Koo-Koo-Ka-Choo, Mr Robinson, Lithium Would Help You More Than You Would Know. Hey, Hey, Hey! Hey, Hey, Hey!

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Mr Eugene Robinson,

RE:  Your article, Let Herman Cain Be Gone

I write not to defend Mr Herman Cain's behaviour for I know not what, if anything, transpired; instead, today, I call you on you and your colleagues blatant hypocrisy and to advise that many Americans have taken the measure of the MSM and found it wanting.

Politico made the accusations.  It is incumbent upon it to disclose what it knows.   It isn't bound by any confidentiality agreement.  Jonathan Martin admitted on Monday that he knows the alleged details, but won't discuss them; however, according to him, NONE WERE OVERTLY SEXUAL.

In her 22 March 1998 Op/Ed piece in the New York Times, Steinem essentially gave support to the notion that a man may:  1)  open-mouth kiss a woman uninvited; 2) fondle a woman's breast without prior consent; and 3) uninvited, take a woman's hand and place it on his genitals; and as long as the man retreats once the woman says "no" that this does not constitute sexual harassment.  This has become known in popular parlance as the "One Free Grope" rule.

According to Mr Martin and from what we know of the acts alleged, nothing Mr Cain is accused of having done even remotely rises to Gloria Steinem's "One Free Grope" rule:  Clinton's alleged overtures to Jones and Willey, while boorish, did not amount to sexual harassment because he backed off when they said no.  Let's assume that Cain did say a woman was the same height as his wife, does it rise above Ms. Steinem's minimum requirements to become sexual harassment?  No.  Pubic hair on a coke can?  No. 

According to the Politico article, some of the hysterics involve gestures that weren't even sexual.  Good grief!  I am a woman.  Women need to quit crying "Big, Bad, Sexual Predator!" over everything.  They scream for the slightest reason and I have seen some doozies.  One example involved two secretaries claiming that fishing magasines created a hostile work environment because there were photographs of women fishing in bikinis - INSIDE THE MAGASINE.  Really?  What pusses some of my fellow ladies are!  Put down the biscuits and doughnuts, girlfriends, and lighten up  --  both figuratively and literally.

It's the constant, frivolous whining such as "the men in the office make me uncomfortable when they talk sports" that then becomes "the men in the office make me more uncomfortable now that they have stopped talking about anything when I walk into the room and I no longer feel like part of the team," which not only cheapens actual sexual harassment claims, but also makes billions of dollars for Hollywood, publishers, etc., that cater to the pence-store Sex in the City knockoffs that can't understand why men are just not that into them.   Botox might hide the age of their foreheads, but the wrinkles on their knees and elbows betray them.  On a seriously pathetic note, these holders of degrees in Love-Me-I-Hate-You Women's Studies might be against circumcision, but they set out to castrate males from birth and "the problem with boys" is one of the major crises facing the country today as Daniel Patrick Moynihan so presciently warned 45 years ago.

    "From the wild Irish slums of the 19th century Eastern seaboard to the riot-torn suburbs of Los Angeles, there is one unmistakable lesson in American history: a community that allows a large number of young men to grow up in broken families, dominated by women, never acquiring any stable relationship to male authority, never acquiring any set of rational expectations about the future - that community asks for and gets chaos.”

-  Daniel Patrick Moynihan, Family and Nation, 1965
 

As for settlements, I happen to be a lawyer and sexual harassment cases that are settled for low 5 figures are almost always nuisance claims.  One of the cases involving Cain settled for $35,000.  I can get you $100,000 for soft tissue and temporary nerve damage from a MVA in less than a year in a settlement with an insurance company.

If there were ANYTHING to the claims, the women wouldn't have settled for sums in the low 5 digits.  Period.

If there were ANYTHING to the claims, the women would have gone to trial where she(they) could have gotten much more money.  Period.

Hell, if there were ANYTHING to the claims,  insurance company, if the cause of action was covered, and/or the National Restaurant Association, hereinafter referred to as the "NRA", would have settled because it would have cost them 6 figs to go to trial.  Period.

A sexual harassment trial involving a CEO of Cain's magnitude would have cost more than $100,000 and a law firm would have demanded a minimum $25,000 retainer.  The insurance company, and/or NRA did a cost-benefit analysis and settled.  Further, I guarantee you that the first offers to settle came from the plaintiffs, NOT THE DEFENDANTS.

Most settlement documents not only include a confidentiality clause that forbids the disclosure of the terms and conditions, but also bans any and/or all parties from even revealing the VERY EXISTENCE of the agreement.

"Better put some ice on that..."

