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2012 Primary, Herman Cain

UK Daily Mail on Bialek: She is a complete gold digger. She Knows David Axelrod. Anonymous accuser works for Obama….

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What else can we say except that the plot thickens. See our previous post HERE.

Anonymous Cain Accuser Works in Obama Administration and filed sexual harassment complaints at other jobs

The Daily:

Karen Kraushaar currently serves as a communications director at the Inspector General’s Office of the Treasury Department, a position she has held since last year. She did not return phone messages left by The Daily.

AP:

WASHINGTON (AP) — 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 Cain in 1999. Three former supervisors familiar with Kraushaar’s complaint, which did not include a claim of sexual harassment, described it for the AP under condition of anonymity because the matter was handled internally by the agency and was not public.

To settle the complaint at the immigration service, Kraushaar initially demanded thousands of dollars in payment, a reinstatement of leave she used after the accident earlier in 2002, promotion on the federal pay scale and a one-year fellowship to Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government, according to a former supervisor familiar with the complaint. The promotion itself would have increased her annual salary between $12,000 and $16,000, according to salary tables in 2002 from the U.S. Office of Personnel Management.

 

 

UPDATE II – Television legend Bill Kurtis explains how Sharon Bialek worked with him at CBS. He said that she has [with emphasis] “a history” and that from his experience the roles in the car between Bialek and Cain were likely reversed.

More updates are being posted so be sure to scroll down to examine them.   

Real Clear Politics:

Martha MacCallum, FOX News: “One of the things is that you lived at a 505 North Lake Shore Drive apartment, right? This is the same building, it happens to be the same building David Axelrod lives in. Do you know David Axelrod? Ever have any interaction with him at all?

See Video HERE

Sharon Bialek, Cain accuser: “I saw him in the gym. I mean — everybody nods to each other. It is friendly building but I never had any interaction with him.”

[NOTE – David Axelrod is the President Obama’s Chief Political Advisor and former campaign manager] 

UK Daily Mail:

‘She’s a complete gold digger’: Murky past of Herman Cain accuser starts to emerge.

  • Fiance of Sharon Bialek says he is supporting her but did not find out until Friday
  • Filed for bankruptcy twice
  • Accused former boyfriend of harassing her to pay a loan
  • Cain appears on Jimmy Kimmel saying he will fight the accusations
  • Father found out about allegations on Monday

A ‘gold digger’ embroiled in legal and financial difficulties who has always lived above her station and will do anything to never have to work again.

This is the portrait that has started to emerge of the fourth woman to accuse Herman Cain of sexual harassment – the first to come out publicly.

Though her lawyer Gloria Allred painted a respectable and prestigious education and employment history for Sharon Bialek, 50, just a day later it has been revealed that she has not held a job for more than two years and has filed for bankruptcy twice.

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2058983/Murky-past-Herman-Cain-accuser-Sharon-Bialek-starts-emerge.html#ixzz1d8TlNa8I

 

Bialek has a long history of money and legal troubles showing that there is no way she can afford her legal team.

The Daily Caller:

From a release/email:

… In stark contrast to Mr. Cain’s four decades spent climbing the corporate ladder rising to the level of CEO at multiple successful business enterprises, Ms. Bialek has taken a far different path.

The fact is that Ms. Bialek has had a long and troubled history, from the courts to personal finances – which may help explain why she has come forward 14 years after an alleged incident with Mr. Cain, powered by celebrity attorney and long term Democrat donor Gloria Allred.

In the courts, Ms. Bialek has had a lengthy record in the Cook County Court system over various civil lawsuits. The following cases on file in Cook County are:

·         2000-M1-707461 Defendant against Broadcare Management
·         2000-M1-714398 Defendant in lawsuit against Broadcare Management
·         2000-M1-701522 Defendant in lawsuit against Broadcare Management
·         2005-M1-111072 Defendant in lawsuit against Mr. Mark Beatovic.
·         2007-M1-189176 Defendant in lawsuit against Midland Funding.
·         2009-M1-158826 Defendant in lawsuit against Illinois Lending.

Ms. Bialek was also sued in 1999 over a paternity matter according to ABC 7 Chicago (WLS-TV).  Source: WLS-TV, November 7, 2011

In personal finances, PACER (Federal Court) records show that Ms. Bialek has filed for bankruptcy in the Northern District of Illinois bankruptcy court in 1991 and 2001. The respective case numbers according to the PACER system are 1:01-bk-22664 and 1:91-bk-23273.

