Well, it turns out that Herman Cain had some sexual harassment charges against him, once. It was back when he was top dog at the National Restaurant Association, they were paid “5 figures” (at least $10,000) each to drop the case and never talk about it again.
If $10,000 seems small time – after all, Bill O’Reilly paid “between 2 and 10 million” to Andrea Mackris to shut up about the famous felafel phone call, after everybody had already heard the tape any way- just remember, this is before Herman Cain was famous. 10,000 is probably the price for a regular CEO. If you are a female member of the 99% and your sleazy boss, Eddie, tries to fuck you in his office, you might be able to squeeze a hundred bucks out of him by threatening to tell his wife. Probably not even.
Anyway, Cain spent the day making non-denial denials and trying to downplay the whole thing. My favorite line was this: “Once I referenced this lady’s height and I was standing near her” (and she) “thought that that was too close for comfort. It was in my office, the door was wide open, and my secretary was sitting right there, and we were standing there and I made the little gesture.”
Could you be a bit more specific? Was the reference to the girl’s height maybe “Oh, my gosh, your tits are right at my mouth level, hot diggety, let me just rest my head on those pillows, heh, heh”? Or was she a short gal and the reference was to convenient blow jobs? Was the “little gesture” maybe a palm cupping her butt, or a sleazy hip grind?
Sure, this is a dirty political trick on the part of whoever brought this up, and it has no legal relevance since he was never charged, but… it did happen, whatever it was, and it is worth looking into. Just for the comedic value, if nothing else.