- Bill Clinton to Juanita Broderick after he assaulted her, 1978

 

Remember Tiger Woods'' #1 mistress, Rachel Uchitel or whatever her last name was? She got $10 million in a settlement. When she began discussing her relationship with Tiger, she violated the confidentiality clause was made to repay some or all of the settlement monies.

If the settlement agreement contains a prohibition on admission, then Cain would have waived the confidentiality for himself IF HE HAD BEEN A PARTY TO THE SETTLEMENT, WHICH HE WAS NOT.  The named parties were the women and the NRA.  Cain couldn't waive anything on behalf of any of the parties.

The company investigation found that the claims were baseless; therefore, the NRA would have had to indemnify him for every penny. The plaintiffs' counsel would have known this. They would have named the NRA, as the defendant, not Cain.

According to the Washington Post, because the case is more than a dozen years old, Joel Bennett, the woman's attorney, said he no longer has the file nor the confidentiality agreement.  Over the weekend, as the story was breaking, Bennett said his client called him. At the time, he said that he had not even remembered the name of the association official who his client had accused. He said doesn’t remember going to the association offices and thinks the matter might have been handled over fax and phone, and quite expeditiously.

Again, if this case was significant, he would remember it.  He doesn't.  That fact coupled with the small payout further indicates a nuisance nature.  I might be wrong.  Cain may be guilty, but, puhlease, this is not Bill Clinton and Paula Jones.   It's not $850,000.00.

So, what do we have?  A settlement and hearsay.  Neither of which would be admissible in a court of law (hearsay has some limited exceptions, but none would be applicable here).

Rule 408. Compromise and Offers to Compromise

(a) Prohibited uses. Evidence of the following is not admissible on behalf of any party, when offered to prove liability for, invalidity of, or amount of a claim that was disputed as to validity or amount, or to impeach through a prior inconsistent statement or contradiction:

(1) furnishing or offering or promising to furnish or accepting or offering or promising to accept a valuable consideration in compromising or attempting to compromise the claim; and

 (2) conduct or statements made in compromise negotiations regarding the claim, except when offered in a criminal case and the negotiations related to a claim by a public office or agency in the exercise of regulatory, investigative, or enforcement authority.

           Rule 802. Hearsay Rule

 

Hearsay is not admissible except as provided by these rules or by other rules prescribed by the Supreme Court pursuant to statutory authority or by Act of Congress.

 Politico knew that neither the women (because of the settlement agreement) nor Cain (because of his employment contract) could discuss the matter. Essentially, Politico said:

"You have these 3 choices:

1) Admit and withdraw because you can't defend yourself;

2) Don't admit and be destroyed by the press because you can't defend yourself; or,

3) Defend yourself and be prepared to be sued by both women and the National Restaurant Association. 

So, Mr Robinson, when did you stop hitting your wife, having sex with your dog, and raping your daughter?

Now, that you have decided that cash settlements are evidence of guilt, at most, or trigger the transfer of the burden of proof from the accuser (Politico in this case) to the accused, in the least, I look forward to your next column where you apologise to Paula Jones and condemn President Clinton.   No right-winger am I, but if a cash settlement is an admission against interest or of guilt, then Bill Clinton has 850,000 admissions to explain.

What really gets me is the double standard that you and your ilk have.  I'll never forget this piece in the Huffington Post after Ted Kennedy died:

The Footnote Speaks: What Would Mary Jo Kopechne Have Thought of Ted's Career?

"We don't know how much Kennedy was affected by her death, or what she'd have thought about arguably being a catalyst for the most successful Senate career in history. What we don't know, as always, could fill a Metrodome.

Still, ignorance doesn't preclude a right to wonder. So it doesn't automatically make someone (aka, me) a Limbaugh-loving, aerial-wolf-hunting NRA troll for asking what Mary Jo Kopechne would have had to say about Ted's death, and what she'd have thought of the life and career that are being (rightfully) heralded.
 
Who knows -- maybe she'd feel it was worth it."

- Melissa Lafsky, The Huffington Post, 2009

I can imagine some alternative headlines:

"Kennedy Groupie Takes One For The Kennedy Political Family Ambitions & Legacy!"

"You Have To Drown A Few Liberal Women To Make A Progressive Paradise!"

"One Dead, Democratic Woman Is A Just And Fair Sacrifice To The Gods Of Progressivism!"

I remember seeing a male journalist on the BBC (I think it was a clip from MSNBC - Was MSNBC around during MonicaGate?), who said something to the effect that Kathleen Willey was responsible for her husband's suicide because if she hadn't gone to ask for a job from Bill Clinton (they were nearly bankrupt), she would have been at home (presumably wearing a Dior New Look knockoff, pearls, classic pumps and an apron) and could have stopped him even though he committed suicide in rural Virginia.