Ms. Bialek has worked for nine employers over the last seventeen years. Source: WLS-TV, November 7, 2011

Curiously, if Ms. Bialek had intended to take legal action, the statute of limitations would have passed a decade ago.

Which brings up the question of why she would make such reprehensible statements now?

The questions should be – who is financing her legal team, have any media agreed to pay for her story, and has she been offered employment for taking these actions?

UPDATE I – Bialek will not rule out selling her story or trying to make money off of this.

2012 Primary, Herman Cain

Chicago TEA Party Lead Activist on Sharon Bialek: I did not recognize her and I was there all weekend – UPDATED!

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by Political Arena Editor Chuck Norton

Welcome The Blaze and Iowntheworld readers!

[There are MANY updates. Please scroll down to examine them. Steven Tucker has found two people who saw Bialek approach Cain after his speech at TEAcon (not before as they said in the presser), but no one in the Chicago TEA Party seems to know who she is or seen her before and as you will see by the details, this story gets stranger by the moment.

The updates are getting more and more interesting Bialek faced multiple liens including an IRS lien in 2009. See update VI.  Bialek is described by Gloria Allred and the elite media as a TEA Party Republican, yet her voter registration status is inactive. See Update VII.

We would like to point out that a $35,000 termination agreement 15 years ago with an anonymous accuser who, when allowed to break confidentiality by the National Restaurant Association decided to clam up, is a big deal to the elite media. But Bill Clinton paying $850,000 for real sexual assault and harassment against Paula Jones is no big deal and the dozen other women who came out and told a similar story were all “nuts & sluts”. Who was president 15 years ago?

Eye Witness to the Cain-Bialek encounter at TeaCon: They hugged, “flirtatious”! Bielek applied for a job at WIND Radio See Update IX

After Nine updates we are starting a new thread HERE – Editor]

Mark Levin takes apart Bialek’s written statement (hat tip Rightscoop). Levin shows just how strange this story is as some parts just do not make sense.

When Sharon Bialek said that he was with Herman Cain at the Chicago TEA Party event with Herman Cain I reached out to one of the key voices and leaders of the Chicago TEA Party C. Steven Tucker and he says “I did not recognize her Chuck and I was there all weekend.”

I have been reaching out to my other friends in the Chicago TEA Party and so far no one recognizes her. Gloria Allred portrayed Bialek as a TEA Party Republican. Having seen her picture Bialek is not someone who goes unnoticed easily.

Tucker comments further:

I have spoken at Tea Party events ALL OVER Chicagoland including TeaCon Midwest 2011 where Gloria Allred says her client “confronted” Herman Cain. I have never seen nor have I ever even heard of a Sharon Bialek.

Bailek has not been seen at any other TEA Party events. Even if she had gone to just one, why go to the one with Herman Cain and no others?  It makes no sense.

Sharon Blailek said that this happened in 1996 so where was Blailek when Herman Cain was running for Senate in 2004?

We have been doing internet searches on Sharon Bialek. Her linkedin and all social networking/employer networking sites where her name appears seem to have been scrubbed. When you are telling the truth, why make the attempt to scrub your past? [Note: Her LinkedIn profile is back – Editor]

Speaking of not making sense, why would a supposed Republican TEA Party activist/sympathizer call a known leftist hatchet man like Gloria Allred, as any association with Allred would impune her credibility?

Why would being with Gloria Allred impune Bailek’s credibility?

Gloria Allred, in an attempt to smear California candidate for governor Meg Whitman, exposed her ‘client’ Nikki Diaz to felony charges of forging a Social Security document, tax fraud, identity theft because she had assumed another persons identity, exposed her to deportation, fines and prison, all for asking to be paid mileage for a couple of times when she had to drive to carry out her duties, even though she was paid $23.00 an hour; all for a political smear. And where is Nikki Diaz today?

In this video attorney and Fox News anchor Greta van Susteren takes Gloria Allred to task for misrepresenting the ‘evidence’ she claims to have and for exposing her client to great jeopardy without sufficient cause.

Famed attorney Mark Levin also goes after Allred on the same angle in this interview. This interview is very revealing as Allred does everything she can to keep changing the subject away from the pertinent legal facts.

This is what disbarment is for.

It gets better. Here is Gloria Allred defending the illegal groping by the TSA. Allred said that she enjoyed being groped by the TSA.

When Kathleen Willey and Juanita Broderick, both Democratic Party activists, were sexually assaulted by Bill Clinton they reached out to Gloria Allred and Allred was not interested in helping them.

