That's a hell of a headline. For an article by Jim Rutenberg and Jeff Zeleny at the New York Times. If the woman had been named, it could have read:
Jane Doe Said to Have Felt Hostility at Work After Complaining About Cain.
There'd still be that "said to." So imagine if there had been direct evidence, and if could been:
Jane Doe Felt Hostility at Work After Complaining About Cain.
There'd still be that "felt." So let's add another degree of solidity:
Jane Doe Subjected to Hostility at Work After Complaining About Cain.
There'd still be a lack of agency behind the hostility. If we knew who was sending out that hostility, it might have read:
Co-workers Subjected Jane Doe to Hostility After Her Complaining About Cain.
There'd still be correlation without necessary causation. Let's eliminate that for the purpose of further demonstrating the vagueness of it all:
Co-workers Subjected Jane Doe to Hostility Because of Her Complaining About Cain.
Even the article were bolstered with information that would support these 5 added degrees of specificity, the weakness of the story would remain: Which co-workers? What did they know about the complaint? What form did this hostility take? For how long? And the all-important: What connection did any of this have to something Cain actually did?
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«Oldest ‹Older 201 – 210 of 210Could the perceived hostility be a mislabeled cultural thing? I.e. midwestern female has different interpersonal space than southern city male who happens to be black.
Wonder what race the woman is.
Wow--you're having a flashback again Nurse Byro-Jay, from old Casa Grande JC( nearly got its AA), aren't ya wicca queer. True, you are barely literate, except for like yr drug manufacturing texts from Loompanics and trusty old Mein Kampf . Heh heh. Put on the "Love" dress again--or "Titus", maricon. Thats you, Bellami--as most now realize, scum
@ DBQ Sometimes the best thing to do is nothing.
@ BHO "There's no excuse for inaction"
Not all action is useful action. One of his buds might want to tell him.
Whats that, Bryo-Jay acidhead-LDS perp? Grazi for evidence, neo-nazi faggot.
You were told to STFU , weren't you pedo. Now Im have to have Miss AT testify on you, yokel scum--this be CA not utah-fagland, dreck. Get ready to par-tay white trash.
Does Dr. Deborah Frisch talk like this?
There can't be many who do.
SM said
Sometimes, those Democrats are good and worthy politicians, like Clinton
Have you forgotten all of his non-sexual scandals, to say nothing of how easy it was to roll him?
Travel Office
Fired all US attorneys
900 Repub FBI files
Renting the Lincoln Bedroom
Selling military secrets to China
By his second term, everyone knew he was as crooked as his index finger--that was how he survived impeachment: scandal fatigue.
If Teddy Kennedy can cause the death of a woman and blame alcohol, and still be lionized as the savior of women. Could not Cain at least be given a pass on supposed transgressions of utterances. Or does a black man get no mercy because he is a conservative?
WASHINGTON — The lawyer for one of the women who accused Herman Cain of sexual harassment said Friday that Mr. Cain engaged in a “series of inappropriate behaviors and unwanted advances” toward his client over two months in the 1990s, and he directly accused Mr. Cain, a Republican presidential candidate, of not telling the truth about his behavior.
The lawyer, Joel P. Bennett, who represents a former employee of Mr. Cain’s at the National Restaurant Association, said the accusations did not center on a single exchange that could be easily misinterpreted, which is how Mr. Cain has characterized it. Mr. Bennett said there were multiple episodes that led his client to file a formal complaint with the restaurant association.
“Mr. Cain knows the specific incidents that were alleged,” Mr. Bennett said during a brief news conference outside his Georgetown office. “My client filed a written complaint in 1999 against him specifically and it had very specific instances in it, and if he chooses not to remember or to acknowledge those, that’s his issue.”
A statement issued by the association on Friday confirmed that a complaint was filed and that Mr. Cain had denied the accusations at the time. The association eventually paid the woman $45,000, which Mr. Cain has called a severance payment. But on Friday, Mr. Bennett, who represented the woman at the time, said the payment was meant as a settlement in response to her accusations.
Mr. Bennett described his client as “anxious” to rebut Mr. Cain’s comments while maintaining her desire not to become “a public figure.” He explained her decision to authorize his statement by saying that she was concerned about Mr. Cain’s public statements and the reports of allegations against him from other women.
DEEBEE - Still whining about Ted Kennedy?
Got anything a tad more current?
ken in sc - "If you have held any position of responsibility in government or business in the last twenty years, you know that sexual harassment means that a woman does not like you or wants to make some money off of you."
And yet another cave dweller rears his ugly head.
"And the all-important: What connection did any of this have to something Cain actually did?"
This is a "Democrat Party Lynch The Nigger" mob.
The racists at the New York Times aren't worried about whether or not the noose has been properly tied nor whether the gallows meet OSHA requirements.
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