there, be tough. “CORRECTIONS.”<\/p>\n
In parentheses: “(CORRECTIONS: A previous version of this story mentioned that a source witnessed Cain and the woman entering a taxi together. This was incorrect. The previous version also mentioned that the woman awoke in Cain\u2019s bed — the source only claimed that the woman awoke in Cain\u2019s apartment. The previous version incorrectly attributed comments from one source to the other source.)” and one of the most interesting details of the piece is this: “‘Some people didn\u2019t believe [her]\u2019 at the time,” so they didn\u2019t see them leave in a taxi. Even if they did, they didn\u2019t see it. That\u2019s a correction. So how do they know where the taxi took them? They also… Nobody knows what happened in Cain\u2019s apartment, other than she woke up alive — and we know that she woke up alive because she went into the office later, and she continued to go into the office for months. <\/p>\n
I don\u2019t know what kind of reporting this is. Whatever did or did not happen, this is pretty shoddy still; and what\u2019s happening now is everybody wants to be the one that gets the final details on this. Everybody\u2019s trying to be first, everybody\u2019s trying to be the source or the publication or the website, what have you, that finally nails all of this down. They want to be the ones to break this wide open. So we get things like this. We do not know and nobody knows things that are being reported and said. At some point, we are gonna know all of this. I am confident and convinced that the details of all this, at some point, will come out. I don\u2019t know if this is true or not, is my point. There\u2019s nothing in here yet that would convince me that this is true. <\/p>\n
It\u2019s too open-ended — and these “CORRECTIONS”? I mean, a big part of the story: Cain and the woman go into a taxi and go to his place! (stammering) Uh, uh, uh, uh, correction! No, no, no. “A previous version of this story mentioned that a source witnessed Cain and the woman entering a taxi together. This was incorrect.” Well, that\u2019s pretty big. So if they didn\u2019t see them entering the taxi together, then somebody doesn\u2019t know actually know where they went. Apparently the woman\u2019s claims about where they went are the evidence here. Now, in common parlance — common parlance in discussions like this — when the terminology “taking advantage of” is used today\u2019s standards that means rape. Now, The Politico and the AP and the New York Times, who\u2019ve been in touch with the lawyers would never have left this as simply sex harassment if there was rape involved here. <\/p>\n
If they\u2019d thought that rape had taken place, that word would popped up by now. Instead, don\u2019t forget, in the original Politico report, there were gestures that were “not overtly sexual” that led to a sexual harassment claim. I don\u2019t pretend to understand that. Cain has also claimed that he was cleared by the NRA\u2019s investigation. Why isn\u2019t the news media demanding to see their investigation? They want the confidentiality provisions lifted, but they don\u2019t seem to be interested in seeing the results of the investigation. So we have gestures and innuendo, and (summarized), “We thought we saw him get in a cab, but, no, nobody actually saw that.” That\u2019s a long way from “took advantage of me.” <\/p>\n
Look, folks, don\u2019t misunderstand me here. All I\u2019m telling you is I don\u2019t have the slightest idea what\u2019s happened here, and nothing I have read anywhere has told me what happened. Am I wrong, is there somebody out there you\u2019ve read or heard or seen something and you know what happened and I\u2019m missing it? Do you know what happened, Snerdley? I don\u2019t think anybody knows what happened. So I guess the fact that both sources claim to be politically conservative is supposed to add credibility to the sources. Pajamas Media is, I guess, an acknowledged conservative site. Anyway, that\u2019s the latest. That\u2019s the latest that we have. This is the latest that has people, “Bzz bzz bzz bzz bzz bzz!” buzzing about it. So I just wanted to share it with you. I became aware of it during the break at the top of the hour.<\/p>\n
BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n
RUSH: Here\u2019s Kevin in Destin, Florida. Kevin, thank you for waiting. It\u2019s great to have you on the program.<\/p>\n
CALLER: Hey, Rush. It\u2019s a pleasure to finally get on your show after two years of dialing, sometimes a couple hours a day. Man, thanks a lot for finally putting me on.<\/p>\n
RUSH: I appreciate your effort. I\u2019m impressed with your effort, and I appreciate it.<\/p>\n
CALLER: It takes persistence that\u2019s for sure.<\/p>\n
RUSH: I know. I know that well. I was a caller in previous days.<\/p>\n
CALLER: Yeah. Hey, listen. I\u2019m calling you from Destin, Florida, up there in the Panhandle of Florida.<\/p>\n
RUSH: Right.<\/p>\n