Here is Gloria Allred demonstrating anal sex with a baseball bat in front of children.

The Media Research Center takes us back to how the elite media treated the 23 women who spoke out against sexual harassment, assault and even credible rape allegations against former President Bill Clinton – LINK.

UPDATE I:  This is really indicative of the elite media reaction to this story. Just the stats as of 11-6-2011 via Law Prof. William Jacobson:

Days as of 8 p.m. Eastern today since Politico broke the story – 7

Politico news stories about or mentioning “Herman Cain“: 138

Politico news stories about or mentioning “sexual harassment“: 91

Politico news stories about or mentioning “sexual harassment” not involving Herman Cain: 0

Politico news stories showing what Herman Cain actually did: 0

Politico news stories showing specifically what Herman Cain was accused of: 0

Percentage drop in Herman Cain favorability rating as reported by Politico: 9

Politico news stories about or mentioning “Solyndra“: 9

Politico news stories about or mentioning “Fast and Furious“: 3

Politico news stories about or mentioning “unemployment“: 17

Politico news stories about or mentioning “recession“: 14

I would like to add –

Number of stories quoting an accuser by name: 0

Number of specific allegations made as far as conduct: 0

Number of stories on Bill Ayers: 0

UPDATE II – More on the media reaction via the Marietta Daily Journal:

Former Marietta Mayor Bill Dunaway reports that he was called by reporters this week from the Associated Press and The Washington Post, both trying to dig up dirt on embattled presidential candidate Herman Cain of Georgia. The reporters had somehow heard that Dunaway is former owner of The 1848 House restaurant in Marietta and had been in the restaurant business while Cain was president of the National Restaurant Association.

“They each wanted to know what ‘bad’ things I had heard about him and what ‘bad’ things the NRA members thought of him. I disappointed them in that I neither knew nor heard any bad rumors about him,” Dunaway emailed AT’s Bill Kinney.

“The press is really working hard on Herman,” he concluded. No question about that.

UPDATE III – The Chicago TEA Party is investigating: 

Tucker found someone who saw Blailek at TEAcon. Via Steven Tucker:

Chuck, please add this to your blog post. AM 560 WIND General Manager Jeff Reisman and AM 560 WIND morning Radio Personality John Howell witnessed the conversation between Bialek and Herman Cain AFTER Herman’s speech at TeaCon Midwest 2011. Bialek had the timing wrong, but she did indeed talk to him after the speech. John Howell was on the nationally syndicated Micheal Medved show this afternoon talking about it – they’re trying to get Bialek to come on WIND this afternoon to talk about it.

Says Tucker, I can personally guarantee that this woman is NOT a “Tea Party Person”.

UPDATE IV – Sharon Bialek starts a Facebook page today.

https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100003185971759&sk=wall

With all of my contacts in the Chicago Area at this time we have no mutual friends, that includes Chicago TEA Party leaders. This leaves next to no doubt, she is not a TEA Party person as she has been portrayed by implication.

Chicago TEA Party lead activist Steven Tucker, who has 5004 friends, has not one friend in common with Blailek.

Note: Fake Sharon Bialek profiles are now appearing on Facebook. Since one of the friends on the profile linked seems to be a Facebook.com editor it seems more likely than not that this is her new profile. The question of the day is what happened to the old one. She has LinkedIn so it is most unlikely that she had no previous profile before today.

UPDATE V – Bialek goes on a media tour. Here she is on CNN with Piers Morgan. I encourage everyone to watch the video. Bialek is grinning rather strangely while explaining how she was ‘abused’.  They had hotel suites and yet she says that it happened in the car? Who tries to make it in the car when you have a hotel suite?

UPDATE VI – Bialek faced multiple liens including an IRS lien in 2009

Cook County Lien Notices – LINK

Bialek liens
Bialek liens

UPDATE VII – Sharon Bailek, the described TEA Party Republican, does not have valid voter registration status:

http://www.elections.il.gov/VotingInformation/RegistrationLookup.aspx

Sharon Bialek Voter Registration Status
Sharon Bialek Voter Registration Status

UPDATE VIII – Herman Cain appeared on Jimmy Kimmel on Monday night. Would you say that Cain is showing the conviction of an innocent man? He looks pretty sincere. 

UPDATE IX – Eye Witness WIND Radio Host Amy Jacobson: At TeaCon they hugged, “flirtatious”

Chicago Sun Times Michael Sneed:

Amy Jacobson witnessed the Cain/Bialek encounter a month ago while backstage at the AM 560 WIND sponsored TeaCon meeting in Schaumburg Sept. 30-Oct. 1 at the Renaissance Hotel and Convention Center.

