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Re: 2/2 paedraggaidin November 9 2011, 17:43:19 UTC
I think the smell test works both ways. Republicans don't believe allegations against Republicans (sexual, financial, criminal, whatever) and Democrats don't believe allegations against Democrats, but each eagerly runs headlong into believing allegations against their opponent. The nature of politics, I guess.

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Re: 2/2 fizzyland November 9 2011, 18:12:43 UTC
What is this 'certain ideology' you write of?

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Re: 2/2 fizzyland November 10 2011, 04:30:53 UTC
Which is why Fox is the #1 news channel.

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Re: 2/2 yes_justice November 9 2011, 18:07:54 UTC
Chris Wilson wasn't a democrat.

"Republican political consultant Chris Wilson tells KTOK, an Oklahoma City radio station, that he personally witnessed Cain sexually harassing one of the two women who received settlements"

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Re: 2/2 yes_justice November 9 2011, 20:44:13 UTC
He choose to pile on against his own party, must be standards based or else, as you pointed out, he's on team Perry.

It was getting ugly between Hillary and Barack, maybe this is similar shit.

America's puritanical politics are getting weary.

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Re: 2/2 devil_ad_vocate November 9 2011, 20:32:56 UTC
"... refused to allegations... levied by a crank toward Obama."

As the article states, the media refused because there was no evidence that it happened. When there is no story it doesn't become news. In Cain's case, there was a story.

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Re: 2/2 devil_ad_vocate November 10 2011, 00:25:47 UTC
The perception is: the settlement indicates something happened, or there wouldn't have been a settlement. That's enough to make it news.

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Re: 2/2 devil_ad_vocate November 10 2011, 03:08:05 UTC
Perception is tied to believability. People are less likely to believe a single guy who has a 26-year string of criminal convictions. Four women - one of whom is a registered Republican - carry considerably more weight.

I still don't know who to believe. The only poll that counts is the polling places in 2012.

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