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Ann Coulter on Herman Cain: “Our blacks are so much better than their blacks”
Posted By: Joe Garofoli, Nov 01 at 4:44 pm.
Not surprising that the Fox News conservative cheer squad is rallying to Herman Cain’s defense over allegations of sexual harrasment from his past. (Cain’s wife Gloria Cain may field softballs from Greta Van Sustern on Friday. Greta’s husband attended Herman’s event the other day as a “friend.”)
The dominant talking point: The allegations, first reported by Politico, are a liberal/Democrat/liberal mainstream media “high-tech lynching” aimed at Cain because he is — gasp! — a black conservative. (No, that doesn’t account for the six months that the press largely blew off covering Cain because they didn’t think he could win, but whatever. Don’t mess with the narrative.)
“>Then Ann Coulter, who we hasten to add has a new book out to promote, picked up a glass of kerosene, which we believe she keeps in her hip pocket at all times, and flung.
As Talking Points Memo recounts: “She continued that liberals are ‘too dense’ to see the ‘many wonderful qualities’ about Herman Cain, because ‘all they see is a conservative black man.”
“That’s why our blacks are so much better than their blacks,” Coulter said. “To become a black Republican you don’t just roll into it. You’re not going with the flow. You have fought against probably your family members, probably your neighbors, you have thought everything out and that’s why we have very impressive blacks in our party.”
“Our blacks?” ….oops, sorry. Thought the calendar just rolled back to 1861.
Check out the video. Go to the 5-minute mark…(and, sigh, risk missing a couple of plugs for Coulter’s book):
Perhaps Coulter would like to debate a fellow Republican on this. How about former Republican Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice — herself on book tour. She was asked about Cain in an interview to be broadcast Wednesday on CBS’ “Early Show.” Her advice: Don’t play the race card. Here’s a snippet from her chat with Norah O’Donnell:
Norah O’Donnell: “Herman Cain predicted that he would be the victim of a high tech lynching. What do you think of that when you hear that?”
Condoleezza Rice: “I– I don’t care much for incendiary language. And, I actually am someone who doesn’t believe in playing the race card on either side. I’ve seen it played, by the way, on the other side quite a lot too and it’s not good for the country. We ought to be able to look at people and say, ‘All right, maybe this is a disagreement about policy.’ Everybody goes through their– their time in the barrel, if you will, if you choose to put yourself forward. And so, I’m not much for the race card.”
O’Donnell: “So you think it was wrong for him to use those words?”
Rice: “Well, I’ve seen it done on– on both sides and I just think we ought to all step back and let– let Herman Cain answer the questions and let him answer them with– with full disclosure of everything and let the American people judge, but I don’t like the race card. I don’t like the race card when people say that people are criticizing President Obama because he’s black. I don’t like that very much either. He’s being criticized because he’s president.”
O’Donnell: “And that’s just part of it?”
Rice: “It just goes with the territory.”
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