◆Quoth Jacobson: “I had turned on TV to find out who was Cain’s accuser, and I almost fell over when I saw it was Sharon Bialek accusing Cain of groping her genitals.”

“I was waiting for Herman Cain’s ‘Accuser No. 4’ to surface — and up pops Sharon!”

“I couldn’t believe it. I was shocked.”

“I recall Sharon was hell bent on going backstage at the TeaCon convention — where she cornered him,” said Jacobson.

“I was surprised to hear she claims she did not know Cain was going to be there. Cain was expected and was late.”

Bialek told the media on Monday: “I went up to him and asked him if he remembered me. I wanted to see if he would be man enough to own up to what he had done 14 years ago.”

◆The encounter: “It looked sort of flirtatious,” said Jacobson. “I mean they were hugging. But she could have been giving him the kiss of death for all I know. I had no idea what they were talking about, but she was inches from his ear.”

◆The introduction: “It all began when I took a convention break and joined my pals at the hotel bar. Sharon was drinking Mimosas with them. She said she was a Republican, a Tea Party member, had once dated [White Sox sports announcer’ Steve Stone] and had worked at WGN radio.”

◆The rendezvous: Sharon also said she was anxious to meet Cain again and had once gone to an afterparty with him and her boyfriend years ago. But she never mentioned he had sexually harassed her.”

◆The upshot: Bialek has since applied for employment in sales at WIND radio and is scheduled for a second interview Thursday.

Amazing.

Budget, Econ, Obama

Barrons: U.S. taxdollars bailing out Greece and Euro Zone

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Barrons:

Like it or not—and many of us don’t like it at all — U.S. taxpayers are helping to bail out Greece and the rest of the financially-distressed euro zone. The International Monetary Fund has committed to providing the Europeans with a financing package totaling about 250 billion euros. The portion provided by American taxpayers, based on our 17.09% share of contributions to the IMF, is now at least $54 billion.

A handful of congressional Republicans steeped in the fiscal conservatism of the Tea Party have been agitating against backdoor U.S. bailouts for several years. In May 2010, for instance, Reps. Mike Pence of Indiana and Cathy McMorris Rodgers of Washington, along with Sen. Jim DeMint of South Carolina, introduced a bill prohibiting the IMF from using U.S. funds for the bailout of any foreign country in Greek-like straits. Similarly, Republicans in June 2009 attempted to block a $100 billion appropriation to the IMF for a $1.1 trillion economic-crisis bailout fund.

President Obama, who had pledged the money during a G-20 meeting that year, had buried the appropriation in a war-funding measure to avoid an up or down vote on the unpopular item. This outraged Minnesota Rep. John Kline, another Republican, who fumed: “I cannot support a bill that uses our military personnel currently in harm’s way to advance a political agenda that includes a $100 billion international bailout that has nothing to do with our troops’ safety or success.” And Kline added: “Already this year, Congress has forced taxpayers to shoulder $700 billion in bailout money, $1 trillion on a so-called stimulus, $410 billion on a massive spending bill larded with pork-barrel projects and $3.6 trillion on a budget that spends too much, taxes too much and borrows too much. We should not tack on an additional $100 billion for an international bailout.”

Econ

19 facts about the rapid deindustrialization of America

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Via Business Insider –

1 – The United States has lost approximately 42,400 factories since 2001

The United States has lost approximately 42,400 factories since 2001

About 75 percent of those factories employed over 500 people when they were still in operation. Source: The American Prospect

2 – Dell Inc. has announced plans to dramatically expand its operations in China with an investment of over $100 billion over the next decade.

3 – Dell has announced that it will be closing its last large U.S. manufacturing facility in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. Approximately 900 jobs will be lost.

4 – In 2008, 1.2 billion cellphones were sold worldwide. So how many of them were manufactured inside the United States? Zero. 

5 – If our trade deficit with China increases at its current rate, the U.S. economy will lose over half a million jobs this year alone.

Source: Economic Policy Institute [PDF]

6 – As of the end of July, the trade deficit with China had risen 18 percent compared to the same time period a year ago.

Source: Economic Policy Institute [PDF]

7 – The United States has lost a total of about 5.5 million manufacturing jobs since October 2000.