CALLER: And I\u2019ve gotta tell you something: There\u2019s something I think, Rush, that the entire media — including yourself, I might add — is missing with the Herman Cain fiasco, and that\u2019s this: Herman Cain, in my opinion, the story is not the alleged, you know, sexual, you know… Sexual, what do you call it?<\/p>\n
CALLER: Yeah, harassment. That\u2019s not the story here. The story to me is I met Herman Cain — just to be able to say, “I met Herman Cain” — about four months ago down in Naples, Florida. I had a chance to engage him one-on-one personally, and I asked him point-blank questions, and I even put this on my blog, and I had the video of it because the local news covered it, and what was ironic about it — and I put it up on the blog if you want to see it. What I found interesting about this was the fact that when I engaged him personally, something told me right then and there, Rush, that this man lacks presidential prowess. He lacks the intellect to be the president. But that\u2019s not the story here. The story here is what this speaks to is his inability to face what should have been nothing more than a mole-size crisis. Herman Cain himself, by allowing himself to be interrogated by Greta Van Susteren and the rest of the media pundits, all he\u2019s doing is validating the story, and he\u2019s demeaning himself and bringing himself down to the level, you know, of the dogs here that are who don\u2019t —<\/p>\n
RUSH: Well, what should he have done? Just blown \u2019em all off and said no interviews?<\/p>\n
CALLER: No, Rush. He knew ten days prior, ten days prior that this could be a story. All he had to do was call a press conference and say, “Listen, here\u2019s the deal. Here\u2019s what happened. It was dismissed. All is said and done. I\u2019ll give you 30-40 minutes for that matter but when this is done, this is done.” What that tells me, Rush… I\u2019m a Herman Cain fan, but I\u2019m rapidly losing interest in Herman Cain as our next GOP candidate as the primary guy because what this tells me is he does not have the ability to think on his feet, number one. Number two, he doesn\u2019t know how to manage what\u2019s really a very small crisis.<\/p>\n
RUSH: Kevin?<\/p>\n
CALLER: If he can\u2019t handle this, how is he gonna handle being in the White House —<\/p>\n
RUSH: Kevin?<\/p>\n
CALLER: — when he has a real crisis? <\/p>\n
RUSH Kevin?<\/p>\n
CALLER: Yeah?<\/p>\n
RUSH: A, he was under a confidentiality agreement. He can\u2019t divulge anything about this. He said he didn\u2019t remember all of the details of this. I think what we saw was a first-timer dealing with this, trying to be honest as he knew how to be. I think he was trying to use his own level of morality in answering the questions here. What you\u2019re saying is that he\u2019s not polished enough to do media stuff, therefore he\u2019s not qualified to be president. What should he have done, gone out and hired somebody to attack the women? That\u2019s what Bill Clinton did, and he\u2019s praised and loved and thought to be totally competent. Should he have gone out and hired somebody to handle “bimbo eruptions” for other women that came forward and about it out and destroy them like Bill Clinton did? Because Bill Clinton is the acknowledged expert, Kevin, and the most qualified person ever to be president. That\u2019s a contest with Obama. I talked about this in the first hour of the program — and there\u2019s a way to do all this that apparently everybody approves of and says, “There\u2019s our president!” and that\u2019s leave some semen an blue dress and get the woman blamed for it.<\/p>\n
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RUSH: Let me step in here as an adult and try to make some sense out of all this. Because apparently that\u2019s very difficult for others to do. We just had this last caller, “Man, he\u2019s a dumb guy! He doesn\u2019t have the intellectual capability. I\u2019m still supporting him. I just don\u2019t think he\u2019s got the brain. Rush, he had ten days! He had ten days to prepare. The Politico gave him ten days.” That is apparently now the line that\u2019s out there: Herman Cain had ten days. The way I see this — and I haven\u2019t made a choice for president, and I don\u2019t know what happens here. I am just reacting like all of you to this rat-tat-tat, machine gun-type release of news. It seems to me that Herman Cain is caught between two impossible tasks. He\u2019s running for president, and he has to say something.<\/p>\n
But there is a legal arrangement sealing the agreement which prevents him from knowing the details of what transpired outside of what he actually recalls. He hasn\u2019t seen it! What would ten days have bought him? He\u2019s not allowed to see this. The investigation was done outside his knowledge, for legal purposes. The agreement is sealed. The woman got 35 or $45,000. Now, I think if somebody\u2019s raped, they don\u2019t settle for 35 or $45,000 even back in the nineties. But, that\u2019s just me. He didn\u2019t have the agreement. The agreement\u2019s under seal by agreement of the association and the accuser. His campaign said that they asked Politico for specifics of the allegations and more information, but Politico provided none!<\/p>\n