Newsweek knew of Clinton's sexual contacts with Monica Lewinsky and shelved the story.  It was Drudge that broke it.  Drudge was a nobody.  Because of the MSM's bias, Drudge has become the biggest news source site in the world with over 8 billion page views per year.

Remember the Clinton "Nuts & Sluts" Strategy?  How about Carville's line "You never know what will turn up when you drag a $100 bill through a trailerpark?"

Some in the MSM knew that John Edwards was having an affair during the 2004 affair while his wife had been diagnosed with terminal cancer.  They said nothing.  It took a market tabloid, the National Enquirer, with headlines screaming at shoppers standing in the payout queue to learn about his affair and love child.

The New York Times ran a front-page story based on unsubstantiated claims by anonymous sources that John McCain was having an affair.  Has any MSM outlet ever even mentioned Obama and Vera Baker in the same article?

If a Republican had gone to a dinner to praise an anti-Semite like David Duke, who has actually endorsed Occupy Wall Street, would the Los Angeles Times have sat on the tape of his speech for years as it has done for Obama and his speech praising Rashid Khalidi?

Rathergate documents?  MSM:  "Bush is guilty."  Testimony of scores of Swiftboat vets?  MSM:  "They are liars."   John Kerry staunchest defender, Wade Sanders?  MSM:  "Silver Star recipient, war hero, absolutely telling the truth, perfect angel ... stripped of Silver Star and serving 37 months for possession of child pornography?  La La La!  I can't hear you!"  

If a Republican had used the word "nigger" on Meet The Press, would he have been allowed to remain in the Senate, especially when he was a former KKK member?  At his funeral, would the press and Democrats have chalked up his racism to doing-what-was-necessary-to-get-elected when that Republican had said:

"Rather I should die a thousand times, and see Old Glory trampled in the dirt never to rise again, than to see this beloved land of ours become degraded by race mongrels, a throwback to the blackest specimen from the wilds."

 - Robert Byrd

There's no need to answer.  We already know the answer, don't we, Koo-Koo-Ka-Choo?

For nearly 3 years, you and your colleagues have called the Tea Party racists, Nazis, brownshirts, mobs, greedy, selfish, violent, dangerous, treasonous, Astroturf, criminal, terrorists, the Taliban, Teabaggers, etc.  Now, you and your cronies want to claim that the truly racist, anti-Semitic, violent, brutally misogynistic, hateful,  dangers to the communities across the country, loons, mentally ill, treasonous, Astroturf, criminal, Nazi, Communist, Socialist, Anarchist, filthy, piggish, etc., OWS protestors are just like the Tea Partiers.  Strangely, however, you are now giving the Tea Party a backhanded compliment.  You praise the OWS movement.  If the OWS movement is good and just like the Tea Party, that would make the Tea Party what, Mr Robinson?  In your delusions, you've ignored all of the bad behaviour of the Occupy Wall Street movement and erased all of the fantastical bad behaviour, which you have projected upon the Tea Party for years.  Understand this:  Other than hating crony capitalism, corruption, and bailouts, the two have nothing in common.

You and your friends claim that we non-Liberals like Herman Cain, as a person and/or a candidate, because "he knows his place."  All of you are 100% correct.  We like to see a black man or any person, for that matter, who knows that he can be anything that he wants to be if he sets his mind to it and works hard.  We believe the same about women, too, which is why we believe in equality under the law.  We abhor discrimination like Affirmative Action.  Discriminating against one based on skin colour, creed, religion, gender, and national origin should have died with Hitler.  How can a people "Celebrate Diversity" when they are really "Celebrating Discrimination"?

Remember how Maureen Dowd "heard" Joe Wilson say "boy" at the end of "You lie!"?  Well, please allow me to "hear" what you Progs are saying (and, to be clear, I ADORE Hattie McDaniel):

"It ain't fittin'... it ain't fittin'. It jes' ain't fittin' for Republicans, Conservatives, Tea Partiers, Libertarians, Independents, Moderates, and Blue Dog Democrats, who hate blacks and the poor, to elect an authentic descendant of slaves, who grew up dirt poor, to be a Republican President of the United States of America based on the content of his character and ideas and not the colour of his skin or 'White Guilt' ... It jes' ain't fittin'!"

 

If you can't see your hypocrisy, Mr Robinson, I feel sorry for you, as an individual, but when I put you alongside your compatriots, that pity transforms into outright hatred.  You have no principles.  Take OccupyWallStreet and CodePink, for example.  CodePink was one of the original organisers of OWS.  It continues to be.  As the number of sexual assaults taking place at Occupy sites across the country continues to rise, you would think the group that has this as one of its rallying cries would be standing up for women:

"Take Action Against Sexual Assault in the Military!"