Source: The American Prospect

8 – From 1999 to 2008, employment at the foreign affiliates of US parent companies increased an astounding 30 percent to 10.1 million

Source: Tax Analysts [PDF]

9 – In 1959, manufacturing represented 28 percent of U.S. economic output. In 2008, it represented 11.5 percent.

Source: The American Prospect

10 – Ford Motor Company recently announced the closure of a factory that produces the Ford Ranger in St. Paul, Minnesota.

Source: Economy In Crisis

11 – As of the end of 2009, less than 12 million Americans worked in manufacturing. The last time less than 12 million Americans were employed in manufacturing was in 1941.

Source: The American Prospect

12 – In America today, consumption accounts for 70 percent of GDP. Of this 70 percent, over half is spent on services.

Source: Economy In Crisis

13 –  The United States has lost a whopping 32 percent of its manufacturing jobs since the year 2000.

Source: The American Prospect

14 – In 2001, the United States ranked fourth in the world in per capita broadband Internet use. Today it ranks 15th.

Source: MACLEANS.CA

15 – Manufacturing employment in the U.S. computer industry is actually lower in 2010 than it was in 1975.

Source: Businessweek

16 – Printed circuit boards are used in tens of thousands of different products. Asia now produces 84 percent of them worldwide.

Source: The American Prospect

17 – The United States spends approximately $3.90 on Chinese goods for every $1 that the Chinese spend on goods from the United States.

Source: The Economic Collapse

18 – A prominent economist is projecting that the Chinese economy will be three times larger than the U.S. economy by the year 2040.

Source: MarketWatch

19 – The Census Bureau says 43.6 million Americans are now living in poverty, which is the highest number of poor Americans in the 51 years that records have been kept.

Source: Washington Post

Elite Media, Flashback!, Jihad, Lies

ABC News promoted militant Islamist as a “Peaceful representative of Islam”

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Just a little reminder of how transparently corrupt the elite media has become.

Via Answering Muslims:

ABC News recently did a 20/20 special titled “Islam: Questions and Answers,” with Diane Sawyer, Bill Weir, and Lama Hasan. The program drew attention to moderate Muslims who will serve as America’s “first line of defense” against terrorism. Unfortunately, one of the moderate Muslims presented by ABC isn’t so moderate.

Culture War, School Indoctrination

Fact: The Klan Lynched Republicans Including 1,300 Whites

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What public school history books often do not tell you is that the KKK was the militant wing of the Democratic Party.

Historian David Barton:

David Barton: Our Public School books have filtered out most of the good changes that American Christians carried out.

The Republican Party in many states such as Texas were founded by black Americans. The KKK was as partisan as it was racist.

Culture War, Treason

Official list of Occupy Wall Street’s supporters, sponsors and sympathizers

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At the time of publication the links provided are working and are varified.

Sections in brackets added by Political Arena.

Via PJ Media:

Official list of Occupy Wall Street’s supporters, sponsors and sympathizers


Communist Party USA 

      Sources:

Communist Party USA, OWS speech, The Daily Caller

American Nazi Party 

      Sources:

Media Matters, American Nazi Party, White Honor, Sunshine State News

Ayatollah Khamenei, Supreme Leader of Iran 

      Sources:

The Guardian, Tehran Times, CBS News

Barack Obama 

      Sources:

ABC News, CBS News, ForexTV, NBC New York

The government of North Korea 

      Sources:

Korean Central News Agency (North Korean state-controlled news outlet), The Marxist-Leninist, Wall Street Journal, Times of India

Louis Farrakhan, Nation of Islam 

      Sources:

video statement (starting at 8:28), Black in America, Weasel Zippers, Philadelphia Weekly

Revolutionary Communist Party 

      Sources:

Revolutionary Communist Party, Revolution newspaper, in-person appearance

David Duke [Former Klan leader and now anti-Semetic ‘celebrity’]  

      Sources:

Talking Points Memo, video statement, davidduke.com

Joe Biden 

      Sources:

Talking Points Memo, video statement, Mother Jones

Hugo Chavez 

      Sources:

Mother Jones, Reuters, Examiner.com

Revolutionary Guards of Iran 

      Sources:

Associated Press, FARS News Agency, UPI

Black Panthers (original) 

      Sources:

in-person appearance, Occupy Oakland, Oakland Tribune

Socialist Party USA 

      Sources:

Socialist Party USA, IndyMedia, The Daily Caller

US Border Guard [Supremicist Extremist Group Note: not affiliated with the Minuteman Project] 

      Sources:

White Reference, www.usborderguard.com, Gateway Pundit, Just Another Day blog

Industrial Workers of the World 

      Sources:

IWW web site, iww.org, in-person appearances

CAIR [Council on American Islamic Relations – Public Relations front group for the Muslim Brotherhood] 

      Sources:

in-person appearance, Washington Post, CAIR, CAIR New York

Nancy Pelosi 

      Sources:

Talking Points Memo, video statement, ABC News, The Weekly Standard

Communist Party of China 

      Sources:

People’s Daily (Communist Party organ), Reuters, chinataiwan.org, The Telegraph

Hezbollah 

      Sources:

almoqawama.org, almoqawama.org (2), almoqawama.org (3), wikipedia

9/11Truth.org [The “Bush took the towers down” conspiracy group]

      Sources:

911truth.org (1), 911truth.org (2), 911truth.org (3)

International Bolshevik Tendency 

      Sources:

bolshevik.org, Wire Magazine

Anonymous 

      Sources:

Adbusters, The Guardian, video statement

White Revolution 

      Source:

whiterevolution.com

International Socialist Organization 

      Sources:

Socialist Worker, socialistworker.org, in-person appearance

PressTV (Iranian government outlet) 

      Sources:

PressTV, wikipedia

Marxist Student Union 

      Sources:

Marxist Student Union, Big Government, marxiststudentunion.blogspot.com

Freedom Road Socialist Organization 

      Sources:

FightBack News, fightbacknews.org

ANSWER [Partially funded by communist groups and nations] 

      Sources:

ANSWER press release, ANSWER web site, Xinhua

Party for Socialism and Liberation 

      Sources:

Liberation News (1), pslweb.org, The Daily Free Press, Liberation News (2)
2012 Primary, Elite Media, Herman Cain, Lies

Elite media hit job on Herman Cain backfires – UPDATED

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[Editor’s Note: Remember that Newsweek knew about Monica Lewinski and decided to try to kill the story so it was leaked to Matt Drudge. In the case of John Edwards many in the elite media knew about the affair, but all of them decided to cover it up until the National Inquirer broke the story.

Remember, the quality of the propaganda (read bullshit) is MUCH higher this election season. That is because it used to be aimed at Independents who started counting yard signs two weeks before an election. New attitude change propaganda is aimed at people sympathetic to the TEA Party which is most Independents. TEA/Independents are more politically informed so the new propaganda is smarter and designed to target conservative sensibilities as well as people’s cynicism about government, so the lies from the hired political communications guns are based on variations of truths you have heard before. It is very effective.]

The video below is a textbook example of how to do an interview and deal with a false accusation. Cain’s reaction over the weekend was to challenge the elite media to name names, who are these anonymous sources?

Notice the elite media’s reaction to an accusation by anonymous sources, buy a known bogus hit piece writer from Politico (Vogel), compared to how they reacted to multiple women who spoke out against Bill Clinton including credible claims of rape (Juanita Brodderick) and sexual harassment/assault (Paula Jones, Dolly Kyle Browning, Kathleen Willey, Elizabeth Ward Gracen and the list goes on) and not to mention multiple affairs (Gennifer Flowers, Monica Lewinski). In the case of Bill Clinton they circled the wagons and attacked the women. The Democrats and the elite media even very personally attacked Linda Tripp who was simply a witness who told the truth about the evidence she had.

After the Clarence Thomas attack there was a surge of bogus sexual harassment suits in the 90’s. Anyone who was a CEO would/could be a target of one. It is called a harassment suit. 

Sarah Palin, Michelle Bachmann, Glenn Beck, Rick Perry, Herman Cain. Notice that the attacks came out when each one of these people was at their peak.

Yesterday was Herman Cain’s best fundraising day ever.

UPDATE –

Now the Elite Media is crying “cover up”. The Cain Campiagn are staffed by political noobs whose messaging was muttered for the first daywhile they were trying to figure out from who and where this anonymous allegation came from. 

The Cain Campaign has always done this when faced with a new issue or critique. It takes them a few days to get their footing just as it did on his Israel comments, abortion comments, answer to Homosexuality questions, the comments about not having Muslims in his administration etc. No one should be surprised that it was the same way with this curve ball.

The elite media doesn’t want to talk about the allegation because their story is a joke and from an anonymous source. So the elite media watching the story become about the Politico reporters who havce posted made up quotes in hit pieces before about SAarah Palin and others, have decided to move the goal post and interpret Cains messaging problems on a “cover up”.

