My problems with the new Cain accusations

I’ve already quoted Stacy McCain’s thoughts on the new accu­sa­tions of this case, now let me add my own.

I remem­ber when the fatwa came out on Salman Rushdie and peo­ple ran out to buy his book because of it. I thought about it myself but then said: “Would I buy this book if there was not a threat, and if I buy it due to the threat am I not let­ting it move me?”

I kept my money in my pocket (full dis­clo­sure, I’m cheap!)

I remem­bered this when I saw this piece from Larry Kla­van:

we’re the good guys. We have to do what’s right. The left doesn’t. Sorry, but that’s the way it works. It’s the price you pay for defend­ing what’s true and good, the price of hold­ing your­self to a high moral stan­dard. Our politi­cians have to be bet­ter than their politi­cians. Our jour­nal­ists have to be more hon­est. Even our pro­test­ers have to behave with deco­rum and decency — and still suf­fer being slan­dered — while theirs can act like ani­mals and com­mit acts of vio­lence and law­less­ness and spew anti-​Semitic filth and still find them­selves excused and glorified.

Odd or no, fair or unfair it’s up to indi­vid­u­als to decide if you want to buy this. Undoubt­edly some will believe her and some will not but what can’t do is sell our judge­ment to our instincts just because we don’t like the media.

So Instead I watched it to judge for myself.

After watch­ing it I find her state­ment cer­tainly pos­si­ble, but then again I also find Her­man Cain’s denial pos­si­ble, but my gut says this is fishy because of the sequence:

1. We have the politico story, with totally unnamed accu­sa­tions by unnamed accusers.

2. We have the press spend a week push­ing said story with­out ques­tion­ing the lack of said peo­ple and sources

3. We then have the press push for the NRA to drop confidentially

4. They do and the accuser takes a powder.

5. All dur­ing this time Cain not only main­tains his lead but fundraises more in said week than he did in the pre­vi­ous month.

6. and THEN the other accuser pops up with a high-​powered ambu­lance chas­ing Demo­c­ra­tic par­ti­san at her side.

So lets sum­ma­rize. After a week of try­ing to destroy Cain with­out evi­dence fails sud­denly dif­fer­ent evi­dence comes for­ward, and doesn’t just come for­ward but with Glo­ria Allred and you expect me to buy this as sold?

If this woman had come for­ward when she claims she encoun­tered Cain after the tea party event I might think dif­fer­ently but there is one other fac­tor from her story that comes to mind.

Con­sider the story: This woman has just lost her job and has just had an encounter with Cain after los­ing her job, she doesn’t have a sex­ual harass­ment case, but if he laid hands on her, as she said, unless I’m very much mis­taken that is not only action­able, but for a per­son who has just lost a job and needs a new one a poten­tial source of rev­enue from a rather well off per­son in an orga­ni­za­tion who would have a lot to lose. Yet she did noth­ing.

I find that odd, don’t you?

Is there a chance she is being straight? Sure, but the lack of evi­dence and sequence of events sug­gests oth­er­wise. So sans actual evi­dence I’m going to go with Cain on this

It’s unlikely the media will do the same, as the Anchoress points out:

My advice to Cain has not changed he has to tell the truth, but then again I think he already is.

Finally the Novem­ber fundraiser is going on with­out a top page post, please con­sider kick­ing in.

Update: Legal Insur­rec­tion com­ments, key phrase:

Allred did not allow Bialek to answer any questions.

As she is not part of any suit I find that.…interesting.

Update 2: Big Gov­ern­ment for the pros­e­cu­tion:

Part of Ms. Bialek’s state­ment included the descrip­tion of a per­sonal encounter she claimed to have had Mr. Cain at WIND’s Tea­con in Octo­ber of 2011. She claims to have con­fronted Mr. Cain and that he became uncom­fort­able after he rec­og­nized her.

Big Gov­ern­ment has spo­ken with a source who helped orga­nize Tea­con 2011 and who con­firmed that Sharon Bialek attended, as did Mr. Cain (who was a fea­tured speaker).

Our source also remem­bers Ms. Bialek per­son­ally, and there­fore can con­firm that the woman who attended was not a dif­fer­ent woman with the same name.

That does not affirm or deny the sub­stance of Ms. Bialek’s alle­ga­tions, nor her account of her inter­ac­tion with Mr. Cain at Teacon.

True but it con­firms part of her story. That’s important.

Update 3: And for the Defense the Chicago Sun Times:

They hugged each other back­stage in a full embrace like old friends.

She grabbed his arm and whis­pered in his left ear.

She kept talk­ing as he bent to lis­ten, and he kept say­ing “Uh, huh. Uh, huh.”

Huh?

“I don’t know if what she was giv­ing him was a sucker punch, but he didn’t put his arm down while she was talk­ing to him,” said the Sneed source.

Not what you’d call a “con­fronta­tion” is it? And Dr. Helen answers Kla­van

The point is, we must not let the left use our moral­ity to hold us hostage. You may never catch the devil hang­ing on the cross, but your dou­ble stan­dard will leave the right hang­ing in defeat, just like Uncle Phil, but with­out the safety net of his oppo­nent dying. Life isn’t a nos­tal­gic TV show or fic­tion book. The good guy doesn’t always win just because you want him to. And though you can feel noble about being the hon­or­able one, honor is no sub­sti­tute for the loss of free­dom, increased gov­ern­ment reg­u­la­tion, and eco­nomic woes that our coun­try will suf­fer if the left wins on elec­tion day.

Hey maybe we should ask Bill Clin­ton, or not