We\u2019ve played sound bites of our old buddy here, Jonathan Martin out there saying (paraphrased), “Okay, we put the story out. Now it\u2019s up to Herman Cain to explain it.” I don\u2019t understand that. Why isn\u2019t it up to the accuser to explain things? So whether he had ten days or a hundred days, the information he didn\u2019t have wouldn\u2019t have changed, and he didn\u2019t have it. But he is running for president, and he can\u2019t just leave it at that. So he said what he remembered about the allegation. He added to it as he recalled more about it, which is many years ago — and people think that he didn\u2019t actually casually remember this. They think he\u2019s goofing up in telling people what he remembered. They think he\u2019s trying to explain as little as he can; that isn\u2019t working so he adds something to it every day.<\/p>\n
When it could well be that he is remembering stuff; I doubt this was on his radar at all before this all hit on Sunday night. So now this is being universally proclaimed out there as being a demonstration of incompetence, but I don\u2019t know what he can do when he doesn\u2019t have the agreement and when it\u2019s under seal and when there is a confidentiality agreement that says it can\u2019t be discussed. So he\u2019s out there and he sends his guy out there to attack the Perry campaign. There\u2019s no evidence for that, and I don\u2019t know who leaked this — and as I said when the program started, I don\u2019t even think that matters, unless it isn\u2019t true. If it is true, who cares in the end who leaked it? Really, folks, it\u2019s gonna come out anyway, so what does it matter? <\/p>\n
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Yet every one, every one of these candidates of ours is superior and of greater substance than the lightweight in the White House sitting there today who can barely read the return address on an envelope — and none of them have sealed their education records like he has. Herman Cain\u2019s not trying to deny where he was educated. We got all kinds of people from Herman Cain\u2019s past coming up, “Yeah, I knew Herman. I didn\u2019t like Herman” or “I did like Herman.” There is nobody from Obama\u2019s past that comes forward, “Yeah, I knew Obama.” We haven\u2019t heard from any old girlfriends. We are witnessing here the attempt that appears to be press successful to take out every Republican candidate with this story, when you get right down to it — and that is starting to irritate me profoundly. Every one of them now is in the crosshairs.<\/p>\n
Now, let\u2019s talk about this attorney, this Joel Bennett who represents one of the women who claim that Herman Cain mistreated her. He doesn\u2019t have a copy of the agreement the woman signed with the association. He said, “I haven\u2019t seen a copy of the agreement in 12 years,” yet he\u2019s out there blabbing off like he knows everything that happened. He hasn\u2019t seen the agreement. He said he hopes to get a copy of the agreement from the National Restaurant Association. His client has asked him to stop giving interviews and yet he\u2019s still giving interviews. Now, what lawyer worth his salt wouldn\u2019t have gotten a copy of the frigging agreement by now? And this is the same tidbit the Washington Post had yesterday that they deleted from their story that was on the website. <\/p>\n
This guy — a Clintonista, by the way — this Joel Bennett guy. Second, if his client asked him to stop giving interviews, why is he everywhere hyping the story? ‘Cause that\u2019s what happening. Now, there\u2019s a Forbes magazine story on this: “As for the story itself, Cain campaign officials complain Politico\u00c2\u2019s piece was an ambush. When Politico\u00c2\u2019s [Jonathan] Martin contacted Cain campaign spokesman J.D. Gordon on late in the day on October 19, Gordon says Martin didn\u00c2\u2019t supply any details or documents that would allow the campaign to evaluate the claims,” and this goes to the ten day business. Okay, Politico says: We got you, bud! You got ten days to respond.<\/p>\n
You got me on what?<\/p>\n
Huh-huh! We don\u2019t have anything. We\u2019re not gonna show you anything but you\u2019ve got ten days, sexual harassment.<\/p>\n
Forbes: “There were no names, locations, or exact descriptions of what Cain is alleged to have said or done,” and there still aren\u2019t! Does anybody, sitting here right now, know what he did? Obama had 20 years to respond to Reverend Wright and all he could come up with was, “I wasn\u2019t listening.” Bill Ayers? “No, I didn\u2019t start my campaign at his house. He was just some locoweed in the neighborhood.” Wrong! He started his political career in Bill Ayers\u2019 living room. Now, this is from Forbes: The campaign spokesman “Gordon and the campaign say they couldn\u00c2\u2019t respond because they had no idea what they were responding to. Gordon even begged Harris to send him copies of any documents with the names blacked out. Harris refused” to do that. <\/p>\n