According to witnesses in the incident Cain is aware of all he did was tell someone that they where about as tall as his wife and brought his hand to his chin, so she filed a harassment suit saying that Cain made a gesture that made her think of oral sex. Some official at the NRA paid her a small sum of money to go away. Harassment suits happen a lot. But here is the rub, since it is an anonymous source with few details Cain can not be sure if this is the incident or not.

Nice catch 22 isn’t it? If it is about this incident than there was no sexual behavior at all and this means nothing, if it is not this incident it is from an anonymous source with next to no details so it still means nothing, in both cases there is nothing to cover up. Like we said, this is just the elite media moving the goal post because if they talk about the allegation the story becomes about the liberal reporter who has a history.

The Media Research Center varifies our memory:

Networks Hype Vague Cain Charges, Ignored Sexual Harassment Claims Against Clinton

The three networks have aggressively covered vague charges of sexual harassment against Herman Cain, but brushed aside far more serious and specific claims against Bill Clinton.

Since the Herman Cain sexual harassment story broke late Sunday night, the broadcast networks have covered it extensively: full stories on Monday’s morning news shows (ABC’s Good Morning America led off their broadcast); full stories on Monday’s evening news shows (the CBS Evening News made it their top item) and ABC’s Nightline; and the top story on all three Tuesday morning shows.

Good Morning America’s George Stephanopoulos on Monday hyped the story as a “bombshell blast” and on Tuesday he derided Cain’s “bizarre series of interviews” on the subject. On Tuesday’s Early Show, Jan Crawford highlighted how Cain has been “trying to shoot down these allegations.” NBC’s Matt Lauer gloated that the Republican was “finding out the hard way about the attention that goes along with being a front-runner.”

Cain’s accusers are still anonymous. Three women publicly accused Bill Clinton of far more serious instances of sexual harassment in the 1990s, but the networks all but ignored them. The coverage that did exist was often skeptical, insulting and hostile, an astonishing double standard.

– Paula Jones, who accused Bill Clinton of exposing himself to her in a hotel room when she was a state employee in Arkansas, held a public press conference in February 1994, CBS and NBC ignored those charges, while ABC devoted just 16 seconds to Jones’ press conference.

As a January 29, 1998 Media Reality Check pointed out, “The rest of the media waited three months, until Jones filed suit, and the networks then did just 21 stories in that month.”

Appearing on the late Tim Russert’s CNBC program, then-Nightly News anchor Tom Brokaw dismissed, “It didn’t seem to most people, entirely relevant to what was going on at the time. These are the kind of charges raised about the President before.”

In the Jones case, the networks were openly disdainful of covering her accusations. “It’s a little tough to figure out who’s being harassed,” NBC Today host Bryant Gumbel smugly asserted (May 10, 1994).

After ABC’s Sam Donaldson interviewed Jones for Prime Time Live in June 1994, anchor Charles Gibson wanted to know: “Why does anyone care what this woman has to say?”

Gibson continued to pile on, adding, “Bottom line, Sam: Is she not trying to capitalize on this, in effect to profit from impugning the President?”

Newsweek editor Evan Thomas, who sometimes appears on the networks to offer analysis, derided Jones as “some sleazy woman with big hair.” (This was on the May 7, 1994 Inside Washington.)

– In the case of Kathleen Willey, who said Bill Clinton groped her in the Oval Office while President, the networks gave minimal coverage to that story when it was broke by Newsweek magazine in late July 1997.

On July 30, 1997, the CBS Evening News aired a story, but managed not to mention Willey by name. Reporter Bill Plante warned, “But unless and until this case is settled, this is only the beginning of attempts by attorneys on both sides to damage the reputations and credibility of everyone involved.”

– In the case of Juanita Broaddrick, who publicly came forward to say Bill Clinton raped her while he was the Arkansas Attorney General and a candidate for Governor, the networks offered weekend coverage in March 1998, when the charge surfaced in a court filing by Paula Jones’ attorneys. NBC interviewed Broaddrick for a Dateline special in January 1999, but the airing was delayed until February 24, 1999, after the end of Clinton’s impeachment trial.

The March 1999 Media Watchpointed out the disparity of coverage of Broaddrick versus Anita Hill:

In the first five days of Hill’s charges (October 6-10,1991), the network evening shows (on ABC, CBS, CNN, NBC, and PBS’s NewsHour) aired 67 stories. (If a count began with Jones’ February press conference, the networks supplied just a single 16-second anchor brief; if the count began with her sexual harassment lawsuit against Clinton in May, the number was 15.)

