Politics

“It’s really about blacks and Hispanics getting uppity.” “It’s a high-tech lynching.” “What’s next, folks? A cartoon on MSNBC showing Herman Cain with huge lips eating a watermelon?” Reading these quotes would make you think you were eavesdropping on a conversation among liberals. Charges of racism, “uppity” Negroes being punished for their arrogance and racist…

There are reports of explosive new details in the continuing saga of sexual harassment charges against GOP presidential hopeful Herman Cain when he was CEO of the National Restaurant Association. Charlie Spiering of the Washington Examiner quotes the Wall Street Journal and the New York Times: Cain has already explained one incident of sexual harassment…

Written by Krissah Thompson As her husband’s re-election campaign amps up, Michelle Obama is in a perfect position to help, by cashing in on her broad popularity with the American public. But here’s the hitch: In order to remain popular, she can’t be seen as too political. That’s the challenge the Obama campaign faces in…

Updated Oct. 31, 2011, 2:46 p.m. ET: NBC News says it has confirmed that one woman received a settlement from the National Restaurant Association after making sexual harassment allegations. Cain has vehemently denied the allegations. Earlier: News One is reporting that GOP candidate Herman Cain is under fire from accusations of sexual harassment during his…

Broderick Johnson came to national attention when his wife, Michele Norris, a prominent National Public Radio anchor, announced that she was taking a leave from her anchor role at the network’s flagship show, All Things Considered. Norris stepped aside to avoid a potential conflict of interest after Johnson, a successful Washington lawyer and entrepreneur, signed…

If there’s one thing I admire about Herman Cain — and truth be told, there is only one thing I admire about Herman Cain — it’s his chutzpah. That, as the great Leo Rosten observed, is the kind of gall it takes to murder your parents and then throw yourself on the mercy of the…

Shani O. Hilton of ColorLines is reporting that GOP presidential candidate Herman Cain’s 9-9-9 tax plan seems to be falling out of favor with voters. The Washington Post reports that 56 percent of hard-core conservatives don’t like the 9 percent flat tax. Perhaps this is because of the nonpartisan Tax Policy Center’s analysis that the…

News One is reporting that President Barack Obama has lost millions of dollars in support from former donors in Democratic strongholds and in districts that he won narrowly four years ago, according to an Associated Press analysis of the most recent federal campaign-finance data. Tens of thousands of supporters who gave him hundreds of dollars…