- CodePink rallying cry

Yet, CodePink is actively conspiring with other OWS groups to discourage victims of sex crimes from reporting the rapes to the police urging them instead to let OWS handle the crimes internally.  Failure to report a crime is itself a crime in many jurisdictions.  How ironic is it that we are spending all of this time obsessing over alleged sexual harassment, which occurred 12 years ago and involved NO touching whatsoever or overt sexual gestures or communications, while actual sexual assaults are occurring at OWS camps and one of the founding organisers has gone mute on women's rights?  How despicable is it that YOU can't find the few seconds or keystrokes to comment, but can puke up bile based on a Politico story, which itself is based on hearsay?

Since I know that your next column will not be an apology to Paula Jones, Kathleen Willey, Juanita Broderick, or any of the other women you have slimed over the years in defence of Democrats, I won't expect you to recognise your hypocrisy or understand why YOUR profession ranks even lower with the public than MINE.  No,  you won't write a peep.  I am sure your next column will be another ode to the "wondrous, organic, pure, pious, true, earthy, sacrificial, and altruistic" protestors of OWS with nary a word about the criminal underbelly of the movement or it will be another WaPo hit piece trying to stop the Democrats' worst nightmare....EVAH!:  A possible Cain/Rubio ticket next year.

Yes, such a ticket is a very long shot and I'm not necessarily advocating it, but the idea of a flood of OREO/COCONUT 2012! bumper stickers on our NON-Priuses, NON-Obama Motors, NON-ObamaVolt cars from sea-to-shining sea making Prog heads explode is just too orgasmic for words.  OMFA, the Schadenfreude if they were to win would be indescribable!  You could just kill me right then and there.  I would die a very happy woman knowing that you Progs were screaming:

Ahhhhhhhhhhh!!! You cursed sons of bitches!

Look what you've done!! I'm melting, melting.

Ohhhhh, what a world, what a world.  

Who would have thought that some pizza delivery guy and Lil' Ricky look alike like Herman Cain and Marco Rubio could destroy the beautiful wickedness of my Progressivism and cynical ploy to keep minorities on the Government Plantation in poverty so that they'll continue to vote for Democrats?

OHHHHHHH!!! NO!!! I'm going...ohhhhhhh...ohhhhhhhhh....

Why do I know this, Mr Robinson?  

Because that's just how you Progs roll.

And here's to you, Mr Robinson,

Your betters love your idiocy more than you will ever know.

ObamaMessiah bless you, please, Mr Robinson.

Bellevue holds a place for those who love Brother Obama.

Hey, hey, hey!

We'd like to know a little bit about you for our files.

We'd like to help you learn to help yourself.

Look around you.

All you see are sympathetic eyes.

We have many Obamabots suffering just like you.

Stroll around the grounds until you feel at home.

And here's to you, Mr Robinson,

Seroquel will make you feel better than you will ever know.

Gaia bless you, please, Mr Robinson.

Heaven on Earth holds a place for those who recycle,

Hey, hey, hey, Homo Americus!

Hide in your secret place where no one ever goes.

Next to your friends, who no one else can see.

It's a little secret just like the secret Obama prayers and rituals.

Most of all you've got to hide it from the normal people in Flyover America.

So, "we" must not reduce it to writing, Mr Robinson.   

It might find its way out of the grounds and into the Post. 

Koo-Koo-Ka-Choo, Mr Robinson, 
Lithium will help you more than you will ever know. 

Allah bless you, please, Mr Robinson. 

Bellevue holds a special place for those, 
who suffer from Bush Derangement Syndrome, Obama Compulsive Disorder, 

Marxist-Manic-Depressive Disorder, Socialist Somatisation and 

Unicorn Land Delusion Disorder. 

Hey, Hey, Hey!

Hey, Hey, Hey!

Sitting in the Day Room on a Sunday afternoon.

Listening to the candidates' debate.

Obama heads:  You lose.

Obama tails:  You lose.

When you've become an ObamaLoon,

Every way you look at it, you lose.

Where have you gone, Washington, Jefferson, 
Madison, Kennedy, and Reagan?

Hell, where have you gone Lincoln, the Great, but also the Tyrant, 
and FDR the Economic Disaster, but Great Leader?

Our nation turns it's lonely eyes to all of you.

What's that you say, Mr Robinson?

They have all left and gone away

And, now, we have the Smartest Man Ever To Walk The Earth As President™ and 
You are mad that a descendant of slaves has the audacity of hope and 
Dreams of his father to challenge The Chosen One.™

Well, Boo-Hoo-Hoo!

Boo-Hoo-Hoo!