But in the first five days after Juanita Broaddrick has charged the President with rape in The Wall Street Journal (February 19-23), the number of evening news stories was two. That’s a ratio of 67 to 2.

 
Is it any coincidence that each conservative candidiate from the last several elections was attacked when they peaked in the polls? Michelle Bachmann, Rick Perry, and now Herman Cain (remember how Sarah Palin was attacked?). 

When you look at the history of minorities who ran as Republicans such as Michael Steele, Allen West, etc the Democrats in every case use the worst personal smear tactics against them, including releasing their social security numbers and personal credit information.

Remember Miguel Estrada who was picked by President Bush to be on the DC Circuit Court of Appeals? Democrats said in their leaked Judiciary Committee memo’s that they must smear and defeat him “because he’s Latino“.

And surprise surprise, the attorney for said un-named source is Joel Bennet. Most people do not have any idea Joel Bennet is. He was the head of the DC bar, and a co-chair of the National bar Association. Bennet is a big time power lawyer in DC and was even featured in Super Lawyers magazine. So who do you suppose is bankrolling this guy? You can be sure that it is not a former staffer at the National Restaurant Association.

Alarmism, Budget, Energy Policy, Jobs, Obama

British Report: Green sector costs more jobs than it creates

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With Solyndra and half a dozen other solar panel boondoggles which seemed only to go into business to launder government money from the American people, to the business and pay off cronies who gave big donations to Obama before shutting down, to the money we are paying for electric cars made in Finland, to the battery plant that is about to shut down in Greenfield, Indiana, to the failure of the government subsidized Chevy Volt; this is a lesson that America is learning the hard way. Except the British learned this lesson last February.

Via the BBC:

A study by consultants Verso Economics found there was a negative impact from the policy to promote the industry.

It said 3.7 jobs were lost for every one created in the UK as a whole and that political leaders needed to engage in “honest debate” about the issue.

The Scottish government called the study “misleading” and said 60,000 jobs could be created by the sector by 2020.

The report, called Worth the Candle? The economic impact of renewable energy policy in Scotland and the UK, said the industry in Scotland benefited from an annual transfer of about £330m from taxpayers and consumers elsewhere in the UK.

It said politicians needed to recognise the economic and environmental costs of support for the sector and focus more on the scientific and technical issues that arose.

Richard Marsh, research director of Verso Economics and co-author of the report, said: “There’s a big emphasis in Scotland on the economic opportunity of investing in renewable energy.

“Whatever the environmental merits, we have shown that the case for green jobs just doesn’t stack up.”

Co-author Tom Miers added: “The Scottish renewables sector is very reliant on subsidies from the rest of the UK.

“Without this UK-wide framework, it would be very difficult to sustain the main policy tools used to promote this industry.”

A spokesman for the Scottish government said other studies had shown Scotland’s natural resources and low carbon opportunities could bring “significant” economic benefits.

Oh we have seen the benefits havent we, namely in inflation, souring energy costs and hundreds of thousands of coal, natural gas, and oil workers put on unemployment by this administrations illegal drilling bans and revocation of environmental permits without cause.

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Reminder: Last two winters the coldest back to back since the 70’s

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We have already seen blizzards in October from the Northeast to Texas.

World Climate Report from last March:

Coldest Back-to-Back U.S. Winters in a Quarter Century

As the curtain falls on the climatological winter (December-February) of 2010-11 in the U.S., we are left shivering.

For the second year in a row, the winter temperature when averaged across the contiguous United States came in below the average temperature for the 20th century. This marks the first time since the winters of 1992-93 and 1993-94 that two winters in a row have been below the long-term normal, and it makes for the coldest back-to-back winter combination for at least the past 25 years.

Figure 1 shows the history of winter temperatures averaged across the Lower 48 as compiled by the U.S. National Climatic Data Center (NCDC) for the winters from 1895-96 through 2009-2010. Although all the data have yet to be completely processed by NCDC for the winter of 2010-11, when the final numbers are in the average winter temperature will probably fall within the oval we added at the end of the record. If it does so, it will mean that the combined average temperature for the past two winters will be colder than any two-winter combination since 1983-84 and 1984-85, and perhaps even as far back as the all-time back-to-back coldest winters of 1977-78 and 1978-79.


Figure 1. Average winter (Dec.-Feb.) temperature for the contiguous United States (data source: NCDC). The oval of the right hand side of the data series contains our guess as to the value for the winter of 2010-2011.