What we have here, we\u2019ve got shoddy reporting from The Politico and this Pajamas Media. I hate saying this (I really hate saying this), but this is shoddy. They report that Cain and the woman got in the cab together and then they have to say, “Nope, nope, nope! Sorry, nobody saw that.” Well, yeah, a couple days ago later they say that, issue the correction? Cain and the woman went to Cain\u2019s Crystal City apartment where she spent at night and woke up alive! And they originally said “in his bed,” then they had to correct that. Nobody, nobody knows what he did. We know everything Bill Clinton did, including lying about it to a grand jury!<\/p>\n
We know everything Ted Kennedy did; we know everything John Edwards did. They are heroes. We know everything Eliot Spitzer did; he got a TV show. We don\u2019t know what Herman Cain did, and they\u2019re telling us (even people on our side), “He\u2019s letting me down. I don\u2019t think it\u2019s presidential. He doesn\u2019t know how to handle this.” Bill Clinton does? John Edwards does? Ted Kennedy knew how to handle it? Is that our model? We still don\u2019t know what he did or didn\u2019t do, and that\u2019s the only reason I am withholding any judgment on any of this — and, gosh, I would think anybody with half a brain would be waiting to find out some specifics here.<\/p>\n
BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n
RUSH: Okay, this next is gonna get me in trouble, but what am I here for? I remember back in these heady days of the feminazis drumming up this whole sexual harassment business as a political tool, and I distinctly remember hearing there needed to be “a pattern” of powerful abuse of underlings. I don\u2019t see a pattern here. Now, also from the Forbes piece: “The Cain campaign, and even Cain himself, begged the association to at least supply some details [and] the association refused.” Why couldn\u2019t it be this, since nobody really knows anything…? We don\u2019t know the names of Obama\u2019s girlfriends. We don\u2019t know the names of women before he met Michelle. We have a lost decade of this man\u2019s life despite his own self-deserving autobiographies and yet nobody\u2019s interested in any of that. We were fed a totally BS story about this guy being a messiah, hope and change and all that rotgut and look where that got us!<\/p>\n
Meanwhile, isn\u2019t it possible that Herman Cain is just an innocent, honest guy trying to answer these questions as best he can with the limited knowledge that he\u2019s got? Now, I remember when this stuff all came up. We were told, “Women never lie about this stuff.” Remember that, too? “Women never lie about it,” and how many instances are there of women making it up? We were told children never lie about it, but they do, too. I remember a police officer. He was accused of abusing a 16-year-old girl, raping her, smearing feces on her. Her name was Tawana Brawley. Today, Al Sharpton — who was her agent and spreading her story — has a show on MSNBC and has a “charity” that every leftist bows down and gives money to. <\/p>\n
I don\u2019t think he has ever apologized for the false allegations involved, and look what happened to the cop in that case. Now, all I\u2019m saying is we don\u2019t know anything. In fact, everyone who\u2019s gone on record, meaning used their name — except the pollster, this guy in Oklahoma that was on the radio in Oklahoma (Chris whatever his name is. Anderson?) Everybody who\u2019s gone on record and used their name except that pollster have all said they couldn\u2019t imagine Herman Cain doing such things, and then they\u2019re saying, “Yeah, well, where\u2019s the wife been? That\u2019s the first telltale sign: The wife is never around!” Is that true? This is so many unanswered questions. There are so many versions of this story. How about this. Let me just throw another one out there. This makes as much sense as anybody else based on what we know. <\/p>\n
The woman has a little too much to drink. Herman Cain\u2019s a God-fearing Christian man. He respects her. He takes her home to his place to sleep it off. She wakes up the next day, tells people what happened, some people say, “You know, you could score some big bucks out of this.” She tries it. She gets 35 grand; gets ticked off that it\u2019s not enough. “Rush, how can you say such thing?” How can anybody say what they\u2019re saying? I don\u2019t know any more than anybody else does. Why couldn\u2019t that version be applicable here? “Well, because, Rush, women don\u2019t lie about these things, and there was a payoff.” Talk to any lawyer who will tell you it\u2019s much cheaper to pay somebody 35 grand than to go to litigation, and you don\u2019t only get 35 grand if you were raped and can prove it. So my version is just as possible as anything else here. I\u2019m not saying that\u2019s what happened. <\/p>\n
“I don\u2019t know.” That\u2019s all I\u2019m saying. <\/p>\n
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